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,it took a fair dowsing of drink '.to
get •that ,much Profit out of 'him," said
Father Casey,, "and. to' all "appearauc-
es he had to drink it out of two glass-
es to get it. down." •
"Oh, shute, 'I hid a drop meseif,"
said John Desmond Promptly,'seeking
to tell no lies with.., eiselips,, whatever
he might be acting with that strain
of endurance he was now putting, trit-
on himself. Dor he knew that. Father
Casey would never ask him point
blank if he Were --drunk, however
long he Wight stay there in that room'
in his silent , determination to find: it
ottLeetehlraself. ,
It was•'up. against his, awn indomit-
able ,power. of will and the way he
carried himself to prove :that he was
sober, therefore it was. all opposed to
the nature :of the man to• win his ver-
diet , with a ,paltry lie upon his
tongue.
''Oh, I had a drop, said he, "Shure
I couldn't 'let .him be drinkin' there
alone, the way ite'd, be sipping a •glass
for want of co npany and he goin' the
time it Was empty with "divvle a
warmth in him to make a bargain at
alL"
"I gather," said Father Casey slow-
sy="I lather it took the best part of
two bottles to warm hiento a profit.
of seventy-five minds." •
"It did see" said John. Desmond.
"Shure, I'll give that -fella, the credit
of •being` the hardest driver ever I
met. Didn't he sit up straight to ut
for two hours, for 'twas the best stuff
'heel tasted ever in his :life. I' haven't
forgot the 'way to make it, ,mind ye."
"L suppose not," said Father Casey.
"'I suppose not."
•-
aehnegeemendelenni _with an. ass
(Burned negligence against the mantel
piece: He knew it was a matter ^of
ntinutes now lbefoee the full tide of
his condition should turn,,back upon
him again, when nothing short ofthe
stiffest glass of punch he could brew
would give' him the necessary
strength to • persist in the 'strain of
his endurance: '
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SEAFORTH ' CLINIC
del: E, A. McMASTER,
Physician
DR. P. L. BRADY, • M.D.
Surgeon
Office hours 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. It ROSS' OFFICE
Phones: Office 6-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
".It' 1 can get him out of the room,"
he thought, "and start :him on Ws
way back to Portlaw, 'tis only the
suspicion he'll have, and shure, hasn't
he got that already?"
'In the process of his intention and•
to pave the way for the excuse he
had at hand, he threw back his head
and • he yawned 'with all the stretck-
ing of lis' jaws: and all the noise that
he could make• about it. As though
he had hexer heard a • ,sound of it .
Father Casey sat down and, taking off"
his spectacles, began cleaning them
as though the night was a young.thieg
and at the. disposal of both-• of them.
John Desmond groaned ne ro
d in his heart,
and hia • wits grew';muddled with fa-
tigue., ._.2, ,., .' •
There. was .only, one thing for iyt.
He carne, a careful ln,an,' to the table,
he sat , down himself and, without a
mothent's hesitation, ,.he took •the
punch -ladle in his hand.
• "Coma along," said he, 'forcing . a
cheerful note 'above the lassitude of
his voice. "We'll just finish this off
-before weego to bed; Shure, wouldn't
it be a sin to let itastop,'here and be
spoilt in the cold.; 'Ye can have ra
drop yeerself-that wineglass will suit
the absemious fella 'ye' are,"
"Arid ye'll have it ih .the tumbler,"
said Father Casey.
"I will so. A little drop like that
wouldn't be breakin' me bargain with'
the Lord Gted."
He knew' he was talking wildly now
and was conscious that all the cau-
tion of his wits had no power to 'con-
trol 'the boisterousness of his tongue.
There were indeed two meh within
him, warring for the ascendancy over
all he did and said.
