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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
THURS., JAN. 28, 1937.
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'CANADIAN IAN id ATIONAL.
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CAOGflTI)
TBE 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 some specimens of ore
shown them by Garth. They are all
rather haughty, especially the girl,
and treat Garth like a servant, but
he 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. They
become so interested that they try
to get away in their plane leaving,
him behind so they can put in their
claim for the mine. They are thwar-
ted in this and their plane is swept
down the falls and destroyed. Garth
then agrees to lead them out if they
will do just as he says and he has
got them out to the Mackenzie.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIX
Trapped
Instead of getting aboard the cabin
plane as Garth had ordered her, the
stubborn girl had tried to tag after
him and Constable Dillon. She had
kept on, stumbling and falling in her
haste, until at last she had wrenched
her ankle—perhaps broken it.
At sight of the limp body on
Garth's shoulders, she started up,
horrified. "Oh! oh, Alan! Is—is he
--hurt?"
"Murdered. And you—God!—you
here, all this way from the plane..
Rifle gone. They're coming. Get up
—go back."
"Coining!" she cried. "That mur-
derer! He'll kill ,you tool Go on,
Man. Hurry, Pll follow."
She turned around on her right
foot without a wince or groan, and
bent to slip her moccasins under the
toe thongs of the snowshoes. Deceiv-1
ed into thinking her sprain not ser -I
ious, Garth slued around her and ran'
on at his best gait. He would get
the body of Constable Dillon aboard
the plane, and mush back for the girl
If she followed even at an ordinary
walking pace, there might yet be
time to get awa$'.
He made the plane in short order
and got the dead policeman to the
cabin by way of the wing. Leaping
off, he rushed back at top speed to
meet Lilith. He had to go all the way
to where he had left her.
She had slung the snowshoes on
her back, floundered through the first
drift, and collapsed. When he came
up, she was rubbing snow on her bar-
ed ankle. She Looked up at him,
white-faced with pain and despair.
"I tried, Alan. I can't even walk,"
she said. "Go back. It's all my fault.
Hurry and save yourself. Maybe I
can—delay him."
For reply, Garth swung her up a-
cross his shoulder and headed again
for the plane. There still might be
time. He put all his strength into
another burst of speed.
They came to the glacier stream,
with no sight or sound of the pursu-
ers behind them. Garth lifted the
girl from his shoulder and set her on
the front edge of the monoplane
wing. He grasped hold to vault up
beside her.
A bullet fanned the girl's pain -
whitened cheek. Another bullet struck
the wing edge between her and Garth.
He jerked her down off the wing. The
firing ceased. But the angle of the
shot in the wing edge told Garth the
direction from which it had come.
After murdering Constable Dillon
but before starting to trail Garth,
Huxby must have sent one of his men
running along the foot of the tundra
slope to take possession of the planes.
Garth had outrun the miner. But tin.
man had come within easy rifle range
and clear view of the plane -at least
of its upper parts.
Garth did not hesitate a split se-
cond. He carried Lilith to the moor-
ing tree and slashed the line with his
knife. Then, taking the girl picka-
back ,he set off up the stream bank.
His one backward glance showed
him that the plane was drifting out
into the lake. It did not move as fast
as had Mr. Ramill's beautiful mono-
plane. But the cross -wind had died
down. The lessened stream current
could be counted upon to carry the
plane out beyond reach before it was
stopped by the skim ice.
The rifleman up on the edge of the
tundra was off to the right of the
stream. Garth knew he had a thick
'screen of spruce trees and scrub all
the way to timberline. As he climb-
ed, the man above began to yell and
halloo. Garth had no doubt that the
fellow was .shouting about the out -
drift of the cabin plane,
Before long, other yells came from
the lake shore. They were followed
by rifle shots. It was easy to guess
that one or more of the pursuers had
sighted the plane and opened fire, on
the supposition that Garth was hid-
den in the cockpit. The shouts of the
man above told that he was running
downhill, probably to let the others
know he hadkepn the fugitives from
getting aboard.
Garth moderated his rush. Even
so, his steady uphill slogging brought
him near timberline before the four
men got together down at the lake
shore. From the sudden stoppage of
the firing, he knew the fourth man
had explained the situation. Yet he
did not 'quicken his climbing pace.
