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The Clinton News Record, 1937-09-30, Page 2PAGE 2 HE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD T URS., $EPT. 30, 1937, LOST PRINCE By Frances Hodgson Burnett SYNOPSIS Marco Loristan was the kind 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-ntannerod. He .and his father had travelled a great .•deal`', and the boy was proficient in several languages, so that he, felt at ;borne in whatever country lie was staying, Marco knew that they were : Saniavians, that- there was trouble -and bloodshed in Samavia at present. His father had told him•the story of • the Lost Prince, who might one day •return to Samavia and restore order .,und`peace. At present the Loristan's .safe in London, England, and Marco shad encountered several interesting :people, among them, "The Rat," a serippled boy who 'commands a group .,of willingg boys—the boys listen at- 'tentively as Marco speaks to them. Later Loristan and Marco have al slang 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 Sama-1 ••via and end the civil wars and blood- -shed in the country. At a meeting of the Squad, The Rat forms a secs- .,ret ec=•ret society for Samavia among them- 'he Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION '1.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses $2.00 to the U S. or selves boys and that one was of no more Vin. The Rat's father dies, and Loristan portance than the, other.I-Ie had invites the lad to live with him and secretly even felt this attitude to be Marco. The two boys plan to aid a • sort of grievance. It would hive the cause of the Lost Prince. Marco, been more like a game if one of tl em, while on an errand,'^assists a young had been the mere 1'• servitor of the. lady in distress, who seems very in other, and if that other had bluster - tweeted in him. She seems destined ed a little, and issued commands, and, to play a part in his life. 'demanded sacrifices. If the faithful Events which follow prove her to vassal could have been wounded or bo an enemy agent, and by._a clever cast into a dungeon for his young trick Marco is captured and closely commanders sake, the adventure questioned, but reveals nothing of "would have been more complete. But what he knows, Later he escapes, though their jourzley had been full oi. andshortly afterward he and, The: wonders and 'rich with '`beauties, Rat: are sent out as agents of the though, the Meiiiory of it hung. in The Cause/ to various cities, where they Rat's mind like a background of tap are to communicate with vgrious per- estry embroidered in all ,the Hues of sons: the earth with all the splendors, of it, The boys have practically complet- there had. been no dungeons and no ed their mission and have crossed the wounds. After the adventure in Mun- border into Samavia: They hear of tell their, unimportant boyishness had towns and villages, destroyed in the not even been observed by such per - bitter fight between the Maraiiovitch cls as might have threatened them. As and Iar'ovitch, whohave fought so The Rat 'had said, they had "blown fiercely that their resources have like grains of dust" through Europe been almost depleted. Food is scarce,: and bad been as nothing. ;And this and a hopeless attitude is , evident was what Loristan had planned, this among the people with whom the boys was what his grave thought had come in contact. It appears that the wrought out. If they had been men, warring countries must soon give up they would not have been so safe. the bitter struggle. • From the time they hacl left the The last message has been deliver-. old rest on the' hillside to begin ed. In a cave to which the boys were, the„.,- tourney back to the frontier; conducted by a priest whom they hack they both had been given to long si- thoir doors. When Lazarus had seen this one stop .at the broken iron gate, Ino had known whom it brought. IIe had kept an eye on the "windows !'anihl'nlly i'ot many a day—even when lie knew that it was too soon, even if all was. well, for any travelers to re- turn. He bore lihnselt with , anairmore than usually military and his salute! when Marco crossed the threshold was formal stateliness itself, But his greetings burst from his heart. "God be thanked!"' he said in his deep growl of joy, ;,"God be thanked!' When Marco. putt forth his hand, he bent his grizzled .head and kissed it devoutly. "Goch be thanked!" he said again. "My father?" Marco began, "My father is out?" If be had been in the house, he knew he would not have stayed in the back sitting -room. previously contacted, they find a fences as