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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1935-12-12, Page 2AGE 2 CLIN' 'The Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS ' OF SUBSCRIPTION 151.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian' addresses, $2.00 to the U.S. or -other foreign 'countries. No paper +discontinued until all arrears are paid ashless at the option of the publish ter. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran-' eient advertising 12e: per count line 'for first insertion. 8c for each sub- 'sequeht insertion. Heading counts '2 lines. Small advertisements not 'to -exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," 'Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once. for 35c, - 'each subsequent insertion 05e. -Rates' for display advertising ?made known-, on application: Communications: intended for pub slication must, as 'a guarantee of good: 'faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. O. E. HALL, M. R.' CLARK,- Proprietor. Editor. H. 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Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN NATIO AL ' AIIWAYS N NEWS-RECOR IOLOGU T.0 LO By. Martha, Ostenso In Prologue tq.Love, the author of Wild Geese, for which she won a, $,000 prize, and The Dark Dawn has departed boldly from her earlier method, and has, written a -genuine' romance, more powerful said appeal-' ing ..than ''; her •previous realistic now Autumn t Dean's destiny was sealed m n in a Moment of moon -lit magte. Looking,. into Brice •Lander's level eyes, she knew that she, loved him:: But love; betweenthese two, was, it seemed, a forbidden thing --is kern tage from her mother, Millicent Ozz dell ... forever loved, forever lost, The setting of this • splendid -story is the Kamloops 1 Valley: of British Columbia, midway between the vaat arches of the. Rockies and the colorful Cascades. To this region of great sheep stanches, Autuinn' Dean returns from her schooling mong the Continental smart set,- to -find herself ineseapably..faced with a fateful secret and a eonquerinr love. As in the euthenics earilest noon els, the present story is steeped 'ln the stark, wild beauty of the North- west. It is intensely vital with. In- man &Win , Autumn Dean is puzzled by the re- ception given' her by her old freind Hector. Cardigan, and is made .um easy later by tiie reception given her• by her strange, father. 'But she hasconte home, is determined to stay and to make the best of it. • NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and €oderick 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 pan. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34. lye. 11.54 ami Going South 3.08 p.m. WINGHAM: Donald, youngest eonf Mr. and Mrs. oAlbert Cam - P bell, of Westfield, had his face very badly torn by a collie dog at the home of Mrs. Campbell's sister, Mre. 'Gardner; of near Lucknow. The boy was playing with the dog, which wa :not accustomed to children and th s, animal 'turned , on him. The eyelid 'was badly lacerated but the real ex- tent of the injury can hardly be de- rtermined as the eye is so badly swollen. Dr. Johnson of Lucknow, at !tended the boy. s 0 he said slowly, "and small respect for hearts," ,Autumn leaned back, restingher elbows on the mantelpiece behind her, and glanced up at' him diffi- dently from beneath her lashes. "Even mother?" she asked. He swung the bell just perceptibly, and the errie threne of it, a vanish- ing wraith of sound, caught at her throat. It might be the mingled tears and laughter of a ghost heard from infinity. Hector did not reply at once "You knew mother very well, :did- n't you?" she prompted him.' "She couldn't have been more than ten years younger than -you." "Millicent Odell—" It might have been the wine he had had, 'Autumn thought, but it seemed to her that for an instant he was quite oblivious of her presence. His narrow, brown face with its myriad ` fine seams, glowed as though he were listening ardently to the music of that name, the name of her mother, twenty years dead. Then he glanced down at ' the bell once more. "I have fashioned a little conceit about this bell, Autumn. Perhaps you would like to know what it is." "Do tell me, Hector." He smiled boyishly. "It" is like the Odell women, Its beauty casts a spell over a vast distance. Its mu- sic echoes and reechoes into eternity —and haunts you forever, It has an efin soul, niy dear, and its power !a: blackest magic." Autumn clasped ' her hands and laughed with delight, although an in- comprehensible tremor stirred