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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-06-09, Page 2WAGE 2 AMOMMINV THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD °Hills Of Destiny" y Agues Louise Provost Synopsis Lee Hollister, returning unexpeet- ."dly from a tri» abroad to. the Circle -V ranch, his home from childhood, is troubled to see signs of neglect. He is upset, too, when he meets S'.anty !'Cana, a trouble maker, whom Matt Blair, Lee's foster father and owner •of the ranch, had run off the land in :day gone by. Slanty is now manager 'for the old Ceballos place, but Lee ,does not trust him. Joey, prospector befriended by Matt, explains Matt. 'is dead bjr his own, hand, and that the. 'ranch is going to ruin under a new -manager named Lawlor, appointed by -Virginia, Matt's daughter. Virginia is living in New Yoxk with her aunt and ^uncle. Lee goes east to get her. VI 'Downstairs Lee looked critically around the room into whieh the maid ' had reluctantly shown. him. 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A' IAN l :.''NWAYS TIME TABLE drains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going - East, depart 7.03 a.m, Going East, depart 8.00 pan Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, -depart 10.00 p.m. London, Huron az Bruce Going North, ar. 11.25 Ivo. 11.47 p.m. Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. been, ,intermittently during her fin- Inc going back to find the answer, fishing school years and steadily for if you won't. Good-bye." the hast two. If he had come pre- .He turned with a brief' nod, not pared to disapprove, he hal seen noth- even waiting' for a reply, and went ing yet to change his views ... Not out. at home! Silly stuff. He was certain As the outer door closed after him that .she was and he meant to stay he paused with a deep, releasing until he saw her. He stationed him- breath and a frown for' his own hot- se]£ 'ata window looping out on the headedness. semicircular drive. A car flashed into the drive. It "Malting sure that I don't run drew up so close that it nearly grazed away?"' him,.. and a 'young man steped out. He swung- around quickly. "I wasn't He was about medium height •and talcing chances," he ,drawled, but the slim, with quick -glancing dark. eyes smile that had disarmed Anna flick- and an easy, bohrelesss grace that ed out as he stiffened to' attention. reminded Lee of a trick dancer. .The Outlined against the dull hangings he new -comer looked with casual inter saw a slim and lovely figure, a giri est at the man, who had just cone with hair of burnished 'copper, dark- out, at the straight figure, the ready - lashed eyes of clearest grey and a made suit, the bronzed face=weath- vivid mouth. ered bronze, not sunbath tan—small She met' him with both hands -out, things that stamped him as an out - as itn»ulsively' as she Would have lander and an alien here. Lee re done in, the days when she had been turned the glance with a brief stare. a flying imp of mischief and he the Unconsciously, involuntarily, it was youngest member; of the Circle V out - a measuring glance on both pities. fit. • Each 'would know the other again. "I had just come in," she explained, In her own room Virginia hurled confidentially, "andI told Anna that from her the dress that she had chos- I wouldn't see anybody. But that to so carefully. Lse had been brutal, didn't mean my old friends." Her abominable! How dared he .say that mouth dropped suddenly. "Oh, Lee, she was not loyal 'to her father's I hav:n't soon you s:nee—since it hap memory? It was only because that pened. Isn't it ghastly!" big, tender presence was gone that "I didn't know anything about it, 'she could not face going back. She or I'd have cane before this. I gat had a right to snake her own decis- back only a few days ago. Joey told ions, me the news and I started east that A shirker ...The land Matt had night. I've come to take you home labored and fought for—bad died for. Virginia." !The words spun around in her head, "Oh, no!" She looked faintly start- around and around, endlessly per- lad and drew back. "Not that, Lee.'sxstent. Virginia shivered and press- Not any more.' led, her body close against the big "Why not?" he asked bluntly. "It's chair. Why couldn't she stop think - your hone, and it's going to pieces'{ ing of that? 1 Over in strange hands. It needs you." there was the bell that would "It doesn't itteecl me!" Sheshook bring Marie, the maid that he and her ,head vehemently. "It needs fath-'her aunt shared between then. Marie er, and