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The Huron Expositor, 1941-11-14, Page 7NOVEMBER 14, 1941. LEGAL 0 THE :HUM $ 0Si1V ELMER D. BELL, W.A. Barrister and Solicitor SEAEt RTH - TEL. 173 Attendance 14 Brussels Wednesday and Saturday. it•46 McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 1693- K. 1693 - K. L McLEAN Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. SEAFORTH - - ONTARIO Branch Office - Hensall • Hensall Seaforth Phone 113 Phone 173 MEDICAL • SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto PAUL L. BRADY, M.D. Graduate of ., University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic " will be held on the second and last Thursday in every month from 1 to 2 p.m. 6687 - JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M. -D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR.. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phone 5-W - Seaforth MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat Phone 90-W- Seaforth 1' DOROTHY CRiDQLETROWBRIDGE1-.I, DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New • York Opthat- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and .Golden Square Throat Ho; pital, London, Eng. At COATME'RC1AL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.; ,also at Seaforth Clinic first Tuesday of each month. " 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. 1247 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed -4n Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction. guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone Harold Jackson, 12 on 658, Seaforth; R.R. 1, Brucefield. 6768- CHAPTER VIII SYNOPSIS Peggy Horton, whose older sis- ter, Maxine, home for a visit, is a successful screen star, pretends Nto army, a schoolmate, visiting at Roseland, where Peggy lives quietly with her grandmother, that she is secretly engaged. From Harry Wilson, a chance ac- quaintance, she has borrowed a ring to wear as. an engagement ring for a week. She loses it. They decide to tell the grand- mother that the ring was Nancy's. Nancy has been engaged. to Pidge but has recently broken the en- gagement. Maxine asks her friend Stanley Newton to help find it, telling her grandmother he is a detective. He is puzzled by Peg- gy's "engagement." "Oh dear, I wish so• too," Peggy cried desperately. She didn't tell Maxine of Stanley's hope to have it by late afternoon. That did not seem very promising now. Why hadn't he waited until later to go in town for his bags, and stayed here and looked for the ring That ring is a hoodoo, she thought. First I bend it, then-. "Maxine, I'm going into town. Never mind why. I'll be back soon." She ran to the kitchen to tell William to get her the pony cart, and in.a few minutes was driving rapidly down the road toward town with her hopes run- ning very high. But she returned home an hour and a half later more in the depths than ever. The ring that she had sudden- ly remembered. Mr. Carver was mak- like Harry's, had already been sold when she reached Marshville. "I wanted to see the ring you were making," she had -told the old man, "Well now, Miss Peggy, that's mighty sweet of you to be that inter- ested, and f .,Wish you could have seen it. But it's sold already. I worked right straight through on that ring from the time I started on it •yester- HAF OLD DALE' Licensed' Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household sales. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write Harold Dale, Seaforth, or apply at The Expositor Office. Maxine was laughing. "For heav- en's sake don't let Gran see that. Of course Stanley .Isn't a detective. He is my director and he came here to see me, but after Gran said she didn't want to meet anyone connected with pictures I didn't see how I was go- ing to manage it until Peggy said that about his being a- detective, and to get him out here. Of course I was just kids%ing when I said that to him over the phone. I had not known he was coming, and was surprised that he had found, out my home address. But it did seem an excellent way for me to see him, and it really was aw- fully important. I thought the ring would be found anyway. I'm sorry," she faltered as Peggy and Nancy both eyed her in silence. "He came here to see her, of course. `It was awfully important,' Peggy was repeating to herself. "I am just the little sister who mustn't be allowed to marry the wrong man. Oh, I hate -him!" she thought, slam- ming the magazine shut. There were voices in the hall now. Gran's and Stanley's. Gran was on her way upstairs. Maxine and Nan- cy started towards them, and Peggy slipped away from them quite unno- ticed. EDWARD j•\>llr. ELLIOTT -r Licensed Auctioneer For Huron Correspondence promptly answered. immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The Huron Exposi- tor, Seaforth, •or by calling Phone 203, Clinton. Charges moderate and satis- faction guaranteed. 