HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-06-30, Page 4PAGE 2
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., JUNE 39, 1938.
ills Of Destiny"
By Agnes Louise Provost
ley Bradish, she hurries west,
Synopsis
Lee Hollister, rearming unesnect= IX
edly from a trip abroad to the Circle
rreeently with a livelier ii erest.
Why not? Everything was fear-
fully stile here. He would have Vir-
ginia to ehimself and perhaps a de
-
V ranch, his home from childhood, is ittr•. T. Ellison Archer entered his cent bit of hunting and, incidentally;
troubled by signs of neglect. Joey, wife's room more abruptly than was a look at this place that the old roan
an old - friend of Matt wasanam le read " was so set on. having.
.]us Habit. Ile p Y
Blair' Lee' foster father' and owner mtr ssive dignity of "Awfully good of .you ,to ask pre,
s man, with an , ,t e
of, the ranch, tel sLee that Matt has manner somewhat marred by an hr- Mrs. Archer. Are you sure Virginia'
killed himself,' probably discouraged e a chin, A the years had won't think Inn, a nuisance trailing
g ad gust n s
by hard times. The ranch is going slippedby without any conspicuous along? ,: That's fine; I'll take
to ruin under Lawlor, manager op- success on Mr. Archer's part the the. same train if youdon't urine.. .
pointed by Matt's daughter Virginia, dignity had advanced and the chin Count on me.'
who is staying in New York with had retreated. He had inherited a He hung: up the 'receiver With a
her aunt and uncle, the Archers, Lee moderate income and augmented it knowing. smile. He went downstairs
is worried when he sees Slanty, Gano, occasionally by dabbling in real estate better pleased with life than he had
a trouble maker, now manager of the until the real estate market had re- been fore some days, to be informed
old Ceballos place, hanging around aeded and, left him high and dry. that his father was closeted with a
the . Circle V. He hurries east and Just. now he was said to be "con- caller. Stanley strolled outpide. .
urges Virginia to go Home, Cancel- nected" in some way with the Brad- Voices came to him. He caught
ing an engagement with young Stan- ish interests, and at this precise the word Blair. He moved nearer to
}niontent was prickling with, unpleas- the window through which those
a ant apprehension lest he should be subdued sounds drifted. ' He waited,
The Clinton News -Record 'abruptly disconnected. Milton Brad- listening. .
ish had been known to do things that Milton Bradish aw ye, knew what
with 'which is Incorporated avay, he wanted and went after it with
THE NEW ERA 1 ' Mr, Archer closed the door with about as much regard for obstacles.
, noticeable care.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION as an army tank. It was his cap -
$1.50 per year in advance, to Can -.1,,,,t "Have you heard from Virginia acity for . ruthlessness which had
, my dear"•
adieu addresses; $2,00 to the U.S, or brought. Bradish where he was. In -
other. foreign countries, No paper ! "Only the telegram saying that cidentaity it had brought Gideon
discontinued until all arrears are she had arrived safely. Why? Has Morse, the lawyer, where he was at
aid melees at the elation of the !anything happened"? this moment traveling twenty-five
p pub- •g Y- '
Iisher, The date to which' every sub- "Well, not exactly." Mr. Archer' hundred miles for a few brief , com-
scription.is paid is denoted on the look'i untasy, "But I have just nients which might not prove alto -
label. seen Mr. Bradish. In fact he sent gather discreet on paper. He sat in
ifor nue, and he was quite annoyed. a very straight chair, quiet and sleek
ADVERTISING RATES — Transient He put it up to me rather bluntly a4 and mousy grey. •
advertising. 12c per count line for 'if Virginia's going were my fault" 1 "The only obstacle," he said in his
first insertion. 8c. for each subse-! "But I don't see how we •could have curiously mild voice, "is this man
quent insertion. Heading counts 2 prevented it! We have done every- Hollister."
lines. Small advertisements not to thing to make Virginia happy here, :`"Get rid of him." -
exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", and provided every opportunity tai ! "Not so easy," said Morse mildly.
