The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ik OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, i .--. = BARBERRY BUSH One Girl's Mariage Problems AP PRP TP TE PTR TR NI TW TT TD TE TW TX TA va 1 iil 4 5 : F £ if r 4 if J [ ] "8 { : HH iin iiry INSTALMENT 12 Silence. Their luncheon was so si- lent 'that a sea gull, walking about the patio, came to the kitchen -door- way and regarded them with a tip- ped head and bright beady eye. . Silence all afternoon, all evening. Barbara told herself that she would not have believed that silence could be so heavy to- bear. The leaden moments seemed to add themselves . together and to weigh on her heart. ell,. he would have to get over his tantrum, because to hurt Amy's feelings was the one thing Barbara could not and would not do, Yet the unnatural stillness be- tween them began to be an advocate for Barry. A woman had to stick to her husband first and foremost, af- ter all, Barbara mused. His motive in not wanting her to take the long, cold drive into town on the milk wa- gon was a loyal and protecting one, tempered perhaps by a little shame that his young wife should be re- duced to such a 'mode of travel. When Barbara thought of Barry, the free and fomantic and beautiful, ing: ashamed that he could not as afford $8 that would take her to and from Cotiofivond on Amys wedding: day, her heart ached for him with a strange, pitying pain. He gave her every cent he had; indeed, he had given her the ranch, pushing the deed into her hands Pachiully a few days after their mar- riage. He had "just thought of it one day," he had said. -He had want- ed her "to have it;" she had "all the business sense of the family, any- And he was a genins, poor Barry. And meanwhile they were wasting the first golden, radiant "ays of spring in this senseless fight! "Barry," she began . on Friday morning after the endless hours of Thursday, silent, lifeless, hostile- broken only by .one or two iresh bursts of altercation and fresh in- flexible opposition to her plans on Barty'e Justia somehow been sur- vived, "I'm going in with Tomas to- morrow. I have to go. I'm as sorry as I can be to distress you so, but I think you've taken an' unreasonable position, and I've simply got to act as seems wisest. Amy'd never forgive me if I wasn't at her wedding, even if I'd ever forgive prob- ably bring my fatller out here some time in the aft > "Not to this house, you won't" Barry gritted through shut teeth, "Don't be ridiculous: You certain- ly wouldn't want to face the talk of the whole town." "Oh, to h--Il with the town. You conventional women, always thinking of the neighbors, You bring your father down here tomorrow and he'll find my door shut in his face. And you can leave me the next day if you want to." : Barbara began to brush about the stove carefully, coaxing the little fragments of ashes and dust with the tip of her broom. She forced herself to think of tomorrow. She must wear a sweater under her coat, for the cold starts before dawn. How did one wake one's self at 3.30 anyway? She must pack in a suitcase tonight the silk dress she would wear to the wedding. For her father's room she had sels ected a small apartment on the sec- ond floor, across the patio, and up the balcony stairs, and so some dis- tance from the kitchen. If the beau- tiful weather returned, as it must, although today was bleak and foggy, he would be flooded with sun in the daytime, and at night he must have their bedroom oil stove and the blankets that Barry was using for his couch bed in the kitchen, Barry, standing in the middle of the kitchen, was still raging at her. She must think of other things. "Answer me. I won't have you ig- nore me, treat me with such disgust- ing rudeness," he shouted. "Answer you what, Barry?" "I say that a man has a right to expect his home to himself, and that his wife will not bring under his roof persons uncongenial to him--and I say--" Oh, she was so tired of it all. She was so tired of that hard, hammering voice, so tired of the arguments for and against. . He had snatched his coat from the wooden pin by the kitchen door, pulled on his cap again. He wasn't going to work this morning; too much upset, probably, A drift of cold fog blew into the kitchen as he slammed the door behind him, Barbara was alone, ok *® The hours passed and Barry did of fluffy brown-topped white bis- cuits. Barty loved them, hot or cold and he could have them for his lone- ly breakfast tomorrow, the first breakfast, almost the first meal, since their wedding that they had not shared, and for his lunch too. She and dad would drive out at bout 4 o'clock on Saturday after- oon, in plenty of time for Barbara to get her two men an appetizing dinper. And suppose Barry wouldn't speale-to her father?: Oh, but of course he would, Tomas came in with the mail at about 11, returning from his milk route, An ecstatic and excited