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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-08-31, Page 2PAGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is kncorperated THE NEW ERA 'Terms of Subscription — $1.50 per° year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign .countries. No paper ' discontinued until alI arrears are paid unless at the option of the. publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. tdvertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per.countline for fir insertion. 8c for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. :Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted', "Lost,' `tStrayed," etc., inserted once for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion 150. Rates for display adv vertising made known on applica •tion. 'Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good 'faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. ¢G. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor, H. T. 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Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of, Commeree, Seaforth, er at Calvin Cat's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica. then to any of the above officere addressed to their respective post of - 'flees, Losses inspected by the direc- •tor who lives nearest the scene. omit Olt THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THUM., AUGUST 31, 1933' SYNOPSIS `Ruth Warren, living in the East, comes into possession of three-quar- ter interest in an Arizona ranch, left herin thewillher brother, re - to of ported to have died while on business in Mexico. With her ailing husband and small child she goes to Arizona to take possession, thinking the cli- mate may prove beneficial to her husband's weakened lungs. Arriving at the nearest town, she learns that the ranch, "Dead Lantern," is 85 miles acrossthe desert, Charley Thane, , old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take then to "Dead Lantern" gate, which was 5 miles from the ranch house, As they wearily walked past a huge over- shadowing boulder in a gulch in coming to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go back! Go back!" NOW GO ON WITH TI•IE STORY c=iG�a ' Snavely pttrsecl his lips thought- fully, then shook his head. "No—no use to see any more lawyers — they'll just gouge us, stir up some thin' so's they'd have to be hired to straighten it out ag'in. No use in that. You've seen your lawyer are: you've got the will. The will's what° counts—jest as long as I recognize it as bein' what it says it is, there's no need messin' around with law." A queer light carte into his eyes and his voice took one curious hollow lift and fall. "All right, said the girl quickly. She was glad to settle all conversa- tion relative to the law. "I'mn mighty seers, I didn't know you was coming," remarked Snave- ly. Me an' Ann' ain't exactly fixed for company. But I'll be seein' what I can do. Between now an' supper I'll just be fixin' up the place out back in the oki house." "That old ruin? But—it's falling to pieces." For an instant the man's body tensed, then he laughed --a thin, dry little laugh which had in it something of the sound of crumpled paper. "The olcl place has seen it best days, lady, but it's all we got. There's two rooms that's as good--fjest a- bout—as they ever was, Your bro- ther has slept there—it's plenty com- fortable --jest a little mite dirty right now." "But it's full of great cracks—rote of these walls night—" "No, no, Nothing ever falls in this country without there's a rain or a TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. 'Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 9.58 p.m. London. Huron & Bruce "Going North, ar. 11.84.1ve.11.54 a.m. Gong South 3.08 p.m, There's something the adver• 'tisements today to interest you, Read 'elietra L : a•• •„ -.3.1 ' r.in questionchangedthis attitude, Closing the book with a snap, he in "1 was only going to ask you what you have just told us, Mr. Snave- ly." The girl's heart was in her throat. "W'ho is Ann is she rout—," returned it to the mantel, reseated "No; by God!" theman thrust himself and waited patiently j for his body forward and his hands more questions., gripped the grins of the chair as if "Mr. Snavely," said Warren, when were :coming along nthe', rt - he were about to spring to his feet. wec m g a o g road short - His: His: pale eyes glittered. "She's noth- ly before we' saw the house, we heard in' to mel 1)o you get that? 'She's a—+well, we had a queer sensation, as a nigger .half-breed I'm hirin" o take if some one who was very close by care of the house an' help on the spoke to us—" Place. Anybody says different is a—" "You did?" •Snavely leaned for- he paused. I ward and watched Warren's face "I was only going to ask what keenly. "Was it by a big rook down you have just told us,1'Lr. Snavely," in the gulch?" The girl's heart was in her throat. 