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The Huron Expositor, 1922-06-30, Page 7,1) 40.6 41t 11,464 ; Milf.-SfaMaltiegielf010: wpmvac, gi:44 ;4' 4, f** 044404 , ince hoop st Wedneaday, y, from one to 281448 Olt y. J. R. FORSTEff 1 t raduate in Medicine, Unit, ty Late 'Assistant New York Ophtluil.' ,ostei and Aural Ingtitute, EY. and Golden Stnrare Timid 'limn tab, LeadenA,t office in ScOtt a, Ear. Nose aid •Itrrold • avor lb:aback% Drag Storel gnitht'4hlng Wednanlay in each, (Pontinued from loot 'week.) • te Oa. 58 Street, South, Sk, at;ford. 'Wiwi the chtitter of the tieker bad One 267, Stratford. _ shifted from the London - quotationa to the opening sales on the Exdhange t a eallow-faved clerk monnted a low to f.lot. sh,*- By jf. gOVills,g3014 SMITE TORONTO McLEOD & ALLEN , pe hOY halt 'hidden' 07,•'thel • Eitt9"9ieuid�P' screen, 000%0. anilliOne Were: penned IPS, 44O1I.41 and re,passWleStetry. moth, •atrught. 99—,alwaYft, now and.bena glinapee. ' • • OP 16.n. Once a faded, • Widtinitaired .old Man 4PwrOY. •WO had handed Jackka /eiteeh atter bank. hen Pretet0hont, ng .houmto inn e good an agecanitt-- harghod alt`'` a 'man Whose face bad haunted him on the Part, for hours, His uncle, told him the ihe must pop; fellow had "run up solid" .against a *heft intere* in a stock tdrat eons Chesue was, inanipulating to "got even 'Wi1i another Croons ragia9 had man. inulated him, and that the two Croesuees had buried the old man • CONSULTING ENGINEERS stsP"lackler, °ad' ow I alive. The name' of the stock Jack chalk marlos over the., age blackbo 'as , had forgotten, but the suffering in James, Proctor & Redfern, Ltd. its margin lettered with the initials the victim's face had made an indel- E. M. Proctor, B.A.,Sc., Manager of the principal stocks. The appear- ible impression. In reply to Jack's ancef thta nimble-fluipered young further inquiry, his uncle had spoken as -if the poor fellow had been wan. dering about on some unknown high- way when the accident happened, failing to add that he himself ,had led ,him through the gate and started him on the road; forgetting, too, to say that be had collected the toll in raargins a SUM which still formed- a • 36' Toronto St., Toronto, Cu Bridges, Pavements, Watenvorks, Sretems, Incinerators, School., Potato Halls, Hominy., Factories Arbi- st1os, Menet:ion. Our Few i—tJetualrveld end of the money we save em client, MERCHANTS CASULTY CO. Specialists in Health and Accident Insurance. Policies liberal and unrestricted. Over $1,000,600 paid in losses. Exceptional opportunities for local Agents. 904 ROYAL BANK BLDG., 1778-50 Toronto, Ont. LEGAL R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public Solicitor for the De - =Bank. Office in rear of the Do- Bank, Seaforth. Money to tem. BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Convey- ancers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND HOLMES Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub - Se, etc. Money to lead. In Seaforth en Monday of each week. Office in tidd Block. W Proudfoot, K.C., J. L. Killoran, B. E. Holmes. VETERINARY F. HARBURN. V. 9 honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of she Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod- ern principles. Dentistry and Milk never a specialty. Office opposite -Dick's Hotel, Main Street. Seaforth. 421 orders left at the hotel will re - mire prompt attention. Night calla eoceived at the office JOHN GRIEVE. V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. MI diseases of domestic Animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office .and residence on Goderich street, one door east of Dr. Scott's office. Sea - forth. MEDICA L C. J. W. HARN, M.D.C.M. 425 Richmond Street, London, Ont., doecialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin- ery diseases of men and women. DR. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill Uhiversity, Montreal; membef of College of Physicians and Surgeons sf Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coun- cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member ef Resident Medical staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56. Heiman, Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence, Goderihh street east of the Methodist church, Seaforth Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin- fty University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons a Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Facility of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses ix Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Re* Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office --Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night ealis answered from reaidenoe, Victoria street, Seaforth. AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale' dates can be made by calling up phone 97, Seaforth or The Expositor Office. Charges mod- erate and satisfaction guaranteed. R. T. LUKER Licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to in all parts of the county. Seven years' ex- perience in Manitoba and Saskatelte- wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No. 175 r 11, Exeter, Centralia P. 0., R. I. No. 1. Orders left at The Huron Ilgpottitor Office, Seaforth, promptly