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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1946-05-31, Page 7A. 4 .a • TEMPLE. TUURSTO 'T (Continued from lils�t. WeekT"�-. rt On; the first , evening after his ,promise to Father, Casey bad been /Bade, Mrs. Slattery was , waiting in that bare, gaunt kitchen where she reigned alone --waiting for •the accus- tomed sound, of the bell, with the glasses,' the .• bowl, the lemon and hot Water, all •set out in readiness on. the 4able. But no bell rang. The' sloek on the mantelpiece had. stopped. That was not surprising, for it was seldom wound. She might be wrong, in, her calculations of the time. though long habit of doing things by instinct through the , routine of the days had enabled her°to dispense, and without error,•with •bath clock and' scales' in that kitchen. She went' to the door of. the dining -room and lis- tened, •thinking perhaps Miss Patricia might be there, and that; with the distraction of the , child's company, her master had • 'forgotten the Inver;. fable habit of'ringing the bell. No sound of talking' -or -'of laughter came from' within. She had waited. there a- full minute, and then was about to open the door in orderto -see - if the room were empty; when the sound of John Desmond's voice utter- ing a mighty curse upon men, women, children and all things • living,' sent her' scurrying back to the kitchen to fetqh the -tray. It was: obvious in her conclusions that he had forgotten to ring the bell, and, thinking he had done so, was sitting there with all his impatience, cursing her' for her absence. ' For a . woman of her proportions, she travelled swiftly-, 'and was back again at, the dining-room'door with the tray in her hands in quicker time than it takes to write of. it. ' LEGAL McCONNELL & _ HAYS • Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Patrick D. McConnell . H. Glenn Hays • .SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone•174 A. ,W. SILL•ERY Barrister, Solicitor,' Etc. SEAFORTH ' - ONTARIO Phone .173, Seafgrth. e �egheoting' o f toe.• es,. Pesmoznd' vllile , 14itteil underneatix amenttiCe tt "Caine aloiag .era. iJ bele :hang .1dt of yon' I'ltis wee• ample i�iyltat.tin for ({ Ontinued from Page. 2> tt'iciaand Sufficient© inducement at the ae o siu€teezt .tor het to decide �ir�imal,�.;hnabl-ing' thel??''Co eat.vVhen ,on her hak' 0i1.0.;0p, on her h04 for they, wap anal 'in whatever quantity the;. occasion h ,t t ";eY d ire, t tog gi 7 ii tiie . 81na11eri pl in not be oee4:r, .sbs, cried~ with ll!'~al€air''$ .a.better a anee� It. elim. tails down nsx eek, and,I staxid4n' in: t the .feMPetitiA .,:eltd. fighting !Ada to the wall; the w.a , ,'l ,tight that to ea .lice at A. tro,.:h„ . stl,. ..,,,h y .�li.t k..p �.,t toot there •for all ;the rell.as Would be • The adgaiitages' .elatuled . i!or too rill- n' n14e to iy dance, vxith 'em ' 'self feeder are that it saves „ labor. Asm ay be suunRRaed—for thgll;•0h' and eli4.uiees, sa ge:teeto Paine,'OPIP:0' J , :. , „. with little i-eseMli ahce, Cinderella,. na xin d'e with ills least .wasteof feed ,,.. d had la ^ less than` this ;#a as true story - as with bath growing! Piga and olid,. eowe �i MAY swear ye flid, but a river and leaving thy. Werl they P y i e y y..,., b � bth s hi d .. t rung the. . bell," said e'he, when' she had pushed the door open with her foot and was.standing there before him, ready to anticipate ,ail the cJurs- es he' might hurl upon her./ "When• did I say I rang the heli?"