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The Clinton News Record, 1938-09-08, Page 2'PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, ills Of Destiny" By Agnes Louise Provost Synopsis XIX Lee Hollister, returning unexpect- Stanley Bradish 'night be a useless •edly from a trip abroad to the Circle young idler whose knowledge -of fin- !' ranch, his home from rom childhood is'ance, began and -ended with juggling troubled by signs' of neglect. Joey, princely debts against the grim pat - :an old prospector friend of Matt icnce of a self-made father, but he :Blair, Lee's foster father and owner had plenty of naturalt shrewdness. .of the ranch, Veils Lee. that Matt has Several things had aroused his cur- ilcilled himself, probably discouraged iosity since he had come here, and by hard times. The ranch is going chief among .tlienx'-were the activities to ruin and Virginia, Matt's daught- of Lawlor and Slanty Gano..• er, is visiting the Archers, her aunt More than once he had seen a sig- :and uncle in -New York. nificant glance pass between Virgin - Her ,uncle wants her'to sell, the la's foreman and the ill-favored, in- Tlaee to Milton Bradish, old associate dividual who made .a slouching pre - of Matt's. re-of:'Matt's. Lee persuades Virginia tease of running the Rancho Ceballos to return to the ranch. Mrs. Archer for' its non-resident owner, and once 'follows her, accompanied by Stanley, he had seen them slinking along by son of Milton Bradish. Stanley thinks separate routes to a furtive meeting. he, may be able to discredit Lee in •It was a combination worth remem- Virginia's eyes, and encourages Jos- bering. Both of them had shown a efa Ramirez in her liking for Lee. curious, half' sly interest in hire, and One evening Josefa forces Lee to both held undoubted grudges against • •watch her dance, and throws herself Lee Hollister. People with grudges into his arms• just as Virginia rides against Lee Hollister interested Stan - ;past with Stanley. ley. Lawlor had departed abruptly and by night, but Slanty Gano was still there. The grey car stood idle much of the time. Stanley rode horseback, chiefly through the' hills. Usually he rode alone. Virginia of late had The Clinton News -Record '•"' with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION :$1.50 per year in advance, to Can- seemed ' much occupied with affairs radian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or of her own. other foreign countries. No paper A few days after the fire he rode •discontinued until all arrears are from blazing sunshine into the dim paid unless at the option of the pub- seclusion of a little canyon, -with a 'Usher. The date to which every sub- breath of relief. There was a little scxiption is paid is denoted on the Pocky ascot about halfway down, fed :label. , by a silver thread of waterfall, and ADVERTISING• RATES — Transient here Slanty Gano was just rising :advertising 12c per count line for from a copious drink. "How d'you do? Pretty hot out there." Stanley joined the hulking figure at the poet and dismounted, cupping both palms under the silver thread for 55c., each subsequent insertion and drinking from them. He felt 15c. Rates 'for display advertising the man's sly regard on him, "I passed your friend Hollister about a mile back," Stanley volun- teered carelessly. 'He rides around a good deal, doesn't he? I should think he'd be 'settling down to a job" "He's too busy mindin' other: peo- ple's business," Slanty sneered. Then he grinned knowingly. "Some folks reckon Lee's hangin' around to set- tle•aux•ance Agent. Representing 14 Fire himself for life at the Circle V. !Insurance Companies. Pretty soft job, hey?"' The grin was Division Court Office. Clinton an offensive leer. Cold annoyance showed, on the young man's face, "Tie may be disappointed," ho said curtly. "He's working against Miss Blair's interests to promote his own, and it's time somebody took him in hand. , He's' giving my father a lot of trouble, too." "Trouble's his middle name," said Slanty sourly. "He eats it." "Then why net feed hint more of 95 tf. it?" Stanley suggested. "My father and I will do a lot more for the men who stand by us than he ever will." The cards were on the table now. The 'two men, so far apart in every outward circumstance, eyed each oth- er steadily, each weighing the other's possibilities and probing for whatthe other might know. ' "If Hollister gets what to wants, he is going to give you a bad tithe," Stanley taunted softly. "He doesn't like you Ganot rind he •jintluences other people against you, You've been around, here a long time," he went on smoothly. "I imagine you know a good deal about Hollister." "I reckon I do.". The man who hated Lee Hollister was cautiously appraising the son of millions. A calculating shrewdness was, in Slan- ty's face, low cunning; and an un- ctuous mirth.; "I