5829-62 Without thinking where she was go- ing Peggy ran through the rose gar- den and into the summer house. This was where she had always core with her troubles since she was a child. It was here that she had come when Maxine had written that she was go- ing to remain in California. And it was here that she. came now when she was unhappy about -about Stan- ley not finding the ring, she told her- self. What had he been saying to Gran this afternoon? Had he told her about the engagement, and that the ring was here? But even as she thought of that she dismissed the idea. He would not do that, she knew. What was she unhappy about? What more natural than that Max- ine's director should be in love with day. Jim said I was crazy. He want- his star and follow her home in or - ed me to take my time at it. ButAlesto be with her? He had not once I get started to work on a thing f spoken a word of love to her, Peggy, like that, I've just got to keep going and if she had been foolish enough to imagine things from his tone, his expression -well, it was just too bad. He had only been glad for the fam- ily when she told him she would give Harry back his ring. Of course he had been glad. He wouldn't want Maxine's sister to do anything fool- ish. And she had been counting the minutes until six o'clock when he would bring her the ring. And nrow it was -the glanced at her wrist watch -it• was two minutes to six, and he was probably in the house laugh- ing with Maxine at the joke they had put over on them. But he wasn't in the house because just then she saw him come out of the front door, pause a moment there to look towards the rose garden and then start down the steps. Well, she be out of sight if they Should glance in here. Before she could decide Nancy rush- ed out of the front door and standing on the s•6ep looked about her anxious- ly. "Pidge!" she called. "Pidge ! Where are you?" She 'hurried down the steps. and into the garden. Peggy breathed again. Maybe af- tetJ!' all it was only Pidge to whom Stanley was talking. "Isn't he here?" Nancy continued, starling up the path towards Peggy. "I saw him from the house coming up 'the drive, but he didn't come in." As Peggy started to :reply she heard the,,,sound of running feet behind the hedge and an eager voice cried, "Here I am." Peggy's mouth remained open, and. she stood as if petrified with astonish- ment. Here he was indeed. Harry - Harry and Nancy rushing t6wards each other. Harry was Pidge. Har- ry's ring had been Nancy's. And she -oh, good grief! "Gosh, honey, I was thrilled when you called me last night," he was say- ing to Nancy who interrupted him quickly. "Where is my ring?" she asked. She was watching him intently and did not 'hear Peggy's, ."Oh" breathed in a woebegone whisper. Harry was the only one who seemed at ease. Taking the jeweler's box from his pocket he opened it and slipped the ring on the finger of his evidently sur- prised fiancee. "Where did you he asked. "Oh!" both girls 'exclaimed. it would have been hard to tell which of them sounded the more astonish- ed. "It's just like yours, isn't it, Peg- gy?" Nancy asked sweetly. Too sweetly. Harry had not noticed Peggy in the entrance of the summer house and turned towards her now in embarrass- ment. "I believe it is," Stanley, entering the garden from the opposite side, an- swered for Peggy. Nancy gave him a quick suspicious glance. "It's too bad you can't fled yours," she continued, still watching Peggy. "But Peggy's has been found," Stan - lay explained. "I was just bringing it to her." He drew a ring from his pocket and stood holding it in his hand. It was an exact duplicate of Nancy's. "The one from Carver's, of course!" Peggy cried to herself. "He was there when Mr. Carver talked about making it. It was be who bought it this afternoon. "You see they are exactly alike. Strange, isn't it?" Stanley was say- ing, "But where? Peggy exclaimed, glancing from one ring to the other. Stanley laughter. "Don't give me the credit. Mrs. Horton is the real detective. You didn't know, did