he's gone. What do I know! would pack for her swiftly, if she of ranches and cattle?" [really decided to go. But Lee was wrong; she knew he was wrong. She "You'll learn, and you'll have' jumped with an angry shake of her friends to help you. I can tell you shoulders and fairly ran toward the, some things about the Circle V ranch bell. right now. I don't think you can Her thumb came clown on it with possibly know about them, or you'd impatient vigor. By the thne a light never let them go of tap came, almost' on the heels of her There was a shade of annoyance in ringing, Virginia was already in ne- the lift of Virginia's delicate brows,` tion in the other side of`the room. but it vanished quickly. I ' "Marie, S want you to hack these" "You're just the same, Lee, aren't i She looked up from a reckless hurl - you? All right, let's sit down and'litg of silken garments. It was not get it over.. What am I to be scolded, Marie but Anna who stood in the about?" !door. The 'light tone warned him that "Mr. Stanley Bradish is below; Virginia didn't mean to be scolded Miss Virginia. He says if you are at all, and he grinned back at her. ready he'll take you out to the yacht Virginia hadn't changed much. She now." meant to listen politely and then do Virginia remembered Stanley want - exactly as site pleased. The lines ed her to go' out to the yacht with about his mouth tightened; he lean- him before the other guests arrived. ed forward and began to tell her of, "Oh!, Tell hint I'ni sorry, but I the conditions that he had found at can't go." I 'hi the Circle V. I Mrs. Archer was coining down the "I know it needs your father," he hall. She interposed quickly. Mrs. finished, "but Matt is gone, and It's'Aicher was very tender of Stanley's your responsibility naw. The Circle feelings. V needs somebody with real interest,) "Surely you can get ready, darl- and not a shiftless loafer who either ing. It's only a little early. I'll send can't or won't see that he is running1Mario to you right away." it into the ground." I "No, thanks, Aunt Adele. Just "Really! I hadn't considered that, tell him I'm sorry, Anna, but I Lawlor was doing so bailly, conaider-'can't come at all. I'll write him and ing the conditions." Virginia was explain. I'm starting west tomorrow angry and hurt. " I employed Mal—as soon as I can Get my 'reserve- Lawlor on the advice of my, friends I tions," and see' no reason, to question either' "Virginia, what can you be think - their motives or his. However, it ' ing of!" scarcely matters. I have a good offer) Virginia's handsclenched at her for the place and I expect to sell. sides. The tears still shone on . her All except Monument Rock. That Will ]ashes. "I'm going west tomorrow. be held out, always. I suppose that I've• gat to . Please don't ask fine to you will at Ieast concede my right to talk about it dispose of my own property?". "Absolutely. But I have a right as Matt's friend to tell you that your loyalty to him can't amount to much if in a few months you can throw aside the work of his lifetime, the land he labored and fought for, and loved better than anything on earth -- except you!" He heard her quick gasp. . She was on her feet, white with anger. He arose also,, and swept rapidly on, every ward a stinging challenge. "And you're going to sell him' out Foe a little pocket money—for this" -his brief gesture contemptuously indicated the room, the house, all of her life here—"because it's soft and pleasant, because you won't face hon- est work and a little` mental discom- fort. That's the best you can do for him, after all that he sacrificed for you." "Oh,' you're intolerable!" Her eyes blazed; she spoke in a breathless, unnatural . way. "Whatever I - may have clone, or failed to do, is between my father and myself. And you know he would never wish me to; go on with the thing .that had been too much t f0 > 1 him to bear—the, place that killed him, Now go!" "All right," he said laconically. I'll go. I see I was mistaken. Not in coming, becar'se it was worth the attempt. Just mistaken hn you. But before I go I want to give .you one CAIRRICK ASSESSOR AND SON INJURED Assessor Peter Ruetz of Carrick and his family appear to be exper- iencing more than their just share of tribulations. Last Thursday, Mr. Ruetz was en- gaged in hauling stones to a hole near the bush, and as he was unloading the rocks he lost his balance. This was ail unfortunate thing for him to do, as his son, Clarenge Ruetz, was using a heavy bar on it at the time, trying to break it up. The heavy iron de- scended with all: the force