shore do,". he boast- ed. "I reckon T know as much about that ,hombre as any man livin'. I could tell a lot if I wanted to." "Well, why don't you? If you toll it to the right man, it might be worth while." Very deliberately, ulnder Slanty's watching eyes, Stanley drew a wallet from his pocket. Inspiration had come to Stanley. Re had sought a meeting to enlist Slanty Gano's aid in a careful plan to have Lee Hollister and Josefa Ramirez disappear from this, part of the country on the same night: Jos- efa would yield to trinkets and kis- ses, and there Slanty would not be in his confidence. • Hollister, less manageable, would .go. to sleep in his own' cabin 'and awaken hours later, groggy with dope and quarrelsome with resentment, on board a tramp freighter bound for some distant port. These at least, were to. be Slanty's instructions, What, a vin- dictive Slanty mightdo to an un- conscious tram inhit power was a detail which Stanley preferred not tc consider. Now the elaborate and perilous plan was thrown aside. Slanty- knew something. Stanley's :fingers went to the wallet and drew out a crisp hundred dollar, bill. Slanty snorted scornfully, although his eyes clung to it.. "What I know, I know," he said obstinately, "an' 1 ain't renin' it now. It may come. in useful some day' Stanley ' smiled. The hand wont b ck to the .wallet and brought out something better, This time it was a thousand dollar bill. Slanty's -eyes ,glistenedgreedily. He had never even seen, one of those things, much less owned one, which Was exaetly what Stanley had count- ed on, A promise of a thousand or so Slanty might laugh at; but in the actual, enticing presence of cash, cupidity would defeat itself, Stanley watched him 'narrowly. Slanty was moistening - avid lips with the tip of his tongue ,Covetous .fing- ers stole toward the bill. Slanty lean- ed forward and whispered, "a sly grin showing his discolored teeth. Stanley did not return directly to the Circle V; At a point where the trail divined he,.. turned his,. horse sharply and took the fork that -led south. It would bring him, in time, to that small huddle of adode build- ings, the Ramirez ranchito. Stanley had not seen Josefa since the afternoon when she had danced for Lee Hollister, and he was in- terested to. know just how tbat little experiment had turned out. Not very welt for Josefa, he imagined. He enjoyed Josefa. She was an exciting little devil, impudent and gay, and a baby wildcat when he teased her about Hollister. He'd have to soft pedal on that. He rode rapidly now, but with a degree of watchfulness as he came nearer to Francisco's modest abode. Stanley was not particularly anxious to encounter that swarthy buccaneer. Francisco..had glowered at him sus- piciously the last time they had met. The country through which he rode aided his diplomatic caution, Fos most of the way it led through the hills, and then came out on a wide basin, Stanley rode to theedge of shelter and pulled in. Below him was the little adode ranch house, mellow in the sunshine, the clutter of sheds and a pole corral; back of him was the deep, sheltered ravine' that he had just come through. Ile had met Josefa here before. - There was no sign of life about the house. Probably Francisco and his sons were off with the sheep, which was what Stanely was count- ing on. Ile dismounted and whistled a clear, melodious call. A moment later he whistled again. There was movement, quickly stil- led, on the slope _ back of him, but Stanley did not see it. There was other movement mucli 'tearer and a flash of color as . Josefa sat up be- hind the ,,rock where she had been curled like a kitten. "Oh—hello, beautiful!" He wheeled and caught sight of her. "Hiding out on hie, were you?" Josefa shrugged a disdainful shoulder. "I been here," she said coldly. Amusement flickered over. Stanley's face. On her dignity, was he? He'd have to make lois peace for neglec- ting her. "I've been busy, Josefa, Really. Haven't even had the car out 'in three days. But. I sent away for a present :for you, and' it just came." His hand slipped inside lis coat and came out with a velvet case. Josefa's eyes flashedandthen glist- ened. She had meant to be very angry; with Stanley. Ifit had not been for Stanleyl's silly talk. about eastern girls, Lee would not be displeased with her now, not even coating any- where near the ranehito. It was all Stanley' fault . But the case was beautiful, so richly blue. "A a -a -hl" ••It'' was a breath of pure ecstasy. On a bed of gleaming ltixury a gor- geous bracelet lay, shining with pale gold, glittering with brilliants. "Don't I rate a kiss for that?" "Mebbe so." Josefa sighed 'hap- pily. "I put it on first." Site reached eagerly for beauty, and suddenly froze. "What's the matter?" Stanley got no further, ,losefa's glance had darted beyond him, her eyes dilating. Ile heard a quick gasp as she tore herself away from him; she started running like a fleet l2ttle animal. Before he could even. whirl to face clanger, the crack of a rifle and a stinging shock cane almost simultaneously. (Continued) first insertion. 