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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1935-04-25, Page 2PAGE 2 ?The 'Clinton News -Record \With which is ,Incorporated . TJIE NEW ERA "TERMS 'OP SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Cana- -alien addresses, $2,00 to the U.S, or otherforeign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publish-. , •ger. The date to which every sub •ecr.i tion is paid is denoted on the, label. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- 'sient advertising 12e per count line 'for first insertion. 8c for each sub-' Sequent insertion. Pleading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," '`Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once tror. 35e, each subsequent insertion 15c.' Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- ligation must; as a guarantee of good •faith, be accompanied by the name •of the writer. -G. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, 9 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. !Barrister; Solicitor, Notary Pubic Successor to W. Brydone, K.O. '•Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. DR. F. A. AXON , • Dentist 'Graduate of C.C.D.S„ Chicago and R.O.D.S., Toronto. Crown and plate work a specialty. :Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD SYNOPSIS: Young Ed. Maitland "Why would you guess she overheard and the hardened gambler Speed Ma- a gold secret" lone are camp partners on the trip "I don't know," Maitland hesitated, north to the Yukon gold fields in '97 "Something she said the first time I when word of the rich ores there first saw her. And then Owen's losing his came down the Pacific coast.; Mail- outfit when he was on his way to land, son of a New England sealer- join a partner ;in the Yukon . Do ing family,was, determined ta,win I imagine or does that tie together?" back his lost family fortunes. Fren- "'8t ties to her," Speed grnnteC.' shy, the fisherman who took hint and , "Maybe nowhere else., •Outfits are Speed math; Lucky Rose, beautiful gambled and lost right along the young, woman who had' given Malt- trails without needin' a gold seers' land a ring. for a keepsake; Fallon, bask of it. • What yon heard 'Owens trail basis to the inners, who resent- say doesn't count for match. Andif ed Rose's attentions to Maitland; this prospector had e goldmine, why Steiner, themoney lender; young ,wouldn't he record it, thus endin' the Pete and his drunken partneir Bill secret? "Anotherthing—I'd bank she and Garnet, a we'll -to -do -modern one wouldn't be that much interested ev- who hired l\faitland and Speed to haul en in a gold mine. She comes: :by Would she his stuff from the beach over the mountains to the Yukon -these were among the crowd that made up the gold seekers. At Liarsville, a camp in the hills, Speed was made trail boss in Fallon''s place, because Speed insisted on closing the trailtill it could be repaired. When a detach- ment of the Canadian' _Northwest Mounted Police came riding down the pass and mended the bridge for Speed, there was a truce between him and Fallon and the trail was reop- ened, Garnet went back to civiliza- tion for the winter leaving his con -plausible. It would surely be a wise ies and equipment with Speed and Maitland. But the horses disappear- ed just after the transfer. : Lefty, who could hardly get the words out for stuttering, told Speed he'd help him find the horses and led him to a tent saloon where Rose was waiting for him. She . seemed to want him and Maitland to do something for her, but his unfriendliness held her off. However, she told him she had rescued his horses for hint and that they were waiting outside. D. II. McINNE$' CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION thy 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; e.Olinton, or by calling pions 203. • Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. gold too easy."• "'Then what motive have?"' "Motive?" Speed's mouth tighten- ed. "You'd better not guess, Nothin' sets a 'man wonderin' like gold, and the best trick a woman has is to get you wonderin' till you go around her in circles. 'When she talks of, puttin' heads together, whose head do you figure shels interested in? Maybe Fal- lon and me' both cramp her ideas. She baits me with a gold lure to go trail - in' him, and her other argument is DOUGLAS R. NAIRN 'Barrister. Solicitor and Notary Bublic ISAAO STREET, CLINTON ,Office ' }lours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays --10 a.m. to 5 -pan. Phone 11. 3-34. 'THE McEiLLOP MUTUAL Tire Insurance ` •Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers : President. Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, James Gon- :nolly, Goderieh; secretary -treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot,.• Seaforth, R, R. 'No. 3; James Sholdice, Walton; Wiry. Knox, Londesboro; Geo. Leonhardt, 'Bornholm, R R No. 1; John Pepper, "Brucefield; James Connolly, Gode- •rich; Alexander Me wing, Blyth, R. 'R. No. 1; Thomas Moylan. Seaforth, R. R. No. 5; Wim. R. Archibald, Sea- forth, R. R. No, 4. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R, R. No. 3, 'Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; .James Watt, Blyth; 'Finley McKer- •cher, Seaforbh; • Any money to be paid may be peid •-to the -Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin ' Cutt's Grocery, Goderich, Parties desiring to effect insur- -anee or transact other business will 'be promptly attended to • on applica- 'ion to any of the above officers ad- -dressed to their respective post offi- •ces.-- Losses inspected by the director -who' lives nearest the scene, Cleaning and Pressing • 'Suits. Coats and Dresser DRY CLEANED AND REPAIRER' W. J. JAGO If not open work may be irn *v Heard's Barber Shop CA `' D( �fi 4 is `i SYS: move to hunt Fallon down and .settle that feud. But not on Canadian ground. ... If that d'in't her motive, it's just barely possible that she's worlcin' with• Fallon to nail my pelt. Or else—" he concluded, leas audibly, she's drawin' evidence for -the Law. She's the most insidious woman I ever met, and I've known some hear - cats." , At the top of the pass -they looked out over a new world. Clouds billowing darkly on a chill wind, shadowed the crests of a pil- eery?" Maitland inquired, "The fact that no one has ever had a clear view of the Siwash or.. his,: team. This sounds Codd, but it dates back to a time before our men enter ed the territory—when a miner from the Pelly brought in some goldhe claimed to have got from an Indian in a storm. The, snow, he said, was driving thick, and the native, whose face was muffled in a parka hood, spoke in Chinook, offering a potlatch of furs and nuggets in exchange for supplies. A gold legend grew from it, and wherever a cache was robbed, or.ribbed by wolves, the vanishing In- dian was blamed. "Interesting ease," Drew concluded, tapping out his pipe . . But I'll be getting your sled -load ready." Speed listened in silence, 'his mind apparently less occupied with the in- spector's story than with the mealier circunwtances of their malting a haul for the police. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY liirg sea of mountain peaks. To the east and below there, a gleam that •"W }all take the street," said Speed followeij this moving darkness Chang - to Maitland, "it's more visible." ed a sable wood to misty enchanted The marbled thoroughfare, -with its green, and glinted over the .snow - The snowfall continued, influrries as they sledded on toward Lake Le - barge. Between the canyon rapids and the Talchian they passed a creek that. cut into the left bank . of the river, It appealed to Speed as a .site for-, a winter camp. The timber' a- round it was good enough for cabin logs, and they could haul in the fin- er -grained wood they needed for the boat ' The solitude of the region remain- ed unbroken. Feathering snow had erased the track of a patrolman;s mount, which they had noted occas- ionally. So, when they were return- ing to the horses after a side excur- sion to examine timber, Maitland was surprised to see his partner stop 'sud- denly and look down, as if he had de- tected some mark on a blank rise of snow. • The shape of these marks was not that of bootprints but of some moc- casin -like foot covering, Thee was other phantom dots and lines that suggested, a sled track—unaceountab- ly'sto him, YOUR, WORLD AND MINE by. JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) THUR ., APRIL 25, 1935. tion of nature's resources. The: discoveries of Columbus and of those who followed him gave "E,ur-' RUT- ' renaissance and gage an im- mense impetus to the • progress of 'civilization. The wanderings of . Livingstonepreceeded the lifting of the veil which made Central Africa ' to be Balled the Dark Continent, Once there was a man who coni- nesessities. We would become gross Pioneering in every realm is ines- plained that a woman had "wasted" as savages, • capably accompanied by an incalcul- a pot of perfume when she used it to This is not a fanciful picture. It able waste of effort and time, and honour the Christ. He thought that is a slcetch of what would happen if even of human life: But is "waste" it's value could have been •' better em- always we were economical to the the right word to use? Is it waste cloyed. This -man was rebuked. But utmost of oar conception, when the student consumes hours this tnan—or the -man whom 'he_typi- What hurts those who condemn ex- and hours of time in efforbs to solve fies—is always among us. Ile is cess • or extravagance or prodigality problems whims others of greater observant of private end public waste is the knowledge that they themsel- brilliance solve with: marvellous ease and extravagances, and.he protests ves may not. end probably "cannot do � and speed? Is it waste when na- a •ainst them, in, the form of speech- likewise. Most of us in- this world tion and:industrialists spend mil- es, I s es, books and letter to etlit'ors. who leek abundance are envious of lions •of money in experimental work? i be others who have abundance, and we Is it wasted time and money which Now, I am not