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INSURANCE Fire, Automobile, Automobile Ae- -cident, Accident, Sickness, Burglary, .Plate Glass, Fidelity Bonds, 'Liabil- ity, etc. `Lowest Rates. M. G. RANSRORD, Phone 180W. Representing fifteen strong Canadian Companies. HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer .r Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. ' Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information ete. write or phone Harold Jackson, 12 on 658, Seaforth; R. R. 1, Brucefield, 06-012 PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL' ARRANGEMENT ME CLINTON !STEWS -RECORD. COPYRIGHT PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS GENERAL SIR WESTON MARRIS,MISS HILDDA MARRIS, sister of the CAPTAIN ALLEN RICIHARDS, the a highly -placed officer of the General, accompanying him to General's Aide -de -Camp, who is General Staff visiting New Zeal- New Zealand and giving Lorna engaged to Lorna, and on duty. such supervision as a high -spirit- T. H. HAWKSFORD,, chauffeur to ed girl will tolerate. the General's party. A New LORNA MARRIS, his pretty, luxury- Zealander, handeome in a rug- loving daughter. ged, arresting fashion," rr A MATTER FOR GUNS She didn't reply 'directly, only poine ted end: "You shouldn't have thought me .such a fool! You could have got a- way as soon as you knew I suspect- ed!„ "I don't know why in the world I have so much eompunetion about you!" And he took her by the arm again, and began drawing her hurriedly, up2 ward 'through . the trees, His voice. was bitter: "You'd as soon see me ill, the dock to -morrow, "' That the thought should hurt him was balm to the wounds he had in- flicted on her vanity. But fear 'began to outweight all other emotion as he pulled her after nine, further and further into the tangled gloom. Where was.he going? Why was he hurrying away? Would he a]lowher to go home to tell what she ]mew? The ground sloped less, they were on the summit of the hill; now the bush thinned, and she could see light ahead. "Where are we going?" she kept saying. "Where are you taking me? Let me go " And his only reply was, as he hur- ried her forcibly along: Don't let's stop to talk about it stow!" They came out of the bush into a big basin -like depression in the hills, with sloping sides all round, com- posed of grass and shingle and rock, with a few shrubs growng on then, the centre .filled with a deep tract of bush. GORDON. M. GRANT Licensed Auctioneer for Huron County. .Correspondence promptly answered. Every effort made to give ,satisfac- tion. Immediate arrangements can be made for sale dates at News -Record Office or writing Gordon 111. Grant, 'Goderich, Ont. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office .Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- 4orth; Vice i?resident, William Knox, • Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex. .Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, Wilton; James Connolly, Goderich; 'W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. 'Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, 'Bl-th; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, 11.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, 11. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer-. •cher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; J. F. :Preuter, Brodhagen; R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal8an , Clinton;n, Bank of 'Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin 'Cistt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties deeiriug to effect insur• ance or transact other business will 'bap romptly attended to on applies. Ion to any of the above officers ad. -dressed to their respective post offi cee. Losses inspected by the director alio lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN k ATIONAL '*.WAYS TIME TABLE Trains wiii arrive at abd depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderiek' Mv. Going East, depart 6.43 a.m Going East, depart R.00 p.m 'Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. 