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"HORSE SENSE"
By Dudley Heys
H. T. RANCE
Notary Public, Conveyancer
Financial. Real Estate and Fire In-
suranee Agent. Representing 14 Fire
Insurance Companies.
Division Court Office. Clinton
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Kell looked at his visitor and said: j "What ? do you mean exactly by
"I'' didn't expect you so soon." diffused?"
tSterieht'smiled. He was :'a wiY, 1 "It could beoperated over an ever-
dark-haired
ver-
ey
a k- ired man with reddish -brown expanding area, suoh as in the prin-
e .sand an ugly mouth. ;Miele ha le of flood -lighting. >.An aero -
"'We
'er p
youdo can prove your not waste time, Ma. Kell.. plane at an altitude of ten thousand
If could diffuse the Kellitic ray
: claim, my I feet,
country tr. will make, you ane, offer at upon a city and destroy all life with-
DR. F. A. AXON
Dentist
Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago and
R.C.D.S., Toronto.
Crown and plate work a specialty.
Phone 185, Clinton,` Ont. 19-4-34.
oncej'
"There is no 'if'. Come I 'will show
.Stericht glanced about curiously as
they .passed through to the back of'
the house. It was a gloomy, mou1-"
dering place, two miles from the'
nearest village, and so isolated that
he had experienced some difficulty in
finding his way. But it mal%ehed its
owner. Stericht suspected that the
man was half-niad, making such an
amazing claim,
"This way," said Ke11, and opened
french windows that creaked. Beyond
lay what had once beena garden.
Now it was knee-deep in :tangled
growths:
"This way," repeated Krell. He led
his visitor down the garden and
through a gate. Before them was a
field of about five acres, and in the
centre stood a strong wooden hut,
The er;er-observant Stericht noticed
that towards the west side of the
field a curious, grey screen had been
set upright,' a screen about eight
feet high and ten feet long. in writing. What notes I make, I
Kell chuckled, -suddenly —, a dry, burn instantly. As for this —"- He
swunground, painted at the appara-'
tus. "No scientist alive could analyze
the secret there. It is here, and
here alone." He tapped his fore-
head. "Se nothing can cheat me.
"If you come on Friday I will pro-
vide you with ample proof. When
that horse dies in three seconds
"If it dies in three seconds, my
Government will buy your secret an
your own terms."
D. H. McINNES
• CHIROPRACTOR
Electro Therapist, ,Massage
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
Ar
.' E.
COOK
PIANO AND VOICE
Studio At
MR. E. C. NICKLE'S
King Street, Clinton. Phone 23w.
—Dec. 25-35.
ow Mickey MouseV'as
' ated
Cie
in a radius of a square mile, in three
seconds."
"Providing," said Stericht, trying
to sound unimpressed, "that the hu-
man being concerned were not pro-
tected by Kellonite." ,•
"Naturally. But those. who pur-
chase the -secret of the ray will also
purchase the secret of Kellonite."
"Why have you offered it to my
Government?"
"The British are not interested in
destruction. If they bought my se-
cret, their purpose would be to keep
it a secret for ever. Have I worked
like this for sixteen years to pro-
duce the greatest discovery in the
history of the world, to have it un-
used, buried?" .
Stericht nodded. He was not given
to imagination, but he had a future
glimpse of great cities, — London,
Faris—dying in a few seconds, and
that glimpse set his brain reeling.
"I am not to be played with!. I am
not to be tricked!'' said Kell. "Tell
your Government that. Not a word is
bloodless sound, like the trickling of
sand. He stood there gazing to-
wards the .hut, and once .mare Ster-
iel:,t suspected madness. The very
appearance of the man wasa contra-
diction of sanity. Tall, gaunt, stiff,
white-haired, he had a flat face, de-
void of colour and eyes equally de-
void of colour and without light or
sheon, so that they might have been
the sockets of a skelton.
"A quiet spot," said Kell, "a safe
spot. I've been working here for
sixteen years. You are privileged.
You will be the first person to whom
I have shown the working of the
Kellitic ray.
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer for the County
of Huron
Correspondence promptly answered
Immediate arrangements can be made.
for Sales Date at The News -Record,
Clinton, or by calling phone 203.
Charges Moderate and Satisfaction
Guaranteed.
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
Officers :
President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea -
forth; Vice -President, Ames Con-
nolly, Goderich; secretary -treasurer,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth.
An Interview with Walt •Disney I and do his own twelve to fourteen
(By Alastair Cooke, in the London, hours' work a day.
