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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-11-12, Page 2PAGE 2 TAE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., NOV. 12, 1936. The Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per• veer in advance,' to Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreicn countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid• unless at the oi`jtion of the publish- er. The date to which every sub- ecription is, paid is denoted on the ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- sient advertising 12e per count lino for first insertion. 8c for each sub- sequent insertion. Heading counts. 2 lines. Small arlveztisenients not to exceed one• inch, such as "Wanted,'' 'Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 25c, each subsequent insertion 15e. Rates . for display advertising evade known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, he accompanied by the name of the writer. ie. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, , Conveyancer /Financial. Real Estate and Fire In- ,euranee Agent, Representing 14 Fire dnsurance Companies. .Division. Court Office, Clinton" Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. .Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.O. Sloan ,Block — dlintnn, Ont, I _ 'D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage "Office: Huron Street, (Pew Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by 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, Ch'nton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed.' THE McBILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea- forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep- per, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M, A. Reid, Seforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brucefield; James :Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, ,ondesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub- i1in; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; .,lames Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, eaforth; Alex. McEwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- cton,\R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; .John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. 'No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; :R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, It. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin 'Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance ortransact other business will /he promptly attended to on applica- ion to any -of the above officers ad - <dressed to their respective post offi- ees. Losses inspected by thtr director 'who lives nearest the scene. CANADIANATIONALRAI WAYS TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. 'Going East, depart '1.03 a.m. Going East, depart 8.00 p.m. 'Going West, depart 12,02 p,m.. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce ...Going North, ar. 11.34 ave 12.02 pan. Going South 3.08 p.m. HURON OLD. BOYS' ANNUAL" MEETING The 37th Annual Meeting of the _Huron Old Boys' Association of:To- n'onto will be held in, the Central Y. .M.C.A., 40 College Street, Toronto, •en Thursday, November 12th, at 8.15 Election of officers will take place and the entertainment will include ' Euchre . and Bridge. All Huronites in Toronto will be made welcome. ACCIDENTS AND COMPENSATION 'There were 5,726 accidents report- ed to The Workmen's Compensation • Board during the month of October, this being the secend.largest number •reported during any month this year, and compares with 5,518 during Sep- tember, and 5,506 during October last .Year. The total benefits awarded a- mounted to-. 3519,278.87, of which $434,074.77 was for compensation and :3/35,204.10 formedical aid. The total benefits awarded to date this year amount to $4,458,104.76, as 'compared with $4,461,922.85 during the 'same period last year, and the number of accidents reported this year todate are . 50 37as against Y 1, ag ns 48,552 for the corresponding period of 1935. The fatal accidents reported to date this year number 286, as com- pared with 233 during the corre ;spending period ,of 1935.' The warble • fly is extending its • •operations. A mature larva of the warble fly was taken from' a chip.: monk killed at ;I{ink's Ferry,' P. Q., and ttvo similar larvae were taken • :hoar chipmunks at Lake Clear, Ont. SYNOPSIS Allen Garth is preparing to make 0 trip to a mine which he has discov- ereci in the Canadian Northwest when an aeroplane appears at the little re- fueling station and an elderly man a young man and a young Womac alight. The two men who are looking for mining' prospects, become much in- terested in some specimens of ore shown them by Garth. They are all Bather' haughty, especially the girl, and treat Garth like a servant, but he shows hie independenee'and does - Mt allow hiinself to be ordered about. They decide to take Garth in their "How's -that for cold storage?" he said. "Killed a young mountain sheep on my way out, last month. Thought I'd test,the glacier. Must be an ex- tremely slow-moving one. The -walls. of that hole haven't changed at all, TM! as I could see. Looks as if it's a safe meat house. No `chance of spoiling, and not even a wolf has ventured inside." ' Miss Ramill said