'doing West, depart 9.50 p.m, London. Rums !k Brae* `!Going North; ar 11.21, Ive. 11,47 am ming South ar. 2.60, leave 8.08 p.m. Lorna surmised that the track to Kaikoura by which they had come must be on top of the ridge on the far side, because it Was this valley they had looked down into when they first saw the ship. Hawksford was hurrying her down the open slope towards the bush and •she saw, with crawled forward. Suddenly—ping A bullett smashed into the trunk of a tree an inch from his shoulder, where he had made the leaves shake as he advanced. He dropped flat, then wormed his way rapidly back to her. "Let's get fuuthur in!" he said. And they crept in among the trees into the innermost thicket. There was a stagnant creek among the beeches, they crouched with their backs against the bank beside it, and listened. All was silent among the sun - flecked shadows except for the twit- ter and rustle of birds, A fantail with its pierouetting, dancing flight, hovered nearer and nearer to them in an ecstasy of curiosity. "I'll be a corpse, and no will you," he replied. " "If we don't get outof here!" Oh, what a fool she had been! She gasped aloud: "What a fool!" "I've been a fool, to get us into this jam! This is too good a chance for them to get rid of us. Shot in the back in these hills, mistaken out in the boat to that ship out there and dumped over -board in mid -ocean!" "But are you sure of what is hap- pening? There was no one down by the boat!" the said, "They 'were down there. While you were asking me questions I saw them —that is, I saw a chap standing on the edge of the shore. He ran into the bush again; they were all in there, I fancy, and he'd been left to 'watch. He was a little chaps a Jap, I think, and carrying a rifle, That's why I got away as quiekly as possible." "We must get back to Kaikoura im- mediately!" Lorna cried. "Isn't there a coastguard patrol, we could warn?" 'Yes; my dear, but We're trapped here! Once we move out of these trees we're on open ground in every direction, and we can be potted by anyone above!" Even her shame and remorse for the mistake she had made about him faded before the deperate realities faring them. Some other time, if there ever was another time for them, she must adjust herself to the truth, and her feelngs about hot! "Stay here!" he sad. And -he half rose and began to creep forward, so that he could see the rise of open ground to the ridge. "No, no!" whispered Lorna. "Be careful!" She was palpitating with fear every moment she expected to hear the bang of the rifle and see hint fall ainong the leaves. She crept after him. "Go backt" he said. She stopped where she was, and he sudden relief, that he seemed to be trying to cut across to the track, through there was a steep climb be- yond the bush on the other side of the valley. Suddenly there was a sound. A quick whine through the air just by Lorna's head—phew! Ahnost in the same instant the report •of a rifle, seeming to come from the ridge be- hind them, • shook the valley with a thousand reverberations, "Holy smoke!" Hawksford snatched her nearer to him instinctively, then caught hos hand and began to run, "The bush!" he cried, "Quick!" Bewildered, Lorna ran at his side for all she was worth, Phew! Bang! Lorna's hat sailed away. Breathless the two pelted through the last ten yards of shelterless scrub into the trees. They were well hidden among the shadows in the thicket wizen they stopped. He was still grasping her hand. "I didn't expect that!" lie said ter- sely. "They mean business, all right!" "It—it hit my hat!' gasped Lorna. "Yes, they're after you too. We know too much now!" He let go her hand, and took the automatic from his pocket, broke the uHAPTIthI Xi( "IF HE SHOULD GET ME—" Death hi the afternoon. Menace lurking in the primal peace of sun and shadow in the woods! "Will they come after us?" Lorna whispered. "If it's `they, they may try to sur- round us and hunt us out, But I think that was only ,one rifle potting us from the ridge; so if it's one ,snip- er alone he'll wait until we leave cov- er and try to make a dash for it. "Surely no Japanese would come breech and assured himself it was in ashore and do this?" Lorna said. order. , "What could they gain? It would' be "If I had a rifle!" he said. "This nothing more or less than a raid on thing is no good for this sort of New Zealand." work!" I Hawksford was silent a moment, "But who are they?" Lorna, breath- brows knitted and lip compressed, ed, staring, her dark eyes wild with "You're right, it's not logical!" he wonder in her pale face, "Are they said abruptly. "There's only one per - the people from the boat? You can't son after us, and he knows the game be the spy, ,then, or why are they is up unless he can prevent our get - shooting at you?" I ting away to tell the story. The boat "No, I'm not the spy. I've been paid will have gone for its life and left by the Intelligence to traek the spy--: him to get out of his own'. difficulty!' I asked Lorna ut. nohe?"a 1 and you've been hindering me to "Who ise , end, my dear!" gently. `She was so paralysed by -the dis- "The man who came with the ink covery,that he had to pull her down, formation for the Japs in the boat." beside him inta theshelter of a closer "You know who he is?" o. e thicket He smiled slightly as he But Hawksford seemed enviously peered anxiously, gun in. hand, to-` obstinate. wards the rays of light which mark "Hush --not so loud! Leave it-- ed t—ed the open ground from whichthey there'll ° be time for all that when had come, we're out of this•!" "My job as chauffleaur, gave me a She was too agitated to press .the good opportunity to keep my eyes point; and be rose and measured the open!" he told her. height of the bank behind' them, and She coauched there, staring at him the trees growing on top. his big hard body, his hard brown "From up there,I could see the rid - face, the eyes two points of blue light, ge. I wish this gun had a longer alert for danger. She forgot the per- range!" 