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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-04-11, Page 6• 1, PAGB SIX ,SYNOPSIS: Young Ed. Maitland and io the hardened gambler Speed Malone be camp partners on the trip north to the Yukon gold fields in '97, -a hen word of the rich oreittliere first came down the Pacific coast. Maitland; son of a New England seafaring family, was determined to win back his lust family fortunes, Prenchy, the fisher- man who took him and Speed north; Lucky Roae, beautiful young woman who had given Maitland a ring for a keepsake; Fallon, trail boss to the miners,' .who resented Rose's attet- tions to Maitland; Steiner, the 111011uy lender; young Pete and his drunken partner Bill. Owens; Brent, old-time 'prospector; and Garnet, a well -to -do - modern one who hired .3faitland and Seepd to haul his stuff from the beach over the mountains to the Yukon — these were among the crowd that made up the gold seekers. At Liara- ville, a camp in the hills, Speed was made trail boss in Fallon's place, be- cause Speed insisted on closing the trail till it could be repaired. When a detachment of the Canadian North- west 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 re- . opened. Garnet went back to civili- zation for the winter leaving his pon- ies and equipment with Speed and Maitland. But the horses disappeared 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 ta him. She seemed to want him and Maitland to do something for her, but his unfriendliness held her off. How- . ever, she told him she had rescued his horses for him and that they were waiting outside. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY `We'll take the street," said Speed to Maitland,' more visible." The marbled thoroughfare, with its cross stripes of light, opened a chancy ;course before them when they turned -the bend. These alternating patches of light and darkness were an advant- age as well as a menace; they expos- ed the entrance of each- resort, while the' dark spaces between shielded their approach. When the sign of The Pack Train saloon appeared ahead, Speed's step became a little more measured. No figures loitered around this entrance; the noisy revel inside was apparently too engrossing. Light, streaming from chinks and seams in the canvas clearly illuminated the roadway, mak- ing it an unlikely spot for an ambush. They reached the outer radius of the light, entered it, and passed the low bright beam that issued front un- der the swing doors. Through shad- ows that flickered over the road from the shuffle of dancing feet, they mov- ed safely toward the margin of dark- 1 mess. "Which goes to show—" Speed be- e gan. But the :sentence was never s completed. , He stopped and wheeled with a sud- (leafless that brought the lead•bron- to's chest against his leg. Maitland 1 heard ,a double Crash; saw a brig flame atab .frotn Speed's gan. Som thing burned past his cheek. '11 asaloon door behind them was swin ing to and fro, throwing blinks light into the road, In the luininin poet' jest below it, a man lay . cram led with his face upturned. The lea ures were clearly legible. It was ti shell dealer they had seen at Liar viile. They were in shadow again an had gained the darkness of the tra before the street filled, for The Pac Train was a "last chance" saloo They joined a scattered line of pros pectors who had started on the nigh 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. Ovin- the fire, the outlaw sat in a long study. "I reckon that was a case," he said at. 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 he 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 him . . Like the girl said, the worst 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 how easy it is to get mistracked from, how wide my guess was about this one and the horses, thinkin' she wanted pay." "Do you think the gold secret she spoke of was just something she'd ova erheard while singing through the camp? Like her tip about the shell dealer?" Speed looked at him curiously. "Why would you guess she overheard a gold secret?" "I don't know," Maitland hesitated. "Something she said the first time I saw her. And then Owens losing his outfit when he was on his way to join a partner in the Yukon . . Do I magine, or does that tie together?" "It ties to her," Speed grunted. "Maybe nowheres else. Outfits are gambled and lost right along the trails without needin' a gold secret back of it. What you beard Owens say does- n't count for much. And. if this pros- pecter had a gold mine, why wouldn't he record it, thus endin' the secret? Another thing—I'd bank she wouldn't be that much interested. even in a gold nine. ,She comes by gold too easy." "Then what motive would she lave?" "'Motive?" Speeds mouth tighten - d. "You'd better not guess. Nothin' ets a man wonderin' like gold, and he best trick a woman has is to get -ou wonderin' till you go round her n circles. When she talks of puttin' ieads together, whose head do you e- g - of is t- il n. 1.1 T FASTE' WAY .,14 TO RELIEVE A COLD :41t.1 1. Take 2 Aspirin tablets. 