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The Huron Expositor, 1938-12-23, Page 2i1, ty ,D! ,t n Expositor stab1isi ed 1860 eith (McPhail McLean, Editor. Published at Seaforth, Ontario, ev- �- ' Thursday afternoon by McLean Eros. Subscription rates, $1.50 a year in advance; foreign, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 4 cents each. Advertising, rates on application. ..,.�SEAFORTH, Friday, December 23. ! Merrp Christmas We would like to say to our Ex- positor readers and friends, "A 'Ii► erry Christmas!” May it be one of your very b _est and brightest, and may you have the opportunity—and you will if look for it—of making it one of the brightest and best Christmas sea- sons asons for some one else. • T roubles In The Family There is trouble in the Liberal household. To put it a little more bluntly, we might even say that there was a full sized family row. The head of the house believes there can be but one leader of the Nation- al Liberal Party, and the party must be united. However, one of the branch mem- bers of the family has declared that he will not support the head of the Liberal party any longer. Instead, he will vote • for the Conservative leader, and still further, that his party organization and Legislative followers will not be allowed to lend their support to the head of the Lib- eral party either. There the matter rests at the pres- ent time. Unfortunately for the Lib- ' eral party, however, the matter will not be allowed to rest where it is. There has been far too; much said and done already to . permit that. Consequently there is a large field of speculation as to what really will happen in a good many Ontario rid- ings. - For instance, take our own riding. In this riding the organization for Federal and Provincial purposes is the same. So is the Liberal execu- tive. Next year, there will, in all probability, be a Federal election. If Mr. Hepburn forbids his Legislative member and his provincial organiza- tion and executive to either support at the polls or to work during the election campaign for Mr. Golding, the present Federal member, who will also be the candidate at that election, what will happen? Well, one of the things that . will happen Will be that when the next Provincial election follows the Fed- eral one, which it has to do sooner or later, the Federal Liberals in the rid- ing will refuse to either support or work for Mr. Ball1antyne, the pres- ent Legislative member, and in all probability, the next Legislative can- didate. In the event of any such action on the part of the Liberals of this rid- ing, it would be possible to more or less embarrass Mr. Golding's chanc- es of election, but not at all probable' that he would meet defeat. On the other hand, it is both possible and probable that any such action on the part of 'the Liberals of the riding would ensure Mr. Ballantyne's de- feat. And it wouldbe that way because, while the two ridings are very, sim- ib rly constituted for both Federal and Provincial purposes, the Federal thember has this great advantage: In the Federal election the party candidate would have the support of the two Liberal Townships of Hib- bert and Pullarton, which are in Perth County, and would not be op- d by the Conservative towns of h ;and . Goderich, and the Con- ' ,tiVe..township -of Goderieb, in oh Conntp,and which belong to m{," i"tiding of Huron. �� to point out these ie'! rb+ rats at either -the ''ederal ridings, but it wIPueh harm from a ity to Wu/MI a little alien hefoe they be- .l ` iett,t2t+±eg A^I l�� l7��4 Si�i �iLi 4s 1P! s 11 Police Protection The Seaforth council at its last meeting made provision for an ex- tra constable to patrol the Main Street at night during the holiday season. That was a wise provision. One night constable can give a good deal of police protection—and does. But one man can only be in one place at one time, .and his movements are too easily watched and kept track of by any one who has a store, robbery in mind. • This town has been signally for- tunate in the matter of night rob- beries, but that is not saying that it will always be that way. The mer- chants in many larger places and ouit3 a few smaller ones, 'situated in rural districts, have suffered severe, and in some cases, crippling losses at the