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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-03-12, Page 2ItiACE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS.', MARCH 12, 193 The Clinton News -Record :l With which is incorporated THE NEW, ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 6.1,50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian 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 publish- er. The "date to which every sub- ecription is paid is denoted on : the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran sient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each sub- sequent insertion. Heading 'counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc.,inserted once for '85e, each', subsequent insertion 15e: Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication ' must, as a guarantee of good faith, he accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. 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.,, LLB. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Pubic Successor to W.,.Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block • —• Clinfnn, Ont. D. H. McINNES. PROLOGUE TO LOVE By Martha Ostenso SYNOPSIS Autumn Dean's destiny was sealed in a moment of moon -lit magic, 'Looking sinto Bruce ` Landor's level eyes, she knew that the loved him. But love 'between these two was, it eemed, a ,forbidden thing -a, her:• Cage from her mother, Millicent 0 dell .. forever loved, forever lost. The setting of this splendid story is 'the. Kamloops Valley of British Columbia; midway between the vast .orches of the Rockies and the color :uI Cascades. ,To this , region of great sheep ranches, Autumn Dean returns from her •schooling, among the Cpntinental smart, set, to find, herself inescapably faced.with a fate Cul secret .and. `a conquering love. After She and Bruce Landor had de-' dared then love to each other she learns that her father felt that he vas the 'murderer of Bruce Landor's "ether,' though his death• is supposed' to have been suicide. He was shot iy his owe revolver when struck by Jervis Dean in a quarrel over Dean's ife, who was .loved by and who loy- al Landor. This knowledge' casts a ;loom over Autumn's horizon and 'or the time, at least, renders her :csperate: She 'allows herself to be 'ed by a wild ceowci, into wild par- ties and dirang escapades .for -which .he iras no relish. Bruce Landor de - lends hes' honour when 'her name conies up in a drinking house and nears the enmity of a rancher. CHIROPRACTOR . Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours=Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. p FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment s Plume 207 *A. E. COOK PIANO AND VOICE Studio At MR. E. C. NICKLE'S King Street, Clinton. Phone 23w. Mar. 26-'36. 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She had done more than cure him of his love for her- she had destroyed even his respect for her. - In a moment she was , out of the door into the blindness of .a dying sky, a dying world, into a forlorn • space that was hollow with the moan of death. CHAPTER XIX master's, feet. Autumn left the roses• and walked to a chair near her fath- Autumn hadgone to the drawing room immediately after dinner and brad seated herself at the piano. Dur- ing the hour she had sat at the table with her father, she had done her best to bring him out, of his solitary breading. But her own frame of mini had been too desolate to make the task easy. She was sorry for him, inexpressibly so. Jarvis Dean had lived his life1te.re under a tragic shallow from which there was no escape. It was easy NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY i enough to accuse him of having per- mitted his pride to become a vicious Site fumbled with her gloves. paosion that had :goaded him to cruel - seised her head and looked at him ty and injustice in his treatment of with blank eyes. "I should like to others. But Jarvis had suffered .orae in, if you please," she ventured. •through the years in defense of the Bruce laughed caustically as he only.thing that had been left him out ',paned the door for her and stood of the wreck of his hopes—pride in a Yell to• one side. "You are quite wel- worthy name. Fate had dealt cruelly ome," he said. "It happens I have with Rini. He had been doomed to to kerosene in the lamp. I wasn't solitary battle against a world that xpecting a guest." had yielded him little for his pains. He lighted a cigarette and offered he package to her. Autumn shook For weeks Autumn had watched ser head. "As you will," he said, and him fighting alone, retreating before replaced the package in his shirt poo- the heartless budgeonings of his own set. conscience, recovering himself again and beating his way back to a pew - Autumn seated herself in the dim tion of self-respect and renewed faith light' close to the door, while Bruce in himself. And always Autumn caned against the