note from Amy; every one was being perfectly wonderful about the wed- ding; she had more presents than any gh in town 'had had since Lucy ackenzie married Otis; she was dying to talk to Barbara. . Magazines, too, Three of the little impressionistic magazines that used a very special type of poetry; and verse by Barry in all three, One verse was called "Seaweed," and close under the title, in tiny print, was added, "For Barbara, November Fourteenth." They had been married on Nov. 10; she remembered his writing this verse a few days later, sprawling at her feet in the sand down at Aba- lone rock. It had been on the day of their first quarrel, oddly enough; a quarrel about that absurd old gar- rulous ex-convict Slinder, who had hung about so persistently during the beginning of their wedded lives. Barbara had wanted Slinder van- ished, and Barry had persisted that common hospitality and brotherhood forbade him to send the derelict away, But the day the poem had been written Slinder had commenced sensationally with an unannounced departure before dawn, taking with him Barry's best sweater and $7 from Barry's pocket book. So that Slinder had eédsed to be a cause for recrimination and had become a household joke instead. And now here was the little poem "Seaweed," to bring back to Bar- bara's mind that happy time when they had moved into the big house and exhausted themselves with clean- ing and hauling, and had finally brought what the Athertons called a "teanic" down to the shore, 'where, muffled to the ears in sweaters, and with teeth that chattered on. their coffee cups, they had decided - that their first quarrel would be' their last and that they loved each other more than man and woman had ever loved before. Barry, snatching a note- book from his pocket, had sealed this bond 'with the -eight lines called "Seaweed." "Oh, dear," sighed Barbara, musing upon his excitability, his affection- ateness, his general unreasonable dif- ference from anybody clse in the world. "I don't ksow what to do. I suppose the rule about things-in-law staying with one is perfectly true-- it never works, especially when there isn't any money and people are only really camping, as we are here. Poor Barry, it makes me sick to think how wretched he is, and yet this is rd | not return, Barbara baked a panful | OY a good night's rest each night by drink- ing Ovavtive before retiring. * You will prove--as many thousands chave done--that Ovavrine is\the world's best "night-cap".. Sleep induced by drugs or sedatives is neither natural - 'nor refreshing. But Ovar- Tove brings sound, restful sleep in a perfectly natural way. z OvaLrine induces sleep by soothing and calming frayed nerves, the principal cause of sleeplessness. It does more, for-while you sleep, the food elements so richly supplied by OvArtivg are busily restoring and rebuilding the nerves and __ creating new stores of energy. You wake refreshed and in- vigorated for the activities of the coming day. ; 75c¢., $1.25 and special $4.50 family sizz. The large tins are more economical to purchase. ; we .| spring dusk, and the fire snapped OVA Sound. Netura! Sleep To 'Ovaltioe Rusks dre made from finest with Ovaltine added. They are more ap) far more nourishing than ordinary or | Canadian wheaten ing, a bi easily and la A. WANDER LIMITED 455 KING STREET WEST, TORONTO, ONTARIO one of the cases where seli-respect if I gave in. She, lunched alone. Two o'clock. Where on earth had he gone! Three o'clock. picked up the rake; that disorder, corner of the paddock might as well be attacked now as any time, Match- es, for she would start a slow-burn- afternoon, closing the door of warm, orderly kitchen behind her, rope, discarded fencing, old loosening, caused her to sit down flatly and suddenly in the mud, the branch in her hands, She heard her own laugh, ex- asperated yet gratified, and instant- ly the sound of anotier voice, a hoarse, low voice; one she had nev- ed heard" before, In the few seconds oi panic she scrambled to her feet and turned to- ward the sound. And jt was Barry, soaked, ashen, disheve regarding her like a ghost-from the curve of the patio door, "Babs--for God's sake--" Her heart thundering with inex- pressible fears, she ran to him, "Barry my darling, what is it?" His teeth were chattering; the cheek he bent to. her glowing one was as pallid and lifeless as the cheek of a dead man. His arms, as she put her own about him, hung lax, his eyes were lusterless. I guess," he murmured hoarsely. Afraid of she knew not what, and got him into bed. He watched her move about "'s teeth still ch. ttering. anything. pillow, "Babs--d-d-do ered hoarsely. "Drink this." Tt was hot, him tenderly against her own arms while he gratefully sipped -it. % "Oh, Barberry Bush--" the beau- tiful blue eyes at her elbow were as beseeching as a child's eyes-- "don't ever be angry with me again, I can't bear