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A0 29, 1946,
ONNEIArlz— WAYS,
''Barri, ersi SoU,citorer Bice
Patrick D. MCCOnnehl
H, 4leivli Hays
stAFoulH, ONT.
,Telephone 174:
•
K. L. MeLEAN
Barrister; Solicitor, Etc.
SEAPORTS • - ONTARIO
Branch Office — Hensall
Hensall
• Phone 113'
Seaforth
Phone 173
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC • ro
:DR. E. A..MCMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of Ulilversity of Toronto •
The Clinic 'is fully equipped - with
complete and modern' It -ray. and other
•up-to-date diagnostic'and�therapeutics
equipment. -
PHONE 26 — SEAFO•RPS
JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D,
Physician and "Surgeon
IN DR. H. 11. 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 ,jam : • Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
• Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat U'
Graduate in Medicine,'niversity of
Toronto.
Late assistant. New York .Optha-
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,Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
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to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic
first Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street, Solite, Stratford,
•
JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D.
Physician ,and Surgeon
Phone 110, '.Hensall
4essess
DR. F. H. SCHERK
. Physician and Surgeon
Phone 56 Hensel'
AUCTIONEERS
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Specialist in Farm and .._Household
Sales.
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- 4084-12
LONDON and CLINTON
NORTH
London, Lv. 9.00
er,7
Exet -• ' 104
Hensall 10,34
Kippen - 10.43
Brucefield ' 10.55
Clinton,. Ar....... -...,.- . 11.20,
SOUTH
P.M.
Clinton, Lv. ... 3 0'
Brumfield3.32
Kippen 3.44
Hensall 3.53
• Exeter
London, At. ........
C.N.R. TIME
EAST
Goderich
Holmesvflle ...
Clinton
Seaforth� .: t ....
St. Columba
Dublin
Mitchell
Mitchell
Dublin
WEST
St. Oolnmban
Seaforth
Clinton
+Goderich
TABLE
A.M.
6,15
6,31
6.43
6.59
7.05
7.12
• 7.25
4,10'
5.25
P.M.
2.30
2.50
3.03
3,21
3.27
3:3.5
3.47
11,27 10.33
11,37 .10.4.4
11.40
11.51 10.56
12.04 11.10
12.35 11.35
C.P.R. TIME TABLE
Ei
Goderich
Meneset
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
WEST
PL1 T ,UR$TO, ,
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(eoptinued,frem last week)g•
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BOOK III
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'1
THE HOUSE IN L._eLUY (:ANE
In one of the reg peetable.thorough,
fares. cif ':;, aterfbrd---4ndeed, In Ladry'
;.Lane=in those 'days when more. ship-
ping made its way up the River Sub
'than ever does so now -and that is
coming 'fifty years ago—there lived)
one Sandy .Stuart,, a wine -merchant.
His place of busine.s 'ivaa the house
in which' he for, respectable
as 'Lady 74an.4.-,.was 'then, it; hadnob
advanced, as now, to that condition
of fashion when a landlord!,. within' his
tease, 'forbids the conduct of the most
honest dealing. in trade upon the
premises.
No. 4 was a ;secretive-Iooking buiid-
ing, i;n• the secretive narrow street,.
which, like its occupant, kept, its af-
fairs , to itself,, yet seemed, • with • its
high windows, to. hive that sly spirit
as of .one who is not above,peeping
into the affair of'oihere.
There, in . that front-rodm,' to the'
left of the flight -pi tour stone steps
approaching the hall -door, and; over-
looking , the cobbled . street, Sandy
Stuart did, all his bush ess. A high
mahogany desk'stood in lonely dignity
'at the end of. the room. It seemed to
suggest that the common affairs of
business were never in its concern.
