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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-07-21, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS-R'ECORI THURS., JULY 21, 1938. By e Agnes Louise tiny" Provost 11 Synopsis Lee Hollister, returning unex.pect- •edly from a trip abroad to the Circle V ranch, his home from childhood, is troubled by signs of neglect. Joey, an old prospector friend of Matt Mair, Lee's foster father and owner ,of the ranch, tells Lee that Matt has ;skilled himself, probably discouraged, ,by hard times. The ranch is going oto ruin under Lawlor, manager a0- -pointed by Matt's daughter Virginia, who is visiting the Archers, her aunt :and uncle in New York. Lee persuad •es her to return : to the ranch. Her 'uncle wants her to sell the place to Milton Bradish, old associate of her !father. Mrs Archer follows. 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Virginia laughed and half shrugg- ed as Stanley came out to where_ she burned with excitement, and a scarlet stood on, the veranda in starlight, mouth. The slim body swayed slightly loking across the shadowy valley. She to the music, with a rippling grace.. was not angry, but neither was she As Lee looked at her. she slid altogether pleased. Stanley, like Lee, hastily out of sight with an impudent seemed to take a great deal for lift of her chin. He laughed. granted. "The little devil! She's Josefa "Well, I just wondered. You've been Ramirez, and her father is Francisco. so quiet. Rather withdrawn, you Ramirez who used to be a sheep know. You're not yourself at all. herder and has now risen to the You've had too much care and resp- dignity of his own ranchito. Matt onsibility piled on you here; it's an helped him to get it. He's Mex and outrage. This is no job for a girl.": looks like a bandit, but that's mostly "But it happens to be my job: You mustache. You can count on Fran - wouldn't have me chuck it, would cisco. His' father was a servant to you?" Don Luis Ceballos." "Oh, hand it over to Dad, since he's "Very interesting," said Virginia so keen about it. You know," he sweetly. "But not much of it seems said softly, "you could, do that and to be about the girl. You're holding His eyes followed hers. Beyond them was an open door, its shaft, of light cutting into the outer shadows and, caught in the edge of the light, they saw a gay little figure, with a dark', vivid face, black eyes that .Y.P.Wi.'.'.'.Wi'.'rY'.'i r'.W.W� r'Y.Wi J'a'i r'LYd.•h'.'.'.':::.: :7. YOUR WORLD AND MINE ie 51..I I (Copyright) ,1'' by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD ,„ .V.P.W.VANS.V.W.1."..e.V.W.W.'W.W.".d.%%V.P.",,V.V.•.V.V.s. V. In sending this contribution to the lawyer's contribution to his clients is Clinton News -Record I feel sure that I am vine to offend some who may read what I write—some professional men. My offence is: 1 am placing H. T. RANCE the place would still be your to come out on me, Lee." counsel and routine service. He does no more than the grocer to make life richer, sweeter, more enjoyable, eae- retailing on a par with the profes- ier, pleasanter. His is just a differ- Bions ent kind of service. Measured by the •I have been writing a book with values delivered, the lawyer's service title "How to Double a Retail Bus- may be no better than the s iness in Five Years." The.' book—my of the grocer. manuseript .has not been shown to Take architects, by way ,of exam any book publisher, so I cannot say plc. Most architects do very,ordin- that' what h have written will ever appear in print. Yet I am sanguine, cry worn—'the manning of houses or In this writing of mine I ."have stores or schools ori churches. Only slanged retailers, regarded as a class, the very few are called on to plan without much restraint. I have called cathedrals and memorial structures: them lazy, . stupid, unambitionless, The quality of imagination is but and a few other things. Yet I have slenderly taxed in the case of most said, too, that,retailers, are not dif- architects, The houses which they plan are, as a rule, utterly undistin- fe> ant, in respect of their character- guished. Indeed, most of us, when :sties, from persons in other voce-jwe inspect a house, new or old, with tions 1 a w y e,rs, manufacturers, the thought in mind of living in it teachers, preachers, artists, doctors,, either as tenant or as owner, are farmers, architects, accountants. You ps etty sure to find faulty planning will find :many men' in every V°CS- or a • deficiency. of imagination, • The tion just as inert, as unintelligent, architect's main contribution was as ilers. tionleso as lazy, as are draughtsmansh'jp—just labour with retailers. Vocations do not changelrule and pencil. characters or minds. Yet in every vocation are choice Excelling the architect's service in men -,men of ambition, non -lazy, its power to give dwellers in a home, vsionful, keen, trying to be and do home -love and home -contentment is their best; which :neons that there the service of an interior decorator. are doctors, lawyers, neer sects,! Let it be granted that the interior farmers, accountants, engineers and decorator may consider himself or retailers who have a right attitude herself to be a cut above other classes toward their fellow men and toward of retailers; the fact remains, how life generally, The right attitude t I ever, that interior decorators have to to serve—to serve with one's might, be regarded as retailers. eivices to whenever you felt like it. There's "Nothing to hold," Lee was a little a way, lovely, and you know what curt about it. ' Someone else claimed her and she it the left him,her smile cool and. sweet. Thewas a sudden breathlessne$s' in Stanley's voice on the last words, Lee hesitated, a trifle ruffled by the as if it had jerked out of control. uncertain ways of women, and then He bent a flushed face toward her. went out by the door where the girl "You ran away from me, Vee. Didn't Josefa had stood. you know that I'd follow you—any- There was no sign of her. Lee where?" leaned comfortably against the side Iiia