For the first time since leaving the
plane, he spoke to Lilith: "Try hold-
ing out farther from my neck, Miss
RamiIl. We're . safe enough now.
We're climbing faster than they can
wade the drifts. What's more, they'll
slow up at every covert."
"They' will?"
"Yes—afraid I'll lie in wait to am-
bush thorn with poor Dillon's pistol.
That was a bad blunder—my not tak-
ing the pistol belt before I went back
for you."
The girl began to sob: "Bu -but I
told you to leave me! He w -won't
hurt me. It's you! This time he'll
ki-kill you dead. Put me down, and
run quick!"
"Stop that," Garth ordered. "He's
not going to get either of us. See
how the clouds are rolling down."
As he spoke, he swerved towards
the camp at the placer, keeping just
above the. scrub of timberline. At the
turn and every few paces, he purpose.
ly stamped through a' drift to mark
his trail.
Within less than a hundred paces,
he saw a whitish pall surge out from
the down -rolling clouds on the west-
ern mountain side. A snow -spitting
wind -gust whooshed aslant the tundra
slope. He turned sharp to the left
and headed uphill towards the foot
of the glacier. Before he had cover-
ed another hundred paces, the air was
thick with snow.
He was still within hearing dis-
tance when the trailers reached tim-
berline and shouted their discovery
that he had turned west. They would
of course figure he Siad dodged along
on the open tundra, and then doubled
down into the timber for protection
from the storm. Above timberline
was only theshelterless tundra and
the glacier. They knew nothing a-
bout Eskimo life.
Fortunately for Lilith in particular,
the storm was only an early autumn
blizzard, not a thirty or forty below
zero gale of the subarctic winter. The
rabbit -fur undersuit inside the buck-
skins saved her. Though greatly
chilled, she was only slightly frostbit-
ten
rostbitten when Garth reached the brink of
the lateral moraine, a little below the
foot of the glacier.
He worked cautiously down the
steep slope of loose stones and boul-
ders. The small flow of ice water
Froin the glacier face had ceased
with the first freeze, though the
shrunken stream still swirled from
under the great ice mass. Garth went
out across the rock-strewn gulch bed.
Within a few moments Lilith sud-
denly found herself out of the wind
and snow and the white gloom of the
storm. She could not see. Her elbow
rasped along a smooth wall. Then
she was placed upon a ledge.
A match flared in Garth's upraised
hand. The light glinted and sparkled
on ice walls. She was in the mouth
of the cave, up inside the glacier -
stream tunnel. At the side of the en-
trance lay the pothole stone that
Garth had made into an Eskimo lamp.
He pointed to an outspread caribou
skin. "Crawl in on that. Then rub
your face and pound yourself."
She scrambled to the skin mat, her
teeth clenched on her lip to keep• from
crying out from the pain of her an-
kle. Garth had struck another match
and held it to, the moss wick of the
stone Lamp. A third match was nec-
essary before enough of the frozen fat
was thawed and melted to feed the
wick. But, once started, the flame
heated more and more of the fat.
I Garth vaulted up in the entrance to
warm his gloves and dry the rim of
(his aviator helmet. Lilith had al-
ready rubbed h e r frost -whitened
cheeks and nose into a glow. Ile
laid his belt -ax on a hind -quarter of
caribou, and smiled at her in the
growing light of the wick.
"Chop off a shank or two. We'll
need bone spits," he said. "But first
warm some of the other skins and
wrap them around you. Also put
more fat in the lamp. I'll be gone two
or three hours."
He went out the tunnel and crossed
the dwindled stream on stepping
stones; taking care not to wet his
moccasins. Over near the far end of
the glacier front, he found a drift
with a four -inch crust packed by the
drive of the wind during the previous
snowstorm. He went at it like an
Eskimo, slashing out big domino-
-shaped blocks with his knife.
After he had gathered a high pile
of the blocks on a fairly level spot just
beyond the drift, he started to cut
others and lay thein edgewise in a cir-
cular wall around the pile. Two feet
up he began to lean the blocks in-
'.ward. A helper would have enabled
him to build much faster. But he
worked with the quickness and skill
of experience.