within her. "You were meant to be a goes. Hector—not a collector of antiques," she said gayly. The doorbell rang and Hector went quickly to answer it. Autumn's lug- gage had arrived. , But her hand, as she flicked the cigarette ash down upon the tray trembled a bit, Autumn observed. In spite of herself •a ripple of uneasi- ness passed over her, Could there be something really wrong with her father? She had had a Letter from him only the day before she sailed, and if Aunt Flo bad heard anything in the meantime she would certainly have radioded her on the boat or telegraphed her on the train. She sturdily dismissed the momentary fear, "You'll probably stick, as you say," Hector commented. "You've got e- nough of Jarvis Dean in you for that. And if you hadn't — there's still the blood of Millicent Odell. If you don't get what you, want from sheer stubbornness, you'll get it be- cause no one will have the heart to refuse you," "A very dangerous combination, eh, Hector?" Autumn observed, She refused a second glass of wine, although Hector filled his own once more. She moved to the man- tel and examined one or two of the curios upon it ,amulets ,ancient dice, an Italian dagger witlf a jeweled hilt, a string of Inca beads hanging down over the Dutch tiles. Some of the things she could recall, others had been acquired by Hector in his tra- vels since she had last seen him. Pre- sently her eyes fell upon a strange brass object with a strap attached to its top. • She picked it up. Instantly a sound of unutterable purity pierc- ed the room with a thin, thrilling re- sonance that seemed to drift on and on, beyond the confines of the be- decked walls. Startled and entranc- ed with the beauty of the sound, Au- tumn turned to Hector and saw that he had risen and was coming toward ner. ' "I picked that up in Spain on a walking trip I took one year through the mountains," he'told her. "It is a Basque bell—a' Basque sheep -bell," "I've never heard anything so lovely!" Autumn exclaimed, turning the bell up to examine it more care- fully. Hector looked down at it and whimsical wistfulness came into his face, "I should Iike you to have it, Autumn," he said. "When you come in again, take it out you. There is no one else I would give it to, my dear—not even your father." She looked up at him in quick, pleased surprise, holding the bell so that it chimed again, light and clear as the echo of a fay song in some Unearthly place. "Do you really mean that, Sector?" she said softly. "I know how you hate to part with your treasures -and this one-" "It's, very old," Hector murmured, and his eyes narrowed with a strange absent dimness, as though he were looking into the remote past where his spirit abode in a brilliant reality. "Some shepherd — in the Pyreness, perhaps --heard that bell fifty years ago—when your grandmother was a girt here in .these hills, just over from Ireland. When your Grand- mother was breaking hearts up'and down -the Okanagan, my dear, some shepherd boy was listening :to that plaintive note on some ,mountain -side —on the other side of the world." "What a lovely thought," Autumn observed eagerly. "13ut was Grand- mother Odell such a heart—breaker Hector? I have never been told much about her. For that matter; they have never spoken much of mother, either --and I have aways wanted to :know-", Her voice falter- ed and she shrugged her shoulders as if to dismiss the subject. Hector took the bell from her hands and held' it .thoughtfully on his palm, stroking the satiny texture of its semi -spherical upper half with hit eloquent fingers. "The Odell women?" • when, at 'eighteen, he .yent away to college. ` She had been thirteen then, and had wept despondent, little -girl tears at the 'departure, of her' here nito had outgrown her. Beforehis • .return for the summer vacation, she 'herself had been despatched, protest, ing, to England.' Three miles beyond, she came to the massive pillars of . field 'stone that' stood at the entrance to the. Castle of the Norns. 