they tramped side by side strange assortment of men known as 1 or lay on the moss in the forests. the Forgers of the Sword. Marco! Now that their work was done, a sort stirs the gathering intensely when he of reaction had set in. There were utters'the words, "The Lamp is Light no more plans to. be made and no Light- ed." A strange Ceremonial follows' I more uncertainties to contemplate. Each one of the gathering pays hoot- They were on their way back to No. ither foreign countries. No paper 1age to Marco who Stands with The 7 Pliilibert Place—Marco to his fath- discontinued until all arrears are paid Rat on a dies hi front of a large plc- er The Rat to the man he warship - unless at the option of the publish- tura veiled by a curtain. When the ' cr. The date to which every sub- pcttn a is unveiled Marco is amazed lied' Each of them was thinking of -ecrintion is paid is denoted on the i many things. Maroc was full of long - label, at the striking resemblance it bears to• ing to see his father's face and hear ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- his father. The old priest tells him, his, voice again. He wanted to feel •.scent advertising 12c per count line that when he is as old as his fattier, the pressure of his hand on his shout •(or first insertion.' 8c for each sub -he will be like him. der—to be sure that he was real and "Sir," said Lazarus, "will you conte with inc into his room?' • You, too; sir," to The Rat. He had never said "sir" to -him, before. • He opened the door of the familiar room, and the boys entered. The room} was empty.' Marco did not speak; neither diel The Rat. They both stood still in the Middle of the shabby carpet and look- ed up at the old soldier. Sloth had suddenly the same feeling that the earth had dropped from beneath their feet. Lazarus saw it and spoke fast and with trainer. He was almost as agitated as they were. "He' left me at your service — at your command"—he began. "Left• you?" said Marco. "He left us, all three, under orders —to wait," said Lazarus. "The Mas- ter has gone." The Rat felt something hot rush into his eyes. He brushed it away that he night look et Marco's face. The shock had changed it very much. Its glowing eager joy had died out; it had turned paler and his brows were drawn together.. For a few se- conds he dill not speak at all,' and, when he did speak, The Rat knew that his voice was steady only because he willed that it should be so. "If has gone," be said, `‘it is be- cause he had a strong reason.It was because he also was under orders." "He said that yon would know that," Lazarus answered. "He was called in such haste that he had riot a moment in which to do more than Write a tfew words.' He left them for you on his desk there." Marco walked over to the desk and opened the envelope which was lying there. There were only a few lines on the sheet of paper inside and they had evidently been written in the greatest haste. They were these: "`Tie Life of my life—for Stunavia" "He was called—to SamevIa," Mar- co said, and tho thought `sent his blood rushing through his veins. "He has gone to Samavia!" Lazarus drew his hand roughly across his eyes and his voice shook and sounded hoarse. "There has been great disaffection in the camps of the Maranovitch, " he said. "The remnant of the army has gone mad, Sir, silence is still the or- der, but who knows— who knows? God alone." ,aequent insertion. Heading counts t2 lines. Small advertisements not to -exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once dor 35c, each subsequent insertion 15e. Rates for display advertising -made known on application. Communications intended for pub- aication must, as a guarantee of good :'faith, be accompanied by the name cif the writer. E. HALL - , Proprietor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer tr^inancial, Real Estate and Fire In- 'surance Agent, Representing 14 Fire 3Tnsurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton not a dream. This last was because during this homeward journey every - NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY j thing that had happened often scent - The Rat stood glaring with wide ed to be a dream. It had all been so eyes from Marco to the picture and•wonderful the climber standing from the picture to Marco. And he looking clown at them the ,morning breathed faster and faster and gnaw-' they awakened on the Gaisburg; the ed his• finger enols. But he did riot mountaineer shoemaker measuring utter a word. He could not have done his foot in the small, shop; the old, it, if he had tried. 