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The Clinton News Record, 1937-06-17, Page 2;T" AG.E 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., JUNE 17, 1937. THE LOST PRINCE" By Frances Hodgson Bitrnett SYNOPSIS 'Marco Loristan was the kind of a 'boy people looked at the second time when they had looked at him once. .He was a well-built boy of 12, intelli- :;gent looking, and well-mannered. He rand his father had travelled a great .deal and the boy was proficient in .several languages, so that he felt at rdtome in whatever country the was :staying. Marco knew that they were ,Samavians, that there was trouble, .aud bloodshed in Samavia at present. tris father had told him the story of tthe Lost Prince, who might,one day .return to Samaviaand restore order and peace. At present the Loristan's rare in London, England, and Marco .bad encountered several interesting "people, among them, "The Rat," a -.ar-ippled boy who commands a group ',of willing boys—the boys listen at- stentively as Marco speaks to them. Later Loristan and Marco have a 'acing talk about Samavia, and the Lost 'Prince, who had disappeared five "hundred years ago. A secret society, with members in many European -countries, were preparing to . put his descendant on the throne of Same- -via and end the civil wars and blood- ',shed in the, country. At a meeting -of the Squad, The Rat forms a sec- 'ret society for Samavia among them .:selves. The Rat's father dies, and Loristan -invites the ]ad to live with him and :Marco. The two boys pian to aid the cause of the Lost Prince. Marco, -while on an errand, assists a young Lady in distress, who seems very in- c'terested in him. ' She seems destined to play a part in his life. NOW GO ON WITH. THE •STORY "Reason this 'out for me," ;he said it now, quite naturally and calmly. "Show ma what it means." What did she come for? It was. certain that she was in too great a hurry to be able, without a reason, to spare the time to come. What was the reason? She had said she liked him. Then she came because she ed him. If she liked him, site came to: do something which was not un- l friendly. The only good thing she could do for him was something which would help him to get out of the eel-( !ar. She had said twice that he was too good for the cellar. If he had: been awake; he would have heard all! she said and have understood what she wanted him to do or meant to de for, him. He must not stop even to think of that. The first words he had heard) —what had they been? They had been less clear to him than her last because he had heard them only as he - was awakening. But he thought he was sure that they had been, "You will have to search for 'it." Search for it. For what? He thought and thought. What must he search for? Ie sat down on the floor of the cel lar and held his head in his hands,' pressing his eyes so hard that cur- ious lights floated before them. "Tell me! Tell me!" he said to that part of his being which the Bud -I dhist anchorite had said held all know ledge and could tell a man everything if he called upon it in the right spir- it. And in a few minutes, he recalled something which seemed so much a part of his sleep that he had not been sure that he had not dreamed it. The ringing sound! He sprang up on his feet with a little gasping shout. The ringing sound! It had been the ring of metal, striking as it fell. Anything made of metal might have sounded like that. She had, thrown something made of metal into the cellar. She had thrown it through the slit in the bricks near the door. She liked him, and said he was too good for his pri- son. She had thrown to him the on- ly thing which could set him free. She had thrown him the key of the cellar! For a few minutes the feelings which surged through him were so full of strong excitement that they set his brain in a whirl. He knew what his father would say -- that would not do. If he was to think, he must hold himself still and not let even joy overcome him. The key was in the black little cellar, and he must find it in the dark. Even thewoman who liked hint enough to give him a chance of freedom knew that she must not open the door and let him out. There must be a delay. He would have to find the key himself, and it would be sure to take time. The chances were that they would be a safe enough distance before he could get out. "I will kneel down and crawl on my hands and knees," he said, "I will crawl back and forth and go over ev- ery inch of the floor with my hands until I find it. If T go over every inch, I shall find it." So he kneeled down and began to crawl, and the cat watched him and purred. "We shall get • out, Puss -cat," he said to her. "i,told you we should." Ile crawled from the door to tlie wall at the side of the shelves, and then he crawledback again. The key might be quite a small one, and it was necessary that he should pass his hands over every inch, as he had said. The difficulty was to be sure, in the darkness, that he did not, miss an inch. Sometimes he was not sure enough, and then he went over the ground.again. He crawled backward and forward, and he crawled round and round. But he did not find the key. If he had had only a little light, but he had none. He was so absorbed in his search that he did not know it was the middle of the night. But at last he realized that he must stop for a