hands of night robbers. t"th motor transport, it is a sim- ��1: n_attc r for any evil intentioned perz.,on r►-• persons to slip into a town ane' `Lit again with a load of stolen rdlrchand-ise, even when there is a' policeman on duty. The robbery in the adjoining village of Hensall a c6uple of weeks ago is a case in point. In fact, from now on, towns and villages in the scattered rural dis- tricts will have' to give serious atten- tion to providing police protection at night. Communities near large cit- ies are becoming dangerous fields for thieves to operate in with any assurance of success, and they are well aware of conditions in the coun- try. When shop lifting, via the truck method, becomes too dangerous at home, they will go elsewhere, where better opportunities offer. That means they will operate in this and similar neighborhoods, where there - is scarcely a store on any main street that could not be relieved of a truck load or two that could easily be cart- ed a hundred miles and more away by morning. As a matter of fact, theft of goods constitutes a greater menace to our rural main streets than does the fear of fire. Some one always sees a fire, but it is very, very seldom that any one sees the night thief, even if he does travel in a truck and operate in a wholesale way, and it is just about as seldom that such a thief is appre- hended once he is clear of the town. • Money In Ice Cream Ice cream to us is not a very im- portant subject. It very .rarely en- ters either us or our budget of ex- penditures. Of course we know that what once was considered a reward for the youthful good behaviour, is now a national necessity, winter and summer, for old and young. But we never realized until the other day, how ice cream -runs into money, and how much money can be made out of it. , And then we read a Government despatch in an Ameri- can paper which really opened our eyes. It seems that Henry W. Breyer, the Philadelphia ice cream manufac- turer, when he died in that city, left behind him an estate of $24,104,667, all made out of ice cream. Ice cream was mighty good to the late Mr. Breyer, but not only to him alone. It was mighty good to the American Government too. But not quite as good as the Government thought it should be. That is how it all got into the papers. The Government wanted to take, by way of taxation, $13,408,312 out of the estate of twenty-four million and over, but the executors of the es- tate would only pay, and only did pay, $2,675,396.33. The thirty-three cents really looks more like ice cream than the rest of the figures, but they all entered into the battle. Now the war is over. The Govern- ment has agreed to accept and the executors have agreed to pay •$4,284,- 927, which looks pretty much as if they had a mighty lenient Govern- ment over there. We hope that Premier Hepburn does not see this. Thinking over what he would have done to those executors and that estate is enol•X'gh to spoil his trip to Australia and, for the rest of his life, give him. a. queer " feeling every time he sees an ice cream cone. But all that does not alter the. fact that there' is4111,0 e 111 ice: ere •i aJ. iG 3 ears ,('gone Interesting, Iter; Picked From The Hurcn Expositor of Fifty and Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Huron Expositor r December 6, 1913 ) The staff of Stewart Bros' store for the Oludstmas season was: Messrs. H. Jeffrey, William Jones,:, Mise R. 'tcLure, Miss L. Hammett, Miss A. Barton, Mrs: M. C. Marvin, Miss E. Sparks, Miss H. Murray, Mise C- Pink- ney, Miss J. Ross, Miss McFadden, Miss Waunlde, Miss H. Fitzgerald, Mises E. Williams, R. McKenzie, R. Harnmett, H. Pearce, J. H. Taman, J. C. Thompson, J. B. Duffy, Miss L. Freeman, Miss M. , Miss M. Pinkney Hudson, Miss Iyy McCloy, Miss M. Bullard, Mr. Broadbridge and Mr. G. Frailer. Mr. C. Schrag, of the Bronson Line, Stanley, alas installed a small cheese vat and boiler and intends to make cheese from the milk from his dairy herd. Mr. Henderson Forest, of Bruce field, has engaged to teach the Sum- merhill school for next year at a sal- ary of $500. ' While Miss ..Jessie Scott, in, com- pany with some friends, was driving 'home one night recently it was very dark and the buggy slipped , off the side of a smm}all,. culvert and she was thrown