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The Clinton News Record, 1928-12-27, Page 2Clinton News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Terme ot 'Subscription—$2.00 per Year in advance, to Canadiais addresses $2.50 to the U.S. or other 'foreign Countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the peblishe1 The date to which every subscription is paid Is denoted on the label" Advertising Rates -Transient adverr. " Using, 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subsequent Insertion. Beading counts 2 tines. Small :advertisements.not to exceed one inch, such as ;'Wanted," "Strayed.' etc„ inserted ' once for 25c. each subsequent insertion 15c. Advertisements cent iu without in- structions as to the number of in- sertions wanted will tun until order- ea out and will be charged accord- Ingle Rates for display advertising wn'r' known on application, Communications intended for pub !ic' t'an must. ,.is a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name writer G• E Hall, M. R. 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SMELL. sesessaesso ay dr• w bAnt a:F races BEGIN HRR' TODAY "For God's 'sake stop that damned Captain Saha `?ewitt is Commission- . € himself screaming gun!" he eaught et of Police at.esselton, British North aloud, writhing in the agony of his Borneo. Inc beautiful sist-r; Monica impotence. _ He jammed his fingers in Viney, is engaged to marry Peter Pen- ` his ears and tried in vain to draw nington, detective, Pennington is de- his eyes from the girl who, bound tailed by the government to apprehend hand and foot, just balancir-g on the Chai-Hung, leader of The Yellow jagged surface of rock, looked death Seven, a gang„of Chinese bandits. in the face unflinchingly: Pennington' to assisted by his chief -of He had alwa s admired Monica, staff, Rabat•Pilai,' w.ao hater 'be batt- y dit chief bitterly. Pennington heads an. had even cherished hopes of her him- expedition:to•capture Cha! -Hung. They self, until Penni..gton had stepped in. move toward the bandit's latest hiding The sight of her standing there by , place. the side of Chai-Hung maddened him. as he did so the real significance ni tante of and Dawson laughed aloud. A knot that solitary rampart was borne upon C a r etr B. R. ' HIGGINS Ciintoa, Ont. • General Fire and Life insurance Agent for Hartford Windstorm, Live Stook, Automobile and Sickness and. Accident Insurance. Huron and Erie and Cana- da Trust Bonds, Ap;nointments "made to meet parties at Brucefleld, Varna and Bayfield. 'Phone 57. 01 Trains will arrive' at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div, Going East, depart 6.44 a,m. „ • 2.52 p.p.. Goinf West, ar. 11.50 a,m. ar. 6.08 ' dp; - 6.53 p.m. ar. 10,04 p.m. London, tjuron &.'Sauce Div. ,. Going South, ar. 7,56 dp, 7.66 am. „ • " 4.10 ppm. Going North, depart 6.50 p.m. " tr• 11.40 de: 11.51' a,m, THE McK0 LU.t' IVAi1TuAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office,-Seaforth, Ont,- DIRECTORY; • President, James Evans, Beechwood; Vise, lames Connolly, Goderich, Seo: Treasurer, D.P. McGregor, Seaforth, Directors: George McCartney, SeafOr•th;. James Shouldico, Walton; Murray Gib- son, i3ruoefieid; Wm. Bing, Seaforth; Robert ,Ferric, Harlock; John Renneweir; rerodhagen;' Jas. Conolly, Goderich, Agents: Alex Leitch, Clinton; J. W. Yeo. Goderieh rid. T•llnehley, Seaforth; .7. A, Murray, Eglnondvilie; R. G. Jar. ninth, J3rodhagen, Any money to be paid in may' bo paid to Moorish -Clothing .'Co., Clinton, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocory; Goderich. tParties desiring to- elect insurance or ransact other business. will be promptly. attended to on applicationtosany of the above officraddresser,, to their >`espee, tltc post 05000, Loosee inspected by, the DirectOr who. lives nearest the stoner_ NOW GO ON WI'_Ii TH,!. STORY He tried to collect his thoughts and A bullet drilled a hole in his topee of fanatics—running short of am- munition— hailed their approach with a shower of rocks. Dawson dis- patched the first man with his pistol and the remainder took to their heels to fall uponthe bayonets of the last of Clay's party. There followed a There was a: track—a foot wide—, ' between the base of the 'wail and •the Th�.Conditions i i5 X23 P ~I�l ie�r�it cliff -edge- A couple of yards below; A • f g' the path the face of Rabat-Pilai grin-' Trus A't!