rest, because his knees were be- ginning to feel bruised; and the skin of his hands was lore as a result of the . rubbing on the flags. The cat and her kittens had gone to sleep and awakened again two or three times. "But it is somewhere!" he said 'ob- stinately. "It is inside the cellar. I heard something fall which was made of metal. That was the ringing sound which awakened me." When he stood up, he found his body ached and he was very tired. He stretched himself and exercised his arms and legs. '• "I wonder how long I have been. crawling about," he thought. "But the key is in the cellar. It is in the cel- lar." He sat down near the cat and her family, and, laying his arm on the shelf above her, rested his head on it, He began to think of another :ex- periment. "I am so tired, I believe I shall go to sleep again. 'Thought which Knows All'" -he was quoting some- thing the hermit had said to Loristan Xhe Clinton News -Record With which is incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OB' SUBSCRIPTION 6131.50 per rear in advance, to Cana - :alien addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or ither forcien countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid u nless at the option of the publish- ,,er. The data to which every sub- 'Rocriation is paid is denoted on the •%+.abet. - . . 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When he awakened, it was daylight in the streets, and: the milk -carts were beginning to jingle about, and the early -postmen were knocking big trou- ble -knocks at front doors. The cat may have heard the milk -carts, but the actual fact was that she herself was hungry and wanted to' go in search of food. Just as Marco lifted his head from his arm and sat up, she jumped down from her shelf and went to the door. She had expected to find it ajar as it had been before. When she found it shut, she scratched at it and was disturbed to find this of no use. Because she knew Marco was in the cellar, she felt she had a friend who would assist her, and she miaued appealingly. This reminded Marco of the key. "I will when I have found it," he said. "It is inside the cellar." The eat miaued again, this time very anxiously indeed. The kittens heard her and began to squirm and squeak piteously. "Lead me to this thing," said Mar- co, as if speaking to Something in the darkness about him, and he got up. He put his hand out toward the kit- tens, and it touched something Iying not far from them. It must have been lying near his elbow all night while he. slept. It was the key! It had fallen upon the shelf, and not on the floor at all. Marco picked it up and then stood still a moment. He made the sign of the cross. Then he found his way to the door and fumbled until he found thekey- hole and got the key into it. Then he turned it and pushed the door op- en—and the cat ran out into the pas- sage before him.. • CHAPTER XVI The Rat To The Rescue Marco walked through the kitchen and into the kitchen part of the base- ment. The doors were all locked, and they were solid doors. He ran up the flagged steps and found the door at the top shut and bolted also, and that too was a solid door. His jail- ers had plainly made sure that it should take time enough for him to make his way into the world, even after he got out of the wine -cellar. The cat had run away to some part of the place where mice were plentiful. Marco was by this time rather gnaw- ingly hungry himself. If he could get into the kitchen, . he might find some fragments of food left in a cupboard; but there was no moving the locked door. He tried the outlet into the area, but that was immovable. Then he saw near it a smaller door. It was evidently the entrance to the coal - cellar under the pavement. • This was proved by the fact that trodden coal - dust narked the flagstones, and near it stood a scuttle with coal in it. This coal -scuttle was the thing which might help him! Above the area door was a small window which was supposed to light the entry. He could not each it, and, if he reached it, he could not open it. Ile could throw pieces of coal ali the glass and break it, and then he could shout for help when people passed by. They might not notice or understand where the shouts came from at first, but, if he kept them. up, some one's atten- tion would be attracted in the end. He picked a large-sized solid piece of coal out of the, heap in the scuttle, and threw it with all his force (against the grimy glass. It smashed through and left a big bole. He threw anoth- er; and theentire pane was splintered and fell outside into the area. Then he saw it was broad daylight, and guessed that Ise liad been shut up a good many hours. There was plenty of coal in the scuttle, and he liad a strong arni and a' good aim. He smashed pane after pane, until only the framework remained.When he, shouted, there would be nothing be- tween his voice and the street. No one could see him, but if he could do something which would make people sleeken their pace to listen, then he could call out that he was in the base- ment of the house with the broken window. "Hallo!" he shouted. "Hallo! Hal- lo! Hallo! Hallo!" But : vehicles were passing in the street, and the passers-by were ab- sorbed in their, own business. If they heard a sound, they did not stop to inquire into it. aIiallo! Hallo! I am locked in!" yelled