When the wall was waist high, he
leaped inside and used the pile of
blocks to arch the sides of the igloo
up and overhead in a dome. By the
end of three hours, he stood in the
blackness of a snow beehive, half a
foot higher than his head and over
eeven feet across at the floor level,
Low down in the wall he cut a hole.,
There was little more than space e-
nough between the igloo and the glac-
ier front for him to crawl out. He
circled around the snow dome and the
big drift, through the thick swirl of
snow, and recrossed the stream.
In the cave he found Lilith fur-
bundled and hovering over the lamp,
as she broiled thawed caribou steaks
on a shank -bone spit. The open-
mouthed ice grotto could not hold the
heat of the stone lamp.
He picked the girl up' in her skin
wrappings, and carried her out and
around to the igloo. A second trip
fetched the rest of the skins, the lamp,
and enough meat for a starter.
While she went on with her cook-
ing, over the relighted lamp, he cut
more blocks and built a low entrance
tunnell from the door to part way
around the curve of the igloo wall.
When he backed in, he blocked the
mouth of the tunnel with a snow slab.
The inside of the igloo was already
so warm from the lamp heat that the
inside of the dome roof was begin-
ning to soften. But Garth knew there
was no slightest danger of it falling
in. As fast as the snow melted, the
moisture was sucked outwards. It
met the cold of the outside air and
froze hard.
In a little while the igloo would be
a dome of solid ice strong enough to
hold the weight of a bear. The inter-
ior was both warmer and drier than
any tent, or any hut of wood or stone.
The caribou skins made even the snow
floor comfortable,'
Lilith had already taken off her
gloves, fur cap and buckskin shirt.
The rabbit -skin undervest was more
than enough in the igloo. Garth fol-
lowed her example, first brushing and
shaking his clothes before the Ioose
snow on them could melt.
The girl bad a stack of caribou
steaks broiled for him. He sat down,
without a word, and began to eat. In
the midst of the meal the smoke and
heat became so stifling that he had
to cut a two-inch ventilation hole in
the roof.
All the time he gave no sign that
he perceived the look of misery in Lil-
ith's eyes. But when he had eaten his
fill, he spoke a sudden order: "Bare
your foot."
She obeyed, tensely silent. He look-
ed close at the swollen ankle in the
lamplight and felt it with his finger
tips. Easy as was his touch, Lilith
gasped with pain, But he smiled his
relief.
"No broken bone or dislocation; on-
ly a sprain. You'll soon be all right.
Start packing it with softened snow.
Keep it as cold as you can without
freezing.'
At that, all her pent-up emotion
burst out: "Oh, how you must despise
me! Get you into this frightful dan-
ger—then go lane! A helpless, use-
less drag on you! That beastly cow-
ard—he'll hunt you out .. , murder
you like the poor policeman. And all
my fault!"
Garth shook his head. "You take
too much of the credit, Miss Ramili.
So far as regards Constable Dillon,
the result would have been the same
if yen had stayed at Fort Simpson."
"Illi you—the plane! You'd have
hareime to fly off, if I'd gone aboard
as you told me."
"Forget it. I'm not so sure but
what I'm as well satisfied."
(Continued next week)
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation Features
DAY BY DAY FOR THIS WEEK
All Times Eastern Standard
Thursday, January 28:
9.30 p.m. "Christie Street Capers"—
Variety show with orchestra, From
Toronto.
10.30 p.m. "Travelling through
Yugo-Slavia." Talk by Mdage Mae -
Beth, eminent Canadian traveller and
writer. From Ottawa.
Friday, January 29:
8.30 p.m. "Acadian Serenade." Or-
chestra and soloist. From Halifax.
10.00 p.m. "Ye Olde Medicine
Showe." Variety program, From
Vancouver.
Saturday, January 30:
7.45 p.m.: The Book Review—By
Professor J. F. Macdonald. From To-
ronto.
8.30 p.m. La Petite Symphonic de
Radio -Canada. -- Direction Captain
Charles O'Neill, with Anna Merle as
soloist. From Quebec.
Sunday, January 31:
3.00 p.m. New York Philharmonic
Orchestra. From New York,
8,30 p.m. "Jewels of the Madonna."
