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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-10-26, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., OCT. 26, 1933 Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated, THE NEW ERA Terms of 'Subscription — $1.60per year in advance, to Canadian nd- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper ' discontinued until all arrears are ' paid unless at the eption of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. 'Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8e for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex-, Beed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," '$hayed," etc., inserted once for 36e, each subsequent in- sertion 15e. Rates for display ad, 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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SYNOPSIS Ruth Warren, living in the East, comes into possession of three-quar- ter interest in an Arizona ranch, left to her in the will of her brother, re- 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 across the desert. Charley Thane, old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take them 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 corning to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go back, Go back!" At the ranch house they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian Ann, a herculean woman of mixed negro and Indian blood. Snavely is diffi- cult to understand but regardless. Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust! their three lives. to the ranch and its development. Kenneth, Ruth's husband, taught in chilling rain con- tracts pneumonia and passes away before a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is not encouraged by Snavely in plans to try and stock the ranch or improve it. She writes to her father in the .East asking for a loan with which to buy cattle. She receives no reply. Will Thane conies hone to visit his father . . . and Ruth meets him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 1=Z= After the noon meal Ruth had re- turned to the remains of the old adobe and was mourning over a mess of mud and blothes, when she was startled by the sound of an au- tomobile. She could hardly be- lieve her eyes when she saw a fine - docking machine climb out of the gulch. Visitors were not common on the Dead Lantern. There were two men in the car which approached the ranch house. Before it stopped and just as Ruth had started to walk in that direc- tion, Snavely rode out of the brush along the southern bank of the gulch on a dead run. Ruth paused and watched him bring his mount to a sliding stop by the machine. "What d'you want?" his voice shrilled at the men in the car. One of the men replied, talking for some time, but his voice was low and Ruth could not understand. "Hell, no! We don't want nothin' to do with that—" Snavely swung his arm back and pointed along the road—"There's th' way out of this place, stranger!" "Hew do you do?" smiled Ruth, as she came up to the other side of the ear. The two men turned their heads in quick surprise, then smiled with pleasure. "Are you Mrs. Warren?" asked the older -tan, lifting his hat, "Yes—won't you gentlemen come up to the house " "Why-.—er--thank you"— he half turned his head in Snavely's direc- tion—,"my name's Parker of the Triangle T, and this is Mr. Harvey. cur attorney. Your neighbor, Mr Thane, thought perhaps you people might ho interested in a cattle pro- position—" "Oh, I'm sure we should!" The three went to the ranch house porch, where• Snavely joined them after tying his horse to a mes- (mite. The girl introduced him. He grunted, did not offer to shake hands and seated himself at one side. "You see, Mrs. Warton," began Parker, "the Triangle T is changing hands—do you know of the ranch " "I'm afraid not," smiled the girl. "Don't make any difference,' ob- served Parker. "We're on the Mexi- can line about twenty-five miler east.' Well, as I said, the ranch is changing hands. The man who bought it is going to do differently than I've ahvays done. He intends to make a feeder ranch out of it, us- ing Mexican stock—yah—do you sec what I mean?" "Well, no I'm rather new to this business," said Ruth. "Don't make any difference he's going to buy cheat) Mexican cattle and feed them to sell. The point is, he isn't going to breed Herefords and he won't pay me for the cattle already en the place—I mean he don't want them for breeding he'll take all my steers and beef stuff but you can see that goodyounl+ cows and registered bulls are worth more than so much a pound—they're producers, Now, this man I'm sell- ing to, ,Testis Tavina, don't care a-, bout that sort of stock. I was telling Chavley Thane about it and be wants ten of my bulls and !ie snid yon peo- ple—" Paker glanced from the girl to ,Snavely and then back at the girt "He thought you people might be int terested in doing something. do ar. I was taking Mr. Harvey, here, back; to town, I just thought I'd drop in and see you." "But," said Ruth, "just now we haven't much cash. We'd have ''to ask for time in which to pay—we'd have to pay out 'of the earnings the