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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton New Era, 1914-12-17, Page 7Cr Ip; Thursday, December 17th, 1914. �rr�rtnrmmn►mm�mm�r��ru► 'There is a Cold day Coining Why not prepare for' it by ordering ,your winter supply of Lehigh `alley Coal, none better in the world 21. J. Holloway, Clinton nrntnIrnri'nrrfrr1n1rrnrntirr BUSINESS AND SHORTHAND Subjects taught by expert instructors' at the . • 2//tegdireaird Y, M. C. A. BLDG,, LONDON. ONE. Students assisted to positions. College in session from Sept. 1st, Catalogue free. Enter any time. J.W. Westervelt J. W. Westervelt, Jr. Principal 10 CharVice.i'thclpaltered Accountant e••••••••••••••••••••••••• • e I s • • Winter Session I • I •, Opens January 4th in all depart- I • ments of the CENTRAL BVSI. • • NESS COLLEGE, Yongeand • I , Gerrard Streets, Toronto. Our • • Catalogue explains our superior • • ity in Equipment, Staff, Methods • • and Results, You are invited to I • write for it If interested in the • • kind of school work which • I brings best success, Ad'dress • • • ' 1. •H. Shaw. President • I ••••••••O••••••••••••••••• Ontario's best Practical Train- ing School: We have thorough courses and experienced instructors in each of our three departments. Commercial, Shorthand, and Telegraphy Our gradual;es succeeds and you should get our large, free catalogue. Write for it at once D. A.1UeLaehlan, Principal LIVE P U Y L,T R .� WANTED 2500.0hickens 2000 Hens and 1000 Ducks each :veer: during the poultry season Turkeys and Geese taken later Get our prices each week, delivered at the elevator. We are in the market for all kinds of grain at top prices 1t Full Line of Flour and Feed Alwayrr9 on Hand Have you tried our Cared Meats? All Meat Supplies- Government inspected Tho GE-1onglois Co., Limited The up-to-date Firm, Clinton Phone 190, N. W. TREWARTHA, W. JENKINS Headquarters FOR Walking and sRidileg Oliver plows I.H.C. Gasoline Engine's McCormick Machinery Pumps and Windmills. ALL KINDS OP, IIEPATB8. ANT) EXPBRTING. CALL ON. (Miler (,aIle Corner of Prdincea .said Albeit testa. NORTH END FEED STORE HELLO ! o Have you ordered your kindling for the winter? Stave Edgings and Cedar BIOdks. on hand Malted Grain and Other Stock Foods for horses end cattle -kept in Stock Quaker Oats (yrn Slakes , Flour Oat Meal Corn Meal Etc„ Etc GENERAL DELIVERY DONE;, Agentfor Ileintzniau Piaanos Old ones taken ip exchange, and balance on easy terms, MFG 'W. :U1 TERNS CAR 71, ar'ilII4'tAIS '192 'Lt OCK, _`-(1cs' adiiirfQdS T r I ye THE CLINTON NEW ERA date/aril-a; far an'tmpassfve face; and the ease of manner watch customarily accompanies. It, is due to one of two things: Either a set of sympathetic emotions that are sadly atrophied, or, else an acquired self-control so habit- ual that every genuine feeling is per- fectly masked. In either pave.habit is not long in asserting itself. And '1t has been shown that Mr. Rudolph Ven Veishten was capable of being startled and astrwiehed. On the present oecaiies, therefore, 1,6"ensreireeir Agra BOOK I. The Silent Nouse. CHAPTER 1. Number 1813, As Rudolph Van Veohten entered' the outerdoorway of his, club, the handsome mission Block in the hall,. was chiming the three-quarter hour after eight. The young man's thin, sensitive lips; assumed a rueful curve and his brow gathered in a seowL "Fifteen minutes yet until nine," he muttered in a tone ofcomplaint, star- ing hard at the dial "Whatever I ghail do until night the gods, alone know. Plague on such rotten luck!" And having thus given audible ex- pression of his feelings, he dismissed the temporary irritation with a re- signed' shrug and sauntered listlessly into the luxurious but deserted loung- ing-room ounging room overlooking the street, where, he dropped heavily into a huge, bil-. Lowy leather chair which stood facing' one of the windows. He immediately discovered that the chair was insuffen ably hot, and bounding. to his feet, glared round for an attendant. None was to be seen; so he shoved the stuffy chair . sway—it was too heavy to kick --and, jerked a cooler and more inviting willow one into its plane, wherein he once more seated himself. "Somebody ought • to kick me for having come here," he feelingly re- ,marked. Thea he turned again to his incipient contemplation of the hot - empty street. Van Vechten might have told you, if he had paused to analyse his feel- ings respecting the Powhatan, that his 'attachment to his club was based upon some sort of sentiment. Hie slender, modishlyu andfinely attired figure, ro, his fl y chiseled, high -bred features (which were much paler than they should have been) Were by no moans strange to theirPres ent rich and