One he could hear, crying out dra-
inetlp, lint quite distant,. "vis" theirgfi
-at • the end, of a far tunnel beneath
that• mounin of his will. The other
strode and footed' it rampageously in
the very forefront of his brain. With
hat .last glass of 'punch, he trusted
o gather •his scattering ,wits, and
marshal ,them for hie protection •until
the little priest should go. ' Andiher:e•
sat Father Casey, sipping the genteel
portion in ;his. wineglass and watch-
.ing him drink it' with those eyes John
-Desmond had once said ibefore had
more'speech'in them-than-ever-.he_ale
lowed upon the liberty of his' tongue:
The whole tumbierful he :drained
without leaving his. glass, and when
empty bro . ght it . down. with, a • re-
sounding. blow_ upon the table, ,hot -
withstanding that ,there was that dis-
tant: -voice crying out to him to lay
it 'down 'as if he were on the eery
best of his behaviour,,. • ' • • •
"Oh; thank God fo-r that!" said he,
and seeing Father Casey's'eyes wateh-
ing him; knowing, moreover, all that
the closeness of that observation
meant, he could, net but appreciate
the humour, of that sober man sitting
there waiting to see if he was drunk.
SO ludicrous dud it seem to hirn 'then
that he threw back his head. 'With
all thought gone for that suffering
girl upstairs, he shouted aloud with
upiroarious laughter:
"For God's sake!" eatclaimed Father
Casey, "don't disturb the girl!" And
when, at the remembrance of that,
John Desmond's laughter ,digd away',
in his throat, he leant across the table.i
and he looked into the face of his
host. "What in the name of Heaven
were ye laughing at?" said he.
"P was laughing; ' said John. Des-
mond, when there came the twinkle'.
into his eyes again: ',I.was laughing''
to think of ye • sittin' there, like an
old owl waitin' for' a arouse to come
out of its hole. I was .laughin' to
think of ye still ,scrapint 'yeer brain
and wonderin' „vas I saber or drunk,
and ye in two minds about it this
very minute. . Why, glory be to .God,
man, here have I been a total ab-
stainer for • ten • mortal ye! rs, and
haven't I drunk enough this night.
would keep ye sick in yeete bed for a
Week? Didn't I send Tim• Cassidy
away from this door more than an
hour ago. and he welkin on his feet
the• way they'd be lumps of lead and
his head goin' round like the gallop-•
in'.horses at a fair-tehtlnes and all -
I did indeed, and 1've made another
bottle the way it 'ltd• be leanieg to-
wards the ash heap since then, hied
can't I eland on my feet this minute
would take more than the weight •of
your' dainty little body in its black
cloth' to ptisir me .over!"
To prove it all in the aerogance of
his .intoxication. he leapt up of a sud-
den from his chair, and was scarcely
.on his , feet when they crumpled up
rider him. With a cry on his Iips,
Re sank back into `his seat•'again,
.There -was not trace of laughter in
his eyes now. He sat -there with a
glazed stare, watching Fatber Casey,
half-conscious in the . stupor and be-
wilderment of his brain that the vio-
lence of the second man in him had
satisfied the first that 'the game was
up and that he sat there, convicted
before his tribunal, convicted of
breaking his' bargain with the Lord
God. • •
DR. F. J. 'R. •FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, lJniversity of
T'oronto.
Late •assistant New York Optha:-
mei' and Aural Institute, Moorefield'S
Eye and Golden Square Throat . Hos-
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HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED..
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to 420 p.n .; also at Seaforth Clinic
'first Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D.
} . Physician and Surgeon
+"Phone,=..110 Hensel]
} 4068x62
DR. F. H. SCHERK
Physician and SOrgees»
Phone 50 ' Hensall.
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! she has a. ••voaatiow , already, and ye,
I
beth, a roan of yeer *Ord, will entour-
age it -in -her, said _I'll •make all the
arrangernente for her to be received
neat year,' 'Tis .no good, the world
knows, for a girt has thosd•,, holy
thoughts in he mind to be Saddin'
about goin' to dances and flirfin' with
the 'young fella"sj I. hope to goodness
there were none of them this night
at Stra thally telkin' their nonsense
tor,...for 'tis. a pretty thipg she" yeas
wither black hair on heir head and
that puff -and -bubble •dress she had
made' up for' herself"'
' John 'Desmond` gripped both hands'
o i stared
on the arras Y h s chair and st ed
into the ashes of .his fire. , • •
"-'Tis „the -prettiest she is of - the
w tole lot," said he. • "I've been *atch-
ing• her' neeself, and she •growin' up
the way. when she's'twenty she'll give
Sophie' ten pounds in the saddle and
leave her standin:! • Flow would it
be," he added .suddenly as the last
faint hope came ' to him out of the
blackness� ,�fin his heart -"how would
it be if lefe had her down here and
put it to herself? ' Shure, mien! 'tis
herself would he Lewin' the .world and•
wouldn't she .have ,some say in it." v
"Faith, they've gone to bed," said,
Father Casey, not liking the sound
of this proposal at alland, feeling that
as the agent of God, he was being
cajoled into the snare of a side -issue
by which this crafty tenant on his
Mestere estate might yet evade his
obligations.