"Lost, Strayed", etc., inserted once a girl Could have and now she rushes "And' 'dangerous."
for' 35c., each subsequent insertion' off to that impossible, place with
15c. Rates for display advertising scarcely a word to anybody. Just "I'nt not suggesting homicide," re-
made known on application. think of the position it puts us in, torted his chief brusquely. "There
Communications intended for pub- with this expensive house on our are more ways of getting rid of a
lication must, as a guarantee of good hand:': and the season scarcely •be- ,pan than ]crocking him over • the
faith, be accompanied by the name gun!" head. You can break him, or buy
of the writer. "Mr, r., Bradish feels"—her ' husband hien, . or offer hian a fat jab on the
G. E. HALL Proprietor returned nervously to the subject other side of the globe, or get some-
uppermost in his mind--" that young '•-king on him that will keep him still
Hollister is trying to influence Vir- How' about bringing hint in?"
�� T, RANCF g'rnia to keep the ranch, In fact, "Wouldn't(` come," said Mores 1a -
that he wants to get ultimate eon- conically, He's like a hound nip
tr•ol of it. He says that Hollister will his nose to a trail. Probably
canto back to the Circle V unespect- thinks he has a mission to reclaim
^dly a few weeks ago and made hili,- the Circle V. You see, Ile and Matt
self quite offensive, ordering some- 1/tlt'e pretty cleft. He was one of
body off the property, and must Mat+"a riders,. off and on, from the
have started east at once to induce time he could stick on a horse, and
Virginia to go back. And since then so far as Matt wzls concerned he
he has been riding all over the ranch was practically a menthes of the
anti interfering with the nen as' if fanriln, so notch so that, some people
he owned it." were surprised that he didn't get.
• Before h:e wife's .inquiring eyes. anything when Matt died. You
Mr. Archer seemed ' to feel that might say that ire was brought up
further explanations were necessary, en the Cirete V. Matt picked hint
"Mr. Bradish said that he felt so up years ago in, some dingy hole and
certain that the place would belong h'•^ught him home because he was a
to hint in a short trine that he had lik"1y youngeter and hadn't any folks
asked the manager to keep Min in rf bis Heart. You know Matt always
toueh with matters there, and—er— had a Int of pensioners around. Any-
to hold himself in readiness to begin' hn i7 could ge to hitn with a hard
the improvements as soon as the deed lu"k story avd get a grvbstal[e or a
should pass." , job "
He paused and cleared hie throat Milton Bradish could remember a
nervously. "It will be very unfortuu_ roan with "whom Matt had shared Isis
ate. if this Hollister does anything to own grubstake many years before.
interfere with the sale. Virginia will There are some thine•s of which it
never get an offer like that again." is not pleasant to be reminded,
He believed it. He believed that it' "About this young Hollister, How
was a heaven sent opportunity for is it that he turns up now?"
Virginia to get a generous price for" "He's been away. He and the girl
a debt -ridden property and, incident- are together a great deal Rides—
ally of course, for Virginia's uncle scenery—moonlight romantic stuff.
commission for putting ythrott 'h the foal.',
to receive an .unusually substantial Coed 'tacking Chun, too. And no
g
sale. 1 The man who meenh to have the
':•I never liked Lee Hollister," said Circle V pushed back his chair as if
Mr.'s; Archer "positively. "I never to end the interview,
could undeestand.Matthew's action in: Break it un," he said shortly,
bringing a child like that—no.better"Get soething on hi,n. There call'
than a foundling—right into his own�al"'nvs bme the other womttn."
home. But there's only one thing Principal and a4'ent looked et each
to do now, and that isto go out other steadily. Morse nodded.
