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The Clinton News Record, 1934-11-08, Page 2PAGE 2 THE . CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA.' Terms of Subscription — $1.50 pet year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the aption of the publisher. The date to whichevery subscription is paid is denoted on the label. 'dyertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subsequent insertion.. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed eneinch, such as "Wanted', "Lost" "Strayed,"etc., inserted once fer 35c, each subsequent in- sertion 15c. Rates for display ad, vertising made known en applica- tion. Communications intended for pub - Mention mist, as a guarantee of Food ilafth, be accompanied by the name of the vaster. G. N. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. iarrister, Solicitor, Notary Pubile Successor to W. Brydone, R.C. Shan Block — Clinton, Oat, DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglican Church. Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fittsi DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, :80. SECOND INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS "Prelude" .... "Love lightly." M're. Church warned gently, and Ellen wondered why? Posing for her tal- ented mother, first as a new baby, then a charming young girl, Ellen lived always _in a make-believe land of beauty. Of the outside world hor knowledge was meager. At 17 yeare of age, posing in the garden, Ellen at last is learning the story of her mother's broken life, the stolen kiss, marriage—then years of loneliness, waiting for the husband to return. Mrs. Church is now telling Ellen of her father. GO ON WIITH THE STORY ejC 1>' "Your father was away when I made my discovery. He'd been away for several weeks on something that he called a 'big deal' I was expecting him home the very night that I saw the doctor, and I planned to tell him all about you, at. once. So I sat in the garden and waited for hint, and watched for his train. And finally I saw it—+the train that would have brought him to me—sweep across the valley below the house. I saw it stop at the station, and I saw it go on a- gain. And I waited, well my soul full of the news I had to tell — I waited to give him the tidings of his son (for I thought, darling, that you were going to be a boy ) but he did- n't come, atlhough 1 waited all of that night ... And the next day, when I got the message that told me he was not coining back, ever, I went upstairs, and into my room and lock- ed the door. And I sat down and be - DR. F. A. AXON Dentist Graduate of C.C.D,S., Chicago and R.C.D.S., Toronto, Crown and plate work s specialty. Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. 19-4-34. D. 11. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massaga Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours --Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence pramnptly answered. immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at Tee News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate , and Satisfaetior Guaranteed. DOUGLAS R. NAIRN Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public ISAAC STREET, CLINTON Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays -410 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone 115 8-34. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head.. Office, Seaforth, Ont Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, James Con, nolly, Goderich; secretary -treasur- er, M. A. Reid, Seaforth: Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth, R. R. No. 8; James •Sholdice, Walton; Wm. Knox, l:,ondesboro; 'Geo.' Ieoniarcit, 'Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper, Brucefield; James Connolly, Gode- rich; Robert Ferris, Blyth; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, R. R. No. 5; Wm. R. Archibald, Seaforth, It. 11. No. 4. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, Clinton; Jahn Murray, Seafortbi James Watt, Blyth; Finley McKer- eher, Seaforth. Any money to be paid, may be paid to the Royer Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocerx, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- AIM or transact other business will he promptly attended to on applica- teen to any of the obove officers addressed to their respective post of - fleece Losses inspected by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. at * i l`,i�: pe THURS., NOV. 8, 1934 than she had changed on that other. day, weeks before. In a minute she sav✓ a lovely, white-haired woman be- coMe a broken, shriveled, parchmnent- oheeked figure. "You're. ill!" Ellen cried as she started forward. "Wes there bad news in the latter? You're tipset—•'° But when the answer came it wasn't an answer, For Ellen's mother, her hand again pressed to her breast, was rising. And as she rose to her feet, she was looking beyond Ellen. She swayed slightly—!and then, as if she couldn't help it, she sat down again. But her voice was steady, though toneless when she spoke. . "It's that indigestion, I guess," she said gaspingly. And then—"Bring me my check book, dear...." Ellen didn't speak. She sensed a desperation in that toneless voice, a need of. hurry. Turning, she ran into the house, scampered to - the desk where the check book lay. She brought it, and a fountain pen and stationery, to her mother, and watch- ed as her mother's shaking hand wrote a check—arrote it to what, in Ellen's knowledge of the family fin- • ances. was an alarming amount. It was only after the check was care- fully made out to a strange name, and as carefully blotted, that the .WO. man spoke again. "Ellen," she said drearily "get your hat and take this, at