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The Clinton News Record, 1938-11-10, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THCRS, NO1r. 10, 1938 "Hills r�y" esti By Agties Louise Provost ;HEVItOLET i9s9 SYNOPSIS he hears Slanty's boast that the I 'was On the other side of the fa many mine contains rich ores which he bad was being lifted to his feet. A ghost - Lee Ilollister returns unexpectedly from abroad to find Matt Blair, his zoster father and owner of the Ciiele V ranch, dead by his own hand. The ranch is going to rutin. Virginia, Matt's daughter, returns home from New York to helps save her property. She has been persuaded by her uncle, Ellison Archer, to sell the ranch to Milton Braclish, scheming. ex -partner of her father, Milton's son, Stanley, in love with Virginia tries to dis- credit Lee in her eyes, but Lee and Virginia become engaged. Stanley then accuses Lee . of being a son. of Matt's, but Lee declares he will prove this charge untrue. One day he is imprisoned in the old abandoned Ban- anza mine by a slide caused by Slanty Gano, crooked sheep hand working with Lawlor, presumably'for Bradish. As Lee loses consciousness 1 The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. oe other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears ane paid unless at the option of the pub Helier. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES - Transient advertising 12e per count line for first insertion. 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small a'..vertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35c., each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub ligation must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor H. T. RANCE 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 'Succes'sor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton. Ont. A. E. COOK Piano and Voice Studio -E. C. Fickle, Phone 23w. 02-tf. D. H. 11IcINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron 'Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and lty appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE .ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered )Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton. or by calling phone 208. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed, hidden from Matt. Lawlor is hound- ��ly figure, ewathed in bandages, gaunt ed to death by the.Circle V when and hollow-eyed. A dead man risen. "That's the man," said Lee Hol- lister. "Lawlor didn't have anything to do with it." There was a stir 'toward Slanty, but Lee had not finished. His voice, was low, but they heard it. ".First I'll take that knife you were using, back there in the Bonanza tun- nel." The knife had been taken away from Slanty, but someone produced it and handed it over. "Open it." — Curly complied, showing two wick- ed looking blades. One of 'them was broken at the tip. Francisco was helping Lee take a bit of folded paper from his pocket . and opening it to show a triangular bit of metal. Curly laid the scrap against the Ibroken blade. - It fitted. Slanty moistened his lies. seeking Lee. Virginia joins the eearch. XXVII I The ragged' scar of the Bonanza came into view, and Virginia remem- bered Joey, seaechiu'g patiently and futilely for evidence in the loneliness of the old tunnel, and perhaps wait- ing for het'. Possibly he had not heard yet. She raised het voice 10 a clear call, "Joey! Joey!" There wasno- answer. t He might be too far back in the tunnel to hear her. She put her horse to the slope quickly, an drew up just below the yawning mouth: She swung off hur- riedly, feeling for her pocket flash- light as she climbed the last few ,feet to the tunnel's mouth. - It hiad been lonely on the hill- side; it was dimand ghostly in, here. She snapped on the flash as soon as she 'had gone in a little way in. The pencil of white Light flicked over tock walls acid rubble -strewn !icer, but there was no sign 'of Joey. She wsilked slowly on, playing the flashlight from side to side, follow- ing it With nervous, alert glances. The mouth of the tunnel seemed a long way back. Just ahead there was a ' darkly looming bulk which must mark the spot where the big cave-in blocked all further ingress to the mine. The white beam danced along the face of the slide. Earth, stones, rubble. It switched down, up, jerked sudden- ly and carne back, searching wildly. It had picked up something that had no business there,a curious object, clawlike and still, protruding stiffly from the piled earth and stone. Gaunt and torn, blood -crusted and earth stained, motionless, a human hand Yesterday that hand had not been there! • THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Fiend Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: t President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- forth; Viee President, William Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M: A. Reid,' Seaforth. ' Directors, Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, Walton; Jaynes Connolly, Goderich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. MeEwing Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1 Goderich, Phone . 