11 which threatened, the mystery still "Don'tput' your head into the open unsolved. and have him shoot you!" "So you're not a spy?" she breath- "I'll be careful" ed. "You're not a thief?" They climbed the bank but could not see over the surrounding tree tops; a bough of a twisted broadleaf en - :shiest him to climb higher, 'but he had hardly put enough weight on it to shake the upper branches, When a bullet whacked trough the leaves a few feet to the left,' and the report of the rifle on the ridge rang out a- gain. Hawksford dropped down to her side again. "Oh, wait, wait—.—!" she implored him, "If we wait until it's dark we can cross to the top of the hill with- out being seen, and get away!" "We'll see! Come, We'd better shift; it won't do to let him be too sure where hYe are." She rose, and wth his gun ready, on the alert for anyone moving among the undergrowth, he led her a little way along the stream, and they found another place with their backs to a rock. Hawksford was grave, a heavy line between his brows. "Look here," he said. "If he should get me and you be left—!" •Lorna made a frightened movement of dissent. "'We don't say 'die' yet, but it's possible!" he continued, smiling so as not to scare her much. "It anything should happen take my gun, and get out of sight if you sari+, If you can't then you'll have to do the best for yourself and try to make a dash for Kaikourat"' As they crouched in the shadows against the rock Lorna looked rstt him, with her dark eyes very large in her white face. Strange—strange thing to confront the appaling possibility of the end of their world. in which they had hoped to live for many a long year, He looked back at her, and his face was suddenly grey as with a kind of pain: "I'II do every earthly thing I can to get you out of this!" lie said. "1 don't see why you should—after all that has happened!" burst from her lips. "Why? 'Because, mug that I am, you're everything to me! You got me going the first instant I set eyes on you. Might as well tell the truth; we may never get out of here. For all the good it may do me, you can know itt" She sat, gazing back, transfixed, in silence. "I said some awful things to you this afternoon," he went en, "Some were true perhaps, In a. way. But you managed to hurt ole like the deuce. with some of the things you did! You •can't help it, it's just the way you were brought up . . . But one wants to get one's own back; even for things that ,can't be helped!" He glanced at her ruefully as she gazed at him, breathless with the tumult of her thoughts. "This is a nice way to be talking to you in your last hour!" he added, with a kind of effort, suddenly rising from the shelter of the bank. "But at a time like this one sees things plain; one \vents to say what wild horses wouldn't drag from one ordin= ai.`ily. I'll see if I can see that bligh- ter through this wayt" Turning a shamed face from her, he plunged away up the slope from the stream towards the further mar- gin of the bush. She ran after him instantly. "Oh, be careful! Be careful!" , "I am being careful, but we've got to do something to get .out of here, and I do nothing but waste time." She put her hands on his arm; there were tears running clown her cheeks, "Don't be frightened!" She drew herself up, shook her head with a movement of pride, "it isn't that I'm frightened. 1 just —don't want yoti to be killed." "Don't you?" o his a ild question in l There was w eyes. She swayed a little, and he put his hands en her shoulders to steady her; her head went down, and the red.. curls were brushing his coat as she spoke. "I couldn't bear it!' After what You- 've said. I know now, too, that I-1" Her 'voice. failed. • "You what?" His grip tightened painfully on her shoulders. "I love you!" He slipped ,his arms round her, while she clung to him, and they stood there for a moment, in the still- ! ness of the wood, with its whisper orf THE HA1.