'Snavely settled back in his ,chair and his fingers strayed to his fore head. After a moment he spoke casually. "Ann's a queer creature. Strange. Her blood, I reckon. Her father was a heavyweight nigger "It's hard to describe. We stop - prize fighter an' her mammy was an apache squaw. "Big" Jackson, her. ped at the rock for a moment, and daddy, was born a slave. He was in when 'we were leaving, this voice the army durin' the Indian trouble in told us to —+to go back. The un - this country—stationed at Can Car- accountable thing about it was that los. I reckon Ann's, the result of a the words seemed to have been spok- raicl on some Apache village. Most- enn-just a few inches from our ears. ly she's called `Indian' Ann -you can We Were rather tired and a bit un- see she favors her mammy's folks — straight hair an' that Indian face, Must have got her size an' color 'inore from her daddy, though. Ann don't get along with towns --,this here civilization. Down in Texas she run a dance hall an' saloon, but she got in trouble an' drifted out this way. I'd seen her before, as' when I runs onto her in town one day♦; `''••she was broke an' lool<in' for a job.. That was just after your brother went to Mex- ico." Snavely paused, his eyes cn the girl's face. "So—1 hires her, Know - in' her like I did, I felt sorry for her. There's nothin' bad about Ann She jest can't stand bein' in town— spends lost of her time in jail when she is in town. It ain't her fault -- but folks give her Liquor, you see, an' when she's drunk she's as God -a. mighty terror." "Yes yes, that's where it was. At least that's where we thought we heard the whisper - it was rather weird." "Tell ane about it -- what did it say?" big wind. When it storms , you can conte in here in case anything wants to fall. Otherwise, you'll be plenty safe. We don't have mote'n a couple of storms a year anyways." After supper the adobe itself was visited. Huge and dismal the great bulk towered above them in the night, Yet, once inside, the walls looked quite safe by the light of the oil Iatnp on the table, The adjoining zooms were certainly more spacious and conveniently arranged than any- thing in the ranch house. As Snave- ly had said, the place was dirty. But the worst was the dirt of the earth— clean, dry dust. Ain, the giantess, had just finished arranging the bed- clothes on three canvas cots. Ann had picked up a lighted lane tern, left the room and took the path which led to the:barn, the lantern swinging in long arcs from her arm. Back in the living room of the ranch house Snavely remarked tbat he had sent Ann to the gate in the buckboard for the baggage. "Oh, but that wasn't necessary," said the girl, "We could get along until tomorrow—it's such an awful trip in the dark." Snavely shrugged, "She'll be back in a couple of hours." Snavely sat near the fireplace, half facing the man and woman who were seated near the eot. His atti'.' tude was that of one who is Waiting to be asked foolish questions — as though he were about to be quizzed by a pair of children. Ruth's first "How much do you suppose sho weighs?' asked Warren. "Close to three hundred, I reckon —solid as a rock. She's powerful. You'll look a long ways before you find a ratan as strong as what Amt 10," "I'll subscribe to that," said War- ren. "What kind of trouble did she get into down in Texas—did she just prove too destructive to the city hall?" "Well, no. She killed a ratan — beat him to death with a chair. But it was his fault" Snavely paused. "IIe wasn't no small man, neither," he added as an interesting after- thought. For quite some time the conver- sation lung fire. Snavely sat ne before—waiting. Ruth began by asking• abcut the ranch. To all of her questions Snave- ly returned prompt and pessimistic answers. It was soon evident that there would be no need of any one working out the exact value of three- quarters. "But couldn't we get acme new cattle if that's what we need," ask- ed the girl. "We could if we had the money. But it wouldn't be no use ---not e- nough water for more stock. We've got some water, but it ain't close enough to where the feed is." "How could we get more watering places?" "Haien' it rain would help. In this country a tvaterin' place is a represa, a dirt tank. You take an' dig a basin in the ground where a gully runs. When it rains the water comes down the gully an' fills the pond. We got plenty of them ponds but they're so silted up an' shallow they don't hold water long an' it don't rain anyways, It rained just enough last winter to fill the biggest pond on the place; that an' the well here, is all the water we got. There's four other ponds but they're powder dry. An' all the grass is sunburned an' wispy -like." "Mr. Snavely," asked Warren, "perhaps we should wait until to- morrow to see the books but could you