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The Wingham Advance Times, 1935-03-14, Page 6PA SIX SYNOi SIS:•On the old side-wheel- er "George E. Starr," on its way to the Yukon gold fields in the first rush of '97,Speed Malone, experienced gold -camp full OWel' and gambler, and Maung Ed, Maitland, on his first trip, trying to recoup tris ' lost fancily for- tune, struck up a strange friendship. Maitland left Speed playing Solo with two other men and wandered• for- ward, to be sharply, recalled by the report of a Pistol and the news that his partner had been shot and bad gone overboard. Ed jumped in after him,: without second thought. But the cold Waters got him, and in the end it was .Speed who did the rescuing, holding Ed's head above water until they were taken aboard a little boat by a French fisherman from Seattle. Maitland, knowing the sea, took charge of the little boat when they persuaded I±ren•ehy to take tltern to Skagway. After a bard journey they reached Skagway where they find a ship unloading miners and horses. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. Speed merely nodded when told of the failure of his quest. "What happened at Steiner's?" Maitland asked. ' It seemed that Frenchy and the Jew had formed a partnership, to etart a hauling business from Skag- waY with the horses and boat for capital. With a glance at the clouds Speed , suggested that it was going to rain, and he would do a "sketch round" "Whether I would or r "my partner wouldn't, 'He doesn't know what the stake Ruse countered: ".01,11e goingoing North to look fur gold. 1 can put it •in your way in erne throw. There's n fool in camp who's due to lose a gold mine—one that isn't his to Iose. I can't tell you any•more • just tow, except that the genie is worth the risk. You're running some risks any- way as drifters in a camp where you have made an enemy of the range boss." He -could slake little of that, ex- cept to wonder if Tallon was involv- ed in the mysterious ,gcu1d secret she spoke of. And, while their hands were tangled, she drew a'ring front ane of hers and: slipped it mischievously on the tip of his little finger. At that moment a thud oe the wharf above then iroie •them both. A dark figure loomed with a bulky menace in the dark. Maitland first thought of ballon, but a flare from the fire revealed an apparition much Blore disturbing to hint just then. Speed's apparent size was due to a roll of blankets on his shoulder. The outlaw came down the sand. and dropped his burden near the fire, still regarding the girl. After a nto- nient he walked over to the horse and held the stirrup for her, with a ges- ture that was polite but implacable. She waited before mounting, return- ing- his stare with a look of interest. tot," he said ,, WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES , curious about a wothan means flirtin' twirls the ,rlt.urzles of pair of 'forty - fours, Which is the bore of -the guns that start talkie.' when you ramble in- to Failon's private ;grove, and make it 'Lady,' he said, pointing north, "up there is All -Alaska and the Yukon Territory. If that ain't a big enoull three -handed," Maitland- Wakened shivering in. the half-darkness: Tile- gulf was smudg- ed in a fine rain that steamed dis- mally over the riffled sands left bare by the ebb tide. Speed's blankets were rolled up, and 'a pile of drift- wood lay :ready for their breakfast fire. Annoyed at -.himself -for having slept while his partner was hunting a job, Ed, washed ie a tide pool, and went up to look for Itin2, •J He learned that Steiner had offered to sell Garnet his pintos. Garnet promptly closed with hitt' at the price of four hundred dollars for the :leant, and engaged the two partners to haul for Itilu at the wages Speed had first. panted. This swift adjustment had all the effect of a rnircle to Maitland, but the I 'Westerner accepted it as a simple;. caprice of the goddess who presides s been hearingg source bad rumors abut. it." His misgivings did not weigh, o their nlinds.at first, They set out'o this excursion in the light-liearte mood conferred by a scrubbing, shave, at good breakfast and niornin sunii ht, Avoiding the camp, they crossed river: bridge, and fruni titer e, by steep and broken track which th Pack animalsof earlier comer ha t phut, an 0 tt. d a a a d scarred out, climbed into some moun- tain ravines that hegan to reek with a mephitic' odor of death. The sham- bles became more ghastly as they climbed. In the dips of the :so-called "trail", a series of quagmires had been e••nlarg- cd to small thud lakes by the wear of successive hooves around