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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-05-11, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECOIW THURS., MAY 11, 1939 Eden 'Phillpotts 'TOM AYLMER: At the time the story opens is living in Peru,man.- p b" aging silver mines belonging to his father. TELICEPARDO: A Peruvian Who, although young, has been fifteen ears in the service of the Aylmer ruining enterprise. He is the Most trusted native employee. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS Mrs. MERCY AYLMER:. Tom's mother; egotistical and exacting. JANE. .BRADSHAW: Tom Aylmer's fiancee. At the time the story opens, the expectation is that these two will marry on Tom's next leave in England. • ANGUS" MAINE: A young' Scot on Ayliner's.,staff, and close compan- ion of Tom. JACOB FERNANDEZ: A rich, eld- erly South American whose hobby is the study of bird life. He is a bachelor and is engaged upon a monumental literary work on the SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS' CHAPTERS. Tom Aylmer and Angus` Maine are enjoying a holiday on the hills of. Peru When Felice Pardo rides out to them with a cabled message announc- ing the death of Tome father. Tom knows that his father has bequeath- ed to him the- Peruvian silver mines of which he (Tom) is the manager. He decides to sail for England at recce and to. oke Angus for company. Before Ieaving Lima, Tom buys a parrot, to give to his fiancee, Jane The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated 6 THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub= Usher. Theadate to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Transient -advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35c., each subsequent insertion 15c. 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Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended. to on appliea- fon to any ,of the above officers ad- ,gressed to their -respective post °M- r % Losses inspected by the director •who lives nearest the scene. TialE TABLE grains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: 'Buffalo and Goderich Div tGohm' East, depart . . -6.58 aim. Going Fast, depart ' 1.00 p.m. (Going West, depart 11.46 a.m, Going West, depart 10,00 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce (Going North, ar. 11.25 lve. 11.47 p.m, Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. Bradshaw. The bird, bought from al dealer whom Tom knows and trusts,' ja according to, the dealer, a very exceptional parrot, and is about rev -I enty years of age—no great age for a parrot. On the liner, the bird engages the attention of Jacob Fernandez, a rich man, of, Lima, who ` is bound for Panama, whose life hobby is,. the' study of birds. To Fernandez, the parrottalks, but the only words he can detect in al string of sounds are "Benny Boss." Fernandez says he knew a man of that name, and proceeds to tell Tom and Angus what he knows. Benny was a man of mixed parent- age—English and Peruvian—who, for a time, fifty years earlier, worked for Fernandez. They parted company and after an interval, Benny tried, unsuccessfully, to sell to Fernandez a large ruby worth much more than the price he put on it. Piecing to- gether what he learned about Benny in later years, it seems. that Benny had been engaged in dredging on Lake Titicaca, and that he had dredg- ed up jewels thrown into the lake at the time of the Spanish conquest. Fernandez advises Tom to have the bird's speech investigated by an ex- pert. CHAPTER V AN EXPERT iVir. Gregory Barbour was a small man of fifty years old. He already grew bald, and the result was to make his high forehead loftier still. He shaved clean and his face was withered and lacked animation, las often happens where no sense of hum- our lights the countenance. But his small slate -coloured eyes were bright behind his unusually large spectacles; his mouth was neat and firm; his chin tended to recede. The linguist had known Jane's parents in their time and entertained considerable ad- miration for her, but he had striven to turn the girl from her hobby. "With your university career and; your excellent degree," said Gregory, "this pursuit of rearing tropical fowl for profit is unworthy of you; Jane." He always talked like that. Jane, however, preferred Gouldian finches to the paths of scholarship. Mr. Barbour tended to be a little stiff with strangers until he had gauged their calibre. Aylmer he knew' already and regretted that Jane had i not chosen a man of finer intellect,' but Angus. he had never met, and young