England, Observer) iNfr. Rickard, Mr. Disney's manag
er, affably. started me on a two-hour
For the September bulletin •of the tour of the plant, with the 'magician
"Encyclopaedia Britanica," is' an- P '
e the ortentuous item `From himself, a lanky, amiable fellow pat -
flounced P iently explaining to me the individ
the Phoenakistoscape to Mickey ual work of the scores'of young men
Mouse.' No professor need now hes- andg reaps of young women, all in
itate in recommending the antics of 'their twenties, who are drifting off
the animal 'kingdom to the young,) to lunch arm-in-arlch, very much as
for its hero has been exalted from the English musical -comedy stage
comic strip :to a part of English picture; an American college' campus.
education, and in the States he ' no Mr. Rickard was left to tell me the
longer eeceu'ves his natural title, but enormous and beautiful complexity
competes with Garbo and Cochell and of the process which puts. Mickey
Le Gallienne for a classic screen Molise on the sicreen.
name, "M'- Mouse."
They left the hut, and Stericot
drove back to London. For once in
his life he was wondering if truth
lay in the ancient prophecy that
Man would eventually destroy him-
self. While sanity remained with
"Wlliat started me on these inves- the animals, t deserting
legations," he continued, "was the
study of sunstroke and 'heat-stroke,
Heat-stroke is caused by the actinic
rays of the sun. As you are aware,
in extremely hot climates it is advis-
able to cover the back of the neck
as well as the head, That is because
the actinic rays penetrate to the
spinal cord and produce chemical de-
composition—another name £or pots •
oning.
My problem was to create a sim-
ilar ray,. which could be controlled
and 'focused. I have succeeded.
Come!" Kell started towards the
hit. '
Stericht followed him, wondering.
The hut had one window. To the
left of the door• were' a desk, a chair,
and a waste -paper basket, half filled
with ashes. To the right, fixed to the
wall by the window, was an apara-
bus not unlike en old-fashioned ma-
gic -lantern. Near by, suspended
from a hook, hang a cage of guinea -
pigs. The walls of the hut were lin-
ed with some grey substance similar
to the screen in the field.
THURS.,, NOV 21, 1935
is photographed' (you, reader, un-
wittingly see twenty four of these
frames every second),"there are
four thicknesses of celluloid to be
arranged -one for the background
a nearer one for less animated de.
tail, a nearer one for 'Minnie, saY>
the nearest for Mickey.
"Then begins the laborious task of
moving each piece of celluloid at dif-
ferent times, then at last of photo-
graphing individually the necessary
ten thousand frames, which embody
anything up to thirty thousand sep-
arate drawings." back and fall over the difference in
I saw later every stage of the .:pro- technique. Living with NPicker,
cess as it had been described, saw like growing up with a ehild, I guess
innumerable drawing tables a back- Yell : don't notice the stages."
ground of Hell, over which this er. He would have gone on inexhaus-
P ert animator drew ten pictures of a tibly but• his manager , mentioned
devil dancing, that animator traced
in the other man's devils so that he
could fit in the shadows it was his.
job to draw. Late in the afternoon a
little girl murmured endlessly until
every mechanic in the building want-
ed to echo her. "Jevoudrais mour-
ier.' She was notdesperate, how-
ever, at so much labor. She was
helping three other people make a
French version of one of the films.
We have about one hundred and
• Ai quarter of a century ago the seventy artists. Some are called
only relaxation his creator had after apprentices — they are novices who
a' day at school and six hours selling have to learn to change their own
newspapers was picking up dollar style of drawing in the studio into
prizes at local theatres for imper- Mr. Disney's style. Later they' be-
sonating the baggytrousered, bow- come assistants. Then, with prac-
ler hatted figure which is the only tice and more training, second-class•
other popular idol to compete with animators. Finally, if they have a
his own spry, treblevoiced, three fln• special talent and have completed the
gered mouse. ' training, they are first-class animas -
When he was not asleep in hall ors, and sietually make the films.
ways, snowball fighting, learning to Briefly, the process is this:
juggle, he tried an indifferent hand „1N r, Disney distributes to the en••
at sketching odd people, odd animals
and was kept in pencils. by an amus- tire Crew a first draft of a story.
ed aunt. In 1917, as a candy and Gag-anen elaborate incidents at their
nvagazine vendor on railroad trains, gag meetings, animators • confer a -
he yearned far a career in vaudeville, bout situations, and their joint sug-
failed in poorish skits, aged his face gestions are given back to the story
with make-up, exchanged his uni- department, which prepares a com-
form for that of the American Red plate scenario.