603x31, . Clinton; James Watt, Blyth;. John E. Pepper Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKey cher, Dublin, R. R. No.'1; Chas. F Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. d Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank o Commerce, Seaforth. or . at Calvi Cbtt's 'Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect incur anee or transact other business wil he promptly attended to on applica ion to any ,or the above •officers ad &latsed to their respective post offs ces. Losses inspected by the direct° who lives nearest the scene. f n• r "Slanty Gano, I accuse you of the 1 minder of Matt Blair. A man with brains, Slanty, would have filed a new point on the blade long ago". A murmur ran through the group like a low growl, but Lee went on. "I never believed that Matt com- mitted suicide. When. I came back I found that knife point, nearly hid- den in a crack in the drawer of the desk where Matt worked. That drawer always stuck, and it was clear that somebody had tried to open it with a knife blade and had snapped the point off. And it was equally .clear that nobody' who belonged around the Circle V could have done it, because they'd seen Matt open that drawer too often, slipping his hand under it from the drawer be- low and sliding it nut with his finger tips. Only I didn't know how long that scrap of steel had been there, nor from whose knife it had come." He swayed, fighting weakness, but the tired voice went on, pounding at the sullen, tight-lipped man in front of him. "But you talked in that . tunnel, Slanty, when you thought you were shutting ane in there for good. You bragged. . And I'vehad plenty of Hine to piece the bits together. You shot Matt Blair as he lay asleep i)t his chairs with everybody gone to the barbecue, and then you fired a shot from his own gun and drop- ped it beside him. Matt must have been asleep, because you would never have got that close if he hadn't been, and you needed powder burns.'on him to make it look like suicide. He was dead tired that night for he hadn't slept, the night before, probably be- cause the Assay Office letter was worrying him. You'll remember that Ling testified to that at the inquest." Slanty stirred and mumbled dd4 fiantly. "I don't know nathin' about it. Yore .tualcin' up things..I found that knife--" "Don't lie to rate! Yon had that knife before I went away, and the blades were all right Hien. You hat- ed Matt because he thrashed you for abusing a horse and told you nev- er to set foot on CircleV land again. That was one reason. And I'm guessing that he had caught you red- handed at the Bonanza, engineering one of your favorite cave-ins to hide the ore samples you had stolen from him, when 'you changed them for the trash that actuallywent to the' As- say Office. But I don't think Ise knew that." "But when he caught you, Slanty, you knew your game would soon be sup, and your schemes for Making big money would go with it, You might have shot him right there, but that would have meant open murder and everybody out to get the yuan who had killed Matt Blair. So you followed him like a skulking wolf, and then you went through his desk hunting fo:r any papers that might upset' your plans. When 'I: got of your trail, months later, you tried to put me out ofthe way ,too, but this time it didn't work Now, Slanty, we'll hear, your ' confession, and you might as well come across with it, because we've got you cold," Slanty moistened dry , lips again. He broke into snarling justification. "Confess nothin'1 Takia' it all out on me, ain't ye, I'm jes' the dumb. "Leel Lee! It's Virginia! I'm coining!" Her piercing call beat at the stolid barrier as she began to dig frant- ically, with tender, unaccustomed hands, but a few seconds showed her helplessness. She jumped to her feet and ran fleetly back to the entrance, remembering those riding men.,. "Ssst!" The warning sibilance brought her up sharply, almost at the tunnel's mouth. There was a rustle in the scrub out there, ':and Slanty Gatto lurched through. "Shut upl" he said savagely. "One more squawk like that one back there and I'll choke it 'out of ye." She backed hastily away, sick with a new terror.: Slanty Gano knew that Lee was back there, and he meant to kill her if she gave an alarm. He wanted Lee dead Huge paws caught and dragged her, hot breath was on her neck as she twisted her head away from the one sure thing that would bring ,those riding men at top . speed, a woman's frantic screams. They ripped- through .the air like knives, keen with mortal terror, choking out as brutal hands gripped her throat. But. she had done it— "Help! ''Lee! Leel" ' From the far side of the ridge an- swering yells' came.. ' Slanty stopped only long enough to fling her from him as he leaped for the shelter of the sexub. Stag- gering and failing, she spun to the edge and dropped, bruised by atones and torn ,at by'prickly bushes, but safe. Slanty had disappeared, but over the crest of the ridge six or eight figures spilled suddenly, men riding headlong, Circle V men, hers -,-and Lee's. A ,little later they were digging and scooping with - anything they could find. One had . gone tearing off for shovels and picks. Torches flared. The shovels came and began' eating their way, steadily' and care- fully into the pile.of dirt and stones. Now and then the working men: stop• - ped to shout encougagement to some- one within, but no answer came. Vieginia lonelt .anxiously, .by her little kit of mercy which had seem- ed so useless only a short time be- fore. Water for a parched mouth, bandages, broth heating over a fire ranch hand that was 'hired for some to .nourish hiin—if he still lived. I dirty work, an' so yo're safe in goin', That night .a group of men rode, for me. What about the fella that's into Turkey Gulch. They held a.bief been .payin'.me? Ye don't dare go after him, Lee Hollister! When I tell ye— "I'm going after him now,". said Lee' and sagged suddenly between the e and he the reflected men light of a casspifire, and the shad -who held hitn. whereby caught g A little later two processions left. One; silent and unsmiling; went. to- ward the county. seat. The other. with strong and gentle hands, carried Lee to the ranch house and Virginia, CA ORM ATIOwnt ' * w Xs TIME TABLE 'Brains win arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich DIY.' Going East, depart 6.58 a.m. Going East, depart 8.