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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-7-10, Page 7Esti 11 tie, nt't STI t'g Us ut ',us in if inn Is, rs i;n fan lin x11 t in to' tetb..44• FR4'4d•04.0 ' 'th*rk + •h WANTED • • • Highest market price paid for your Hens yj. M. Yollick • Place Your Insurance With W. 5. Scott Automobile fire - Life Phone No, 1, Brussels. Debts Collected We Collect Accounts, Notes and Judgments anywhere and every- where. No collection, no charge. Write us p today • for articulars. Canadian Creditors'Aisa'a Post Office Box 951, Owen Sound W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM.CC; Physician andSurgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. T. T. M' RAE M. B., M. 0. P., . a. O. bl. 0. .H., Village of Brussels. Physician, Surgeons iAccouchotur Office at residence. opposite blely 1110.Oharoh wribam street.. DR. WARDLAW Honor graduate Of the Ontario Veterla College. Day and night calls. Olnoe oppo Flour buil, Ethel. Il'. s . 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SUTHERLAND SON {�7ry� C LiMITED J ISEr . r W L'd�Ieb�Il f IPi+P?ttAr - The Indian Drum 'By William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer IU,it' stl.ns by IRWIN hIYER$ C4y>' iaht by Wwle a+,tetot 5clavls, rewritten again fuel again In Corvet's (Tamper. hrtnd, Alan strained forward, hold ng the first sheet to the light, Alen seized the clippings he had looked at before and compared them swiftly with the page he had just road; two of the names-11'esthouse and Prenelt—were the same «s those upon this fist. Suddenly he grasped the other pages of the list and looked thein tlu'mlgh far his own Inline; hat It was 1101 there. 13e dropped the -shoots upon the table and got up and 110 811 stride h int the room. g to n s d Hg felt that In tills list nn in these e clippings there must be, somehow. some (11>e genera( meaning—they must relate In some way to one thing; they must have deeply, Intensely concerned 'c c P and C,nv(t di.aPl>earnnr his present fate, whatever that might be, and they must (•intern Alan's fate ns well. But III their dis(nnnecti(m, their Incoherence, he could discern no • common thread. What eoneel•able hand could there have been uniting Benjamin Corte/ at over with an old man raying upon a poorfam In Emmet county. wherever that Wright he, and with a baby girl, now some two years 01(1, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin? 1-1e cn11011 Was :mini t into 11,e li- brary and brought the lists and clip. pings out again. "Do you know at al1 what these are, Judah?" he asked. "No, Alan. I have seen Ben have ( -lryr• .r. k' '{t a1g! `ter 7• i '�,,l�•' alasISNIh( 1F "Do You Know At All What These Are, Judah?" He As;:pd. then., and take them out told put then. Merle. That is all 1..:.now." "1>o you know any of these. Peo- ple?" 1Ie gave , the lists to t1 nssngnaat, who studied them throneli attentively, holding them to the hump. "N0, Alan." "have you ever heard of any of (their Mensa before?" "Thal luny he. 1 110 tint know. They ac. etn(n,lin names." ; "Do you know the plaoes1" " "'Y,'• .-I he .pieces. 'They are lake ports or Mile villages on the 1111x01, have leen in nu,st of tb0111 tl:u. ti•n- met county, Alan 1 vaunt from. 111,00. 11.ettry eolu(s front •^.•hen that is where they hear. the Ortel?" Cream Grading V ETTER CREAM ETTER BUTTER ETTER PRICES Means We are now prepared to Grade your Cream honestly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each day we lift it. We gather with covered truck to keep sun off it.. We pay a premium of 1 cent per ib. butter fat for Specials over that of No. 1 grade, and 8 cents per Ib, but- ter -fat for No 1 grade over that of No, 2 grade. The basic principle of the imprdveanent in the quality. of Ontario 'butter is the elimination of second and off grade crease. This may be, accomplished by paying the producer of good (ream a better pricePer of butter -fat taan is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market. I5 -We will loan you a can. Soo our Agent, T. C. MoCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. The Seaforth Creamery 10,000 Bottles a Day BverY Clay 1.0,000 women buy.a bottle of Lydia E, Pinkitam's Yege- table Compound, 'I They know .that there is no better remedy far their troublesome ailments with their Accompanying nervousness, back- ache, headaebe, "blue" spells, and rundown condition. 