., 'be• snapped at her, and sat there, like an animal at bay, with one eye dn'the tray in 'her hands, Just as a hunted beast will look at its pursuer. ":Shure, didn't I hear ye cursin, in here," retorted Mrs. Slattery — "the way . I'd 'a been afraid to •open 'the door if I hadn't known what ye want- ed and 'could give it to ye to keep ye quiet." •- .. With one last glance at the punch bowl, at the steam. rising out .of the hot water -jug, at the lemon with' its bright yellow -rind and that black. bottle tifat had all the appearance of a,. wonderful chalice of pet 'to Whim, handle. But when she came, back, she John Desmond. turned his bead away. ;had seated • the child,.on'-her knee, un - "Will `ye take the things out of tied the apron from •about her waist, the -room," : be shouted, "and never let and, with the aid of a shawl, making me see the cursed sight of them again!" Now; ---w'h'ether it was that, the sur- prise of •this command was too great for her, or that she had been stand- ing there over long with that heavily burdened tray, but lock, stock and barrel, the whole business lel, right. out, of •het hand: ,to the floor, and the corp, which: she had already drawn from the bottle, 'being absent, the whisky was fast spilling out over the carpet. With the instinct that rose first in the nature of him, John Desmond had rushed to the bottle and' picked It up before the contents were wast- ed. 'Tis a clumsy woman ye are!" he shouted, lifting the tray and standing the bottle back upon it. "Where do you get all"'that fat from, I dunno, in. this starvin' house. God knows 'tis double wages -•I ought to be p4yin' ye, for ye're. the size, of two." "I am!" said she, and red in her 'rage; "and don't. I do the work of, six and-. the world knows 'tis• not always the - pay of wan I'd be gettin'!" ' He had stood there shouting with laughter at the `wit she had, and tell - MEDICAL SEAFORTU CLINIC OR. E. A. MCMASTER,•M.B: Physician - DR. P. L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon ed in without the faint shadows of may e' su4P} 4se .A;" whaclp are b9in fatteagd. ' It .e nv. t'- ed eager" like Children., Margaret bad Utile wmPetbY with .sp-areli. adapter} ,for' feeding brood refire . imcUe for the honour to which, it had pleas. the troubles of tl air yo>•►ngest sister, sows or ,any band of breeding stock ed God to, call them, and diseountenan erl the proposit#on that should • •be kept on less than a To this spirituals end, certainly, she fro m the brat mAnpemt they heard it• full ration. ,was kept in continual mind by the A chili of siren. they exclaim - „was, self -feeder to be entirely sane - devout Mrs. • Slattery'. The mare the•. ed; "it was fo ,Bili. en ugh her cqm- factory must be so arranged that the good woxiian'.fell a, victim to l?atricia's ing. to the dance :at l .contents wilt” feed into the troughs When- discussions of this' nature without any stoppage caused 'by' the' charms of ,devilment, the more she .arose, there w,as always the ultimate • gave herself to suffer the flagellation tribunal of Mrs. Slattery in the kit -blocking, of the meal in the hopper. of 'these perpetual reminders. The The type of self -feeder ,used with ,ellen,' to which the offended • party, success at the'Lacombe x e More, she found her heart going out ,might appeal. D P rtmental to that untamable little creature, the Under pain 'of deserving the repo.- a. 'Station is provided with a movable• deeper she cherished the thogght of talion -of cads,, a.. term .denoting. all board secured with thuilib screws, the the honor it Was to be, that was mean and despicable bath board enabling'the' flow of treed to, be Catching Patricia • one day feeding in males' -and females, Patricia' drag- regulated accurately. At • is necessary the donkey with lumps of sugar in the ged them all into`' the kitchen, wherer to reg'hIate this board according to kitchen., she had first smacked •her for . half -an hour they sat on the the kindof the ,feed used and to soundly. across the head, .filen driven tables, kicking then' heels and' chat- make frequent inspections to see if the sorely tempted beast out into the tering like magpies, so that in -Iter the feed ''supply is suffiicient and the yard with stout blows- of •• a broom - judicial capacity, Mrs; Slattery could . feeder properly adjusted., A lip on not hear herself. speak. the edge of •the trough has been w "Yirra,. will ye 'hist, then whole lot found ' an„ advantage In., preventing of ye!" she cried at last,' banging a waste. saucepan down upon the .table; and , :, xperimental results• at .Lacombe perspia ing from• -every po-re ',in . her -indicate.. that. the self -feeder when efforts to make herself heard. properly constructed, and' when used' They chased their chatter at that in connection with a properly,halanc- and swung their legs in silence. • i ed grain , ration, will not only save "Has Pat got e'er a diess.,,,gt, all labor but will give greater gains and' she can go in?"asked Mrs. Slattery. � 'produce the gains with . a ,grain re - "None fit to •be seen," declared quirement which is not out of' line Sophie and Margaret, who, with rept- -. that required' by hand feeding. tations to observe, were in hot de- fence of them. .