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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-03-28, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD OF THE SPACIOUS ROMANTIC. WEST // li *it .-, • Principal Characters: !KEITH MARLOW Of the Canadian Mounted Police, re wetly joined from Britain. COLIN ANSON .......... Marlow's cousin, who had gone out t o Canada some years earlier than CHET. ERASER Keith. Friend of Keith, he later joins the Mounted Police. IeAUL MARRABLE An unsavoury character, suspected o f traffioking in drugs and drink with the Canadian Indians. (GRAM ARDEN Lives with her father in a remote re art of the mountains. DUNCAN MacLAINE Keith Marlow's fellow trooper. CHAPTER XXIV REINFORCEMENTS Pale da-wn, light was greying the one window of the cabin as Keith roue - ed. He war up instantly. A glance across the cabin. showed Traynor ap- eearently asleep. Bbefore rousing him Keith pulled on ,his hoots and went .out. 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RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial. Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing. 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. tearrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Shccessor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan' Bloat — Clintnn. Ont. D. II. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doom west of Royal Bank) .Hours—Wed, and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION ti( manipulation Sun -Ray Treatmeat Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT 11,4censea Auctioneer for the County of Huron .Corresponderme promptly answered Enunediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, eikitbn, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Tire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: !Pvesident, Thomas Moylan, Sea- iforth; Vico ?resident, William Knox, Seondesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M A. Reid, Seaforth. Dieectors, Alex. i3roadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, Walton; James Connolly, Godepich: W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Claris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, Blth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; 0ames Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, 113rucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer- •'cher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. !Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, !Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth. or at Calvin • Obtt's Grocery, Goderich. •iParties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will ebe promptly attended to on applka- eion to any .of the above officers ad- ediessed to their respective post Mil- -sem Lessee inspected by the director «who liVes nearest the scene. lopt AM:WAYs Edith went beck released Traynor and ,ordered hint to get breakfast. While the man did so Keith put ap a package of food ready for his jour- ney down stream. He carried this outside, picked up the canoe and put it in the water, tying it firmly under the lee of a prejecting sitar of rock. He then took the two blankets from the bunk ha beamed and from a nail on the wall the slickerbelonging to the dead man. These he made into a bundle and carried outside. He also put the rifle in the canoe and the cartridges in his pocket. Traynoe seemed to be having difficulty with the fire •and, when Keith bade him hurry, complained that tlie wood was wet. Keith,' impatient to get away, Ordered him aside and soon had the stove glowing. Happening to turn, -he saw the man looking et him with just the Came veer,gloating expres- sion as on the previous evening. Keith's nerves, already' badly sthain- ed, cracked. He whirled on Traynor. "Curse you! What are you thinking of? What dirty plot's in. your mind?" he demanded. Traynor shrank away. "I don't know what you're talking about," he whined. Yet as he spoke Keith saw his glance wander towards the door. Keith sprang past him and flung open the door, Then he saw what Traynor had already seen through the windor — a big canoe, with a. crow of forte, flashing down the centre of The Slit, Almost before he had the details his eyes Keith felt a shock from b hind. Traynor had sprung upon him and was 'laying to get him down. Once more the drill learned in bar- racks stood Keith in good stead. He, ducked at the same time reaching out backwards, and grasping the treach- erous brute around the body. Then with a heave Keith flung him for- ward and Troynor's head struck the rocky ground with stunning force. Without a moment's pause Keith sprang across to the canoe. He still had time to get clear though wheth- er, single-handed, could win the race that must follow seemed mare than doubtful. He Meted the bundle of food to fling it into the canoe then stop- ped as if frozen, The canoe was half full, She was leaking like a sieve. 