attended. . , . -....., man rth his piece of *hail aivrhys linpresied J'ack as a sort of vaude- ville performance. On ordinary days with the market lifeless, but half of the orchestra seats would be ocou. pled. In whirl -times, with the ticker aliening ruin, not only were the chairs full, but standing room only was available in the offices. Their occupants came from all classes; clerks from up -town dry - goods houses, who had run down dur- ing lunch time to see whether U. P. or Erie, or St. Paul had moved up an eighth, or down a quarter, since they had devoured the morning -papers on their way to town; old speculators who had spent their lives waiting buzzard-lrike for some calamity, en- abling them to swoop down and make off with what fragment they could Pick up, well-dressed, welt -fed club men, who had had a run of luck and who never carried less than a thou - Band shares to keep their .hands in; gray-haired novices nervously rolling little wads of paper between their fingers and thuntbs--un every few animates to Eaten to the tbalk of the ticker, too arudous to watt until the swallow -faced young man with the piece of chalk could make his record on the board. Some of them had gathered together their last dollar, Two per cent. or one per cent., or even one-half per cent. rise or fall was all that stood between them and ruin. "Very sorry, sir, but you know we told you when you opened the account that you must .keep your margins MI," Breen had said to an old man. The old man knew; had known it all night as he lay awake, afraid to tell •his wife of the sword hanging above their heads. Knew it, too, when without her knowledge he bad taken the last dollar of the little nest egg to make good the deficit owed Breen & Co. over and above his mar- , gins, together with some other things I "not negotiable"—not our kind of col - .lateral but "stuff" that could 'Mie in the safe until he could make some other arrangement," the cashier had said 'with the fiern's consent. Queer safe, that of Breen & Co., and queer things went into it. Most of them ,were still there. Jack thought same jeweller had sent part of his stock down for safe -keeping when he first came across a tiny drawer of which Breen alone kept the key. Each object could tell a story: a pair of diamond ear-nings surely could, and so could four pearls on a gold chain, and perhaps, too, a certain small watch, the case set with jewels. One of these days they may be redeemed, or they may not, depending upon whe- ther the owners can scrape money enough together to pay the balances owed in cash. But the four pearls on the gold chain are likely to ra- xnain there—that poor fellow 'went overboard one_niorning off Nantucket Light, and his secret went with him. During the six months Jack had tood at his desk new faces had filled s the chairs—the talk had varied; though he felt only the weary mon- otony of it all. Sometimes there had been hours of tense excitement, when even his uncle had stood by the ticker and when every bankable security in the box had been overhauled and sent post-haste to the bank or trust com- pany. Jack, hollowed by the porter with a self -'cocking revolver M his outside ,pocket, had more than once carried the securities himself, return - ?ling to the office on the run with a sma1,1 scrap of paper good for half a million or so tucked away in his in- side pocket. Then the old monotony had r4eurned with its dull routine, and sci had the chatter and talk. "Buy. me a hundred." "Yes, let 'em go." "No, I don't went to risk it." "What's my 'balance?" '"Thought you'd get another eights for that stock." "Sold at that figure, anyhow," eke. Under these conditions life to a boy of Jack's provincial training and temperament seemed narrowed down to an arm -chair, a black -board, a piece of chalk and a restless little devil sputtering away in a glass case, whose flat ,meant happiness or misery. Only the tongue of the demon was in evidence. The brain behind it, with its thousand slender nerves. quiver- ing with the energy of the globe, Jack never saw, uor, for that matter, did nineetenths of the occupatts Of the chairs. To them its spoken word was the dictum of fate. Success meant debts paid, a balance in the bank, houses, horses, even yachts and estates—failure meant obscurity and suffering. The turn of the roulette wheel or the roll of a cue of ivory they well knew brought the same k- ilts, but these 'turnings they also knew were 'attended with a certain loss of prestige. Taking a flier in the Street wait akbgelther different— great financiers Were 1ml:1nd the fluctuations of values tOldf by the tongue of the ticker,and behind them was the ,wealth of the Republic and still in the far distance the power of the American people. Few of them ever looked below the grease paint, nor did the most disci2frirmg ever de- tect. the laugh on the clootn's face. ,. • considerable portion of Breen & Co.'s bank account. One bit of informa- tion which Breen had vouchsafed, while it did not relieve the gloom of the incident, added a note of courage to the affair: "He was game, however, all the same, Jack. Had to go down into his wife's stocking, I hear. Hard bit, but he took it like a CHAPTER V. While all this was going on down- town under ,the direction of the busi- ness end of the house of Breen, equ- ully interesting events were taking place uptown under the guidance of its social head. gtrict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and ar- rangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept and the 'hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered. I say "the night before," especial stress was laid up- on the fact that on no account what- ever were either Mrs. 