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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-11-26, Page 2'PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -REGARD THURS., NOV. 2 ,193 The Clinton, News -Record With which is; Incorporated THE. NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 11.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. 32.00 to the U.S.' or ither foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless ak the option of the publish- er. The dateto which every sub- ccrintion 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. mor 35c, eaeh subsequent insertion 15e. 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 .uf the writer. G. E. HALL, M. R, CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Publie, ' Conveyancer Financial Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent, Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton Frank Finglal:id, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W.Brydope, K.C. Sloan ,Block Clinton, Ont. 'D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR , Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few 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 Huson 'correspondence promptly answered 'Immediate arrangements can be made -for Sales Date at The News -Record, ,Clinton, or by calling phone 203. .Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. 'THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: 'President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - 'forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep - ver, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. 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CANADIAN;NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as ,follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. -Going East, depart , 7.Q3 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. =Going West, depart 12.02 p.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce •Going North, ar. 11.34 Ive 12.02 p.m.Going South 8.08 p.m. MUST BE GIVEN CHANCE Suppose your threw a stone at a mark and missed ft, what would you say? Would you say that, there was mo mark to hit, or that it couldn't be hit, or that the stone was so mis- shapen that it would not carry true, to aim? Or would you be candid and say that the failure was due to your own lack of skill? Andif you really wanted to hit the mark, would you snake but a single throw? Would you not keep on trying until you hit the • mark—probably as a consequence of Improved skill in throwing stones? Yet there are men who use adver- tising but once, and who, when the hopedforresults" are not instantly obtained. declare that advertising is no good, or that the medium is no good.—J. .C. Kirkwood, in Marketing. The advertisements are printed for your convenience. They inform and save your time, energy and money. session—smile and . put aside all J CAUGIITIS THE WILD By Robert Ames Bennet SYNOPSIS ' Allen Garth is preparing to make a trip to a mine which he has' discov- ered in the. Canadian Northwest when an aeroplane, appears at the little re:- fueling- station 'and an elderly man, a young: man and a young woman alight, The two men who are looking for mining prospects, become- much in- terested in nterested'in some specimens of ore shown thein by Garth. They are all rather haughty, especially the girl, and treat Garth like a servant, but Re' shows his independence and does- n't allow himself to be ordered about, They decide to take Garth in their aeroplane to inspect his mine and if it turns out to be worth working to take a lease for a year and give him sixty 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 clone by Huxby and some consultation by Hexby 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 wiTI: come back and do some more digging. They suggest that probably .Garth does not wish to come back with them and he says he will take a trip up the mountain side while they are gone. But Garth is suspicious of the two men, so as soon as he gets out of sight he. makes for the flying ma- chine, takes a part from the engine and disappears again. The party comes up to the machine in frantic haste, the elderly millionaire being almost exhausted by the speed- at which they have hurried him along. Just as they were about to take off Garth walks out of the brush and wants to know what is the matter and Huxby covers him with his pistol and tells him to place his gun on the wing. It is evident that they intend to fly back to the Mackenzie and leave him. Garth places his. gun as ordered, then unties and rope holding the plane and stands holding it while Huxby tries to start the engine, which would not go. He then tells then that he .has the part of the engine in his pocket but will not allow