1 old woman and her noble lord; the Then Marco stepped down from tine prance with his face turned upward digs as if he were in a dream, and' as he stood on the balcony looking at the old man followed him. The nen the moon; the old priest kneeling with the swords sprang to their feet and weeping for joy; the great cav- and made their archway again with; ern with the yellow light upon the a new clash of steel. The old pians crowdof pasiona.te faces; the curtain and the boy passed under it together.! tivhich fell apart and showed the still Frank Fin land, B.A., LL.B. Now every man'seyes were fixed on, eves and the black hair with the halo Marco. At the heavy door by which: about it! Now that they were lett egarrister, Solicitor, Notary PubiSc he had entered, he stopped and turn -1 behind. 'they all' seemed like things Suceessor to W. Brydone, K.C. ed to meet their glances. Ile looked, he had dreamed, But he had not Sloan Blocic — Chasten, Ont, very young and thiii and pale, but dreamed them; he was going back to suddenly his father's smile was light-1tell his father about then. And how ed in his face, He said a :fewwords' good it"would be to feel his hand on in Samavian clearly and gravely, sa- his shoulder! luted, and passed out. The Rat gnawed his finger ends a great deal. His thoughts wve1•e more ed The Rat, . stumbling after him as ivilciand feverish than Marco's. They the door closed behind them and shut leaped forward in spite of him. It in the murmur of impassioned sound.' was no'use to pull himself up and tell "There was ottiy one thing to say," himself that he was a fool. Now that 'vas the answer. "They are men—I all was over, he had time to be ne am only a _boy. I thanked them for great a fool as he was inclined to be, my father, and told them he would But how he longed to reach London never—never forget" •" and stand face to face ,with ,Loristan! D. H. McINNE',S CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage ,'Office: iuron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) .Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. , ' FOOT CORRECTION c'`oy manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT (Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered gmmediate arrangements can be made 'for Sales Date at The News -Record, "Clinton, or by calling 'phone 203. • Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. A. E. COOK PIANO AND VOICE STUDIO—E. C. NICIiLE, Phone 23w. 11-11-x. "What dict yon say to them?" gasp - TILE McKILLOP MUTUAL ij"ire Insurance Company Head Office. Seaforth, Ont. Officers :• 'President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea- Teeth; Vice -President, Thomas Moy lan, 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. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex, McEw- ging, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- r2on, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; ?John E. Pepper, Biucefield, R.R. 'No. 1; R, F•.McKercher, Dublin. R.. R. `No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No.). 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- •-once or transact -other business will he promptly attended to on applica- '•fon to any of the above officers ad- -dressed to their respective poet, offir '•e^es. Lesser; inspected by the director mho lives nearest the scene. eesse t wr TIME TABLE r Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as followa: Buffalo and Goderich niv. ',Going East, depart 7.03 a.m. (Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. 'Going West, depart 11.45 p.m. ("Going' West, depart: 10.00 p.m. 'London, Huron do Bruce "Going North,-•ar, 11.25 lve. 11.47 p.m. aa4iing South-ar, 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m. CHAPTER XXVIII "Extra! Extra !Extra!" It was raining hi London—pouring. had been raining for two weeks, more or lets, generally. more. When the train ;rom Dover drew in at Charing Cross, the weather seemed suddenly 1 to ha e considered that it had so far been too lenient and past ''exprgess itself much more vigorously. So it had gathered together its resources and poured them forth.