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. Going West, depart 10,00 p.m. They moved methodically forward, who waited for him. London, Huron & Brace carrying their prisoner with them:. 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KIRKWOOD ' ham} Lincoln was not r•egaedecl. as '"5° • being a clever man — just a very !plain man, a man of the people; yet .. among all U.S.A. Presidents he re- C.;o' mains the most revered. rw'v'L•anna"•°":6,enan.nne.".".".".°M.V.".""".""".'L°.".n.Y""."."" .W."n""","n■.f.41 Lord Birkenhead, perhaps better Clever persons are dangerous per-, persons who -will take thein positions known as "F. E. Smith" is always sons—dangerous to themselves and to in front of us and guide us as we spoken of as being an extraordinary Daring the 1937 provincial election others. One need never lament over go forward, and who will inspire lever man. His exceptional clever- Rev, Mr, Bremner, while attending his being a very ordinary .person. ns; yet we want our leaders to have ness made him famous and made him a Hepburn meeting at Kincardine, persons get along better in union with us—to .think as we think, a peer: yet lie burned himself out sent up to the platform a note ask - this world than do the extraordin- to understand us, to stay with us in in middle. life. ;ing wr to, clo with hat thethe Canada TemperancePremieintended Act CanadasTemperance Act Solite Brief Notes on the NO. 8 THE NEED OF, A COUNTY LOCAL OPTION LAW ary or clever persons, the spirit of fellowship. We want I suppose all of us can think of to lean- on our leaders—to draw their acquaintances of ours who were re- Mr. Hepburn, speaking from the strength and spirit into ourselves, garded as being notable clever, yet platform, replied that he would if We want them to have clearer pet' whose lives cuhninated In ghastly requested by those concerned submit captions than we ' have, to have failure. the question of the validity of the stronger wills, to have greatersour-I If you are not clever, take much Canada Temperance Act to the Sup - age, and greater resolution; but we comfort from this knowledge. You reme Court of Canada. want them to belong to us, to be are likely to be living more happily In accord with this promise, the joined to us in sympathy. We do not than are the clever ones, and are inquest that he do so was forwarded want them to outshine us or to be libely to live longer and more use- to the government from the temper - aloof from us. We want them to be fully. Yon may not shine as brightly ante Executive of each of the three of us, both receiving and returning as the clever ones, and may be less counties. The matter was also our spirit. We want their hearts to honoured by your fellowmen. But brought to his attention by The On: those who watch clever children per- beat in accord with our own. , you are certain to have greater pop- tario Temperance Federation and he form are repelled rather than at-' • { niarrty than the clever ones, and to expressed his willingness to do so. traded by exhibitions of cleverness It is probable that many of my; enjoy life in larger degrees. Not Delay has, however, intervened and in children. readers ale clever persons. To them being clever, you are under inner the promise has not yet been im- Cleverness can be of the hand or I would say this: Guard yourselves urgement to exhibit cleverness: you plemented. A. note from the Attorney against the pitfalls of cleverness. Do are not forever on the stage, an actor General's Department to The Ontario body as well as of the mind, and not indulge your are too much. before the multitude. Your life does_ Tencperapice Federation during the manual clevethess is not likely to Be grateful that you are clever, yet not have to be artificial. You eats recent summer has advised them that be offensive to any. It is the clever- harness your cleverness. Beep it live simply, and can get pleasure oat a submission is being prepared and ness of the intellect which one lis-' Donn carrying you away from the of more things than ,can the clever it is expected that it will go forward trusts. Cleverness suggests superior masses of the people. Put brakes on quickness or facility or adroitness, man out of step and out of tune with this fall. your cleverness, in order that yeti the common people. and :hoe possessing cleverness are may go forward at the pace of those � Quite apart from tIde legal ap,t to rely on their quality of clever- Not being clever, you can go for- intricacies of the jurisdiction of the ness overmuch. The hare was clever; 'ort whom, you must rely for pour ward along your pathway confident- two governments on this matter, the bread and butter. I yany loss that the destruction of the Can - the tortoise was very ordinary. The I heard recent' about three per - 'sons I without madness of haste or tortoise won the 'rake. The hare's y , p effort, - The almost certain thing is ads Temperance Act would involve sons whom the Wold calls clever— that yon will accumulate more of to democratic procedure and pr'o ae aver -confidence led him to be cot- Ifather, mother, sot. The father I this world's goods than the clever p m tem tuous of the stolid ersistence sive social reform would be serious p P ]cnew when he was ti child of five. man, all impatience, and perhaps of the tortoise. The' hay's felt that He was bi '-e ed and shy.His school -indeed. So long as there is adequate he could go to sleep and yet win big -eyed short-lived, and likely to. be unstable, law and vigorous enforcement of the fellows buffeted him 'about becau Yet there are so many persons who want to be considered as being