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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-05-30, Page 6AGI SI . .WINNpHAM ADV ANCE-TIM:3S "In Nevada the . women in the ' watched the trails. The same hope i g wasn'twas in their minds though their r -ea - saloon told me my fingering wa , sog, guitar took the guitar and showed me, .That interested me a 1ut.I ask- ed her to have supper with nee. "She had sung in the camps in the Seventies, e i s when ruining was a big t -game on both sides of the Sierras. In Placerville, on the Calfornia side, she had met a young adventurer named Dalton. She took him at first to be a propector, but he slid prospect to some extent. But a little later, when she became his sweetheart, she learn- ed that he often took the road with a route agent be called Reeves They worked the mountain passes, holding up pack trains and wagon shipments of gold till the country got too hut was Dalton—wham she'd nev- for them, and they .disappeared. way. It __^didn't last er expected to see again. He'd prob- So May's love affair ablylearned she was married to the long. I gathered it was she: who did most of the loving. Dalton was a swaggering young rascal, with a lot of life and good looks, and no heart to speak of. It was that, ,I think, that attracted her. She was used to being tourted. "After Dalton left her she had a baby girl. Wether it was his or not, she didn't know for certain. She'd known him that short a time. It in- terfered with her work, so she sent it away to be cared for, shut it out c of her life and forgot about it, as she tried to forget about Dalton. "Then she met a rancher named Owens, who was taking up agrazing claim on the Nevada side, south of the Carson Valley. So she. married Owens, and went with him to Nevada, to settle down and be a faithful wife. "Her marriage to Owens was un- happy. He was ungenerous and un- sociable --almost a miser. The ranch was a day's journey from any neigh- bor. No one, hardly, came near it. He was jealous of that old life of her—had suspected, when he married her, what it had been. He worked the ranch himself, so there was no one to talk to but him, and he didn't, talk, "One night in summer, when Ow- ens had watered the stock and she was watching him .for the umptieth time draw a lamp alongside the table, €i.N the wick' and read rogue month-old cl,ewspaliers, she heard a faint taipping on the door. She opened it, and there stood a visitor. For her! "A little visitor about three years old, and small for her age, with a cute, solemn baby face, and wet eyes blinking in the lamplight, looking lost. " 'Nice mans said you know where is my Daddy," "The woman gave a smothered cry and gathered the child hungrily in her arms, not asking yet how nor why it had come there. "Owens lit a lantern to go out and see who had brought the.little one, to the door. The rider was out of ear- shot now, but on the porch was a sack of gold and a note saying, 'This baby. wandered off a train during a bold -up. Keep her till the posse com. es looking: for her. The gold is from the robbed train, and is yourn if you want pay for your trouble.' "That• was all. The rest they tried to piece together from what they could make of the child's talk. sons for hoping were far apart. "Several dayspassed with no sign of the posse, Finally Owens made a trip to the nearest freight station to get the news. in his absence, the wo- man started making a little suit of overalls for the girl. 'Toward sundown she went into, the barn to look for eggs for the baby's supper_ While she was groping for nests in the hay, she caught hold of a man's boot. She didn't scream. The first thought that flashed through her mind was that this was the man who'd brought the child and the gold. "But the man sat up and smiled ,at her, and then her knees almost gave rancher, and had counted on her help- ing him if it came to that. „ "It was his turn to be surprised when she spoke about the child and the gold. He hadn't had anything to do with leaving them there. But af- ter thinking it over, he told her how it must have happened. "He and the man he called Reeves She didn't scream, ails. JustafkerStl •yhaddone thus rash thing, Owens came in that night with the news. The posse seemed to have lost the trail of all three of the fugi- tives, but the father of the missing child had been killed in the hold-up, and -worse than that—was a United States marshal," "The man in the barn had plenty of time to take stock of Owens' charac- ter and of his own position. As the pursiut died away and no word came from Reeves, Dalton realized that his partner had deserted him. He had al- so done some thinking about the way the posse had been mistracked. "Daltonproposed staying at the ranch , as a hired man until the trail was cold, and callinghimself the fath- er of the little 'boy.' The very daring of the scheme would protect them. "Though the police had given up hope of finding the lost child, there was no slacking in the hunt for the three road agents involved