voice had dropped to a whisper of the house and rolled a cigarette, and the whisper was a caress. Stan- content to stay out here with the ley was offering her love, position, memory of Virginia fresh upon him. wealth. a way out o her troubles. Voices drifted to him, a man's, low And she liked Stanley well enough. and laughing, a girl's in smothered In another second he would be remonstrance, more coquettish than angry. Lee flicked out his match and Idssing her. Lee this afternoon, Stanley this evening....She couldn't strode lightly around the corner of stand it. the house. "That's sweet of you Stan." She He thought he saw a flitting shad - moved a little, just out of reach. ow, but it vanished and he could not "But don't let's talk about it tonight be sure. A cigarette made a point will you?" She switched the subject of light in the darkness about ten neatly. "But if you want to be a feet away. Stanley Bradish strolled real pal, you come in and be moral toward him. suppor6 while I break the news to "Hello, Hollister," he said indiffer- Aunt Adele that we keep ranch hours eptly. "That you? I thought I heard here. The poor darling, she'll be voices out here." horrified. I'm up every morning at ' "Did you?" Lee was noncommittal, but his eyes searched the darkness back of the house. "I was probably mistaken. Coming in?" Stanley tossed his lighted cig- 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 Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan. Block — Clinton, Ont. A. E. COOK Piano and Voice 'Studio—E. C. Nickle, Phone 23w. 80-tf. 11 H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage office: IIuron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours -Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION ,by manipulation' Sun -Ray Treatment Phene 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT` d,icensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. The exception was' the dance while Correspondence promptly answeredother woman—suppose you leaver it leumediate arrangements can be made the weekend guests were there. Ho „ for Sales Date at The News -Record, wore the blue serge suit and was one to me. aCldnton, or by calling phone 203. of the few men there not in evening Gideon blinked, but forebore com- Chargea Modexate and Satisfaction clothes, but he swung Virginia into a meet, He had a letter srom the Guaranteed. foxtrot as easily as if he, had been older Bradish, as definite as a letter could be, considering how much of five. But there will bee later break- fast for you two, of course, say eight o'clock." He followed her, frustrated but far from defeated. arette aside and started on. For Lee, and for Joey also, the Lee's eyes were on the half -smoked serpent had entered the garden. cigarette where ithad landed, still There were no more long rides, nor glowing, in a tuft ofsparse grass. quiet evenings by Joey's fire. Virgin. His heel came downon it, grinding la's guests seemed to demand a great out the last spark. deal of her time. She rode with "When you've been in this part of Stanley Bradish. now, showing him the country a little longer," he said over the ranch, taking him deep into evenly, "you'll use better judgment the hills by trails that Lee had shown than that. A fire, like some other. her. On the third day ,after his ar- things, is easy to start, but not so rival he and Virginia went down to easy to put out" Saunders and came back with a long Stanley's' annoyed stare followed rakish car, smoke -grey, with his him as he strode off toward the back monogram in scarlet on the doors. of the house. After that they were seldom home."Now what the devil," he mused At the end of ,the third day more! thoughtfully, "did the cow hand mean by that?" The next day Stanley made a trip to Saunders alone. He ieft' the car guests arrived, friends who had stop- ped off on a coast-to-coast trip, and Lights shone and music came from the ranch house until far into at Gleason's Garage and found his the night. A newer, gayer life had way to the office of Gideon Morse, come to the Circle V, and with one Counselor-atLaw. "I'ni Stanley Bradish," he said casually. "I'm staying at the Circle V . ranch. That little matter of " the notable, exception, Lee Hollister had no part init. My general contention is that those retailers who feed us, clothe us, and Take the grocer, by way of ex- give us our shelter have both power ample. His business can be honor- and opportunity to shape our lives able and dignified if he himself will and to serve us in respect of our material, social, ✓cultural. physical make it so. His business has to dojneeds. Most of us have to place a with a primary necessity of man—i much larger dependence for our gen- the need for food. Time was when eral well-being on retailers in their man ate grossly, tearing flesh from numerous classifications than on bones with his teeth, eating noisily, lawyers, doctors, dentists, teachers, preachers, artists, architects and en- gineers. I could wish that all retailers those supplying merchandise and Contrast with the food and table those supplying service—would ac - habits and manners of the ancient, quire a right view of the honorable - the food and table habits and plan- ness and dignity of their kind of ners of today, and you will see how business. If all retailers would bee far we have travelled from the themselves as the servants of their coarseness and grossness of primitive fellow men, under imperative obli- tinmee. A very large factor in this gation to render a high quality of service, then they would be quite born to it, and later danced twice with Peggy Watrous, Peggy special- ized in new men and found this one an absorlsing specimen, easy to catch but hard to keep, "I'm crazy about your handsome cowboy, Vee, I'd cut you out if I could, He looks like a breeze statue of an Indian or something, and he does throw around a dangerous look: If you don't watch your step, he'll kidnap you some day and carry you off to his wigwam, He is part Indian THE McKILLOP MUTUAL of it lay between the lines. Fixe, Insurance Company "My son is spending a few Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, : Thomas Moylan, Sea - 'forth; Vice ?resident, William" Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. . Directors, Alex. 'Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, 'Walton; - James Connolly, Goderich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. eonhardt, Dublin; Alex, Hawing, ilSIyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R.' 1, isn't he?" 0oder�ich, Phone 603r31, Clinton;' Of course not. Aren't you ridic- Tames Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, :tonight. Lee is—" BruCef ie d, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer-! `She hesitated, half angry but sud- m, No. 1; Chas: F. Y denl brought up against a blank 'Hewitt Kincardine; It. 