It offered •the rich, broad surface' of
,its lid for no mea'r,er purpose than
the composition of a gentleman's ac-
counts, and that of no •less exalted a
requisite- o€- rhis'-.household• -than-•-his-
wine -cellar. • Before it, in_ mute apol-
ogy, stood' a high- offiee, stool, barely
justifying its existence in suoh com-
pany by the open confession of the
mahogany of, its legs and frame.,
In the centre of. the. .room was a
table, and that was, of mahogany tori,
but with .a dignity that must have „put'
to shame the bigh'office desk—indeed
with all bhe dignity that Sheraton had
given. it. A Sheraton cabinet, with
glass doors in many; panels; stood
against one :of the walls. It lookedi
severely upon all about it, but, that
severity-dimntished as you made out,
the .diamond- glitter of some several
rows of. wine -glasses, all Waterford
cut, that winked .at you from behind
those symmetrical panes. :
With the exception of three or four
old mahogany armchairs leather-
seated,
eatherseated, with -leather' that, even in
those days, had polished' and toned to•
that i describable richness of
n g
this was • the otid.y furniture in the
room. Yet, with • a fire " burning in
the grate. below the; Adams mantels
piece, • casting warm colours in the
s'hinipg surface of the .polished oak
floor, with that faint odour of corks
and"'sealing-wax that ,rose fromthe
cellars •down, below, ,and those steel
engravings of members of the Stuart
family in tarnished gold frames on
the faded green walls; it was a room.
possessing a -silent fascination of
comfort to any man who wanted to
pass his nose across a glass • of good
wine or let it' linger• in that amorous
delay upon his palate.
Here it was the gentry from the
whole country came to buy their
wines, tasting' •their, ports and . sher-
ries in the . Waterford 'cut -glasses
'Which Sandy brought - out froni the
Sheraton cabinet and' polished with a
cloth alwaya kept in the desk for the
purposo; then. as he put ,the cloth
a vay, bolding them lingeringly up .to
the Light, when they Kinked at 'you
more flagrantly than ever they did be-
hind those •sober, panes. ' •
"Let 'em see. the glass, man'," said
Sandy .to 'his eon, teaching him .the
business --"let 'em see the glass first.
It flatters a wine is nae sae• guid as
it might be." ` ' • . •
If, indeed, his "wines ever needecd
flattery, they received it in a full
Measure, from those twinkling Water-
ford cut glasses he took with such un•
'apparent ease out of the 'Sheraton
cabinet •
P.M.
4,35
4,40
4,49
• 4.58
5.09
6,21
5.32
9.45
A.M.
Toronto ....... 8.20
P.M.
McNaught 12,04
Walton 12.15
Blyth 12.28
Auburn ..... „ .... 1 :12,39
McGaw 12.47
Meneset . 42,54
Gatf',eri cI 1.00
"I'm no thinkin' there's a man in
a' Waterford would know a '37 port
if 'twere •given him in a common
tumbler," he would say, and there is.
tittle doubt of it he.was right.
But Sandy St, art hall a higher re-
putation for iiia wines than such can-
ny behaviour as this might lead:yen
to suppose. Indeed, there is a saying
yet you may hear at times on the lips
of an antiquated butler in some of
the old country families•.
"Oh, sure, 'twould pass the lips of
Sandy," they say, when speaking of
a favourite wine. And many there are
who, if you asked them, would not
even know the origin of the thing
they said.
Indeed, it was, often a Matter: -of
heated speculation over the dinner -
tables amongst the old bucks of those,.
s,. where Sandy Stuart got his
French brandies, his old brown sher-
ries, and his vintlage ports, and the
inevitable s,jggestion that they were
smugglers' goods made them lie only
the _sweeter on the appreciative
tongue.'
How or why this' old gentleman—
for he. was no less, and could trace
Ibis descent, if by devious ways, to
one If a more noble house, though
of less exacting morass—how or why
bo.came to Waterford there le no re-
cords to showCAr, In the year of ''49 he
set up his business in Lady Lane,
and swiftly beecaiiie known in the
town for his secretive' hablts and his
excellent wines.
Though by no meatrsa a young man
thein, he brought with him a young
wife. Dark and beautiful' she. was. t9
look at. A .foreigner, they said. But
before the curiosity of the neigrrl bor-
Ihood had .overcome its prejudice, she
riled, leaving a son, then three years
old,, the striking image of his mother
with dirk locks -of hair that curled
thickly upon his shoulders, a deep,
'rich" olive skin and those lustrous
brown eyes that alternately• flashed
and sltimbereda, but most times ,looked
out sadly on the soft grey Irish skies.
'.Same ,,said 'she was a Spaniard,
Sandy -had•'nlair ed aip• cad when 'buy=
ing•his sherries and his Southern
ports;, others, that she came from
,County Welford, where .the strain of
S °° nish : blood still lingers in the
Reins from the days when the iDuke-
of Medusa. Sidonia thing all his mighty
ships. ofwar in flight around the
Hebrides, and found the rocky boast
of Ireland! on hieway to Spain.