Cross, drove in France an ambul- :"This is given to the director of
anee conspicuous for its random caro, the movie, the musical director, the
catures. Back in America, he drew lay -out men (scene-jlesigner), and
advertisements for a farm -equipment Mr. Disney, who together Peomplete
company, earned twenty cents an the detail. The director and the
hour drawing hens hatching out in- musician, with the help of a metro.
numerable dollars. nome, decide the precise footage,
nothing about temperamnet. ' In this
joint 'they don't only tear their hair.
They, weep. I'll find a man who won't
figure a problem out, He wants, to
pass it up, because the drawing's, so
minuteit nearly send him nuts,. But
I keep him at it, and if he gets low
we have to give him a pep talk.'
"But the spirit here's pretty swell.
They all know they belong to a -
school, not to a movie corporation.
And when they have patience ' they
get excited about the improvements
We plan for, each , picture. ' I look
settle the different tempos of each
Has first drawings for the screen sequence and prepare a final produc-
were unpretentious slides, "Buy your tion schedule and an exposure sheet,
Shoes at the Corner Bootery;" and which show to everybody engaged .in
"Will Ladies Please Remove Their the movie on what frame each sound
i was Man. Hats?" He bought a cheap projector will occur.
The next morning Kell walked out took his drawing materials out to "Animators now draw in pencil on
to Lingtye Farm, where old Joshua his father's garage, invented his own paper shall sequences, each se.
Hood was spending is last days or process of animated cartoons. His gtience is photopraghed, and the ne-
cwnership roaming across every be- first Mm, two hundred feet long, he gative projected through an old
loved field and along by every fa, made alone, and sold for thirty cents movieola in what we call the 'sweat
Directors:
Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth, R. R.
No. 3; James Sholdice, Walton; Wm.
Knox, Londesboro; Geo. Leonhardt,
Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper,
Brueefield; James Connolly, Gocte-
•rich; Alexander McEwing, 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-
•dher, Seaforth.
Any money to be paid may be paid
to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of
.Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin
lC.utt's Grocery, Goderich.
' Parties desiring to effect insur-
ance or transact ether 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.
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS.
Kell crossed to the apparatus.
Without a word he took one of the.
guinea -pigs from the cage and a
morsel of greenstuff. He placed the
little animal on the desk, and while it
squatted there, nibbling, he returned
to the -apparatus and adjusted the
projector. There was a metal switch
high up by the window. Kell flicked
it down. In the instant the guinea-
pig stopped nilsj$pg and stiffened.
Two seconds lateSethere was a smell
of burning. '
IS.terioht could not suppress a gasp
of •amazement. He stepped forward
to examine the guinea-pig, and was
checked by a shrill cry from Kell.
"W'ait! for your life! He flicked
up the switch. "All right. It's safe
now.,,
,Sterieht picked up the guinea-pig
It was dead, of course, and e little of
the hair had been singed.
"Tho test," 'said Kell, seeming to
read his thoughts; "is puny, un-
worthy of my ray. But you come too
seen. I was arranging to buy a
horse. That should be much more
satisfactory."
"Much more," said Stericht, a
trifle shakily. "Whhat,, exactly, do
you claim for this ray of yours?"
• "That it can kill a human being in
three seconds, at a range of fifteen
to twenty rniTes. The first second
produces complete paralysis, and
the next two: death ensues,
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 pan.
Going West. depart 11.50 a.m.
Going West, depart 9.58 p.m.
London, Huron & Bruce
Going North, ar. 11.34. lve. 11.54 a.m.
Going South , 3.08 pan.
RAILROAD NIICKNAMES
Hers was a swan -song of the sea-
son. For the next day the whole
stag was going on vacation. The ex-
hausted Mr. Disney, red' eyed front
watching over and over the trial of
a clumsy servant girl by her subject
knives and forks, watched his school
miliar hedgerow..
"Yes," he told Kell. "I've a horse
for sale, old George, But you won't
be wanting 'km to work hard?" he
added, anxiously.
"No."
}load's wide, lined face cleared.
"Ye see, Mister, George is rising
eighteen, a fair old un, as ye :night
say. I doan't want to part with• un,
But I've no -choice." He waved a
gnarled hand, "All this is to be sold,
letic, stock, an' barrel. I'ni a -going
to live with my grandson the other
side o' Lunnon. And there be - no
place for old George."
Kell's lightless eyes flickered, im-
patiently, "Where is the horse?"
"Geerge!'s IToad called. "0i1
George!"