%al• 'Wage e- . .. a1' a 1',.''i •�.. ly ned up at him. This amazing being " was hanging ;no by his fingers and Errlinent Write -es Ciairn I Ialal�y All Tin enty fir jl Z ��i3Cr toes, with:the limp form of Peter, i - < � Mal'ria'e5 /2"'''''''i r2COP:1-' Wii:1?Ciraw °11aWin Pennington pressed between him and&' the face of the rock. , mollis Rare Agitation figaislat Dawson dropped to the p th, stead- -- `Monnet Carlo ied himself; then grasping a single Parents Need Edefeerion More Casino branch that jutted,' from the edge, ^f ,, reached downward, 'Rabat, loosening -, Thari heir. ,1tltil ori, I1Sonte Carlo, T Bonito, _.his little. his hold, pushed Pennington's arm I hey lay• principality's J'i 1::..*:i ;it a twenty - upward until Dawson could grasp his on,, i,ie The hoary fieti�n ,i file "happy lrtoel , 1i„ly i ,,yl;rnecl 'iii at Purist -thea slid withot;t: utterance to tnarlra e'':ia'r.• .nnin�• t01 wear ih;�t._ l`cdy. t'he cr1eis asses -over the ueg- join the still form of his arch -enemy, Tltis.is6the opinlon of Dr. Janes C,ir• ton of whether Jh vtrurager00 t of eight hundred feet below.. rattlers Young and Jolul Middleton tL++s C.asiitra or the lice l w :e rain The D.O. drew• Pennington to safe. Murray In their article "Modern Mar-, to run the country. ty—and Clay, appearing at the far- riage,' In the. January "Forum." The Natsonal Connell, a5 the I'ar- inset extremity Of the-rampart,'erept •••there are` happy1ian It in c,.11od has Iw,wan ha ko'' round to hel him. marriages, no , c >h. (The End.) doubt;" reads the "Forum" article, , the management of the establish - but most pimple who are honest with ,hent where theiittlo ivory bans wli,r1 themselves and have, insight enough at roulette andbig sums ehau.gr, hauls 4J . • ^ • to see beyond the familiar facade of on the flip of ac card. it wa.s forced out Benefi#t7n .- :-.._e Poor married 'bliss,' will adnjit that happy of office, howevat, by an element In Britain marriages are uncommonly rare.. The whose slogan is "li <mato for tine idion- devoted mother has a trick, on closer ariwho nt the 'inspection, of appearing mucin less de- .sinescns", beca-audse its treastnassert'yti' is low,,hCaas Something of a sensation was hen :• voted as a wife; and the doting hus- failed to fulfill its agrc-ement to make band. in only too glad, in spite of his certain public improvements. first wasatasck that behind the eightrghfort Cbatnbativel, denknod the man, Chancelllelor. formal protests, to. be kept in an Of- ' ,Among the more excitable elements ices' a sheer drop of hien- Chamberlain; declined Chancellor- dred':feet. Her presence there was a Ship of the Exchequer, second highest ace eight hours a day well out of of the 22,000 of the realm there has warning -to Pennington to ceasefire. post in the British Cabinet, in favor of reach of his: wife's pretended enchant- been some talk of revolution, but the ' He wriggled into the shelter of the what is regarded as the far lees im• meats. They rub along somehow, .for heavily armed police, who have taken of Health Minister,' ppPace of the former miniature. the sake of appearances. One. of them' the 1 a desire "to do'something.Twenty dies, and the remaining one is work -army, believe they can keep the peace. period 'of breathless, hand-to-hand y which carries' with it responsibility l ed into an ecstasyaof regret which, in, The Casino is the principal industry lighting and presently he woke to the yards from the wall, he realized that for municipal affairs. Mr. Chamber the firinghad stolain gave as his reason that as,th so far as it is real at all, is more often of the; principality. It was farmed out sudden' realization that theywere on stopped. Asabl watch- e level ground, in fierce pursuit of theed his opportunity to scramble under i ' regret for lost habit than a }est per- by the