-T1:1N liN U45'' UN CLINTON EARLY IN 1111i; t.'NTURY Some Notes of The News in 1916 ( FROM, THE NEWS -RECORD ' JANUARY 31, 1901 The citizens were shocked yester- day afternoon to learn of the death of Mr. John Morrish, who passed a- way about two 'clock after an illness of only a week's duration. Pneumonia was the cause of death. Deceased was a native of Devonshire, Ehgleard; where he was born sixty-four years ago. Mr. Jas. McCool has sold his livery to Mr. J. W. Elliott who took posses- sion on Tuesday, Mrs. J. G. Seale, who was former- ly in partnership wth Mr. J. B. Hoov- er has taken in Mr. E. Bice of Oland eboye as partner. They have bought the house and lot now oeepuied by Dr. Wilkie and adjoining Mr. Seal's own place ;and intend starting at ones to convert it into a marble shop. Mr. F. G. Burgess, who has been in business here as photographer for the past year, has sold out and after spending a few days at his home in Mitchell will leave for Winnipeg where he has bought an established business, a studio itt which he was formerly engaged. His successor here is Norman B. Henry of Brantford where he has been in partnership with Mr. Walker, one of the best known artists in Western Ontario. Mr. J. B. Hoover of Clinton Marble and Granite Works made sales last week amounting to $1,180 which is the largest for one week in the his - tory of the business: The funeral of the late Mrs. Eliz- aheth Theobald, relict of George B. Theobald, took place to Clinton cem- etery yesterdify afternoon on the ar- rival of the one o'clock train. Mn and Mrs. Theobald kept hotel here many years ago and subsequently lived in Teeswater. Mr. Theobald died .some years since. Miss Lane, who has been assistant in Mr. Burgess's studio for some months past, leaves this week for her home in St. Marys and later will go to ;Winnipeg where a good situat- ion awaits her. leaves and flies dancing in the broke en sunrays. "Isn't it just the situation.?" Hawk- sford asked, hoarsely, "Isn't it just that you found out I'm not so bad as you thought—and you're carried a- way?" "I've never felt about anyone as I felt about yott from -the very first!" She raised her head. "But I wouldn't admit it! And then I thought you were a thief, and everything was dis- torted!" "Lorna! And 1 thought you hated toe!" "I thought you knew I was too much attracted to you!" "Perhaps I did, too! But 1 thought with your other,cynical, proud little self you despised me for a backwoods- man." He held her closer, then let her go,; "I thought you were laughing at me." and they stood for a helpless, half -embarrassed instant, dazed by the new discovered glory in their lives. Then fear rushed in quickly like a darkening shadow, terror of losing what they had just found. He gripped her wrist, "If we ever get out of this, will you marry me?" She nodded, "Lorna! Do you mean that?" "Yes. But I've just remembered." A. little groan of misery broke from her lips, "I arranged to marry Allen this morning! Oh what a beast, I amt I'm' as bad, every bit as bad as you said. But he doesn't feel as we feel, and if I love you I couldn't—could I? I didn't know love was like this." "So you don't tmderstand?" Hawk- sford said. There was compassion iu his face. "You're still in the dark?" "In the dark about what?" But Hawksford had lifted his head. He was looking away to the left at the shadows of the thicket listening intently, She whispered breathlessly. "What is it?" "Someone is moving through there!" They listened, and she ,could hear her heart hammering heavily in the ghastly. quiet.; "Come :along down here!' He pulled her hastily down the slope towards the protecting bank ,off the stream. The lnoveinent was only. just in time. A bullet whined through the -air where Hawks -ford's head had been an instant before, and the re- port of the rifle hidden among the trees blew the silence into ten thous- and echoing fragments. (CONTINUED NKItT WEEK) Miss Minnie Rumball left on Fri- day last to- spend some weeks with her sister, Mrs. (Dr.) Callander of Parkersburg,' West Virg -ria, Dr. Callander. recently had an unpleasant experience., While examining, a•horse it bit him. It appears that the animal had been bit by a mad dog, which was not known at the time, and sub- sequent to being examined by the Dr. developed hydrophobia and died, Dr. Callander at once left for the Pas- eur Institute at Chicago where he is undergoing treatment,. Mr. J. Balfour, who many years ago was a member of Collegiate Insitute staff, was in town on Tuesday in company with his brother who repres- ents a Toronto manufacturing con- cern. Since Mr. Baifor left the Hub it has much, improved and he consid- ers it a much better lookng town than when he was a resident. 'THURS., JAN. 23, 1941 resident of Toronto for some time, - has made good and received deserved promotion, Mr, Geo. Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Cook of Clinton, who has been in the linen department of the Robt. Smpson store, has been "ad' vanced to the position of buyer for this department. Three new recruits for the "Hur- ons" this week are J. M. Mugford, T. Fremlitn and, E. Shell. A oorrepondent reminds us of the fact that Mrs. Sarah Josephe Hale, editor of "G'edey's' Baby's Book" and author of the poem, "Mary had a little lamb," was mother of the late Hor- atio Hale, ethnologist, who was for many years a resident of Clinton,. Ontario, where two of his sons still rove. Horatio Hale 1817 -96 who died in Clinton, graduated from Harvard in 1837, and the next year was all - pointed philologist to the Government exploring expedition under Captain Wilkes„ and wars thus enabled to study the languages of the Pacific Islands, North and South America, Australia and Africa. The results of his observations were published n "Ethnography and Phioly" (1846.) He was afterwards admitted to the Chicago Bar, and re- moving to Canada in 1855 practised! law in Clinton. His other works are; "Indian Migrations as Evidenced in Languages" (1883) "The I'oquis Book of Rites" (1883) "A Report on Blackfoot Tribes" (1885. He was classed among the faintest philolog- ists of his time, and was a member of varioussocieties in America and Europe. For many years one of the classes in Willis Church, consisted of five boys, Earl O'Neil, Stewart Scott, Ed. MacDonald, Byard Hill and George McTaggart. Today everyone of these boys is in khaki, Has any other class in Huron County such a record? FROM THE NEW ERA JANUARY 25TH, 1901 It was singular that the new flag just purchased should be hoisted at half mast for its debut to Clinton as a signal of mourning for'tbe death of our beloved Queen Victoria, who pass- ed 'nWay at Osborne Castle, Cowes, England, on Tuesday, January 22, 1901 at 6.45 p.ni, Our country's flag displayed on high, We hail it with a cheer; But today we greet it with a sigh Spread o'er our loved Queen's bier, The "old tattered rag" which had seen service and floated for many a year since it was ji'resented to the town by Wtn. Ransfortl, now of New York, will neer more be seen. Hodgens Bros, the well-known and popular dry goods men of town, have bought the stock of Janes Robinson at Goderich, and took possession of the same on Monday. Alex. Macpherson, of the Canada Rubber Co., Toronto, was the guest D. L. Macpherson on Wednesday. A. McKay, Hamilton, Inspector. of Customs, was here this week in his rounds and found sub -collector J. Wiseman's books in first class order, Mr, McKay is an ex. M. P, having represented Hamilton years ago. W. Cantelon, drug clerk, is home having finished his apprenticeship, He intends to go to Pharmacy college next terns. We learn of a very sudden death of Mrs Patterson, wife of D. Patterson dentist of Luel,-now, and sister of Mrs. John Tedford of town. The local hockey team defeated the SVinngham club before a large crowd• at tate rink last Thursday night by a score of 7 goals to 6. The Portage La Prairie News Last week gave an account of the death of Edward Holmes Snell, formerly of Clinton and in his 50th year. FROM THE NEWS -RECORD JANUARY 27TH, 1916 • Clinton's oldest resident itt point of years and with one or two exceptions, also in point of residence, passed a- way Saturday evening in -the person • .of Mary McTaggart, widow ;of .the . f, late William Murray, who, had she lived until March fourth would have completed her ninety-fourth birth- day, Mrs, Murray was born in Arg- yleshire, Scotland, but came to. Can- ada with her parents when but a child. The officers and men of the 161st, (Huron) Battalion stationed at Clin- ton, accompanied 'by the band, went to Goderich on Saturday afternoon to attend a memorial service in St. George's church in honor of Major Sale, news of his death in France; due to wounds received in battle, was re- ceived on • Wednesday. Major Sale, who was promoted from the rank of Captain to that of Major on the field, was a highly esteemed citizen of God- erich. He leaves a wife and two small children, Miss Bessie Walker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Walker of Brantford was quietly married on Thursday last to Mr. James Essen of that e]ty. The inaugural meeting of the Public School Board was held last weelc when in addition to talking over plans for 1916 and re-appointng Rev. Dr. Rut- ledge as representative •on the Col- legiate Board and Walter Manning to the Public Library, officers were ap- pointed as follows: Chairman, Dr. J. S. Evans, See -Treasurer, H. E. Rorke; Chairman Finance, W. H. Hellyar, Chairman Property, S. Kemp. Messrs. •J. Wiseman, .J. Cuning- hame and W. Jackson attended' the funeral of the late M. Y. McLean of Seaforth, on Monday. When The Present Century Was Young FIUtM THE NEW ERA JANUARY 27TH, 1916 Mr. Charles Smith, editor of a Port Arthur paper, who has been selected as Liberal candidate for the Federal House, is an old Clintonian, having carried on what was known, as a stook exchange. 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