•in a deluge, which surprised even Londoners. The rain so beat against and streamed' down ,the windows of the third-eh/se carriage in which Marco and The Rat sat that they could not see through them. They had made .their homeward journey much more rapidly than they had made the one on which they had been outward bound. It had of course taken them some time ee tramp back! to the frontier, but there _ hacl been no reason for stopping anywhere af- ter they fter-they had once reached the rail roads. They had been tired seine- times, but they had slept heavily on' the wooden seats of the railway car= i _ desi a was to get! mages. Their one r g , home. No. 7 Philibert 'Place rose be- fore ,them in ,its: noisy dinginess as the one desirable spot an earth. To Marco it held his father. And it was Loristan alone that The Rat saw, when he thought of it, Loristan as he would look when he saw him come into the room with Marco, and stand up and salute, and say: "I have brought him back, sir. He- has car -1 glad out every single order you gave him—every single one. So have I." So he had. He had been sent as his companion and attendant, and he had' keen faithful in every thought. If, Marco would have allowed him, he would have waited upon him like 'a servant, and have been proud of the service. But Marco would never let him forget that they were only two The Sign was given. .The Lamp was lighted. What would happen next? His crutches were under hie arms be- fore the train drew up. , "We're there! We're there!" he cried restlessly to Marco. They had no luggage to delay them. They took their bags and followed the crowd, a- ong the platform. The raiti was rat- tling like bullets against the high glassed roof, People turned to look at Marco, seeing the glow of exultant eagerness in his face. They thought he roust be some boy coming home for the holidays and going to make a visit at a place he delighted in. The rain was dancing_ on the pavements when they reached the entrance.. "A cab won't cost troch," Marco said and it will take usquickly," " They called one and got into it. Each of them had flushed cheeks and Marco's eyes looked as if he. were gazing at something a long way off- gazing at it, and wondering. "We've come back!" said The Rat, in an unsteady voice. "We've been— and we've come back!'' Then sudden- ly turning to look at Marco, "Does it ever seem to you as if, perhaps, it —it wasn't true?" "Yes," Marco answered "but it was true. And it's done." Then he added after a second or so of silence, just what The Rab had said to himself, "What next?"' He said -it very low, The way _to Philibert Place was not long. When they turned into the roar- ing, untidy road, wherethe busses and drays and carts :struggled past each other with their loads, and the tired - faced people hurried in crowds along the pavement, they looked at them all feeling that they bad left their dream far behind indeed. But they were at home. ' It was a good thing to see Lazarus open, the door and stand waitinx be- fore they had 'time to get out of the cab. Cabs' stopped so seldom before houses in i'hilibert Place that the in- mates were always prompt to open Trust HAMCO to heat your home ' adequately, safely, economically. Produces an abundance of steady, healthful, easily regulated heat. Lasts so long, too — is light and clean to handle --"and leaves far less ash. Y o u' l l be mighty pleased with this dustless, smokeless, wasteless Canadian Coke. Order from your local IAMCO dealer he deserves your fuel business. HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTON, CANADA HAMCO COKE sold in Clinton by: J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. VICTOR FALCONER W. J. MILLER & SON A. D. MCCARTNEY 113SIST ON HAMCO-CANADA'S He had not finished speaking be- fore he turned his head as if listening to sounds in the road, They were the ::incl of sounds which had broken up The Squad, and sent it rushing down the street to seize on a newepaper. There was to be heard a commotion of newsboys shouting riotously some startling piece of crews which had cal- led out an ":Extra." The Rat had heard it first and dashed to the front door. As he op- ened it a newsboy running by shout - cd at the topmost power of, his lungs the news he had to sell: "Assination of .Ring Mattel Maranovitch by his own soldiers! Assassination of the 11laranovitchl Extra Extra! Extra!" staring stonily' at the carpet. Not The Rat alone but Marco also noted a grim change in hist. It was grim oecause it suggested that he was holding himself under an iron con- trol. It was as if while tortured by When The Rat returned with a newspaper, Lazarus interposed be- tween !lint and Marcowith great and respectful ceremony. "Sir, he 'said to Marco, "I aria at your command, but the Master left with me an order which I was to repeat to you. He re- quested you not to read the newspa per's until he himself could see you again." Both boys fell back. "Not read the papers!" they ex- claimed together. Lazarus :had never before been d ceremonious. • t' e quite so reverential. an qic "Your pardon, sir," he said. "I may. read them at your orders, and -re- port such things as it is well that you should know.