'Over the shallow slcpe ambled ,.
chestnut carthorse, nearly seventeen
hands high, broad -chested, ponder-
ous. The big face, marked by a
white star of hair on the forehead.
had all the placid serenity of the
'countryside. He whinnied softly,
and his velvety nuzzle dipped to-
wards . Hoad's capacious pocket,
where he expected and found a knob
of sugar.
"How m;u•ch ?" asked Kell.
The t h
onood
r custom of
n
icic-
namtotheir
im
e ing railroads according
initials is receiving notice in a Chi-
cagonewspaper these days, the,. most
recent listing being the Peoria, Pe-
kin & Jacksonville as the "Push, Pull
& Jerk," and the Toledo, Peoria &
Weston, :as' the " Tired, Poor &
Weary;". What has always appear,.
ed to us as the classic, however, is
the Cincinatti, Portsmouth & Virgin-
ia (predecessor of the K.'& N.) which
was always 'known as the "Coat,
Pants' & Vest". _
a foot, just a hundred times cheaper
than a foot of Silly Symphony. He
worked on fairy tales, paid two
helpers, ,^ail;ed hinrbolif a company.
Ile was pretty soon bankrupt.
Ten years ago he went to Holly -
Wood, cantankerously ambitious, far
in debt, kept himself by snapping
people's babies and selling the re.
sults, .to proud parents. Margaret
Winkler asked him to draw an Alice
cartoon. Before he broke with her,
Ire had done four and invented . Os-
wald.
Now; in his own garage, he decid-
ed to work once more for himself,
and looked around for a character.
There had been animated cats, dogs,'
and rabbits. He recalled low in his
Kansas studio he had caught nice
drew a few figures, chose one, called
him Mortimer, tried other names on
his friends, and finally and casualty
referred to him as "lVfickey Mouse."
The first complete Mickey film
was peddled around New York, was
everywhere rejected, so he trade a
second one. But sound and Al Col-
son had panicked the entire indus•
try. So the first Mickey :Mouse was
taken to be synchronizied. Disney
had an idea, a process of his own;
the musicians were indignant, pro-
tested, and it was done the old way.
The reseeding was a failure. It was
then done Disney's way,' and from
that moment Mickey Mouse entered
into his kingdom.
A week ago the disturbing com-
pany decided that henceforth Mr.
Walt Disney shall be sacred from in-
terviewers, shall actually be left un-
disturbed to supervise his disciples
"Well," said Hoad, "it ain't quite
the money I,'m caring about. George
can't do the work of a youngster. 1
want to find un a .good hoame. If
that so be the case, I'd take five
pounds,
Kell nodded. "Won't be worked
hard," he said, and produced his
notecase,
Head looked at the five -pound notes
and looked •at George. Then he
rubbed that big, docile head and
turned away. Ihis own head was bow-
ed. .
"I'11 be getting a head -collar and
rope for un," he said, and his words
ware choky.
An hour later George was grazing
quietly in the field behind Keil s•,
house, Kell, in his hut, took a carrot
from a basket, leaned through the
window, and called to the Horse: At
once George ambled over, received
his carrot, and muenhed contentedly;
When he had finished he lifted his
muzzle for more, his sane brown
oyes expectant, Kell gave him moths
Ur carrot and then hung up the has..
feet. On Friday he would attract it
bo a point in front of the screen, and
leave it with some carrots• to munch
until the Kellitic ray killed sudden-
ly:
In the next forty-eight hours Kell
reduced sleep to a minimum.. He was
concentrating on a method of elim-
inating heat from the ray. On the
i
Thursdayafternoon n he took a guinea -
nig from the cage, and placed it on
his. desk. Outside, close to the hut,
George was grazing, drowsily. Kell
returned 'to his apparatus, ,-focused
She projector, flicked down the
;witch. In the instant the guinea -
lig stiffened. But it was twenty-
nine seconds, according to 'Kell's tim-
ing, before there rose a smell of
"This," he continued, •pointing at
the grey substance lining the walls,,
'4s Kellonite. It Is the one .substance
capable of resisting the Kellitic ray.
This projector is lined with it. With -
set Kellonite there could be no ray,
since it would automatically destroy
its projector. Nothing can keep out
mer ray except Kelibnite. Hence
the necessity for lining ng
this hut.
Otherwise, during my expermoenis, T
might have destroyed some,. unlucky.
villager two or three miles off.''
.Stericht moistened •his lips. "Why
did this guinea-pig begin to singe?"
"T'hat," - said Kell almost apole-
getically, "is due to the intense beat
of the ray. I am confident of elimin-
ating the heat factor with a water-
cooling process. Then I shall have singeing,
an invisible ray, capable of being Switching off be went back to
projected or diffused" j !us desk and,sat }down.There were,
Honolulu, and with a ,bound and- a
grin the mythical m'a'gician had wav-
'ed me goodbye and shouted, "I'II
make China yet."