Orchestra, soloists, and guest artists.
From Vancouver.
3enday, Feb. lst: ,
9.00 p.m. "Melodic Strings." Or-
chestra, direction Alexander Chu-
haidin. From Toronto.
10.00 p.m. "Strike Up the Band,"
Orchestra. From Toronto,
Tuesday, February, 2:
9.30 p.m, "Picture in Black and
White." Soloists and orchestra -From
Halifax.
10,00 p.m. "National Sing Sig."
Community singing. From Toronto.
Wednesday; January 3:
8.00 p.m. "Twilight Echoes." Fea-
turing Helen and William Morton,
with instrumental trio. From Toron-
to.
9.00 p.rn. "Canadian Concert Hall
of the Air,"' From Montreal.
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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
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WHAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN THE
GAY NINETIES
Do You Remember What Happened During The Last
Decade Of The OId Century?
From The Clinton News -Record,
Jan. 27th, 1897:
Mr. James Cook bicycled to and
from Seaforth one day last week.
Mr, James Sheppard and Mr. Thos.
Beacom intend opening a new grocery
and flour and feed business in the
course of a few weeks.
A. Rare Treat—Don't miss the free
sleigh -ride on Thursday evening of
this week from the town hall to the
social at Mr. R. Thompson's on the
10th con., Goderich Township.
A Model Necessity—Messrs. B. J.
Gibbings and W. G. Doherty have in-
troduced in Clinton an up-to-date el-
ectric door -bell, which should meet
with a large sale All you have to do
4.11
When The Present Century
Was Young
From The Clinton News -Record,
Jan. 25th, 1912:
Mr, R. Batchford of Hurondale, ac-
companied by his son, Mr, James
Blatchford of Nebraska, were guests
last week of Mr. and Mrs. C. S.
Hawke,
Mr. T. R. Shepherd, better known
as "Chum" has been transferred from
the Lethbridge branch of the Royal
Bank to Calgary.
Miss May Rance is in Owen Sound
where she is taking part in a concert.
Mrs. Walter Ring and little Miss
Ruth Ball spent the week -end with
Mrs. John Bennett of Blyth.
is touch the button and the whole The First Cars Ready—The Clinton
Motor Car Company have now fully
house is awakened.
The adjourned meeting of the com-
mittee, appointed by the town coun-
cil re the $10,000 Stavely money pro-
mised Clinton by the Ontario Govern-
ment, met in the town clerk's office
last Friday evening. There were pre-
sent, Mayor Holmes, Geo. G. M'acTag
Bart, W. Doherty, W. Coats, W. R.
Lough and the News -Record represen-
tative. Several suggestions were put
forward—gymnasium for the colle-
giate, a Stavely Memorial Hall. On
motion of Coats and Doherty, it was
decided to report to the council that
the committee was favourable to a
public library and the funding of a
portion of the $10,000 to maintain it.
From The New Era, Jan. 29, 1897:
John Davis of North Bay is visit-
ing his father, Mr. S. Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Bean, who have been
visiting in the neigbourhood of Port
Hope, have returned to town.
Mr. Honey, of Mount Forest and
Mr. Harris of Dakota are visiting Mr.
Rorke this week.
Miss McEwen of the Public School
staff has been engaged by the Ottawa
staff. Her place will be filled by
Miss Annie Taylor of BIyth.
Three Clintonites are attending the
Canada Business College at Chatham.
Misses Mattie Dodd and Amelia Har-
land in the Business Department and
Mr. P. F. Ross in the Shorthand De-
partment.
The Clinton Fire Brigade held their
annual meeting on Monday. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Capt., R.
Horsley; Lieut., Thos. Cottle; Sec.,
Chap. ilellyar; Treasurer., A. Seeley;
Branchmen, No. 1 cart, Geo. Rum -
bah, F. Tebbutt; No, 2 cart W. Wheat-
ley, L Finch; Foremen, G. Rumball
and W. Wheatley.
completed one 1 -ton truck and a se-
cond truck of 2 -ton capacity is near-
ly ready and it is expected their first
pleasure car, a five passenger touring
car, will be finished early in the com-
ing week,
Mr. Cleghorn arrived in Clinton on
Dec. 1st and was very busy getting
the place in running order. They do
not anticipate any difficulty in pro-
ducing four or five ears a month af-
ter Feb. 1st.