1 1'8, Alan," "My father took newspapers from those places, 1did he not?" 11•nsugn(m looked over the ad- tli'esses again. 'Yes; from all. lie. took 1110111 for the shipping news, he said, And sometimes he cut pleves out o1' them --these places, I see now ; and afterward I burned, the papers; he 0voola not let me only throw them #way." '"Tll«t's all you know about then, Judah?" "Yes, Alan; that Is till." Alan dismissed the Indian, who, ([ulldly methodical in the midst of these events, went downstairs and commenced to prepare a dinner which Alan knew he Could nut' eat. Alam got up and moved about the rooms; he went back and looked over the lists and clippings once more; then he again, loved about How strange a t1 Picture of his father did these things cull up to bin11 When he hal thought of Benjamin Curvet before, it had been as Sherrill had described him, pur- sued by some thought he could not conquer, seeking rrUef !n study, In cot, resp",n felt e with scientific c' •i societies in anything which cowl(( engross him and shut out memo}'. But now he mist think of him, not merely as one trying to forget; what lain thwarted Corvet's life was 1101 only In the past; 1t was something still piing on. II had amazed Sherrill to learn that Corvet, for twenty years, had kept truce of Alan; but Corvet had kept trace In the saute wily and with the same secrecy of (lminv ether peep:, --(,f 1(1:1111 n score of 1) 01410. When Alan thought of Corvet, alone 111 1110 silent house, he must think of hint as solicitous ihnut these 1100p"'+; ns seeking ":0 'heir null,„s in tl>:• 1 'r• slit h '1e took fat (hart pnrl,ose ted as re. .!ordlitg the (hen :eS In their Hl,.+, The le,lths the births, the mets 01('•0 a1110104ti( t ;((pie 1(101 be .n of : N attetl (. t In er(ot 10 Curvet. 11 was 1> do that none of these ;•e0ple low) about Corvet; Alun had not known about lint In lameus, hut had known only that some unknown potion had sent money far his support. But be appreciated that it Lid not matter whether they la10w about 11161 or not; for at some point common to all of then), the I 100 of those people Must have touched ('orv010 life. When Alun knew what had been Hutt point of confut't, he would know •about (01 - vet; he would know about hhliself. Alan had seen among Corvet's books a set of charts of the Great Lakes. Ile went and got that DOW and an atlas. Opening them upon the ta- ble, he looked op th” addresses given on Cutlet's list. 'They were most of them, he found, towns !.bout the north• ern end of the lake; a very few upon other lakes—Supeflur and Huron— hut most were 11p00 or very close to Cake Michigan. These people lived by means of the lake; they got their sus- tenance from it, as Corvet had lived, and as Corvet bud gut his wealth. Alan .ars feeling lure one who, hound, has been suddenly unloosed, 1'r,ou the (1010 when, coming to see Corvet, he had found Curvet gone, until now, he had felt the Impossibility of explaining. from anything he knew or oeeu,ed like- ly to learn the mystery 00111011 ilal sur• rounded httu$('If and 10.111011 had sur• rounded Curvet. Iluf these names and addresses! They indeed offered some- thing to go upon, though Luke now was forever still, a,(1 nils buckets ha(1 told Alun nothing*. 1•Ie found Bonnet county on the map and put his finger on It. Spearman, 1Wassaquanl 11(1)1 said, carte from there. "The I.a1d of the Drum:" he said aloud. Deep and sudden feeling stirred in him as he traced out tl(1s land (its the chart—the toile towns and villages, the islands and rteatllluls, their lights and 11101r uneven shows, A feeling of "home" had conte to him, which he hal not had on eunilng to C'1>1. �.uw.. Mtge. 