once to the post office in the village. And send it spe- cial delivery, and register it." Ellen, even in the face of her mo- ther's tragic hurry, couldn't quite grasp the seriousness of the -letter. Her mother's sudden illness seemed so much more important. "Too bad I didn't ask the boy to wait," she said. "He could just as well have taken a letter back." "I couldn't" said tier mother with a great effort, "have trusted it to anyone else, this letter. You'd have had to take it anyway.. , . And I'm glad--eeutember that, always, Ellen! —that it is just about all the money I have. I'm utterly grateful that there was enough. And—I don't -want a doctor. I'nm not ill. I'm never ill:* She rose again and turned heavily And Ellen se A d E away toward the house, with no other word, but clutching the envelope, went out of the garden and started townward. She walked so fast that didn't have time to wonder about anything. But she reached the post office with a good margin of minutes, and followed her mother's instructions soberly, and started back home. The -way led past the doctor's square white house. He wasn't in. But she left a message with the doc- tor's aged housekeeper — who eyed her with a frank curiosity—and hur- ried on. "Mother% be cross," she told her- self, as she scuffed her feet along in. the dust of the road—"becat7se I've asked the doctor to stop by. But she can't go on, having these funny spells! I wonder who the letter was from ?" The letter! Ellen couldn't help be- ing curious about it couldn't help feeling that it held the elements of my It didn't, of that she was All at once Ellen's mother had myst. "I'nm going for the doctor," she half sobbed. "Your chest ... Is it your heart, darling." sweetness of her mother's smile. Per- haps it was something in the chill magic of the room. But Ellen knew surely ... And yet, knowing, she did not touch that still figure, and neith- er' did either'did she cry. Instead she walked very close to 'the bed. And as she came close, she' saw that her mother's fingers held a letter, ever so lightly crumpled. It was the letter that had come only the space of a few hours ago Ellen, scarcely knowing what she did, reached over and took ,the letter from her mother's hand. She smooth- ed out its wrinkles, very methodically,, and read. And then, suddenly, she was lying on the floor, beside her mother•'a bed, sobbing out all of her heart'che and her disillusionment and her pain. For the letter, written with brutal frankness, in an untaught hand, was from a woman. A woman who told of a man's death in a cheap lodging house, in another state. "Toward the last," wrote the woman, "he 'spoke of you, often. But still and all, there wasn't any reason why he should have seen you! He'd stopped loving you —and he 'did love me. Maybe he thought you were well to doe -and, at the end, he hadn't anything.'And af- ter all, you were his wife, for there was never any divorce. And now .that there's no money for funeral expenses gan to knit a blue sweater for you. And T whistled, hard, as I knitted. I haven't whistled since—and I certain- ly never whistled before, Ellen! That's why, I guess, you were a girl. . A boy wouldn't have had any use for a mother who whistled so badly. .. A boy—" • TI DOINGS 1N THE SCOUT WORLD Latest figures . show 73,146 Boy Scouts in Japan. Canada Becoming In- creasingly Popular With Tourists Recent Boy Scout awards include, With a view to encouraging travel to this country from the United a Medal of Merit presenre3. hover Al States, the Minister of the Interior ]an Deftness, London.Ont., for gal- supplied, during .the 1984 travel . sea- son, 130 offices of automobile clubs in the leading United States -cities with attractively mounted photo- graphic views of representative Can- adian scenes for window displays, Each set was agcompanied by a print - nails, etc., were pinked up from ed invitation to members and non - roads this summer by 25 Boy Scout members to "apply within" for maps troops of San Diego, in their annual showing main connecting highways between the two countries and book- lets issued by the Department of the Interior on. How. 'to Enter Canada, Vacationing in Canada, Canoe Trips, It should be a good sign that little Sport Fishing, and Hunting. King Peter II of Jugoslavia is a Boy In every case the window displays Scout, -"a brother to every other aroused great interest and undoubt- Scout," without regard to class, re- edly resulted in considerable numbers ligion or nationality. May he grow being induced to visit Canada during up unspoiled! the vacation season. One automobile * * * club in Pennsylvania wrote as follows -1"The material was looked over with Queen Mary Helps Scout Bazaar a lot of interest by sportsmen and Prized. items for sale'at an Aber- others in this vicinity. My personal Been Boy Scout bazaar were minia observation of travel to Canada dui. ture leather dressing and manicure mg the year 1934, proves that the sets, donated by Queen Mary. The tourist is still interested in your count bazaar supplied funds for the pur- try. We -thought that the repeal 04 chase of a permanent camp site. the 18th Amendment would lessen travel to your country but evidently * * * this was not so." Another in the Dis- A Canadian Camp For English Scouts trict of Columbia made the following comments,-- "Have had the set in our, A permanent camp site for English window practically every day during school Boy Scouts visiting Canada the summer and it seemed as if every has been laid out on Mystery Island, one of our members was making a near Ottawa. The camp will be trip to Canada." A third, in Ililnois, known as Camp Hardeastle, in hon- stated,—"The display attracted a lot our of the