there and bring Virginia back if I Outside. Steeiev ,moved away, from
can. If I can't do that I shall stay the window with agile epee'1. His
where, much' as 1 detest the place. I limp' boredom had vanished in a liv:
consider it my duty to, see that Vir- ely interest,
ginia is kept ;free from sues undesir-• "That •old dump must be worth a
able connections.' ' .I lot," he reflected shrewdly, "1' won i
Mr. Archer nodded a relieved as-; er what's up? The other woman'
sent, secretly envying a power of de-' Whew!" He evinned.' "Phis is be-
cision that, he had never possessed.' ginning to look like a pleasant little
His wife went' over to her desk and' visit. The parent and I don't often
drew a telephone from its decorative Pull' together, but he can count on
hiding 't lace.• Ibis son this time. '4'11 find the other
"I think," 'slay said thoughtfully, Woman 'and also the. other man, I
"that I'd better telephone Stanley don't,.intend that the girl I marry
about our plans. He has been really shall inn any cow farm, or to
g moonlight take
clisconsolatc- ever since Virginia left." ght rides with ranch fiands.
Disconsolate wasp not precisely the either.
weed to descvibe Stanley Bradi,eh's Dalliance was over. Stanley hal'
f, sone of mint],since the evening made UP his mind.
when Virginia had left him flat, as
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.
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public
Subeessor to W. Brydone, LC.
Sloan Block Gilman, Ont.
A. E. COOK
Piano and Voice
Studio—E. C. Nickle, Phone 23w,
80-tf:
D. H. MCINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
Electro Therapist, Massage
Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors
west of Royal Bank)
Hours—Wed, and Sat, and by
appointment.
FOOT CORRECTION
by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment
Phone 207
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer for the County
of Huron
Correspondence promptly answered
lnlmediatevarrangentents can be made
for • Sales Date at The News -Record,
Clinton, or by selling phone 203,
Charges Moderate and Satisfaction
Ctiaranteed
THE McI{ILLOP M'UTIJAL
Fire Insurance Company
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
Officers:
President, Thonnas .Moylan, Sea -
forth; Vico ?resident, William Knox,
Lortdesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M
A. Reid, SeaEortir. Directors, Alex.
Broadfoot, Seaforth; James . Sholdice,
Walton; James ,Connolly, Godevich;
W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris
Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing
Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton.
List of Agents: E. A. Yea, R.R. 1,
Goderich, Phone 8031.31, Clinton
japes Watt, .Blyth; John. E. Pepper,
Bruee£ield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer-
cher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F.
Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmntb,
Bornholm, R. R. No. 1.
Any money to be paid may be pale
to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of
Commerce, Seaforth, or at Galvin
Oiitt's Grocery, Goderieh.
Parties desiring to effect insur
once or transact other business wit'
be promptly attended to on applies he had resentfully told her over the
ion to any of the above officers ad telephone, He had ,ieen in a bad
humor and distinctly sulky. For
months he had been conspicuoueee
attentive to Virginia Blair, He dict Surely 'there is no 'deeper love than
not trouble himself to analyze his in- a dog's affection for hisroaster.
tentions—Stanley seldom troubled Friends may- come and go, patting
CAidAdailN°6 Ai1 ' t A�� � ' S. himself about anything—and certain- us on the back when fortune smiles
ly the shackles of matrimony, ex- our' way, making excuses when the
Dept as a possibility of later years, black clouds of depression break over
did not greatly appeal to him, But 111, but a clog's affection for. those
Virginia was warn, heaity, lust out he loves goes o,t through all aever'e
of reach; she nettled and tantilzied -ales. Those of us who• have seen
him, and now that she was gone he lhe devoted, sincere look in a'idog•',s
missed her to an' irritating degree^yes, the friendly wag . of 'his tail or
London. Huron 'Bruce Mrs. Archer's telephone call found Edt his cold nose nuzzle our •hand
11.47 m 'Inn at ]tome and in a stage of bored friend/ indeed felt'true, ueselfish
GoingNorth, ar. 51:26 Ivo. ' p. �at;c
Going. South ar. 2.60, leave 3.08 p.m restles`nness. He listened warily, but ship•
dressed to their respective poet ofie
ces. Losses inspected by the director
who lives nearest the scene.
Dog is Affectionate
TIME TABLE.
