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The Clinton News Record, 1938-08-11, Page 2PAGE 2. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., AUGUST 11, 193S '. "Hills f Destiny" By Agnes Louise Provost Synopsis • Lee Hollister, returning unexpect- edly from a trip abroad to the Circle V ranch,his home frmn •cleildhood, is. troubled by signs of neglect. Joey, an old prospector friend`- of Matt Blair, Lee's foster father and owner of the ranch, tells Lee that Matt has killed himself, probably discouraged;. by hard times. The ranch is going to ruin and Virginia, Matt's daught- er, is visiting the Archers, her aunt and uncle in New York. Her uncle wants her to sell the place to Milton Bradish, old associate of Matt's. Lee persuades Virginia to return to the ranch. Mrs. Archer follows .her, accompanied by Stanley, son of Milton Bradish.'Stanley thinks, he may be able to discredit Lee in. Virginia's eyes, and encourages Jos- efa Ramirez in her liking for Lee. The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated.. 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Slanty Gano had boast- ed drunkenly that a certain big, man would give him anything ,he wanted, because Shanty had something on him. Bradish, a man who' could com- mand the best service that money would buy, had put this quarrelsome loafer'• in charge of a ranch that he had acquired in the name of a hold- ing company. Had Bradish bought in the Rancho Ceballos merely from the ,reports of his agents and his memory of a wasteful, ran down, rattletrap establishment that even in the old days ;must have rasped his sense of efficiency? Or had he come himself, quietly, to look over both the Rancho and the Circle V? And where did Slanty come in? Where had Slanty met this man, of financial importance, -and when? What did he know or think he knew about IVlilton Bradish? . . If it was Milton Bradish. He moved a few steps out and stood again, quiet and contemplat- ive. Joey looked up suddenly. There was a curious stillness about Lee. It was a waiting stillness, with a hint of tensing muscles and senses sharply alert. "Put 'em up!" Lee shot forward• like a released springs There 'was a scrambling crash in the darkness back of the ..abin, a thud and a smothered curse, the sound of grunts and writhing bodies. "Oh no, I wouldn't, Lawlor!" A knife described a darkly gleam- ing are through the air, Joey dodg- ed it as lie hurried anxiously back to see Lee kneeling on something dark and struggling. • "What's the matter, Lee? Did he knife ye "No, Joey, just tried to I'll take that gun, Lawlor. I know you'd bate to lose your head. Now be nice, or I'll shut off your wind again.... Listen!" He raised his head, still keeping a discouraging grip. ,an I.lawlotr's windpipe. Froin some distance away there came another scrambling sound, as if a stealthily moving body had missed its footing and slid several feet. "So Slaney got away and left yet to face the music"? Lee inquired pleasantly. "That sounds like him." He paused for a reminiscent grin. "There's a lot of manzanita on that slope," he added thoughtfully. "Pretty thorny scrub, Lawlor. I shouldn't wonder if he'll have •seine nice long sePatcher to identify hien tomorrow -only we don't need to.. Get up, you polecat." Lawlor swayed groggily to his fee$, "I wasn't doin' nothin'," he muttered sullenly. "Just corrin' along, and you fly out at me like a 'wildcat, Might think you owned this place." • "If ' you could get the ownership of this place off your mind, Lawlor, maybe you wouldn't be getting into so much trouble. You're too anxious to see ia- new owinor here, and you haven't sense enough to know that THE McKILLOP MUTi 5AL. Fire Insurance Company 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. It. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. P. McKer- cher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, Bornhohn, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cott's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will 'oe promptly attended to on applica- 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. 