Scoutmaster of a party of English public school scouts who camped on the island this summer. ie house lay in the last light of the setting sun, it was her world. la:mtry in rescuing a woman from a burning house. Car "Puncture Pests" Nearly 2,000,000 pieces of glass, "puncture pest" competition. d3 A Boy Scout King, THE. CHEESE SMUGGLERS The inauguration of National Cheese week in Canada, to be held from November 10th to 17th in order to create the greater consumption of the finest cheese in the world, calls. attention to the fact that, while the subject of cheese may leave the aver- age Canadian somewhat indifferent, it evidently arouses in other national- ities a desire to battle for their own special variety of that commodity. The idea that the smuggling of cheese_ could ever figure as a danger- ous and exciting undertaking . may ' well bring a smile tq the face of the Canadian who is surrounded by the pick ofthe best of his own makng, but what kind of smuggling goes on. along the coastof the glamorous' Ri- viera. It is not smuggling . of dia- monds or pearls or rubies to decor- ate the international,, beauties who throng that glorious strip of south- ern France,, neither is it for other contraband goods. It is cheese, just good, plain Italian cheese. But the Italians, it seems, are patriotic. —eve11, of course, if you want charity to,bury him ... But a grave and a marker and all the rest—" here she named a sum of money, a sum that Ellen had seen her mother write up- on class "I don't suppose, though," the let- ter ended, "that it natters numb, now. Only he was sort of proud, aI- ways." Ellen sobbing, understood at last. stopped talking. Her voice had dwindled away into ,i funny, tragic silence. And Ellen saw her face go oddly white, felt her hand go chill and limp. It was then that Ellen, starting to her feet, saw her mother's head sag forward. "I'm going for the doctor," she half sobbed. "Your chest . . Is it your heart, darling? It is—" Ellen's mother had rallied. Her smile was less wan than it had been. "My heart " questioned Ellen's mo- ther. "Oh—nonsense! Indigestion, ,po doubt. Something 1-" even then she managed a trifle of gaiety, "something I ate as a child, no doubt! I'm quite well, now ... " CANADIANNATiONA ' Al WAYS; TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East depart 3.00 p.m, 'Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. 4?eing West, depart OM p.m. London. Huron & Bruce Being North, ar. 11.34.1ve.11.64 a.m. ' eking ilietb Lae Ibis It didn't occur to Ellen in the weeks that passed, to ask tier mother for the details of what had happened to her father. In her mind she had a vivid impression of some major cal- amity --of a train wreck or an auto- mobile disaster. 'Only a calamity could have kept her father from her mother at such a time, she was sure! And then, perhaps a month later, the special delivery letter arrived. Itwas the boy from the post -office who brought the letter. Because hor mother was at work she had signed for it, and dismissed the boy, before she spoke to the woman' who painted so absorbedly. "It's a letter," she said, "a special delivery letter for you. I guess it's about the drawing you .sent away last - week. We were expecting some word. With a start her mother came back from the land of her own creation to reality. With listless hands she took the envelope from her daughter, and slit it open. Ellen watched her moth- er idly—so idly that at first she l believed what her eves were sure, relate to business, for what bus- iness dealings could have to do with such a large check? It must be something strange and ominous. It might almost go back, across the years, to her father. And yet. . • • The house lay in the last light of the setting sun, it was her world. Its four walls bounded all of hor life, and her childhood, and her fragile store of experience. It was her homesurrounded by her garden. Down the path she went, with its border of fading beauty, in through the wide opened door. In the hall- way she paused for a moment before a dim mirror and automatically flar- ed her hair. Suddenly, without know- ing why she slid it, she was calling wildly, was running toward the stars. .Screaming— But ken was never to know the details of her father's final degenera- tion, or of his death, or of his burial. All that she ever knew was that the last check her smother had written was returned, duly endorsed by some distant firm of undertakers, to the bank. She never knew the final chapter of her mother's tragic story! But she did know, at last, -why her mother had crept away from the city, from people—why she had tried to shield her only child from cities, and frompeople. The darkness, creeping ghostlike into a room of sadness and death and despair, brought with it a swift mem- ory of the garden, the garden as it had been a month before. Through that darkness Ellen could hear the approaching rumble of the doctor's Ford. But she was aware of it subjectively. The only actual sound that she heard was the echo of her mother's voice speaking. Saying "Love lightly. Don't get intense about love. Don't give anything.. , . Take everything, but don't--" (Continued Next Week.) * ** A Missionary Donation From China Reversing the orthodox practice, a contribution of $6, "to help in car- rying on the work," has been receiv- ed at Boy Scout Headquarters, Mon- treal, from China. It came from a young China Inland missionary, for- merly a member of the Montreal Vickers' Scout Troop, in appreciation of the value of his training. "Mother! Mother darling! Where are you? where aro you--+'' There was no answer, only a whis- pered.eoho from quiet rooms. Ellen, with, the old fingers of dread touch- ing her