them to come near h i m until all a r e out. He then lets the plane go, fling- ing the line out into the water and it drifts down stream towards a falls. When they see the plane is doomed and realize that they are in his pow- er Mr. Ramill says they will, do just as he says if he will lead them back to the Mackenzie. Garth shoots a moose and prepares food for the company, which they are hungry enough •to• enjoy. Miss Ra- mill, although still very disdainful of Garth, is brought to the extremity of slicing off a piece of moose liver and e cooking it over a fire for her supper, h NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Ever since coating into the valley lie hadspent the greater part of every long day scratching spots all over the great pinecr claim and panning sam- ples of the gravel. Fifteen thousand dollars was no fortune. But if a few score panfuls of grassroot dirt could yield that amount, there could be no doubt of the vast treasure beneath. Even if bedrock lay at a shallow depth, the platinum placer was worth at least a million dollars, Though Garth smiled at the engin- eer's betrayal of cupidity, he took note of it as an additional warning. He had said "that. Huxby was a com- monplace wolf. But any wolf is apt a to bedeadly when ravenous. s Beyond doubt, Huxby had dwelt up-. h on the immensity of the treasure in the ground until it had become, a fix- s ed idea.. Thousands of nien have gone 's marl with gold 'fever. Here was a precious metal worth three times its' weight in gold. The mining engineer a knew that fact. He was no common prospector to whom nothing was any more valuable than the yellow metal. Garth's sideward glance caught in amused twinkle in Mr. . Ramill'e shrewd eyes. The hard training had put the millionaire in better health than heprobably had enjoyed for many years. Also; his mind was big- ger and better -poised, than that of his prospective son-in-law. He could smile with Garth. over Huxby's ob- thought of the placer until in a posi- tion to take it from its discoverer'. Lilith saw the situation front a still different angle. She opened the wolf - shin sack to neer inside. At sight of the -nodules, she dropped' the flap, with a look of disgust. Mere value Meant the to her. The alloy look- ed dull and uninteresting. "Worth only fifteen thousand dol- lars," she bantered her fiance. "You- 've dug dirt all this time for a trifle like that, and lugged it all the way up here,- Don't tell ire you're so dumb that you plan to pack it for the weeks Alan says we'll need to get hack to the Mackenzie," Garth answered for the hesitating engineer: "But how about.rny sixty per cent, if he leaves the stuff here?""Dad"Dawill give you a cheek for your share. Forty-five pounds of that stuff -how silly- Fromwhat you've told us, we may have all we can do to carry ourselves en this 'cross- country hike." ' "With my blanket and the meal that's in it, I'nr started off with some, thing like two hundred pounds," Garth said. • "Game was scarceon the other side of the pass when I went out the other time. The weight of our metal in meat. may be more thanthe fifteen. thousand dollars. Let Huxby choose which he prefers to pack:"' The engineer diel not dump out the platinum alloy. He compromised by shoving one of the twenty -pound chunks of caribou meat into the' sack, on top of the metal. This left a second chunk of equal weight. Lilith bent over to put it in her own sack. "Lay off," said Garth. - "It is his choice. Besides, frozen • meat soon spoils when it thaws.,Fall into Indian. file. Here goes." He backed up to his boulder-perched pack, slipped the tamp -line over his forehead, and started up the great' cleft as if his two -hundred pound pack weighed no more than Huxby's sixty-five pounds of meat and metal. ' Chapter XII A Real Sport At the same slow but steady gait which he hadstarted, Garth plodded up the great glacier filled cleft underhis two-hundredpound•pack. He halted only when theother men were compelled to stop for breath. Huxby, though carrying a Ioad only a third the weight of Garth's, had soon begun to strain and puff as hard as. Mr. RatanHe was larger. than Garth and seemingly stronger -muscled. But he lacked Garth's wind and endurance and the knack of bapk-packing. At every halt he sank down on the ice or a moraine stone, panting. Garth merely eased his back -break - ng pack upon a boulder, slipped the tamp -line from his forehead, and wait - d for the other men to recover. Lilith Ramili's.pack was too light to hamper er•.