'The name still suited the place as it had done when she wastwelve years old, her fancy steepedin ancient lore. Her father had beep pleased with the nameshe had chosen for that odd pile with its %eurious gray stone tut -- rets and parapets, the like of "which had probably never adorned another ranch house in 'all the world. Un- charitable people' in the community had called it "Old Dean's Folly," bat Autumn had adored it from her ear- liest memory.' She,checked her horse to a`walk as she rode up the gravel approach be- tween the tall ,pines. A light was; discernible now in the east tower of the Castle. Her father's study was there, and he himself would probably be seated now in his deep leather chair, ,lost to his surroundings in the pages of one of his old and be- loved books. Except for the subdued glow of the light in the spacious hall the house was in darkness. Old Flan - 'nab, the housekeeper, who had been Autumn's nurse, would have gone to bed long since. CHAPTER II Autumn Dean reined in where the road curved out to a steep incline a- bove the town, and looked back down upon the diamond -studded valley she had left. When she was a little girl she had thought of the town of Kam- loops. by night as a jeweled brooch lying on a bed of black velvet, the river°a ribbon of dim silver festoon- ed about it. Now she drew in a breath of quick rapture in the know- ledge that the metaphor still held. To the north and west the great hills slept darkly with their -brows against the stars, the majestic aitd awesome sleep of the colossal spawn of earth. The vast ,silent flood of darkness in the valley below her seemed to be a mystic emanation front the heart of the mountains, for the shy was lum- inous as a green jewel. The pale road led southwestward, with erratic dips and curves through ,bald hills and sudden, deep ravines gloomy and sweet with balsam and pine. -Autumn turned her horse swifty into the way that.she must go. The miles slipped away behind her, and now she recognized the features - of her father's land, the beginning of those thirty thousand acres, that led sheer up into the dusk of the southern mountains, and spread fan - wise to the river on the north. There on one side of the trail was the som- ber promontory noiv, that jutted out like a monk's cowl above the aban- doned copper mine, and on her right the grassy trait that led through ghost -gray hummocks of sage up a steep hillside and down again to the sheltered valley where the 'lambing corrals were. She paused to listen for a moment, and across the dim solitude came the lonely ' tinkle of a sheep bell. The sound carried her poignantly back to her childhood, when she had ridden her pony on spring evenings such as 'this —the Lairds disapproval notwithstanding —to visit old Absolom Peek, the faithful herder, where he tended the, lambing ewes. At the sweet thrust of memory her eyes filled with tears, She shook the reins and followed the trail westward along the valley. Here, at last; was the little school- house, with its pile of seasoned fire- wood, its pathetic little outhouses, and its elfin host of memories that lurked in every shadow • and danced before her under the palelight' of the stars. What . had become of that troop of boys and girls with whom she had romped in the days when she herself had been one of them? The Careys and the Cornwalls, the Lloyds and the Murrays? Just there, under - that dark pine, young Larry Suther- land had washed her face with a handful of the first snow of the year: And here young Sandy Cameron had fought with Bruce Lander who had elected himself her champion -- though though she had been a mere slip of eight or nine years at the time, and Bruce' had been five years her senior =Bruce Landor, whose father • had shot himself down there in the little ravine that ran through the north-• ern end of the Dean scree. She had often ,thought of Bruce, the wistful - eyed young dreamer, always a little sad because of the tragedy that had befallen him, and of his spirited mother,' who had struggled along somehow and ruled the Lander ranch A dog barked sharply from the di- rection of the lodge, a short distance from the . house: . Immediately a clamor rose from the stables and sheds beyond, and almost before she could dismount Autumn was sur- rounded by - a half dozen bristling, growling and suspicious sheep dogs. One great shaggy fellow drew closer than the others, then darted away timidly when she stooped to pat him. "You old bluffer!" she laughed, and hastily knotted the reins of her ,horse to the branch of a flowering peach tree. Now from within the house anoth- er dog barked—once, twice, a deep - throated and ominous sound. Autumn hurried up the steps and glanced through the heavy glass panel of the door. Her father's great Irish wolf- hound was coming down the stair- case with his loping, magnificent gait. She tried the door, found it unlocked, and entered. Old Jarvis Dean, his heavy briar stick in his hand, was coming slowly down behind the dog. At the first sight of her he let his cane fall and supported himself with one hand on the shining black balustrade. The other moved slowly across his