1 ,AAD Atoli TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depar ........6.58 a,in, Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. if he ever does come he'll toss you Do I make myself clear!" into the .discard so fast that you 11 "Absolutely." He smiled wryly. bedizzierthan yon are now. Play- "But perhaps " ing a double .game takes brains, "You have taken my affairs out Lawlor, and you seen to have mislaid of my hands." She swept on with - yours. cut heeding him, and he checked "'think yo're funny, don't ye?" himself with unusual patience, Lawlor snarled it back in futile sar- "Yott've belittled and humiliated me casco. "I don't need to be told how, before •my own men and my friends, to run my job, Lee Hollister, and 'as if I: were unfit to be trusted with when it .comes to games, I ain't playin' any to get this place luta say hands-hangin' around a girl-" "That will be plenty, Lawlor." Lee had not stirred, but there was some- thing in his voice that made Lawlor jerk involuntarily, and scowl at his own nerve's. "I've watched your double game, Lawlor, taking your wages from a woman and using your job in twenty different ways to make her so discouraged with the place that she will be glad to se11. Bat you're through. You're leaving to- night." Hoofbeats were ; appro thinb, , a cheerful voice hailed. "Hey, Joey, everything all right?" Joey answered the hail, and a moment later Curly clattered up to them, "Just saw Slanty Gano ridin' away in an all -fired hurry," he volunteer- ed, "and I wondered if he'd been up to any dm/line/it here. Didn't I see somebody breakin' for cover?" "Lawlor." Lee answered for Joey, whoconfirmed it with a vigorous nod. Joey was still glowing with the 3oy of Lee's' ffighU. I"The two of them• were hanging around in the dark with their ears`; open..Slanty didn't stay to be sociable. Lawlor did. By the way, Curly, he's leav- ing the Circle V tonight. How about having one Of the boys see him to his train?" Curly loosed a joyous whoop. "Shore, Lee, I'll de it. Take him or chase him, whichever you say. Much obliged for handin' me the job." The next morning Virginia heard from Curly that Lawlor had abruptly left her employment during the night. ";But why did he leave so sud4 denly? Did anything happen?". "W -eye -11-" Curly hesitated. "I• reckon mebbe he did have a kind of disagreement." "With whom?" "Well now, he didn't say. Wouldn't be likely to, come to think of it." "Thank you, Curly." She had mercy on him, but two bright spots t burned in her cheeks. "And I'd like you to take his place, please." "Why -I reckon I'd be pleased to." Curly ducked his head in embarra- ssed thanks • ''`,I'll shore do all I can for you, Miss V?'ginia," he ad- ded earnestly. "S'll get on the job right now.", IIe was off. grinning and happy, but glad to escape. Another step was approaching, and Virginia did not : need to be told that this was Lee. He was coming to the side door of the office where she had re- ceived Curly, and where she had lately been sitting for a discourag- ing hour each morning at the desk where her father had worked, re= ceiving Lawlor's vague reports and trying to do the things her father had done. There was; a quick; warming of Lee's eyes as lie saw her there, but her own flashed angrily. She Ithew. Lee had deliberately forced her hand. Ile had done behind her back the thing she had refused to do her- self. "So you have taken the liberty of discharging my manager -or terror- izing him out of my employ!" The warmth vanished. Virginia had come to know and he secretly afraid of that emotionless loots. "If you want to put it that way," be said briefly., "Lawlor was dis- honest and deliberately worked ag- ainst your interests, .and he was drunk half the time. If you had been on " the job yourself you'd have known it." He could scarcely have said any- thing less fortunate than that last blunt statement. The, grey eyes were black with anger. • "I am glad that you at least re- cognize that it is my job, and not yours," she replied coldly. • "I have appreciated your 'good ?intentions; but I don't care for your methods. .4wee er w. ve •.1rr.'.rr r.7ww ,i'dw rrr r.Wrreeeed f eee . ti YOUR WORLD kND MINE • (copyright) by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD I ! Between 40 and 50 years ago James wandered,, going back to the past, Lane Allen, a Kentucky -bred -man- Let me quote from Mt. Allan's story: was writing some fine stories, and 1 "A night or two before his death writing thein in a fine way. Some of his mind wandered backward, and his stories are ``A Kentucky Card his delirious dreams showed the inal" and its sequel, "Aftermath"; shifting, faded pictures that renewed "A Suninier in Arcady"; "The Choir themselves for the last time on the Invisible"; and "Flute and Violin"- wasting memory. His broken snatches a collection of short stories. It is of talk ran thus: of a tale in this last-named book "Come- get boysyour' cradles! that I wish to write - this week -to Look where the sun -is. You are late shorten the story that my readers getting to work this morning. This may -1 hope -enjoy it. is the finest field: of wheat in the country. Be careful about the bund - But first of all may I espy out les. Make them the sameize and the author's dedication of this book: s do them right. That swath is too wide, and you 'don't hold your cradle right, Tom...,.;,, "Sell 'Peter!' Sell Peter Cotton! No sir! • You can't buy