Marco, at the topmost power of his lungs. "Hallo! Hallo!" After half an hour's shouting, he began to think that he was wasting .his strength. "They only think it is a boy shout- ing," he said. "Some one will notice in time. ' At night, when the streets are quiet; I might make a' policeman' hear. But my father does not know where 1. ,ani. He will be trying to find me—so will Lazarus -so will The Rat, One of them might pass through this very street, as I did. What can. I do!" A new idea flashed light upon hint, "I will begin to shg a Samavian song; and I will sing it very loud. Peo- ple nearly always stop a moment' to listen to music and find out where it comes from, And if any of my own people come near, they would stop at once—and now and then I will shout for heap, Once when they had stopped to rest on Hamstead Heath, he had sung a valiant Samavian song for The Rat. The Rat had wanted to hear how he would sing when they went on their secret journey. He wanted him to sing for the Squad some day, to make the thing seem real. The Rat had been greatly excited, and had begged for, the song often. It was a stirring martial thing with a sort of truni- pet call of a chorus. Thousands of Samavians had sung it together on their way to the battle -field, hundreds of years ago. He drew back a step or so, and, put- ting his hands on his hips, began to sing, throwing his voice upward that it might pass through the broken, window. He had a splendid and vi- brant young voice, though he knew nothing of its fine quality. Just now he wanted only to make it loud. In. the street outside very few peo- ple were passing, An irritable old gentleman who .was taking an invalid walk quite jumped with annoyance when the song suddenly .trumpetd forth. Boys had no right to yell at that manner. He hurried his step to get away from the sound. Two or three other people glanced over their shoulders, but had not time to loiter. A few others listened with pleasure as they drew near and passed on. "There's a boy with a fine voice," said one. "What's he singing?" said his com- panion. "It sounds foreign." "Don't know," was the reply as they went by. But at last a young man who was a music -teacher, going to give a lesson, hesitated and looked a- bout him. The song was very loud and spirited just at this moment. The music -teacher could not understand where it came from, and paused to find out. The fact that he stopped attracted the attention of the next comer, who also paused. "Who's singing?" he asked. "Where is he singing?" "I can't make out," the music -tea- cher laughed. "Sounds as if it came out of the ground." And, because it was queer that a song should seem to be coming out of the ground, a costermonger stop- per, and then a little boy, and then a working -woman, and then a lady. There was quite a little group when another person turned the corner of the street. He was a shabby boy on crutches, and he had a frantic look on his face, And Marco actually heard, as he drew near to the group, the tap -tap. —tap of crutches. "It might be," he thought. "It might be!" And he sang the trumpet -call of the chorus as if it were meant to reach the skies, and he sang it again and again. And at the end of it shouted, "Hallo! Hallo! Hallo! Hallo! Hallo!" The Rat swung himself into the group and looked as if he had gone crazy. He hurled himself against the people. "Where is he! Where is' he!" he cried, and he poured out some breath- less words; it was almost as if he sobbed them out. "We've been looking for him all night!" he shouted. "Where is he! Marco! Marco!" And out of the area, as it seemed, came a shout of answer, "Katt Rat! I'ni here in the cellar —locked in. Ian here!" and a big piece of coal came hurtling through the broken window and fell crashing on the area flags. The Rat got down the steps into the area as if he had not been on crutches but on legs, and banged on the door, shouting back: "Marco!" Marco! Here I am! . Who locked you in? How can I get the door open?" Marco was close against the door inside. 1t was The Rat, It was The Rat. And he would be in the street again in a few minutes. "Calf a policeman!" he shouted through the keyhole. "The people locked me in on purpose andtook a- way the keys." Then the group of lookers-on began to get excited and press against the area railings and ask questions. They could not understand what had hap- pened to cause the boy with the crut- ches to look as if he were crazy with terror and relief at the same • time. And the little boy ran delightedly to fetch a policeman, and found one in the next street, and, with some diffi- culty, persuaded him that it was his business to come and get a door open in an empty house where a boy who was a street'singer had got locked up in a cellar. .... (Continued next week) PICOBAC PIPE TOBACCO FOR A MILD, COOL SMOKE DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Blackfoot Indian Boy Scout Ilero A Blackboot Indian Boy Scout, Ar- thur Yellow Fly, of the Old Sun School Scout Troop at Glieehen, Alta., has been recommended for recognition for rousing and helping save the lives of Isis father and two young brothers when their home was burned during a night in April. A baby brother and a farm hand could not be reached in time. City Bell to Summon Scouts For Emergency Service A bell call system by which, in an emergency, all Boy Scouts