the rim. The swollen carcasses of dead horses in muskegs and sloughs. On sheer mountain sides the trail dwindled in places to a cattle, track, and its haz- ards to burdened horses and men, were grinlly'proved by the relics that lay in the canyon troughs., .Some travelers who appeared til have lost their horses, were strug- gling to. hand -haul ' their packs through a wallow not 11101'e than a stile above Liarsville. It was all the progress they had been able to snake ince morning•. Others, incredibly over mining camps. Nor was Steiner visibly troubled by the change in his plans, "Gold is where you find it, ain't it? If they put it in my hands, I don't. need a shovel, do I? Let the saps dig for it." "Reckon that isn't so foolish neith- er," Speed concurred. * k * The pack train had been tugging, cursing, halting and sliding for hours in a disjointed snake -line up the gray - for some blankets While his partner eled river canyon, through a drizzling humin range for you and me and my was drying out. rain that soaked the lashings and sl , pardner to keels untangled in, its too shoulder straps,crit flesh to the raw, Plot an hour of so after he had daulnu1 bats. slut v\lien I ass a t plastered with mud, and bearing the, wan stamp of defeat in their faces, were backtrailing toward camp. These were trail veterans who took ordinary hardship with a :smile. Plainly, ane look at it would be enough for Garnet. As they stood considering the dis- nal 'prospect, they were joined by a Tan whom they recognized through isguising mud' smears as the old - 11 cl time prospector, Brent. "Pretty, ain't it," Brent conunc'nt- ed, spitting tobacco juice into the ought, P "It would loch a here better " said , CAU o gone; Maitland sat pondering over the yet the Hell out of our campT meanchanted gravel to thud, and With the Speed, thoughtfully, "if the camp got fire. From this abstraction he was_ray aur." churn of hundreds of hooves among ;together and graded a trail, A few roused by a slight crunching sound in , Her laugh was a rip Jlle e;f si)..)ntttrl- the' gravel, and glanced up almost ab- sently at the shape of 0 horse lined in fiery lines again the dark. An up- ward alt tt front the fire lighted a woman",s face. tt'llieh- 10.1 SWIM.' t.' re- nienlber. 1'hen a low., musical laugh ave body to lac vision. •i•.,,d up, still halt i' canning, aB ale pulled herr horse tinder the ,ha,l- a,tw ..f the v, hart'. Her dark ects mask- ed with a Nit er:rot Iiulrt . ',out,. caprice 3,e could not fiat;, tit. A' . ert ;1.•e seat - ad a;(rse if on a fallen Mout' timber, leaving 0 space tiesi,h t,er in word- less itres-1 s, invitation, Ate obeyed, without knot -tile. that lie diel so. "Meet lady Luck," elle said, and til his ce,utpl •:e Stiil,eftctl, n, tn:'10 his head Pteerd stet and kis-eel 1111 lit lits} o0' tite mouth •'V..n !ea, 1001Ie, ,utiles", ltoitc.lering 1cP,1i i like,' he`I~ahlaiired. "1)f 1r31c1llg �:r,tnrr!sir. cous music. She mounted easily, and blotting back at Maitland, touched her 11 finee.rs to her lips. The horse hove- t es e.ri,und softly in the sant. and she +vanished. Slmc'd titraw a fresh log on the Fire, i kali!. after kicking: it into flame, he 'drew from his pocket 0 net, bag- ,of Durham, rolled a cigarette and lit it with a brand rr"nt the fire. •'`Centa like alaie halt (tartlet '110'. t.� Bate lde," nbaereed at last, ``incl 1 ; tt hi.t he don't knew about eeliin' a ,.pant „f ,leuet•-' ekes ns the 1onehos and stite+kel�•': Maitland. scare, ly heard tait, I Ie halt:-e'•pe7Teel his hand to Ivok at Rose's. 1 i rink:, inn slim it again <Itlittle-I3, as if ' .h,, ue•re holding it twitch's bond. •�+' .' e,4¢.. I' It ware not until they turned in that ` 1 Bisects alluded to the :subjeet that i troubled hire. -From where 1 eel that ke ete; iriftits;; away. l.nck's been Bassin!;. y'n, t.,,,, so 1't•e ,lCcis[ed t,! give yt yet a break--- if a altos tl. 1)o you?" -11re murmured, with 13 melt- ing fall in her is1ire that drained iii' bia»i• Her lips le-va:red cleat: to this; tier hair almost i,reshetl hie face with a tingling lure that took his breath. Appalled at t hat he hard almost done, he held her eruslleci fingers be- tween Itis hand, till he, could win bark some tleeree of sense, "1 think it tVouli. be safer," he .pleaders, "1,be unlucky." She looked at him with an tnoddly shadowed, reflective senile, as if the scruple intricued her, or be had brushed slue rltord of memory. a` uppal,Cthe yue and your parleer an .attflt, a jt,b and a big stake in the 1 tllcnn, 1weeld you trust your heck?" 