out. Her left arm was brok- en in two places - The home of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Close was the scene of a pleasant event on Monday evening when the chaff of First Presbyterian Church met and Miss Lyn Gillespie pres- ented Mrs. Kinder, the organist, with a handsome bracelet, while Mr. Carl Jones read: the address. - The electric light company of Sea - forth have sold once of their engines to Mr. John McDonald of Walton to be used in the new mill- - Miss Mary Gillespie has' accepted a position on the Perth Collegiate In- s'titut.e staff. The following is taken from the Woodstock Sentinel Review; "There was a great gathering last night at the factory of the East and West Ox- ford Cheese and; -:Butter' Manufactur- ing Company. The occasion was and oyster supper in honor of Mr. Chas. A. Barber, ',mho for five years has been the efficient and painstaking' manager of the institution, who is severing his connection with it to take up similar work in Seaforth." There As ',Sleighing, sirtating and curling for Christmas. As a sample of tine whole, we may say Mr. Cass hedara fine turkey wthich weighed 22 pounds and for which he paid 20 cents a pound. Miss Ruth VanEgmond, has return- ed from a prolonged visit in Regina and Toronto. Messrs. Sperling and Wright were busily engaged this week dismantling the old electaic light building of its machinery in order to make way for the new creamery. Phil Osifer of Lazy Meadows (illy Harry J. Boyle) "OLD FOLKS" I should be writing about Christ mas today, but lest night I listened to a girl slinging a song about old folks, that set me thinking. It made me think that I've been sort of sel- fish in nott introducing you 'sooner to the conversation. After the meal he sits down in the easy 'rocker by the window and Teach- es for his pipe: Age can meldjpw some objeots, but it sure strengthened in this case. I have often thougiht that in place of putting pictures- of t1►e Rock of Gibraltar on lite insurance an important member of the Lazy ,cralendars to indicate the strengths of Meadow's household, my wife's uncle the . oompany, they might have used Peter. He's our old folks! a 'picture of that pipe. And the pips Uncle , Peter is sort of trying to tie women folks. He pours his tea out in hie saucer, and cools it by the old-fashioned prooess of blowing on it quite lustily. He strains the tea through his moustache and wipes his lip decorations' with his sleeve, die dealing the . use of anything such as a napkin. He always dunks his cake after breaking it up, and the wet crumbs lodge to the folds' in his vest. tcnbacco while burning would defy the descriptive powers of say man. He tells us gay and colorful stories of his life in the early drays, using the pipe for dramatic emphasis. His nuffs on the pipe are periods! After his smoking he starts to doze. I watch in fascinated interest as his puffing begins to slow up - and the rockers also slow up. His head When he gets up from the table - droop's and as it does a little cascade there's always an avalanche of crumbs of ashes goes rolling down the irreg- rolling down to the floor. ular hills and valleys of his wrinkled Oar. old folks will persist in tuck -I vest: trig hie napkin in under his chin and Uncle Peter is continually telling manage to always drop his egg down below his napkin. When we have company at the house, and' there's deep conversation in progress', he will look up in the middle of a )sen- fence and ask about the weather. He merely does it because he feels that now and again he _ should figure in 1t {all' ii DNC'EKREit, 23, 138.. He's soon and Pathetic old. Grop- ing in a way . . . and al of a end, . dens You feel sorry ,•fbr him. But sup,. per time,,colu50 rr ong, and you wait for him - an+d -he doesn't Dome. -mist when yqu're fleshing supper he comes along and says: "You must • have started supper early •ttnightl„ He's told his stories over and over. again Mrs. Phil still shudders as he tells the, one about the time he was at Buckingham Palace, au d the .:then Prince of Wale had turned and said: "I'll look you up next time that I'm in Canada." - After skipper he always removes• his shoes. Then he sits backing in the warmth and slowly, curls and un- cttrla his toes inside the thick wool sox that he weans both summer and. ' winter. 