in the kill- ing of the Federal, marshal, and Dal- ton knew that there would be none. "Deciding to leave the country, he demanded -a grubstake from Owens,. to take him prospecting in the North. The rancher grudged the money., but was anxious to ,get rid of him. "Owens' jealousy got worse after the man was ®,gone. In his brooding rages, he spoke of Dalton's willing- ness to appear as the child's father as if that were a deeper sign of un- derstanding between them. His fury drove him to charges that mayhave bordered on a truthhe didn't know. "He gave her such a terrible'time that finally slie left him and her adopted baby, and went back to her. old life, where I found her, in the dregs of it. "Some years later I came into Car- son City, just before the rumor broke about the big gold strike in the North. And there the thing happened that be- gins to tie this up with—" Fallon, twisting in his chair, caught her eyes now, squarely. "You don't dare—!" he blurted out with a dark menace. "Do you dare threaten a witness in Her Majesty's Court?". Judge Dugas demanded. Muttering something, Fallon bit his had been waiting by a lonely stretch tongue and waited. "I was crossing a planked side- walk," continued Rose, "when I al- most bumped into a man stepping down from the porch of the Nevada Hotel. His face came back to me ov- er a vera long gap of time as well as dis-, tance. He'd changed some. I passed found her, Reeves wanted to leave her Itim blank. there. They split on that; the man "We met again in. 'a place when with the bay horse picked her up and I sang, and he invited- me to drink HE FELT MISERABLE AFTER MEALS Acute Indigestion Relieved by Nruschen The treatment which put this main right must surely be worth trying in 'every case of indigestion. " Read what lie says;' -- "Two years ago I ' suffered very much from indigestion, loss of appe- tite; and ;a most severe pain iii my back, Food soured in my stomach. I felt .most miserable after meals, and had,no desire or appetite for thein. A friend advised me to try Kruschen Salts.: 1 did so, and I ant. most happy to testify :that after a short time I felt, the greatest relief. I continued taking Kruschen till I felt myself quite better and a new man. I feel as light-hearted as I did twenty years. ago."—W. 13. What Krusehen did for him it will do for everybody else who suffers from indigestion as he did, The fact is that "the Iittle daily dose".of Kre- schen first stimulates, the flow of gas- tric juices to .aid digestion, and then ensures a complete, regular and un- failing elimination of all waste matter every day. of. railway track in the desert to stop a_pay train, when a stranger on a bay horse rode by the place where they were hiding. He looked like a good gun hand, and they cut him in. Dur- ing the hold-up the child strayed off the train. When it pulled out and they rode south alone, with his share of the loot. Dalton believed he had hap- pened on Owen's ranch by letting his horse hunt water. "The other two struck west for the mountains. Dalton's horse had gone lame, and Reeves took all the gold on his mount to lighten its weight. But it still lagged and when the posse caught their trail, Reeves was far ahead and kept going. Dalton left the lamed horse on some rocky ground, so he would seem to have gone on with Reeves, riding double, and after several days trailing on fbot "For hours Owens pored over that by a roundabout way, came to Owens' mote and over, the gold, handling it, ranch. counting it . . And the woman was "As to the child, Dalton thdleght yearning over the treasure in her it was a bad break to find her the4,. arms. Suppose, by some great chance, but he encouraged May's desire to it was never claimed? keep her—since giving her up would "Neither of them slept that night, ruin his hideout. So the baby had its and 'the next day they waited and hair cut, as well as being put in over something. I did, because it was ra- ther ather funny to talk to a man who'd tricked me with April Fool candy the wayhe'd done and not be remember- ed. "So . I said, 'Your face looks kind of familiar. Haven't I seen it tacked up in the post office or somewhere?" "He almost jumped. I hadn't had a notice how• near the truth a reward postee might be. When I smiled he gave a laugh that sounded flat. "You've got the start on me, baby,' he said, patting my hand. 'The near- est I ever come to imaginin' you was a food kid I met in Frisco. You're pretty wise and you've been around. Maybe as a woman, you can answer. a question that got me curious once. It just come into my mind. Do you believe a girl could be brought up as a.boy without anyone on the outside guessin' it?" LAVAL MEETS LITVINOFF Foreign Minister Pierre T anal of Prance (L`CFT) pictured with For- eign Coini'ttissar al%fxtiin Litvinoff, fol- lowing his recent arrival in itloscow, where he was accorded ore; of the most enthusiastic reception ever given a visiting diplomat. They conferred shortly afterward„ on the possibilities of extending the new Franco -Soviet co-tseratinit to other countries of ease " 'It depends on the girl and the surroundings,' I said, still not suspect- ing anything in particular. 