you," addressing Peggy, "that for the pa'it ten years she has been reading all of the best detective ,books that she could buy? Some one gave her one on her seventieth birthday and since then she had read them regularly. She, thought you and Maxine were too young for them, so I think your grand- mother has been reading them on the sly. She,told me about them this af- ternoon. "The Monday express packages!" Peggy thought with an inward chuckle. Stanley caught, the twinkle in her eye. and smiled at. her, "I hada hard time convincing her that a motion picture director could have half the brains of a .good detective, but I think I finally put It over after 1 told her i, too, had a weakness for de- tective stories. However. she told me that even an amateur srhould have been able to find the ring: •According to her, girls haveralways hidden their jewelry in the same place. So when she decided 1 had been given plenty of time to find it, without any suc- cess, she slug it up herself. Guess where? In the toe of one of Miss Nancy's evening slippers." That young lady had the grace to blush. "But who is the man you are going to marry, Peggy?" she demanded. Stanley looked at Peggy. Peggy looked at Stapley. If there was a -question in his eyes the answer in hers must have been the right one for he was smiling when he slipped the ring on her finger. "Whom do you think?" he asked. happily. LONDON and WINGHAM NORTH and get it finished. And it certainly was a beauty. As much like that ring of your friend's as two peas in a pod. I just had it finished and was stand- ing here admiring it, when in comes a young man and buys it right off. Some girl surely is going to be happy to have that ring." She had been so sure she had found a way out that to discover she was too late was about the last straw. Why on earth hadn't she thought of it sooner?y "Where is everyone?', she A.M. Exeter ,. 10.34 Hensall 10.46 Kippen 0.52 Brucefield 11.00 Clinton 11.47 SOUTH P.M. Clinton 3.08. Brucefield 3,28 Kippen 3,38 Hensall 3,45 Exeter 3.58 asked Maxine on her return. . • • "Nancy is still upstairs,. Gran came down about the time Stanley return- ed and he asked her if he might talk to her, They have been shut up in the parlor ever since." "For heaven's sake, why?" • Peggy wouldn't wait, she wouldn't be here if demanded. "He doesn't think Gran he came. She didn't want to hear his knows anything about. it, sloes 'he? explanation. She didn't feel like She. certainly seems to like him, Max- laughing over the joke. She wanted • ,L3 C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST Goderich folmesville Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin, Mitchell WEST Mitchell Dublin Seaforth Clinton Ooderich CPR. TIME EAST A.M. 6.15 6.31 6.43 6.59 7.05 7.12 7.24 11.06 11.14 11.30 11.45 12.05 suppose it was?" A Fact a Week About Oanada i B't+om i�gtiwat the DeurBan`u of Ststfodall TEA Over 1500 years ago a Chinese poet wrote: • "Tea tempers the spirits, harm ontises the mind, dispels lassitude and -relieves fatigue, awakens , thought and dispels drowsiness, lightens and refreshes the body and clears the perceptive facul- ties." Today, tea is so much a part of our daily life that we accept it quite mat- ter-of-factly knowing little of its ro- mantic and colourful history. Con- trary to popular opinion, the tea plant .did not originate in China. Rather, it is said to have been imported there from India as far back as, the time of Confucius. At that time it was us- ed only for medicinal purposes, and it was not until after the 6th century, A D., that it came into use as a bev- erage. There is a legend among the Chinese, concerning the discovery of tea, that is worth repeating. It seems that a Hindu Prince visit- ed China about the beginning of the sixth century, with the primary pur- pose of converting the Chinese to the Buddhist faith, He was an extreme- ly pious fellow and led a life of pen- ance and self-denial. Among other things, the forced himself to go with- out sleep. One day, however, nature proved too strong, and his tired eyes closed during one of his long vigils. iJpon awakening he was so overcome with shame and remorse he resolved never again to yield to the weakness of the flesh. As evidence of his deep humiliation he cut off his eyelashes and threw them away. The next day the missionary happened to pass by the same place. And 10, a new plant had appeared in exactly the same spot Where his eyelashes had fallen! Believing the occurrence to be