government of Prince Louis II last defenders of gradient. Clay's 'voice bellowed after him. "Dawson! Dawson, come back here! We've gained our objective and it won't pay us to go farther." The D.O. retired with evident' re- luctance, He found Clay with his back against a rock, binding up his hand with strips from his:handkerchief. r'Hit" "Nothing to speak of. You axe: till -right?" Dawson felt himself over. "Not even a Mighty! It's very dis- anuointine. When I get back to my little log -hunt in the trees, nobody'll believe I took part in the scrap at all!" Clay was sucking at the stem of an empty briar. "P11 give you a certificate to that effect! I think we've every reason t� pat ourselves on the back. We're in occupation of the entire, ridge, Plenty of cover and a clear view of ('hal-Hung's headquarters." He knot- ted the iniprovised bandage and drew it taut with his teeth: "The Yellow Seven are hemmed in on the plateau. Pennington is advancing on our ex- treme tight. Ra'at-Pilai is in charge of the left flank. Behind the earth- works the've chucked up there's a' sheer drop of eight hundred feet." Dawsdn borrowed Clay's binoculars: and in the first gray light of ap- nrcaching dawn. focussed them un a broad, squat pile of roekwork barely a meaner of a mile ahead. A pole jutted from the centre of this mass and from it Swung a yellow flag. "Bettor get a stretcher party to work." he remembered suddenly., "T've told my Sergeant already" He glanced back and saw Penning- ton coming up thr slope, His left arm was in 'a sling and there was a broad strip of plaster across one cheek, 1 Pennington dropped to the earth' '"retl ate, where's Peter? Why hopes to pass it into law before the sort set so much store, that their fu- gard to Channel ciroumstances which and lay on his stomach, his chin prI-'isn't here?" general election, which is to take have arisen in diplomatic develop - lowed in his hands, "Dawson, I want h tune happiness depends; but on the t i tl than Science Moultor. next boulder ahead, conscious only of portant ofilce the wall itself, •his eye caught a`sec- all the time what Clfai-Hung's next move would be. Suddenlyr from their own lines, a single rifle -shot rang.out. The man on the .wall clapped .a hand to his side, then swung .his arm forward as if, to send his victim tottering back- ward. Dawson cursed the fellow under his breath. It was sheer madness to pick off the bandit for he stood so close to the girl that the faintest touch must assuredly carry her with him. j • A rock, dislodged from somewhere,' slid into space, and two hands appear- ed on the wall, inches only from where the girl stood. Impelled from behind, she slid forward with a: little scream es inequitably' upon productive Indus -,ledge of the inward world" Man is with a snarl upon—Chinese Penning- i, centrifugal woman centripetal Aware iL° �° f Y°A ton. He had discarded his sling, but noes of Function thus passes into a A:a 11r$ Dawson could see that his wounded authorities (Guardians of the Poor) knowledge of ,reciprocal indispensa- Tunnel Project arm pained him greatly, shall no longer be divgreed from the bility, not merely in the' economic but S i lilt d H hit Ch H with 11 th county and borough councils respons- in the spiritual order which is the en t re system of legal government in son. And another is added to the i for $150,000 a year, but business has Britain was in need of reform, he long list of happy marriages that will been poor and luck has run -against thought he could do best service to not bear examination. " - ,'.the house„ so that; there is a deficit the state by turning his attention to , Tho "Forum" writers set down tin the gambling capital's Safe of the urgent questons pressing in this; latter connection. (some of the conditions of 'a true mar- about $600,000. riage. "First and -foremost," they No taxes have been levied for many His plans.have taken some time to -• write, "!s file necessity of- biological years and life Las been -pleasant for mature. All the great municipal tor• satisfaction on . both - sides. Second, • the inhabitants, - But lately