give an idea of the earnings?" Snavely observed the young man for a moment. "Yes, Mr. Warren, I can. There ain't any earnings. You can see the books any time you want --!they ain't complicated, neither. We sell twice a year, after the fall an' spring round -ups. An' we buy twice a year—stock up the commissary. Grey took his share of last fall's sale with him—an' some of mine, too, if it comes to that. This spring I sold all I could an' got enough to a little more'n stock up the eommissary . If you folks aim to stay on l reckon I'll have to go to town again before fall." Snavely spoke as though nothing could be more distasteful than going to town. "But, Mr. Snavely," asked the girl, "isn't theee any money?" Snavely stood up and took an old daybook from the mantel . Slowly he turned the pages, wetting his thumb at each page. He looked op. "There's a hundred an' fifty-one dol- lars an' eight cents of pardnership money in the bank," . /1 "Your brother was always inter- ested in legends an' things about this country.." All the bad Indian hear the whisper, It tall them things and they are much afraid. They go out ttf the San Jorge Valley and they do never come back. "Always there is the little breeze in the arroyo. Sometime it whis- per. Moro T do not know." • Beneath the legend Harry Grey had.• written, "The old man. tells me that for centuries the Indians have strung, though, perhaps our imaging. tions—" Snavely frowned and shook his head. "No—you heard it all right." "But what is—who was It and how in the world was it done? Why was it done?" Snavely thought for a moment "Oh, it's a superstition — I guess you'd call it." "I wouldn't!" breathed the girl, with a shiver. "But we heard something,' said Warren. Snavely rose and entered the bed- room. In a moment he returned and gave the girl a sheet of paper in her brother's handwriting. "Your bro- ther was always interested in leg- ends an' things about this country. He used to try to find somebody who said they'd heard the voice, but he had poor luck. Then some Indians eine up in this neighborhood to gather acorns an' your brother got one old bush -head, who'd had educa- tion, to come up to the house an' tell about the legend. I was right hero when your brother toric down what the old buck said." The girl read aloud from the paper: "The Legend of the Voice "In the long ago days a tribe of gond Indian live in the San Jorge Valley. They grow what they eat and kill nothing, They do . never fight other Indian for so long they forget how it is. "Otte time some bad Indian come quick from the north, These Indian kill what they eat and fight much, All the village and all the field of the good Indian is barn up. All the young men become dead. They do not know how it is to fight. "But there is one very wise old man. He is medicine man. He take the women and the little children away. He lead them in these moon tains when the young men try to fight•. But very quick the bad In- dian are on the trail. When the wise old man come to the big ar- royo with the women and little chit- dren he look back. Ile see the bad Indian. follow. Where the trail leave the arroyo he stop. The wise old man say to the women and little children. 'You must go on. Go in the still places of the mountains and wait. 'Y'on must stay four days. Then go back into the valley and make again the village and the field." "The wino old ntodeiue man go back to the arroyo and .wait for the bad Indian by the bigrock. IIe take a little breeze 11e find playing by the big rock. IIe make this little breeze into a soft whisper. Then• he do other things that medicine man can do. Wlheto all is ready he lay down by the big rock and let his life go a- way. "The bad Indian come to the er- royo. The chief try to step, aver the dead old man.. But he stop. Into his ear there come a little whisper. used the big bowlder in the gulch aehimself and the island if he had not a council place. They believe that done what the people wanted. .A when the need is greatthe voice will digtator should be able to do the; advise them." right thing and make the people like "What do you think now?" For it, as Mussolini does. the first time Snavely had asked a question; Neither the girl nor her husband found an anevier.. "Can you tell us any more?" asked Warren at lasts (Continued next week) r SbKING4NEWS 0114 :hear A colored' preacher, annoyed at certain parishoners who carne in any old tine after the service had start- ed, took occasion once' to give them a proper dressing-down. Then lie an- nounced "We will now sing rat well- known hymn, 'Come Ye dat come se late: C•JG-� The new lady president of the Dancing Masters Association declares that dancing now is more subdued than it was ten years ago. The rea- son must be that the dancers are ten years ulder and the younger people have more sense than the jazz dancers of ten years ago. Ceeeitee=ii The State