an act of God,, he plucked some of the leaves of the shrub and .ate them. - He was so refreshed and invigorated that from that time forward he went about lauding the virtues of the plant and strongly recommending its use to all his fellows. It. was not until near the end of the 116th century that tea found its way to Europe via the Dutch E .st India Company. In England it quickly caught the fancy of wealthy aristo- crats who willingly paid as high as $15,00 for a pound of the new lux- ury. Much of the tea was brought into England by smugglers who tried to beat the high duty imposed on it by the ' British Government. It is said that there are still many old caves and hiding places along the rocky coasts of Devon, Dorset and Cornwall where unlawful tea chests were buried by those early pirates. From the year 1839, when the first consignment of Empire -grown tea was shipped to London and sold at auc- tion for prices from $3 to $7 a pound, a great industry sprang up, and through the years ye have become a nation of tea drinkers. Tea has al- ways been the drink of the pioneer so it is only natural that Canadians should have become enthusiastic tea supporters. In 1815 a Ipudson Bay Frigate bringing "Three Canisters of Bohea Tea" consigned to the Gover- nor of York Factory is said to have arrived in Canada. In 1826 the ship "Countess of Harcourt" docked at Halifax with 6,517 chests of tea to the hold. Tea,- was the first freight to travel east by tail in 1886 from Port Moody, a point on the Pacific coast near what is now .Vancouver. Today Canada is still one of the world's great to drinking countries/ In 1939 almost 36 million pounds were blended and packed here in the. Do- minion, realizing a selling value at the factory of over $18,000,000. A small amount of tea is imported into Canada and then re-exported to for- eign countries. In 1939 this amount totalled around .646,000 pounds. Most of our tea comes from India and Cey- lon, with a considerable amount com- ing indirectly via the United' King- dom. Some is coning from the Kenya Colony°, although our importation of coffee from that country far exceeds that of tea. P.M. 2.30 2.48 3.00 3.22 3.23 3.29 3.41 9.28 9.36 9.47 10.00 10.25 TABLE Goderich Menset McGaw -,,•• Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto WEST Toronto McNaught Walton , Blyth Auburn raw�,�..�� 'U i.'".. . bb.b WW WLiblob• AltJd' Q r ' 44'4v*:,0444411 6. b . P.M. 4.20 4.24 4.32 4.42 4.52 5.05 5.154 9,00 "Isn't he here? 1 saw 1t& freest pe"didn't otuma y., N ine. I was awfully surprised, weren't you? Gram and a detective!" There was a sudden sound in -the upper hall A door was being flung open and light 'footsteps were rush- ing down the stairs. • "Nancy," murmured Peggy. "Pidge must have come," whisper- ed Maxine. But Pidge had not come. It was only Nancy rushing out to them on the terrace with a motion picture ma- gazine held open in her hand. "I suppose that was meant to be funny!" she snapped at Maxine as she passed her and handed the maga- aga- zine to the astonished Peggy• is a picture of your sister's, Mr' New- ton," she told her as if Peggy could fail to recognize the face that was smiling 'at her from the' page. "'Mr. Stanley Newton,'" Nancy read aloud, "'one of the youngest and most outstanding directors of the motion picture industry today.' So that's your detective!" Peggy stared in amazement at the picture in her hand. He wasn't a de- tecti'Ve ,lyre wonder be wasn't fat and he. didn't wear a derby hat, or1.4 - A.M. 8.30 12.03 12.13 12.23 12.32 12440 12.48 1218 sel101:::0 ufi i OP•4014 lath • tie ruttan� the,3> a l ave fonglaj witi1 the to t" 1!4lttr in defence ,of „their hom;erlandS great spirit of national unity, ItextISPA, on every field of battle and i:rm tree, olutiou never to yield to tie. invatlirlg enemy, were seen in cacti case. When,! tre story of the fight for the world's freedom is told, full credit will have ! to he , given to the Chinese and Rus- sian peoples for their very damaging resistance to the outlaw Axis powers I with their lust for conquest. the ring to give back to Harry and then she wanted to forget men. However, it seemed unnecessary to run away. Evidently he was not tout- ing to the rose garden. She heard hurried footsteps on the other side of the hedge, then she heard low. voices near the corner back of the summer" house. Stanley had probably come out to meet Maxine. They could not be seen from the hotise, here at the end. Even she could not see them, nor