elegant sur- roundings. In point of fact, no mem ber of the Powhatan more assiduously availed himself of the; club's exclusive privileges .than did he. Among the small coterie : of his intimates and friends, and the much longer hot of acquaintances who would have liked to share the closer relationship, no- body ever thought of calling for bine at hie own handsomely appointed bache- lor apartments in the Kenmore until the Powhatan Club had first been tried, and even then not before noon. Because prior to that hour,ail at- tempts 4 tempts to communicate with him so invariably had been frustrated by his diplomatic valet, Barnicle, that every- body had long etnce learned that he was not in the habit of rising before twelve o'clock. Familiar, therefore, as his appear- ance Was to the astonished and die- tenanted ieComnted club attendant (in season), it was associated—reluctantly as the fact must be, admitted—only with late hours, the poker or bridge table, and a :multitude of cocktails whoee num- ber was known by no man save that miracle of divination, the Powhatan's steward. He carefully indexed and preserved all the checks which Van Vechten so promptly forgot. Without 'spending too mach time, or trying to interpret too many words, let ns endeavor to make the situation clear; for it was all very strange, the Manner in which the commonplace sib nation described interlaced with what lmmedlately followed. Her. ---and this is the point to be. brought to the front and borne in mind —was a conourremce of time, place and individuai which had never happened. before, and in all likelihood would never happen again, but which wore revery outward aspect of one of those rare and inexplicable tricks on the part et Tate, as rare and mysterloue as mushrooms, freakishly contrived to 'land some poor mortal plump in the midst of a. troublesome predicament, like Napoleon's star at Waterloo. Merv, eery blased at mid-day on that mem. triable oeeaelon, 11 you have not for settee this apocryphal footnote to history Certain it is, at any rate, If Vali Vechtea had been anywhere else at this particular hour on this partioulae 'Sunday morning, he would . have missed witnessing an incident which' presently was to jar,' him from the lethargy of his ennui as effectively as f the rotation of the earth upon its axis were suddenly to be reversed.. And the incident, but one of a,stema 'ling series, was not long in. coming, Again from the hall floated the state; ly, melodious chime. Nine o'clock. With the first dulcet note, Van Vech. !ten's regardfell idl§' upon a man who was pepsins along the farther side of the etreet—the first human being he had seen since, taking up his position at the window. He was not at all in. 'torested in the man, who was entirely unknown to him; but the stranger had • Cii131&913 'k4 en Re ,lr t Compound. A nctfc,'rellable sepirlrrtiap etedirine, Bold in tl reo do, .Yi. aroos of strength—No, 1 91; No. 2, 925 No. 2, 85 per hos. ee - pBold fey all ds,igeitataf r pfl ret �. fres pnmplelst. Acirirn; 4Ei7d nneie rdtrnrolgtg ice" 4",r Searle.% eat (IMusfe Yankee) advanced +within his field of vision, and it was muck easier to follow hint than it was to look away, So he con, tinned to watch Mm, albeit but hazily conscious of the fact, because his thoughts were occupied with matters of vastly more importance to himeelf. That is to ray, at the time he fancied they were of more importance; subse- quently his opinions on this score un- derwent a decided change. • Onlyfew seconds later, in troth, he regretted that he had not given the man more of his attention—sentient, at least, to recall something of his appearance. But even at that, ' he Meyer dreamed how nearly the epi- sode affected himself at the moment, nor did he have any premonition of the extraordinary events' that were to en- sue In the-laemediate future, The man was walking with a certain halting, indefinite ,lowness, the while he studied- the house numbers,' as if in search of a particular • one. " All at one. he stopped stock-still Van Yachters, as it chanced,' failed to observe this, for his eyelids, heavy ;With loss of sleep, chose this precise second to curtain the scene. Nothing had yet occurred to prick hie curiosity. pf31a lids drooped only for an instant, to be sure; but within that brief space the strange man's bearing had sud- denly altered. H. had thrown off his irresolution, and had gone quiekly',up, the steps of the house directly oppo- site. Van Vechten opened hie eyes only just in time to see lite dleap- peering through the doorwa '. and the door itself swing shut, The Silent House! The House of Mystery! The house wherein nobody' had even been seen to enter! There was no mistaking the fact" that