- There have been dark tales told and there may be darker ones. He asked that you would not read for yourself. If you meet again —,"when you meet again, he says you will understand. I am 'your servant. I will react` and answer all such ques- tions as I can." The Rat handed him the paper and they returned to the back room to- gether. "You shall tell us what he would wish us to heat," Marco said. ' The news was soon told. The story was not a long eine as exact details had not yet reached London; It was briefly that the head of the Merano- vitch party had been put to death by infuriated soldiers of his own army. It was an army drawn chiefly from a peasantry which did not love its lea - !era, or wish to fight, and suffering brutal treatment had at last roused it to furious revolt. "What next?" said Marco.. "If I were a Samavian —" began The Rat and then he stopped. Lazarus" stood biting his lips, but WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING LLEC"1'OPIS SHOULD NOTA• n Enumerators who have finished anxiety he had sworn not to allow listing the voters report keen inter - himself to look anxious and the re- est shown by individuals called upon wive set his ;jaw bared and carved It is to be hoped they will not over - new lines in his rugged face. Each look the polls on October Gth, Many I b lose with good grace. Remember, that there will be many days after the election is all aver when we must meet the same people, must transact business with them, must retain their friendship. —St. Marys Journal -Argus. oy thought thus ht secret, but did elections have resulted in some 40 to — not wish to put it into words, If he 60 per cent of the voters turning out was anxious, he could only be so for on election day and the balance later one reason, and each realized what expressing opinions when it was too I the reason must be. Loristan had late. The mooted idea of penaliz.n; i gone to Samavia — to the torn and those who do not vote has some merit' bleeding country filled with riot and but should not be necessary in our danger. If he had gone, it could only enlightened country. The franchise have been because its danger called has been 'won the hard way and it him and he went to face it at its is now so easy for us to useit that worst. Lazarus hail been left behind we should have no excuse. to watch over them. Silence WAS' I{itchener Reeord. still the order, and what he knew he could not tell then, and perhaps ire knew little more than that a great life might be lost. Because his master was absent, the old soldier seemed to feel that he roust comfort himself with a greater ceremonial reverence than he had ever shown before. He helot himself within cal!, and at Marco's orders, as it had been his custom to hold himself with regard to Loristan. The ceremonious service even extend- ed itself to The Rat, evho appeared to have taken a new place In his mind. He also seemed now to be a person to be waited tepee and replied to with dignity and formal respect. When the evening meal was serv- ed, Lazarus drew out Loristan's chair at the head of the table and stood be- hind it with a majestic air. "Sir," he said to Marco, "the Mas- ter requested that you take his seat, at the table until —'while he is not with you." Marco took the seat in silence. At two o'clock in the morning, when the roaring road was still, the light from the street lamp, shining into the small bedroom, fell on two pale boy faces. The Rat sat up on his sofa bed in the old way with his hands clasped rotund his knees. Mar- co lay flat on hie hard pillow. Nei- ther in had been to sleep and the• of r yet they had not talked a great deal. Each bad secretly guessed a good deal of what the other 'did not say. ! "There is one thing we •must re- member," Marco had said, early in the night. "We must not be afraid." "No," answered The Rat, almost fiercely,. "we must not be afraid." I "We are tired; we came back ex- pecting to be able to tell. it all to hip. We have always been looking for- ward to that.' We never thought once that he might be gone. And he was gone.. Did you feel as if—" he tun- ed towards the sofa, "as if something had struck you on the chest? "Yes," The -Rat answered heavily. "Yes." "We weren't ready," said Marco. "He hod • never gone before; but we ought to have know he might some day be -called. 'He went because he was called,,; Ile told tits to wait. We don't know what we are waiting for, but we know that we must not lie afraid, To let ourselves be afraid would be breaking the Law.."