could she catch what they were saying. But she realized suddenly that it was not Mane to whom Stanley was talking. Both voices belonged to men. She started forward in dismay. Harry! He had come back and Stan- ley had seen him and taken him' around the end of the hedge out of sight of everyone to explain to him that she wanted to break the engage- ment, and would he come back next week for the ring, and Harry was tell- ing ,him there never had been an en- ,gagement and - ah, dear! MO should she do? Would it be worse to go to them and miake her own exp4an- The Japanese war lords - miscalcu- lated badly. In the first two years,' they made a good deal of headway, bet the Chinese under General Chiang. Kral Shek maintained an increasingly effective resistance. The Chinese foroes fought almost entirely on the defensive in the' first half of the war, but since thebeginning - have taken the offensive in half the b„ttles, After the heaviest engage-' r1 meats started by the Japanese, the question. If Russia were to be over-. Chinese have come back with a gun ; over- whelmed by the Nazi forcers, Japan tea• -offensives which have regained i would doubtless invade Eastern Sib - much of the lost ground. And the • eria to remove the constant danger harassing guerrilla warfare waged up -of attack, and then she could turns to on the Japanese has been very wide press the campaign against China. Mitch would depend on tre assistance which. Chiniecould obtain from the United States and Britain, and on the economic resources still available to Japan. These have been greatly re- stricted by the embargoes placed on Japanese trade by Britain and the United States. • ,Meantime, the Japanese have been actively exploiting the resources of tate occupied'parts of China - the valuable hematite iron ore 'in the• Yangtse valley, the cotton of south China, and the iron, coal, salt and other materials of north China. But the Chinese have still a good fighting chance, and the Japanese will not permanently enjoy their ill-gotten gains if the democracies triumph in this war and the Chinese have their rightful part in the liberation of peo- ples who have been wholly or partly subjugated. The long and heroic re- sistance of the Chinese is a tribute to their character and a proof that they are the making of a great nation. of 1940 the ,I Hotel remains, /k'IrA.c A i! SINQLE 0 tet »oUBI.A P �z:Fp to Sp ci4 W1417 119utWi 1444* A MODERN QWET 11IILL CQ,NIDQCTID .... CONVINIINTLY LQCATID HOTEL .. . dost to Parliament Building,, University of Toronto.. M4 to Leaf Gardens, 1agbianuI$o Shopping District. Whicicxalc Houses, Theatres, C5ao he$ of Every Denomination. A M. Pownu.. President spread. • h. the fifth year of the war *there isa.no defeatism among the Chinese, their endurance is strong, and their confidence in ultimate victory is in- creasing, now that their fight is fully recognized by Britain and the United States as part of the general defence of democratic freedom and the war to end lawless aggression. • The fact is that the Japanese war machine is not strong enough for the job which it attempted, and the Ja- panese economy is not able to sustain such an effort. They have gained control of the whole eastern coast of China, the eastern provinces north of the Yangtse, River, the valley of that river up beyond Hankow, a little ter- ritory around Canton, and a few oth- er coastal points. But three-quarters of the country• has not passed under Japanese control. While the main campaign has stall- ed to a large extent, the Japanese have extended their control down the coast and have taken Indo-Ghina, both in the attempt to shut off supplies to China and as a part of Japan's gen- eral southward sweep. These .operations may explain, in part, the lack of progress in the con- quest of China by the'invading arm- ies. The other reasons, according. to Major-General Pei -Lan Chiang, a Chi- nese military strategist, are lack of Japanese manpower, the war weari- ness of Japanese soldiers, the econ- omic and financial weakness of Ja- pan, heavy casualties and great lois of• fighting equipment. This Chinese genet"al says tbat China has 4,000,000 regulars -in her armies and 8,000,000 in the reserves, -and that, with the aid of the other democracies, she will eventually launch an offensive that will drive the last Japanese soldier out of the country. But a powerful renewal of the Ja- panese' • campaign is not out of the arsons or to slip out +bf the garden afld I wearied