- " 'Tis ten days 'from now," cried Pat in answer to this charge, "and if I can't vamp a thingwill be better than that pink rag of Sophie's, or the, fd eeder was used than when hand-- green carry -me -out that Maggie's go -1 eeding was practised. On' the other in' to hang on herself, may I never, hand, self -fed pigs made 19 per cent be set to. do meaabit of dressmaking higher daily -gains than those hand - in the 'next world, for I'll be ne good fed, proving conclusively the Possi- at it." bility of preparinghogs for market It was scarce likely that a verdict at a much earlier date when a self- Oitice••liours° daily, except Wednes- 'day: 1.30-5 'p.m., 7-9 p.m. ' Appointments for consultation may be made in advance. - JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN, DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W Res. 5-J Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON; B.A., M.D. • Physician' and Surgeon ' Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W Seaforth • DR.' F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. ' Late assistant 'New York Optha:- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefleld's ' Eye • and. Golden Square' Throat Hos- pital, Loddon, Eng- At COMMERCIAL' HOTEL;• SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- --NEISDAY 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, Strh,tford, JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D. - - Physician and $Surgeon Phone' 110' , . Hensen 4068x52 the veil "and • gimp about Patricia's head-, had gone into a' transport of nun over the beautiful n n she would 'make.. "Oh, won't ye be a d'arlin'!" she cried, "and ye singin' in the choir - stall with. the voice ye have, the way the Lord God 'ud•. be sharp. at the lookin' ' down, and He settin' alone there in•.His wastes of heaven." To much qq, this, foolish hut affec- tionate nonsense Patricia had to lis- ten in those years of her growing up and' only the innate balance. of her mind ' enabled her to take it without spoiling. Spoilt she was and to a de- gree, -but never in the sense of van- ity. On that occasion when Mrs. Slat- tery had bound the coif and veil about her head, begging her to ,go and look at herself 'in the broken two nails to the- kitchen wall, she' had flung the gaprments. from her-, thrown the remaining. handful of sugar into the saucepan boiling the piece of fish for the...Friday.'s dinner, and fled out into' the yard with a shout `of .laughter, like'a bird scream- ing out of a cage. ..." Yet theta were moments of falling ing her he would give her a -fat and from the height of her spirits', when handsome present next time he sold she would think seriously of the pro- spect ro= a horse to. advantage; which, indeed, spect..of life, that was before her— he did, clapping fide pounds one day moments when she might have been into her •hand 'when' she least expect - edit. " But then, at that moment, there was little pleasure to her in his • laughter. -She had set the things to rights on the tray once more, wondering what else could fling at hint in repayment for his gibes about her ever-increas- ing proportions. And there he had stood, 'still laughing, while -she atm ranged the tray, until., seeing the wet- ness on 'his fingers,' where -in picking it' up the whisky had spilt over his hands, he put them to his *Youth and sucked the liquid off. Then the laugh- ter had. •gone, from him, and like a stone that falls into the depths of a well. 4 ' "I•n the name of••heavenst" he cried out suddenly, "will ye take that stuff