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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1937-04-15, Page 2''AGE '2 The Clinton News -Record. With which is Incorporated TIIE NEW ERA TERMS oh SUBSCRIPTIIN '01.50 per vear in advance, to Cana- dian addresses, $2.00 to the U.S, or -ether foreiun countries.; No ' paper discontinued untilall arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish - r. The date to which ` every sub=, ecrintion is paid is denoted on the label.; ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- sient advertising; 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each sub- eequent insertion. Heading counts •2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed, one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once. for 35c, each subsequent insertion 16e. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of ood faith, be accompanied :by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Reall. Estate and Fire In- suranee Agent, Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.G. Sloan Block — G•liuten, Ont., D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR` Electro Therapist, Massage "Office: Huron 'Street. (h'ew 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, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD "THE L ST PRINCE" By Frances Hodgson Burnett SYNOPSIS Marco Loristan was thekind of a boy people looked at the second time when they had looked at him once, Ile was a well-built boy of 12, intelli- gent looking, and well-mannered. He and his father had travelled a great deal and the boy was proficient in several languages, so ,that he felt at home in whatever country he was staying. ' Marco knew that they were Samavians, that there was trouble and bloodshed in Saniavia at present. His father had told him the story of the Lost Prince, who might, one day return to Samavia and restorer order and peace. At present the Loristan's are in London, England, and Marco had encountered several interesting ready in its cavern's and secret meet-, ing places!. He longed to reach home arid tell his father, at once, all he had heard. He recalled to mind, wort) for word, all that The Rat had, been told, and even all he had added in his game, because -well, because that seemed so teal too, so real that it .actually might be useful. But when he reached No. 7 Phili bert Place, he found Loristan and Lazarus very much absorbed in. work. The door of the back sitting -room was locked when hefirst knocked' on it, and locked again as soon as he had entered.. There were many pa- pers on the table, and they were evi- dently studying them. Several of them were maps. Some were road people, among them, "The Rat," a maps, some maps of towns and cit - crippled boy who commands a group ies, and some of fortifications; but of willing boys the boys listen at- tentively as Marco speaks to them. • NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "We're preparing for the rising," he said. "It must come soon. We've waited so long. The ,caverns are stacked with arms. The Maranovitch find the Iarovitch are fighting and us- ing all their soldiers, and now is our time." He stopped and thought,. his elbows on his knees. He began to bite his nails again. "The Secret Signal must be given," he said. Then he•stopped again, and the Squad held its breath and pres- sed nearer with_a softly shuffling sound. "Two of the Secret Ones must be chosen by lot and sent forth," he went on; and the Squad almost THE Mc1{TLLOP MUTT L Fire Insurance Company Head Office. Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, Thomas Moy- len, Seaforth; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors — Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - 'forth; James Sholdice, Walton; Wil- liam Knox, Londesboro; Chris. Leon- 'hardt, Dublin; James Connolly, God- erich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. M. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEw- 'Ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, 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, R. 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, God'erich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica- tosn to any ,of the above ofr.'•cers ad- 'dressed to their respective post offi- 'ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. ;CANADIAN. ATIONAL ' AiLWAYS TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.03 a.m. 'Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. 'Horne, West, depart 12.02 p.m. 'Going West, depart 10.08. p.m. London, Huron & Bruce 'Going North, ar. 11.34, lve 12.02 p.m. Going South 3.08 p.m. .Fitting Job to a Person In the modern world of specialized work it is a big problem to find the right people for different jobs as is illustrated by work in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, About 1,000 'persons were temporarily added to 'the staff to compile the results of the :last Dominion census. They were selected by the Civil Service Commis- sion out of 8,060 applicants, by •means of a written examination to test their :"general education and intelligence. The best thousand out of eight 'thousand should not differ very wide- 'ly ide-'ly in general ability (except for a few particularly outstanding) and yet 'there was a pronounced difference in the success with which they perform- ed different kinds of work. The fast- ed quarter of these employees on one kind of work, for instance, did about 23 per cent more work than the slow- est auarter. This particular job was 'the operation of a statistical machine,' and as it, only takes about two weeks to learn to do a full day's work on this machine, it may often pay to "train new operators instead of let- ting, those continue indefinitely who -are doing only four-fifths as much work as others.