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The Clinton News Record, 1936-03-19, Page 2THURS.,. MARCH 19, 1936 The Clinton' News -Record With which is'lncor'porated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 1$1,50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses, $2,00 to the U.S. or other foreign : countries: No paper discontinnedMntil all arrears aro paid unless at the option' of the publish- er. Thedate to which every sub-. ecription is paid is denoted on the label. ,. ADVERTISING RATES Tran sient advertising 125 per count line 'for first insertion. Se for each sub- sequent insertion. Heading counts 2 Iines, Small advertisements .not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted' once .for 25e, each subsequent insertion '.15c.: Rates for display advertising -made known on application, 'Communications intended for pub- lication must, as.a guarantee of good =faith, be. accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. A. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor, II. T. 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Losses inspected by the director • 'who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN OD 1 N';2 , Ai WAYS TIME TABLE PROLOGUE' TO LOVE By Martha Ostenso. SYNOPSIS Autumn Dean's destiny was sealed in a moment of moon -lit _ magic. Lpoking into Bruce Landor's level eyes, she knew that she loved him" But love between these two was, it deemed, a forbidden thing -a heri- tage from her mother, Millicent O- dell . forever loved, forever lost.. The setting of this splendid story is the IKamloops Valley of British Columbia, midway' between the vast arches of the Rockies and the color- ful Cascades. , To this region of great sheep ranches, Autumn Dean, returns from her schooling among. the Continental smart set, to find :herself inescapably faced with a slate - fill secret and a conquering love,. After she andBruceLandor had de- clared their, love to each other she learns that her father felt that., he was the murderer of Bruce Landor's Mather, though his death is supposed to have been suicide. He was shot )y his own revoIver when struck by Jarvis Doan in a quarrel over Dean's rife, who was loved by and who lov- ed Landor. This knowledge casts a ;loom over Autumn's horizon and for the time, at least, renders herr "lesperate. She allows herself to be led by a 'wild crowd into wild par- ties and dirang esrapades for which the has no relish. Bruce Landor de- 'iends her honour when her name conies up in a drinking house and ewers the enmity of a rancher. errains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Dive Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East, depart 8.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m, London, Huron & Bruce Going. North, ar. 11,84: lye. 11.54 anis Going South 3.08 p.m'. l NEW CHAMPION A stranger was dining in Aber- deen. When the meal was over he handed the waiter a penny tip.. The waiter looked at the coin in his hand. "Do ye ken, mister," lice said,champion the champ on miser in Aberdeen gies me tuppence?" The stranger held outhis hand smilingly. "Here," he said, "shake hands with the new champion." —Answers. ` The number, of pedigree certificates registered by the Canadian National Livestock Records, approved by the Dominion Minister of Agriculture, during the month of February,. 1030, was 4,980. Of these, 216 were horses; 2,369 cattle; 277 sheen; 420 swinei ,.'9:30;' foxes;' 52.7 dogs, and 341 poultry. NOW •GO ON WITH THE STORY • It was not until Autumn's visit with Absolom Peek had come to, an end and she was preparing to hurry away that she found the courage to cell him that she was bidding him ;cod -by for the last tine& She had stayed •ivith the old herder much 'anger than she had planned. The .un was already approaching the hilltops in ,the west and her father arould be anxiously awaiting her re- turn. But she had found it impose able to tear herself away from the quiet valley and its flocks and the hungry chatter of the old man. "You'll be comin' up again, like as not," Absolom said as they strol- led together toward Autumn's car, I . "I'm afraid not, Absolom," she told him. "I'nt never coming again." .1 "Eh?" The old man looked at her in' surprise. "I'ns going back again—to Eng- land, Absolom" 1 "Now, now! What's wrong, eh?" "There's nothing wrong, Absolom I'm just out of place here." .Absolom thrust his fingers under, his weathered hat and scratched his' head. . "Well, well," he said at last, "It isn't much of a place for a young girl, I know. It'll go hard with the 1 Laird, Iris thinkin', losin' you again just when he's got used to Navin' you round." Autumn hesitated before she made her reply. After ail, it would do no ;ood to tell hint thather father had decided to spend the rest' of