Only the priest of. the neighboring
chtirch could sleek in, certain knowl-
edge .of her, who hall 'heard her in
confession and attended at her bed-
side when she died. (Something of a
foreign, tongue she had, he said, hat
with such r perfect English did she
speak, there was no being sure of
whence she came,
So, ,to the chagrin of many a • cur-
ious soul in Waterford, she departed
from this world before anyone had'
had time to make better her 'acquaint-
ance. To her husband then, secretive
even -in -.his.•gr-ie€:...they eepie,..making.
amends •and offering their .sympathies
whereby Sandy Stuart (became .a re-
cognized inhabitant of the town, from
w,' . ' moment •hisbusiness grew
ap. In three years' time from the
day of his wife's death, the junting-
cars of the gentry from as far as'
Dungarvan, • and even, west of that,
were stopping•, at his door .in Lady
Lane. • •
Charles Stuart, the 'boy, Catholic as
his mother before: hien was sent first
to school• under the preparatory in-
fluence of. the 'Miss Wahelans, an es-
tablishment where children' were
more kept .out of the, way of mischief
than instructed in the knowledge of
books. 'From there, at the age of nine
he 'Passed on to a proper Catholic
school, and at the, time' when., this''
story. first takes upon itself .all: the'.
spirit and glamour ot a fairy-tale,.'
there he was •in his .father's• office,
learning
the t rade, just as a Prince
at•..his father's court may. learn -`the
trade of kingship.
But all this talk hangs heavy on.the
tale itself, and may well indeed be
ended:" A prince i a prince by what
he does; and('••nought that's said • of
him or, printed upon parchment will
•prove hie lineage so well as a rous-
ing spirit and a gift to •love the ad-
venturous ' in life. He may sit en: a
high ,office stool and be called • a
ground, but nothing will set . the
crown so surely on his head as when,
hesets his own • feet to the 'floor and
takes the risk of -life-.with. no more
care for 'danger than a man who picks
a flower, by the wayside and sticks it
in, his ..buttonhole.
On a night ie. March, .•when..tlie soft
rain was dripping from the gutters'
end's, when, in the blackness of the
streets, .the ,lights in the bouses' win-
dows were. like the eyes of animals
crouching in the dark, Charles Stu-
,art"""tfiok up the risk of his life and
turned .his eyes, all burning with ad-
venture, towards those broad path-
ways where any man may walk and
be a king: _.;;
11
AN ENCOUNTER
When • your heart is set W. the tune
of hazardous „affairs, and 'the •.ring of
steels against ' steel plays • mightier
music in your ears ,than 'all the best
trained orchestras in. the world, it is
no easy• matter to sit, without fidget-
ing, on an office. stool and listen to
the sounds of a child •.practising on a
piano in the house opposite. •
There came a day when Charles
Stuart•,'making., out accounts for his
l'ather's customers, seated at. the high
desk jn that front office room and
listening to one of the Miss Wh'ela.n's
pupils as, she thumped on the piano
over the way, mould bear restraint no
longer.
Ever since he had been of an age
to wander by himself, he had- found
bis' way down to- the quay -side, clam-'
•bering on to the ships; sitting in the
forecastle• with the men while they
ate their 'food. To such en audience
a sailor• knows that a' yarn is expect-
ed of Iiim; when, even if he has. nn
adventure of his own, • he' readily in-
vents; or 'recounts as his own -experi-
ences the tales he has heard in. all
his wanderings.'
In the ears of a boy, fast ,coming to
the longed -for freedom of the man,
such stories are. like draughts de
wine in 'the blood, to which his ltrtag-
ination reels, intoxioated with all ,the
delirious odours of i"omance,
Young Charlet came ,home at' nights
to toss upon his bed in dreams of
lights by sea and bloody battles on
the hind:* BY day he dreamed of them
no •less„arid on the papers on his desk
—that desk more proud to lend Isisif
to such; amounts,'as these ---drew plc-.
tifies, with a straggling pen. of schoon.
ets. sailing the broad seas, and all
thole high adventures that a” man,
may come by in bis stirring passage
across the world. .' • "
Finding one dial" .these hieroglyph -
Ica of his eon's. -mud scrawled ' out
upon a piece of paper, Sandy Stuart
brought them; in an accusing hand,
ands` asked their meaning in that tone
Q!.afather's deep.dspleasure.
"They're ship$,"''said Charles.