- They may be able to do another kind of work better, with less strain on themselves. Horses of not more than $150 in value imported into the United States from Canada are dutiable at $20 per head; horses over $150 in value : are subject tg a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem. Prior to January 1936. the duty on horses of not more than $150 in value was $30 per head. From 1931 to 1935 there was a slow but steady increase in the number of Canadian horses imported ,into the • United States and in 1936 the imports rose to 17,156 head for the not more than $150 classification and to 326 lead for horses, over the $150 figure. they were all maps of places in Sa- mavia. They were usually kept in a strong box, and when they were ta- ken out to be studied, the door was always kept locked. Before they had their evening meal, these were all returned to the strong box, which was pushed into a corner and had newspapers piled upon it, "When he arrives," Marco heard Loristan say to Lazarus, "we can show him clearly what has been plan- ned. He can see for himself." His father spoke scarcely at all during the meal, and, though it was not the habit of Lazarus to speak at such times unless spoken to, this ev- ening it seemed to Marco that he looked mere silent than lie had ever seen him Iook before. They were plainly both thinking anxiously of of the keen -eyed, clever, aquiline face' with the well -cut and delicately close mouth, which looked as if it had been shut upon secrets always—always. If he could draw, he found himself saying again. Ho could draw, though perhaps only roughly. He had often amused himself by making sketches. of things he wanted to ask questions about. He had even drawn people's faces in his untrained way, and his father had said that he had a crude gift for catching a likeness. Perhaps he could make a sketch of this face which would show his father that he knew and could recognize it. He jumpedout of bed and went to a table near the window. There was paper and a pencil lying on it. A street lamp exactly opposite threw into the room quite Iight enough for him to see by. He half knelt by the table and began to draw. He work- ed for about twenty minutes stead- ily, and he tore up two 'or three un- satisfactory sketches. The poor draw- ing would not' matter if he could catch that subtle look which was not slyness but something more dignified anti important. It was not difficult to get the marked aristocratic outline of the features. A common -looking man with less pronounced profile would have been less easy to draw hi one sense. He gave his mind whoI- ly to the recalling of every detail which had photographed itself on his memory through its trained habit. Gradually he saw that the likeness was becoming clearer. It was not long before it was clear enough to be a striking one, Any one who knew the man would recognize it. He got up, drawing a long and joyful breath. He did not put on his shoes, but crossed his room as noiselessly as possible, and as noiselessly opened the door. He made no ghost of a sound when he went clown the stairs. The woman who kept the lodging house had gone to bed, and so had the other lodgers and the maid of all work. All the lights were out ex- cept the dne he saw a glimmer of funder the door of his father's room. ! When he had been a mere baby, he had been taught to make a special sign on the door when he wished to speak to Loristan. He stood still outside the back sitting -room and made it now. et was a low scratch- ing. sound --two scratches and a soft kap. Lazarus opened the door and !looked troubled. "It is not yet time, sir," he said very low. "I know," Marco answered. "But I must show something to my fath- er." Laminae let him in, and Loris - tan turned round from his writing - table questioningly. Marco went forward and laid the sketch downbefore him. "Look at it," he said. "I remember him well enough to draw that. I thought of it all at once — that. 1 could make a sort of picture. Do you think it is like hirn?" Loristan exam- ined it closely. I"It is very like him," he answered. "You have made me feel entirely ' safe. Thanks, Comrade. It was a good idea." There •was relief in the grip he gave the boy's hand, and Marco turned away with an - exultant feel- ing. Just as he reached the door,) Loristan said to him: "Make the most of this gift. It is a gift. And it is true your mind has had good training. The more you draw, ' the better. Draw everything you can." Neither the street lamps, nor the noises, nor his thoughts kept Marco awake when he went back to bed. But before he settled himself on his pil- low he gave himself certain orders. He had both read, and heard Loristan Isay, that the mind can control the body when people once find