'Breen or her daughter Corinne to be disturbed un-. til noon—neither of them having re- tired until a late hour the night be- fore. So strictly were these orders car- ried out that all that did reach the younger woman's ear—and this was not until long after anid-day—was a scrap of news which crept upstairs from the breakfast table via Parkins wireless, was caught by Corinne's maid and delivered in 'manifold with that young lady's coffee and butter- ed rolls. This when deciphered meant that :Teak was not to be at the dance that eve.ning—he having determined isstead to snend his time up stairs with a disreputable old fellow whom he had picked up somewhere at a supper the preceding night. Corinne thought over the announce- ment for a moment, gazed into the egg -shell cup that Hortense was fill- ing from the tiny silver coffee pot, and a troubled expression crossed her face. "What has come over Jack?" she asked herself. 4'1 never knew him to do anything like this before. Is he angry, 1 wonder, because I danced with Garry the other night? It was his dance, but 1 didn't think he would care. He has always done everything to please me—until now." Perhaps the boy was about to slip the slight collar he had worn in her service—one buckled on by him will- ingly beeause—though she had not known it—he was a guest in the house. Heretofore she said to her- self Jack had been her willing slave, a feather in her cap—going every- where with her; half the girls were convinced he was in love with her— e theory which she had encouraged. What would they say now? This pro- spect so disturbed the young woman that she again touched the 'button, and again Hortense glided in. "Hortense, tell Parkins to let me know the niornent Mr. John comes in —and get me my blue tea -gown; I sha'n't go out to -day." This done she sank back on her pillows. She was a slight Tittle body, this 'Corinne—blue-eyed,- kir-haired, with a saucy face and upturned nose. Jack thought when he first saw her that she looked like a wren with its tiny bill in the air—iand Jack was not far out of the way. And yet she was a very methodical, level-headed little wren, with several positive convictions which dominated her Bfe—one oI them being that everybody about her ought to do, not as they, but as -she, pleased. She .had • begun, and with pronounced success; on her another as far back as she could remember, and ihad then tried her hand on her step- father 'until it became evient that as her mother controlled that gentle- man it was a W8.k.e of time to ex- periment further. .AT1 of which was a saving of stones without the lots o 1any ibirds. Where she failed—and she certain- ly had failed, was with .Tack, who though punctiliously polite was elus- ive and—never quite subdued. Yet the discovery made, she never pouted nor lost her temper, but merely bided her time. Sooner or later, she knew, of course, this boy, who had seen nothing of city -life, and, who was eel- dentlY dazed with all the magnificence of the stately horne overlooking the park, would find his happiest resting- llvitiElrou Cannot Buy Ne17 /Eyes • Bet yeti um Promote al • Ocan,Ilesitte Candi:ion E UseMtirine Eye Remedy Night and Morning." Keep 7W7fie for Free t'arretdoir caithY. Nada frollandr to..9test Otis 5fraeLebicrob never by thon, be .ever giv0V, faintest saspini. .4lha he consideted, her more. bean. , ',better dressed, or more •entertatin' either in song chirp, .flight ogiJ1mage than the flock of other ih4c about her, In- deed, the ,Scane klowo it to be a.fact .that If Jack'a 1,4'*ate noliteneas had not forbiddenAM.'would many timed have told her Oaths, some of them mighty unpleasessktmes; to -Which her ears trad been $rangers since her school -girl dare_ This unstud*V.treatment, -strange to say—the. result really, of the boy's indiffereneellad of late ab- sorbed .her. What she could not have she generally longed for, and there was not the atightSet question up to the present moment that Jack was still afield. Again the ,grirl '.pressed the button. of the cord within reach of her hand, and for the third time Hortenseen- tered. "Have you told .Farkins I want to know the very instant Mr. John conies in?" "Yes, miss." - "And, Hothasse, did you understand that Mr. John wan 'to go out to meet the gentleman, or was the gentleman to come to his moms?" "To hie room% 1 think, miss." She was wearing her blue tea - gown, stretched out on the cushions of one of the big divans in the silent drawing -room, .when she heard Jack's night -key touch the lock. Springing to :her feet she tan toward him. "Willy, Jack, what% this 1 hear a- bout' -your not coining to my dance? It isn't true, is ft?" She was close to hint now, her' little head cocked on one side, her thin, silken draperies dnipping shout her slender figure. "Who told you?" "Parkins told Hortense." "Leaky Parkins?" laughed Jack, tossing his bat on