propos n- , to Want to reduce them to our levels of are consumed by scientists to discov- the defender of waste and prodigal - ity; yet I de feel disposed to protest against the condemners of every- thing which to them smacks of ex- cess. Collars on a man are quite an unnecessary decoration of him; and so, tdo, are the buttons on the'sleeves of his coat. And all of us eat exces- jively or extravagantly, and most of us spend money on various forms of self-indulgence.. We . "waste" a lot of time, in the opinion of ,many crit ice of us, and we use up colossal a- mounts of physical, 'energy without an adequate return, Suppose that our critics had pow- er ever the world, and suppose that they commanded the world to be ec- onomical to the extreme of possibil- ity. Imagine what human life would be like—how bleak it would become,- hent/ unenterprising, how horrible. Otic homes would be just utilitarian-- places tilitarian—places of mere shelter, devoid of ;any- thing and everything which would contribute to their beauty, comfort, attractiveness. They would be a- bout as bare as the igloos of the Es- purchasing ability. Those of us who have to work harder than some we know try to soothe ourselves with the conviction . that it is (injusiiipe—not dessert—which explains our state: Not for a moment am t condemn- ing the follies and idleness and ex- travagance of all men' and women. Rather am I sorry forthose who are, out of their affluence or laziness or insanity, ruining their ownlives and the lives of their children. I believe that every man and woman should be going somewhere not merely drifting about on life's seas. I be- lieve that all of us should" be con- tributors to the world's good—this positively and •deliberately, andas largely as our ability and o'pportun- ity permit. But I do not believe in stinginess, in miserliness, in thrift and economy "stretched to the edge of parsimony. I believe that men should be rewarded according to the measure of their service for others' welfare and advantage, and in ac- cordance with the extentof their ef- fort and with the value of what they produce, I believe that it is possible quimos, or the. grass huts of the wild i to make millions honestly, that those Africans, or the wretched cave-shel-1 who are rich 'in the, worldly sense of ters of Bushmen. Our clothing would l this term should be generous spend- be scanty and ugly. We would do ors—purchasing ' the things which nothing to soften the hardships of give them.delight and joy, and whose each day. Wo would abhor all forms making provides employment for of play. We would produce no more' many others. than we ourselves could consume, I We would share nothing with others. I believe also, that the economy of Speed s'u'ite them with an absent We would grow no flowers. We would civilization • requires the inhabitants cross stripes of light, opened a than- dusted surface of Summit Lake—first Sp dof this planet whieh contains unto be cy `course before them when they promise of their approach to the intentnses, 'from which he was re- kill' off all birds and hese 'whose ex- venturesome —to- be explorers in turned the bend, These alternating' head waters of the Yukon. The sky I called by a question from the other. istence• contributed nothing to our many realms. I can see good in the patches of light and darkness were turned grayer as they descended, till "bust be the track of the lone ' w emigrations of men and women from an advantage, as well es a menace; J Siwash Drew's patrolman was curl- Old Canada to the Par Wsst—migra- they exposed the entrance of each ous about," he said. "Myster'ous, too, e d tions very costly to those who won resort,"nvhile the dark spaces between because there ain't any native settle- .through. I can see good in that stu- shielded their approach, ments in this region, and nothin' tl fire's pendous migraton across the prairies much to bring a wanclerin' Siwash and deserts and mountains of the When the sign of The P'aclt Train - U- `�, - in. " er how diseases and their causes may be conquered? * 'lit' Nature herself teaches us that prodigality of effort and production is necessary to keep Iife going on. Oiur trees and flowers produce every year millions of seeds to assure the perpetuation of their species,. It was the catyclysms of Nature in the dim past which made our minerals, our gems, our continents, islands, moun- tains, rivers, and lakes. History, likewise, teaches the les- son that human progress toward lib- erty for peoples and individuals is in - 'operable from extravagance and prodigalty of human effort. In both Nature and History there is no such thing as a neatly trimmed thrift. On- ly by prodigality of endeavour de men grow in intellect and culture and fortune. It is young people whom I' have mot in mind as I write this contri- bution to' The News -Record. What I want them to know is that their in- dividual progress in any direction which they choose is related to pro- digality of effort—to wasted effort, if you like. They will have to ad- venture mueh, and make many er- rors. The main thing