1 would sort of like to think that. when we get old there will be some- body to look after us. Somebody who won't mind a'shabby appearance, or whether we drink tea from a saucer.. Somebody who will be kind and un- derstanding, and let me smoke that old pipe in the house. Somebody, who won't mind, stockinged feet, and wba won't complain about the length of my. stories. Because you see, Mrs. Phil and 1 with be "old folks" than. .. And now, on behalf of all the folks:`` us how to run the farm- We're al- here at Lazy Meadows, May I extend ways sowing wheat in the wrong field. a most hearty "Merry- Christmas" to - We should sell such and such a, hoe each and every ' ante of you. I hope One of the cows is going to die. But you 'have a happy holiday., We're we just agree with shim and smile af- having goose this year with cranber- c:•warde.. ries and pumpkin pie with v pped Occasioesilhi y you si;e him pickingcream . . . and plum pudding, • My, . his way down the lane with has cane..) oh my! 41, From The Huron Expositor December 28, 1888 Messrs. Christopher Dale and sous, of Hullett, recently sold toa drover 120 lambs for which they received up- wards ,of $700. On Thursslay, the 13th inst., as Mr:' D. Mactavisb, of the Mill Road. Tuck ersmi'tb, was engaged oiling a ,straw cutter, this right hand was caught -by the cog wheels and immediately pass- ed between them. Tiley found that it was necessary to amputate the sec- ond finger at the third joint. A. public examination of the pupils of Section No. 3, Stephen, was held on Wednesday, the 19th inst. There was a large attendance of parents and, visitors. The various classes were examirred by Mr. Hotham, the teach- er in cbarge, assisted by Messrs. Wren, Doig, Latta, Morrish and I•Iaug'h- Mr. Ruse, of Exeter, is starting a singing class in the basement of Thames Road Presbyterian Churoh. Miss' Mary McNair, of School Sec- tion No. 8, Grey, has been successful at the Model Sohool in obtaining a third-class certificate. Miss Cecelia Calder has also been successful. - A little son of Mr. John H. Broad - foot got the. tops cut ,off two of his' fingers in the furniture factory on Friday last.. The flour mills at Dublin were com- pletely destroyed- by fire on Thurs- day night ;of last week. Messrs. Peter Moodie and John Zet- tle, of Zurich, 'cut a ,green, bush log '16 inches in diameter in 50 seconds with a lance -tooth saw. The Varna lodge of Good Tempters celebrated Christmas Eve by having! an oyster supper at the residence of Mr. John Wanless, one of the ohrarter members. Last Monday night, Christmas, Eve, two or three representatives of + the Methodist congregation in Kinburn presented the Rev. Mr. Rogers, at the ,parsonage in Iondeseboro, with a large quantity of oats and a supply for the cellar as well. • The entertainment given' by the pupils•of Scrhool No. 6, McKillop, last Thursday evening ' proved a grand success in every respect but one, that is the people did not turn, out as they should: Among the entertainers were the Sea.forth Quartette Club mild danc- ing by W. McLeod and Miss Minnie McGregor. An examination was held in School House No. 4, McKillop, on Thursday, the 20th. The pupils were exanslned by their teacher, Mr. D. McGregor, and Messes, Bair, McIntosh, Pearin, McLeod, McFadeean, Scott, bprnance and Hogg and Misses Govenloek, Campbell and Pollard. Musical se- lections were given on, violins by Mr. A. Scott and Mase Johnson, aceonl pani.ed by' Miss Kerr on the organ. Messrs. Henderson, and Hogg gave some very finis selections on the mouth organ, .while Messrs. Thomp- son and Irtitabull each gave a song KinP. ijiiure Bcyoiid by KRTHRRIIIE tiEWl111 BURT a SIXTH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in a Frenchconvent, at the age of eighteen, joins her mother, Mar- cella, . in New York. Worried about. her safety, because she is unfamiliar with the modern world and has developed into a beauti- ful woman, her mother's first wish is to get her safely married. 