Peter. You can't buy any ofmy negroes.". , • , Helen! Helen! Will you break your promise? Have you changed in your feelings toward me? I have brought you the pinks. Won't you take the pinks, Helen!" .... Is not that a fine. tribute from a "At • the foot of the bed stood son to his mother? :Peter, and on one side sat the phys- ician and a friend. "I want to be The story which I wish to present alone with Peter for a while", he' in• condensed form is entitled, Two said. Come here' he said. Peter Gentlemen of Kentucky". One of thein is Colonel Romulus • Fields; the other his veryfaithful black servant, Peter Cotton. They were inseparable. The Colonel was a bachelor -ands well past middle age when the story opens -in the years immediately fol-� lowing the close of the American Civil War. The' Colonel had retained his land and a fair portion of his fortune; but he could no longer keep on farming. Farming had been his passion before the war. Then he had plenty of slaves to do .the labour of arming, but with the freeing of the slaves, labour was practically unob- ainable. Peter would not accept his freedom; both he and his wife found t more agreeable to continue serving their old 'nester. • To Her From whose frail body he drew life in the beginning, from, whose strong spirit he will draw life until the close, these tales, with all others haply hereafter to be written, are dedicated as a per- ishabe monument of ineffable re- membrance: ROA Vtui ,,,k 1\astrgi i9 iu!in,,,; yp(//p/////,y't v//////////rev roi�i //ter imf, tiom 0 • • "UNDER THE BIG TOP" Jack Rogers is as colourful in real life `_as he, is in his radio talks, "Under the Big Top," broadcast from Vancouver to CBC's national net- work, Wednesdays, 11.15 p.m. EDST. Whatever his topic of conversation, it is nearly always accompanied with gestures, ,facial contortions or exag- gerated' tones of voice. of course, Mr. Rogers can be serious; but since -he has been an .actor all his life, he acts both on and off the stage. In his broadcasts he strives to cover every phase of circus life and man- agement, and during his 17 years of residence in Los Angeles, he has learned' many things about animals ;used in the moving pictures. He has many stories to tell about the animal farms in California, where animals are bred and trained for both circus and motion picture use. CBR tech-' nicians in Vancouver have made ac- tual recordings, which are used as sound effects for this series. i fell at the foot of the bed, and clasping the Colonel's "feet with one arm, he pressed his cheek- against' them., Peter crept on his knees and buried his head on the Colonel's thigh. "Come ups here -closer", and the Colonel put one arm round Peter's neck, and Laid the other hand softly on his head, and said, "I've got to leave you, Peter. When yqur time comes, I should like you to be, laid close to me. If I shouldn't wake up any more, good-bye, Peter." "Several, hours later memory led the Colonel back again through the. dim gateway of the past, and out of that gateway his spirits finally took flight. Peter lingered a year. His mind fell into a lightness and a weakness. When the Colonel had so S et!mes Ire would be heard croon - farm, he moved to Lexington, taking rug the burden of old hymns, or Peter with him. In Lexington, in order to have some occupation, he op- ened a farm implement agency and hardwai<e store. He gave his cus- tomers a year's credit, and if a cus- tomer asked for a pound of nails, the Colonel would say, "I reek& that's about a pound -and he would 'YOUR HOME STATION' CKNX WING -IAM' 1200 Kcs.-Wingham--249.9 Metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th: 3 10 Salvation . 0 a.m. S va ton Army 11.00 "Clippings" 11.30 "House of Peter MacGregor"; 7,00 p.m. "Light Up & Listen Club"; 7.45 "Do You Know"; SATURDAY, AUGUST 13th: 10.30 a.m. Shut -Ins 12,00 noon Canadian Farm & Horne hour 12.45 p.m. CKNX Hill -Billies 6.15 Sport Reporter 7.30 Barn Dance. SUNDAY, `AUGUST 14th: 11.00 a.m. Wingham United church; 7.00 p.m. St. Andrew's Chuch, MONDAY, AUGUST 15th: INSPIRING RE -UNION SERVICE 10.30 a.m, Church of the Air; 111.00 "Clippings}" While motion 11.30 House of Peter MacGregor; picture, sound and7.00 p.m. "Light Up & Listen Club. miniature cameras in untold thous - 8,00 Kenneth Rentoul, Songs. ands recorded, for generations to come, the beautiful and inspiring TUESDAY, AUGUST 16th:. ` drumhead service of the Canadian 10.30 a,rn. Church o£ the Air Corps Association at Riverdale Paris, 10.35 "Jack & Jill" Toronto, on. Sunday, July 31, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1.30 p.m.. Pentecostal Hour took great pride, in being able to 7.00 "Light Up & Listen Club transmit the instantaneous sound- 4.45 "Do You Know" 'picture of this historical event