it! You're my whole world. D-d-do anything--anything, only don't be angry at me. I wanted to k-k-kill myself this morning--I thought I would kill myself I can't stand it, to be without you. If I'm wrong and s-s-stupid and selfish it's only because I adore you so--because I want you all to myself." She stooped and kissed the cool wave of his hair; instantly her eyes grew anxious and she put the teacup away and investigated his forehead with her warm fingers, grasped his hands in her own. "Are you getting warmer?" "G-g-gloriously warm now. I lay d-d-dowa in the fields, f-f-fool that I was, and just sobbed" "You idiot." "I know. B-b-but it was w-w-worth it all to 'have you take care of me. I love to be babied by you." He smiled at her meekly, childish- ly. And after a few moments she saw that hé was asleep. The kitchen was warm, quiet; the cat purred. Barbara sat quietly by. the table, sewing a little, reading a little, writ- ing an explanatory' note to Amy, which she would give to Tomas when he brought the milk. The peaceful moments went by, infinitely calm and restful moments, while the fog moved in soft rolling masses over the low ranch house outside in the lazily, broke and snapped again. Happier so, oh, infinitely happier than if she had been cold to him, than 'if she were going away from him tomorrow for the whole day! Barbara's soul was at peace. He needed her and she could care for him. Her bad boy was all her own in. : oe opened his eyes bewilderedly, he was burning up with fever now. Scott & Bowne, Toronto, Ont. oy I'd 'lose my |e Barbara took an old coat, stiff with dried mud and sea water, from a hook, buttoned it snugly about her and pulled her tam over her ears. She ing fire~--hatchet, heavy old gloves, rubbers--the ground was like sponge underfoot. She went out into the cool the The rubbish heap was composed of planks, empty boxes and barrels, long poles and strips of wire and i rakes and chains, broken wheels and odd fragments of rusty farm machinery and a hundred other odds and ends. ; With her gloved hands she cour- ageously seized upon a projecting sharp branch of dead apple tree that had somehow become tangled into the mess and the snag, unexpectedly who stood "I think I'm sick, I'm going crazy, yet with her whole being warmed by being needed, by being reconciled to him again, somehow she got him into the kitchen and onto the couch and- somehow, murmuring as a moth- er might have murmured, all the time she took off his soaked garments and the kitchen, his dark hez' quiet on the I't do anything. I've almost g-g-gone crazy today. I've been in h--Il," he whisp- thin tea, creamed dnd sugared. She had no . stronger stimulant. She dropped g FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928 ; "Barbara, you're going to Amy's wedding?" -- "We'll "see how. you -are in the you've got to go. right, I'm. fine, I want you 03 Sung off covers, tossed "And tell your fatherwe count on having hiin here_indefinite- ly," he muttered. "Gosh, I am hot! Whew-w-w." : "Don't worry about anything now.' She opened the door for a moment, it was almost dark outside and the fog boomed softly in from the dusk. "Drink this," she said, carrying him a cup of hot water. ; . "It's ho! " 3 "Yes, but it'll cool you." He seem- ed to her already cooler as he drift- off to sleep , She drew the vers lightly over him, stooped to kiss the waves of tumble hain 'Instantly his fingers caught hers tightly. ' "Wonderful to me, wonderful to be sick and' have you to 'take care of me," he murmured thickly. (Copyright 1928 By The Bell Syn- dicate Inc.) (To Be Continued). . CANADA CHALLENGED IN BID FOR BRITISH CHEESE MARKETS Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 7.-- New Zealand cheese makers are planning more effective competition against Canada in the battle for the British market, According to A. C. Rowson, prom- inent cheese shipper, the demand for well-developed flavor in cheese was not being fully met by the New Zealand manufacturer in view of the wide margin between New| Zealand and Canadian cheese prices Jin Great Britain. The ppinion has been frequently expresséd in British markets that the looseness of texture of New Zea- land cheese was to some extent con- tributing to the difference in price between the two competitive varie- ties. Even leaving out the compari- son it could be. taken that the cheese of attractive appearance would bring in some measure an improve- ment in price. Canadian cheese was usually of a close texture, and con- sequently of an attractive' apnear- ance. The conclusion drawn from those facts, said Mr. Rowson, was that it would prove to the advan- tage of New Zealand producers to overcome looseness of texture if in any way possible. CANADA ENRICHED BY SETTLEMENT OF LIQUOR CASES Coast Distilleries Pay $210, 554 in Duty Under Bonds ------ Ottawa, Dec. 6.