'At- tending :her first ball, Jocelyn meets Felix Kent, rich, handsomeand nineteen years older than herself. Encouraged by her mother, she and Felix quickly be- come engaged. Alone in her apartment one night, a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters by the fire: escape, confides - in her that he is her fat'h'er and that her real name is Lynda Sandal. Uncer- tin about whether she wants to get married so quickly, Jocelyn. goes to talk things over with het mysterious father, There - she meets Jock Ayleward, a gambler, from whom she seeks information about her father's life. He takes her to a restaurant to talk to her about him, but instead they spend -their time talking about each other and dancing, together. ,She shuddered. "Yes." "All right." But he looked so queer and._ hard and dangerous that she found a difficult to let herself be held by hint. And he went whiter as they danced. ' "Are you feeling ill, Mr. Ayle- ward?" - "No. 'Sick of an old passion!'" "What does that mean?" "Nothing. Don't look at that cheap skate there, Miss Lynda. He thinks you're flirting with hint." Scared. she dropped her eyes. The "cheap skate" was crowding them. Twice Jock's stiffened arm kept him from brushing Lynda. Each time he bad tried to peer close into her face Toni too had become aware of her. There was in fact nothing at ail like her in, the room. His own full-blown partner in his grip, he circled them with a ,hawklike persistence, with hawklike stare. He tried to steer 'her back along and across the room. A hand touched her. "Lentil me the girlie, tock -in -the -Box," said a hoaose voice, "just for the en of the waltz, see?"' • "Sorry, Toni, she's 'tired. Were cutting out." "Oh, no, we are not. Gome on Baby." "I will not dance with you," Lyn- da's voice, her face, her spurning lips were altogether too expressive. The big -faced, man stepped back from her with an audible intake of his breath and, a black !lush. One second later Jock struck him in the. face. Lynda did not know what he had done. She could not understand what he had said. She only knew the sick- ness of fright and shame' --to be stand- ing there alone in the excited shout- ing room while these beasts fought for her. Luckily' Toni had no great desire for publicity. He graciously allowed himself to be held back from a, mur- derous -looking Jock who did not come to hili senses until he had been fore- ed.back by two waiters 'and held for a minute against the wall. Theo he shrugged and grinned and promised peace and came over to the scared girl. Together they hurried out into the street. "I will never go with yeti again," gasped Lynda. "Put -me into, a cab. Don't touch me as You put me in. Don't look at 'me. Don't speak to of her weariness Jocelyn allowed sev- "Ian. getting jealous of you, that's oral of the precious days of her great all. He's more my father than he is opportunity to pass. She tried dur- yours when it Dome to practice. He Mg the interval to learn something tall•s about you so that I'm sick of from Cousin Sara Muller. the sound of your name." "You knew my mother when she ."You're a funny boy!" was young? Please tell me some- -Since when—" thing about her." "I mean, you are not very old, are "Well' now,. dear, what shall I tell? you'?" I knew her only for a • short time "I'm nearer thirty than twenty. And: when she was a girl in her early you are," he was teasing her, "fif- teens. Her parents died when she teen?" was just a baby. Marcella was very "Gracious! Eighteen" beautiful dear. Her uncle adored her." "I apologize. 1 spend my time beg- "Did, e, "Did: she live with her uncle here ging your pardon, don't I?" in New York City?" "That is not my fault, I think." "Yes, Jocelyn. Yes, she .did." "I am going to get Nick's clothes "What sort of a man was my Great- and mend them," she anndunced. uncle Josiah?" "There is something that I can do for "Josiah was most indulgent to your him. I brought some buttons and my mother. dear. Some of us—there were sewing kit. His socks were terrible!". more Harlowes living in those days-- She came back presently with a thought that he was altogether ton dangling armful of masculine odd - indulgent. But of course when'your meats and settled 'herself in Nick's poor mother married—" cushioned corner under his light. Jock "He did not like my father?" now at the door stood fascinated, "No. No. He did not. Nicholas watching her. Sandal—was, well in a sense be was "When do you suppose Nick wilt an outsider. He came from California. be back?" she asked. I believe. Your father, my dear was "His message