- She climbed with the agility of a goat. She would have forged ahead, hadnot Garth reminded her of the closeness with which she had escaped slipping into a crevasse, during their. partial ascent of the glacier. They had no alpine rope, and some of the snow bridges over the crevasses were treacherously weak. At such places , Garth avoided the fissures by skirting around. them on 'the rock ledges 'of the steeply sloped cleft wall, Between the crevasses the granular surface of snow -ice gave better foot- ing than the' frost -shattered rocks and broken ledges of the mountain- side. In places the pitch of the glacier becametoo steep for ordinary climb- ing. Garth had to, draw his belt -axe nd drop foot holds. The last of these teep rises was far up towards the ead of the pass. Near the top of the. mndred-foot climb, Huxby's over- trained muscles gave way. His foot. lipped from a step hole that had been partly broken out by My. Ramill. He dewed sideways and whirled over own the steep pitch, in a blinding plunge of snow -ice spray. At Lilith's scream, Garth threw off tis pack with a sideward twist, dropp- d his rifle, and started back down the ice steps. There was a crevasse my a short distance on down to where he glacier made another sharp pitch. Huxby struck 'the short intermed- ate stretch of moderate elope at a peed that shot him all the way along t. The weight of the platinum alloy dded snomentuni to his velocity. He flattened over, face downwards, and ug in his toes and.fingers. But he was still slithering when his feet truck the neat edge of a snow bridge hat Garth had carefully avoided. At the shock, the snow arch shatter - d loose and plunged into the crevasse is resistance, however, proved just Sufficient to chock the slackened slid reg of the engineer. When. Garth came running down to the crevasse, Huxby lay with one leg ver the ice edge. His other leg was yawn up, with' the toe of the shoe dug in deep. The lacerated fingers of is down -clutched hands. were still more desperately thrust into ihe'snow- ce. 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Have you had. your Vita -Kelp today? 2 BARTLIFF & CRICH, PHONE 1, CLINTON, ONT. s e 0 s a d s t e .i 0 d h ' d pulled him back to safety and slipped off ,t�e wolfskin knapsack. At that Iluxby went lax and lay gasping. He was merely outspent. Garth went over his • limbs and ribs, feeling' for broken -bones. "You're in luck," he said. "Looks as if you got off with no more than a little skin off your fingers." I-Iuxby jerked upon his elbow. "The the platinum! Did it—go Over?"' "No, and none of it spilled." Garth swung the knapsack on his shoulder. "Trail along when you're rested. Take your time, I see I'll have to relay." He turned about to climb again up the steps: From the top he saw 1 -lux - by just approaching the loot. •s Lilith's alarm had all passed, She inquired in a tone strangely indifferent for a girl who' had seen her fiance miss death by no more than a hairbreadth: "He's not hurt, is he -nothing ser- ious?" ",Only his fingers skinned. No bones, luckily. .I wouldn't fancy toting him. 'as well as' his pack. He'll need. the dope for leis hands. You and your father can wait and come along with him." Mr. Ramill looked doubtful: "He's too exhausted to carry any pack at all, yet you should know he'll never leave that platinum," I'll try it myself," .Lilith offered. She sought to lift the knapsack from Garth's shoulders. "I know I can make it, Alan if you'll let, me throw out that meat." ' He stepped away from her, "We'll soon dine on the caribou. I'll run on up with it, and eome back for my own pack. Follow in my trail." The remaining distance to the sum- mit of the pass was not so steep' and there was no danger of crevasses. Garth made the climb at a swinging pace. He web halfway down again before he met Huxby plodding slowly upwards with Mr. Ramill. The en- gineer looked at him with cold -eyed rancor. Mr. Ramill panted a wistful quest- ion: "Wh—when—do we—eat?" "At the top. Take your time." Lilith had chosen to wait for Garth dawn where he had left thein all. His pack lay on the snow below the bould- er upon which he had set it. She pointed her slender finger at the fallen bundle: "I tried to find out if you were lying about the weight. I couldn't even lift one end. But you see how the tap of the stone slopes. The beastly thing slid off." "That's all right, Miss Ramill. Easy enough to up -end it again." "Easy!" Her blue eyes glowed with an odd Iight. "You carried Dad back to camp that day. But it was down- hill. Now -to pack this frightful load all the way up here! Alan Garth, you're a man!" He smiled at her ignorance. "Many a guide packs heavier duffle for sport- smen who can't enjoy the bush with- out home' comforts." "Not on mountain climbs like this!" "Well, it's a bit of a stiff pull-up," he admitted. "But we'll soon make the downslope. I left the knife on the knapsack. Go up and slice that caribou meat" The girl whom her own father could not command met the order with a cheerful nod. She started briskly off up