of the boy's command and inflicted terrible injur- ies on his father's hand, fracturing a bone in two places and lacerating the hand most painfully. Suffering excruciatiw pain, the in- jured ntan was assisted tothe house with all possible speed, and prepara- tions made to have hien taken to a lector's office. A younger son Ser aphine Ruetz, anxious to expedite the trips to Mildmay, started to crank the car, and the machine back -tired, send- ing tate starting crank back with such 'errific force that the young man's aim was fractured between the wrist and the elbow: Both of the injured finally reached' the doctor's office, where the father's ncuries were found to require hosp question to ask yourself. Why is it hal, attention.: that the 'Circle V, one of the ,best This double misfortune will greatly ranches in the state, should be going hinder Mr. Ruetz in the operation of to pieces now, just when somebody his farm. Hanover Post. else wants to get possesssion of it? BOTANICAL NOTES FOR JUNE The bright colours and delicious scent of roses, in June appeal to man's senses, but this season of the 'renais- sance of the leaves softly influences— consciously or otherwise—the human Soul. The growth of leaves, specially these of the trees, means far more than the pleasure which we enjoy in their shade and shelter during the hot summer days. 'Secure in the knowledge that the birth of their young is assured by pollination and the consequent form- ation of the seed, trees were content, last month, to. delay the growth of. their leaves until this all-important funciion of blooming was complete. Now the leaves have fully expanded in all the perfection and vigour of. new life; ready and willing to pay for the pageant of the year. The blossoms enjoy a short life and a gay one, but not so the leaves upon whom rests the responsibility of the maintenance of their mother ---the tree:' They have to live through five long months of labour and hardship garnering previous things from earth and air in face of the ravages of in- sects, fungi and the elements: For. they owe, also, a debt to Mothe}o Earth which will be repaid in Nov- ember, and only when they have, like children, returned to her lap at the foot of the naked tree, to deposit their golden. sweetness in a wintry hoard—Naturo's hidden workshop— always "busy with the preparation of endless stores of food with which to start in life future : generations of leaves. The rose has always been the Sav- ourite flower, and as such figures in religion, heraldry, the arts and literat- ure. The roses, which are blesse'1 signs; the rose so eulogized by poets is the saine ass ,that described by botanists. 1 Chaucer, Spencer and Shakespeare all sing the ?raises of Eglantine—the sweetbriar—the rose with fragrant leaves which escaped frem Europe and now happily grows wild from Nova. Scotia to Ontario. There are instances, where the name of rose, has been wrongly ap- plied, such as the hose of Sharon with its hollyhoeklike flowers, and the Rose of Jericho, an interesting mem- ber of the mustard family, a native of the desert regions of Palestine; also called by the appropriate name of Resurrection Flower, because the dried plant expands and appears to come to life again when put into water. Other instances of the misappli- cation of the name of rose in Isaiah Bible students, who aver that the word used is derived from an origin meaning 'bulb', and is no doubt a bulbous plant of .which there are many . kinds in Palestine; as the lily. crocus and the narcissus, any of which may be the plant referred to. That the Romans- were familiar with the rose—and doubtless the true one—is indicated by the expression 'sub rose', common to this day. It was the practice to place a rose over the door of a public or private build- ing as a warning that whoever !gassed beneath it must not disclose anything said or done 'within. The Romans probably borrowed this custom from Egypt where the rose was the emblem of 'Har Socrates', the god of silence. The Latin 'sub rose' would then be translated into the modern or pro - and the Song of Songs are cited by gressive vernacular as 'Mum's the word'- '' Canadian wild roses, of various kinds, grow frau coast to coast, many of which appear so closely to resemble one another, that it is the privilege of only those botanists, who have made them . a special and painstaking study, to tell them apart. Wild roses are the most beautiful and welcome of all flowering shrubs as they brighten the countryside with their delicate fragrant blossiims, crammed with yellow