nothing. She saw no reason to consider' the cave of the slightest interest. There was, how- ever, the ineat. She suggested that if ib was not spoiled, it would make a change from the moose meat. Ibis proved true. Down at camp the young aeroplane to inspect his mine and if mutton was first thawed in cold *at - it turas out to be worth working to then steweil'in the gold pan. take a lease lot' a year and give him The descent had been made by Mr. sixt Ramill without aid. There was no y percent. of the output, Garth leads them to his claim and Huxby professes to think that he might have salted it. After some digging, which is done by Huxby—and some consultation by Huxby and Ramill, Garth feels that they are convinced of the poten- tial wealth of the mine. The party proposes to go back to the flying ma- chine for lunch, Huxby saying he will come back and do some mere digging. They suggest that probably Garth heed to support, much less back -pack hit. He had, really begun to get a start in training. To Garth this was all' the swore reason for pushing the millionaire so much the harder.' In the :week that followed, he al- ternated more climbs with trips a- round into the muskeg swamps. He led his sweating, swearing charge through kneedeep bogs and the den- sest thickets of willow anis alder. The return trips were over nigger - does not wish to crone back with them head grass, where the heavy -bodied and he says he .will take a trip up city man had to jump nimbly from the mountain side while they are one big tussock to another or take a gone. But Garth is suspicious of the tumble. two men, so as soon as he gets out of Miss Ramill tagged along on these sight he makes for the flying ria- l grueling hikes. She also made an - chine, takes a part from the engine other climb up the gulch. Garth. and disappears again. The party cached in the cave the hundred comes up to the machine in frantic pounds of smoked moose meat he had haste, the elderly millionaire being! brought up on his pack -board. He almost exhausted by the speed at then led on up the glacier, halfway which they have hurried him along.! from its foot to the top of the pass. Just as they were about to take offThat gave the three climbers some Garth walks out of the brush and I real ice work. At one place the girl's wants to know what. is the matter I carelessness almost caused her to slip and Huxby covers hint with his pistol into a crevasse. and tests him to place his gun on thes On the way clown the gulch, one wing. It is evident that they intencl: flimsy sole of the sports boots chafed to fly back to. tate Mackenzie and through on the rocks, and the seam leave him. of the other sole began to come loose. Garth placesI That forced the girl to stay in camp his gun holding ordered, and sew at her moccasins when Garth then unties and rope,gtthe•took her father on a triparound the plane and stands :holding it while Huxby tries to start the engine, which' east side o fthe Iake. would not go. He then tells them,' They went all the way down to that he has the part of the engine in! the far end of the valley, where the his pocket but wili not allow them to the stream from the lake roared come near 1t i m until a 11 a r e out. He then lets the plane go, fling - 'ng the line out into the waterand ib drifts down 'stream towards a falls. When they see the plane is doomed and realize that they are in his pow - the great gorge through the barrier mountains.' Coining back, Garth knocked three brace of fool hens from spruce liiisbs with a stick. The half dozen grouse made a pleasant change. But even . with a er Mr. Ramill says they will do just pail of salmon berries for dessert, as he says if he will lead them back they proved a scant meal for the four to the Mackenzie. meat -eaters. The last leg of moose Garth shoots a moose and prepares had already been baked and eaten, food for the company, which they are the tongues broiled, and the sbcond hungry enough to enjoy. Miss Ra- muffle stewed. The remainder of the mill,' although still very disdainful of smoked meat would not last long. So Garth, is brought to the extremity of I far, Garth had not interfered with slicing off a piece of moose liver and Huxby's all -clay panning out of the platinum alloy. He had not even ask- ed to look at the take of precious metal, Food was a different matter. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Tnnteacl of shooting another moose, At timberline the engineer went he called upon Huxby to join in a it the trough with the caribou hunt. p g gold pan,' A band of the big animals had Garth headed again for the glacier,Idrifted along the tundra terrace over This time Mr. Ramill dict not pant towards the glacier•. Garth sent Hut- and gasp so hard, nor did he have to by straight up the placer trough with stop so often to'r'est. The first climb Miss Ramill and her father. He him - had done more than sta,•engthen his, self skirted: along under cover of the wind and flabby muscles. It had timberline scrub to the glacier stream burned' up the autotoxins in his sys-, . and then worked up the glitch. tom as well as sweat off many pounds of fat. I He climbed rapidly, taking care to Ile managed to climb all the way keep under cover from the tundra to the Lower end of the glacier. It slope. When near the glazier foot, took hint