to the WEDNESDAY, AUGUST' 17th: entire Dominion. With George Young, 11,00 "Clippings" himself a veteran of the -Great: War, 1 11.30 "House of Peter MacGregor" and T. 0. Wicklund as the commen- 7.00 "Light Up & Listen Club tators, millions of listeners through- I ! out the nation were informed of the THURSDAY, AUGUST 18th: proceedings as 40,000 vetcftans as- 11.45 a.m. "Jack & Jill" sembled with 100,000 visitors to par- j 7.00 "Light Up &Listen Club tici ate in one of the mos ins irin 8.00 Gladys Pickell, piano. Id his'• on. p t p g sometimes he would be seen sitting beside the old brass -nailed trunk,' fumbling with the spelling book and, "The Pilgrim's Progress." One gusty, day in spring he stood motionless be- side the Colonel's resting place. In one hand he held an open Bible and on a much -soiled page he was point- ing to the following words, "I would make up a parcel containing about not have` you ignorant, brethren, 10 lbs! Ile bought a large- supply concerning them which are asleep." of pocket knives and gave them, free, IIe was led' horse, and soon after to his customers. It need not be said wards a friend, who had loved then that the Colonel had to quit business both, laid hien beside the Colonel. , before very long. "It was perhaps fitting that his Then he became a man about town. winding sheet should be vestment, in He had always been a good dresser, which, years agone, he had preached and he bought many new suits. At to his fellow slaves in bondage; for, the end of the year Peter would be if it be so theft the dead of thele! wearing his master's discarded planet shall come forth from their clothes-and so the people of Lex- graves clad •in the trappings of ington had the }diverting sight of mortality, then Peter should arise on seeing the Colonel going about in the Resurrection Dtiy wearing his fine new clothes and following him, old jeans coat." in the Colonel's cast-off clothes, was; Peter -about a year behind! f The Colonel's fancy went to ultra fashionable and bright -coloured hose, t and Peter fell heir to these, in due i course i Acting on a whim -in a purpose to show that the had the spirit of youth -thee Colonel bought himself a dress i suit, and went to a fine ball clad in o the height of fashion! but he aid not dance, and was left at the rim of the During the spring season, Marchi o May, 1938, the concehtrated milk ndustry of Canada benefited by an ncreased demand on both domestic even my own concerns. I hate you!" Her voice choked a little. The 'warm, look came back to his eyes 'as he looked down at her standing. by Matt's old desk, so small and 'lovely, so bitterly angry at him. "I'm sorry," he said quietly.. "Not about Lawlor. That had to come. But we always seem to hit .things off the wrong way. 'I came up to tell you about it, but I don't bee lieve you want to hear it now. Good- bye --Virginia.' • Ile went out without further ado. Virginia sat there for some minutes longer, flushed and stormy. She was still angry, but there was a hurt in it. How could he, and why had she said what She did?. The most exa*erating thing of all was her enormous \ relief that Lawlor had gone., (Continued) "Say, ye think yo're the big boss around here, don't ye?" Lawlor blubtered, stung toa fresh rage. "You ain't nobody around here at all, and everybody knows it but you." . "Counting on that,, Lawlor?" The. voice was dangerously ,gentle. "May- be I haven't a technical right to fire you, but I can run you off this place like a scared jack rabbit, and I'm doing it now. Move!" Lawlor: gulped and glowered. Ilis Japan's trade with Canada during knife was gone, his gun' was gone. the first three months of 1938 was A snarl died in hip throat, still valued at 26,726,143 yen as against aching from the grip of hard ling- 26, 068,027 yen during the cor- Louden, Huron & Bruce ers, {and, with a sullen jerk of his responding period of 7937, an in - Going North, ar. 11.25 Ive. 11.47 p.m, shoulders, he turned and huraiedcrease of 658,116 yen. One yen equals Going South ar, 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. away. 29 cents Canadian. and British markets. Exports amounted to 6,900,000 pounds, reg - storing an advance of 13.5 per cent ver the corresponding period of 1937.. circles. He never wore his dress) clothes again. Then he and Peter went to a large] house set in very spacious grounds,: the outskirts of Lexington, and' there together, without any others tot help -for Peter's wife had died -the; Colonel and Peter lived out their re-. maiiting' years:. In his young and midilic years' Peter was a very acceptable preacher, among his coloured brethren. His' ministerial garb was a blue coat,' made frons cloth woven by the Col- onel's pother, and made by her as Well, She adorned the coat, at