clev- er, and parents want their children to be- clever. . Parents having so- called clever children take pride in the reflection that their children in- herit their cleverness, Clever child- ren advertise clever parents—so par- ents want to believe. Parents of clever children want them to be showing off all the time, this not- withstanding that they know that conference end dismounted,, . shiftinig around a central point. ,Theywhit- ed, watchful and taciturn, Some of Slanty's hardiness seetn:- ed to have left him, From, some- ows of men moving across it,. Pres- ently one of the shadows came back and spoke briefly. "All ready." se She race. The tortoise knew that he was a softie. They kicked him a ----- needy, y -toady, unflagging effort was his and in outer ways made hint suffer PEACE HYPOCRITES only good quality, pain. We call for peace and there is no This, fable of the hare and the That lad rew up,and exhibited peace' And there never will be so g tortoise should be comforting to •all- the quality of cleverness—even brit- long as our present outlook is to- 'rdiniary' persons: it assures then: fiance of intellect. He matricnlated,waed the Almighty Dollar instead of that they can win, over the course brilliantly: His university course waS toward Almighty God. of life, in competition with those who a brilliant one. He became a spec -1 Most of the world today is calling are clever. !ialist in a particularfield of study for peace, some nations for peace at Cleverness canbe both an inherited' --one unattractive to most then. In any price, and' all these countries are and an acquired quality. Those' pos- the years following his graduation he supplying munitions of war to count- sessing cleverness have an invaluable has become an international figure, ries which have war tendencies. asset, but 'an -asset which requires Foreign governments have 'employed We notice the United States of close watching if it is to be a real his services. • America, a country that talks of aid to one inhis progress through This •man married a clever woman. peace perhaps More than any other life. Joined to the quality of clever- His son, now, grown up, is said to be country, is supplying 54.4 per Cent ness must be theq ualities: of steadi- clever.' But all three in this fancily of the materials absolutely neces- ness and persistence, perhaps also of are declared by those' who know sary to Japan. -.in her war against humility, if one is to be a great them to be eccentric, and the sot is China. Senator Pope of Idaho says success. I said tobe uncouth to the point of it is doubtful, if Japan could get Cleverness tripsthose possessing boorishness. I ant told that they these materials if the States were it. — deceive them —. vitiates their live abnormally.: Their homy is ut- not willing to supply her. sturdy qualities. The very imminent terly unattractive. Their manners 1 According, to statistics, Britain is danger always threatening clever ,and ways are not those 'ofnormal persons is that they will `'lave small persons, and have cut them off, in patience with their' fellows; they large measure, !ram ' companionable wont • all others to go forward at fellowship. their pace. Clever persons become Stanley Baldwin, Britain's ex- intolerant of the slowness,' perhaps premier; has never been Balled a the stupidi,ty of others, Cleverness clever man. Lloyd George, on the produces unhappiness and discontent other hand, is described as bding in those ,possessing it Cleverness clever; and so, too, is Winston puts one out of -step with the mul- Churchill; Yet Stanley Baldwin is titud'e, held 'by the world in higher esteem What the world wants—nand re- than are 'Lloyd George and Winston supplying 17.5 per cent of Japan's war materials, Dutch, India, Ger- many, Belgium, China, Norway and Switzerland are supplying 13.4 per. cent. The irony of it all is that with very !few exceptions civiliza.ti,o'n is hoping, Japan :will' fail in her un- justified invasioi. of China, andis at the same time supplying ,Japan with the wherewithal to continue the massacre. wards—is sympathy. We like best Churchill. President Wilson of the The Almighty Dollar seems to have `hose who ,are most like ourselves. United States was regarded as be -I the inside track just) 'now on'Al- It is true that we want leaders—'ng a . clever man, yet' he is declared mighty God, -Durham Chronicle. 'same, it is not of great moment to ,the citizens generally whether it is under provincial or Federal jurisdic- tion. What is of paramount impor- tance is that government should re cognize that the liquor traffic is a social evil of great magnitude and wide ramifications; that it is deeply enSsrenched and that legislation in the interests of the well-being of our citizens should facilitate the reason - !able advance of the developing public opinion against such an enemy of society. With; the, ,development of modern transportation, municipal local option must prove inadequate to properly protect dry areas. It is possible for one municipality, :soitte- times a comparatively insignificant one, to establish in its borders what is essentially a nuisance and a dan- ger, not merely to itself but to a wide area .of adjoining territory. In these circumstances some such county law is reasonable, wholly de- sirable and necessary. The Canada Temperance Act, applicable to count- ies is such a law; and until the province' provides a like measure on an equally democratic basis, the Can- ada Temperance Ant should be main- tained. To attack it while offering no fair and adequate substitute Is simply to become the tool of the con- scienceless liquor interests which so. far as it dared would resist and overthrow' any law that restricts its, juggernautic ,progress.