'f0Wnaethd plan; atl meb- by a sheore av others, if annybody cud tutdherslttand titian, but the faith i 111)t very. starting in unity rev thillt new fallgled iloshttlls, 11ie Own .rets+ P01'ee to young ]lh'ie1 is fer Odin to wurl'uk barred, - 1411 save theer 01011ey,. an vote wid the Tory parthy,, an. not be afther hilpin thim Grits to git the rennin' rev rings fer thin, iftoimes shud improve, they will be afther tak- in all the cridit to lhllnitilves. 111033(111 as well say that the crows bring the sbprint;-vtweather, an shtai-t the sap rennin, as to say that thins Grits bring the good toimes that al- ways same to come whinlvir they git into power. 'Tia iI� an iinproveilzint in the huildin tirades the bade to shtart tings groin agin. Whin we wus bufidin railroads, an. banks, an inshtuance awfices, an armories, an Posht Awfices, an bar - runs an houses all over .the country, ivirybody who wanted wurruk cud git it, an us Gold retairect gintlemin cud lied out our money at a good rate av intrust, but now the 'oidea sanies to be to ;pail delve bundles, an rejuce the rate av'intrust, Avid the result that theer is very little wurr'uk. arr motley fer annybody. Av coorse toimss will improve some toinne, but I wudden't adyooise Mish ter 13innitt an Mishter Guthrie to say whin, fer,, shure, they made a bad guess lasht toinie. If ye don't prawm- ise annyting the Grits can't trow it up to ye whin tings don't turn out as ye ixpickted, Yours till afther St. `Pathrick's Day, Timothy Hay Proposed jam Marketing Scheme • A proposed scheme for the regula- tion of the marketing of, jams, jellies and .niarnialades produced and rear keted Within' the Dominion of Canada, has; been -submitted to the Dominion Marketing 13.oard and is still subject to amendment. Copies of the scheme Inay be obtained from the Secretary, Dominion Marketing .:Board, Ottawa, to'whom representations niay be made concerning it. A, the situation with respect to the marketing .rf jam is one that requires immediate action, ally representations will have to be made without delay. 64th Wedding Anniversary Surrounded •by several score of children, ;grandchildren and great- grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph rook, of leburn, three utile.; north of Godcrich, observed the sixty-fourth anniversary of their wedding. ilott? in their eighties, they have lived for fif- ty-two years on the h10011teatd in Col- borne Township, 071. the Lake Shore Road. Both are natives of G dericli Township, -however, and were lnarriecl at Clinton, Mr. Cook's parents came from from Edinburgh, Scotland, anti Thursday, March 14th, I9J MEISNER ON WAY TO PENITENTIARY David Meisner, off for Kingston to john S. Labatt, takes his breakfast', serve 15 years for the kidnapping. of handcuffed, during a halt of theft traia, Mrs. Cook, formerly Matilda Potter, jail his life. There are eight children from England. Both are pioneer fam- no fewer than seventy grandchildren. y ilies. lir. Cook has farmed virtuall , and fifteen -grE , Meat h2.tndchildi'en.• CHEVROLETa /2 I TON TRUCKWIT H STAKE BODY Chevrolet's truck Iine for 193,5 T1ro_ vides their half -tin and ,ane -and -a -half tort models witha more po\ti'erful en= gine deevIcljring greater torque, 'In- t creasing the horsepower to 70 and the mastiluiun torque sustained from 800 to 1800 r„p.m. to 152 feet pounds', pr•i1- vides power .plant reserve' rapablt of maintaining efficient and prompt ,le - livery service in urban area:, grits at the ;ante tithe ineet5 every=Coln1 leti- tire Stralin of speedy inter -City hinnil- , i rl . The 1935 maple Leal two -ton "truck ;in addition to more powerful engirt !has hydraulic brakes throughout th entire line. A neve impressive: radiatetr ,'grill is surmounted by. the new Maple , Leaf emblem and. trade mark. Tlhe:. two wheeibasc lengths have 'beers revised to 141 MO and 165 aitch:. Freedom fretnl rear end ;train are off - , ;sea by aye inctrrporatirnt of a iuAr :floating rear axle: . the 11 este reer observed musingly, :: = ,?: .. ° • D;� M.. _. - "which is l skin' at the sky—this roan hall•,n listens like four good ares to I !heat, if not fit's'. Idis ltavitt' traces of i catarn•,u131 and t'urly wolf in his pea - !arta:, 1 don't question. 