on the de+s,k says hardly a stable sort of man. Very &even o'clock. What time is it now?' brilliant and attractive, I believe, and Lynda looked at her wrist watch_ I remember hearing that he worship-' "Nine -thirty." ped lViaroella. Cousin Josiah could 'Surely you are not going to sit not forgive her for the marriage. The there in that corner and sew until young couple went to the coast at eleven o'clock?" once. Josiah did not see them again ''only one hour and a half! Why until after the divorce. And then' he not'?" took Marcella back." - "Came to a show with me. I swear "Cousin Sara, tell me, please: Why I won't take you among 'the criminal were they divorced?" cla-a-asses." He broadened his 'a - "Incompatibility of temperament, or absurdly., non-support, something of that kind. "I do not understand how you dar I know nothing of their married life 'ed in the first place to take' me to at all. 1 was livirfg abroad at the such a place as that one." trine. I know only that when I next "1 didn't know Toni was going to, saw your mother she was living here. be there and I didn't know you were Josiah was dead. She was his heir- one of those convent dames. In fact ess. And she had greatly changed." I rather thought you were out for a With an effort of her will Jocelyn time. I'm sorry." went again that night to Sandal's Lynda sat up, opening ' ter- eyes. lodgings. Ayleward overtook •h e r "I will go back with you to that climbing up the stairs. place tonight," she said, reaching for "Playing in hard luck again, aren't her tam, you, Miss Sandal? I've got to go on "No. It's too early, And yolk up. Have some important news for ould miss Nick. But I like your your father. But don't I worry — 1 grit. You've still got me guessing won't stay 'long." in lots of ways. You belong, for alt "I am not inclined ,to worry." your Apache get-up, you belong to at She went on then and. knocked at world I've come close to forgetting - 1 Sancal's door. Although," his face looked bewilder - There was no response. Jock mur- ed . - . "although it hasn't been no mured an apology, fitted a key and long." d or ened. "You are a gentleman, I saw that "Hi there, Old Nick!" he shouted. at once." Then to Lynda in' his usual low rather "Who is a gentleman?" the demand - subdued voice: "He's gone out." e,l'bitterly- Lynda sat down on Nick's.old sofa, "I have known very few. Felix me." The young man laughed-. "You're all might, kid. Got lots of nerve, con- sidering. Don't take it out on, me. Padrona said a fighting word about you.„ , I "To—to brawl+` --over nes—in a pub - lice place . with a criminal." "Look out. You're faint." A moment later she found 'him in the -taxi with her and her head was Ion his shoulder. She cried there like it child. At the corner of her home street she told hien to,leave herand said a their ixsnta'lly newt style. Rev: shaken good night. igrt�ve bd e,u t .ate I Int the .041 II Of .ver ft'ight nun .}, Ih' ,. (tM1 ,dt.,..,F '•tl i ' i m u- .. Ka z.,,,': i,i ay?t ,' fA,.. .. ,Y .G. f I i. '4t . LL F .=1. f kr,.. . 4 "•4 .1. sL1..,.e,r• n,.fursyre 4t >54'..., L../1'.a.+ ,ry r4.. R i. ,�en.,�n1'- I ,5..v1.:,. r.u�L.::�::mvIDEuu . Yxlu[� v.i u.I L�� „ �•Y r_� ,�r i "I'm getting jealous of you, that's all." in the' sitting room and looked up at leer companion with the eyes of a de- serted dtig. "Look 'here, Miss Sandal, do you always take life so hard? Even if you've missed seeing him this trip you know it isn't the Last Day." Lynda smiled faintly. "It is almost nil last day," she allowied herself fe tell him. >i "Leaving town?" "Yes. And it will never again be easy, I'm l afraid, to see my- father." "That's rotten). He'll take losing you very, hard." ... "Do you think he will care? Doeu he like nue'? ,a,eally?. ' iluoi>� to Y91 Kent of course." 'Jock sprang away from her with a movement so abrupt and startling that Lynda, made an exclamation of alarm: "What's wrong? Did something hurt you?" "No. I got a start of a jolt. 1-I thought 1 heafd some one — some 'Date outside call my name." • He- maimed, tranquil now and nmilingi "I beg your pardon. You were giving ire the name of—a gen- "No Olid you have ever kn10wn Of Course. Felix Kent. In one Way Suppose • yiou might call him a Stelf- 11/4 W,‘iriuea on rage a) pi t ,:•. LIZ ...,...IILv M1u.l'e ei