' "Haven't we ,been sitting here this
twenty `minutes and more,'; said ..he,,
"and worl't they. be in bed and asleep
in Iess?"'., • .
John Desmond, looked 'up at him
and smiled, and,`,seeing that the ver-
retaha.d-"'already•--been-•.'passed etraatr
hire, he helped himself without corn,
punetion to another ladleful of the
fast -cooling punch.
"Have ye. ever seen.v, a girl aftber
her first dance?" said he. "Have ye
ever seen her gettirr.' herself to bed?"
"I have not," snapped Father Casey:
"Shure, why would -I?"
"Well,. I won'e tell ye the garments
she takes off of herself," said. he,
"but there are•about five, not countin'
her' dress and the things she has in
he hair and hangin' round her neck
and' sh ue •-abnirt-aill-ev-eraltele like
baubles in a jackdaw's nest. I 'won't
tell, ye. what they are, for ye' wouldn't
understand '-t if I did, but I'll tell 'ye
this, with. every one • she takes, off,
she shtands for half an. hour 'lookin'
at it, and if there's- no one .about,'
She'll tell herself'•tales about it, -what
she thought it, looked like -the things
that could be seen, mind you ---and
what she imagines other ,,people
thought it looked like. And shure,
glory be to God, with a girl and she
dein' that, it'll take her the best part
of the night till mornin' to get her-
self.• in between the sheets, and like
as not, when she's 'got thb-re,. shell'
up again, thee way she'll be wonderin'
wouldn't her lair have' looked bet-
ter hangin' down like ,some other
girl's she's seen, at the back of her
neck. And darn it, man! ahe'li set
to therm and, begin tryin' it in front
of the glass. Gone to bed! God help
us! shure; she'll be fit to ,be seen for
another hour yet." •
This was knowledge of tip world
that Father Casey could set no;argu-
ment against. When John Desmond,
leant over- and, rang the bell for. the
fourth, 'time that evening., he could
Say nothing.' • •
"Will ye tell Miss Pat," said ;he,
'there's a serious Matter I'm talkin'
with Father .Oasey, and I'd like her
to shtep downstairs for a, minute, for
it concerns herself." . '
•Mrs. Slattery 'went out without •a
word. knowing that things.hed indeed
gonee" badly fora their cause, but that
there was still 'hope, As she closed
the door, Father Casey demanded it
as•his right that if Patricia did come
'down to them, it should be he and
no other who Would put the case as,
it stood. , . .
"Te can say what ye like' •said
John Des.ns nd,. "1• put myself entire-
ly: in yeer • hands: and ,'tis yeerself
::.could leave . a brass plate screwed
lets the centre panel of yeer• door."
Father Casey made 'no "inquiry as
•to the Meaning of this last remark,
and there for some moments they sat
in silence, At last the door opened,
when Patricia • stood before them in
,ber; dressing -gown, with her black
hair hanging in dark clouds over her
shoulders. ! ,
"What did I tell ye," eicclaimed John
Desmond. "There's a ` good hour's
hard .s'ork. Join' •nothin', before that
child 'ud be in bed. Come here •to
me,"' said he,. and held out his hand.
She cameand took it in her own,
when she could feel his fingers strok-
ing her • wrist and knew that some
serious, thing must be expected of
her then. •
"Here's the priest has a little tale
to be tellin' ye," said he, "and will
ye give both ears to ut, for,..'tis more
important than all' the ball -dresses -ye
saw this night_at Stradbally."
With that iritroduction, Father
Casey began, and told her the whole
story from the night of her birth to
that very moment when they were all
Met , there in that very room which
had beenthe scene of all those hap-
penings'. Over the first part he stumb-
led awkwardly, at a loss for 'Words
that were not to be found in his cleri-
cal vocabulary.