there,has porations in Englan and Wales have there Should be on both sides a con -:been much criticism because the Ca - had to be consulted. A measure of soleus awareness of function. It the 's}no financiers have neglected to keep the most complicated mature and of-' man't business to lead' in married lite, l up private property. Letting the widest changes however, • and it is the woman's business to Both sides telegraphed' their trou- has received second reading in Par -,know and to demand that the man blas to Prince Louis, who. is living in Par- liament and is now well on its way in should lead. There are realities ; Paris. His anbwers, however, seemed committee toward becoming law. The which a man knows, better than a. wo- .ambiguous and his critics therefore. bill seeks -,^to accomplish several man, and there are realitiecs which al used 'all their influence and.forced things. It is to reduce unemployment woman knows better than a man, Tho ' the Council to. resign. by readjusting a great burden of man is the adventurer in the world ofI municipal taxation which now Press• objects the woman has the know- r �• eta? G. into the ruins, and Chai-Hung turned tiles. It is to widen the basis of the chef bf poverty d that the spending ji.�. is ite°k ?i)rie' He i Chai-Hung a e ibis for raisinthe force kte could muster, over -balanced g necessary funds. third- condition. A man should have sir Robert Horns Joins Par It is to substitute grants accordiug 50. learned' that he cannot really be a 11a1Cientary Group Seeking need (block grants) for the present unless he has a woman to renew grants according to .spending capacity him, to'give hint courage, and 'to ro- man Government Approval (percentage grants), where funds stip• store his faith; and a woman should London.—The parliamentary group plied by the National Treasury to have learned that she cannot be a p help Ideal finances are concerned. One n enwithout a man toh give dives- which is endeavoring to e' proposed goy of its provisions is to free factories of tion Inc;tthe abundance of er vitality, ernment approval for the three-quarters of their present local and to insert design ino her life tunnel. under the English Channel to link Great Britain and France and the taxation, - and agricultural land of the "In so far, therefore, as a treu mar- + whole of this inmost, This last -mei -- continent has been joined by Sir Rob - t p rugs relation can be achieved; with art Horne; whose judgment where any boned relief is to be at the cost of the' its progressive mutual enrichment of engineering or fivaclal matter is in de - similarly central taxpayer. Railways are to be' man and wife, the problem of the en - bate is so respected throughout the lightened of 75 per cent, of suing generation is simplified. By the country as to give fresh impetus and local taxation, but are to pass on the honesty which man and women today ; prestige to what has long.since been benefit by reducing their transport , bring to the 'marriage relation, tne}r i regarded as a moribund project. charges for raw materials and goods'children •twill profit, `with advantages.'! Members of all three political par - for export. They will have fewer difficulties to The British Weekly, not usually a I contend with when their tine comes ties have signed it resolution Channel of the Conservativeing the "construction of a Chantel party, to choose their mates, In so far. as tunnel to be advantageous both to this says: "In its main features this 10 a their fathers and motheis were tom- country and to Europe as u whole and : hill by which the poor will benefit and plete and creative in themselves, they that the labor and material needed struggling industries wIl be relayed." - will' be spared the extremer forms of for the tunnel would increase prod uc- No Conservative voted aganst its sec•' psychological disability. For itis not . tive employment in this country." and 'reading, while seven Liberals on th sex education of children by • The resolution adds that "having re- - i voted for it. The British Government which reformers of the rbtionalisti '1 you