less time than his part-way' he crept cautiously upthe rocky mor - climb and he was far; less exhaust- cine on the west side. His plan was ed, While he rested in a sunny nook) to lie in wait just below the top, un- on'.the rocky side of the lateral inor-I til the others should get above the cine, his daughter went down in' slide ledges at'the head of the plac- front of the glacier with Garth. The glacier must have been slowly melting back upslope for a long per- iod. There was -n0 terminal moraine, only a pavement of waterworn stones and boulders in the bed of the gulch. Many hollows and potholes, large and small, had been scoured in the flat- ter stones by stream -swirled sand.. Lilith Ramill had climbed with the springiness of a girl : accustomed to swimming, tennis, and all-night dant hug. Close after Garth, she skipped nimbly along on the stepping -stones over the ice water that trickled .from the face of the glacier. They casae to the channel where the milky stream gushed out of a tunnel cave in the }clue -white. ice. Garth pointed to a shelf of rock on the near side of the stream. "He walked into the cave along the smoothly polished ledge. L9ith Ra - mill shuddered and glanced up fear- fully; c':' the steep over -hanging ice face that seemed ' about to crash down, Yet after a 'Moment's hesita- tion, she followed Garth into the chilly blue shadow of the cave. • Several yards from the entrance cooking it over a fire for her supper. waste. You've killed them for noth- ing." "I-Iow much moose meat did we throw away?" Garth replied. "These caribou will dress out less than three moose;" Miss Ramill eyed the clean deli- cious --looking white fat on ; the first flayed body. "That looks good, Alan! Never mind what Vivian says. It's Ear better to shoot too much meat than too little. Vivian, you can go to your mining. Dad and I will help Alan." Her father called out a panting suggestion for 'Bixby to wait and carry down a load of meat. "No need," Garth said, ' "Don't stop, Huxby. Most of this venison is going on ice. None will be allowed to spoil.." The engineer .did not linger. He had looked none too well pleased over the girl's familiar use of Garth's first name. Along with his displeasure abort this, there could be no doubt of his eagerness to get back to the platinum panning. Each successive clay he had shown himself still keen- er leo continue the sampling of the placer, When Garth finished.theflaying of the caribou, he started to dress out. the bodies. Greatly to his astonish- ment, Miss Ramill watched the but- cberingrwith-an interest that border ed upon fascination. At the cutting up of the second caribou,• she took the belt -ax and began to help. Garth's surprise lessened as he watched the girl's deft and .energetic handling of the blade. He recalled iKpling's assertion that "Judy O'- Grady and the colonel's lady are sis- ters ,under the skin." Mother Nature had cracked the pol- ished shell of artificiality h which the •pamperec] heiress had been en- cased. The girl's few days . in the Wild had awakened primitive in- stincts ground deep into the nature of woman daring the remote past of mankind. Down through countless ages her prehistoric ancestresses had learned the bitter lesson that, in the Wild, days of plenty are certain- to be followed by days of famine. The caveman hunted the meat; the cave woman' hoarded what she could of it against the time of want. Otherwise her children starved. For the first time in her life, Lilith Ramill had acquired an appetite bas- ed on hunger. Along with this, she was sleeping in an open -fronted brush leanto that gave no more shel- ter than a shallow cave in a river bank. With the exception of nsush- rooms and the berries, she had eaten no food except flesh. Strongest of all the influences of the Wild, she had crouched like a wo- man of the Stone Age beside the fire that alone kept off prowling boasts of prey. With the tang of wood smoke in her nostrils, she had watch- ed the furtive yet fierce wolverines- and wistful -eyed wolves' that slavered for the moose meat, Had it not been for the fire, the wolves night even have attacked her. In : this secluded valley, the fourfooted hunters had not yet learned to fear man, the icing of all killers. So, upon reflection, Garth's amaze- ment passed. He had managed to cover it, even at the first, when Lilith Ramill took the belt -ax in her slender hand and severed the neck bone of the caribou with a single blow. Her father was the one who star- ed. He sat watching the girl's quick, eager weilding of the hand -ax, his mouth slack, almost agape. Garth could only surmise how she had al - Ways been coddled and pampered. Her father knew it. He knew how, since her childhood, she had been wrapped about with silken luxury, waited upon by attentive servants, petted anis spoiled. The millionaire had been born on a farm. He could recall seeing his mother help ,butcher sheep and hogs. But she was a farmer's wife. Lilith would not have known how to pre- pare a spring chicken for the pan, And now she was cutting up caribou, Aside from an occasional wort] of direction, Garth said nothing. When he finished dressing out the fifth carcass, he handed his knife to his eager helper, packed a load' of meat, er trough and drive the caribou to- and carried it to the ice cave. wards