"Aye, laddie; and what have ships
to do wi' bottler irf port and my best
madeira?"
It was alongside such an account
as this that the 'ungainly drawing had,
been made; and; pointing with his
finger on the paper,the old man put
hie question in that. dangerously so-
licitous tone of- voice that boded ill
for his 'son Oharlies Stuart knew his
'father well enough to recognize . the
danger, and from -long years of dis-
cipline 'had good cal;se to fear it, •
;'Isn't it ships like that that bring
your wine from 'Spain, •sir?" said he,
With •all" thereinifeeenee he. could;
Charge into his big brown ijyes"
"Aye, 'aye'," replied the old man,
watching him shrewdly; "but. I'ni
thinkin' they, look .mair to my likin'
dischairging their cargo by the quay-
side than happing about in•that Wat-
tle on my office paper."
Charles took the hint, and, because
he had a lively, fear and respect for
his father, 'confined those pictures of
his hui}•g$•y mind to pieces of paper
less likely- to fall into the old man's
hands.
But the need for secrecy only, in-
tensified
ntensified the appetite of his desires.
From.; visiting, the seamen. .033e -their -
ships,
ships, he came to following them to
their haunts, on land. There, though
he drank little himself—indeed, only
so much as seemed to give him the
braggart air of fellowship -he would
sit of an evening while they ;brewed
and drank their bowls of brandy and
of rum and'talked:•their sea talk, tilt
his head was filled with nauticaI
terms.
Then came that day when, with all.
his heart adventuring on: the high
seas, he sat upon the stool in' his -
father's office; •listening to the» mon-
otonous sounds of the piano across
the way, and hearing in the -cellars
beloww 'him the faint -sounds ' of the old
pian bottling his :wines.
Sitting there, biting the quill ,in his
band, .he suddenly' bit the pen in two,
crying out to himself that his purga-
tory was no longer to be borne.
"FU not stand it! I11 not stand •iti"
be cried aloud!; andworking himself
to a frenzy that took no reckoning
of all those years of discipline. he
jumped off the office stool and made
his way down into.... the cellars,
wrought to a pitch of audacious tem-
erity he •scarcely recognized in him-
self,
It�all cooled sadly as he came 'dowti.
the cellar steps; and by._ the time he
else cired•-the-stone-pavesfloor.,w as :it.=
tle of the spirited flame it had been.
There was .his father by the light of
two gu.tte"ing :'candles, .sealing his
bottles of port with the bubbling wax
and as -the -old- man • looked up;. him
from under -his crafty eyebrows, fhe,
unhappy boy fel,his tetermination
melt in hire like the sealingevex it-
sel f.
"Weel?". card Sandy, regarding him
expectantly; antic;pating in the per-
turbed manner of bis• Son some favor
to be asked, and electing to discour-
age it n0 sooner was It uttered.
"Weel," be. repeated, "have ye no en•-
ough work to be doing in your office,
ye teaunna c?me fipiering in the cel-
lar to see would I be working. my-
serifI"
"you.. tell me you Want me to be
interested in the b'uslness,"• replied
Charles, timidly Enough; and convey-
ing far -less than he had Meant to :do
"at that moment When he .had bit the
quill pen, %in two, yet ' nevertheless
Ieading the conversation towards that
turn he wished it to take. "You tell
me you .want me to be lnterested—
well, why shotildn,'t I come down • into
the cellars sometimes?, It'.s not' all
cffie,e work."
Indeed, .this was a sore point with
him,' that never' was• he allowed to go
down 'into 'the ,cellar• -s .alone, and only
With his father when -the• old man •hadi
voluntarily signifier) . his permission.,
This uncalled-for and unexpected an'
pe'arance of this down the cellar steps
was against the'reguiatio'ns,' and had
taken Sandy completely by surprise:
His mind, was even sufficiently un -
le rS es ,.to entertain the idea" that
h;s son's interest in his work. was
ei(hibiting signs of improvement. He
stood therein the' dim fl.icker:ng light
of diose two candles and !coked the
boy up and down. •
Now, Charles, slow-witted enough
in all conscience over hit books and
figures, •was by no 'Weans scow to
see an advantage in astereconfli.et with
his father, and, seizing his, opportun-
ity, he plunged still further along the
way he bade ,chosen for his complaint,
"YOU tell me noi)iitig' about the
vines. themselves,'; "he- 'w'nt on --
"where they come front, what they
cost. I don't know good from bad. I
don't even know What you've got Ir.,
the cellars. If you expect me to be;
interested, why shouldn't I be told.