to take over my section. Pin fix- and figure far to his right, a short, ing up grub for everybody" The sun 11 swarthy scarecrow with a ling knife: be up in a few mlnutes,'there Il be a between his teeth.' quick br•erfkfast after which eve em- "Rabat-Pilai! The creature passed bark on the second part of our pro -tout of sight and Dawson lay very still gram. Clay, your party—together, while all' around reigned a silence with a further platoon I'm sending that tugged at his nerve -strings. The you—will advance a couple of hun- sun beat mercilessly down on Iris and died -yards and take cover. Dawson, he Shifted his battered tepee back you'll want to go a bit farther—say over the nape of his neck, wondering three hundred. .Rabat -Pilaf will do with the and the same. At ecus . I'm tr. the two men sheer sappeared togetheernto open out with the fifteen pounder."the abyss. A runner trotted up the incline and As if at a given signal, the attack - halted before thein. , ?, ing force rose and. advanced at the The Tuan Pennington" double; but Dawson,a anxious only for The man with the Chinese eyes n y took the message from his.hand. the safety of Monica and his best Dawson, watching him curiously, friend, bldndered ahead of them into saw the color vanish from his cheeks. the shattered stronghold. He found He sat stock still, staring at the note Hewitt's sister, bruised but uninjured, as if unable to comprehend its mean• half bur'}ed in a heap of debris, Dear Mr. Dawson, she murmured iri""What is it?" oemanded Clay. incoherently. "I'm so glad you've Pennington started, turned up. I, was beginning to think "It's from Hewitt," he sae. "He all, my friends had deserted me."He hasn't been able to get away, but severed her bonds with his knife acid hopes to join us before it's till••over, she caught Ins sleeve between her Monica disappeared two days ago. numbed fingers. o "Tell me wheres She .was going to the Governor's Peterl Why isn't he here:?' . house at Sandakan—and didn't turn Dawson choked, a " It was •Pennington who saved u- iThat's Mrs. Nine—Pennin n's You," he stammered. "He—I'll find fiancee," explained Dawson. "This is out for you in a minute." terrible, Penn. You don't think Chai- He pt?shed a : ash clip into iris pis- Hun has had anything to do with tol and make her' take it, A . second this?" g later he was staring blankly into space. Pennington rose, to his feet, "I don'telcnow what to think" 'It's knocked me pretty hard." "What are you going to do?" "Garry -on," said Penningto:. with a touch of bitterness. * Dawson, flattened down against the rock, barely a hundred paces from the main objective, saw the seventh round senna a wall toppling drunkenly inward. "Goad man!" he murmured exult- antly, thee groped for his rifle. Four more rounds followed in quicker enc.- cession—and the 1).0, rubbed his fat hands together•. Chin-T3ung's lair was ci'ucrpling from ib very foundations Cr.e main well c,C enormous Mulder, stood alone belled n head of l gins tad he guessed that this remaining rampart sheltered all that we ; left of the bandit's followers. To all intents and purposes the day was won." And then, as he bruitigltt his gaze back to the.; wall, he saw a figure, standing very erect on its summit, a man of enormous proportions in a white drill tunic and baggy sills trou- sers. He did not need the assistance. of binoculars to reeognize'Chai-Hung' Within a matter of seconds, a sec- ond form had joined him, pushed from below by unseen hands, In a flash there dawned upon him the meaning of that manoeuvre of the early hours, the band that, had broken through carrying smelling slung ironic a' ,pixel, His 'senses reeled, Govern - Place next year. --Editorial .in Chris- • set education ot their parents.' mens n recentyears,"to t,ovaru- GObga THE LIMIT NOW "I think these girls are making a pretty fair showing. "Fair! Say, !C theynoado anymore of a showing, they'd get arrested." Mavis—t`Wltat s the, name of that new, lipstick you're 'using? Etiiel— 'It's right on my lips, but i can't re- tnenrber,' Bolivia and Paraguay , Washington Pest: War is not a con- trolable