2. Drink full glass of water. Repeat treatment in 2 hours. Discovery Bringing Almost Instant Relief to Millions Follow Simple Directions: When you have a cold, remember the simple treatment pictured here . . . prescribed by doctors as the quick, safe way. Results are amazing. Ache and dis- tress go immediately. Because of Aspirin's quick -disintegrating prop- erty, Aspirin "takes hold"— almost instantly. Your cold is relieved "quick as you caught it!" All you do is take Aspirin and drink plenty of water. Do this every - to 2 4 hours the first day—less often afterward . if throat is sore, the Aspirin gargle will ease it in as little as 2 minutes. Ask your doctor about this, And be sure you get ASPIRIN when you buy. 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,,kintited. 3. If throat is sorp, crush and silk • 3 Aspirin tablets in,a third of a glast of water and gargle. Thi,t eases Pleat:item:Stitt atitis throat almost instantly bOES Nor HAN 71-16 HEART ^ -^ IYINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES figure she's interested.in?, Maybe Fal- lon and me both cramp her ideas. She baits me with a gold lure fp:go trail - in' .him, and her other argument is plausible, It would surelybe a wise move to hunt Fallon down and settle that feud, I3ut not on Canadian ground. . that ain't Iter motive, it's just barely possible that she's workin' with Fallon to nail my pelt. Or else—" he concluded, less audibly, she's drawin' evidence for the Law. She's the most insidious woman I ever met, and I've known some bear - 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- ling sea of mountain peaks. To the east and below them, a gleam that followed this moving darkness chang- ed a sable wood to misty enchanted green, and glinted over the snoW-dust- ed surface of Summit Lake — first promise of their approach to the head- waters of the Yukon. The sky turned prayer as they descended, till it melt- ed in flakes that drifted around them like leaves, mantling their mud -stiff- ened clothes. • When the long strait of Windy Arm brought them into the wooded stillness of Lake Tagish, and they "The man wouldn't believe that I didn't have a gun notched for him." reached the lower end of this water- way, they came 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. "Just lookin' for timber and a place to cantp," said Speed. 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 make some wages, I Could give you a load of supplies to haul to Thirty Mile. One of our inspectors is camped there. He's taking Judge McGuire and the Crown Prosecutor to Dawson," Drew explained, as a pleas- ant conversational item. "The goods are to be delivered to him. No rush about 'it." ,Speed looked darkly at .his partner, who had a provident thought. With what lay behind them, it might be good politics to do the police a ser- vice. "We could leave our stuff here," Maitlandventured, "and prospect for a camp on the way." "That's an idea," said the inspector. "If you make your canto between here and Lebarge, you'll be in the line of Cathcart's patrol. Corporal Cathcart's, a new man. It'll be an event for hint to meet anyone along that lonely beat." "Does he use dogs?" Maitland ask- ed curiously. "No. Our dogs haven't arrived yet, Speaking of that, 'thou.g;h, Cathcart's very interested in the sled track of a mysterious Siwash. he's seen down' that way, If you should get a glimpse' of this lone Indian, you'll have excit- ing news for him." . "What makes the track a mystery?" Maitland inquired. "The fact that no one has ever had a clear view of the Siwash hiS team. This sounds odd, but it dates back to a time 'before our men enter- ed the territory—when a miner from the Polly brought in some gold. he claimed to have got from, an Indian in a stornt The snow, he said, was driving thick, and the native, whose face was muffled in a parka hood, spoke in Chinotalc, offering a potlatch al furs and nuggets eatehange for supplies. A gold legead grew from it, and wherever a 'tube was robbed, or ribbed by wolves a the vanishing In- dian \wasblatned. 