stamens. Fort- unately we are reminded of them again in the fall when their. scarlet 'hips' are .welcome .items in the gen- eral wealth of colour of fruit so char- acteristic of that'season. It is difficult, in mosttcases, to refer the cultivated roses to their wild aro- totj'pes as they have been grown, crossed and recrossed for as many centuries. The magnificent double forms of today are a noble and last- ing asting tribute to the skill of those gard- eners who have developed aniuititude of petals from stamens. But Flaming. June must pass—ever redolent of, eases 'and the birth of verdure—trite another 'phase of high summer when the roses seem not so red, and the trees not quite to green, when the song of wild birds is hushed, and when nature seems to pause in anticipation of the Crown of the.Ycar. SAVED The wintry weather on Tuesday, the 24th, settled a problem that had been worrying Dave Wilson, treasurer of the. Huron -Perth Baseball League ever since the League drew up its schedule. At that time many of the Clubs decided to have a gala opening game on the holidayand officials of the league promisedto attend them all. When Treasurer' Wilson got home from the meeting he bean a recap- itulation of his promises and found he was billed 'for games in Blyth and Clinton at 10 aan., and games in Ailsa Craig and Lucan at 2 pm, Obviously he couldn't'., be in two places at the same time, but the cold and rain sav- ed him. Two of the games were can- celled. —Huron Expositor. 'THURS., JUNE 9t 1938. i�•�W.I'i .'d'ii1L'.Y.�'R'.Y i°� '.'i.`°'� i �'tli'.... r-,i.',i e'.'.'.l°r°,iLe,s�„ ,.� YOUR, WORLD AND MINE by JOHN C. ICIRKWOOD ( Copyright) ne' ."e m c'reV ° i m . a i n es c'a : a i e'P'°ti`c'.°.Yfi. edValW"rYs !eta'. lea"a°n°o®.;'r. Should we be' conservative or de- in the herds which the Canadian gov= structive. Should We hang' on to old ernment preserves for sentimental things, or should we get rid of them? reasons. Sometimes mountains have Should we be accumulative or dist-oto be destroyed—or partially destroy- ributive? ed— to make way for roads, or to . because get at the mineral wealth contained In my own case -p erha sp , in them. there is Scottish blood in pie- my l habit is to hang on to things. Thus, Old machinery has to be destroyed'. I keep the magazines which I receive to make room for new and better for months. There they remain on a machinery. It is right to destroy 'old table week after week, with none furniture and furnishings, and old teaching them: Then in a moment of dwelling houses which have become boldness, I take them away with me unsanitary or so shaky that it would to give to some person who Thaw be unsafe to occupy • then, jlt is will enjoy then. I hang, on to old right that old horses and other kinds neckties -perhaps for years! Anda to of cattle . should 'be destroyed. It is old shirts—which I nary never wear right to destroy old ships and old because of hales -patched ones—iii locomotives and old motor cars, and their fronts. I hang on to old suits old trees which may become a men> of clothes and 'old shoes, trying to ace • persuade thyself that I shall wear; them again. I hang an to old books Sometimes it is right to destroy old books which I never touch, nor I affections and old attachments. It was suppose, mean to read. I save old necessary in past days. for men and old papers and booklets. I have masses women to emigrate—to seek in new of old writings of mine—never typed, lands larger opportunities and larger never submitted to any publishec. My freedom. Often it is necessary to office is like a junk shop, with piles `destroy our own past—to break away of wrapping• paper which I have hated from old associations and ties, . and to destroy, I have many boxes filled old habits and old customs. The fact with old coar'espondence,now no use , isthat we cannot make progress if to anybody. I bast. many old 'cheque always we try carrslang w books, going back for years. I us old things, oldto waysy, old views And this means that sometimes we When I was a lad I found a sort have to drop old friendships. It be- of pleasure poking about in: our attic, comes a practical impossibility to re- where was an accumulation of value' tain then and to outline them. New less stuff of all sorts. Not long ago friendships and associates consume us. I had to deal with the contents .of the cellar of the house in which our fam- ily had lived 60 years. It' was crowd- ed with old bottles and china—stuff fit only for throwing away. In my own case I have had to ab- andon old. friendships. I lived in I am sure that my habits—habits England for a good many years. There which make the hang on to old stuff I made many good friends. But I can - of no value—are the habits of many not maintain all those old friendships. of my readers; and the older I get, Distance is a factor which one must the niore I am persuaded that we take into account. Then, too, there ought to destroy or get rid of many is the factor of time. My new oblig- things quickly—that is is profitless ations—when I left England—required and worse to save what we shall never me to give my time to new employ - again use. 