School of Leonardo, school of
Giordione, school of Disney! The
comparison is not irreverent. It is
a twentieth-century guild of crafts-
men engaged in providing for this
century what Gilbert and Sullivan
provided for the nineteenth, a haven
of fantasy where wolves and politi-
cians, kings and cabbages, are alike
decorative, where occasional satire is
palatable and harmless because its
victims are not real people, but an
infant's charming visualization of
them.
rushing away. Ile smiled at the •
drawing -boards, at the single figures
amended, blotted out, redrawn, a-
bandoned, corrected by the "model -
sheet" showing Mickey Mouse in a-
bout thirty positions, but which ev-
ery artist works.
He said: "In a way it is a college.'
I wouldn't have a man in the place
who wasn't an expert draughtsman I
when he arrived. But they have to ;
go through, the mill. And it's tough."
"De you personally settle any dif-
ficulty of drawing or continuity 'or
tempo?"
"You bet I do. It's the tempo that
gets them. Every gesture of every
'figure has to fit in with that pre-
scribed beat. If we decided on a sir -
beat (four beats to a second,) no-
body on the film must make a decisive
gesture outside one of those four
beats. You may think we know
shop.' The sequence is then taker
away, given back to the animator,
adjusted re -drawn, and then given
over to the inking and painting de-
partment, outlined onto the celluloid
and on the reverse fillsin the colors.
"Sometimes, before a single frame
more calculations to be made.
There was a bumping sound. Kell
took no notice. George grazing near
to tho hut, had struck the framework
with a hoof. There was another
sound, a softish, scraping sound. Kell
glanced round in time to see George's
head through the open window, muz-
zle straining: to take a, carrot from
the basket thathung within inches
of the switch.
Kell made the one mistake. In-
stead of jumping aside first and
shouting at the horse afterwards he
shouted first. The startled George
jerked his head up, backwards,
caught.the strap of his head -collar
against the switph.
There was a click, and Kell, in
the direct focus.ofthe projector, had
no time even to scream. For one
second he was stiff. Only his eyes
had life. There Was light in them.
at last, the, Tight of horror. He top-
pled over with the stiffness of a chair
falling.
George had his head -collar free. He
swung slowly away front the hut,
grazing.
Presently the wood of the desk be-
gan to smoulder. Smoke curled out.
through the window. A fiery serpnet
crackled up through the -roof. The
flames had no respect for Kell and
his secret.
•George drifted on, grazing quietly.
His long, kind face looked strangely
sane.—London Tin -Bits, ' 1 •
GODERICH: After an illness of
10 days, Henry Young, 75, died Thurs-
day morning at his ' home on Tra-
falgar Street. He was raised on a
Goderich Township farm, a son of
James Young and Jane Coutts, and
as a young man spent osme years in
the United States. He returned to
the homestead in the early ninties,
and in 1893 married Fiances Wild
of Stanley Township. He retired ele-
ven years ago and came to live in
Goderich with his wife, who survives
hint. Also surviving are a son and a
daughter, Charles Young, whi occu-
pies his father's farm, and Mrs.
Clarence Miller. There are three
grandchildren, Mrs. Agnes Austin of
London, a sister, is the last of the
family of ten children. He was a
member of St. Peter's Church and
of the Holy Name Society.
STOP THAT
LD
IN A HURRY WITH
You can't be careless with colds. They
can quickly develop into something
much more serious. At the first sign
of a cold take Grove's Btom
o Quinine.
Grove's has what is takes to stop that
cold quickly and.,ifcctivoly. At all
Druggists. Ask for Grove's. They're
in a white Lox.
556
r
Somebody
to see you!
IF EVERYBODY with something to interest
you should come and ring your bell, what a nuisance
it would be! Think of the swarming, jostling crowd,
the stamping of feet on your porch and carpets!
Every week we know of callers who come to see
you. They never jangle the bell—they don't take up,
your whole day trying to get your attention. Instead
they do it in a way that is most considerate of your
privacy „and your convenience. They advertise in
your newspaper !
In this way you have only to listen to those you
.know at a glance have something that interests you.
They make it short, too, so you can gather quickly
just what you want to know. You can receive and
hear them all without noise or confusion in a very
few minutes.
In fairness to yourself look over all the adver-
tisements. The smallest and the largest—you never
scan be sure which one will tell something you really
want to know.
Qws-
QwsRacopd
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