--~The Dominion Government is richer by $210,554 as a result of the settlement of eight actions on liquor bonds by counsel representing, on the one hand, the Attorney-General of Canada, and, on the other, the British Columbia dis- tilleries. These actions, which were instituted by the Minister of-National Revenue, on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Customs, are but a small proportion of those liquor bond actions which are pend- ing. The total amount involved in the cases Which are pending is over $4,000,000, ft is understood. Outcome of Two Actions The settlement, which was reached] today, follows on two actions. taken by the Crown. In the first instance, action was taken against the Fidelity Insurance Company to recover the amount of bonds issued by it to cover certain liquor shipments. from Can- ffistance, action Government ver Breweries. In xchequer Court of Canada ruled in favor of the Do- minion Government and against the two companies concerned. The judg- ment against the "Fidelity Insurance Company was to tle amount of $3,- 707. That against the Vancouver Breweries was $5,737. An appcal was taken to the Supreme Court of Can- H ada, and that appeal was set down for hearing today. When the case was called today, however, counsel for the appellants (the two companies) stated that a settlement had been reached. The appeal was therefore withdrawn. It is 'understood that the settlement reac" ed gives to the Government the full amount of the duty on all liquor exported under the bonds on which action was taken. Bonds Cancelled Only two of the eight actions which were settled today actually came be- fore the courts, but in five of the other cases, it is- stated, the liquor ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE Ghat's why theres more of it sold re pw of . E€.W. GILLETT CO.LTD. TORONTO, CAN. all other brands combi bonds concerned had been cancelled n the production of landing certi- cats. Under thé regulations, when a shipment of liquor is cleared by] the Canadian Customs, bonds are given to ensure the landing of the cargo at the point set forth in the clearance papers. These boads are cancelled on the production of land- ing certificates, which are fic evi- dence that the liquor actually' reach- ed its stated destination. During the sittings of the Customs Commission on the West Coast it develo ed that in 'many cases, liquor cleared for ports in Mexico and Cen- tral America actually went to the United States. Landing certificates produced were alleged to be false and fraudulent, Hon. N. W. Rowell, KC, and Gordon Lindsay acted for thc Attor= ney-General of Canada in the actions which were settled today, The come panies were represented by Eugene Lafleur, K.C,, and W, L. Scott, KC. There is talk of reviving the horse show here. "How old fashioned," said one flapper.--~Galt Reporter, Cheap matches are all right if yous happen to strike a good one~Kings~ ton Whig-Standard. pr ATR rr Give an album Victor i. RECOTdS for Christmas m Here are some of the inspiring and beautiful master- pieces of music by famous composers, played by famous orchestras. The perfect gift for friends or family, Mendelssohn «+ Concerto in E Minor Fritz Kreisler and The State Opers (Berlin), Leo Blech, Conductor Four Red Seal Records with album and des- criptive booklet, recorded in Europe $12.75, Mozart + - o 1 Symphony in C Major No. 41 ("Jupiter") London Symphony Orchestra Four Red Seal Records with album and des- criptive booklet, Recorded in: England $6.75, Brahms + + : Symphony No. I in C Minor Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Six Red Seal Records with album descriptive booklet, a outline of the themes, with piano, by d Stokowski, the director $14.00 The Victor Herbert Album ith ive Red Seal Records, vocal, instru. Four Red Seal Records with album and des. till ad gro] ts by Nathaniel eriptive booklet, recorded in Eogland $12.75. Shilkret. A popular album for = » $8.28 --or your oibn selection of Victor Records collected in an album Obtainable from "His Master's Voice" dealers Beethoven + o« o Symphony No. 3 in E Flas Major (* Eroics™) 'The Symphony Orchestra Six Red Seal Records with album and des- ecriptive booklet, recorded in Eagland $9.75, Symphony No. 7 in A Major Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Brera oe oo oo S: 0. 5 (" From the New World") Five. Red Seal Records with album and descriptive booklet, $13.50, Sehmbert . o 0 Sympbony No. 8 in B Minor (" Unfinished") Three Red Seal Records with album and 3 booklet, $8.25 Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor Royal Albert Orchestra Four Red Seal Records with album and des- criptive booklet, recorded in England, $6.75. Symphony Pathttigue; No. 6 in B Minor Five Red Seal Records with album and descriptive booklet, Trio No. 1 is B Pa: Alfred Cortet, Pine Jacques Thibaud, Violin, Pablo Casals, 'Cello recorded in England $8.25 Sold # Oshawa by D. J. BROWN