is that they shall try, fiercely, to achieve. And I want to say that it is not thrift er economy to buy as little as possible. I lament when I see young people unwilling to spend money for books having power to expand the mind, to release its latent powers. It is not thrift or economy to spend no money on the amenities of life, or to keep out of enlarging. experiences. I have not much patience with those persons who look with disap- proval on money -spending, when the spending is not impoverishing to the spender; or with those persons who want all effort to be precisely adjust- ed to the work requiring doing. The world has advanced to its present state of eivilization and. culture through prodigality not parsimony, the settlement of the West, to the There area place and a need in . ev- buildings , of railway, to the utilize- ery individual's life for super -effort TIME TABLE 'Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and God'erich Div. in East, a.m. 'Going E s depart 7.08 Going East, depait, 3.00 p.nt. Going West, depart 11.50 am» Going West, depart 9.58 p.m. London, Ituron & Bruce Going North, ay. 11.84. ive. 11.54 am. Going South 3.08 p,m. saloon appeared ahead, Speed's step became a little more measured. No figures loitered around this entrance; p the noisy revel inside was appatontly i tco engrossing, Light, streaming from chinks and seams in the canvas clearly illuminated the roadway, making it an unlikely spot for an ambush. They reached the outei radius of. the light, entered it, and passed the II low -bright beam that issued from un- dcr the swing doors. Through shad - thethat flickered over the road front a the shuffle of dancing feet, they mov- ed safely toward the margin of dark- ness.' "Which goes to show --:"Speed -be- gan. But the sentence was never completed. He stopped and wheeled with a sud- denness that brought the lead �bron- chows chest against his leg. Maitland heard a dcuible'cra.sb; saw a bright flame stab from Speed's gun. Some- thing burned past his cheek. The saloon door behind•thein was swing- ing to and fro, throwing blinks of light into the roacl. In the Iuminous pool just below it, a man lay crump-, led with his face upturned, The feat- ures were clearly legible. It was the shell dealer they bad seen at Liars - They were in shadow again and had gained the darkness of the trail before the street filled, for The Pack Train was a "last chance?" saloon,. They joined a scattered line of pros- pectors who' had started on the night trail into the canyon, and no one fol- lowed them. In wary silence the two• partners kept trailing till they made camp far up the river canyon. 'O'ver the: fire, the outlaw sat in a long study. "1 reckon that was a case," he said. et last,' "of what you would call 'suggestion.' ` The man wouldn't believe I didn't have a gun notched for him,." "What made him think you did?" Maitland asked. "I followed him one night in Ne- vada. Got a slant of him then in the, light of a saloon door. It just needed one look to see he was on'y a tramp tin -horn. Seems,. though, like ,be had other things to be nervous about; he had friends in the camp and his im- agination, started guns blazin' . When he seen me here he figured I was still after hint . Like the girt said, the worat risk may be the one you ain't lookin' [for. "I've been figurin' slower' •since I made that first :mistake .. , They's a heap of pretty' brunette girls in the Western camps. You can see bow easy it is to get mistracked from hove wide 'my guess was about this one and the horses., thinlcin' she want- ed pay." "Do you think the gold secret she. spoke of was just sotn.ething she'd 'ov- erheard whi'le singing through' the camp. Like her tip about the shell dealer?"' Speed looked at him curiously. The total value of the imports of 'bass, plants, and Isbrubs imported into Canada in 1934 amounted to $600,187, The Netherlands supplied • 62 !per cent of these imports;. the United States, 9.7 per.cent; Belgium nearly 3 per cent, and Great Britain euudelu',5 per cent.. "The m.an wouldn't believe that I didn't have a gun notched for him." it melted in flakes that shifted a- round them like leaves,, mantling, their mud -stiffened clothes. When the long strait of Windy Artn brought them into the wooded stillness . of Lake Tagish, and they reached the lower end of this water- way, they carne on an advance crew of police, setting up a barracks. An officer walked out through the snow flicker to meet them. It was Drew, wearing a winter service uni- form. He asked where they were bound, , "Julst lookin' for timber ' and 'a place to camp;" said Speed. They made an uneventful trip down the stretch of Lake Lebarge to the Lewes and delivered their 'consign- ment to the inspector in charge, without meeting the -other official per- osnages. Nor did Speed show any desire to do so. He lost no time in getting eicl of the order, and patting" miles of lake ice between' thane and the Lewes. Retracing their lonely route with the empty sleds, they loaded up with logs they felled along the way. Pros- pecting for timber