"Ah, get on with it!" exclaimed
John „Desmond at this point of the
story. "Faith, don't ye know that no
girl of sixteen is a fool? Shure, •main!
his no shagae to I be born,. Wouldn't
yet be blu'shing•.this moment to the
roots'.of yeer hair if it were. Ah, get
on. With' it!", .
And: Father Casey stumbled on,
coming to the a-0 ;of his narration
Of that first nig is e°Vents with • a
elgh t/f relief, an passing on to the.
safer waters of the later progressions
of the story, •
"theas himaelt: there sent for ye,"
Said lie when die' had finished, "the
THE VERDICT • •
As though they had'served his pur-
pose,. Father Casey took the spec-
taeles from off ,pie nose, put them
away in their case and thrust'theta
back lath' his ;Pocket:
"John Desmond," said he, in all
that Judicial aloofness that has . no
room for pity in its heart, "ye'v,,e
broken year bargain., and it doesn't
need neeself to 'tell ye as an honest
than what the Almighty. God'll be es-
pecti•ng of ye."
''here could. have been no shrewd-
er • way of 'puttitrg it than that, for.
honesty 1s a virtue a min may well
Ware some ,pride In, and lobe Des-
mond kept .it ley him even amongst
rogues, • `„
"Must Pat • go Into the convent?"
Said d he; .
"'Pia not e. case elf must," replied
rather .Casey; knowing iris man, ?O '
the sound of that Word grated on hie
"She's in the, way of thinking
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•
ty he hoe hopen •'Ids, liptl. • ye tt?:
gettiz' out of his • ir;lergaln with the
hold c190- '
1:10,111,114, 'upon, hes wrist Lame its
hold," d'ohn-- ekeeend•, put ber ,away
from 1tin .- • i
• • "fret her • answer ,>rtt; herself;,' 'sato.
he, '•Ye've got seer' dose iii the
world, loather ;Casey '±tad I've get roe
two feet, though e eap't stand au "ane
There's; nedbher' of the ,two would be f •
a credit to any eonve:Kit with a black
veil over our head;' what'smore,
it's herself will hays ,to weal; .it, .f,et.
her answer, 1m -a', for the Al-.
rrii•ghty God would take e no child cZ
Miele i•n the holy elite in settlement
of an outstanding acQciunt if 'twas the
-way she didif'r wast to gu "
Petrie* looked from oue to the
other, yet , her tho:light:: were of
neither. Back her mind had gone to..
that seat in •the 'garden in Carrick
barronhane 'House, half shyly, like a
timid fawn that returns to a pool in
the woods it has quenched its thirst
trom once before, half -anxiously, Mix-
ed not a little with :defiance as she
thought of the trialreeCharles Stuart
had played on her, -the exposure•,, of
which had beery' made by Sophie af-
ter the verynext dace. She thought
no i11 of herself for the trick she had
played on ,him. H'e stood accused be-
fore. her, never she,:, in her'coesidera-
tion, before him. ,
It was to wreak iris spite arpon her,
for: the 'fool .she' had. made of him, he
had taken that Mean advantage of
her, and that was well consistent in
her mind with a man who could ride
his horse to death 0111 hard road and
leaveit with its. broken heart by the
side"of the ditch. And what a mean
•advantage it had been! To pretend
that his interests were so deep as, if
it were, might have stirred some an-
swering emotion in herself!
These thoughts startled her. Would
it have aroused an answering emotion
irr;''her if his interest had been great-
er? , No, •she never meant that. No
man cri el to his beast would ever
succeed in stirring the faintest r•e-
sjio.nse from her. Yet there had been
ope thing he had said, as they stood
out there on the Stradbally road.
which had returned again and again
to her thoughts.
Some journeys have to be taken:" .
he had said, "end ' when it's the choice
between a man and a beast. °it's left
to sentimeiitaflh-ts io c1ihbWe 'tile"
beast."
Beside the whip of scorn there had
been in that which, much against, her
will, she had 'felt stinging the blood
to her cheeks, there was. the convey-
ance of as • motive in justification of
his apparent heartlessness. When-
ever that consideration came to her,
she put it away.' Yet at this inoment
:while she stood in silence before those
two men waiting for her answer, at
returned again as insistent, as before.