brows. Autumn rushed up the staircase. "Hello, Da!" she cried, and flung her arms about his stooping form. "Don't faint, darling, it's really mel Down, Pat, you,. jealous old thing!" "God bless my 'soul!" Jarvis ex- claimed. "What's this, what's this!" "I tell you, it's me, darling!" Her father placed an arm tremb- lingly about her and held her for a moment without speaking. Presently site heard his voice, a voice almost a whisper, the defenseless voice of a sleepwalker. "Autumn—my little Autumn!" She thrust him back from her, laughing with excitement. "Oh, Dad- dy—let me look at you!" He stooped and picked up his cane. then turned and took na couple of steps up the stairway, His great voice resounded in the hall. "Hannah! Hannah! Come down!" He beat his cane sharply on the stairs, "Han- nah, I say!" The old woman's voice responded from above, breathless from excite- ment. "I'm coming, I'm coming. What in the,world has happened?" "Come down, you dunderhead, and see for yourself!" He turned to Autumn and put his fingers to his lips to warn her a- gainst crying out. Then he began walking uncertainty down the stairs. Autumn moving before him, her voice vivid and young in the austere silence of the lofty hall. "Oh, Dal I can't tell you what it means to be home again, She turn- ed upon him suddenly. and threw- her arms about him once more. "I did- n't say a word to you about my com- ing, darling; because I—I didn't want you to know. I wanted to surprise you." He looked at her sternly. "Don't lie to me, you young brat," he warn- ed her, with enough humour in his eyes. to take the sting from his words. "You didn't tell me about it because you knew I'd forbid it. That's why." PR { OGRAM5 ON CHRISTMAS DAY ,_EXPECTED ,'r0 MAKE '];IISTORY IN CANADIAN RADIO_ BROA 'C` S I - D A T NG;` COMMISSION'S TWO • HOUR PRESENTATION TO BE A STUPENDOUS UNDER- Autumn kissed him and laughed; "What difference .does it make, you dear rascal! We' belong together - and we belong here. That ought to be reason enough for anything." "Reason? Reason? There is no reason ih anything you do. You're a woman, and the devil himself is in women! But go into the ,room there and get some light on you so I can see what you look -like." Autumn turned from him and skip- ped toward the doorway that opened into the drawing room. She pushed the button ;on the wall and the long room became flooded with a pleasant amber radiance. Autumn clasped her bands as she stood still for a mo- ment, her senses possessing the room, making its simple harmonies her own again. This had been her mother's room and had beenfurnished and de - with a fierce will that had won: the Borated utider her mother's direction. respect of the countryside. It .; was:, Old Hector' Cardigan had assisted ten years since he ' had bade t her , a. her, as Autumn . knew, and • together rather lofty: and grown-up goods)* they had furnished it exquisitely, in TAKING, LISTENERS A LSO WILL HEAR GRIL: `LIANT PLAY: More than 1,000 -engineers, artists, and Canadian citizens will partici- pate in an elaborate two-hour broad- cast to, be presented on Christmas Day, from 3,00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m:, ov- er the national network of the Cana- dian Radio Commission. About 32,- 000 miles, of, wire line, sufficient to circle the globe 11-4 times, will be required to accomplish .this broad- cast, in addition to the vast red net- work of the National Broadcasting Company in the United States, which will be linked with the facilities of. the Commission for the lasthour of the program. The daring presentation to be known' as "Canada. Celebrates Christ- mas;" will span. the continent front Halifax to Vancouver and will in- terpret Christmas Day as it will be Queen Anne delicacy. The room had always made Autumn think of chrys- anthemums—lushness, soft , a n d feathery and cool and golden. Old Hannah had told her years ago that "Miss Millicent" always had yellow chrysanthemums here when they were in season. Jarvis seated himself before 'the white marble fire -place, where a pink glow slumbered in the violet - colored ash. From a tiny, lemon - hued satin settee opposite, Autumn looked at him. His long -bony hands were ciasped above his cane, his leonine head jutted forward, and there was in his eyes a naked look of —was it fear or mere perplexity? Autumn did not know. A hideous feeling came upon her that this was not her father at all who sat facing her, but some gro- tesque old changeling with a demon - ridden soul. His eyes burned as he searched her face, his massive hands clenching the arms