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 Galvin Cvtt's Grocery, Gederich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will 'be promptly attended to on applies- ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. wall. After all, who—or what—was Lee? A bit of human flotsam that Matt Blair had salvaged and made into a man Who's an Indian? Hollister?" The voice was Stanley's, breaking injust in time to save her from a lame reply. "Oh, yes, there's mixed blood there, Vee. Didn't your father pick him up on one of the reserva- tions? Or was it south of the border?" This time Virginia showed her annoyance "I don't know," she. said TIME TABLE coldly. "You'd better ask Lee." Nrains will arrive at and depart from s follows: The recollection of the intended Clinton a Buffalo and 8 follows: ch Div. slur' made her kinder to Lee than 'Going East, depart ........6.58 a.m. the had meant to, be. She danced Going East, depart 3.00' p,m, three more times with him. 'Toward .Going West, depart 11.45 p.m• the' end of their last dance Virginia sGoing West, depart 10,00 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going' North, ar. 11.25 I've. 11.47 p.m. Going South -ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. CANAfliAN NATdO ` turned her head and laughed softly. "Look, Lee! Just outside the door. I'm going to bring her in.'. weeks at the Blair place. He is not yet' associated with me in business and is not acquainted with the details of the proposed purchase." It should look like a bad break somewhere:' "I should be glad to accommodate you,' he murmured politely, "if you will kindly explain—' "Oh, that's all right." Stanley grinned patronizingly, "My father will be glad to know how discreet you are. Now I'll elucidate, to relieve your mind. You went east to report about a man who was making a nuisance of himself over some land Dacl, wants to buy, He told' you to get rid of him, not by homicide, which is coarse work, but by elim- inating him from the picture. In short, that you 'find : the other woman," by way of checking his in- fluence with the present owner who has too much confidence in him for her own good. You look after the rest, but leave this to me." (Continued next week) eating to satiety, using fingers and thumb instead of forks', spoons and knives, and eating the same kind of food day after day. His bread was vile and unclean, Oil taken from whales caught in the Antarctic during the winter seas- on filled 3,367,000 barrels. Botany Bay, where Captain Cook landed in 1770, may ; be used as the terminus of the British Empire fly- ing boat service to England. advance toward refinement in man- ners and habits, and toward the in- finite variety of foods available even to the poor in these present tines, has been the grocer—the grocer in alliance with manufacturers. Go into in respect of experience. a good grocer's store and note the great variety of foods all presented most attractively, all prepared with extraordinary regard for cleanliness, purity, quality, and forpleasingness of appearance. You may say that the grocer is but a small wheel in the big machine which produces and delivers good food products. But is he? The good, grocer is a free agent, and as a free agent he has power to refuse to stock this maker's product and that mak- er's product. He chooses, however, to promote the distribution of good products—this from a sense of duty to his customers. He is something more than a mere distributor: he is an influencer of his 'customers. He directs the attention of his custom- ers to superior products', and he makes many suggestions to custom- ers with a view to helping them pro- vide fare and variety of fare which will please those for whose feeding the housewife is: responsible. Every housewife has a problem -- almost roblem-almost a daily problem -in this mat- ter of providing acceptable fare for the famiy. It is a common exper- ience -the refusal' to accept what the, mother has prepared. The, daughter Will refuse --perhaps with .unpleasant words—bacon and eggs. The son may be nasty about the cereal. The father may complain about his 'cof- fee. So the mother, when she goes shopping, wants:; her grocer to be sugge?;tive-to bring to her attention foods which will enable her to keep the family peace. Housewives lean heavily.. on their grocers for help in selecting what will have family ac- ceptance. If we could but see into all homes at meal . time, and could hear all than tbbse at the dining table say, we would quickly perceive that much domestic infelicity -and perhaps worse—is directly connected with the food served, It is probably true that every one who is disagreeable over the food served evinces a non -disciplined char- acter, a pporly-controlled temper; yet the fact remains that food as served at the home table is a emu - mon cause of much domestic jang- ling. Now let us look at the lawyer. Is his service' of a more exalted type and 'quality than that of the grocer,, What do lawyers do:? their work has to do, quite often, with the sins and dissensions ,of men and women, and with the humdrum business of "making wills and agreements. It is a kind of work governed very largely by what is printed in law books. 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