Trains ,will arrive at and depart from
Clinton as follows:
Buffalo and Goderich, Div
going East, depart . .:.6.68 a.m,
Going East, depart 11.00 p,n
Going West, depart 11,46 p.m
Going West, depart 10.00 pm
'•Pb'1'4'.'�'�"e`.1"■°.if°'1,°°1"°`d'l�'° � i�°°�L�°°r■°■`■Y.°r'.'■'■".°a'M°■°.Y■YrSY■°,�1'',
r
(Copyright) .`
• by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
YOUR WORLD AND MINE
■'SiLV'■ VIAN%',PANT°°.•■`s•■"W i°d'.•.'b`ap°°.�°�'1a'6i'.".°■•■'6"YVAAi ■Sii°'°°id°N'on
.
Being in the 70th year "bf my.
earthly life, 1 have hardly any rec
reations. It was in: my 18th year
that I gave up games. I had looked
forwarcl to snaking a name for mY-
self in football and in certain ath-1
letie exercises such as running and
jumping --+this at a university. But
my university career came to an ab-
rupt end about 6 weeks after I be-
gan it --illness being the cause, and
when I was fit again circumstances
prevented my return, to the univers-
ity.' I have neves• played golf. I
have done a little lawn bowling, T
have never been able, to do any fish-
ing.
ishing. I never learned to swim. 'I am
not a motorist. If I have had any
pastime, it has been lingering in 2nd
hand book shops. When I lived in
London, England, I had, for several
years, the felicity of visiting daily a
convenient 2nd -hand bookshop, from
which I bought about 100 books a
papers which inquantity might have
filled a` truck. This accumulation
had gone out of sight, . and I was
so sick of the job of getting the
books in my home made ready for
shipping across the ocean that I had
no desire to investigate what was in
the basement of the office building.
Whatever became of this junk I do
not know.-
In
now.-In the basement printing office of
friend I left behind me in London
many, many packets of a'typewritten
"parts" book which I had hoped to
sell. The title of this typewritten
book, in seven parts, was "How' to
Make a 4 Figure Income" meaning
an income. of :at least £1,000. I hal!
paid, out for paper, typing, multi -
graphing, and binding, .over $1200.
So .fay as I knout, this pile of parcels
-1000 sets—remains in that print-
er'sbasement to this day!
erary editor of the London Daily
Mail also J. J. Bell, author of "Wee
McGregor". Probably T could recall
a few more, if I set about doing so
I have written this contribution to
the Mews -Record ' for' the diversion
of my readers,
Stretch Of Bone
Games .Should Aid
Y� a i'.
Leafs
afs
•
reported on May 30, he had not been:
?haying for several -weeks,' . and it'
took him a 'nunibor• of 'games to hit
his stride Ifebanski found that his
long lay-off laet season was e big-,
ger handicap than he expected, and
,it was not until the team experienced
real warm weather that the former
Boston player really began, to show
the form expected of h.iin. His hit-
ting unproved nearly :one hundred
per cent, and his batting average
climbed some 60 points over a 10 -day,
stretch in the middle of June.
Contributing factors to the Leafs'
string of 11 straight defeats were
the failure of the pitchers to go the
distance, and a batting slump that
affected nearly every player in the
line-up. Manager Howley is, confid-
ent now that these difficulties have
been ,overcome and that his team will
climb quickly back among the league
leaders,
A bright spot of the recent long
g
road trip was the consistent hitting
and fielding of little' Joe Gattenbein,
third baseman. Joe, the youngest
player on the team, has not missed
a league game since he joined the
Toronto club in the Spring of 1937.
