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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-02-05, Page 6Winghani Acivance.Tixnes. Published at WINGHAM - ONTARIO Every Tharsday Morning W. Logan Craig - Publisher Subscription rates — One year n2,00. Six months $1.00, in advance. To U. S. A. $2.50 per year. Advertising rates en application. • Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Rielcs taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph Ont. I ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingharn J. W. DODO Two doors south of Field's Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0., Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dadley Hohnes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Suocessor to R. Vanstone Wingharn -:- Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, ' Ontario • DR. G. H. ROSS • DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon . 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ALVIN FOX •Registered Drugless Practitimier CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 1-8, or lay appointment. Phone 191, THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL 38STATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingliant RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 616, Wroxeter, or address R. R, 1, Goigie, Sales conducted any- where, and saliefaction guaranteed. ....,-- DRS. A J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office MacDonald Block, Wingbant A. .1. WALKER ugtovntg Om trtiNnta. stionet A. J. \Whet. Uoenst.d Mineral cto and Embalmer, ( Phone 106. 1,:.., Ph*e 24, s Litfionsitte Ventral COact rA3Ti3t; TRAINS: • Tbortiton Says •Speed, on Rails Must Bo Ineeteaend to Equel Airnlarre. Railroada, if to ecanpete success- fully with the eerplaue in passenger transportation of thu.. near future, must plan at once tor the operation of trains at a greatly increased speed, Sir Renee Tbornam declared recent- ly in addressing the, meeting of the A merlean fessocia tioa a Passenger Traffic lialeers. Sir Henry held that railroads must give immediate attention to making transcoatinee al travel more com- fortable or see that business slip from their Mans. "Tbe airplane is bat an infaut now," he said, "but a lusty one, and growing rapidly. For myself, I wel- come the competition. I have enough lanai in railroad treneporaltion to feel that he latter can meet any competition that it is offered. "If the railroads, however, are to retain the traffic that is legitimately witbin their jurisdiction, the increas- ing of train speed is imperative. "In the matter of competition with the airplane, the railroad has a big advantage in the centrally located and readily accessible terminals, both passenger and freight. The raaj ney Q f airports, particularly those in the larger •centres a population, are so situated, for the greater part, that anywhere from thir„y minutes to an hour is required to each them. •"Railroads, also, to meet steam- ship competition, must offer the same conveniences of travel that the ships plying between the same points have to offer. The most comfortable of sleeping accommodations, a variety of baths, excellent cuisine—these must become the rule on our de luxe trains. "I am quite confident that the rail- road executives of North America, realizing the act is imperative, will arise to the occasion, just as they nave in the past met other oecasions of comparative importance, and suc- cessfully so." CONVICTS AS STUDENTS, Lefshire€ Ave (elven by Eminent Men • to prisoners. An innovationthat may bane far- reaching effects bas been seen recent- ly in some of the prisons In the Old Country. Some years ago Miss Olga Nethersole, honorary organizer of the People's League a Health, obtained the permission of the Prison COLA- missioners for lectures on health to be given to convicts. Some of the most eminent medical men have volunteered their services, and the scheme la proving 'a great success. Lectures have been given by the King's dentist, and by such well-known doe -tors as Sir John Col- ley, Dr. McAdam Bede% and Sir John Colley, Dr. McAdam Eccles, and SirBruce Bruce -Porter, • Tile lectures are popular in both main and female prisons, and at the end of each course a large number of convicts sit for exarainations at which prises are offered, At present the pris- on governors recommend that these should be in airmen and in this way itonvicts who study hard are enabled to .earn gums that are valuable to them on their release. The prisoner& are encouraged to ask questions, and many of them put most