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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-03-29, Page 7f A 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- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefleld'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 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 • HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and .._Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and. Perth Coun- ties. Prices -reasonable; satisfaction egtraranteed. , - For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - 'forth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. W. S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD, ONT. Licensed Auctioneer • Pure _bred sales, also farm stock and . implements. One per cent. ;charge. Satisfaction guaranteed. For sale dates, Phone. 28-7, Granton, at my expense. ' PERCY C. WRTGHT Licensed Auctioneer • Household, farm stock, implements and pure bred.sales. Special.training and experience enables me act offer you sales service that is most effici- ant and satisfactory. Phone 9,0 r'22. Saimaa - 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, , • (eoptinued,frem last week)g• „ BOOK III • '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