of the dis- trict may be called out for public service, has been established in Galt, Ont., by Chief of Police Carson, with the cooperation of the local Scout association. The call will be fifteen strokes,. ingroups of fives, on the City Hall bell. The step was a result of the splendid work done by the Scouts; during theserious spring floods in western Ontario, and ear, lier in finding lost children and in other forms of public service. The Scout Coronation Beacon Chain Newspaper reports from all parts of the Dominion indicate that the Boy Scout chain of Coronation bea- cons burning on coastal headlands and inland hills and mountains, was one of the dramatic and most suc- cessful features of Canada's Corona- tion celebration. In many places the lighting of the bonfire was preceded by a torch -light procession, with bands, led by the Mayor and other town officials, and followed by miles of motorcars to the high point chos- en. At the beacon pyre there were patriotic addresses and songs, the firing of a Royal salute of 21 rockets, which burst in Boy Scout colours, then the ceremonial lighting of the bonfires, by, the Indian fire -bow me- thod. In many instances the fire was closed on the serious note, with hymns and prayers, and finally the National Anthem. The Scouts also took part in the general celebration programme everywhere. and in numbers of the smaller communities were given the entire responsibility of the local celebration. In these cases the pro- grammes featured processions o f school children, patriotic addresses, presentation of Coronation medals, sports, treats of ice cream, free mo- vies, and in the evening fireworks and the lighting of the beacon. Warning To 'wr"un Worship- ers and Bathers Accidents "after the whistle blows" may be as much the concern of indus- try as mishaps which involve work- men's compensation, says R. B. Mor-. ley, general manager of the Indus- trial Accident Prevention Associa- tions. Sunstroke and drowning take a huge toll in Canada each summer which could be drastically reduced with care, foresight, and a few simple precautions. Some practical suggestions, recons-, mended by medical authorities, are cited to ward off sunstroke and heat exhaustion: 1. Keep your skin clean. 2. Wear light, loose clothing. 3. Eat less meat and more vege- tables. 4. Eat fruits in moderation. Don't overeat at any time 5. Avoid strong alcoholic drinks. 6. Avoid lossof sleep, over -fatigue and worry. 7, Cool water and table salt (1-4 teaspoon to a glass) will assist in preventing heat exhaustion, Sodium chloride tablets for this purpose may be obtained at drug stores. Many of the thousands of Cana- dian lives lost every year by drowning might be saved through organized training in artificial respiration and first aid, claims Mr. Morley. The St. John Ambulance Associa- tion, the 'Y.M.C.A. or the Canadian Amateur' Swimming Association, any or all, are willing to help in this work. Copies of a chart explaining and il- lustrating the prone pressure method of resuscitation niay be obtained without charge from the Industrial Accident Prevention Association, 600 Bay Street, Toronto. Indigent hospital Account Another effort to "pass the buck" to the . provincial government is be- ing made by, the united counties of Stormont, Dundee and Glengarry, which has sponsored a circular ad- dressed to all county councils and asicing them to co-operate in an ef- fort to have the province assume the entire cost of hospital treatment for indigent patients. Half of this ex- pense is now paid by the county, and half by the home municipality of the patient. 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At root, the question resolves itself into one as to who should pay for hospital treatment for indigents. The dominion government has recognized. its duty in social work by paying a goodly share toward Old Age Pen- sions. The Ontario government has lately assumed the entire cost of such pensions and of Mother's Allow-! antes, relieving the counties and, municipalities of this expenditure, and! the latest move to have the province assume the entire cost of hospitalize - tion of indigents is possibly advanced because the revenue of the Ontario government is increasing, and mainly because the province has means of raising money which are ' denied to counties and municipalities. So far it has been felt each muni- cipality should help maintain its poor and unfortunate people, a thought. that survives from the days when there was no such thing as a nation-• al or provincial relief fund, and when the community, rather than the munr icipality, helped those of its members, who were in distressed circumstances, The question now is, not who should look after the poor, but who is best able to do so. Counties and munici- palities secure their revenues almost exclusively from a tax on property;, whereas the provincial government, by such levies as the inheritance tax and the income tax, collects money which properly belongs to the muni- cipality where the wealth was created! --Hanover Posh ° HENS: ,qj Always scratch hardest when 3, the worms are scarce.. The hens , have nothing on us. We're cer. '3L fainly digging our toes m to s� catch up on the arrears on our 44 subscription list. If you. are in arrears will you' oblige with a i remittance? 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