intercurting ones. Meantime the good effects of the scheme upon the health and happiness of prisoners bane been very noticeable. an - MDR( SCENT, TV' Is In Danger of Disappearing Alto- gether, Says Scientist. The musk scent is in danger of disappearing altogether. At present if is obtained from the male musk deer, which is found in China and Tibet. The musk is se- creted in a tiny gland, and the fact that thousands of ounces of musk are exported from China every year means a wholesale slaughter of these little animal. They are, indeed, be- ing killed off so fast that their ex- tine:ion is only a matter of time. The musk plant, formerly found in every cottage garden, gave off the true musk scent until a few years be- fore the war. Then it provided scien- tists with a problem that has battled them ever since—it suddenly lost its scent. The same thing seemed to happen simultaneously • to all the musk plants all over the world. No one knows why or how this occurred. It certainly.wasn't only a case of new etentless musk plants growing un; the old ones had been deprived of their front in some raya- rious way. PalaeolithIc Iron Foundry, That the Iron Age began perhaps thousands of years before the period generally attributed to it, is one of the deductions that may be drawn from the etartling discoveries made In Northern Rhodesia by an Italian eciettifte expedition, This expedition is searehing for tracts of prehisaoric life in the territory between South- ern Rhodesia and Kenya. The expe- dition reports the extraordinary dise &every of the site of an ancient iron foundry, buried at a depth of six feet In an enormous cvern lu trata of the Palasolithle Age, which has hith- erto been regarded as the :Earlier acme Age. Itere, many thousand of yeas ago, Sonne race superior itt in- tellect to its fellows smelted iron by very primitive methods. WINGHAM ADVANCE -T MES Copyright by Charles Scribner's' Sons WHAT HAPPENED SQ, FAR *: Bud Lee; horee.foreman of the Blue Lake ranch, COIlifnced *Bayne Tree - ors, manager, is'deliberatii Wrecking the property owned by Judith San- ford, a yoeng woman, her cousin Pollock Hampton, and Timothy Gray, decideshto *throw up -his job. Judith arrives and announces she has bought Gray's share in the ranch and will run it. She discharges Trevors. The men on the ranch dislike tak- ing orders from a girl, but by subdu- ing a vicious horse and proving her thorough knowledge of fetich life; Judith wins the beet of them over. Lee decides to stay. s. Convinced her veterinarian, Bill Crowdy, is treacherous, Judith dis- charges him, re-engaging an old friend of her father's, Doc. Tripp; Pollock Hampton, with a party of friends, comes to the ranch to stay permanently. Trevors accepts Hamp- ton's invitation to visit the ranch. • NOW READ ON— hQatdiinanloisongolnetervifmRockyIrlogbehii 13nd like iuthem 110 sign to show wleere they had gone, Knowing Quinnion as he • did, and baying his own conceptiou of the character of Bayne Trevors, Bud Lee said to himself that too great a quiet 1. portended strife to come. If Quinn - ion was the man to carry in his breast the hate that drove him to the mur- der of Judith's father, then he was the man to remember the humiliation he had suffered at Lee's hands, to re- member and to strike back when the time was ripe. Judith had heard of the night in Rocky Bend, a lurid and wonderfully distorted account from Mrs, Simpson, who had received it in a letter from ber daughter, "So that was what Bud Lee did after he kissed me!" mused Judith. She 'sent iinrnediately for Carson and forced from him the full story. Dismissing Carson, she remained for a long while alone. Only one remark had she inade to the cattle foreman, and that at little aside frozn the issue occupying her mind: "Keep your weather eye open for what's in the wind," she told him briefly. "Behind Quinnion is Trevors and the year isn't over yet." • The ranch was stocked to its ut- most capacity. Carson had added an- other herd of cattle; Lee had added to his string of horses. The dry sea- son was on them, herds were moved higher up the slopes into the fresh pastures. Carson, converted now to the silos, was a man with one idea and that idea ensilage. Again the al- falfa acreage was extended, so that each bead of cattle might have its daily auxiliary fodder. Carson now agreed with Judith in the matter of holding back sales for the high prices which would come at the heels of the lean months, The manDonley, who had brought to the ianch the pigeons' carrying the cholera, wastried in Rock Bend. The evidence, though