table's edge with .knew that his love for her was the tis feet crosses' icily before him. She one precious thing in his life. It was could see him looking at her reflec- because of her, the daughter of Milli- ively through the dimness, and the cent, that he refused to give up the Calf -smile did notleave his face. fight, and because of the memory of "You wereoverto see father this Millicent that lived in her.. morning," she began. • • It was only natural, perhaps, that "At his invitation," Bruce replied. he should be blindto the fact that 'FIo wished to reimburse me for some by his stubborn struggle he was •1 "Da, she said gently, "what would you say to my going back to Aunt Flo?" The Laird turned slowly in his chair and looked at her across his ;boulder. 'She glanced at him in- souciantly, almost without interest in how he should respond to her ques- tion. She had really not meant, it for a 'question so much as an an- nouncement. But the helpless, almost childlike look o f dejection that appeared promptly in his eyes gave her a mo- ment's disquietude. He bent forward and clasped his hands. "You wish to go, Autumn?" he asked, his voice grown wistful. "Da," she replied, "one can't al- ways do just what one would like t; do, I came here because 1 *sated to and I've managed to make a mese of everything since I've come." Jarvis sighed heavily. "I'm sorry my dear. It hasn't, been your fault, either." "It's the fault of no one in particu- lar," Autumn said. "It was just in the cards." "Aye, I know. You're still .think- ing of Geoffrey's son. Isn't that it?" "I'm thinking—bf everything," she responded. "I can't go on living here —with things as they are. I've done my best, Da—or my worst, perhaps, you would say. It will be easier for every one concerned if 'I get back to the other side of the world." She got up again and went to stand before• the window. There followed a long silence burdened with the im- passe to which their emotions ' had come. She heard her father clear his throat with a deep rumble, .and then she knew that he had risen and was corning slowly toward her. His hand lay for a moment gently upon his shoulder, but she did not turn to look at him. "I'm sorry, my girl," he muttered. "I cannot tell you how sorry I am: I had hoped —somehow- --.that you might be happy here—after a time— in spite of everything. I had hoped for too much, it seems." "I had, too." Autumn replied. "Bus it wasn't to be." "I shall miss you more now than ever," Jarvis said, and then, after a long silence: "But you must not stay because of that, 'Autumn." "You are making it easy for me to go," Autumn said, somewhat abrupt- ly in spite of herself. The old man went back to his chair. "Autumn," he said at last, "don't be impatient with' me to -night. I'm tir ed—and your music-" "I didn't mean that, Da she said • 'lead (kite. Seaforth, Ont. Officers: . President,' Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; • Vice -President, John E. 'Pep - pee, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; JamesSholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leouhardt, Dub- lin John E. Pepper, Brucefield; James " Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEwing, Blyth. List of 4.gents: - W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No, 3; James Watt, Blyth John E. Pepper," Brucefield, R. 11 No. 1; R. F. Mclaet•cher, Dublin, R. R No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, IZin"ardine• R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1 • Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank. Clinton, Bens s Commerce, Seaforth„ • or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect ine'n'' ence or transact other business will be promptly attended to on epplica• don to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi' ccs. Losses inspected by the director whb lives nearest the scene. TIME TABLE - Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34. bre. 11.54 a.m, Going South 3.08 p.m'. eep I lost." sdrawing his daughter into 'the con - "He told me so." I flict. Ho had thought to avoid that "He should have told you, also,' by keeping her, where' she would net••. :hat we were to have nothing to say or have known of it. •Had she been 0 each other in the future." content to remain`in England, Jar, "He told me that, too." vis would have fought through to the "Is this visit, then, just another end and died in the comforting know- ittle gesture on your part?" . ledge that she could at least begin "A gesture—of what kind?" her own life and live it as she pleaa ed, without the unhappy heritage o.' "Disobedience to the Laird — and the past: ontempt for me," Bruce supplement - d. l ` If there. had ,been, no more to it "Father has no suspicion that I than that, Autumn might have rejoic- •.ave come to see you," Autumn .ex-' ed that she had come home and heard la:ned. `And if I wanted to show the story her father had told her on ontempt for you, I' should have stay- that