Still, supposing .there had been good
seasjelaefer his treatment pf bis horse,
there wasp abovee all--other-things. hie:,
treatment of her. Then why had he
shown such surprise -and almost ap-
parent distresswhen, not knowing
she was Patricia, • she had told him
that that member of the Desmond. •
family was dedicated to a convent
life?, . Was that 'forced? ' Was that
put 'on?. She was inclined to. think
If the iaectee burn low ` about that
Chri:atamas ate of ours, throw on an
other ref; "' ,Another log Will see us.
through •.
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eta''OHAWING7H00941 AT
'1 ATE.RPAil•'
There 'is a' saying, .putting it upon
record that the entrance of Integer
by the door is simultaneous with the
departure of love `by the window;,
Whether. that be true or no,--ar%d, it
is*'not for a man caprielously to dis-
.date because h:e happens to have live
• a while with hunger ance•_leeee in
the same dwelling --it is, at least, nev-
er the first chapter in any story. For
hunger, even if it lee in the house al-
ready:, could not hold the door ;if love
wereto set its ,shoulder against the
panel, bu.t according to the saying one
must take it for. granted .that love has
got there first.
When love, -then, comes to the door
-and it cannot be supposed the house
is empty -it is patience and all the
attributes of common sense that fly
in a flash out of the windows and neve
er returns again until such time as,
love .hasbeen settled down in her
new abode and is in a fit state to re-
ceive visitors.
To say that Charles Stuart was- im-
patiell to see Patricia again after the
dance it Stradbally would. be .as true
as saying that a mandied of a brok-
en heart, when every ocular demon`
stration went to prove that he had
cut his own throat rather than face
his trouble.
He, was. brought back to Waterpark
after the dance by'fr'ierids..of Mickey
Mcilamara's who were going that way
but if in truth it can be said of a man
that his heart Was in one place white
the body of him is 'in another, thia
was the state of affairs with Charles
Stuart.
For three days he fretted his spirit
in that house'in Lady Late, until old
Sandy, who' .had left love out of his
reckoning, thought he must be a, sick-
ening for a disease, and on the fourth
he set out for •Portlaw. ,
It was a day in April when a man
must ask God for life or be insensible
to all the finer feelings of gratitude.
The squadrons of.; the clouds were
sweeping across the .sky, their white
sails too full of the winds of spring
to pause for a thought of rain.. Birds
-were" building in the -budding' 'fie�ge=
rows, There was a nip and a warmth
in the air at one, and• the same, itme,
enough to, tingles•the blood and stir
the sap in the woodland tree. Larks
were heavenward. On such a day
might Browning have beep sitting in
his ,'`vlindow overlooking those waters
of the Venetian' canal and crying out
With his heart towards England..
It was about four o'clock in the
afternoon when, after many times los-
ing his way, Charles, pushed open the
gate at. the entrance of the drive and
came under that long avenue of trees
upon the wide grassland of Water-
pafk.. • .. .
one• living in the town .ani1 in
such cramped. confinement as that
narrow passage of Lady Lane, where,.
except for one 'hour of the .day, With
its bread outlook across the spreading
fields, looked .imposing enough. Only
as he came nearer did Charles ob-
it was not.. But what, a splendid re- -
taliation on her, part it . would be if
When, one day, he came out to Water- -
park, as he had said to .Sophie he
would, he found .that. the bird had
flown and that no power of his hand
could ever reach• -"fit in its splendid
cage! '.. „".: 9
This, as near as one, can -touch:•it,
is the . mind of a girl of sixteen. The
gaudiest flowers of romance are the
ones that catch her eye, and she will
pluck them, even if there is• death in
the lurking .corners of their. petals.
There was all the color of remance
to Patricia then -and, be it noticed,
the desire for romance had in that)
night 'found its way into her heart.
There was • all the color of romance
in this thought of his coming eager
and hopeful to Waterpark, to find her
gone, far and away beyond his reach.