his days abroad. "I haven't been much of a help to hint, I'm afraid," she repfied, "He's past help, that man," Ab- eolom said suddenly. "Not but what he's been a great man in his day. But he's not livin,' Miss Autumn. "Poor Da," Autumn murmured. "He 'I hasn't had an easy life." "That's right enough, : He hasn't. But he won't make it easier by pack - in' you off to that-" "He's not sending me away, Ab- eolom," she: hastened to assure him. "I'm going because I want to." Absolom regarded her ` quizzically. "There's more behind it than that, Pili thinkin'. Though, Pee askin' no euestions, mind" They had reached the trail where the car stood. On the slope below her aow, she could look back for the last Wine upon the slumbrous gray -white flock moving gently, as though dri- ven by shadows, toward their bed- ground for the night. Ah, the ten- derness, the peace of that scene, with the wandering, infrequent music of Basque bell coining to her across the mountain stillness! 'She was staunchly cheerful in her farewell to Absolom, but a hoe mist came between her eyes and that un- forgettable picture thereon' the hill- side below them, And then, in • a moment, she was gone. and old Ab- soloin bad turned again to his soli- tary task. Very late that. night, when Autumn lay awake and allowed her mind to drift sleepily back over the journey into the . hills,' it seemed to her that what she had beheld in the cycle of that day had been sunrise and smi- set on .the inoon, or on some bizarrely landscaped planet hitherto only a fantastic dream in the mind of man. Early morning had clawed great, long scars oe black valleys 'down the wale,. eolossalc faces of the hills, frightening and 'thrilling in their re- port of what this land had been in ages gone. Noon had made insuls- etentiel islands of the mountain tops, swimming in .their mists as on the white lambency of some primordia. sea. And hi the twilight,. the dark patches of pine that marked! the val- 'eys in that broad expanse might; have been the spoor of creatures un- tliiekahle, in an unnithkable chaos of the earth. No more of that now! Back aga to the artificial, the purposeless, life she had known. with Aunt Flo. For- get that ;there had ever been any- thing' else. Forget the reverent som- ber brow of a mountain bared to the moon. Forget a star unfolding like a bloom of sweet loneliness in the lum- !noes, unnameable color of a .suminer sky. Forget the drift of mountain' rain in the spring, and the flamy tor- ches of Indian <paint brush on the gaunt hills. Forget Bruce Landor, and the curious, heartless, dear ways of love, .forever. CHAPTER XXI On an evening within a weekof the time set for Autumn's depart- ure, Florian Parr telephoned from Hector Cardigan's place and invited her to go with him to the Hospital 'Benefit Ball that night in 'Kamloops. "Linda is here with me," Florian said. "I had to come up on business, but I see no reason why we shouldn't mix' a little, pleasure with it. We brought our duds and we're` all dolled up. We haven't seen anything of you for two weeks. I'll run out in, the car for you if you say so. How about it?„ "I don't know,' Florian," the tem- porized, "I'm not much in the mood for it." ' "Oh, come 'on!"he 'urged her. "Where's your community spirit? The natives will never forgive you if you don't support the cause. Hector has promised to chaperon us." " Florian laughed in a meaningful. naivete which nettled her dispropor- tionately.. "Even you think I ought to have some one to look after me," she re- plied. , "Lord, Autumn, what's come over you?" Florian reproached her. "You need a shaking up. I'll be out for you around eight." "Will Lin be along?" "Not on your Iife—not with me," Florian replied. "She has • made other arrangements." "Of course," "Bruce is coning in to look after her. We'll make it a nice little four- some when we get together. Any objections?" "None whatever," she replied light- ly. "I'll be ready when yon come." When she mentioned the affair to her father and asked hint if he would not like to come along, . he drew clown one shaggy eyebrow and elevated the other humorously. "Me? Scarcely," he said. "But buy me a ticket—buy me half a doz- en. It's a worthy cause. Yoh run a- long and enjoy yourself. It'll prob- ably be the last spree for you in this part ofthe world. Put on your ea' rags and show 'em what it means to be a Dean!" Autunin laughed a little tremul- ously and kissed the sere and brist- ling eyebrow. "I'll do that very thing, Da," she told. him. "Though you'd cast more glamor on the name than I can, if that's what you want, you old Ronan!" . He 'tweaked her ear, and Autumn ran upstairs to - dress, When she heard Florian's ear out- side, at a little before eight, she gave herself one last swift glance in the long mirror of her room. The