the hall table, "But you are coming. aren't you, .Tack? Please do!" "Not to -night; you d in't need me. Corinne." His voice to!,l her at once that not only was the leash gone but tiat the collar was off :.s wall, "Yes, but I do.'" "Then please excuse nnr, for I have an old gentleman coming to pay me a visit. The finest old gentleman, by the way, you ever saw! A regular thoroughbred, Corinne—who looks like a magnificent portrait!" he add- ed in his effort to interest her. "But' let him come some other time," she coaxed. holding the lapel of his coat, her eyes searching his. "What, turn to :he wall a magnifi- cent old portrait!" This came with a mock grimace, his body bent for- ward, his eyes briouning with laugh- ter. Be serious„fack, and tell me if you think it very rice in you to stay upstairs in your len when I am giv- ing a dance? Everybody Will know you are at hi-ime, Lot d we haven't en- ough men as itts. Garry can't come he writes me. 11n has to dine with. some men ;it the club." "I really alt s ir y, Corinne, but I can't this time." ia2k had hold of her hand now; for a brief moment he was sorry h.• had not postponed Peter's visit untii he next day; he hated to cause any woman a disap- pointment. "If it was anybody else I might send him word to call an- other night, but y u dein't know Mr. Grayson; he isn't the kind of a man you can treat like :hat. He does me a great honor to come, anyhow. Just think of his coming to see a boy like me—and he so--" 'Veil, bring him downstairs, then." Her eyes began 1 dash; she had tried all the arts She knew—they were not many—but they had Avon heretofore. "Mother will take care of him. A Food many of the girls' fathers come for them.' "Bring him dounstaars to a dance!" Jack answ.ereal n Ult a merry laugh. "He isn't that kind of an old gentle- man, either. Why, Corinne, you ought to see him! You might ES well ask old Bishep Gooley to lead the 'german." Jack's foot win, now ready to Mount the lower -tap of the stairs. Corinne bit her 1:1i. "You never dnything to please me!" she snoop,: back. She knew she was fibbing, out something must he done to check this new form of independence—anil then, now that Garry couldn't come, she really need- ed him. "Yau ilen't want to come, that's it—" She eaI facing him now, her little nose high in the air, her cheeks flaming wilh anger. "You mast not say that, Corinne," he 'answered in slightly indignant tong. Corinne drew herself up to her full. heighlt—toes included; not very high, but all she could do—and said in a voice pitched to n high key, her fitf ger within a few inches of his nose: "It's true, 'ani 1 will say it!" 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Records show that the first railway Charter in Canada was granted in 1832. in MU the first railway, which waif.. sixteen miles long, from 1.0 Prairie on the St • Lawrence to St. John on the Richelieu, was opened lartraffic. The rails, unlike the solid steel one's of to.day, weighing 100 lbs. to the yard, were of wood„ woh a strip of steel spiked. on the top. The Iran year of operation, hocks were used, but in 1837 a steam locomotive was imported and put into service Ten years there.were only 54 miles of road open for tratiii.., However. in A353 there began a great; era of railway constrm c11 bringing in itA wake development and colonization. To -day the people of Canada, in, their Canadian Nat,.....,1•Grand Trunk Railways, own over 22,000 Miles of road, the greatest railway system in the world. With t he passing of the years and the ever increasing mileage have also come many changes in railway equipment': From the rakish little engine used in 1855, modern ins entioh has evolved the mighty Pacific type of locomotive; weighing 407,700 lbs , and having eight powerful dri, ing wheels, 69 inches jn diameter, used to -day. Wooden const/rur 1 ion has given way to solid steel constriK ion. and to -day the great traTscontinental flier, "The Continental Limited,- operated by 1 he Canadian. National RA IIWAPIS, is equipped with practically all the comforts and coal' veniences of a modern hotel. This premier train provides a daily transcontinental service in both directions between,. Montreal and Vancouver, and is called "The Continental Limited," as signifying that it travels across the cantinent. To keep up this daily service via Ottawa, Winnipeg Saskatoon and Edmonton, it is necessary to maintain' 14 trains, 10 of which are in active service all the time, the other four being used as guard trains. To equip She trains actively in service it takes 10 locomotives. 30 baggage or express cars, 10 colonist cars, 10 tourist cars, Mil, standard sleepers, 10 dining cam and. 10 observation -compartment cars—in all about $3,500,000 worth of equipmemg A crew of 100 men is needed to operate these trains. • The route of "The Continental Limited" traverses six of the provinces of the' Dominion.. From-Montrelitir is passes through the famous Cobalt mining district and the pulp forests of Northern Ontario, via Ottawa, North Bay and Cochrane. to Winnipeg, thence continuing across some of the richest farmlands of the prairie provinces - via Saskatoon and Edmonton It then proceeds through the Northern Canadian Rockins.visiaspar andidetten. 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