"Well, what's ,yeer answer?" ex-
claimed her father impatiently, at last
for though' these thoughts fled with
lightning feet through that little head
of he'rs., the moments of delay seemed
interminable to him.: "Have ye got a
vocation, or have ye not?",
She turned her eyes on him With
all the innocence• of a little child and
she said: e
serve the broken atones tip oto the hall
loo lire grana and moss gri? 9 g
tht.ekly in. the G� evir es; only ', 'he t
tie pulled the bell and found itjrneelf
falling backwards Wathe theee,.g o4
-yards of wire attached tp. the hail
did he 'begin,' to realise that, impacting°
ass it was; this was :a poor. man's, dwel
ling. .spumiug.that there wound .be:
n o . r eapont!e to that su3nmon s, how-
ever vielent • it •inay ba'v seemed, tie
leeocked on the •dieete' which any eon-• -
Stant visitor tel 'Waterpark ,eoutd have
told, Wee Vas the only wap attract
attention in that houspe7 .In the s see
of three inmatett it brought iULrs. Slate
tory, when such being the instinct of
women, she,.lt,Itew the Inoinent ette •1rem;
held Oharles's 'face' and. beard the Me-'
certain stammer of his voice, that this
was love knocking at the door. What
.merre could she do than Sing it wide
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:r
Ontario profits almost as
much from the tourist
business 'as from the
gold mirring'iindustry, It's
up to us tokeep-•tb'ie
business growing.
Every tourist dollar is
.shared ,this way .
1. Hotels;' 2. Stores;.
3. Restaurants; 4.•Taxes;
etc.; S. Amusements;
6. Garages.
"Le 's marethem-want to come back!"
MANNING A HOLIDAY?
Tens in cos
10.30 p.m., Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
"If ye've made yeer bargain ,with
the Almighty God, 'tis yeerself • must
hold its -.:Haven't I been brought up
with the belief I'm going, into a eon-
vent? -Very well, so, into a convent
I`h`.go, and just as soon as ye like
to send me there."
And when you come to think of• the
lengths to which, women will go to
throw dust 'in,the eyes !cif those who
are already. .blind from their' 'birth;
you will realize the trueness to type
in Patricia Desmond and, ail the
charm that truth bestowed upon her.
VIII
• A. TAILPIECE
There is nothing but •the power of
the prince's right arm, the singing.
note qf' his sword, and the fearless-
ness in his heart, will break the spell
cast upon the princess in the, hour
of her birth. Never vas she set free
by the wit or• cunni of the- king,
Her father, never could here be founds,
in all his lairds a wise man, wise en-
ough. to, triumph over tree witchcrafti
And the true modern witchcraft. is
no less potent than the old. Every,
mother's son of us, we' are all under
some one spell or another, a preju-
dice ar an imperative idea. Some-
times they call it ,the skeleton in our
cupboard, And Just as the princess
gone to sleep for,, a hundred years,
or that daughter of the king turned
into the •guise and likeness of a toad,
there is' only one thing tkii -dui -tile'
chains of our slavery and set us free
from •the giiell of prejudice or- the
witchceaft of evil thoughts. It Is the'
sword oe the prince, that glitter of
White steel that cries tts song • aloud
as he, wields it about his heb,d and/
plunges it into thOvery heart of .ttre
misshapen monster that holds us 'in
its thrall.. •
Patricia Desmond became the vic-
tim of the spell of an idea thatvery
instant When her .father, ding bells
dupe to the Lord God in the fear Of
losing his best :beloved, hada sworn
to Mrs.. ,.Slattery that if his ehild
should prove a girl he would 'offer her
to' the holy 'life.
Under the slialow of t'halt:spell; she
grew 4o'iwartls d*omanhotade .nil- here
is the rest of the story yet to villi, '.,
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Published. is NN
Ps bile interest, by
Jahn Labatt Li.,I d •
Atonic Vacuum
leavers, But.:..
Seaforth merchants are going to have a lot of inter-
esting things to advertise during the `next six' months.
What we mean to say in. this: The advertising col-
umns of The Huron Expositor will have real news interest
for every reader during 1946. You'll be reading about
the new car models new. stoves=improved, iceboxes—
latest radios—alarm clocks—electric razors—advertise-
menta for foods we've just been talking about the last'feW,
• years—even new bug killers and nodoubt scarce, clothing
item: as they col ie on the market.•
And the..ladies will go back to that favorite pastime
of checking 'items at sales—something else that' we'll- see
-more of as our .business places get back to normal opera-
tions on a: postwar losis.
IT WON'T BE TOMORROW, not .all this news, but
almost every day something NEW and IMPROVED is
coming back on the market.
We, haven't talked about prices, but you'll be pleased
to see not. very great changes from the days before Sept-
tember, 1939.
Yes, we believe, that—
" TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, ADVERTISING IS NEWS "
•
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