black; clinging chiffon of her gown with its daringly low back; her russet tinted hair 'swept back from her ears and brow and falling in a rich cascade of clusters at the back of her head, gave her a palely romantic_ look,, she ob- served with skewish humor. She de- cided tp wear no jewelry, and dis- missed as absurd thebouquet of sweetheart roses that Hannah had painstakingly arranged for her. The roses would live longer, anyway, site reflected, in their vase on her dres- sing table. It was well that the only brilliance about her should be tae hard twinkle of the rhinetsone beer: - !es on her black satin pumps. Ani her eyes, she thought -they appalled her as she looked into then in the Mirror. Their unnatural vividness was a disconcerting betrayal. But it was just possible that she could slip into the dance and out again without encountering Bruce. If only Linda had enough intuition to keep them apart! Florian, turned out flawlessly in evening clothes, was waiting impa- tiently in the drawing room below. His quick flush as sheapproachee him, the silver w,eb of her evening wrap on her arm, would have been sweet to the light Vanity that had been hers in a day gone by. Now she heeded it only with a feeling of faint vexation. Florian carne foeward'and lifted a cool and waxy corsage of white orchids .from \the 'small table near the door. "Permit me, most beautiful!" he said bowing elaborately . from the waist. "And if you tell me you hate orchids, I'll make you eat 'am!" ' Autumn laughed and brushed the delicate aristocrats with her finger tips, "Extrvagant wretch!" she 'said, and fixed them to her gown. ",They're beautiful, Florian. There: Thank you so much!" She did, as a matter of fact, de- test orchids, and in her imperious days at Aunt Flo's she had never thought twice of spurning them. But that was before this curious posses- sion of pity had wine over hei•,; "You haven't seen ` father,; cera course?" she s' as' they turned to leave. "I crashed the gates with Hannah's assistance," Florian said. "Is the Laird still peeved about the haystack episode?" "No,"'she replied. "He has forgot- ten that, I think. But he has his bad days," 'Probably' feels low about your leaving him so soon again." "Scarcely that. • He may be joining me in the fall." They had got into Florian's 'car, "We're going to miss you like the deuce," he said. something to know I'll be missed, anyway," Autumn murmured. Florian put out a hand and crush- ed her fingers within his own, then, let' them go and grasped the wheel. "Dann it!" he muttered. "If you would only listen to reason-" The hall in which the dancewas being held was packed when they ar- rived. Japanese lanterns and gay streamers festooned the ballroom and across tele bobbing sea of faces carne the 'giddy blare of a jazz orchestra. Autumn looked down from a balcony uponthe throng, with heavy -lidded eyes behind' which there was a search- ing glow. "Some crush, eh?" Florian observ- ed, standing close beside her. "Shall we go down at once and get our shins kicked? Or shall we wait awhile? They're using everything down there from the Ark gallop to the Iatest wiggle of the rumba," "Let us look on .for a while first," she suggested. As she spoke," her lashes' swept over her eyes. In the comparative freedom of the outer fringe- of danc- ers, she had seen Linda and Bruce Landor. Above Linda's head, Bruce's eyes moved cautiously along the rim of the balcony, paused for an impon- derable instant as they met Autumn's and moved on in indifference. "There's Lin and Bruce," Florian; said suddenly, "down there near the wall -to the right." Autumn looked, pretending not to see at once. "I see them now," she said finally. "You could pick them out of a million. Florian said admiringly. "They make the rest of the crowd look like also -tans. Let's go clown and give them a lttle competition, Autumn." "So you got here?" It was Hector Cardigan speaking at Autmnn',s el- bow. bow., She turned upon him a radiant emile and extended her hands. "hello darling!" she cried throat- ily. "How gorgeous you look!" She seized the lapels of his dinner jacket and surveyed him with wide eyes. "Are you going to give me a dance?' "You flatter me," Hector said in his courtly fashion. "Do you guaran- tee to bring inc safely out of the melee?" "She brings us all safely back -- out out of everything," Florian put in. "Are you so afraid?" Autumn ask- ed, as if she had not heard Florian's remark, ` , "Those young things down there- they terrify Inc," Hector said. "And you a soldier!" Autumn ban- tered.. • Hector smiled. "I was younger then than I 'ani now," he said. "Anti stepping all over one's toeswas con- sidered'agalnst the rules. Autumn and Florian Iaughed, and the three made their way down to the dancing -floor, the men on ei- ther