out that it can do so. He had , tried experi- ments himself, and had found out some curious things. One was that 1 if he told himself to remember a certain thing at a certain time, he usually found that he did remember it. Something in his brain seemed to remind him. He had often tried Ithe experiment of telling himself to awaken at a particular hour, and had ' awakened almost exactly at the mo- ment by the clock. "I will sleep until one o'clock," he said as he shut his eyes. "Then I will awaken and feel quite fresh. I', shall not be sleepy at all." He slept as soundly as a boy can sleep. And, at one o'clock exactly he awakened, and found the street lamp still throwing its light through the window. He knew it was one o'clock, because there was a cheap . little the table, clock on h b , and he could see the time. IIe was quite fresh and not at all sleepy. His ex- periment had succeeded again. I' He got up and dressed. Then he went down -stairs as noiselessly as before. He carried his shoes in his hands, as he meant to put them on only when he reached the street. He made his aign at his father's door, and it was Loristan who opened it. "Shall I go now?" Marco asked. "Yes. Walk slowly to the other side of the street. Look in every direction. We do not 'know whare he brought ruin and disgrace upon itself deeply serious things,. The story of by wanting to cheer again, and only the stranger who had been to Sa- just stopping itself in time. "Must mavia must not be told yet. But it be chosen by lot," The Rat repeated, was one which would keep, looking from one face to . another, Loristan diel not say anything un - "Each one will take his life in his hand til Lazarus had removed the things when he goes forth. He may have to from the table and made the room as die a thousand deaths, but he must neat as possible. While that was be - go. He must steal in silence and dis- ing done, he sat with his • forehead guise from one country to another, resting on his hand, as if absorbed in Wherever there is one of the Secret thought. Then he made a gesture to Party, whether he is in a hovel or on Marco. a throne, the messengers must go to "Come here, Comrade," he said. him in darkness and stealth and give) Marco went to him. him the sign. It will mean, `The' hour "To -night some one may come to has come. God save Samavia!'"- talk with me about grave things," "God save Samavia!" whispered the he said. "I think he will come, but Squad, excitedly. And, because they;I cannot be quite sure. It is impel. - saw Marco raise his hand to his fore-, tant that he should know' that, when head, every one of them saluted. I he comes, he will find me quite alone. They all began to whisper at once. He will come at a late hour, and Laz- "Let's draw lots now. Let's draw arus will open the door quietly that lots, Rat, Don't let's 'ave no waitin'," no one may hear. It is important The Rat began to look about him that no one should see him. Some with dread anxiety. He seemed to be one must go and walk on the oppo- examining the sky. site side of the Street until he ap- "The darkness is not as thick as it pears. Then the one ivho goes to was," he whispered. "Midnight has give warning . must cross the pave - passed. - The dawn of day will be up -1 ment before him and say in a• low on us. If any one has apiece of pa- voice, `The Lamp is lighted!' and, at per or a string, we will draw the lots once turn quietly away." before we part." i What boy's heart would not have Cad had a piece of string, and Mar- leaped with joy at the mystery of it! co had a knife which could be used to' Even a common and dull boy who cut it into, lengths. This The Rat did knew nothing of Samavia would have himself. Then, after shutting his felt jerky. Marco's voice almost eyes and mixing them, he held them shook with the thrill of his feeling. in his hand ready for the drawing. "How shall I know him?" he said "The Secret One who draws the at once. Without asking at all, he longest lot is chosen. The Secret One knew he was the "some one" who who draws the shortest is chosen," he was to go. said solemnly. "You have seen him before," Lor - The drawing was as solemn as his istan answered. "He is the man who tone. Each boy wanted to draw either drove in the carriage with the King:" the shortest lot or the longest one. "I shall know him," said Marco. The heart of each thumped somewhat "When shall I go?" as he drew his piece of string. • "Not until it is half -past one. When the drawing was at an end, o'clock. Go to bed and sleep until each showed his lot. The Rat had Lazarus calls` you." Then he added, drawn the shortest piece of string, "Look well at his face before you and Marco had drawn the longest one. speak. He will probably not be dies- "Comrade!" said The Rat, taking his sed as well as he was when you saw hand. "We will face death and danger him first." together!" Marco Went up -stairs to his room "God save Samavia!" answered and wentto bed as he was told, but Marco. it was hard to go to sleep. The rat- And the game:was at an end for tie and roaring of the road did not usually keep him awake, because he had lived in the poorer quarter of too many big capital cities not to be accustomed to noise. But to -night it seemed to him that, as he lay and looked out at the lamplight, he