circumstantial, was. strong against him, and the prosecti- tiara: was pushed hard. But it was lit- tle surprise to any one at the ranch whenthe trial resulted in a hung jury. The ablest lawyer in the •county had defended Donley, and finally, late in August, secured his acquittal. The man hiniseli did not have ten dollars in the World; the attorney's. Caking hie ase was a 'highlyapriced lawyer. Ob- viously, to Judith 'Sanford it least, Bayne Trevors was standing back' of every Play his hirelings made. Doc Tripp had the hog cholera in hand.' And every day, out with the live stock Whose well-being was his responsibility,, he worked as he had never worked before, watchful, eager, suspicious. "If they'll drop cholera down ,on us out ofhlie blue sky," he snapped, "I'd like to know what they won't try," * - itta *- tfi * For the first few days following the danCe Bud Lee had within his soul room for abet one emotion: he had held Judith in his arms. He had set his lips on hers. He went hot and cold with the remembrance. Being a man, he made his man -suppositions of the emotions that rankled , in her breast. He imagined her contempt of, a man who by his stnength had forced her lips to wed his; he pictured her scorn, her growing hatred. He told himself that he should go, rid the ranch of his presence, take his de- parture without a word to her. For, alneady, he had fitted her into his theory of the perfect woman, lifting her high above himself and above the human world. It was a continued in- sult for hitn to remain here. But, after careful thettight, •lie re- membered what Judith had already told him; he was one of the MC11 whom she could trust to do her work for her, one of the men she most needed, a man whom she would need sorely if Bayne Trevors were lying quiet now but to strike harder, un- expectedly, later, jodith did not dismiss him., as at first he had been sure elle would. So he stayed on, remaining away from the ranch headquarters, sleeping when he could in the cabin above the lake, spending his days with his horses, avoiding her but keeping her person- ality in his soul, her interest -in his heart. When the winter had passed when she had made her sales and had tho money in hand for the payments upon the inortganes, then he would go. Whereat, no doubt, the high gods smiled, As time passed, there came about a subtle change in the attitude of the outfit toward Pollock Hampton, who they had been at the beginning prone to accept as a "city guy." It began to appear that wader his ligtone,ss those was often a steady purpose; tied if he didn't koow everything about a ranch, he was learning fast; that in his outepokeu admiratioe of thitigs rough and measly and primal there were certaih lasting qualities. Whereas formerly hie being thrown from a epirited riming wae almost a daily oteurteace, now he rode rather well, With Mooed' face atul hard heads, he was, as Creon put it, "growing tip," "Neither now nor after a while," Sandy told hirri briefly. "I ain't dirty - in' Myeglasses that -a -way" - • "There you -art," 'jeered Quinnion, , with a sullen sot:biol.-defiance. "You 1 saiat me' ovei the head while I ain't lookiin and then bring me in here where they're all your friends. If 1 drop you. I get -all mussed Up with their bullets: No, thanks." • "For the last time," said Lee, and his low voice was ominous, "I tell you what to-do. If you don't do it, I'll kill you just -the same. You've got your chance. Count ten seconds, Sandy," 'One," said Sandy, watching the clock on the wall, "two, three, foot', five, six, seven—" "Curse you!" cried Quinnion then, a look of fear at list in his eyes. 911 get you for this some day, Bud Lee. Now you've got me -es" "Keep on countiug Sandy," cone - Judith's messenger is held up and robbed of the monthly pay roll. Bud Lee goes to the city for more money, getting back safely with it, though his horse is killed under him. Both he and Jodith see' Trevor's hand in the critne. Hog cholera., hard to account for, breaks out on the ranch, Judith and Lee, investigating the scene of the holdup, climb a moun- tain, where the robber must have hid- den. • A cabin in a flower -planted clearing excites Judith's admiration. It is Lee's, though he does not say so. They are fired on from ambush, and Lee wounded. Answering the fire, they make for the cabin, Here they find Bill Crowdy wounded, Dragging him into the buildiug, they find he has the money taken front Judith's messenger. Beseiged in the cabin, they are compelled to stay all night. Hampton, at the ranch, becomes uneasy at Judith's long absence. With Totnmy Burkitt he