away?" and wondering at this more than at anything she had wondered in liar life, Mrs. Slattery bore; the tray back to the kitchen, setting it down again on the table with a "Glory. be to God!" that came in the nature of ari explosion from 'between her lips. A COUNCIL OF SIX To the idea of going into a convent found,. with her 'big eyes lost in the heart' of a fire, or seated by that stream, a, tributary of the Suir -that runs under Lowry's Bridge from- its. cradle in the hill of Croughaun: What she was ; thinking of at. times like •these—a girl Of sixteen, peeping and no more, at womanhood—no pen, - even were it .dipped in her heart's bloody could write of. For the mind 'of a girl, with all its "swiftness of de- velopment,..•i's• more wrapped in the secret breast of 'mystery than the 'spark of life is hidden in the silent seed. ,,,Her thoughts' are •like butter- flies, settling • upon: the flower of an idea, one minute ,c'ome. another gone;' taking nothing but the honey, it would seem, --and yet, as sometimes,;'might have been observed in Patricia'.s eyes taxiing the hidden savour of bitter- ness and trembling faintly in a sud- den fear of life. It, was not long, however,. •these moods were lasting with her. Like the butterfly of -her thoughts, 'she would be off and 'away again into the zenith of her spirits, gone into the wild race :of the wind, where not a" hand could catch or tame her. In such a mood, when it would have been as futile to turn the east wind Based on a seven-year average of re sults comparing self-feeding with hand -feeding, it has taken 'eight per cent more grain to produce 100 pounds increase, in live. weight when the self- • feeder is used. Self -fed hogs also in-. variably showed "more uniformity of size and• more' even fleshing than those handfed and on the average conformed asclosely to bacon stand- ards. as did the hand -fed hips. •A - well -bred• bacon type hog, fed n well balanced ration, will grade well on the ' rail 'in ,,the packing 'plant even though it 'may have ' been feed from' a self -feeder, - Free detailed' .plans and ' specifica- tions for the construction •of a self - feeder, are available from Dominion Department Of Agriculture, Ottawa, or from any Dominion Experimental Farm or Station.. ' An upturn kn cheese in TIuron inontli ;lei ''� .hn eiccebtl##L •to end of lruttaix rand ;''oheede oni „ ;during the last six months in Onta tc , ', ,he • cheese faatutries of Hui'on Couna, :'ty�„turned out _134,7,77 ;pound• of shed d r aurin A .aril of this •year; as wl co :', a � p paredr with 10&,85$ in the same month: 'a' .ear O. "'li!e trek, ,%Yt` gliTon was Y.... d ..,:: d , -1n all sSition to that” iit4 the' tprovince. p as a whole; Ontari4.,ched4hr produc-': tion for April+ this. year was,' 4,.88',000, wM1e a year .:agsi the ,A�Pr17:" 'cheese irmake yeas 1,9,9t009 s Patricia settled her" mind'without so into the west as' to shake her -from much as a' thought about it one' way her ,purpose, she decided upon Jose- -of another: All" around her there were phine and herself going to their first girls in large families growing up to dance. - the very gates of womanhood, pledg- The invitation had come from a ed to become nuns from their- Cradles house .they knew. well in• Stradbally, DR., F. H. 'SCHERK Physician and Surgeon Phone 56 • " Hensall AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and -Household Sales. - Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed., For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on •661,,, Sea - forth; R.R. '4, Seaforth. 'W. S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD, ONT, Licensed Auctioneer ' Pure bred sales, also farm stock grid'• implements. One per cent. charge. Satisfaction guaranteed. For sale .dates, Phone 284, Granton, at my expense. "5 PERCY C. WRIGHT Licensed Auctioneer Household, farm stoat, implements anapure bred sales. 