Maine made certain remarks that inclined Gregory to take a fav- ourable opinion of him. Angus guessed that Jane's new par- rot might possibly be speaking an obsolete, South American language; but Toni. reminded him of old Jacob's comment when he first propounded that theory.. "A language," said Mr, Barbour, "dies hard. I know, of course, such rudimentary fragments of Aztec and Inca as still persist, and have in- structed explorers in my time to seek the remote fastnesses of foreign countries where survivals may best be hoped for. When I ain brought face to face with your parrot, after luncheon, I shall bring to the arena all that is known of any tongue that he can possibly be supposed to have heard and chronicled in his own mech- anical fashion. A parrot, of course, is wholly ignorant of any meaning in his pronouncements; but if a mean- ing exists in this case, then prob- ably I am more likely to detect it than another." Fortified by direct sunlight and a chili, the bird faced his ordeal in good spirits, But patience was need- ed, for Jane's gorgeous parrot had now .turned his attention to the Kookaburra, who lived not far dist- ant from him. He 'said "Benny. Boss" three tines, then eyed Min --Barbour solemnly for some seconds and finally broke into a peal of raucous laughter. Gregory flushed and turned upon the company. "Is that what you have summoned rine to report upon, Jane?" he asked.. "If so, the jest is ill -tithed --as your jests are apt to be." .11 "Wait, wait"1 she begged. "Hers only picked that up from my Laugh- ing Jack. He'll go back to his own' conversation in a minute.." Mr. Barbour calmed down, !t "Evil communications corrupt good f manners, as Menander so ruly, re- , e marks," he answered. "I thought St. Paul said it," vent- ured Nicholas. "He did, but Menander said it first," replied the little man. The parrot steadied down and'fell back upon his, familiar phrase, where- upon Gregory p g y lifted his hand for sil- ence, took a seat before the cage and concentrated. upon the odd jumble of sounds. -He brought:a pocket -book from his coat and a pencil from his waist -coat. Then he noted down' phonetically each potential word as it fell upon his ear. Everybody waited any results with interest; but to Jane there sounded a mocking and even synical flavour in her bird's utter- ance. • Mr. Barbour proceeded upon his curious task with utmost solemnity and threw no light upon what' might be in his mind; but at length he begged that the parrot should be re- moved. , "Take. him away," . he said, "and leave .me quite alone with my mem- oranda for. the space of -half an hour, please. I will take these data into the garden, Jane, and sit in the sum- mer -house. Should you hear strange noises, feel no concern. I shall utter these words aloud and feel how they may sound upon my tongue when it comes to fashioning the labials and dentals." Gregory departed,'' and presently faint sounds came to their ears where the young -people sat and smoked on the grass twenty yards away. "I'm not hopeful," said Tom. "If Greg had got a line, he'd have been dramatic about it and created a big effect." "Your never know with him," thought Nicholas Bradshaw. "He's awfully deep really." But when half an hour was gone the linguist joined them, and Jane perceived at once that he had nothing hopeful to report. ' 'You always know by Greg's walk if he's satisfied with life, or , disap- pointed with it," she told them.'"Re's failed, and he'll be full sof reasons why he's failed, and put the blame on the parrot." • She proved quite righk, "My results are entirely negative I regret to say," the began spreading a silk handkerchief upon ,the grass be- fore he sat down. "There is no shadow of doubt that your bird has been taught something. but I should judge that he must have failed of his lesson through mental or physical inability to repeat' it correct- ly. Had he done his part, I make io doubt that it -would have proved well in my power to do mine; but I. have conte to the conclusion that his utterarice is inaccurate and faulty— so much so that it lies beyond the power of science to arrive at any ex- lantation of it. I detect no evidences of any ]crown language in this farago and, on trying it out vocally, found no small difficulty in saying several of the words—so to call them—at all. Anything' like fluency is impossible, nd the vocal cords feel the effort. Listen." Mr. Barbour drew out his notebook again and spoke as' follows, uttering each sound slowly. "Resyeg to egrog retenan cache ogapalag west rotauge no potelbat." "The parrot says it better than you o, Greg," declared Jane. "Ile does, for the reason that he alks with his . throat, while I talk rom niy mouthy" explained her friend. "A bird has neither lips nor eeth to assist pronunciation; but you will notice in this sentence the number of guttural sounds. These re- uire an effort from me, but come' atarally to a parrot, and I 'suspect that the crux of the problem lies here.