heart, found .herself stunning up the flight of stairs that led to the second floor. Ellen knocked, none too softly, upon the panel of her mother's door. And then when she heard no sound from within, she jerked the door open and paused, panting on the threshold. At first, as she stood there, she know a great sense of relief. It was as she had supopesd--her mother was lying on the bed, resting! As she tiptoed across the room, Ellen thought that her' mother was really asleep. For her lips were smiling very beats tifully, with their old - magic; and her eyes were softly closed—it was as it,. in truth, she were the sleeping beau ty. At first Ellen thought her smother was- asleep. And then suddenly she knew `completely and utterly, and scarcely with an overwhelming sense of alone'' seeing: For she stood watching, she ness, that her mother was not sleep'- "I never clash with my boss." h mother change completely 1 ing. An editor's daughter returned from Sunday schnol with an illustrated text cad r in her hand. "What's that you have there, little one " the editor said.. "Ob," said the little girl, "just en ad. about Heaven." of attention among members and oth. ers who stopped to make inquiry. We routed a number through Canada." A fourth, in Ohio, made the following remarks,—,"The pictures -went over big, and I had scores of people in my office telling the how they enjoyed them and that they had stimulated an interest in, and urge to travel to Can- ada." anadA " In view of the success of the under- taking it is proposed to expand the work by extending co-operation to such other automobile clubs and tra- vel bureaus as have window display facilities. The beneficial effect from a tourist is business quite obvious. pont of DID HE GET IT? view The thousands of Italians in Nice and thereabouts demand . Italian cheese,although they have at hand nearly 400 different varieties' of French cheese. There is a duty ho France on foreign cheese, and conse- quently, the French and Monaco Cus- toms officials have to cope with a number of professional cheese smug- glers. For instance, they made a clever capture recently at Garavan on the St. Louis Bridge frontier. The roof of a tradesman's van looked rather bulky. The officials on the French side of the bridge did some sniffing and tapping, took a meas- urement or two, pried up a few strips of panelling, and found 370 pounds of flat cheese snugly stowed away. On another occasion there was no neces- sity for much sniffing. A boatload of Gorgonzola, far out at sea, de- clared itself and was captured off Cap Martin by the Monaco customs. On still another occasion there was an exciting pursuit and capture of a smart motor -yacht which brought a ton of cheese from Italy erocky or the isles off Cannes. The agents gang smilingly paid a $3,000 fine and were released. Labor on, another boatload of cheese was captured at sea, but as the smugglers managed to escape they have transferred their activities to the mountains on the French -Italian frontier. Landlady— "What portion of the chicken would you like?" "Oh, half of it will do, thank you." A PUBLISHER'S BLESSING 0 blessed is he who does not fuss When he receives a bill from us; But knowing his subscription due, in theone o renew. m t Sends Y . And doubly blest is that good friend Who waits not till a bill -we send But promptly sends us the amount Wherewith to straighten his account. ACCIDENTS AND COMFENSATION There were 5,226 accidents reported to The Workmen's Compensation Board during the month of October, as compared with 4,695 during Sept- ember, and 3,558 during October a year ago. This brings the total number of accidents reported to date this year to 45,558, as compared with 30,887 for the same period last year. The fatal cases reported during October numbered 33, as against 16 in September. The total benefits awarded amount- ed to $422,820.58, of which $345,396.06 was for compensation and 97.7,424.53 for ntedical aid, which brings the benefits awarded during 1934 to date to $3,.665,823.62, as compared with $2, - 99,3,645,05 for the corresponding periodeef'1933, RELATED TO BOTHAil Ir Aishman was seated in a train.. beside a pompous individual' who was accompanied by a dog. "Foine dog ye have," said the Irish- man. "Phat kind is it?" ,`A cross between an Irishman and an ape," the man replied. "Sure, an' it's related to both. of 'us," the Irishman rejoined. saw her mer, and dreadfullly. iItore dreadfully Perhaps it was something in the . "No; he goes his way end•I go his." Many a non -advertising retailer keeps back from advertising just because he feels that it is nec- essary to advertise in a big way and because he is not ready to advertise in a big way. To keep back from our newspaper until you are ready to use big space is just as foolish as would be keeping a child out of school until it had the ability to pass its ma- triculation examination, Beginners in every form of enterprise need to go warily; until experience and practice and growing ability warrant them to attempt larger things, they should proceed cautious- ly- It will pay some retailers to use classified ad- vertisements and small spaces of 2 and 3 inches. These little advertisements will surely get seen and read by newspaper readers. Make small advertise- ments offer special merchandise. Change them fre- quently. A quick succession of little advertisments, everyone of which is alive, will of a certainty effect sales—will attract new customers. The thing to be frightened of is dumbness: a retail store which does not talk to the public by means of newspaper adver- tisements misses a lot of'business. The public goes where it is invited to go. 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