side of Autumn, her arms drawn lightly through theirs. They stood chatting for a moment beside a great potted palm, and then Autumn wav- ed back at Hector as Florian swept her away into the dance. "The next one, Hector, remember," rhe said over Florian's shoulder. "I'11 meet you in the lounge." • Hector nodded, but when she was out of sight he frowned. Bruce Lan- dor had just come off the floor with Linda Parr. They strolled toward him, saluting him from some distance away as they approached. It oc- curred to the old soldier then that An - Wren's wish to dance with him had been merely a ruse. Her real desire was to avoid dancing with Bruce. "Hullo, Hector!" Bruce said warm- ly as he came face to face with him: Linda, with a nod toward Hector, had been caught up by some one else and was already moving away into the crowd. "Good evening, Bruce," Hector said with a stern smile, "You seem to be enjoying 'ourself." "Immensely," Bruce replied with .a promptness that brought a slight lift to Hector's eyebrows. Hector toyed with the ribbon guard of his glasses. "The hospital ought to benefit from this," he remarked. "It's the best crowd I've' seen for years." , "Everybody's here," Bruce agreed, They stood for a moment and watched the dancers swirl past them. "I think I'll get out of the crowd a bit," Hector ' said 'at 'last, '"What would you say to a smoke, my boy?" "I'd 'be all for it," Bence replied, ;`Let's go to the lounge, then," Hec- tor suggested. They made their way to• a corner of the :lounge where thero.was a"mea- sure of privacy and seated themselves in two chairs that made an angle facing the entrance. • "8 haven'tseen much of you late- ly," Hector•said as he offered Bruce his cigarette :ease. "I haven't been' out much, except on"business,': Bruce replied. "I've hada busy summer of it, one way or another. "Yes, yes, of course. I was sorry •to hear about your prize "Merinos. There was underhand, work in that affair, eh?" Bruce lit his cigarette and 'blew a cloud of smoke: as, he settled back his chair. "I can't talk about it, Hec- tor," he said."It makes me want to fight when I even think of it" "Naturally, naturally,"Becton' said. "The less "you think about it the' better•, -1 should say." He smoked a moment in silence,then cleared his throat softly. "I understand you. are going to lose your young neigh- bor, soon," he remarked casually. "You mean Autumn Dean?" Bruce said without a flicker of expression revealed to the shrewd look that Hector turned; upon him, "Yes." "Lin told me to -night that she plans to go back to England," Bruce said. "Next •week, I believe.And you are letting her go? 'Bruce cast a giuck glance at the aid man. "I'm letting her go,? I Wasn't aware that I had anything to do with it,", he said in an off -hand manner. Hector smiled slowly as he looked at. Bruce, then sighed reminiscently. "The age of chivalry seems to have passed'," he said, shaking his head. Bruce gazed at his cigarette smoke with 'narrowed lids. "I don't follow - you, Hector," he said. "I can't see what chivalry has to do with it when a 'girl takes it into her head to run off to Europe." "Do you know, my boy," Hector replied, after a' moment of silence. "I suspect that this younger genera- tion they talk about so much nowa- days—I suspect they're a - pretty faint-hearted` crowd compared with their fathers -or their grandfathers, for example." "I'm not in a position to question you, Hector," Bruce said. "If your reference to the faint heart has anything to do with the fair lady--" "Of course it has!" Hector put In. "In my day, if a young man had no- tions about a young lady, she would- n't get a chance to run off to Eng- land and leave him in the lurch, Bruce laughed lightly. "Hector," he said, "you're barking up the wrong tree, old boy." Hector bristled immediately. "I don't bark"— he began, then halted abruptly and got to his feet. "Here comes Autumn herself,' he said, his pleasure and annoyance making a curious gnome -like mask of his face. For an almost imperceptible mo- ment, Autumn paused in her ap- proach ,to them. Hector saw her quick pallor and put out a hand to- ward her. Bruce rose and made a slight formal bow with an ease that was disconcerting to Hector. After a brief "Good evening!" to Bruce, Autumn turned at once to Hector. "Our dance, Hector!" she announc- ed, "Or haven't you finished your smoke?" •Hector waived her question and then drew himself up sternly. "You DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Iceland has 590 Boy Scouts, Fin- land 8,281, Latvia, 6,000, Lithuania 8,855, Norway 14,017, Sweden 10,- 718, 8,718, Play :Rescue Brought A Real One. While practising life saving in Bel - grieve Bay, St. Sampson's, Guern- sey Island,•Scout Frederick Richard of the 10th Guernsey (1VIethodist) Troop heard -,cries for help from a pier. He ran to the scene, and was able to make a genuine rescue of an 8 year, old boy who had fallen, into the sea. Adelaide Invites Canadian Scouts From Adelaide, Australia, h a s are planning to leave for . England next Saturday, .1 understand,"' he said to Autumn. "Next Saturday morning, Hector," she replied. "I am inviting you two"—he said, and looked aggressively from one to the other—"to dinner at my house next Thursday evening. Will that suit you. both?" • 1 There was a silence in which Hec- tor, the spectator, saw the clash of humorously blue eyes and clear, stric- ken, sea -green eyes. Bruce thrust one hand idly into the pocket of his coat and stood in a lounging attitude, looking pleasantly down at Autumn as he replied. ' "Thursday will suit me, Hector." "Why, certainly, darling," Autumn said breathlessly, turning to Hector, "How sweet of you! Shall we dance now?" She took Hector's arm and led him away. Bruce watched them go, then smil- ed as he seated himself. Poor old Hector, he thought wryly. Making a last gallant effort! And how gamely she had taken it! Came fFight back at him, her eyes flaming m rage. Oh, well—what the devil? He buried his cigarette angrily in the earth of a potted plant that stood near at hand, then got up and strol- led out, -the leisurely figure oZ a young man who had no scar on his spirit. The evening was no more than half spent when Autumn begged Florian to take her home. She pleaded a headache—from the noise and the heavy air of the place. Florian pro- tested, but finally agreed. They found Linda and together arranged for ono last night at the Parr hunt- ing lodge before Autumn should leave them. ,;.Autumn would drive up from home and meet them at the lodge. The "day was set and the girls kis- sed each other good night. For once, it seemed, Autumn was more languid than Linda. ' (Continued Next Week) come an invitation to Canadian Scouts to attend a South Austrplian Scout Corroboree, to be held Des, 26 —Jan. 4 next en connection with South Australia's Centenary. Whilst it will not be feasible to send a Canadian contingent, the hope is ex- pressed at Dominion Headquarters that a number; of individual Scouts may be, able to go to represent Can- ada. Quick Work For a Snake Bite • Preparedness for snake bites' is. one of the precepts of South .African Boy Scouts. So when Scout Brian Pringle,, of Durban, running along the river bank at Rlipdrift, was bit- ten twice in the leg by a poisonous snake, his Scout chum knew what to A lace from his shoe made a quick' tourniquet, he sucked the poison from the wound's, and with assistance from the nearest homestead, Pringle was hurried to a hospital. May Resume British. Scout Nigra - tion Scheme Prior to the discontinuance of emigration, following the advent of the business , depression, upwards of 4,000 English Boy Scouts had migrat- ed to the colonies, chiefly Canada and Australia. • Many of these went out through the Migration Depart- ment at Imperial Headquarters of the Boy Scouts Association, after un- dergoing some preliminary training in agricultural pursuits. A number of ti ese coming to Canada distm- guished themselves by winning schot- melees at difterer:i provincial agri- I cultural 'schools: In response •to many inquiries tentative plans are being made for a resumption of this Scout migration, especially to Aus- tralia. GODERICH: The cemetery and parks committee of the town council is 'engaging in a rather extensive scheme of reforestation and has put in a large order Inc trees which are supplied for this purpose from the Provincial forestry stations. When they are received they will be planted in a portion of Maitland cemetery set apart for a tree plantation. A mes- sage has been received from John F, Clark, of the Department of Agri- culture, expressing his gratification that Goderieh has applied for "such a fine order of trees," and his hope that "the vast majority of them will reach maturity to beautify your town." On four different types of soil — brown earth, sandy clay, river soil, and transtiion soil—a varietal test of cigar binder tobacco has been con- ducted at the Dominion Experimental Station at Farnham, P.Q. Comstock Spanish Pomeroy was the leading Va.. riety as to yield and quality on all four soils. INVITATIONS COUNT. 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 lead the ability to pass its matriculation. Beginners in every form of enterprise need to go warily; until experience and practice and growing ability warrant thein 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 Iittle 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 misses a leot of business. The public goes where it is invited to go. 9Theflhilltolly ewsBetord A FINE MEDIUM FORADVERTISING—READ AI}S IN TITIS TSSUE. PRONE' 4