I m sixteen years old. I'mm not a fool.""
It was at this moment, as he talk-
ed, warming to the ad'Santage he no
doubt over-estimated in hie mind, that
his -eye ehanbed•to fall on -a door in
the cellar well. Never, .in a11- the
timer -bib • father hada • brought .hint
daWn tl exe:.444 it been 'pen iiefere
and, •aseupyiug it rte. be Prime coli-
board. in the 'Wall, his cif iosityr about
it ilatU;never 'beam" roust d. • 1ut uow it
etoPd4 aj,ai, and the ligktt'of tiae"can-
cries fuliipg • .antwi,e:'. thrQ110, the
•fir-aoi Q)? it, he' Could . oat mer• tit-
t?A 5l IVIA,P ted' .was. there, bit"('tleptii
cit;, darleneter that suggested,.. et •Wee*
:alkotliefi U01.1ar beyotzd. ,
Wath a cud± en• motion of hi»' �rl-
ger, he'. polntod1 to it.
'What da. you keep' in thelia?" he'
aslted:. "I 'a1waye thought it Was a
cupboard, It's another 'dollar, isn't
,
it?" and he moven towardo it .to !coli;
within: ,
Before' he` had touched, the doer to
pull it wide, the han4''gf'l;is father'',
bad intercepted him and thrust it to.
The bolt elippe'd in with •heavy'u'Aie-
talift " clank that echoed ' down 'along.
the vaulted ceilings ainto the'' musty
darkness.
"Diana touch that door!" exclaim-
ed Sandy in a feverish_ and excited
tone. "Dinna touch. that .door if ye're
no wantin' a guid thrashin". I'll hae
nae clatter aboot my' affairs, . and
that's .why I keep 'em to mysel':"-
In the light of things that happen-
ed after, "Charles Stuart. realized with
what agility the old -!man must have
leapt • across' that •..ii:tervening space
between them • as to be first there
with his, hand upon the -door. At the
time, all that he -observed to any pun
pose was the note of fear; mingled
with an uncontrollable anger, in his
father's voice. And nothing could
i;tve been better, at that moment to.
his liking. 'Striking a note of his own
and of injured dignity, `he demanded•
to know when he Would be consider-
ed man enough ,to learn the secrets
of his father's business.
"I sit up there with those damned
books," he cried, rapping in an oath'
as, when conscious of the upper hand
a swordrsp1jn swaggers over his op-
ponent, "and all I learn of the busi-
ness is how many bottles are boaeht
and sold and .who it is that drinks
'env.
WA..a11.of .which, -partly. -because •thin
exhibition •of spirit astonished hien;
though more, perhaps, on account of
the fright he had just 'suffered, which
Charles might have known more of
'had ;he had , the mind., the old man
said nothing: He just stood , there
with his hand still trembling on the
handle, of that inner cellar', door,.
blinking his eyes and coming slowly'
by . the breath he hadi..lost over his
sudden exertions.
And all this quietness of temper
his father surprised Charles Stuart,
no, less than 'it deceived him: He
thought for sure he was master of
'the situation then, and, all, the ,spirit
retn„rning to him with which he had
first 'set. forth upon the cellar stairs,
he, cried, out: ..
'I'll not stand 'it•,• and there's my:
mind' made up 'There_ are stouter
things for- a man to -be doing than
driving aquill and haggling the gen-
try oto pay their bills." •
—"And "And what are they?" inquired
Sandy quietly.
"I want to be a soldier, sir," said
Charles . eagerly, assured now that
the matter was coming his way. "'I
want to swing a 'sword and do a
man''s . work. I want, to gee further
across the world 'than the. breath of
Lady Lane, and I want to ride a bet-
--ter beast '•tiran damae-dr uffie 1 stuul.
- Here .• wasehis 'imagination, reeling
and intoxicated with romance, flavor-
ing hisspeech. and astonThhing even
his father, though he gave no mom-
ent to..consider•-ix, _.
•"In who's safrvice will ye be swing-
ing• a sword, laddie?" Sandy asked,
and his .voice was as smooth,p vel-
vet on a lady's arm. "In wha's sair-
vice?" he repeated; for the Crimean
Wars were 'over then, and peace had
long been signed in. Paris.