heard every bus and cab which went past. He could not help thinking of the people who were inthem, and on top of them, and of the people who were hurrying along on the pavement out- side the broken iron railings. He was wondering what they would think if they knew that things connected with the battles they read of in the daily papers were going on in one of the shabby houses they scarcely gave a glance to as they went by them. It must be something connected with the war, if a man who was a great diplomat and the companion of kings came in secret to talk alone' with a patriot who utas a Samavian. What- ever his father was doing wwas for the good of Samavia, and perhaps the Secret Party knew he was doing it. His heart almost beat aloud under his shirt as he lay on the lumpy mat- tress thinking it over. He must in- deed look well at the stranger before he even moved toward him. He must be sure he was the right man. The game he had amused himself with so long—the game of trying to remem- ter pictures, and people and places cleasly and in detail --had been a wonderful training. If he could draw, de he knew he could have made a skete)l. the day. The primest thing, the Squad said, The Rat had ever made up for them. "'E wos a wonder, he wos!" CHAPTER VII "The Lamp is Lighted!" On his way home, Marco thought nothing but the story he must tell hi father, the story the stranger who ha been to, Samavia had told The' Rat' father. He felt that it must be a tru story and' not merely an invention The Forgers of the Sword must b real men, and the hidden subterranean taverns stacked through the' centurie with arms must be real, too. And i they were real, surely his father wa one of those who knew the secret. Hi thoughts ran very fast. The Rat' boyish invention of. the rising was on but hownatura I part of the game,b u Y it would be that sometime—perhap before long -there i conk) be a re rising! Surely there would be on if the Secret ,Party had, grown s strong, and if many weapons an secret friends in other Countries Wer ready and waiting. During all thes years, hidden work and preparatio would have been going on continual ly, even.though it was preparatio for an unknown day. A party whit had lasted so long -which passed it oath on from generation, to genera tion—must be of a deadly determina tion, What might it not have ma o s d s e e S f s e s 1 s al e 0 d e e n n h s THURS., APRII!L, 15,, 1937.• .,. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING SPEAKING OF PAINTING We' recall two towns. In one town the local' paper succeeded in getting the paint sellers to put on a paint -up campaign. By ways best, known to dealers and paint manufacturers, the district, was flooded with information! about .painting. ,These enthusiasts) dreamed paint, they talked paint, they used paint themselves,' they got the school and the church painted. Mer -I chants prettied up their premises. There was paint and paint talk every- will come from. After you have giv- en him the sign, then come in and go to bed again." Marco saluted as a • soldier would have done on receiving an order. Then, without a second's delay, he passed noiselessly out of the house. Loristan turned back into the room where, The result a smart town, for when one's premises are smart and clean, wholesalers sit up and take• no- tice, Customers, other things being equal, prefer a smart -looking; place to trade in and better business. was done, business that left a neat profit. Well, the other town didn't smarten up. It's sidewalks are' still unswept. Dust still blows in clouds into every store and kitchen and lunch roam. Lit- tle help is employed, Store keepers still keep a bench in front of the. store for loafers. People with money. in their pockets step on the gas as soon as the town is reached and have neither truck nor trade with Forlorn- ville. The first step toward WelIboro is to clean up and to' have no bunk about it,—Exeter Times -Advocate. SPEED LIMIT IN TOWNS Permanent Conservation Committee Selection W. H. Porter, editor of the Far- mers' Advocate, was elected Zone Chairman, of the Southwestern Ont- ario Conservation Committee at a meeting of Wardens, Department of Agricultural officials and Conserva- tion Committee members from nine counties, in London last week., Mon- roe Landon, Simcoe, was named Vice - Chairman, and F. S. Thomas, St.. Thomas, secretary -treasurer. Primary reason for the gathering was to effect a permanent organiza- tion to promote the interests of re- forestation and soil conservation. Norfolk, Essex, fent, Elgin, Lamb - ton, Oxford, Perth, Huron nd Middle- sex were the counties represented. Plans will be made for extensive, tree -planting in Essex to beautify the highways. • All County Councils west of Toron- to have been invited to the Provincial and stood silently in the center of it. . There is one bad feature of the new Forestry Station at St. Williams, in The long Iines of his handsome body speed limit and it is that which allows Norfolk, for demonstrations in tree looked particularly erect and stately, a 30 -mile speed in towns and cities.;planting, pruning and woodiot man - and his eyes were glowing as if In many cases it will be dangerous for agement, June 9. The invitation was something deeply moved him. "There grows a man