'I think it could happen, but I wouldn't bet on a particular case without seeing theboy you'tsuppose to be a girl." " 'Well, you'll never see him,' Fal- lon said, a little too offhand. 'It just come into my mind.' "He started his meaningless love- making again and I left him. "What he'd said chimed with some- thing else in my memory. Though I didn't recall right at first what it was, I kept looking as I played the camp for a boy whomight not be so boy- ish excepf for the clothes. The only one I noticed was a boy with gold hair. He didn't look girlish—wbre his clothes, I"mean, as if he had a right to them. But it struck me that.I could. have dressed him up 'as a stunning girl and it was a crime to see hair like that wasted on a boy. He was with an older, whisky -faced man I'd never seen in the camps before, and whose name I learne to be Owens. The man was buying an outfit to go to Alaska. Owensare uncommon, but it was the name of the rancher May had married ,and with that I remembered, in a shock of understanding, that the child left at the ranch house had had blonde hair and had been dressed as a boy: "Dalton had gone North. Owens had staked him. A man like May's Owens wouldn't make that trip with- out a solid lead to go on. I remem- bered his passion for gold. Dalton must have made a strike and sent for him. "Certain this was the same man, I wondered how. much Fallon had guessed. Maybe he had just suspected a girl in boy's clothes and was curious about it. She was young and innocent and he like thein that way. Her name, 'Pete' was as boy -like as 'possible, but since it didn't fit her appearance, it was a kind of give-away." The chortling voice of the river rippled through the -silence as Rose paused. Speed leaned on the bar of the prisoner's dock, intently watching her across the red -coated shoulder of the police gourd. Fallon half -reclined in his chair, in a smouldering silence -the sheathed fire of one who holds a final answer in reserve. "That same night, the big Yukon news,came down on the wires from Seattle. Prospectors who had been waiting and ready were pulling stakes for San Francisco and the first steam- ers. Owens beat the gun by starting ahead of them and showed that he'd had a definite lead on something. "I caught a train for Seattle, and overtook Fallon's steamer there. He was wary enough to keep Owens out of my way. Pete avoided ins of her own accord. My talking to Fallon may have given her the idea I was a friend of his, and she mistrusted hini by instinct. • "Fallon started the.rancher Owens drinking and gambling—a first sign that he had guessed true about the gold. That it was true, I made sure in a more direct way." Wade rose to object. "Your .:Honor,," he Said, "I have lis- tened to the _witness's vivid story without offering an objection till now. I feel it my duty, as counsel for, the Crown, to 'object to it as theoretical and move that it be thrown out." Judge Dttgas looked reflectively at Rose. "How did you prove, Miss Val cry, that there was a gold mine at stairs?" (Concluded Next 'Week) Thursday, May 30th, 1935 ....o},.u.on,.wp�.n�.➢.c+.'T, r�M�►Mw►u....n.�,.�►.•.•o�.,eA�.+t �. TOE AI BY "ETHERiTE" (j.ru.a., �..m„o onwn•►noo.ou.r.our+t+io...<,�w,�vd�wa.o.,wa.w■.u.r►� o - Charles ;Jennings, the Canadian Radio 'Commission'sannouncer cle luxe, better. known as the Toronto. weather reporter" to a multitude of listeners, and just plain "Chas" to his friends, settled .down comfortably in his chair, crossed his legs, flicked the ash from his cigarette, and blunt- ly said: "Go aheadt" I did. And this is what I discover- ed about the man who has so impress- ed the radio listening public, turned down several flattering offers to join foreign stations, and who ran a close second to Jimmie Wallington in a popularity contest recently conducted, ina. western Canada newspaper. Beyond all doubt Canada's- most popular radia announcer, "Chas" Jen- nings is a six-footer who fairly rad- iates personality and impresses one as a human dynamo of wit and energy. eo to 3 e '. a t 3J•gt h .1,7 with the Radio Commission, and has since flown over almost all the explor- ed territory of Canada in the course of various interesting and exciting as. signments. Notable among these was a trip to announce the arrival of the R100, the arrival,of the Empress of Britain on her trip up the St. Law-' rence River, and • the arrival .of the Italian fleet under Italo Balbo. "Chas" has been guest announcer. at several opening ceremonies in large American stations. In Canada he an- nounced the first broadcast of the op- ening of parliament, besides anntutoc- ing• many of the more important "big news" events in the Dominion during recent years$ At present he is heard on the Canadian Press news broad- casts over the Commisson's stations each night at 10,00 o'clock EST, from Toronto. Not, a few times has he gone with- out