4111•11111d111111•11. enemies could mend their canoe so for the present he Was safe. That much Was on the credit side. The debit was less pleasing. He had no food, no blankets, no canoe, no hope of help. In feet he was in almost the sante position as an the previous afternaen the only difference being that he was now on the -far' aide of The Slit. Here out of the. wind and on. the sunny side of the great boulder he was warm .enough, but there had .been frost last night; there would be frost again the next 'night. Yon must have food and warmth in the North. If you don't you die. • Keith didsnot want to die. What he wanted was to live. long enough to. arrest Marrablo to whoin, fairly or unfairly, he. attributed all his mie- fottunes. Once more he remembered what Tuzu had told Min. of the Valley of No Echo. It was somewhere up river beyond him. He. did not know Whether it was Possible to mach it afoot. He thought it highly unlikely-. Still to reach it was his only hope so he picked himself up and started.. That was the beginning of the worst day Keith had ever known. The country he had to cross was rough beyond description. Sometimes he had to crawl on hands and knees on steep, slippery slopes; again he would have ta go half a mile back from the elver in order to round the end of some impassable ravine. Always he cent a sharp look out for game of any kind, but all he saw was one Tab - n bit which bolted before he could get e - Keith dropped the bundle, grasped the canoe, pulled it up by maia force and emptied it By this time tlie canoe eserying Marrable's men was less than two hundred yards away, and Keith realized that the flight down the river, which he had contemplated was out of the question. Withou waiting to stow his bundle of food h launched. the canoe again, stepped i and, with powerfal strokes drove i across the narrow river to the op posite bank. Yells rose above the dull thunde of the racing stream, a shot make out but the bullet whistled high over head, before his pursueth could react the landing Keith was ashore. Snatch ing up the rifle he ran hard for th shelter of the nearest rocks wher he flung himself down and proceeded to thrust cartridges into the mag azine. Peeping over the rim .of .th rock vhih protected him he saw the canoe chive in behind the opposite spur. He fired not at the men bu at the canoe and saw two I:4111as crash through the hull, sending splinters flying. ON TO THE VALLEY Her crew who clearly gave Keith no credit for missing them, heeled themselves ashore and bolted for the shack. Keith took advantage of their leanic to plunge into a deep crevasse where he was out of sight from the window of the shack. Once within( its recesses he climbed fast and saw with relief that he could gain the tap of the cliff without risk of being shot. Reaching the top he stepped nimbly ver the edge and lay flat. He smiled Amity to see that the crew of the nee were all under shelters As for e canoe itself, it had sunk. More t of sheer devilment than anything se Keith put a rifle bullet into the or of the shack. He thought he ard. a yell but could not be sure. le whole canyon was filled with the ar af water. He moved back a tle, found a hiding place behited a uldei and took stock of his position. He had got away, unhurt, he had ode pursuit • impossible until his a shot at it. Just before dark he found a small cave in a hill side. He crawled into it. Any ecvee was better than none, especially as it was raining again. The entrance was low, bat ieside there was a little more head room. Something crackled under his boot soles. He lit a match and found that ho had stepped upon the leg bone of a human skeleton. A shudder tan through him, for the sight seemed ominous of the fate which, within an, other few hourn must be his. CHAPTER XXV ROUSED BY A STRANGER Keith went right into the cave, lit another match, cleared away the loose stenos, lay down- on the bare rock, and ahnost at once fell asleep. It was cold that woke him. Having had no food for more than 24 hours, there was no fuel in his bcdy to keep warmth in him, and outside it was freezing. He got up and beat his t arms against his chest in an effort e to get the blood flowing again, but • sleep was out of the question and the rest of the long night was a misery I, of. cold and hunger. At earliest dawn he crawled out and set forth ()ace more up the rim d of these mikes cliffs. Exercise re, stored a little warmth to his