hint. Before he had packed the last dis- His first peep over the rim' of the membered quarter of the five first moraine caused him to dodge down bodies in his cold storage room. Lit- and throw a cartridge into tate breech ith rnmpleted her task. He stopped of his rifle. Though Huxby and the his meat toting long enough to show others were still far over- near the her how to make an Eskimo. lamp. trough, several caribou had already'. Down in the gulch bottom he chose come within rifle range. Garth a pothole stone that would hold per - 'counted fifteen in the band. They haps three quarts. In the bowl he were headed at an angle a little up- coiled a wick of twisted dry caribou gulch from him, and all were moving moss, piled in caribou fat, and light- forward in the brisk restless maturer ed • the wick. When the fat melted, e. their breed, with short pauses to the, wick burned with a strong steady crop the delicate greenish -white cari- flame. Caribou ribs furnished a gnat- bou moss. ing on which to broil steaks. • The fat Garth waited until the band came Meat was deliciously tender,; its flay= within seventy-five yards. He then or between venison and beef. let drive, shooting rapidly yet with When even Mr. Ramill couldeatno careful aim. One after another drop- more, Garth carried the stone lamp ped, each with a bullet through the into the ice cave, . Upon his return, head. The 'stupid beasts stared in the he had Mr. Ramill and Lilith look direction of the sharp reports, . But close at the caribou skins. they could. see nothing. The sixth "You see they-, are hair, not fur. wentdown beJortle rmes Survivors every rain isho11 w Nothing is s wheeled and clattered off in panic- warmer than a caribou parka In fact, stricken flight the winter coat is too warm to be The flaying was well under way worn. That is why I killed six now, when Huxby and Miss Ramill came instead • of one. Iluxby • may be a hastening aslant the tundra ahead of sportsman, but he has never wintered Garth stopped ` before as narrow side Mr. Ramill. They stared in .blank in the North." hole ,that opened, above' a waist -high amazement at the six great'deerlike ' Mr. Ramill tensed as if prodded. uprise in the bedrock. He struck a bodies. "Wintered?. Yon can't mean to infer match. The light flashed mirrorlike "My word, ,what a slaughter)"' you expeet 40 stay on here:' We Have on the erystal-line walls of a small Huxby gave voice to bis indignation, your promise to take us out." ice grotto. He reached in and pick- "So this is your idea of sportsman Garth turned;.te meet the intent ed up a, bundled white skin, Out in ship. We can't possibly use more gaze of the girl's blue eyes. They the sun lie opened the skin and show- than two of these animals, They're Iooked as cold as the blue ice of the ed a piece of frozen meat. bigger than. elk. All the rest is' sheer glacier tunnel, His senile seemed' to 3 I f b,.:-�.,:a,+:,liCe Gil, LESS SH E,�r Tse tit, Resolutions regarding your winter's fuel are now in order, Thousands of families are glad that last year they resolved to use only „Hama) Coke in their furnaces. They are back again as customers this year because they kept their homes warmer --at less cost. It's your turn now. Won't you try a ton of the modern fuel—made scienti- fically every day in the great Hamco ovens at Hamilton ? These are some of the advantages you can count on .(I) Lower cost per ton and per season (2) More comfort in every room (3) Quicker heat in the mornings (4) Less labour because lighter on the shovel and fewer ashes to carry out (5) No dust, soot or gas. AMC REMEMBER— r n Ile 8&he will haat y at 10 Born¢ at a lowat cost than &that hate/ au¢ls. cis HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED—HAMILTON, CANADA HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by: W. J. MILLER & SON A. D. McCARTNEY J. B. MUSTARD. COAL CO. warm no responsive glow of friendli- ness behind their frosty surface. None the less, they had greatly changed' since he had first seen then, over on the Mackenzie. They no long- er showed a trace of their former cynical tiredness. The girl might be as hard as ever, but she was no long- er bored or ennuied. For another thing, she had begun to lose her ex- cessive thinness. He answered her father: "You have my promise — more's the pity. A winter a la Eskimo would be a won- derful experience for Miss Ramill, However, she will of course prefer to go back to jazz and cocktails, to paint, powder and lipstick." She, flared: "And rid of you-" "To be sure. That above aII else," he agreed: "So how could I deprive you of that pleasure, or fail to give your father and your fiance another chance to ,bilk me out of my placer claim?" Mr. Ramill put on his poker face. "Does that gibe mean you scheme to force a contract from me, on the threat of keeping us here over the winter?" "Not at ail," Garth was quick to reassure him. "I'm snaking no con- ditions whatever. The placer deal is off. I agreed to get you back to the Mackenzie. When we reach the old post, we part company. You and Huxby will then be free to go as far as you can." "But in that case— No, you can't make nth swallow it. I know you're not such a fool as to risk losing that placer." Garth laughed outright. "What'd you take me for? 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