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This fact that the Bible is man -written and man-compiled—takes not a particle away from the Bible's' value as a book of revelation of God to men— pettiness and Paltriness of what I and doing day after day. Most of us are concerned with the animal -like business of getting food and shelter and clothing for our bodies and with 1.1 of God's will concerning man, and of ,the` rather foolish enterprise oL ac - by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD ' the way of life for roan—an ever-cuinulating money, forgetting that :'•'L•.M..•a•isS!�Y.•.1L•"d!.'..L'."r'.1•.Y1°a•.•.Y�L"•'1'.•.rN.rati�.•df.Wr"J�' clarifying revelation. (shrouds have no pockets. Only very Most of us, I suppose, imagine our- selves to be hard workers. The navvy regards himself es being a hard worker; so, too, elo captains of in- dustey, university professors, steno- graphers --typists, accountants, truck drivers, lawyers and doctors. Buell of us maydescribe himself as being a hard worker, but when I read of the work beingdone'.. by some classes of workers, then I .feel that my own work and the work being clone by ,many others about hie, are play by comparison, and that ou't wont is about as important to the worldas is the feather from a .pillow of nest which' the wind blows to and from some of its stars has taken this Y Well-mfommed man knows, ew persons in any eommunity—and that the Hebrews of the Old Testa -1 this includes farmers—.spend their length of geologytieol. to s reach the earth. merit—"God's chosen people"— were energy, talent, genius, in enterprises Then, too, is able to recon- educt the physical eoiirjitions of 240,- an enormously sinful people—this de calculated to add to the world's know able to assure us not only that ,the the eutstod ons 000;000 years' ago. Geologists are spite the cireutiistance that they were ledge and wisdom,' and to make the of the ever increasing• lives of others riche? in -spirit, earth is 240,000,000 years old, lint 'knowledge of God and of his will .achievement and purpose. also that our sun has changed ver Y thconcerning 'e Jews. Every'' well -in -1 We may imagine that we work gL. formed person in these present days hard; but does 'not the hard work little in this period, file oldest rocks . of all show agesto :1750 000 ears knows that the Hebrews of ancient b up y tines used the myths of other na- since solidification. Astronomers as- sure us that there is a sort of finity noire and of prehistoric tithes -this to infinity—that space cannot have when they wrote therm national re- p cords, and that they Habrewized been expanding for more .than 100,- , these myths and legends, and applied Pall rye productions in Canada in 000,000,000,years. They assure ns c aims. m to suit the national pride and, 1938 is estimated to amount to' 9,- dints. ' 516,000 bushels from 553,500 acres, This same soft of national pride compared with the, 1937 production continues to this day. Every nation in its effort to record its history has to 'deal with myths and legends. Japanis an illustration of this tend- ency endency to incorporate into written hist- ory the myths of prehistoric periods. Thus in Japan's two oldest boob, dated about the eighth century after Christ, there are tales of gods and the marriages of these gods and of. their adventurings. Of one of these unions was born the first human em- peror of Japan—about 660 B.C. To this day the Japanese believe in the divine origin of their emperors. And in. British history we read of many of its kings who were kings by "divine right". It should not shock and disturb the faith of . any Christian to be told that the stories of the Creation and the Flood antedate in both legend- ary and written form,' by many,,. many centuries their incorporation into the Book of Genesis. done by most of. us resemble' the labour of the squirrel in the cage and of the dog in ;the treadmill? that in the last 1,000,000,000 years the dimensions of space have chang- fro. ed very appreciably—probably up to Take' our great astronomers, by 60'o. • way of example, and compare':their -+-, work with our own—the work which Nos if we believe that the God we do to earn money for our neves- of the Bible created the. universe "in sities and perhaps for accumulation, the beginning"—and most intellegent We may think that astronomers are persons believe in a. divine creation of not contributing much to the world— that their kind of learning and their discoveries savour of intellectuality of sorts and are as useless to human- ity as are the writings of many hund- reds.,of novel and short -story writers. Yet