'Special training a'U ..experience enables me to -offer you sales service that is most effici- ent and ,datiiifactoty: Phone 90 r, 22, Heasall: 40e442 • i/97,Ritt-.7rORP.Z47/11' • . at Ontario'.s racetracks!' They come in hundreds from the States to watch the Ding's Plate . one of Ontario's . greatest.. attractions for raging enthusiasts. Whatever brings them to Ontario, we all have a stake in their return'... so let's• • do what we can to see they enjoy every minute of theixr visit. IT'S EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS o'� 404(e44.-./ Ontario profits almost as much from tourist business as from' gold mining,. It's up to each one of us to keep' thick' -business growing. "Let's make them Every tourist dollar 'Ys'. shared this way: 1. Hotels; 2. Stores; 3. Restaurants; 4. Taxes,' etc.; -5. Amusements;. 6. Garages. , , to come back!" PLANNING A HOLIDAY/ r Tune to “Onlwir Heliduy" OrHL.11 4o•/cm., ?lows., Irri;, omit ie. ,PusuS HED IN tHE'litigif'd'INT/MIST IV JOHN LAIAty' LIilAOTEO Y cif anyimportance would be gained In that court, wherefore, when the eve- ning fell, and upon Mrs. Slattery's re- commendation, they -all appeared be- fore John `Desmond in the dining room. He sat there, pulling at his pipe. and .looking-,them,up- -and 'down for all the world' as if they were cat- tle, there 'for the •express Purpose of his inspection:' . . "Ye're a lot Of cackllin' things," said, he, "What the divvle's all this about?" They told him, first one, then an- other, then all Speaking together, their voices flocking like sheep, with the habit of women -in a crowd. Pat only kept -silent through' it, all, , and, bringing his fist ' down upon the table to, ensure silence, it was to her John Desmond turned When the babel 'had ceased. • "What have 'ye got to say' to all this blather, Pat?"' he asked. • •''There's a dance, at Stradbally," said she, 'with a voice made ,quiet to be sure of itself, though -none of them, —least of all Jcyh,j�� Desmond—escap ed. that 'glitter' of"tli eye—"there's- a dance in Stradbally;"' said she, "and I'm • , goin0.,' •o it," '•" ' t He leant back in his chair and he laughed aloud at the simple delibera- tion of that. It was' the way he would have conducted The 'business himself, letting men 'blow out their breath in ail a 4i; whole, ,'045;0.00 quarte et. 'icQ quarts, of;Glta.?� 41004 s Witt3 yi , •, 44nd 1,019,609,9g:t a'- y ear ago. ''§'41 , drink and cuititreil' . The,tendgnay in 'Perth • O,o�ty,' ac- -. • ,cording 'to -,the •iatest'dairy"-bulletin of the statistics branch of the .Ontario Departpuent of" Agriculture, was' in keeping with - the provincial average, dropping from 411383` pound's .irn April, 1945, to 24 ;060 pounds in April, 1946. - •l .Butter Production Lower The creameries• of both Huron and Perth showed decreases •in,•biitter •out: put in April ' of •this year,- as' has been the - case during well •month Of the past SIX In Huron the decrease 'was from""37:3,244; pounds of -'butter in" April, 1945, to 308;94'8 pounds 'in April -of this yearl•,..:in••Pert'h•^.County the drop was from •447,325 to. 379..237- April "production ..of_ creandery but-• ter in 'Ontario amounted ,to5,352,100 pounds as compared with 6,117,500 pounds in April, 1945, a reduction of 72.5 per cent. Cumulative output -of creamery: butter in Ontario for Sthe first' four months, of She present year totals '15,327,400 pounds, as compared .with 18,806,400 pounds in the first four months of 1945. Cumulative out- put of cheddar . cheese amounts ' to 8,156,200- pounds, as, compared with 12,83,2,700 pounds. • , • • -- Stocks of creamery butter held in storage warehouses in the City of 'Toronto on May, 1st were reported at, 179,000 pounds, as against 1,171,- 400 pounds on the same date a year ago. In - dairy •factories throughout the province holdings of butter were, reported, • to be '1,064,400 pounds on May 1st this ,year, and 1,478,000 pounds on the same date in 1945. fine talking and •keeping.' th"e final word for. the satisfaction of his:worn" enjoyment. She was',the very spit Of himself, and like a man who knows no other feelings of paternity, he loved her for' it. "Well, What d'ye."say• to that, ye -gabbling .chatterboxes. ye?" -cried in the midst of his' laughter. 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