starved I frame, but hunger became an agony. He came to a rock pool end drank but e the icy water brought on a terrible O attack of cramp.hour Hour after ho 'he moved onwards, math that he was getting steadily weeker. He was O fairly certain that the next night would me his finish unless he could find food and fire. t I An hour before midday he came to another tributary entering. Lost Rivet. '. from the East. But this canyon was much wider than The Slit and the stream Which flowed at the bottom was bordered with grass. A. few small bushes grew on the flat. It was not difficult to get down into the valley, ' yet the descent took almost the last of Keith% energy, and when he roach - ed the bottom he dropped on a rack and sat panting for breath. He saw that, if he was to go further lee would have to cross the river. It was not deep and it looked as if he could wade it but the thought of •strug- gling through that icy stream • was terrifying to a man in hie condition. Something moved on the edge .of one of the clumps of bush. A snow- shoe rabbit looped out and, not see- ing Keith, began to nibble the short turf. Hardly daring to breathe, Keith raised his rifle. ' His hands shook, but with a desperate effort of will he steadied them and pulled the trig- ger. He fairly yelled with joy when 'the talent, shot through the body, rolled over and lay 'still Food—food and fire, for there were dead sticks among the bushes. Keith g ea th TIME TABLE ou ''rains will arrive at and depart from el • Clinton as follows: do Buffalo and Goderieb Div- I he -Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. al Going Past, depart RAW p.m. ,,„ Going West, depart.11.45 a.m. '- lit (Going West, depart 9.50 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce 00 Going North, ar 11.21, lve. 11.47 a.m. Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m, Ill THURS., MARCH 28, 1940 •=0/10//6,...SENNIMOINM•Reya•OWNWOMIadikr/01.-1•Matitlitaiaiii.../410•6•001 ..S•011Ikl•••••1 Ap.pedwv.v.v.v.......,ww.w.......w....w.v.w..........wedwee,. 1 Read - And Write - For You 74. (Connie:4Q • e By John C. Kirkwood Ito ,PweleenseseVenseesenseesesesenNeeteeseWeWesesesesesefeeenenensesnenSesenenseeeePen Invenbioes Can be of two deserip- Sloan is head of General Motors) tone - originative and intensive. Or- grants money to; anothoe association igivative invention creates new in, for the procluctin of timely pamphlets. dusteies - such as the making of One of the most recent of such motor oars, ladle sets(, plastic prod- pamphlets deal e with the pros and vets. Intensive invention enables jobs eons Of chain stares, already being clone to be done more Teachers are becoining "pamphlet expeditiously or more cheaply. 'Or- emescious"; a&i so, too are sted.ents, iginative invention increases employ- It can be confidently predicted that ment; intensive invention may reduce in Canada our schools and colleges employment - ",teehnological unenn Willninereesing., depend on pamohlats, ployment" - 1 the term used, signify- ilewe'papers and magazines to saute- ing the displacement of workers bit Slant the reguldr classroom text machines able to do required work with a minimum of human ta/eonn. • Many stones have been fired at machines which displace human, be- ings from their accustomed employ- ment, yet it has been authoritatively said that no economist now believes that technological progress is the basic cense of uneraploymeet, nor be- lieves that new industries must be developed to absorb idle workers and the hundreds of thousands of 'young men and women Who enter the labour market every year. I cannot, of course, in this con- tribution to the News -Record; give the caosidered views of economists on this subject of technological une employment. I just pass on to thoughful persons this view: too much reliance may be placed on science and invention, to relieve "technological unemployment", and too. little thought given to a consideration of economic essentials. • Owing to the -enoieneusly rapid changes taking glace today in - the I erica - probably because wool has an wide; wide world - changes in sociallinereasing number of competitors, in - science, in the history and govern- eluding glass! Woal has .at least two lives. There is "virgin" wool, and "remade" wool. .In regard to "remade" wool, there are rag mills in Canada that can reclaim more wool ina year than 200,000 Australian sheep can produce. Do not despise remade wool. You can buy a suit of clothes today for $25 which would cost $40 or more if made from cloth of virgin wool. There is not enough virgin wool produced an- nually to meet the peacetime require- ments of industry, and in these pres- ent war times, the need