13ut he's gut iltnc•thin' else that makes a bunch 01 'hard -rock, hard -in, u.1.h miners answer his jerk line, A. quick stand, a cool head, and enough ornery guts to 'swing a span of Nevada mules thru the gates of Hell, if hint and Satan had a feted. Offhand, I'd reckon that crossin' that man in any gatrte - was i a kind of Bair -line play,' "What's his sequence with the tvo- tman 1 don't just -.get. Maybe none, ;you think. But it looks to me like a young buck, say front Boston, would `kind of regret haviu' his grave dug for him this side of the ' summit, t11r+,ugh not suspectin' \t'heil gettin' SCIS IBIS FIND FASTER WAY RU'tE COLDS 2 Asp arr n Tablets 1 Drink full glass of water. Repeat treatment in 2 hours., df throat is sore, crush and stir 3 Aspirin Tablets in a third of a mass of water and gargle..'fhis east's the soreness in your throat iflmst instantly. , Ache and Discomfort Eased Almost Instantly Now When you have a cold, remember the simple treatment pictured here' prescribed by doctors everywhere to- day as the quick, safe way. Because of Aspirin's quick -disinte- grating property, Aspirin "Lakes hold"- almost instantly. Just take Aspirin and drink plenty of water . .'. every 2 to 4 hours t11e first day --:less often afterward :. , If throat is sore, use the Aspirin gargle. But be sure you get ASPIRIN, It is made in Canada and all druggists have it. Look for the name Bayer in the form of a cross on every Aspirin Tablet. ,Aspirin is the trade mark of the Bayer Company, Litnited, DOES Nlbr HARM' THE HEART An upward glow from the 'tree slippery wrack of cotton -wood. i made footing almost impossible. By the order of the trail, prospect ors ntove4 their outfits in relays, In diad file, travelling as far uptrail a they could between Midnight and 0n .in the afternoon, there to Bache ihei parks and return, during the remain in0 hours, for other loads, Csarnct's outfit was an odd vita, un- encumbered by mining tools nr iristru merits, ts, r by any special equipmentthat. might give a due to his purpose in the: :worth, It was rather like the outfit a rich mart might have chosen ra long camping tour, 31301/07 this was not a journey which anyone would be likely to undertake for ins pleasure or health. Two J, 410e' rifles arils rods, however, "showed that 111 hoped for some diversion by the way. At last a ring of axes, pans and voices floated up from a mountain hollow through the rain. The trail dipped down toward a camp, which was pleasantly announced by the ar- oma of coffee and of wet pine burn- ing. urn 111 g. Tethering the horses under some dripping boughs,' where the needles spread a carpet free froi'n nlnd, Speed unmade the; packs. "Belly tip to tare bar for some close ,harmony, co wpanels," he sang out cheerily. "We've Int 'the camp of L ia:raville." Garnet stood bowed under his load and asked in a spent. voice bow far they had come. Speed swallowed his chuckles, The distance was said to be five miles."Maybe," he added as an encourage- ment, "they call it `Liarsvill ore' in nienl- y of whoever said it was five miles? Garnet showed so little interest in continuing his travels after iunch that they left -him . it camp to rest, and brought up another load on the night ,trail from Skagway, for the. moral effect of getting the outfit welt started. Garnet was in his blankets when they returned, "Tari going to sleep till noon, bays," he said, next morn. big, "if you feel so energetic, have a bras at Iho trail above here. I've fire lighted a woman's face. �, few days' work v 0111 rurdurcn t11e11 nmskcgs," "Just what f told '011)," Brevet - nodded. s "Who's. against it?" c "hallon's outfit: He claims we r.can't reach Bennett before the freeze- - up if we strop to make e trail. .It's tough on the boy, who're Short of horses. The wayy he sees 11, It titc'ir _ hard tuck. ?\ stampede is 0 'stampede, says the trail boss."' "FaI1on's got guts but I don't steep to like: 'ens, someway; said Speed. (Continued Next Week) TIM DOESN'T SEE MUCH IMPROVEMENT 1'n the :hiditut rev all thin)_ Winglttiln payp0rs. Deer Saga-- 1 hate to be always growlin, set I do, but, shute, a fella]] wits a lance balk can't always look on the broight soide rev- tings, but mebby it is a good ()idea fer some 31011 t0 shtir tings up, wa1iee in a whoile, arr notlli11 twee be done whin tines go wrong. Y is, matthcrs are not afther showin much inlprovenlint in the 'cotulthry, vvtd thim klipburnoites havin tings ale 111001' own way down m . oronto, alt Mishter .i3innitt at home sick, an IVIislrter Stevens throyin to shlving the Tory ;earthy further an further to the lift, all targe Shpotton bean called. down be the Moi1trcal Witness fer his Toronto Spaieh, an tousanda av min out av wurruk, reit naosllt ivirybody out av money, barrin paypte : olid sal - erica arr pinshuns. Some fcllahs do be throyin to make thimsilves belave that the eleprisl1un will, s0011 be oven, but I can't figger it ottt that way m:esitf, iatcipt be ray - son rev the fact that the ;eouldest hours av the noight are ji.st bcfoor dayloight.. 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