•,,He is certainly saying some- thing, but if we could hear his teacher ay the same things, we should'prob ably' find, the inflexion, emphasis, and so forth to be quite different rid wholly intelligent to the skilled ar:" is s d t 1 q In a e "Did you notice that he used'' three` what you might call English words?" suggested young Bradshaw, and Gre- ' gory looked' at him coldly. "That fact had net escaped- me, Nicholas," he replied, "and if you,can glean any' light from it, by all means luninate our darkness." Nick subsided, and the ' linguist handed his pocket -book to Jane. "I want each of you in turn to peak these_words aloud as I have set hem down," he said, "that I , may eel the sounds impinge upon my ar." ' They\ spoke the words alouda .ech in turn following the parrot's pro- nounciation; 'buttheir efforts did not assist Mr, Barbour, "No" clue' transpires," •he said, "and I much fear that we must resign 'our- selves to disappointment. There is something radically wrong here. One ]snows no ancient or'modern language. that could possibly serve as a basis for these irregular sounds. I should be prepared to'admit'that may wrap up some 'enigma, but I have`not the least suspicion of ;what, ' Since you say, however, that your bird once be- longed to a dissolute Peruvian marin- er, Tom, the deduction would be that what it means can hardly amount to much." o "Grapes are sour, Greg," said Tom Aylmer. "Because you can't make top or tail of it, you say it's probably tripe in any ease." , "The assumption would certainly' be that it is 'tripe,' Tom—to use your own offensive words." "Is there; anybody else at the Brit- ish Museum, or the Universities, or anywhere, who might possibly succeed where you've drawn, a blank, my pre- cious Greg'?" asked Jane, and Mr. Barbour .regarded., her reproachfully, "As to that," he answered, "I can- not t cull htenyou.But byall means B g find someone better equipped than myself if you feel my powers inade- quate.'; nade- quate. ' "Darling, don't talk in that tone of voice or I shall crfy; declared Jane and Angus' made a suggestion. "Perhaps it isn't a case fore a swell linguist like you, .Mr.' Barbour,"' he said, "How would it'bo if -we turned a medium, or a thought -reader, or some such Person on to it?" "You speak as a Scot," answered Gregory, "and their propensities in the direction of the esoteric are, of course, well known. They claim not only for themselves, but even for their dogs and other domestic animals the gift of second -sight; but when I tell you that I have no belief whatsoever M second -sight you will judge that I should not imagine this cryptic puz- zle can. be .solved' by necromancy." Angus was silenced. Jane spoke. "Perhaps your last word was the wisest, Greg," she said. "Perhaps it is just a puzzle, like a jig -saw or cross -word, and nothing else at all." "It may veritably be so," admitted Gregory; "but I am a man of science; not a conjurer, Jane. We know that feminine intuition . will occasionally solve a problem when logic and reas- on have striven in vain for a solution, so' you had better apply your powers and see if the enigma will yield to them," They drank tea and Mr. Barbour discoursed. Then he took his leave and begged that, if any light dawned, ho might learn its nature. Gregory started his motor car and sailed away, while 'Jane praised him. "Isn't he priceless?" she asked. "He may be, but he is quite useless to us," said Angus Maine. "What you have to do now is to find a necromancer." • "There's my feminine intuition, re- member." The parrot was quickly dismissed from their minds and Jane, suddenly faced with the prospect of early mar- riage, troubled no more about him. Plans for the future began to de- velop and the initial difficulty of Mrs. Aylmer was quickly settled. On learning that her son felt it might be better that they should not join forces, she, made quick capital out of her disappointment. "If the wish of niy life is to be denied me and I am not to live -with you and Jane," she said, "then you must make it up to be as best you can, Toni. I should, of course, have been willing and happy to dwell any- where with your companionship; but as you talk of foreign travel and so on, then I must be free to find a modest home. My friends had• not mattered if you and Jane joined me; now, of course, they do, for I need the society of my fellow creatures.' 