Van Vechten was galvanised into an alertness which, had it been almost anybody else under the same condi- tions, would have amounted, to excite- ment. "Say!" y! he demanded of himself un-' der his breath. "Is' this a pipe•dreaen? Or did somebody really go into that house?" And after a reflective pause: "No, I wasn't asleep,"deliberate- ly he de hereto- ly settled the unwonted occurrence in his mind; "I saw the chap coming along the walk. Let'; see -what did he look like? What was he doing? What the dickens does it mean, any- how?" There one nothing or nobody to an- swer these pussied inquiries. He was convinced that he had remained awake, although drifting along the bor- elerland of slumber, because he dis- tinctly recalled having heard the clock ;in the ball strike nine. He glanced at :his watch. Yee only nine. So he could not have been asleep, 'even for a second. All of which may seem a ridicalevs- ly trivial matter to be the occasion of so much concern; but anybody ao- epaalnted with - the circumstances would not have thought so. To begin with, there was somethtng positively repellent in the very appear' once of the house across the way. Even the number on the fanlight—by pure accident, 1913, for it was an old, old number and not the true one at all -was doubly and reiteratively un - Inviting to persona owning supersti- tious weaknesses, And who of us, to Coma extent, does not? Erected In the days whoa high, narrow brownstone Seroma were stisee1tad m tiee'haii-seek of affluence, it atill sueroeasfa117 re - misted •' a esaroaehmenia of improve- ment which otherwise modernized and beautified the thnroeegh'tare. At the three the Powhataa Club !moved into its now gvartere Nuxiairsr 4813 was vacant, and had remained so np to wreathing like throe mouths Oiler teethe opening of this story; Itbat is to thy, not quite two year's. How • loam previously to that it had 'stood empty no club member oauld ;say. During all the period within their knowledge its begrimed facade bad !been as eyesore and an object of exo- icr'sstlos; sotaber and brooding, it was a ;sort of memento mor; to the idlers behind the big plate gleam windows of the ioun,sing-room. a stleat but per- rebuke eto the folly of their st which attribute had more than Once called forth a passionately resent- Iai tiread.,from some member who had bash bluely at eard4 or had eon, - email too meek aloobel the night bo. ohrr.. Theta OSA afterneoa Ma .tub utas lelectrtf.d. 'Fors Phianery had hoose owing aaeeeingly into the street Dna some minutes. It Amok bine all alt once that the windows and the itrenfl door ',across the way war. ;ISO iomgea boarded, and that all the window* *ore blinds; Um red atone z0eya, how, ever, showoff no indication et hawing been recently cleaned, "I say, fellows," he abrutiy sang out, enhirteon-thirteen's oeeupledI" There was a concerted movement. !toward the club's window; everybody (present left off 'whatever he happened to be tt,.oi:; at the moment and stood jsllentiw eeeee at tl:e rlvuniy f ont. ,•.,rit t; ..,r,' Yir h., .vd3 rU THE POULTRY SHOW. • The clivectors of; the Huron Poultry Association are actively preparing for the annual winter exhibition to he held in the town Hall Goderich on' January 12 13 and';, 11. Mr. J, H. McClinton, of Goder it la ist he secretary and will give any information desired ohencluir'y / Illustrating the soldiers of the allied armies, British Bulldog, Union Jack, etc. Ten different designs to , stir the heart of every patriot. And one toothsome goodness that reaches home to every taste. At your grocer's, every biscuit guaran- teed. 29 D. S. Perrin & Company, Limited Lando., • : C •. r 1 presently rensai'ked. "Wonder who it pan lie?" What wan losrned during the word- less, curious inspection was about all the information respecting' Number L812 that was tobe vouchsafed dur- ing the succeeding months. During; that time it was scarcely possible that Any person could have come or gone within the eighteen hours that are the I1--ielieat et the twenty-four, without etiracting somebody's attention at the Powhatan, ]ror as the weeks pawed, and the shades remained down by Say, and the windows dark by night, curiosity grew !pato; the holies be- came more and more a fruitful topic of speculation; std with Its secret front sonatantly ;taring one in the face, the least sign of lite or activity must have been noted. , Why sboald anybody want to main- tain seek persistent. unnatural oracle- ? Mon? Inquiry at the estate's office build- ing was productive of no enlighten- ment. Considerable difficulty was ex- pertenced in gaining access to the manager; then he at once denied Num- ber 1813'u occupancy. nc . herev on W p Tom Phinne9 Belt that the