• "The Law!" groaned The Rat, dropping his head on his hands. "Pd forgotten about it." "Let us -remember it,"' said Marco. "This is the time. `Hate not. Fear FALL PLANTING OF BULBS. How deep should fall bulbs be planted? In general, about four times the diameter of the bulb. The begin- ner should not understand by this rule, that precision measurements is required and an inch more or less in planting a Darwin tulip bulb may ' mean the success or failure of the R ! flower.. FARM PROGRESS Nature is seldom meticulous in One of the very latest things to be such matters. At the swine time the seem on the farm is a robber -tired planter would do well to see that his wheel to take the place of the farm bulbs are planted approximately at steel wheel on separators, combines, the optimum depth. Tulips, for ex cf ler than binder's and drills which are heavy to ample, t ct and must the recommended 5 or 6 inches (above pull on soft or rough grotto n be operated at slow speeds. The De- the top of the bulb) will probably partntent of Agriculture, after pay- bloom, but likely later than you ax- ing close attention to the subject, de- pect. If planted less titan the recom- dares positively that the "rolling ,,re-, mended depth, they may also bloom, sistancc" of rubber -tired wheels for and at the right time, But should thie purpose is from 40 to GO per cent. l the winter be an open one, with lots less than that of the steel wheels. Ae-1 of freezing and thawing, shallow cordingly the rubber tires on these plaited tulips are likely to be heaved machines reduce the damage done by { entirely out .of the ground. They excessive vibration and probably in—, certainly will be a risk. crease the life of the machine. 1 Some fall bulbs are not planted to Brockville Recorder, a depth of four times their diameter. The madonna lily, usually a big bulb, — should be planted only 3 or 4 inches OUR PULPWOOD• ' deep, The crown imperial, a large bulb, wants shallow planting, about It is an old hackneyed expression 2 inches, The beginner will find a to say that we are selling our birth- chart of planting depths useful to right for a mess of pottage. But this refer to when the planting task is be - was said long before there was an el- • gun . action on, it certainly is good cern-, If the ground in which the bulbs paign material. It was said by suer are planted has. been newly spaded, impartial and neutral newspapers as and is quite loose, the depths should The Sault Star when the policy wvas be increased an inch or so, to allow first implemented by the present gov- for• settling, and because of the in - eminent and no election in sight. creased effect of frost heaving on What isathe province doing? Sel- newly turned soil. Also, late plant - ling pulpwood at $1 per cord where- ed bulbs, which have no opportunity as it is worth around $21 And theto make roots before the soil freezes, fabrication of this pulpwood into pa- may be set a little deeper, to protect per is in the mills of the Un:ted them from frost action. States when :it should be in Ontario" Tulips should be set 5 or 6 inches mills. The role] -West of the United' cheep. Narcissi need about the same States is getting the entire benefit of depth -from the top of the bulb, but the heritage of Ontario: "owing to the different shape and Hon. Earl Rowe has promised to re" e sometimes the much larger size, the voice this policy and will do so. In base of the bulbs is usually deeper ecdentally Quebec bans export of its than the tulips. Snowdrops and sell- hy. should On-' las should go down about 2 or 3 in- • pulpwood resources. W taario not follow the same line, which ekes. Crocuses should have 2 inches the province did until Mr. Hepburn of soil over them. The erythroniums came into power. It just cannot bei need about 4 inches to cover. So does explained. -St. Catharines Standard, fritillaria meleagris. Anemones for • cold frame planting need only an inch'? of eon. c an e makes lilies need the deepest plant- don. I t in and most of therm can go as deep tion. It is to keep our bearing to- g' 'to 10 inches with good results. wards others in absolute control dui- 115 '7The distance apart is -rainier elastic, ing the election. 'While, it 'says, wvebut in general 5 inches is'the 'closest all must take some part, let us do so m' should be !anted:. as good sportsnteit, It is a fine thing any of the p to wvin, but it is a much finer thing to not! He repeated the last words again acrd again. "Fear not! Fear, not," he said. "Nothing can harm , hint." - - i (Continued next week). A POINT TO KEEP IN MIND Anh a sane sugges- AC PIPE TOBACCO: ,Eilti l MIk.D'i„S,OOL.;SMOKE ti