Peter's request by embroidering on it seven Spiritual texts -Woe is unto me if I' preach not the Gospel; Servants, be obedient to them that are your mast- ers according to the flesh; Cotner unto ire all ye that labour and 'are' heavy laden; Consider the lilies of, the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; Now abed -II eth faith, hope and charity, but the greatest of these is charity; I wotdd, ' not have you to be ignorant, broth-' ren, concerning them which ares asleep; For as in Adam all die, : so in. Christ shall all be made alive" To conclude these texts Peter had! his mistress' add "Amen", the only vacant place for this 4 -letter word was where the buttons go at the back, just above the tails. This coat Peter wore until it was no longer wearable. Yet he saved it until the day of hes death, patched, torn, moth-eaten, faded. The big- house and garden became the chief source of flowers needed by Lexington folk for marriages,' funerals, banquets; and in the case of at least two young .persons it be. carne romantic, • for there they did their courting; But steadily the Col- onel's strength and health declined; 1 as did also Peter's. Then there camel the days when the Colonel, in his big house,,; lay dying, and his mind religious services ever broadcast from one part of the Dominion to another. "The Canadian Corps was a unit hi the Great War; it is a unit to -day, and will always be a • unit. So must Canada and all Can -1 adians be one unit," said Archdeacon Frederich Scott, most famous of Canada's army chaplains, and best known as Canon Scott. During an hour and a half, radio listeners from the Atlantic to the Pacific took part with the re -united veterans, and once again a perfect example of one of the purposes of the CBC, Canada's' own nationwide network, has been observed; to unite all Canada and all her peoples. GENERAL MANAGER OF CBC SPEAKS The Canadian Broadcasting Corp- oration announces that its General Manager will speak over the CSC national network, Wednesday, Aug-, ust 17, 9.30 to 9.45 p.in. EDST. This talk,, which is one in a series of periodical broadcasts entitled, "Chat- ting with the Listener," will; deal with matters of interest to all radio - 'owners in the Dominion. Canadian Press Chief Finds Britain Busy Business in Great Britain is good except in the mining industry. In all other lines there is a shortage of skilled labor, stated H. P. Duch- emin, Publisher of the Sydney. Record, and and President of The Can- adian Press, when passing through Moncton en route back to Sydney on his return from overseas. Mr. Duchemin said he heard very little war talk in England. In fact, so far as he could ascertain the gen- eral opinion seemed to be that there was no immediate danger of any general European war. Speaking of his travel experiences, Mr. Duchemin declared that no- where dill he find any railway ser- vice superior to that of Canada's nationally -owned system and in sev- eral respects he found Canadian ser- vice superior. "Away to The Canadian Rockies" A new anti harmonious note in B". travel literature is the latest Brinley "Away" book -"Away to The Canadian Rockies and British Columbia" -by Gordon Brinley, with illustrations by her artistic husband, Putnam Brinley. Drawn to Western Canada by a booklet on the pleasures enjoyed by the Trail Riders of the Cana- dian Rockies, the ,'Travelling Brinleys" spent an entire summer in the pursuit of happiness - and of notes and illustrations for an addition to their popular series of travel books. In her happy, lucid style, Gor- don Brinley, the writer, tells of ''5: visit to Calgary to see the West's largest rodeo and prepare for a long pack trip to Mount Assiniboine. They spent a holiday With the Sky -Line Trail Hikers and the Trail Riders of the Cana- dian Rockies, visiting Moraine Lake, Larch Valley, and magnifi- cent Yoho Valley, and thoroughly enjoyed the novelty of living in Indian teepees, fishing for trout in lakes in the clouds, and thrill- ing to the changing pageantry of their surroundings. Further adventures carried them to such famous lakes as Louise, Emerald, and O'Hara, right over the Great Divide into British Columbia,and on to Van- couver where they discovered another vivid countryside and ex- cellent fishing in the Vancouver Island salmon runs. The two adventure -loving Am- ericans have a large following of readers who will see ttie Cana- dian West through their eyes, at- tracted by the charming drawings by Mr. Brinley, the blithe and readable tent by Mrs. Brinley, and the definite practical information they incorporate in their boots for those who would follow in their footsteps. The pictures above show Mr. and Mrs, Brinley (photo by Peter Whyte) and some of the Cana, dean Rockies' scepery, they, like best. ;