Powhatan's committee Will not being treated with the deference which. it unquestionably deserved. "See here," he said, tbumptng the desk under the manager's nose; "your oonfounded house 1s situated right across the street from the Powhatan olnb—" Por the first time the manager's eye contained a gleam of interest. Tie interrupted. "Isn't Mr. Percy Bonner on your house committee?" be inquired. "Val, he is," returned Tom, not re• ceding in tke leant from his determined stand. He waited a moment, but as tbo gleam died in the manager's eye, proceeded. "Our body 1e select, you must be aware, and we are proud of the quiet respectability 01 our neighborhood. There's enough Influence in our mem- ber•ebip to run out anything of a shady seature—we wan't etaad for it, in sort-" The manager acknowledged the jus- tlee of MU ultimatum, but merely paid: "If yea see or bear anything wrong, ran 'am out; I don't care," "We bays a, right to wbo r cu maighbrw u' ," insistedknow Tom, "Netuire 01 them," said the mama - gee; "I can't tell yon." "De you mean to sari yon don't know ?"--ineredu5e hely. "Jest that. The present tenant nev- ser availed by as at ate -have never roes Min,, in fact, .Occupancy of the wan asysaged in quite another Marrs. Really,.gentlemen, that to all t apt at liberty to tee yon." And tie Pcvwhataub aunmittee wee ibsered politely one )>k was not for notbtag that the :boast wee milisd the Moate at lens - 4.R. estaarrita e s- ti4'tA7TH* It, en Mrs *mdse of tiro htrarn, a porgetasd soler ad impaaetvity reddish effeetbretly... remised advances er famaiseltias ea the part of the letees eau er4 pewee whom he dee uLed, woe rssltatye Zadsi'pis Van Voch- icnr's :nest aetleeshespihysioal obar- !�l1t -0 WITH - LAME BACK. 1.16111* avaViee Par PILL When the back becomes lame and starts to ar11e it is the sure aien of kidney trouble. Dose's, Sidney Pills cure the aching back, by cueing the aching kidneys be- Heath—•ior It is really the kidneys aching and not the bock. This is why "Doan's" cures are lasting —the medicine cures the actual cause of the disease, the kidneys,, Mr. J. W. Aylett, ,South Oshawa, Ont, writes: "I have much pleashre in recommending Doan's kidney Pills. Last summer I suffered with a lame back, Sometimes I eould hardly straighten up for the pain.I read about Doan's Kidney Fills and decided to give them a trial. i cm:. truthfully say that the vecotrsd; box cured nie. I can recommend them to all as a speedy cure to all suffer- ing with backache." Doan's Kidney Pills are 60c per box, 3 boxes for $1.20, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price. by The T. Milburn Co., L inns tgd, Toronto, Ont. ;. When ordering direct specify "Down's." At The1 Ineteet the Cloak In the Hail• Began Striking Ten. he did not long permit his amazement, to flaunt itself; (tette soon he wan the same Unperturbed individual whose presence had enrprised the club at- tendant a' few minutes pleriouety. It occurred to him by and by that while he had missed witneswing the stranger's entrance 1*1. the Blouse .of 'Mystery, it did not necemeariiy follow that he meet fail to see him when he ;emerged. ,MDeooner os'• later the man 'must depart. Van Vechten was eminently well: qualified to wait, sines all his manias, and such ambition as he possessed, were direeted toward that most lebori. pun of all tanks, "killing time; despite" which, backed, by a aonsdderable for -i tiiity of invention, most of the min. utas of each passing day Bitted brl (fearing him more bored than ever. So'' the resolved to keep hip station at the window --all day if necessary -sad ant-; Fsfy his eurloeity respecting the man's: general appearance. The first twenty minutes or so wens Continued next wdek. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R IA Throw away that Catalogue and buy at home. Be loyal to Clinton, Gen, S. Early is on the jobthese: r3ays. ANY DYSPEPTIC CAN GET WELL By rave "rit,mas. Says Capt. seu Life is very miserable to those who suffer with Indigestion, :Dyspepsia, Scour Stomach and Biliouseees. This letter from Captain Swan, f (one of the kcat known skippers on the Great Ickes) tells how to get quick relief p from Stomach Trouble, Poie.EURw$ra, ONT., May Sth, 5913. "A man has a poor chance of living and enjoying life.wheri he cannot ea;. That was what was wrong with roe, hast of appetite and indigeseiou was brought on by Constipation.. I have had trouble with these discsosas for years. I loot a great deal of f?o..i sod snilemi constnutly. For the last couple of years, I have taken "Pruit- a -tivea" and have been so pleased with the results that I have recommended them on many oecasioas to friends and aoouadntarices. i am sure that "Fruit- a -:lues'" have helped me greatly. By fmllowing the diet rules and taking "Fruit-a-tives"according to directions, any person with Dyspepsia will get benefit". H. SWAN "bruit -a -fives" are sold by all dealers at goc. a box 6 for $2.5o, or trial size 25c. or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. TRAPPING REGULATIONS There has been a number of en- quiries as to the new regulations governing trappers. 