food, because of the high-pressure nature of his work,,even 'though an Charles Jennings He started out in this mad world with a bang—and he'll probably end up the same way. "Chas" says but little about his ac- ademic career, except to admit that he was a restless bounder while at- tending the North Toronto High School, and, certainly, Trinity College. He enrolled in an Arts course but half way through he wandered into a Tor- onto newspaper office and got a job. Then he strayed into a broadcasting studio one day—and stayed there. In 1929 he got" a job as 'announcer for CKGW, went to New York for a while where he established a broad- casting bureau; got restless again, and came home. "I was welcomed home,". added "Chas" with .a chuckle, "with open arms—by my creditors." Upon his return he threw, in his lot tern Europe and of plans kr potting into effect, if need ba, the .Franco- Russian mutual assistance pact re- cently signed. 11/121111, is attached to the announcing staff at CRCO (Ottawa) played one of the htt;portant roles in "la nnocents," which, won the i3essborough Trophy, Edgar Stone, director of the Commis- sion's "Opening' Nights" programs from. Toronto, present the winning English play, "'The Poacher," done by members of the Arts and Letters Club While it is still a long way off, we want to be among the first to an- nounce . that Ernest Bushnell has ar- ranged for a 15, minute piano recital,. on June 16, by Ursula Malkin, of Van- couver. Miss Malkin is considered one: of the most brilliant of present day- pianists. aypianists. We recommend this program . Russ Gerow, the Coininission's young conductor -arranger -pianist who, is featured in the "Say It: With Mus- ic" presentations, from London, takes, 70 seconds flat to pound : out 1,286 notes according to statistical reports: that have just reached us. Who did.' the counting, we don't know, but we are sure that if there were such a. tiling as a law against musical speed- ' ing, Russ would be looking throguh: the bars of the old "calaboose." * * * ROMANCE PERMEATES DINNER HOUR On Monday, June ,8, at 6.00 pan: EST, Samuel Hersenhoren, conduct - up -to -date cafeteria has been within ing his instrumental 'quintet, will con - 200 yards distance. "Chas" nonchal- antly "clowned" his way through in- tense "mike fight" and once or twice he has been caught• saying saucy things when he presumed he was off the air, But as chief announcer for the Canadian Radio Commission in Toronto for nearly two years he has grown to take his work very seriously although not himself. "Chas" possesses a deep, matured voice that is deceiving when listeners try to picture him. He is 27 years of age not 35, as you might expect, and he is tall and slender, clean shaven, wears horned -rimmed glasses and ef- fects'� careless tweeds and, brown fe- iloras. He likes anything from first edi- tions to matching quarters, provided Ire is amused. He also likes Quebec and it picturesque rural French vill- ages and farms, but has a morbid dis- repsect for alley -cots. AMONG OTHER THINGS Six players of the Montreal Royals attend the recent broadcast at the Commission's Montreal studios of the popular "Summer Follies" program, directed by George Temple. They were, according to rumour, greatly amused by the baseball skit presented Three members of the Radio. Commission's staff figured prominent- ly in the recent Drama Festival Fin- als. Gerard Arthur, announcer at.sta- tion CRCK (Quebec) played in "L- Aiglon," which won first prize in the French division. Aurele ,Seguin, who tribute ,music for the CRBC Dinner Hour. Romance permeates the musics- offered by this group of gifted mus- icians who will be heard from the Commission's Toronto studios. Open ing with Brehm's' "Hugarian Dance, No. 1," the feature will include "Vis -- ions," by Tschaikowsky, "Meditation" from "Thais" by Massenet, and Al- , benez',fascinating "Tango in D." One of the Romberg's most famous oper- ettas will furnish some of the sweet- est music of the program in "Selec- tions," from. "Blossom Tines," "Pass- epied," by Delibes, and "Nights Of Galdness" by Ancliffe. * * * TED SLADE EXPLAINS HOW Ted Slade, sound technician at sta- tion CRCM, explained to your cor- respondent while in Montreal recent- ly, the methods by which sound ef- fects are obtained to provide the nec- essary backgrounds and local colour - for certain types of programs. To re- present, for instance, the crackling of flames, pieces of, cellophane are slowly crunched in the hand, and the fire siren that makes such a violent noise is . nothing but a vest pocket whistle similar to those found in pack- ages of pop -corn. The next time you; heara man walking along a gravel road or over snow it will be but a handful of crisp cornflakes slowly mixedwith pieces of cellophane. Then to make the noise of an out -board motorboat a bowler hat is rapidly punched, in at the crown, �.r Professional J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. Office —. 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