the gap. Garth's 'steady climbing brought him to the top of the pass a few paces behind Huxby and Mr. Ram - ill. Lilith was sprinkling salt on slices of the raw meat. The pass was barren even of car- ibou moss. The neat had to be eaten 'cold and uncooked, or not at all. Six hours had passed since the party left the camp in the valley bottom. After the long, hard climb, even the girl was hungry enough to have eaten raw- hide. The caribnq meat was tender, and the first taste of salt since the party had come to the valley turned the meal into a feast. Garth had at once chopped the still- frozen core of the meat into chips with his ax. They softened on a sun -war- med rock while the outer parts thaw- ed in the knapsack, were being eaten. Less than half the twenty pound chunk of caribou remained by the time even Mr. Ramill found he could eat no more. For drink they had the water that trickled down from a melting snowbank, 'All were so refreshed by the food and rest that no one objected when Garth gave the word to start on. There would be- no more slogging up- hill,, with lungs bellowsing for air. .One would only have to hold back. But that was the rub—the holding back. The south side of the pass was far steeper than the north, and there was noglacier to offer stretches of smooth footing. The bed of the sharp- ly tilted cleft frequently dropped over small cliffs. Between these high ledges were slides of frost -shattered rocks. Patches of ice here and there madethe footing doubly treacherous. In places 'Garth had todrop his pack down 'before"'him, ` Not infrequ- ently, even Lilith hall to be given a hand down slippery chutes, or cau- ght in Garth's upraised arms when Huxby lowered her off the edge of a sharp drop. Still oftener, her fath- er hail to be helped by both Garth and Huxby. The descent was as dangerous as it was slow and hard. Garth was the only mountain climber of the party. More than once he barely saved his companions from falls that would. have meant broken bones or worse. Midway of the worst part, Mr. Ramill gave out. To the painful slow ness of the descent was "the added fre- quent'long :halts for the .millionaire to rest: Garth , himself was -ready to quit perfectly still, his muscles rigid. Garth when', in- the twilight, they came down '';®fi�rrC14N $E y'ou /.URNACE MAN MOW ''MUMMY re's CORE I'S SO 41011r-/ •Trust this youngster to see the difference.. He's strong enough to lift a heaping shovel of Hamco Coke—and he doesn't mind taking out the ashes because they are so few. And "mummy" likes the extra heat in every room —and the quick way Hamco responds on zero mornings. And she's glad she can save money for other necessities by paying less for fuel. Make your work and your bills lighter this winter by choosing Hamco Coke. REIIrEraBEry-- lII` / f a* rum (some at- az I tfnazr aa9W than atket hard/Pe/if. HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, n-sa LIMITED—HAMILTON, CANF'DA. HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by: J. B. MUSTARD, COAL CO. W. J. MILLER & SON A:. Dr. McCAKII,NEY to where the steep pitch eased off on a small patch of tundra. He opened his pack and spread the blanket on the dry gravel in a hole under a pile of boulders. At sight of the fat with frozen caribou and smoked moose meat in the pack, Lilith at once gathered dry moss, This time the raw caribou flesh was smeared over a fat fed fire of the moss before being eaten. After the meal, Garth opened the gold - mounted cigar case and handed one of the Havanas to its owner. Mr. Ramill hastily bit off the end and lighted the cigar in the flame of the' fat and moss fire. As he put it to his lips he hesitated, then, with a perceptible effort, he turned to of- fer it to his daughter. "Uh—ladies first, my dear." Lilith started to thrust out her hand. Something seemed to catch it: She glanced at Garth and stood up.' "You need it more than I do, Dad. Good night, everybody. I'm dog tir- ed." Her father and Huxby looked at each•. other in astonishment. Garth was less .surprised. He: smiled to, himself as he put more moss and fat; on the fire. and :coiled' up' beisde it. The short nights were already get -- ting longer -and i darken, When wak- ened by the chill' of midnight, Garth saw Huxby lying on•tlie,other side of the fire hole. Tile fire;iliad burnt out. He built a new ones, AS its small flame-1ig'litenedlthtidbukness, he saw• the half -stub of tlt'e'eigtnr clutched inl Huxby'd •fingers:.. (chin4it'gtecliNeaait Week:). u ja When the Easiest W -.. • • Is the Best Way %1a THERE are no two ways abetit itl Certainly the easiest way to geb the most for every dol.: lar you spend is to. buy products that you know' about through the. advertisements in. your loeait paper . 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