cattle {bring us." Parker nodded. "That often hap- pens in the cattle .business," he• sniil- ed. "But if I can make eight per cent. on my money, I shan't he in too great a hurry to .get the prin. cipal. If you like, we can draw the note to come clue next November — after the fall selling. But if yeu're at all pressed I'll extend .it to the spring selling, Even if I had to wait until a year from this next No- vember, it would be better for • me than to sell the stock for what I can get now. The ranch here would be my security, of course." "I'm opposed to that!" SnaveIy leaned forward. "I don't go put- ting up my interest on no such proposition as that." For some .time no one sopke. "Well," said Ruth at last, "I have no objection to risking my three, quarter interest in the ranch for as many Bowe and bulls as you'll give the for it." Mr. Harvey, the lawyer, lifted his brows at this statement—as a gen- eral thing partners agreed. Parker turned to the attorney. "It would be legal for Mrs. Warren to •offer her interest even though Mr. Snavely does not wish to offer his, wouldn't it?" "Why, yes, it would be legal; it can be done. However"—he studied Snavely: "it will be a rather unique state of affairs. Should the -cattle come on the ranch they will increase the value of the ranch and likewise the value of the partnership inter- ests. In other, words, Mrs. Warren would be increasing Mr. Snavely'e property for him, while Mr. Snavely, in refusing to offer his share as se- curity, would be contributing nothing to the welfare of the partnership. However," he turned to Parker ae though he had seen enough of Snave- ly, "I think Mrs. Warren's note will be sufficient," An hour later the machine was disappearing into the gulch and Ruth Warren had mortgaged her entire interests in the Dead Lantern ranch. Snavely came up behind her. "What you jest done was ag'in my advice, Mrs. Warren. Don't expect me to do nothin' if things don't turn out like you figger." Ruth smiled. "Certainly. I un- derstand, But you were there when Mr. Parker and I went over the sit- uaticn—,i know and you know the water is a little scanty, but if things don't go too badly I may even be ab- le to pay off the note next November, I hope I shall, but if not, he agreed to give me a year." "Seems like your talkin' a lot about yourself," he replied tensely. "You talk like this was your ranch." "I didn't mean it that way," an- swered Ruth lightly. The look on Snavely's face brought Ruth back to earth with a jerk. For a moment she thought he was going to leave her without speaking, but her relief was short-lived. "Do you know somethin'? I come by the deep tank in the south pasture on my way home this mornin'. Well, it washed out last night—that's what it did. The water in that represa's gone to hell this minute, Them oth- er shallow ones won't last two weeks!" For a moment, his glinting eyes played over her sardonically. With a short laugh he walked to his horse, and monnting, rode away. On the day after the cattle deal had taken place, Ann was not itt the kitchen when Ruth arose. Neither was she in her room. Nothing in the kitchen appeared to have been touched since the evening before, nor was the fire lighted. She built the fire. Soon Snavely Caine to the door. "Where's Ann?" "I'm sure I don't know; I though' perhaps she had to do something outside before breakfast and hadn't come in yet." "Did you look itt her room?" "I didn't look—ii opened the .door and called," "I7uh!" ,Snavely went to Ann's room and returned shortly. "Her bed ain'f been slept in -she's gone ag'th." "Bout every two months or so Ann goes away for a spell—don't know where. Well, you can get me somethin' to eat, I reckon." For five days Ruth was cook on the Dead Lantern, and of the fif- teen meals, twelve of them con- sisted of Mexican beans and boiled sun-dried beef. On the morning of the sixth day Ann was in thekitchen, when Ruth' entered. "Why, hello, Ann, When, did you get back " "Last avenin ." "I didn't hear you come in." "No, Mrs. Warren." "Where have you been, Ann?" "I've been away," answered the huge woman quietly. Ruth said nothing more. The cattle had conte a long, winding river of brown and white flowed into the north' pasture. There, the six Triangie T cowboys allowed them 'to spread out of their own choosing. A great hunting of cow for calf began. Each cowap- peared to have lost her calf and each calf bawled as though it had lost two mothers. The calves, t temporarily orphaned, made little effort toward reunion; they stood uncertainly en their limber legs and bawled to the world at large, while their mothers sniffing, lowing, trotting nervously here and there, sorted them out. As soon as a family was united there were mutual sniffings and licicings; the bawling ceased and the cow led her offspring quietly away to graze. When it seemed certain that every cow had found her calf, Snavely, with the Mexican cowboys, rounded up the new bulls and drove them towards the home ranch corrals. Ruth and David followed behind. The girl was deathly afraid of those twenty-two monsters. A cow seem- ed more of a pleasant creature— at least, it Ioved its calf, with a rather