these astronomers have a quality of mind and a devotion to their kind of work which make what I do seem like the play of Mittens or babes. For the universe—then we have to believe that our God has been governing the universe for over 100,000,000,000 Years, which means that he has been governing our earth and its affairs and its inhabitants for so many tril- lions of years that the period of re- corded human history is but a pin- point in the total number of years astronomers spend their, days andof the earths formation. So what ni ?lits in studying the dimensions, does it matter in the totality of g g human history—thee great wpr begun the physical cll'araeter the signifi- in 1914 and lasting four years; or cance of the universe and of its cern- ponent stars, planets and constella the great wars on the pre -Christian era, and of the wars since the birth tions. of Christ? What does it matter— the current wars in China and 'Spain? What does it matter— the Our astronomers have discovered. current anxieties over the possibil- that our sun is 300,000 times aslity of another great European war? massive as the planet on which we Ansi how silly are the predictions of live; that our sun is just one of bil- ( so-called interpreters of the • Bible- lions of suns, some of which are a those predictions that this earth's billion tines larger than our sun; end is to ,,coax in the coming 40's ? that light from the remotest stars,' Probably most Christians contin.ue travelling at the rate of over 3 miles to believe .that our planet was creat- e second; requires 100,000 years of ed by God about 6000 years ago. time to reach us; that there are They base this belief on the story of stars and suns in the heaven which Creation as found in Genesis and on lie a million light years apart; avid the dates as found in The marginal that the light which the earth re -'notes of the Bible -not knowing that eeives from these stars started to- these figures were inserted, for the ward us 200,000,000 years ago! - It first time, only 300 year ago, by the is now known that many stars have translators of the Bible, and tvere put a candle power' far exceeding thati there in order to establish their of our sun -up to 100,000 times!ehronologies. There continue to be greater, (millions of good Christians who be - The astronomers have discovered sieve that the Bible Its we have it the age of the universe—up to a i today is the authentic word of God point. Thus, they have discovered this despite the fact that the var- that tite universe is at least 240,000- sous "books" of the BibTe were man - 000 years old—this since the light written and man -assembled over a HOME CANNED SALES There are two important points in connection with the sale of home can- ned products. If 'these products are to be soler out of the province in whieh they were made, a permit must be obtained from the Fruit and Veg- etable Division of the Marketing Services, Dominion Department of Agriculture, slid all :such products offered for retail trade must ootnpiy with the regulations of the Meat and Canned Foods Act. It is the• titanic energy of astron- omers, geologists, historians, arch- eologists,' scientists, chemists and discoverers, with the pure, unselfish, self-sacrificing and measureless de- votion to their objectives which makes me to be perceptive of the of 4,579,000 bushels from 700,300 acres, or a yield of 17.2 bushels per acro in.1938'and 6.5 bushels per acre in 1937. PiPE -T-- TOBACCO FOR :'A`MILD, 'CSM OOLOKE UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT Western Fair, Sept. 12th:19th, I938 One of the most attractive features at the Western Fair in 1937 was the UNIVERSITY of WESTERN ONTARIO exhibit on the second floor at the east end of the Manufacturers' Building. Thousands of people visited the exhibit and found it intensely interesting. It will be in place again this yeah in an enlarged and im- proved form. Do not miss it. Young people who are look- ing forward to a university career should not fail to see this exhibit. 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Fundamental and basic as such a statement is, it is well for all of us who are' concerned with distributing things which have been made, to the places and peoples where they' are used, to repeat it frequently to ourselves. For there has been too much advertising waste, resulting from the very lack of—iepetittiion. Toot many beginnings of advertising programs, .based on well -laid plans, which have for varied reatons not gone beygnd the beginning stage. And thereby they have made a squandering of the cost of that beginning. But what is more serious, they have failed of fruition for lack of continuity, which is, broadly, another way of saying REPETITION - Spasmodic Effort will not WIN = Persistency WILL REGULAR SPACE IN The Clinton News -Record Will Bring Satisfactory Results 7