sometimes led, them far alart, They had been sep- arated in this way for some hour. when Matlancl 'became aware that it was turning dark. A wolf howl, weird in the distance, deepened it still more, Some minutes 'later his ears were stung to sylertness by the muffled double crack of a rifle. • Wondering what game Speed would consider worth that number of shells, he pulled the horses into a faster gait. Presently, through the snow this - ole„ he discerned a dark lifeless bulk an the snowiblanketed ice. He found, it to be a stray woodland caribou—. the first he had ever seen. •It had been dropped by a clean head shot, and its blood, still warm, stained the snow. Speed's bullet had stolen a feast front the timber wolves. In answer to his shout,' his part- ner came toward him out of the sha clow of a clump of cottonwoods. "What were you looking foi?" asked. Maitland. •. The •other had an oddly abstracted lock and was still scanning the shore line. "I must be getting mental," he said. "I got a dim sight of this cart - lieu erossin' the river mouth, and had to shoot twice to stop it. Then it seemed like Hike sontlethin' else was moving in' the timber. "Maybe a wolf was trailing the deer you shot?" They put the deer on the sled and kept trailing, till they camped in the shelter of some timber above the river mouth. When they had skinned the game and cleaned it, darkness Drew's eye was on the pintos, as he filled and lit a pipe. "If you're heading toward the Lewes and you'd like to nsake some wages, I cauid give you a load of supplies to 'haul to Thirty Mile. One of our inspectors is camped there. He's taking Judge NI'irGnire and the Grown Prosecutor to Dawson," Drew explained, as a pleas- ant conversational item. "Tire goods are to be deliver ed to him. No rush about it." Speed looked darkly . at his partner, who had a provident thought.' With had closed around them witha bitter what lay behind then', it might be night colel. Wetland broke .. Ibnlbs good, polities to do the police a ser- vice. "We would leave our stuff here,' Maitland ventured, rand prospect for a camp on the way." " "That's alt idea,' said bhe inspector. "If you make your :camp between here and Lebarge you'll be in the line of Cathcart's patrol. Corporal Cath - cart's a new man. It'll be an event r examples of the law of survival in the snow country, The topic di not dull their appetite. Having ap- peased it, they lolled in re re s warmth. from a fallen tree for the camp fire, while Speed was cooking caribou steaks on some wood coals. Releas- ing the axe for anomeni to blow on his 'fingers, Mat lind happened to glance across the river, and was ea - rested by ,a yellow gleans front a dark, slinkipg 'shape of fur. "There's your wolf,"' he called to for .hien to meet anyone along that his partner. lonely heat! Speed gave another' turn to the "Dees be use dogs?" Maitland steak he was browning, asked curiously. - "That's ,no wolf," he muttered. "No. Our doge haven't arrived yet. • "It's a''Siwash dog. And Inc.th'Mast Speaking of. that, though •Ca'thcart`s of strayed fromthe team of that ciis- very interested in the sled trach of appearin' Indian. Or the Siwaeh cut a mysterious Siwash he's seen conn it loose," that way. If you should got a glimpse The cruelty of leaving a lamed of this ,lone Indian, "you'll have omit- dog to starve seemed extreme to ing news for him." Maitland. But while the steaks were `.What makes the treok a mys, 'cooking, Speed expleined'sonte harsh- Speed tools a deep drag' at a wan- ing cigarette and tossed the stub in the fire. Then he got up and sleep- ily leepily stretched his arms. As he did so, his eyes carne suddenly and sharply awake. • (Continued Next Week) United States to the Californian gold fields—in 1349 and the fallowing 50's and G0's. These western crossings of the plains by scores of thousands of 'nen, wometi and children, lured by the hope of a golden fortune, led to Pailay .1231 [£0 an a.yso One of the most,suceessful salesmen of this time, W. Billy Van, says that successful( salesmanship is simply the application of show- manship to merchandising.'' "The secret of success in acting is to rehearse and rehearse and release until you have created alt unforgettable impression upon the mind of the actor. }Ie then lives his part. His sincerity enables his audience to live it with him. Of course, the play most be good. It .gets' you nowhere to. have people say, 'Billy Van was great, but the shosv was rotten!" " Similarly you must have a good product, and be- eause you are talking to a procession and not a standing crowd, your advertising must be insistent and persistent. You must rehearse and rehease and release if both the show and the actors—the product andand the actors—are to get their message across—to create the unforgettable impression. `There is no sueh thing as sales resistance to quality merehan- "dise at the right price," said Mr. Van, "The secret of salesman ship into give as much as possible for as little as .possible." ThD Clinton 1Tews-Record A ram M1f hI FOR ADVERTISING—MAD Alla Ifff P$ NMI iT PEONS 4.