satisfied, friendly expression.. But those great lumbering (bulls—a rol- ling avalanche of unfriendly power, as they plodded forward, singing their individual battle challenges deep in their throats. But the girl took a tremendous pride in them; it didn't seem possible that such a weak, insignificant thing as herself could own these huge animals. Of course SnaveIy owned a quarter of them, legally; nevertheless, they were her bulls. And they ivere val- unable — to lose one or two night mean the difference between meeting her note and not meeting it. (Continued next week) DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS DOVES OF PEACE While the reception to the Gov- ernor-General and Lady Bessborough was in progress at the C.N.R. depot this morning Col. Fred A. Laing re- ports witnessing a . strange and to some, significant Incident. Three pigeons, doves of peace, flew out of the Maitland valley to the east and circled over the head of his excel- lency just as he was shaking hands with Archdeacon Jones -Bateman, war padre. They continued over the heads of the war veterans, the • Huron Regiment and Boy Scouts,' who displayed Irish colors in honour of Lord Bessborough, an Irishman° The doves disappeared from whence they came—emissaries of peace that is to come to a troubled world at a time when war clouds hang Y heav — perhaps.—,Goderieh Star. ' .A New Order For Baden-Powell The Order of the Three Stars of Latvia was conferred upon Lord Bad- en-Powell by the President of the Republic during the summer's visit to Raga of the S. S. Calgarie on a Scout and Guide "goodwill cruise" of Baltic ports. c•: Hungarian Skipper "Teas" British Scouts Perpetuating the friendly spirit of the 1933 world Scout gathering in Hungary the captain and officers of the Hungarian s.s. Puszta, -moored at King's Dock, Swansea, entertained the local Boy Scouts at tea aboard ship. c11 A Handbook for Blind Scouts Far the benefit of blind Scouts, "Scouting for Boys," the Scout hand- book throughout the British Empire, is published in Braille, It makes two large volumes. Copies were presented to different blind schools in Canada. �iCa• Hungarian Towns Hosts to British Boy Scouts During the week following the World Scout Jamboree at Budapest, parties of English •Scouts were guests of the municipalities of dif- ferent Hungarian towns. A troop entertained at Karosvar were invited by the townspeople- to return next year. An International Folk Dance Restival Folk dances of their various coun- tries were demonstrated at an inter- national folic dance festival at the Scala Theatre, London, by Scouts and Guides from Belgium, Czecho-Slovak, la, Denmark, England, France, Irish Free State, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, ,Switzerland - and Wales. G+3ee=e Scout 'Santa Claus Already Busy blot -withstanding improving condi- tions that promise an easier Christ- mas for old Santa Claus, his Boy Scout assistants across Canada are preparing to help him as in previous years. A number of toy shops al- ready are in operation, making new toys or repairing discarded play- things, Last year a trans -Canada chain of 157 Scout and Girl Guide toy shops supplied gifts for well over 75,000 children.. +1110 WHAT IS THE USE OF DOING WHAT IS RIGHT? The above words were said to us the other day. They came from a young man twenty-one or twenty- two years old who has been out of any regular work for going on two years, and he has no money. Before being laid off work he went to church and young people's society, and al- ways contributed to the collection. Now that he has no money for the collection plates he does not feel like going. He knows of another young man who, though not working, al- ways has some money in his pocket and has a notion as to the way he gets it. While believing it is not an honest way he was thinking of try- ing it--mayte thinking the same way yet. As he puts it "a fellow is not wanted anywhere, even at church if he has no money, so what is the use of being honest if it keeps you in poverty and out of things?" This is a hard question and a trying time for this young than and for dozens of others like him. He is wondering if honesty pays. Probably it does not pay profits in worldly goods, but it will give us peace of mind and one sure thing is that in the long run dis, honesty does not pay, as evidenced by our jails and penitentiaries. —Kincardine News, TOUGH SURE ENOUGH The depression is rapidly drying up practically every source of news that the country newspaper man hast relied uprn in the past. For instance, People cannot afford to go places, consequently they are not, having so ninny car wrecks; youngsters can't afford to get married and if they do ARE SAYING they 'can't afford to raise babies; people can't afford to carry much fire insurance which means there are not so many fires. Yes its a tough calling this gathering news for a country weekly, -Exchange. WHATS WRONG WITH US Canadians need to snap oat oil their self -complacency. A few odd thousands of us have got it into our foolish heads that we aro a wonder- fully honorable people. Well, in the way of corrective take a peep at the books of some Of our merchants who have