41201r4,70. , Thursday, April 11 th, 193$; ,• ed, tapping oat his pipe , But 111 be getting your sled -load. ready." „Speed listened irt silence, his mind apparently less occupied With the in- spector's story than with:the peculiar circumstance of their making a haul for the police, The Snowfall continued in flurries as they sledded on toward Lake Le - barge, Between the canyon rapids and the Takhim they. passed a creek that cut into: the. left bank of the river. "It appealed to Speed as a sitefor a Winter camp. The timber around it MS good enough for cabin logs, a they could haul in the finer -grain wood they needed for the boat. • The solitude of the region remai ed unbroken. Feathering snow h erased the track of a patrolmai mount, which they bad noted occa Zonally. So, when they were retur ing to, the harses after a side excu sion to examine timber, Maitland w surprised to see his partner stop su denly and look down, as if he had d tected some mark on a blank rise s n otkr. The shape of these marks was n that of bootprints but of some mo casin-like foot 'covering. There wet other phantom dots and lines th suggested a sled track--unaccountabl to him. .Speed studied them with an absei intentness,, from which he was r called by a question from the othe "Must be the track of the Ion Siwash Drew's patrolman was curi ous about," he said, "Myster'ous, too because .there ain't any native settle meats in this region, and nothii much to bring a wanderin' Siwasl in," They made an uneventful trip dow the stretch of Lake Lebarge to th Lewes and delivered their consign rnent to the inspector in charge, wth out rneeting the other official person ages. Nor slid Speed show any desire to do so. He lost no time in getting rid of the order, and putting miles of lake ice between them ancethe 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 apart. They had been sep- arated in this way for some hours when Maitland became aware that it was turning dark. A wolf howl, weird in the distance, deepened it still more. Soine minutes later bis ears were stung to alertness 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 driz- zle, he discerned a dark lifeless bulk on the snow -blanketed ice. He found it to be a stray woodland caribou— he first he had ever seen. It had een dropPed by a clean head shot, nd its blood, still warm, stained the now. Speed's bullet had stolen a east from the timber wolves. In answer to his shout, his partner arise toward him out of the Shadow f a clump of cottonwoods. . "What were you looking for?" ask - d Maitland. d The other haan oddly abstracted ok and was still scanning the shore ne. "I must be getting mental," he aid. "I got a dim sight of this can- ou crossin' the river mouth, and had, shoot twice to stop it. Then it erred like 1—like somethin' else was owing in the timber." "Maybe a wolf was trailing the deer ou shot?" They put the deer on the sled and pt trailing till they camped in the alter of some timber above the riv- mouth When they had skinned the me and cleaned tip, darkneas had osed around them with a bitter ght cold, Maitland broken limbs om a fallen tree ,for the camp fire, die Speed was cooking caribou ears on, some wood coala. Releas-, g the axe for a moment to blow on s fingers, Maitland happened to ante across the river, and was ar- stecl by a yellow gleam from a dark, nking shape of far, t "There's your wolf,' he called to s partner. -, Speed gave another turn to, the eak he was browning. "That's no wolf," he muttered. "It's Siwash dog. And lame, Must 6f rayed from the team' of that dis- pearin' Indian. Or the Siwash cut loose." The cruelty of leaving, a lamed dog starve seemed extreme to ' Mait- d, But while the steaks were, cook- , Speed explaitied some harsher ex- ples of the law of survival in the OW country, The topic did not dull eir appetite. Having appeased it, 1 ey lolled in the fire's waamth. f Speed took a deep drag at a wan- • cn igarette and tossed the stub i fire, Then he get up and slec011Y etched his arms. As he did so, his es came suddenly and sharply. awake, . (Continued Next Week) ' " •%,4,0Q. A HEALTH SSRVICE 05 THS 'CANADIAN tvIZDICAL, ASSOCIATION ANO LIFE iNSURANCE COMPANIES "*"./ During the past year, the Health aa Service was asked by many corre .pondent,sfor in formation concernin the acid-forming foods'. It is .a signi a, icant fact that these people did no enquire about the alkaline • or base formingr foods. .Fo one reason or anpopularother, other, there is a popular fear of Wha is commonly tailed acidity or acid osii. VVIien foods are burned in the hod to produce heat, energy, etc., carboni e- acid gas is produced, which is elimin ated from the lungs. An ash is