goes fie seek her, arriving in time to drive the attack- ers off, and capturing one man, who is known as "Shorty," "Shorty" escapes from impriSon- ment in the greinhouee of the ranch, to the disgust of Carson, cow fore- man, who had him in charge. Lee be- gins to feel a foridriess for Judith, tho' he realizes she is not his womanly ideal. Mercia Langworthy, one of Hampton's party, typical city gial, is more to his taste. The discevery is made that pig- geons, with hog eholera germs on theit feet, have been liberated OA the ranch. Lee tapteoes a stranger Diek Donley, red-handed, with an atcont- plice, a cowboy known as "Poker Face, Donley has brought more pi- geons to the tenth At a dance given in honor of Haneptott's friends Lee appears in ev- ening dress. He is recegnized by °tie of the party as an old acquaintance, Dave Lee, once wealthy but ruined' by trtiititig false friends. Jedith, in her Wothaely firiery neekee sueh en appeal to Lee that, Moot; with her, fetreibly kiesee bee, reietiaiteg the tt ike 4q Japan Buying Asbestoe. Tho market ix japan for asbestos in lure0, Powder and fibre, afi well as in packing and other forms, to its- teeasing year by year owing to the expansion of industrial plants using this material, and to tbe great var- - lay of uses to which asbestos pro- ducts are tieing put in every -day Me, writes 3', A. Laugley, commercial secretary to Tokio, th the Commer- cial Intefligenee Journal. About 80 per cent. of the domeetie imoorts of asbestos fibre come Indirectly from Canada. Iltooriti for Morn. Ott a basis of ten hotieee per tere end four persoue per dwelling, there Js room ter 48,000,060 PeoPlO in the temulon area. This le Mare than the *hole /retaliation` Ot Egiglanni anal Wshies. • "Eight," said Sany, "nine—" "I lied!" Snapped •Quinnion. "An' Pm leavin' town for a while." And lurching as he walked, he made his way out of the room, his eyes on the floor, his facea burning red. "Carson and I are riding back to the ranch as soon as our horses rest up and get some, grain," said Lee, his fingers slowly rolling a brown ciga- rette. We'll mosey out now, see Quinnion on 'hie way and drop back to 'make up a little game of draw for a couple of hours. Strike you about right; Billy? 'And you, Wat- son? And you, Parker?" They listened to him, took the cue hotel him, and allowed what lay be- tween hint and Chris Quinnion to lie in silence, But there was not a man there but in his own fashion was say- ing to himself: "It's a good beginning. But 'where's the end going to be?" CHAPTER XII ..1....••••••••• Burning Memory As June had slipped by, so did July and August, On Blue Lake ganch life flowed smoothly. Men were too busy with each day's work to sit into the nights prophesying trouble ahead. And in troth it seemed as if Bayne Trevors had eve ti actiaely opposed the success of the Sanford venture he had by now accepted the role of inactivity forced upon hint by circumstance, He was with thte Western Lumber COM- pahy, as director and, district super- ittendent, seemingly giving all his dy- Panic force to the legitimate affairs of the company. But there were those who placed leo faith in the obvious, 1.3ild Lee, kept in touch with Rooky Bend and learn- ed that Quinnion had not C:(ATIe back; that 00 one knew where he had gone. Careon's matt, Shorty, was sought by Entinet Sawyer aod his disappearance was like that of a pricked bubble; k seetned that Shorty had no stetted phyeical exAteotees or theh if he had, he had taken it int h some 011er cor- xr �f the w>r tOnaitiniesti"'friende He came to Judith one day serious - faced, thoughtful -eyed "Look here, Judith," he began ab- reptly, "I'm no outsider jest tooking on at this game, you're the chief owner and the boss and I'm not luck- ing at that any 'longer. Your dad raised you to this sort of thing and you have a way of getting by with it. 13ut, on the other hand, I'm part i owner and you've got to consider me, Judith smiled at him. "What now, Pollock?" she asked, "You're the boss," he repeated stoutly. "But I've got a right to be next in authority. Under you, you know. Why, by cripes, I go around feeling as if I had to take orders from Carson or Tripp or any other of the foremen!" 