He has been hitting' close to the .300
mark, and i5 expected to soar beyond
year—a very mixed lot, indeed. 1 A humorous experience was the „Never mind, boys," said the ra- that figure when the Leafs get set -
This liking for poking about 2nd- return to me of a set of books—very tund Daly, "you can't win'ern all." tied away to their long stretch of
hand bookshops continues, and thus bulky ones -by a friend. When I The utter ludicrousness of the re- home games. Gantenbein is a great
is explained the: experience which I' was leaving London in 1911 I gave (mark raised such a laugh that the favorite with Toronto fans who are
now tell about. these books to. this friend. Ten years spirit of the players was quickly re- planning a special night for him
I was looking at a trayful of old latdr, when I returned to London, vjved, and it is on record that they soon,
books a fortnight or , so ago, when this friend, was clearing out his of -went out and beat their opponents On Dominion Day, July 1st, the
I saw a book entitled "The Hawkeye fice, and finding these books, he sent in the next game. Soon afterward. Leafs will play- a .• double-header
by Herbert Quick. I had once had them back to me, far he had never they started a winning streak that against Rochester at, Maple Leaf
a copy of this book, and a. companionioeked at them, and he imagined that brought them back into the thick of Stadium. The great majority of other
volume, by the same author, but they I would like them back. I wanted the pennant struggle, ' , games scheduled all throught July
have not hien on my shelves for them back about as much as one t Daly's remark has been something will be floodlight affairs, Buffalo
several years, I suppose that I had wants back the eat which one has of a by -word with Toronto teams ever Rochester, Newark, Syracuse, Jersey
loaned' them to somebody who had given away to some friend in order since. It is one of the glaring truths City, Baltimore and Montreal will
forgotten to return them. But Ito 'get rid of ft! {of professional baseball. You can't visit Maple Leaf Stadium in that `em all, and, by the same token, er during the next four weeks. Se
ord-
wanted-
so
this Herbert Quick book, and When I married, I bought a copy win
so I pinked it out of the tray to buy. of the Century Dictionary—a large you can't lose `em all, either. vrday night twilight and floodlight
I looked inside, and lo, there stared and costly book. The publishers had � Dan Howley's present Maple Leafs double-headers will be played July 9
MO in the face, on the first page, just brought out this book, and in encountered a losing streak on their and 16 against Newark and Jersey
the words, in my own handwriting, order to induce persons to bny it, recent road trip that shoved them City, respectively,
"Return to J. C. Kirkwood"! My they offered very attractive prizes down into the second division of thei -
civil book had found itself back Tho to owners of the book who would use International League standing, but,'
mei it in certain specified ways. I was with a big advantage in home games;
' quite excited over the competition, over the balance of the schedule, they. ' Saved FromDrowning
recall, in England, finding a book and tried to get my bride to share should be able to make up.the,ground
which I greatly desired, and in it my enthusia,n and labour. It was a lost in June by staging winning What might have been a sad an -
was the name of my greatest friend. great disappointment to find her tit- streaks of similar proportions during cident happened to the little dough-,
I bought a book inscribed by the terly unresponsive to the attractions the July and August campaigning. ter of Dr. and Mrs. Smith, of St.
author -La book presented by hits to of this competition. To, this day my When the Leafs returned to Tor- Marys, formerly of Henson and
a man with a very great name. The stretching bookshelves 'packed with onto on June 27, they faced the little granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
author was Thomas Hughes, author books are [lust gatherers, are an- pleasant prospect of having nearly G. ,C. Petty, of Hensall, on Wednes-
of. "Tom Browns School Days." I athema to my wife. 60 of their remaining 90 games sched- day last. She was playing around
•ould'have bought two books—bound I haven't met many authors of any pled for their home grounds. the home and from there she wand-
volumos cf "Har'per's Magazine"— great distinction. Once I had an in- They have been a much better eyed into aneighbor's garden where
rearing the names of George Gissing terview with John Drinkwater, Brit- team at home this season than on there was a fish pond. Her mother
famous British novelist, and Charles ish dramatist, poet, and author. I the road, so July and August should missing her made a hurried search
Lever, author of "Charles 0 Malley" wanted to start a Lincoln Society in be big months for then. The Inter- and found the little girl lying at
and other books, but the volumes England, and because, of brinkwat- national League race ie such this the bottom of the .fish pond hi about
were too balky. I did get once er''s play, "Abraham Lincoln," I felt year that a winning streak of 10 or three feet of water. First aid was
an equally bulky book "Pictures of that he would make a gcocl patron. 12 games will put any team well up immediately given by a neighbor
Canada," profusely illustrated with But I had to abandon my project be- in the playoff contention. woman who understood resuscitative
steel engravings by Bartlet, text by cause of my return to Canada. I Ono of the pleasing features of the methods and in a few minutes the
N. P. Willis, for one shilling! I had had an hour or ac with Hall Caine Leafs' recent performances is the child was breathing again not much
to pay two guineas ($10 for a duplic- once, and. left him disliking him, showing of such veterans of the the worse of her experience. When
ate copy shortly afterwards,) thcroughly. I knew Archibald Mar- game as Heinle Manush, hard-hitting found the child's face was black and
When I lived in 'Cleveland,, Ohio, shall, distinguished British novelist, outfielder, and Bill l•Jrbanski, the in a few more minutes life would
in 1002, I read a book, "In the For- in a pleasant way, when he was lit -hustling shortstop.. When Manush have been extinct,
est" by Maximilian Foster. After-
wards I desired to possess this book,
but never came across it. Seven ,
years later, in London, I was led,
by a window display of books deal-
ing with animals and bird life, to
enter the shop. I described the book, . `.