'There were •lntlillu names and French up thele About the meetings of the great waters. o The sense Brut he was of thee(: hikes, that surge of feeling which he had felt first In con- versation with Constance Sherrill was strengthened an hundredfold. 110 gazed down at the lists of names whir+ Benjamin Corvet had kept so carefully and. so secretly; these were his father's people,toothese 191. 6ed ohnree and the islands studding the (Amulets were the lands where his fa'ding. ring' ConslutM, gasping and Vier had spent the most active part , with fingers sinking so from exrtte- o.f his life, There, then—these fiats trent that she could strial)y hold now etude It certain—That events had these thaets, Melted tient up 11)11 ox- liappened by which that lite had been seined dice, Melt ring first. blighted. North, there by the meeting It very evidently was, ns she had of the waters, was the region of the Immediately thought, n wedding ring wrong which was done. That's where 1 meat fin," he said once fitted for a finger only a trine aloud. "That's where I must go I" less slender 111110 her own. One side r « r + s of the gold band was very much worn, before that, (toile Benny had been a Constance Sherrill on the following with 1111 thesort of wear wlueh a man, an, netircl, vigorous, ambitious. soil- dlf- 1 but l r t luta r gets hand, in citself g Srnr ii g a c ntr f afternoon, received n telephone Dull Iii' had loved this int v ferent sort of nbraslon. The other 1)0(11 her father he 0088 rimhrg horse and far Its traditions, its Indian earlier than usual, he said; 1f she had side of, the hard nee rough( t lmd legends and fantastic stories. Half planned to go out, wOtdd she 10(11( un- Pitted hitt not 0111 much worn; the Ire• her own love for (t•• --and, since tier side (4(111) bore the (041005 of nn tn• til after' ho got there? The afternoon's chitdhcocl, it. had been to her 11 rnginn «tall was upon a stand In the hall. She arrlptdvl. "As long its we ho of delight—was due to him end to the lookingturned _ n. 811 Alive," Constance vouid rend, and things he had told her about It, Ills• vttntIonst Sociover,notes.through t—1picked the date, "1(In0 2, 12(01" tinct old definite memories of that It 1088 111 Janney, 1308, Constance 8(1100g them al envelope 'ad- companionship Came to her. This lit - dressed to herself In a Arm, clear (Continued Next Week) $RLJ$3EL5 P03 WN:ANN loth; 10 0nnu, which, unratn111ar to nor, 0111(1 queerly startled her, and tore It open "Dear Miss Sherrill," she read, "1 (1111 eluant;, for the .time being, the house 11'hleh, for default- of other owaershili, 1 trust ('1111 mile, The pos- sibility that what has u(e ul•red kern would causey ntl and yiul' father 11U4- c•ty al>i,u1 me In ease I went (sway without telling you of my intention 101 the reason foo this note, But It is not the 001y reason, I could not go atvua' without telling you how deeply 1 up- plxciate (ho generosity and delicacy y'1'11 and your father have shown ate 111 SOW of my position here and of the feet that I bud no claim at till upon you, I shall not forget those, even though w'hat happened here lust night. Mattes It impossible fur oto to try to vee you again or even to write to you. "ALAN CON11AI>." She heard her father's motor enter the drive and ran to him 41.111( the let- ter in her hand. "IIe's written to you, then?" he said, at sight of 1t, "Yes." "I had a note from him this after- noon at the ()thee, asking me to hold to abeyance for the 111110 being the trust that Ben had left me and return - leg the key of the house to lee for safekeeping." "Has he already gone?" "I suppose so; I don't know," "We must find out" She caught np her wraps and began to put thein on. Sherrill hesitated, then assented; and they went round the block together to the Corvet house. Sherrill, 0fter a few instant'.,' hesitation, took the key from his pocket and unlocked the door and went 1n. The rooms, they saw, were all In perfect order ; summer covers hod been put upon the furniture; .cad over pro- tecting cloths had been spread the beds upstnirs, after their Inspec- tion, nspecttion they came out again at the front door, and het' father dosed it with a snapping .of the spring lock. Constance, as