duel between two combat- ants. It is a fire that would consume a continent, if not stamped out. If an intrigue Is on foot, seeking to bring about war between Bolivia and Para - quay for ulterior ends, it is a cou- spracy against all Latin America and against the world, which, if perpetttt ated, could not fail to bring clown up- on its participants a succession of calamities now unforeseen and be- yond credence. Let the broken and' scattered remnant of recent empires in Europe give testimony to the retri- bution that follows deliherae war, A Dangerous Precedent Cleveland Plain Dealer: A New Ha- ven man is suing for divorce because hie wife 'snores, 'Petition should he refused. The precedent, under suff- rage, would give wives the right to sue on the swine grounds, and the in- stitution df marriage would be wiped out. No Concern of Tourists, Dayton; News: Canada produces 14,- 000,000 pounds' ofmilk annually, none melt "should take an early oppor- tunity of reviewing its attitude to. ward the tunnel." ' -- The ,resolution is being pushed by Sir Robert Horne and Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, for the Conservatives, Sir Robert Hamilton and Ernest Brown, for . the Liberals, and ,Col. Josiah Wedgewood and Ernest Thur- tle for Labor. There is general ex- pectation that the resolution will be passed. The changed circumstances mentioned relate t9 the Kellogg Pact outlawing -war, and the fact that "in- ternational fear," one of the chief ob- jections to the tunnel, Inas been large- ly outgrown. jam. �i°Jwv.i� Fly: that's all boloney about Ice cream coming in bricks. I've look- ed at over/ one or, these and can't find a bit, "Was your late wmistress -surprised itIost of the plungers soetn to think of which ie consumed by tourists from at your leaving?" "Oh, no num, She Wall is a one-way street. the United States. knew about it before. I slid." 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Workless Misers AI -40 Get: Many Gift Fror' FMt- iGh Roye1,17 ..-;1„ London,—Members of the Ilriticla Royal homily, not withstanding tin,' 26 slays of constant vigilanti yeeeerr for Icing George, have cher v s.' customary kindness and i n toward the poor and uneran'eyeei t' it ing the holiday time The Qu , t,. just presen'•e•1 a ?v in the church in Tristan do C'an + 1.• getiter with half a ton 01 nem r the King for inhebitants of tin+s ly island in the South Atlantic Td1ese gifts form but a small pert of the sustained effort the family is malting to bring Cht i t .:• cheer where it might otherwloe be •` sent. Princess Mary, for oxen has just written to the Lord M,r of ...Newcastle and Cardiff ce.vi. boots for the children as a putt •:. proof ot the sympathy she so feels for those in dist+•e-'.s in the ,•,.+ fields at the present. time" The. -Prince of Wales Ilea r •ir+ many donations of money. The D re?r- ass of York sent toys and wii.`•r clothing from her. little," daughter, Princess .Elizabeth, fqr the distre' ,,,3d miners' children of the Northumber- land and Durham coalfields,. These gifts are in addition to hundreds of boxes of clothing and boots for wives and children, also toys • Ser Christmas sentaby the Queen for those in distress. • • 1IOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. American Citizens Detroit Free Press: An American citizen is: an American citizen,. wltotit- er Ine was born in the United States or outside it. Only the 'right te t„ - come Presidentseparates the foreign - born , from the native-born. Other wise they are politically identical. Moon :Leopard. This water wrinkles under the moon's hand Like a Sulky leopard tamed reluct- antly. The great rocks at tiro shore are pa- tient beasts Leaning hard; clerk heads to lap up the sea; I hear"them dribble and suck at the spongy Woods, Anil I stretch out upon their knot ted' heads, Cold and gray and gaunt but I can- - not touch ' That trembling golden leopard the ' moo/Weeds. Friendship is 'seldd'm lasting -but between equals, or where the superb ority on ono side is r•etlncocl by some equivalent advantage on the other, -- Dr. Samuel Johnson, ISSU-E No, 52