of his chair. A tremor took 'possession of her so that her shoulders quivered involun- tarily. She twined her fingers tight- ly together and bent forward. "Tell me—what is wrong?"' she said softly. (To be Continued) spent in Canadian homes, 'hospitals, and elsewhere. Eight choirs through-' out the Dominion will be synchroniz- ed in song. The Dionne quintuplets will be interviewed as -they celebrate their Christmas; sailors of foreign. ships riding at anchorin the harbour of Vancouver will speak. A business man in Montreal or Ottawa, unable to return to his home for the Christ- mas season, will speak to his family in Western Canada. Other feats, some of them unheard of in radio broadcasting, will feature the pro- gram. "Canada Celebrates (Christmas" will be a fast-moving, thrilling- two- hour presentation that willsurpass even the adventurous jubilee broad- cast on May 6. Twenty-four different scenes are planned, ' all calling for elaborate arrangements and skilful handling. Alterations, of course, may be made between now and Christ - mac, but if the present set-up re- mains unchanged. Canadians may heara program that will rank among the great achievements in radio broadcasting. Brilliant Play To Be Heard "Christmas With Dickens," a bril- liant play by J. Melville Thomson, of London, England, will be a special feature of the Canadian Radio Com- mission broadcasting schedule for Christmas Day, December 25. Nego- tiations were culminated this week. The Commission will reproduce the THUD; play . from the Tenn national network audience•, oda and for audiences of the Broadcasting System in the Uni States, at 9,00 pan, EST. "Christmas With Dickens" has been acclaimed in London as a man- terpieee of writing and has been widely praised for its originality and human interest. It portrays the great writer sitting down to a Yuletide ,t feast, of turkey, plum pudding,' and other good things. ,Later he falls..,. asleep and when he dreams many; of the characters ,in his most widely read books come to life. There is Micawber, Uriah Heep, Sam Weller, Tiny Tim, Scrooge, and others. In one of the most, amusing scenes ever presented for radio, they try Dickens for the murder of Little Nell. This, of course, is a travesty on Dickens own act of allowing Little Nell to die despite emphatic protest from all England. Dickens awakes before he finds out whether or not he is guilty. - J:: Melville Thomson is one of the .. best known of BBC authors. His re- cent play, "Wallace,' was received with great ovation in England. While "Christmas With Dickens"' is an Eng- lish story its value will not be lost, , for Stanley Maxted will offer an in- terpretation that will be in keeping with the time 'the characters and the atmosphere. One of the highlights of the production will be something new to Canadian listeners: a background of conversation plainly heard in juxtapositionto the conversation in the foreground. A Worth While Work' The -problem, of caning for themany unfortunate sufferers from tuberculosis is a task which for some 39 years has been oorupyiug the attention. of the National Sanitarivat Association, operating the ctuskoka Hospital for Consumptives, the Terence lios1Itai for Consumptives anti the queen Mary Hospital for Con- sumptive Children. tit present these up-to-date hospitals, with an accommodation of over LAUD betty, are taxed to the utmost to care for tat: tteet.y consUmptivas,. whose only trope of future health Ices In proper treatment and care. ft is in order that these institutions may be enabled to carry on this worth white work that it is necessary to annually make.an appeal for funds, for the statut- ory allowances received fall far short of the actual cost of maintenance. with a deficit of many thousands of dollars to make up this year on operating account, we ask that you give 0 generously as you can. • Please send your gift to the National Sanitarhun Association, 223 College Street. Toronto 2. STOP THAT DA A HURRY WITH You can't be careless with colds. They can quickly develop into something much mar. serious. At the first sign f a cold take Groves nromo Quinine, 'Grove's has what It takes to stop that coldquickly and effectively. At an Druggists. Ask for Grove's. They're in a whits box, 556 9 9 ' .9 Jt 3 0,44 reJ• e c n U 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 can be sure which one will tell something you really want to know. The 011111011 ows-Beeord A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS IN THIS ISSUE,, ' PHONE 4 sem,�'c'>•io .lr'SAS-Jc?�:�r.�CST/c�1L'•Jc��ILIa�'J � _ b Ali Pti 2i1 7Pc