they \yolked away, turned and looked bath at the old house, gloomy and dark among its newer, fresher -looking neighbors, and sedtlenly she choked. and her eyes grew wet, That feeling Was nit for Uncle 11"cony ; the 11111 III of days past had t .hnas'ed •:art, a 1 • I1' fooling re111embered, taut 41en Latirall null been brought to the people in Kansas; he then was "about threeyears aid." If this wedding ring wets his a>nt1>eeti, the date would be about right It was a date probably something inure than n yelu• before Alun 30115 born, C'on- stanee put dew] the ring 00(1 picked up the watch. It. was like Cade Ben- ny's watell •-or like one of his w ah hes, Ile had several, she knew, presented to him at 018100 s tunes-•wrrteb('s el - mint always 10(1')' the testimonials given t1( .s101880n 1'01 (lets of anrl'l11('0 and bravery. The spring wldeli up. Prated the cover would not work, but 1"oustatce *tweed the 1811.01' Open. There, inside the cover as she had thought It wotdd he, was engraved writing, Saud had seeped into the case; the lnscrpnlnn 101101 obliterated In part. "For his euurage and dill in seam( , , master of . which he brought to the rescue of the passel], Ors and crew of the steamer Wl'inne- I Constance Choked, and Her Eyes Filled for hhn. That which she conk(. not With Tears. wink away (vas for the boy who haat hngn foundering Paint, Lake cone to that house a few weeks ago Erie, Nov. 2a, 181((1, this ellt011 is and for the man who just now had gone, donated by the Buffalo Merchants' gone. Uncle Btanny's name, evidently, had been engraved upon the nnaide. Con- stance could not pal•tienlnrly remem- ber the rescue of the people of the CHAPTER XII The Things From Corvet's Pockets. "(Miss Constance Sherrill, Harbor Springs, Michigan." The address, In large scrawling let- ters, was written across .the brown paper of the package which had been brought from the post office in the lit- tle resort • a few moments village only before. The paper covered a shoe box, crushed and old, bearing the name of "S. Klug, Dealer in Pine Shoes, Mani- towoc, .Wisconsin." The box, like the outside wrapping, was carefully tied with a String. Constance, knowing no one in Manl- tow'oc and surprised at the nature of the package, glanced at the postmark on the brown paper which she had re- moved; It too w•ad stamped "Manito- woc. She cut the strings about the box and tool; off Ole cover. A black and brown dotted silk cloth tilled the box; and, seelug II, Constance caught her breath, 1t was—at least it was very like—the muffler which Uncle Benny used to wear in winter. She stated with trembling lluge1•s Winnebago; 1300 1005 years before she was horn, and Untie Itenny did not tell her that sort of thing about self, Constance left the watch open and, e s gently l- laid it silvering « little, be g r t , down upon her bed The pocketknife had no distinguishing. mark of any Sort. The coins were abraded and flit- ted disks --a silver dollar, a half dol- lar and three quarters, not so nurt•h abraded, three nickels, and two pen- nies. Constanee choked. and her oyes filled with tears. These things—plainly they were Ole things found 10 Uncle Benny's pockets —eorrelmrated only too fully wheat Wasserman believed and what her father had been coming to helieve—that Uncle Benny was (lead. The muffler and the scrap of Paper had not been in water or In sand. The paper was written in pen - ell ; it h11(1 not even been moistened or It would have blurred. There WAS to take. It from the box; then, reulh n0111111g upon It to tell how long age Mg from the weight of the package it had been written; but 11 had been that the cloth was only,a wrapping or, written certainly before June 12. at least, that other things were lu the .,_titer Juno 11," it st_trl, box, she picked up box and wrapping That day was AWL 1st the eighteenth. and run up to her room. She locked It n1'U5 seven mouths stere Uncle the door and put the box upon the nanny had gine away, After his bed; n01v she lifted out the cloth. It strange Interview with her than day was a w't'(tppleg, for the 1100 0101' things and its going home, had Uncle Benny with ft; and now, also, it re- vented„,1(e out directly to his death? There itself plainly as the tictlrf--tin- "IS no(hing 10 show that he had not; cle Benny's scurf! A paper fluttered out as she began to unroll it --a little tine wntoll nod rains runlet 118le Min cross -lined leaf evidently torn from a for many weeks, for months, in water pocket memorandum book. It had and In sand t0 110011110 eroded in this been folded and rolled up. She spread ' way'. 