terrible night when she had sat td away." i}vitt him in his library. She could "As you have done all summer," he have borne the burden of the tragic tbserved. past on her own youthful shoulder, Autumn clenched her fists in her But her coming had forced a crisis ap as she felt her anger rise. She that had brought a crushing defeat ad: not come here to have him bait to the Laird—a defeat from which he 'der. "I should hardly expect you to would never recover. inderstand that," she said. 1 .And now another evening was Bruce's smile was sardonic. "It coming serenely to a close, as though k ani't so difficult to understand," ha the stars of the night before, when celled.'' "You found people of your she had gone: alone to see Bruce, hat twn kind. I am not blaming any one not shrunk out of the sky, as though 'or that. It was just my misfortune all beauty had not become ashes 111 hat you should have called on me herheart.- Jarvis had gone to his 'tete that night—before you found the library. dinner, and Autumn sat piano, her hands lisping idly tliei's.' at the over the keys, her eyes inattentive) y "That was a misfortune?" she ask= noting the blue dusk that stole from :d him. the open window and make a strange, "Not a serious one," he admitted impalable color of a great bowl of with a 'smile. "It was rather good, yellow roses. while it lasted."Presently her hands fell from the She was on her; feet at once, con-1keyboard and laylistless' *renting him with' Heyes that burned y yin her lap n a face gone suddenly white. "Bruce At a sound from the hall, she turned Landor," she cried, "I came over here and saw her father .phis firg ine the • ,-night to ask you if we couldn't be doorway, his cigar in his fingers, ec' "riciids, in spite of what my father eyes fixed upon her with an unwontee .;cid'to you this morning!" 'tenderness - "Your pride must have suffered "What was that you were playing Autumn laughed suddenly, but the Laird looked at her sternly. "It'll be as you say, then," he said. "It's better so. I'll sell up in the fall and join. you." IIe patted her shoulder in awkward and inarticulate compassion, a n d turned away. She could hear his re- treating steps on the polished floor, heavy and measured and ponclering. To her defeated spirit, it seemed that those footsteps sounded the inexor- able, iron stride of the past crushing down the present and the future. She looked out upon the blurred garden with eyes dull in resignation. out the few -hundred sheep that had been culled from the range and were being brought down to be sold. He wanted to spend a half hour with the boy and assure himself that every- thing was coming along as it should. -"You might make the trip in'with me to -day, Autumn," he suggested, "if you have nothing else to do. It would be company for me and the drive would do you no harm:" "1 thought of it last night," Au - tun said. "It will be my last -chance and mountain' rose was sweet on ° the air and from the valley below came the constant bleat of Clancy's flock, For a full hour, Autumn and het' father talked and laughed together as they'had not clone since she was a child. When she got up to go at last, Jarvis went with her to. the car and leaned over to kiss her before she started- away. "So long, darling," Autumn called'' as she, put the carinto the trail a- gain. "I'll be `back before you know to see the flocks before I leave." it." "Aye—that's so. Well, get yoursel: ready and I'll wait for you." "I'll change in a jiffy, Da," she said, and left the table. CHAPTER XX, "Put enough lunch in the box for the two of us, then," Jarvis told Han - During the days that followed, nah. "We'll be back for dinner late." Jarvis Dean's spirits were lighter' They were on the road before the than they had been for months. ' To clay was more than a bright flame en be sure, it was not pleasant to think the eastern hilltops and Autumn was that Autumn was leaving the place guiding the ear over the smooth.trail to which she had come such a short at a speed that made her father grip time ago, her heart swelling with an- the edges of the seat' with both hands. ticipation of whatthe future held for "The trail will ` e rougher higher her, her mind full of plans for the „a o g up, new life she was entering. He was Da, she explained once when she sorry for her. And yet, the irking. glanced, sideways at him and saw the uncertainty of those weeks had been grim set of his face. "We'll make good almost more than` he could bear at time now and loaf later on." times. Autumn's decision to return Noon brought them Within sight of to the Old Country had relieved him the small flock that Clancy Shane of that, at least. His own resolve to sell everything and follow her as soon `ac it could be managed without too great a sacrifice had brought its re- grets, its pang of loneliness, but that had passed. He had a clear road be- fore him now. He would leave be- hind him the past and all its burden of unhappiness and spend the rest of his- days in a manner befitting a man of ample means whose declining years might easily be his brightest. ACCIDENTS AND COMPENSATION During the month of February, '` 4,428 accidents were reported to The Board, this. ' Compensation o°c ens W rl rn, being an increase of 12 over the num- ber for January, and compares with 4,628 during February a year ago. • The fatal accidents numbered 31, as. compared: with 17 during January. The benefits awarded' amounted to $438,355.79, of which 3346,914.75 was for compensation and $91,421.04 for medical aid. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD —IT WILL PAY'YOU-- Autumn?" „ he he asked after a moment • Da," she told him. "That is my own affair," she re -1 "I've heard you play it before — torted.. "Why don't you tell'me at and I've asked the name of it,", he mice that' I'm wasting my. -time?". l said, "but I can never .seem, to re - "I could have done so," Bruce member. Play it again. I like it." ..aid quietly, "if • you had told me at He came into the room and went. once what had brought you over. I to a large chair that stood to one leeided, long ago, that you and I can- ide of the French windows where he not be friends, Autumn.'' sat. gazing out into the fitful light o:' She threw back her head in a proud the garden. as Autumn played. When gesture I shall not ask you the' • •,etorn you came to that decision," quickly and went to him at once. The Laird's head sank forward, his ayes staring out upon the garden. "I'd be just as glad if I eoultt snake it 'asy for you to stay," he said.' "Some- times S think you—" His voice stopped and he swept his eyes with his hand, Autumn threw her arms about him and prep - sed him close to her in silence. Pre- sently he freed himself gently from her embrace. - "You think of your father as a coward, Autumn," -he said stoutly. "I may have more courage than you know. Yesterday when the boy' came to see me -I thought I might tell him—tell hint all that I told .you one night upstairs there. I have niy senses still, and I can see things still —with my own eyes. All your silly carrying -on this. summer with, that mad crowd of Elliot Part's—it didn't blind me to the truth, I've known from the first what was behind it. I've spent days and nights thinking about it. And when the boy came-- before ame— before he came to me, ' -I thought -I thought—the right thing to do would be to' tell him—so that he'd know— so that 'he'd understand. Then,. l thought—he • could do what . he liked —and you could do what you liked-- and iked- and f wouldn't raise a hand to stop it, one way - or the other. But—there's no way of accounting for . these things, it seems, Ile came to me -- and and he stood there as if he hadbeen Geoffrey Landor himself - proud, insolent, careless—and I'offered him money for the loss of his sheep. I don't think I expected him to take it —but his manner stirred something in me. It stirred the bitterness and. the hatred and the .pride that have filled me for . twenty years—and I turned him out!" He paused for a moment. "And now I am turning You out,.it. seems." It was strange, too, how much more he saw to delight him now even .him I'll be up myself maybe in a toria was Queen. in the world about him. His mind week or two." Then Edward the Peacemaker 101 - relieved of its cracking fear,' was Autumn started the motor and put lowed and passed, free to admire much to which he had her hand on the gear shift. Then George the Beloved, and now, been blind before. For the first time,' "Here, now—wait a bit!" Jarvis at the Last, it seemed, he 'realized that Autumn' shouted, "We'll eat first." " Our loving allegiance we loyally bring was no longer the rangy youngster' With a laugh, Autumn shut off her To Edward the Eighth, our' Sovereign he had once known, the unmanagea-engine and jumped out of the car. In and King. hlo tomboy he had sent off to England a moment they were seated side by —Bluenose in the Globe. with the hope that his sister would side on a fallen log, helping themsei-! be able to exercise the control over Yes from the box that Hannah had her which he had lost. He had nev- filled. A mountain creek sang over; "Oh, Mr. Butcher, about that joint er known, except once before, in a its stony bed at their feet, and above you sold me last week. Did you say it time that he had striven to forget, them a brisk breeze shook the boughs was imported or deported from Aus- how lasting and complete is the sat -" of an ancient.pine.The smell of pine tralia?" isfaction a man may feel in the dis- covery of beauty in a woman. It was some such feeling'that pox -1 sessed 'him as he looked at Autumn now, sitting opposite him at the breakfast table. He had ordered an early breakfast so that he might leave in good time on his journey in. to the hills to inspect his flocks and to take up some supplies to old Ab- solom Peek. Toni Willmar had been making the trips back and forth dur- ing the,summer, but Jarvis