"It doesn't matter a .rap te, me,"
Charles replied. "There's the whole
world -'to de it in. 'Taint every coffin:
tertian is sitting on ail office stool
and: dipping his pen in the ink." ,
, There was one more thing old San-
dy said, in that same tone of sweet
indulgence, as though he were spoil-
ing .a, petted• child, and whidh, in all.
the first elation of success, complete-
ly deceived his eon..
"Since when did • ye become sic a
man, laddie? We maur ha' been owre
lang unkenned to ane another, ' for
I've nae noticed it."
There was, however, something
hidden In this last remark that whip-
ped the blood up into'""flfe'-eurface of
young' Charles's olive skin. He burnt
a deep ruddy brown, and - 'his eyes
flashed 'out even in that meagre can-
dle -light.'
"Let• •you, set any fellow dipping a
quill in the eel," he declared hotly,
'"anti you'll have no gumption of the
sort of man he is tial he flings all
down and stands upon his feet!"
Then here it Was that Sandy drop
ped 'alI gentleness of speec•b, and
spat his words like any cat that af-
ter the first onslaught has suddenly
unsheathed her claws and flung the
pose of helplessness away.
"I've as suffescient. gumption in me
head to ken ye for ,a purblin' gowk,"
he cried, "wi na, miter wit fbr feeg-
ures ' than a bull for milkih'. Gang
awa' back to yeer work, man, an' gie
me nae mair o' this bletherin' prat-
tle aboot svyorda an' swan.kin', If
ye're nae enough s•punic to, hold a
feather in yeer hands, Fm no thinkin'
yell have muckle grip to catch a•
sword."
He said all this standing there on
the cellar floor and shaking in' the
tee pest of his anger. And that was
not all, for When he had made an end
of it with speech, .lae strode forward,
hissing with the breath between his
.teeth, and seized'his son with a grip
of Iron by the elbow, dragging him to
the foot of the cellar Steps and poinfts
ing with a *fleeting linger to..the
'door above thein;
• "Gang lip to yeer steal," he shout: -
t -4
•
ed ^ asci benit plies
obeditel?pe fay nr t ti t��1 "lna}r: Ja
Canty ' Caen 'o' ye in Quid e time than
a' yegx swingin' swol and bQastftt
eleiter!"a" . •
in.,com
mori defence of Chaxles Stu
eat; from whom no eirtettmetance
;this nariative,ts intended'.to rob hiix
Of' tb,+ s,e (eiusl tfes of a.. Prince which;
_the 4a34, 4:00144 s• o1 liim, -it Most: Oe
admit'teti iFiPiOUt Q.ueStion it was IAA.
cowardly serisei: of foag' that sent him
back tip those eOa ,steps Without.
one further word•of prgtioc .
In all the fatry* stori4'9 In tiler world'
the•prinee hi he Marked ol*t for thrill
beg adventures, but there" is `na, citron-.
-
icier of these manic'tales who. 3gnoges.
the despotism, of - the !ting his; fat'per;
In that •sense of••,autlierity .whicih a
son obeys, where he would; .trout. rte
other man to. hie take, all fathers- are,
kings and must be' heeded. Indeed,
there .„is no man a king. who Cannot
so command and be obeyed'.
It Was not, then, ,.groin a sense of
fear within him that Yonne' Charles
climbed slowlyanTidtently up these
cellar steps, and, Made 1de way back'
to that office stool where then
e broke
Pieces of hie quill pen still lay scat-
tered on the floor. It was. not from a
want of :.s'pirit, when once; again he
was seated at hie desk, that •$ a bur-
ied his' head' In his kande and burst
into a flood of sobbing where 'there
w ere no tears to Wet his cheeks or
accuse hinl-of his folly.'
A bitter disappointment was, ail
that rankled in liiinchaffing against
his soul that there siloulde be within
the !louse a spirit is high as his owe.
and one that by reason ,of all those
years of habit `and discipline• must. be
obeyed. • .
It seemed to him that there were
fetters about his feet that chained
him'to his office stool;'that never in
the days to• come *Mild he feel the
blood • leaping and pursuing through
his veins to -all those glorious,. tunes
of hazardous adventures.
•
HI
• THE HOLE .IN -11-1E -WALL.....
Along the quay -side in the town of
Waterford, facing the anchorages
where the s:hipe unload, there stands
a bending row of houses; bent with,
the curve of the river as' it winds
from the' sea into the town. They
stand there now. With scarcely a
change in, the appearance .of any sin-
gle one of ,them, they stood there
fifty years 'ago.