'The new regulations do not effect resident trappers in any way as they do not require a license to trap, nei- ther do they require a license to to dispose of ,their catch of furs but the person who buys; furs re- quires a license, the fee for which ie $2 per annum," • Leckie.* Wesden Safe Str. I. Shenker, a curio dealer, Lon- don, has invented a light wooden safe, which has no locks, bolts, or bars of any description, and yet is as safe as, If not afer than, the steel article. Mr, Shenker offers to put a bank note in his safe and give it to any- one, professional cracksman or other- wise, who eau gel it out without alarming the houtehold. The safe consists of a mahognay cupboard that can be inlaid and made to look like a pleoe of, drawing room furniture if required. By, an ingenioue electrical contrivance an electric bell rings im- mediately it is tampered with, and a light appears. The only thing to dis- tinguish the safe from an ordinary cupboard is an electric wire running Into the back. Should the burglar cut this, the alarm will ring just the same. PAGE SEVEN. Josu ", mod 1r'neems ntn. African natives treat pneuneania with extreordinery levity. On a big trek. in central Africa, writes a Cor- respondent, one of the carrier "boys" fell ill, and a dotter who was of the party dietngsed it as doable pcnu- monie. The Europeans did what they could for him--modlcin., a flannel shirt, blankets and the Bice. "`Before turning in that night," cage the traveler, "I went acmes the mum with the doctor to see how he was getting on, He lay quietly aleephng a)os).geide, the Are, clad only in Isis cnsomary loin cloth, having roiled uti'both the shin mad blanket we hail givenhim to net as a pillow! Yet ',he pulled through all right," ,. An Anter se of 1ie11621. ' Renan while traveling alighted at Naples. One morning a servant of the hotel came to him and said that as Elie had heard the preacher at the cathedral make nee of his name many' times she would be thankful if be would choose for her a number In the lottery about to be drawn. "If you are a saint," said she, "the num- ber is sure to be a good one; if you are a devil, it will be still better, ilenan smiled mad chose a number, 'but he never knew if the servant wps lucky. No Burglary. 'J•udge—You are charged with buy - glitzy. How do you plead? Prisoner—rept guilty, boss, an' I'll tell yo' why. In de fast place, de chicken 000p dose wasn't eben locked; In de seeon' place, dal wuz no burglar alarm; in de third place, dar wua no bulldog, an', in de,fourf place, der was no steel traps. Now, eat ain't burglary et all, boss; dates -j'es' simply endin' ch.akena, an' I leabe It to yo'self." TO ADVERTISERS. For this month theist Will be a strain 0n 0111' staff through extra adyehtising. We would therefore ask our advertisers to have their copy in the priate?'s' hands by Monday noon. MINOR LOCALS. Do it now. What? Pay for your paper in advance. It wi11, help us and make youfeel more comfortable. This is the gospel ninth I'm printing, Mother's started Christmas hinting. • Real Relief from suffering means true hap- piness. The trouble due to 'indi- gestion and biliousness, is removed quickly, certainly and safely by by ((114115111.5 27tn%iargestSatoof4lnr Medicine ntitq,World Sold Every there. In bocce, 25 cents .;"edil7.�if ` t • .�t v0t upsry"AlE ?,`' + 1ti{.: 4? 1 '; 3 illi..,.'^,`' 'l S'n1t" t' (,tP t7 t:a Sp illiu. i 'h ci THE CLINTON NEW ERA at $1.00. per year in advance is mighty big value. Before long all weekly newspapers will be $1.50 per year in advance, • But Here is a !gger. Value Still As a special inducement to ail non -subscribers of Che New Era to become regular readers we make the fol- lowing big special offer, $1.0.0 will place your name on our list until January Ist, 0916. This applies to a Canada and Great Britain, ISZOTOZOSattssEMPLICI E4 You cannot invest a Dollar to, as good advantage to yourself and family. DO IT TO -DAY. Do not put it Wally longer. The New Era has a big staff of Correspondeums'that keep the paper well supplied with all the good news Tell the Clood News to your Neighbor ifs he is rot now a Subscriber T elinton °^MTATIerrralLfg, Home News M� News of the.... News- H 1 'el tb'?�� Town., on �.n �, f. 19.1" ,, r,•,f � �'? ll� �ll '{rdv1� 'i,��yy\\tr��l,��fkyut{ P�yy"� �1It.V�.V 6(',Kr�DAWa