was In the habit of going himself at least once during the season. Besides, he had given instructions to have the young Irish lad, Clancy Shane, drive Jarvis stood shading has eyes a- gainst the mid-day 'sun, until the' ear vanished around a bend in the trail, and an inexplicable sadness came• over him. He had been too happy for' the past hour. He turned and picked his way. slowly down into the valley. (Continued Next.Week) THE BRITISH SOVEREIGN First, William the Norman, then. William his son, Henry, Stephen and Henry, then Richard and John. Next, Henry the third, Edwards, one, two and' three, An d again after Richard three Henrys we see. Two Edwards, third Richard, 11 was bringing down from the upper right, I guess; ranges and Autumn waited in the a e" Two Henrys, sixth Edward, Queen while her father walked down into Mary, Queen Bess. the valley. Half an hour later he.Then Janide. the Scotsman, then came back. • Charles, whom they slew, "I think I'll stay along with yet received, after Cromwell another Moony," he said. "If you want to go Charles, too; along by yourself and have a word Then Jamie the Second ascended the with Absolom, you can pick me up tlri•one; on the way back?" Then William and Mary together "I'll do that, Da," she said. "Have came' on. you any message for Absolom?" Next Anne, 'Georges four and fourth "Just give hint the box of stuff William were seen; there in the back of the car and .tell Then for sixty long years good Vic - "That' was . Grondahl's Serenade, returned coldly reason," she said, and turned toward she came to the end at last, he did not speak, and Autumn got up and the door. • . Before she was "aware that 'there moved to the console where the mesee 'tad conte any change in the immobil- stood. She caressed an opulent, full- ty o£ his posture, `he had seized her blown, yellow bloom with thoughtful .wrist and turned her about so that fingers. she stood facing him. "No more music?" Jarvis inquired 1 at last, a wistful note in his voice "I should like you to know, just the that, hurt the bruised part of her be- tame," he said. ling. As he spoke, he drew her violent-' "Perhaps—later," she said quietly. 'y to "him. For an electrifying in-, "Aye," he said, "I suppose one must ;cant, she knew that all her : resis- be in the mood for it. But that bit, ante had crumpled within her and now -the one you just played --meant that she was responding to his al- something. It brings a light to one nott brutal kiss with a fierce and when he hears it." Overwhelming joy. Then, with all Old Saint Pat ambled into ,the !mon- he .,length of her arms, she beat, and settled himself on a rug at hi, "No, Da," Autumn protested, "it isn't so. You mustn't say that. I am going back—as I told you --because I think it will be best for us .all."' Jarvis Dean drew himself > up. "Have him 'over—to-night — in the morning," he said. "Bring him here —and I'll tell him. I'll tell him al; I, told you. 1 When he has heard—" "Father, please!" Autumn pleaded. "That would ohly hurt him—and it would only thurt me. ° You would be doing that for me; and it would be quite useless. If I love' Bruce Landor, it's only another of my silly blunders. Ili get over it—with the ocean be- tween us it ought to. be easy. I•m not so hopeless that I shall go on for- ever breaking my heart over some one who doesn't care for me." The Laird raised his head and look- ed at her. "You mean—he—" "I mean -he doesn't love me, Da," she said, smiling down at him, "though there's nothing+ so strange a- bout that." Jarvis was thoughtful for a Inc. trent., Then he got up quickly and stood looking at his half -smoked ci- gar. "I didn't think he'd beisuch a damned young fool!" he said. INVITATIONS COU: T Many a non -advertising retailer keeps back from advertising just because he feels that it is necessary to advertise in a big way ,and because he is not ready to advertise in a big way. To keep back from our -newspaper until you are ready to use big space is just as foolish as would be keeping a child out of school until it had the ability to pass its matriculation. Beginners in every form of enterprise need to go warily; until experience and practice and growing ability warrant them to attempt larger things, they should proceed cautiously. It will pay some retailers to use classified advertisements and small spaces of 2 and 3 inches. These little advertisements will surely get seen and read by newspaper readers. Make small ad- vertisements offer special merchandise. Change them frequently A quick succession of little advertisements, everyone of which, is alive, will of a certainty effect sales — will attract new customers. The thing to be frightened of is dumbness: a retail store which does' not talk, to the pubic by. means of newspaper advertisements aliases a lot •of business. The public goes where it is invited to go. he Chilton Nows-flocord FINE, MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS IN THIS ISSUE. PH()N F 4 a.