'We might find a nice little Lawton freehold to be sold," said Toni. "Then you'd feel you were living in your own house," "So that it is spacious enough for entertainment and within the West End, I care very little,' she said, "but you had better let me talce the pre- liminary steps, my dear son, because I know' what I shall need, and you . "Are you going to keep any of the old staff," he said, "Not one," replied Mrs. Aylmer, "They have been schooled in your father's bitter regime, and you know hoW difficult it is for domestics to change their habits. Everything will be new in my little home, even to the furniture. I shall suffer less and be less under •the dominion of the old,, restricted, unnatural existence, if I cut loose and fix my mind upon the future. Thatis the healthy thing tel do in my opinion. A starved soul demands nourishment just as much as a starved body." "I'm going to have Iots of fun with Mother," Tom. told Jane when next they met. "She's going houte-hunt- ing at once.' She proposes to cut loose anyway - whatever that may'snean." "It means a dash at Park Lane," said Jane, "and then, wounded and battered and disillusioned, she'll fall. baclk on the next best hole. "One will have to be firm, Jane.". "It's the:'hardest•thing in the world to be firm with a mother like yours," she answered him, "Where there is io arithmetic, firmness becomes brutality," (To be continued) NIAGARA PENINSULA TEXAS (HIGHWAY LINKS R1,GINALD NAFTEL BLOSSOM FESTIVAL WITH BLUE WATER ROAD The death of Reginald E. II. Naftel The opening of this year's Niagara Increased motor traffic 'over the Peninsula' Blossorrr Titrie will be of. Blue Water Bi -id e and considerably fieeiauy celebrated. Tn May on more tourist traffic through Sarnia that day the inaugural Blossom Time and the Blue Water District was- en- Festival; as • representative.', of the visioned ;following an, announcement whole of the Peninsula, will ;take that Port Huron would be the tern place at Grimsby Town which has inal of a greater super -highway from been selected as the focal point for the Blue Water Bridge : to Laredo, the festivities. There will' be a parr Texas on the Mexican border, in the ode of floats, bands of music, the highway program recommended to choosing and crowning of, the Blossom Congress by President Roosevelt. Queen, songs by the Grimsby Blossonx° The Port Huron highway would Time Festival Chorus of 200 children, be linked with another super -highway winding up with a stirring pageant between Detroit and Chicago and the entitled "The Romance of the Niag- former would probably connect with' ora Peninsula", as the outstanding the latter at Jackson, Michigan. me feature. total estimated cost of the project in (,Michigan is said to be $43,788,366.00 The date was carefully chosen 'Elf- Congress a ter consultation g as whole is generally ons tation with the officers of favorable to the ;proposals subncitted the Vineland Experimental' Station by the president after beim framed g and the study of, their weather re -:by the- bureau of public roads, a cords, and the central scene of the Michagan state highway official said evenbrs will be • the'tree-surrounded • campus` of Grimsby High SchoolMINISTER NEW FOR (?rODERIO'Ii a former resident of Goderich town y ship, occurred suddenly on Wednes- day, April 20th, at highland Park, Detroit. Deceased,` who was sixty t years of age,, was a son of the late Mr-, and Mrs, Alfred E. Naftel and was born in Colborne township, the family afterwards residing on the Bayfield Road, Goderich township.' Ho went to Detroit about twenty years ago. His wife (formerly Miss Pearl Chisholm of Detroit) died about eight years ago, and surviving are a son, William' II., a daughter, Catherine, a brother, Canon Lionel Naftel, of Milton, and four sisters, Miss Amy I. Naftel, of `Ottawa; Miss Ida Naf- tel, of Toronto; Mrs. E, Kehoe, of Detroit, and Mrs. George Greenslade, of the Bayfield Road, Goderich town- ship. The funeral took place at De- troit. which nestles under the escarpment.' CHARGE Seat accomodation for" 5,000 people , will be provided. Rev. C. Lawrence Brown, of wren - The floats taking part in the par- S 'i ilI ado will assemble a few miles east of Victoria Street United Church on Customers I want to return this washing machine. Salesman: What is wrong with it, madame? Customer: Every