for Samavia," he said to Lazarus, who watched him. "God be thanked!" Lazarus's voice was Iow and hoarse and he saluted quite reverently. "Your—sir!" he said. God save drivers to go through town at 30 miles !extended by Reeve Charles Terhune when the streets are filled with cars' of Port Rowan, chairman of the Re - or when children are on their way to forestation Committee of Norfolk and from . school. County Council. • • Hanover Post• Western Ontario Leading Western Ontario is leading Canada in reforestation interest, declared F. S. Newman, of the Provincial For- estry Station at St. Williams. He re- ported private interests in this sec the man behind the counter and the tion of the Province have ordered I more than 6,000,000 trees, to be plant - man' behind the gun,!ed immediately. the man behind t h e buzz 'saw' and the man behind the son, the man behind the times and the man behind his rents, the man behind the whistle the Prince!" THE FORGOTTEN MAN "Yes," Loristan answered, after a moment's hesitation, —"when be is. . In. every newspaper we pick up found." And he went back to his ta- we're sure to find a lot of gush about ble smiling his beautiful -smile. The wonder of silence in the de- serted streets of the great city, after midnight has hushed all the roar and tumult to rest, is an almost unbeliev- able thing. The stillness in the depths of a forest or on a mountain top is not so strange. A. few hours ago, the tumult was rushing past; in a few hours more, it will be rushing past again. But' now the street is a naked thing; a distant policeman's tramp on the bare pavement has a hll dalmostfearsomed It "As St. Williams is the forestry station for the part of the Province south of Coliingwood and Toronto, we are in a position to know the exact andtheman behind the cars, the man i demand for trees in the Western On - behind the kodak and the man behind' .aria section," Mr. Newman said. the bars, the man behind his whis-I "So great has been the demand for iters and the man behind his fists, and saplings this year we have not been everything behind has entered on the able to keep up with it. One Nor - lists. But now they've skipped an-' folk tobacco planter with 35 farms other fellow, of whom .nothing has has ordered 175,000 trees to be used 0 ow an sound, been said—the fellow who is even or as windbreaks, They consist of map - seemed especially so to Marco as he a little way ahead, who pays for what les, ash and elm." crossed the road. Had it ever been he gets, whose bills are always sign-' so empty and deadly silent before? ed—he's a blamed sight more impoi-I Was it so every night? Perhaps it tont than the man who is behind. All was, when he was fast asleep on his .vs, editors and merchants and the lumpy mattress with the light from whole commercial clan, are indebted a street lamp streaming into the for existence to this honest fellow - room. He listened for the step of the man. He keeps us all in business, and policeman on night -watch, because he his town is never dead, and we take did not wish to be seen. There was off our sky piece to the man who is a jutting wall where he could stand ahead.—Exchange. in the shadow while the man passed. • A policeman would stop to look ques- tioningly at a boy who walked up and down the pavement at half -past one A remarkable statement was made in the morning. Marco could wait by Roger W. Babson, famous commer- until he had gone by, and then come tial statistician. He broadcast an out into the lightand look up and advertisement by radio, at a cost of down the road and the cross streets. 33,000, and received as a result, six - (Continued next week) teen enquiries and two orders. Two QUITE A DIFFERENCE days later he printed his advertise- ment in five newspapers in differ"• cities, at a cost of $3,000, and receiv- ed 4,000 replies. The radio advertise- ment cost him $166.66 for each reply, whereas the newspaper advertise- ment was only 75 cents for each re- ply. —Exchange. PICOBAC -TOBACCQ' FOIt;;A' MILD;COOL -SMOKE r jq i Advertisements are a guide to value Experts can roughly estimate the value of a product by looking at it. More accurately, by handling and examining it. Its appear- ance, its texture, the "feel" and the balance of it all mean some- thing to their trained eyes and fingers. e But no one person can be an expert on steel, brass, wood, lea- ther, foodstuffs, fabrics, and all of the materials that make up a list of personal purchases. And even experts are fooled, sometimes, by concealed flaws and imperfections. There is a surer index of valhe than the senses of sight and touch -knowledge of the maker's name and for what it stands. Here is the most certain method, except that of actual use, for judging the Value of any manufactured goods. Here is the only guarantee against careless workmanship, orthe use of shoddy materials. *. This is one important reason why it pays to read advertise- {{ meats' and to buy advertised goods. The product that is advertised is worthy of your confidence. '. Merchandise must be good or it could not be consistently advertised. Buy advertised goods. •. 'r....•r - •v. ...n r.- - , r, . ,.r n 1,,0wY- • A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ISSI1E. PHONE ;nA Ah n ...:., ... rTheciflitoll S 4 � I ecord : ADS 1N THIS