'ments and to new friends. This sort of experience is that of ministers who , go to new charges. From the very The fact of this matter is, it is nature of things they cannot for long keep warm old.friendships in the town economy to destroy. It is economy of or city where they formerly laboured. space, of time, of interest and atten- tion.When our ,pioneer ancestors set -1 Old faiths have to be abandoned. It tled in the backwoods, it was absolut-j becomes quite impossible for us to ely necessary for them to destroy the carry along with us many old convic- forest trees in order to clear the land tions and beliefs. There was a time required for tillage and pasturage. In when we may have believed the uni- these modern times it is often nec- verse --or the planet on which we live essary to tear down old buildings to '—to have been created in six days of make room for new onesor for new 24 hours, and to have been created passage ways. Some'times it is nec- !about 6000 years ago. But few of us essary to destroy animal life—as it retain this old belief. Time was when is in the case of the surplus buffaloes we believed Longfellow to be a first - (Seas poet. That belief may -riot be ours. today. Even old heroes—like Richard the Lien I-Iearted—may now be lest heroic to us. More acid more are we compelled to live in the present, and the present makes very 'large demands on, us, Most of us arearoubled with the prob- lem of making a living and with the problem of ' our future. However ap- pealing the past may be to us, intel- lectually, and sentunentally, we can- not give touch time to the past, Only the scholars and those untroubled by the problem of making a living San give much time to ,.the 'past—oto the writers and to the history of past days. Possibly our newspapers and our magazines and our lending librar- ies and the movies and radio are an explanation of our much- occupation with the present and of our inability to delve into and linger in the past. Today pretty effectually washes out yesterday, The boobs and the mag- azines whieh we put aside for future reading are likely to go unread. The old shoes which we hang on to in: the belief that we shall wear them again might just as well be given to the 'Salvation Army and we buy a new pair. The idle books on our shelves 4boolcs we shall never: read— should be given to others who will read them: Surplus of furniture and disused china and glass should be got rid of promptly. Attics and store- rooms . ought to be emptied of their junk. In the proffer of knowledge it is net necessary for us to carry about with us an enormous amount of it. We are not required to be encyclopedias. We do not have to store our minds with a vast amount of knowledge !which we shall never use. We could Ido far better to acquire a good deal of knowledge about things of acute and ` special interest to us than to 'read promiscously. It is neither nec- essary, nor wise to read everything in the magazines which we buy, or to take home with us from lending. lib - relies any book on any subject er by any author. We ought to be select- ive. 1 All of us need niore vocational knowledge, yet few of us read books related to our kind of occupation, Reading anything and everything does not contribute to our culture. Listen- ing to everything on the radio isnot anything to boast about, for it sug- gests that one leans on outsiders all the time for one's enjoyment. Among the things to be destroyed by them of course. And of course we should destroy our enemies—not, of course, our human enemies. I commend to my readers the in- dulgence of the idea that many held - on -to things should be destroyed or got rid of. r( The Advertisements will get you if you don't watch out! If you don't watch out, advertisements will save you money by showing you where to buy the best things at the lowest prices. If you don't watch out, advertisements will protect you aga`nat inferior products! 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