for wool is immensely greater than it is in peace times, Ten million soldiers wear 300 million of wool - to say nothing iboat the blankets they need. If youi were asked to jot down what you know about wool, how large a sheet of paper would you require? And would you say these things about wool: —It' is a 'natural body covering, healthful and comfortable. —It is thermostatic - protects from both heat and cold. —It is absorbent and porous - allows the skin to breathe; no damp or sticky feeling. —It is fire -Insistent. Cigarette burns will not flame up and spread. —It is elastic Elul resilient - holds its shape. Wrinkles ,"hang out." —It is strong and durable. Wool fibre and gold wire, same thielmess, will support the same weight. —It is light and soft. Wool is an exceptionally light fibre. Fine wool is soft as down. These facts about .wool are con- tained in an advertisement published by. The Woolen Corporation of Am- ment of countries, and in political systems and ideals - the text books of yesterday may he obsolete today. Quite obviously up-to-date text books are an economic impossibility, and so. reliance is being placed, on pamphlets, bulletins, newspapers and current magazines by teachers and student % alike. Not a few schools are making newspapers "required reading." LI line with this situation are such publications as the Oxford Pamphlets, selling at 10 cents, and the "Head- line Books" of the Foreign Policy AssoCiation of the United States. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Mr. made a little pile of them, scraped one into shaving with 'his knife, and in a minute a fire was burning, By the Male he had skinned the rabbit and cut it up a blaze was rising briskly. Keith stick a hied leg on a pointed stick and held it over the Lire, The smell of its roasting made his mouth water and, waiting only until the outside was slightly charred, he started at it. No bread, no salt, but that did not matter. With every mouthful he felt strength coming back into him. The second leg he cooked thoroughly. He tate half the rabbit, the rest he wrap- ped carefully in hs handkerchief, then leaning( back against his boulder fill- ed and lit his pipe. . The elm shone brightly, there was no wind down in this valley and for the first thee in many hours Keith was warm and comfortable. Small blame to hint that he fell asleep. Waking with a start, he SW by the sun that he had slept for two hams. He did not grudge it for the rest had done him good and now he felt able to tackle the crossing of the Stream. Hs found a spat where it was no more than knee deep, leached the far bank and began to climb the opposite oIiff, At the top he stopped and looked bade at the little green cleft. He hated to leave, it, yet knew thet he must do so. His one hope wee this Valley of No Echo and its mysterious inhabitant. The heights .abone Lost River seem ed bleaker then before, but the go- ing was not quite so difficult. To- wards dusk he came to a spot where a great landslide had fallen many years ago and left a sort of giants' staircase leading down to the river. At the bottom Keith saw a quantity of driftwood' •which had been left here by scone uniaseally high flood. The sight rejoiced him for it meant ire and warmth for the night. Also. t proved that there must be growing imber somewhem up, stream. He climbed down. There was plenty of wood; the trouble was to find a fibat space On which to build a fire. e got this, at last and made up is laze such as he had net seen for maw days; then, as the evening wind lew cold down the gorge he set to work to build a wall of loose stones, ebbed what he could Mt in eome sort comfort. 11 was nearly dark by se time he had finished', but he had rade himself a good shelter and, with e fire in front and plenty of fuel, It sure that he would not free.se on the previous night.He roasted e rest of his rabbit, ate it slowly, =keel one pipe then built up the re again and lay back drowsily. He .was almost aeleep when roused a eight grating sound. He sat sharply and saw' a man standing er him, holding a gun pointed aight at his body. f ti 155 th fe as Isis fi by up ov sti When British and European univer- sities 'were' very new - say 700 or so years ago - their founders and their professors never, never dreamed that, in, the course of the centuries, sport would outshine the classics in pop- ularity - baseball, football, tennis, athletics, by way of example. Now they are going to teach university students how to play golf - teaels mark you not merely play the game. At one University on this continent the teaching staff of the Professional Golfers Association will hold a 2 -day golf clinic, and it is expected that