Called, Free I met with Napper Tandy and he took me by the hand Said he: "How's poor old Ireland how does she stand?" Says I: "The rebels of six years ago are en the top, they say, They're taking all the rifles from the rebels of to -day." Sir Adam Beck deserved and re- ceives honor due for the great public service he performed in starting hy- dro -electric power as a publicly -own- ed -and -operated Ontario enterprise. Those admirers, however, who insist that his policies should be perpetuat- ed and that the enterprise should be kept out of politics forget that he was not always right, as no elan Is or can be. His policies included a hydro -radial system which would have well -night bankrupted Ontario if he had not been thwarted by pol- iticians. In that particular instance the politicians were right. Mrs. Nuo'mi, the wife cf the cham- pion sprinter, is asking for divorce on the ground that he is tedious in Ms talk. It is hard for him to keep up a running conversation. Kenneth Wells knows a trapper who "knows nothing about literature, cannot read or write, thinks music an ugly noise, knows pictures are, crazy things, is sure' sculpture is heathen idol worshipping, loathes na- ture, thinks sunsets ugly and is per- fectly happy? Ile is also as prosper- ous now as he was four years ago el - though prices of furs have fallen, but what does it all prove? C Co Now is the summer of school -boy content made dreary autumn by the vacation's enol. Miss McPhail, M.P. says there were thine fools at the Regina Convention. How can she blame them when there were so many others there who are not fools? C;tti�ee Five kidnappers surrounded by sev- eral hundred Chicago police, escaped because one squad of police misun- derstood the orders. We suspect that they escaped because that squad un- derstood its orders. Give a thought to Gerardo Mach- adao. He was governor of Cuba when the depression struck the is- land. To keep sten employed he bore rowed money and went in strongly for public improvements. Everybodyi approved the policy and he was pope ular. But the time came when he could borrow no more, and the peo. pie found through their tax bilis that it eosts honey to borrow money. They turned on hiui and he is now a fugte tive. It would have been better for Give a thought, also, to Senator Cousens of Miehigan. He too has fallen into disfavor since Mr. Mills, chairman of the Board of the First National Bank of Detroit disclosed that it was the Senator who stood in the way of a loan from . the Recon- struction Finance Corporation of for- ty odd million dollars, which would . have kept the Guardian Trust st Co op- en, The reason he gave for his op- position position was that the bank did not have sufficient security. How ridi- culous! Weisn't it government mon- ey? Yet here was a man supposed to be a politician protecting govern- ment funds in his own senatorial dis- trict. Surely he does not intend to run again. eemnremee If' the bank had applied the same principle as Senator Cousens did it would not have had any occasion to apply for a loan, but having made loans without sufficient security it asked the R. F. C. to do the same. Having failed to get it they blame the watch -dog. Fortunately for Mr. Cousens he does not have to appea! for votes for a while and by that time the people may have forgotten that he once protected the public interest. • • • • • • • • • • • • • * • * • * • • THE NEWS -RECORD THE NEW -RECORD IS AN ALL-AROUND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, WITH SOME- THING OF INTEREST FOR EVERY MEMBER OP THE FAMILY. ARE YOU A REGULAR. SUBSCRIBER. IF NOT, WHY NOT? THE NEWS -RECORD VIS- ITS YOU REGULARLY EACH WEEK O1' THE FIF- TY-TWO IN THE YEAR AND COSTS LESS THAN THREE CENTS PER WEEK. YOU CANNOT GET MORE FOR YOUR MONEY ANY- WHERE. 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The butcher passes this on to his produce mer- chant, and this produce merchant, buying largely from the farmer, pasees this ten dinars back to the farmer, from whom it originally carte, Thus it hos, in its ramblings among the home town people, served many useful purposes and yet it is still itt the community to again serve. If Sent Away To Distant ifi enchants —That ten dollar bill is gone for goal. It may serve to build up the large city elsewhere. But so far as the home community is concerned its usefulness is at an end, and the community has been drained of just that much working capital. When in Need of Printing --*--Remember that orders left with your Monte town printer will serve to pay wages of worldnen who in turn spend this money with Meal business houses; thus serving to maintain that round of busi- ness which Le necessary in order that meal towns throughout Canada ♦nay :flourish and prosper, THE CLINT N NEWS-RECOR A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS. 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