Model School Board — The Model
School Board met last week and or-
ganized for 1912, Mr. F. B. Hall was
again chosen chairman. Mr. S. Kemp
was re-elected chairman of the pro-
perty committee. With him are as-
sociated Messrs. Bali and Hellyar. The
finance committee consists of Messrs.
Rorke, Hovey and Cottle. Rev. C. E.
Jeakins was selected representative
on the C. I. Board.
of his third year.
The "Private Secretary"• presented
in the town hall provided merriment.
Those in the cast were, Mr. D. Hollo-
way, Mr. R. Rumball, Mr. I. Ratten-
bury, Mr. W. Ford, Mr. 0. Fink, Mr.
W. Johnson, Mr. N. Davis, Mr. F.
McCaughey, Miss B. Mcivor, Miss B.
Draper, Miss G. Cluff and Miss M.
Cluff.
St. Marys 5, Clinton 3—The loeal
residents witnessed a fine hockey
match last Friday evening. The line-
up for Clinton was: goal, Johnson;
point, Rumball; cover point, O'Don-
nell; rover, Fair; centre, Kerr; right
wing, Greig; left wing, Draper. Ref-
eree, Rankin.
From The New Era, Jan. 25, 1912:
Mr. James Flynn was in Toronto
this week.
Mrs. H. B. Combo and children are
visiting with relatives in Stratford.
Earl O'Neil and Stewart Scott were
in Seaforth attending the lecture gi-
ven by Dr. MacDonald before the Can-
adian Club.
Mrs. H. T. Rance and Mrs. Ferran
are entertaining their lady friends to
a 500 party to -night.
A few nights ago a lamp exploded
in the sitting room of the house of
John Jackson on Rattenbury Street.
Fortunately the table was a hardwood
one and the cloth on the table soaked
up the oil. The loss was covered by
insurance.
Rev. Mr. Millson of Trinity Church,
Stratford as been invited to the On-
tario Street Metodist church. Rev. T.
W. Cosens, who is now pastor, has
accepted an invitation to one of the
London churches and leaves at the end
DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
The Scouts and the Emergency
The effectiveness of Boy Scout
training, physical and mental, for
emergencies was illustrated anew in
a group of medal award cases an-
nounced by the Dominion Medical
Board in January.
1.01011.1.11••••••=.1
Two Small Boys and. a 6 -Font Mae
The water rescues included the
saving of a 6 -foot man by two boys
of 11 and 12 years, the Iatter a Scout
when the man sank in a deep hole in
the Chateauguay river, The boys
caught him by the straps of his bath-
ing suit, got him into shallow water,
and there kept his head up until their
shouts brought nearby heir,.
A Fatal Good Turn
An attempt to remove a high-ten-
sion wire which he found lying across
a path in Point Pelee National Park
following a storm proved a fatal
turn for 10 year old Wolf Cub Gor-
don Smith of Windsor, Ont. Appar-
ently attempting to draw the wire
out of the way of other persons, the
lad had lifted it with a stick, when
the wire slipped up and touched his
hand, killing him instantly.
Other Water Rescues
Other cases included: Rescue of a
boy, a non -swimmer, who had fallen
from a freight vessel in the Thames
river by three. Chatham, Ont, Scouts.
The diving rescue by two fully cloth-
ed Scouts of another boy who had
fallen from a dock and disappeared
at Parry Sound. The boat rescue in
heavy weather of the occupant of an
overturned sailboat in Hamilton Bay
by a Hamilton Scout. The rescue of
a party of three young men and two
young women whose sailboat had ov-
erturned in Lake Erie, by two Chat-
ham Rovers. The rescue of a girl, a
poor swimmer, from the swift cur-
rent of. the Niagara river by a Ni-
agara Fails Scout.
Scout Meets Bear
One of the most unique acts for
which a Canadian Scout award has
been made was that of King's Scout
Kenning Keely, of Bala, Ont. the
stunning and drowning of a bear
which attempted to climb into a boat
containing the Scout, and his young
sister. They were rowing across a
Lake Muskoka bay last summer.