this short course will develop ta one at 4 to 6 weeks duration. Subjects of instruction will be 'Tips on Teach- ing from the Psychologist", "Begin- ning Techniques", "Golce Fundament- als",and so on. But the teaching will not be one-sided, the gold profession- als are likewise to get instruction from the university - on psychology, inarketing, and other subjects consid- ered to be of value to professional gouers. The junk represented by the sub- merged German battleship, Graf Spee, was sold for $4000 - which looks like a bargain. New York City held recently an examination for jobs in its Depart- ment af Sanitation. This coming autumn there will be 2500 vacancies reqetiring to be filled. The commenc- ing pay is $1860 per annum. The number of persons registering for the examination was 85,000. Of this number 75,000 were permitted to. take the examination. The tests in - eluded ability to follow directions and a literacy test; also a physical fit- ness test - for endurance, agility, strength, and coordination. The writ- ten examination was in relation to 100 questiorts, and it was required to get a grade of 75% minimum. Think of itl 75,000 candidates and only 2500 posts to be filled! Australia's population has reached 7,000,000 - an increase' of 1,000,000 he the past 15 years. The .expected population in 1953 is 8,000,000 - or about 1% increase per annum on the present population. What do freshman women - average age 17-18 - want to do after their graduation from college? . Here are the occupations favoured, as ascer- tained from a quiz of 900 woman at- tending one university; one.third said. 'teaching"; others said they wanted to be airline hostesses, pathologists, weather forecasters, 'members of a symphony orchestra, foreign service attaches, vocational guidanee experts, morticians, police investigators. MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE BIRDS • By John Hartley TIIE PURPLE MARTIN ' 1, This bird sings best in the twin- ing and evening. Its notes are Sweet and liquid. It exhibits a ewift, and, graceful flight. It flies with it mouth wide open and ita sticky saliva • captures countlass inseptat rt ap- pears to prefer mosquitoes. It spends the winter in Central America, The Purple Martin is the only bird that prefera to live in- an Apartment Hoiese. They appear to be very fond of Clinton Main street. A flock of them ereake their home around' the Normandie House, another flock at M. W. D. Fair's Book Store where MT. Pair has put out a large Martin House foe them, which accOmmodatee several families. A third flock have their home near the Office of the News -Record. To make a Martin Apartment House for four families 'of birds., cut 7 boards: (a) 3 of them each 7 in. wide, 13 in. long on (each edge and 15 ins long in the centre; (the 2 slopes on each of these 3 boards are for the roof). (b) 4 of them 15 in. long and 6 in. wicl'e. Place the 2, boards described in (a) resting on their 13 in, edges with their points all toward one direction and their 7 in. edges toward the 'opposite direc- tion; have the :first and. second 6 in, apart and the second and third 6 in. apart. Place one of the board described in (b) on these three boards. so that one .of the 15 in. edges is iii line with the '7 in. edges of the three boaeds. Us- ing 2 -inch finishing nails nail this board to the three boards. Turn these four boards upside, down and nail an- other 15 in. board opposite the first one. Set this part of the house up with the points uperards. Nail shingles, cut to the proper eize, on for ceilings of these tem apartments. Turn the house on its side again end nail another 15 in. by 6 in. board on for one side of the upstairs. Torn the house upside down. and nail the fourth board 15 in. by 0 in. on for the other side of the upstaies. Shingle the roof. Gut two boards each 19 long' and Gil in. wide. Nail these two boards on for the floor of the house having them project 2 in. all around. Nail the house up securely on the top of a post about 12 feet high. Use props a foot or mare Tong and nailed both to the side of the post and underneath the floor of the house. Paint the house green trimmed with white. Put the house up about April 1st. (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) 4.(eNe -a BUSINESS PEOPLE TEACHERS STUN T8 No matter what your need for a portable typewriter may be you will want to get the most for every dollar you invest in personal writing machine. , Considered front every angle, your choice should be one of the new UNDERWOOD TYPEMASTER PORTABLES. et, rived Pay for your Underwood Portable on conveideatterms adjusted to your budget. • FOR PARTICULARS INQUIRE AT nheClilltoll News- - PHONE 4 — • 600