Retorter. o1:'m asvv'a' hamel" THE END Myrtle: "John's got his Home Guard uniform now, and lye's dying for a parachute jumper to come along." Phyllis: him one?" "Well, why don't you knit • The minister had preached for an hour and a quarter on the prophets ->all the greater prophets and then the minor ones ,in turn. "Now we come to Habakkuk," he said. "'Where shall we put 'him?" "He ear have n11 sent," said a WAGING WAR IN AFRICA In Abyssinia South African military forces were advancing when they saw large clouds of dust rising 15 miles away. Thinking it was the Italians, they sent out patrols to investigate and, if necessary, blast the enemy. The patrols found a man with a pipe in his .mouth casually driving a huge road scraper. On. being asked what he was doing, he replied in a broad Orange Free State accent: "Well,, you see, man, I was sent out here to make a road, and here I am" -only 15 miles ahead of the main advancing army! "There goes Jack Benner, the radio comedian, and his gag m+en." "Well, I suppose when you're on the air you have to have your wits about you most of the time!" The Indomitable Chinese Two years before the war started in Europe, Japan undertook to con- quer and absorb the Chinese Empire, and counted on an easy triumph, but four years later the Japanese war machine was bogged down badly with only one-quarter of Chinese territory occupies), Hitler was then cbmtmencing a sim- ilar lawless invasion of Russia, an- other huge country with a vast pop- ulation, and he and his generals in- tended to see to it that there would be no bogging down there. But the stupendous Nazi war machine and the millions of trained German troops were met by unexpectedly strong Russian armies, well equipped for present-day warfare. And (the last three months have seen the heaviest fighting in the world's history -oper- ations on the largest scale and human slaughter the heaviest on record. No despatches could begin to do justice to the actual, terrific scenes 'of war- fare. •Right now, the Nazi 'high com- mand "is sacrificing men by the hun- dreds of tliobsands; millions if neces- sary, to achieve the d1litary triumph 'vh'ich is but one step in their greater CtheSNAPSIIOT GUILD PATTERN PICTURES 4, )on't overlook pattern pictures when you're out snapshooting. They ten regult in fine pictorial studies, adding variety and spice to your picture collection.• -a ENERALLY speaking, every ral rhythm which can be easily captured with any camera. Objects that cast shadows, such as ornamental iron grille -work or a stairway rail also create interesting patterns. At certain times of day, the shadow form of a' dower or plant may be cast on a smooth sur- face -and if you Include both in 'a. snapshot, you'll have a pleasant arrangement that heightens the' effect. Yotr can create many patterns yourself, by using ordinary objects. Arrange eggs, golf balls, spools of thread, sugar cubes -all sorts of things -against a plain background, on a table top, or on the floor in interesting designs, circles, ovals, diagonals, and many other geomet- ric shapes, and you have patterns. Then place Photoflood lights to ob- tain fascinating shadows, and take the pictures from a "looking daWn" angle. When you find a number of Ob- jects all of one kind, then you have material for a true pattern picture. It's fun to hunt designs with your camera, and such pictures have an unusual "different" quality offering neva interest to you and yotil slfutir. 348 Sohn vast Guilder y aood snapshot contains some art of pattern. In many cases, it is n more suggestion, -perhaps ist two ea three. objects of similar haps that harmonize with each •they. In these shots you "feel" the sat tern without consciously seeing .t -and the picture satisfies the eye because it contains a simple, order - 'y arrangement.. When we use the term pattern ^icture, however, we usually think if a shot in which pattern or de- sign is quite prominent -often [lines the entire theme. Doubtless you can recall seeing pictures of This type --rows of trees all evenly spaced, shadow patterns on brick Pam/let-11P or streets, or interesting, effects similar to the one shown above. Subject matter for pattern pic- tures io-tures is all around you. At the vege- table market, for example, you have probably seen large trays of apples Mid oranges, stacks of melons, bushels of potatoes in regular rows, and many"others. These symmetri- cal arrangements make perfectly swell pictures for they have a natu- JY It