been good natured enough to give credit and ask a few ques- tions. Then, when you're at it, look over the accounts particularly the Bash accounts of some municipalities and of some semi-public bodies. It will do the rigidly righteous and the self -complacent a deal of good to find out why it is necessaryto have the troops calledout to prevent our fel- low citizens from pounding each other into insensibility. Canada's besetting sin is self -com- placency and lack of real knee -station. We may as well admit it. Exeter Times -Advocate, VISIONING THE BACKBONE Earl and Lady Bessborough are exploring parts of old Ontario which their predecdssors have overlooked. Clinton has had its first visit frora a Governor-General, and Goderich has been visited by the representa- tive of the King for the first time in forty years, To see such towns as these is to see the real backbone of the country. This the Bessboroughs undoubtedly realize. --(Phe Toronto Globe. THE I7NGILSII CHARACTERISTICS A typical Englishman himself, Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, in a recent speech, has well summed up the characteristics of his countrymen. The English character, he said, was one of contrasts. In small things no people grumble more, but the more difficult the times the more cheer= ful is the Englishman. IIe is al- ways serene in times of trouble. He went on to say: "Kindliness, sympathy with the underdog, love of home, are not these all the characteristics of the ordin- ary Englishman we all know? "He is a strong individualist in this—he does not want to mold him- self into any common mold, to be'• like everyone else.. Yet he can eont bine for service. "Some of the beet things in this country ,have originated among our own people, with no help from Gov- ernment—friendly society work, trades unions, or hospitals, and our education before the state took it in hand. "Then the Englishman has a pro- found reaped for law and order. That is part of his tradition of self- government—ordered liberty, not dis- ordered liberty with what invariably follows it, tyranny—at this moment ane of the rarer things in this topay turvy world. "These qualities were never more needed in the world. Let ne hold on to what we are. Let us not try to be like anybody else. "With our pertinacity, with our love of freedom, with our love of ordered freedom, with our respect for law, and our individuality and our power of combining in service, I believe from my heart that our pea ple are fitted to pass through what- ever trials may be before them and to emerge, ifthey are true to their ownbest traditions, a greater people, in the future than they have been in the past." Mr. Baldwin said the last invasion of England, and, in many ways, the most important, was that of the Normans --{probably one of the great- est races that had ever lived. Ile always thought it a great mistake to thine of the Normans who came here as Frenchmen. They were French- men in a sense, but they were really Gallicized Scandinavians. —London Free Press. COOTIES Employment is going tip. Wages are going up. Prices are going up. Living is going up. Confidence is going up. And one of the .surest signs that times are improving is the tipster who cordially invites us in on the "ground floor." The foolish brood that wants something for nothing is like the poor—always with us. It will no+ ' learn. It was spanked plenty in 1929, but now it thinks things are different. It is beginning to sneer again at people who watch the pennies. In disaster, it wants then to divide up, but when everything is going up and everybody is going up, it hopes to ride into prosperity on the earnings of other people, Society puts up with a lot of para- sites under its shirt, It gets rid of them when it loses its shirt, but with new shirts we acquire a new brood.—Los Angeles Times. her A. Canadian citizen touring certain sections of the United States a few years ago, reported on his return that he had passed through several good-sized towns where absolutely ideal business conditions -obtained. It hacl there been possible to so establish a spirit of co- operation and good will, not only among the business and profession- al men, but also between these and the general public, with the re, sult that the most harmonious relations pervaded these towns. The business men were content to live and let live, to refrain from adopt- ing unfair and unethical business methods, to lend a helping band to each other in trouble and adversity, and to extend to one another such business patronage as lay in their power. Thus the carpet- bagger invariably got the "cold shoulder," for it was firmly estab- lished and acknowledged that every order which could be placed in the home town, but which was sent ,elsewhere, simply chained that community of legitimate revenue, and served but to enrich some oth- er locality. Business left in the home town helps everybbdy in such town. Therefore, when considering orders for printing of any kind, re- member it can be done expeditiously and well by your home town printer. T1- THE P THE CLINT r N NEWS -RECORD A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS. IN THIS ISSUE PHONE 4