11(11, aside front this• there 10'aS It out ; writing traS upon 11, the walll nothing that could be inferred regar•d- irregnr, letters of nude Benny's Ire ted thn0 or pla"e of Ingle Benny's baud,utdeath. That the packaav had been "Send to Alan Conrad," she real; milled from .11nuttnwee meant nothing there followed a Chicago address—tlfe definite. 1311211e 11110- .1'011,4111111.1', 14111111 number of Miele Benny's house on Int kunw• whom ---had 111111 the runnier Astor street. Below this wits another and the 5eraw-1ed leaf of directions; nue: later, after lying In water and ht sand, "Fetter cure of Cunstttnee Sherrill the thincs chill( were to he "sent” (hiss)." There followed the ,..her- had come to that some ones h11nd, rills' address upon the Drive, And to ornhnhsome anhad be this was another corrccttun: (Ole st nphn vvhlyas tgniagis about0 rm 5hlp5;en Set After June 12; thea to Harbor when his 5h1p had toweled at Maill- Springs, \Ilei, Ask some one of that; toWfle, 110 had executed his charge, be sure the date; (after ,luno 12." Cnnetnnce left the a•tlelcs upon the Colahun•e, trembling, unrolled the hod and throw the „01n61'w unnle wide- sMu•f; now coins slowed from a fold, ly open. 0110 trembled and felt stirred next « p,olcet.khtfe, r(11110(1 and rusty, aid (Stilt, 115 Ole 'leaned aLltinSt the next a watch ----11 man's 7)r(.n: gold window, breathing deeply the warns watch with the case queerly pitted nir, fn11 of life and with the 5eent and worn completely through to plates, nP the e\'0rgtetn tares about the 511.P and last n plain little hand Of gold of 11+lThe "cottage" of some twenty reams the size for a woulnn s linger ---u wed. 510(ad among fie blues and lientloelts Interspersed with hardwood on "the � Point," where were the great fine sum- mer homes of the wealthier "re - sorters." Tads was Uncle Benny's country. Nere, twenty -tire years before, he had (tact met Henry, whose birthplace --a farm, deserted now --was only a f0w miles ha0)t among the Hills. Here, the Master Sa1esm.n Lo, the people of the earth do me homage. I am the herald of success for men, merchants, manufacturers, municipalities and nations, 1 go forth to tell the world the message of service and sound merchandise. And the world lis- tens when 1 speak. There was a day long ago, when by sheer weight of superior merit, a business could rise above the common level without me, but that day has passed into oblivion. Foz those who have used me as their servant 1 have gathered untold millions into their coffers. 1 Sell More Merchandise per dollar of salary paid me than any other sales- man on the face of the earth. The fabled lamp of Aladdin never called to the service of its master genii half so rich and powerful as I am, to the man who keeps me constantly On his payroll. Hold the Business of the seasons in the hollow of my hand, I com- mand the legi'o'ns of fashion, mold the styles and lead the world whtthersoever 1 go. 1 drive unprin- cipled business to cover, and sound the death -knell of inferior merchandie. Frauds are afrata of me be- cause 1 march in the broad light of day. Whoever Makes Me Their Servant for life takes no chances on drawing down dividends from my untold treasures bestowed with a lavish hand. I have awakened and inspired nations, set mil- lions of men to fight the battles of freedom beyond the seas and raised billions of dollars to foot the bills. Nation's and kings pay me homage and the business world bows at my feet. 1 sow broad fields for you to reap a golden harvest. Am Master Salmon at Your Service 1 litv Waiting Your Command The Post BRUSSELS