time get into the thing, the paddles knock me off my feet! Grimsby Town and are tined to ar- rive at .the campus by three o'clock, when the ceremony will take place of the • choosing and crowning, of the Blossom Queen front the local Queens previously selected by the various communities in the Peninsula. This part of the programme 'will be in- terspersed, by selections from the Grimsby Blossom Time 'Festival. Chofus. • The Hon, P. M. Dewar, Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, will per- form the ceremony of crowning the 'Blossom Queen, and an interesting detail is that the crown is made en- tirely of burnished copper, the work of local craftsmanship. The chosen Queen svili receive -a miniature replica of the crown in silver which she will retain. The evening programme will be ushered in by a -parade of the floats, accompanied by bands of music, as the prelude to the great feature of the day—the spectacular "Romance of the Niagara Peninsula" which will be presented on a revolving stage. The home life of -the early pioneers in the stormy days when Canada was young will be depicted during the period from the Declaration of Ens dependenceto the war of 1812. The pageant which has been written and produced by young Grimsby ladies, will be concluded by the Blossom Queen holding court, an international note of 'goodwill being featured in e horns of plenty flanked by the flags of Canada and the United States. SCIENTISTS DISCOVER TREE RING THEORY WRONG ALPINE, Texas, May 4 -The dis- covery that telling the age of a tree by the number of its rings is like trying to tell a woman's age by her looks was announced today. The discovery upsets one of man's oldest beliefs that trees put on one ring each year. They are visible when the trunk of a tree is sawed in two. Trees were discovered in. Texas that put on five a year. Hardly any were wound that failedto acl at least two annually. The discovery was reported by Dr.1 W. S. Glock and Dr. E. L. Reed of Texas Technological College, Lub- bock, Texas. Wednesday night and at a meeting of the congregation after the service accepted a call .to become the pastor. Mr. Brown is a young man in the middle thirties, is married and has one son, eleven months ol'd. He is a graduate of Queen's University and took a post -graduate course in New' York. He was a student -teacher in the west and has had charges inOsh- awa, Haliburton and Springville, near. Peterborough. He comes highly res ommended to Victoria Street Church, and was a leader in the largest Young People's Conference in Peter- borough. • The call, which was unanimous, Was extended from the joint charge of Victoria Street United Church, God- erich, and Unites Church, Goderich Township. 1VIr. 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Made by Kellogg's is London, Canada, legevamassattroa OLE P 1022 Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival low era and music will be the highlights of the seventh an- nual Apple Blossom Festival in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, largest singlo apple belt in the British Empire, from June third .to fifth this year. The commodi- ous Cornwallis Inn at IM.entville will be headquarters for the fes- tival and temporary home for many hundreds of visitors from Canada and the United States who come to see the Land of Evange- line at the peak of its beauty. (Festival arrangements call for the election and coronation of the Queen, folk dances and songs, an Apple Blossom 13a11 at the Corn- wallis Inn, mem,briah- services at Evangeline Park, colorful parades and pageants, Of unusual significance will be the visit of Miss Florence 'Small, of Potterels, Brookman'a Paris, Hertfordshire, Who is "Queen of the English Orchards," and who will represent England's fruit 'growers at the Canadian Festival: The first apple trees were planted in the Annapolis Valley 300 years ago and the province has the dis- tinction' of exporting more apples to Great Britain than all the other overseas dominions combined. Visitors will have the .oppor- tunity of seeing the Shrine of Evangeline at nearby Grand Pre, the anoient willows, and the Pic- turesque old well, and church described in Longfellow's epic: romance. This festival is an unfailing in- dication that the summer vacation period has arrived in the charm- ing seaside resorts of the Mari- times, Three popular Canadian. Pacific resorts are opened for the summer: The Pines at Digby, N.S,, June 24; Lakeside Inn at Yarmouth, N.S., June 27, and • the Algonquin alotel at St. Andrews - by -the -Bea, N.B., June 30.