and was able to give the title and
the name of the publisher (U.S A.).
and straightway the bookseller
reached to a shelf and put before rrie
the book of my desire.!
Back in the 80's of last century 1
had read a book, "I Go A. -Fishing"
by lir. W. C. Crime -a famous ang-
ler: 6 had thereafter desired to pos-
sess this classic angler's book, but
had never coma across it. Once fn
Leeds, about 1924. I went into a
2nd -hand bookshop tempted by the
window display, and asked if I could
get "I Go : A -Fishing". The book-
seller consulted a card index, and
then bade a youth to get me the
book. I have ft still -a poorly -
printed and poorly 'bound copy, yet
better then no copy at all.
Howieyitcs have excellent;, chance to
recover lost ground during long
home eta-scis in duly and
August.
A few years ago, an aggregation
of dejected players wearing the uni-
foetus of the Toronto Maple Leafs
trooped into the dressing, room after
just having 1,o s t 16 consecutive
games. Arvid the ominous silence'
that enveloped them as the proceed-
ed to shed their uniforms, Trainer
Torn . Daly ventured a . consoling
In London 6 got to be well-known
in at least twc.bookshops. Every now
and then these, shops would get in
several hundred- )looks in one lot—
from newspaper offices—review cop-
ies rvhieh had accumulated; and lvhen
the pile became tottery, one of these
two booksellers world be sent for to
take the books away—at a bulk
price, I had many happy hours in
these book shops, looking through'
the lot of new books to see if there!
Were any which I desired. In one
shop I would set aside a pile of a
dozen or, so books of my desire, and
ask the bookseller : what he wanted
for the lot. He would look. at them
and then et me, and then would quote
pie a bulk price—so low that I never
chaffered with him•,I recall that one
,fat parcel delivered. to me remained
unwrapped for months, and was the
footstool of my typist! Once I bought
I, score or sa of books from, the lib-
rary of William Hesketh Lever, ,
minder of Lever Brothers, the soap
firm. These books contained thin'he
bookplates: the first was that of
William Hesketh Lever; the next,
that .of Sir 4Villiarn Hesketh ` Levet,
with arrnorial embellishments; the
third, that of Lord Leverhulme, with
additional ar'tnorial embellishments.
These books I sen„ to friends, think-
ing! that they would like the volume
thus made interesting'.
'. When I left England in ' 1930,, I
brought home with me two tons of
books, and I left behind me many,
many books -books which,1 had stor-
ed in the basement of the office
building where I worked --books and
he Advertisements
you if ydon'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'ast
inferior products!
If you don't watch out, advertisements will bring you the latest,
straightest news from many manufactmrers and Lte live local bus-
iness houses!
If you don't watch .out, advertisements will teach you the secreta
of great beauty specialists, give you health hints of real value, tell
you interesting true stories about foods, furnishings, whatnot!
If you don't watch out, advertisements willsell you ideas, give
you suggestions on how to choose wisely and spend wisely.
Dui, if you do watch out forthe advertisements, ,they'll watch out
for you!
Read The Ads With Profit
THE CLINTON NE'' S ECOB
Phone 4
Clinton
f":