Oil -stores and rope -stores „there
were; , long," dark wwarehouses, •pung-
ent with the scent of the sea, all ply-
fag 'their precarious :trade withthe
ships that came and went, rind came
and went again;' and thea„ perhaps,
came back' no more.
But they have. a saying there,
amongst those men . who .. barter.. and.
deal • on the salty edge of • the' sea.
'iAPili'E,Ni
Si l
• ",,•;
"LOCA'
Di
Waite.
We Advpe EArX1i'. fiat
A WHOLE, DAY'S': SKINT-SEEiNG
"'WITHIN' WAtKING DIST, NO
A. M, POWSu.,,Pri fdto#
"Ye cafe, atwayu .trust a, Ship,". th,
say,.- "but diyil the man' that J.4
bei',0 -
Allowing that th• he •trlie,•A
to understand how , the io$gi>
drinking houses, where, chi .•00afar+:
ing Merit spend all their days' asliorc•;
have come to.,awear a stispicious look;
as, though, ,trusting no ons, .'they • at.tias.
ed in return • no' 'confidence from `+ally* ,•r
Elie whole. quayside, Wan, a honed
comb of• pleasia ljte this :naaeen little
houses, theta drooped their.. eyes
would not look you sd rarely in ,the
face. Humble they were, andd,. sleek
and sly, so "that when pass4n then*
you scarcely were conscloltsof their.
presence, But .if:: you:11fnik back o''e>!
your' shoulder when you.had got let'
there was 'always- sO ie:''"b'eckoning
face at a'grimy window, some `blllld'
that stirredor. a curtain caught to_e,
peephole 'by unseen fingers.
The more honest of these abodes.
took their. place with the. rope -stores
and ' the, ' warehouses along the front
of the Quay, yet never losing that looks,,'
of humility. .as they wedged • them •
-
selves unobtrusively into the close-
cked crow
pa d. But there were other
than -these anil:.plyrtng.. a_mora
ter trade—low-built• littlehouses that.
hid their faces ' in •the. shadow of .dart€'. -".
alleys, where only the slit' of a door'•,,::'
way could be seen in the dirty white
-
'washed walls. '
From out of these doorways "me'. -
came and went after nightfall, choe-
ing their momept, if they' were sober,
to step Out into the narrow passage,
more often than not lurching''ferth
like refuse Cast into the gutter.
(Continued! Neat Week)
tee
'An old local, preacher .atthe village
chapel was giving ,out the notices for
the week. As• yet no preacher had
been obtained for the following, week,
he announeedc'•
"The minister for -. next Sunday, my
friends, will be pinned -upon the'
•
i
But Employers and Workers Must Assist,
During the war organization' of manpower
-Warth de' possible throiiiii-opetatien of
employers and workers.
This co-operation, is no :less necessary to
assist in organizing the , employment market
during the present 'critical period.
4$ome manpower .controls still 'remain.
These are still law. Th.ey._are aimed at assisting
in organizing the employment market. •
' Remaining controls are designed to help
employers and workers—and actually require
only minor assistance from the public.
'YOU ARE URGED TO COMPLY WITH
THE. FOUR, CONTROLS. WHICH REMAIN:
' 1—Employers MUST notify the National Fmpidy
ment Office of any need for workers; as 'soon. :
as that need is known.
2—Where employers.engage workers outside the
National Employment Service, they MUST
notify the nearest NES Office within" three
days, that ,An employee hos 'been engaged.
(Form NSS 312 is provided for this purpose.)
3—Unemployed workers seeking ' employment
MUST register with the rational Employment
Office if unemployed for seven, consecutive'
days.
4—Generally speaking; any employer or em-
ployee"•MUST give seven days' notice to the
other party of any intention to terminate
employment. , (Form NSS 120 is still required.)
Exceptions may be learned from the nearest
NES Office.
The partners to industly,—employers.
employees—should help the National Employ
ment Service to promote a high level of employ-
•ntent by complying with these'simple i-ixles.
Only with Public support can "an employ=
ment,oservioe give full • assistance to the com-
munity.
Make fa!! use of the . Local Office of the National
Employment Service. It is there to serve your
needs, and those of the entire Community.
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
Dominion Labour Department
HUMPHREY MITCHELL
, MACNAMAPA