left which may he adid, alkaline, or neut ot ral. If the acid ash is in excess an this continues to pile up over a per iod of tirne, the alkalinity of the blood will be gradually reduced, and the condition known as acidosis results, The common symptoms of this form of acidosis are fatigue, headache, a sense of weakness, and pain in the muscles, with aloss of appetite, The symptoms are mild when the acidosis is mild, but if the acidosis progresses,' the symptoms become more severe, the -urine and the sw-eat being strong- ly acid. The condition, in a mild form at least, is fairly common among those who consistently use acid-form- ing foods to excess., The body does its best work on a balanced diet. To maintain liealth, the diet must be reasonably balanced in all ways, including the acid and alka- line foods. A continued excess of acid forming foods leads, as, has been said, to acidosis, while an alkalosis, which is just as much to be avoided, will follow upon a diet that is excessive in its alkaline content. ' it is not a question of one or oth- er food being a good food; it is rath- er that an excess of any one kind of. food is undesirable and may actually be harmful or dangerous. Meat, fish, eggs, bread and other cereals are acid-forming foods. The alkaline foods are vegetables, except- ing rhubarb; fruits ,excepting plum, cherries, cranberries and prunes; al- monds; and milk. Fat foods, such as buttero-cream and lard, together with sugar and starch, and the fats of meat, fish and fowl are neutral foods. s - ft. y c d- ad 5- xi- r - as a_ at c- -e at y it e- r. n t b a f c 0 e 10 11 b to se 111 y ke sh er ga el ni ft' tgl itt hi gi re sli hi s t a st ap it to Ian ing Sri th th in the str ey "Yotell never get that dog to obey you." "It only needs patience, My bus - 'Interesting eat' Drew conclud-, band was difficult at first." It is not necessary to become faddy witir regard to diet to .secure the bal- ance which is essential to good health and physical fitness. To the diet of meat, bread and other cereals, add lib- eral amounts of fruits, 'vegetables and SPENDS FIVE YEARS IN ART1C Successful in his task of driving. 3,000 reindeer from Alaska to the ,Mackenzie delta, Andy Bahr, right, Laplander from Seattle, Wash., is seen as he arrived at Edmonton air- port after five years in the Arctic- - wastes. On the left is Dan Crowley,. field supervisor of the Lomeli Rein- deer 'Company, Bahr delivered 2,370, of the 3,000 reindeer at the Domin- ion Government farm, milk; this will assure the balance. There are other reasons why fruits, vegetables and milk should be used every day; they are the protective foods which guard against lack of minerals and vitamins as well as against an excess of acidity. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. • A Preference for Peaches Canada peaches, canned and other- wise, are favourites in the Dominion and in the British Isles, but unfortun- ately in Canada there are also un- friendly consumers -vith a predilection for this delicious. fruit: These con- sumers are insect enemies, some of which are not so apparent as others, For •example, the experience a the past decade at the 'Dominion Entom- ological laboratory .at Vineland sta- tion; Ontario, has demonstratedvery clearly, add at 'considerable cost to Niagara fruitgrowers, that peach trees should not be grciwn in the immedi- ate vicinity of oak or hickory -trees. The adults of three species of oak and hickory plant bugs which breed and feed on these forest trees have the nes farious habit of migrating in June to nearby peach trees. They puncture - and feed on the fsuit, causing gum to. exude and giving rise to ugly scars. The peaches are rendered unsaleable._ Bug -scarred friut has been' found as. far a.s200 yards from oaks and hick-. ory, but invariably the injury has been most severe in the immediate - neighbourhood of the oak and hick- ory trees. Then there is the tarnish- ed plant bug which is by far the most injuriosu pest of peach nursery stock. In late June and early July thee bugs- apPear in destructive numbers, punc- turing and destroying the terminat buds. This causes "stop -back" injury,, resulting in the production of infer- ior, stunted and bushy trees. A sentence in a handbook of "lJse- ful Russian Phrases for the Tourist" runs: "Good heavens! Our postilions has been struck by lightning." This. reminds us of an old French exer- cise book which contained the follow- ing remarkable sentence: "My little. • dog has beautiful hair, but I cannot eat this greasy soup." • Professional Directory 1 J. W. 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