'By cripes is good!" laughed Jthe dith. "Go ahead." "That's all,' Ile insisted. "You can tell them, when you get a chance, that I ant your little old right-hand man. Suppose," he suggested vaguely, "that you left the rahch a day or so. Or even longer, some time. There's got to be some one here who is the head when there is need dor it," , Judith mirthfully acquiesced. His interest was sufficiently heavy for him to be entitled to some considera- tion. Besides, she had come to ex- perience a liking for the boy and had seen in him the change for the better which his new life was working in him, Further, she meant to make it her business that she did not leave the ranch for a day or so, onan hour or so, when she could be there. Con- sequently, within a week Pollock was known humorously from one end to the other of the big ranch as the Foreman -at -Large. , Marcia Langworthy, visiting in southern California, wrote brief, sun- ny .noes to Hampton, intricate let- ters to Judith. 'The mystery of Bed Lee of which she had had a glimpse when the artist, Dick Farris, and Lee recogineed • each other as old friends had piqued her curiosity in a way whic1*. allowed that young daughter of Eve no resh'Until she had made her own investigatiOns. She wrote at length of Lee. How he had been quite the rage, my dear: Oh, tremen- dously rich, with a mat. ranch in the South, a wonderful adobe hacienda of the old' Spanish days, where, like a young 'king, he had entertained lay- ishly. How, believing in his friends, he had dost everything, then had dropped out of the wolrd, content to allow the world to believe him son diering in France or dead in the trenches and to take his wage as a common laborer. Wasn't it too ro- mantic for anything? • In due course, following up her lets ters, Marcia herself came back to -the Blue Lake ranch, Judith's goesf now. The major and Mrs. Langworthy were visiting' in the East—it seemed that they always visited somewhere -- and Marcia would stay at the ranch indefinitely. Hampton drove into Rocky Bend for her and held the girl's breathless admiration all the way home, handling the reins of his young team in a thoroughly reckless, shivery manner, "Isn't he splendid?" Cried Marcia when she slipped away with Judith to her room. Under the bright•approval of Mar- cia's eyes Hampton flashed , with pleasure. Could Mrs. -Langworthy have seen them together she would. have nudged the major and whipser- ed in his ear. ' Durhig the tsvo months after the dance, Bud Lee and Judith had seen virtually nothing of each other. When routine duties or a ncessary report brought them for a few minutes into each other's society there svas a mar- ked constraint upon.them, Never had dee tnan lost the stinging sense of `his offense against her; never had Judith condescended to be anything but cool and brief with him, While no open refereece was made tb what was past, still the memory of it must lie in each heart, and though Lee held his eyes level with her and drank deep of the warm loveliness of her, he told himself angrily that he was beneath her coutempt. The chiyalry within so great and esseetial a part of the mae's nature, was sa wounded thing, hurt by his own act, The old feeling of catnaraderie which had sprung up between them at times was gone now; they could no longer be "pardners" as they had beett that night in the old eabin. He told himself curtly that he did not regret that; that now it was in- .. evitable that they should be less than strangers since they could not be more than friends, That the girl was ready to forgive bine that she had never beets as harsh with him as lie was himself, that them was a golden, delicious poesibility that she shotild feel ee he did—so made an idea had not come to Bed Lee, horse foreman. A few days after Marcia's arrival there catne to the ranch a letter 'width was addressed: "Pollock Hampton, ri sq., "General Manager, "Blue Lake Rebell." m Doan Rockwell nr Thursday, Febraarr 5th, 1.93 te. &las Palifht nue,iy.v "The very trrd: time 1 used Sixh'ixjtixnd the itch and p y piies right awny.Stopri-d blecrairtgaNiesuowyoue.". Quickest rejief known, druggrvm. Haight, big stock buyers of Sacra- mento, submitting an unsolicited ord- er for a surprisingly large shipment of cattle and horses. The price offer- ed was ridiculously low, even fonnr thin season of low figures clues to thfrAct that emny overstocked ranches' were. throwing their beef -cattle and range horses on the market. So low, in feet that Judith's first surmise whet Hampton brought it to her was that the typist taking the company's dic- tation. had made an error. Judith tossed the note into the waste -paper basket. Then she re-, trievecl it to frown at it wonderingly,. and, finally, to file it. It began by having for her no significance worthy of speculation. It sobn began to puz, zle her. Finally, it faintly disturbed her. There were two points of interest. First: Doan, Rockwell as Haight was the company to which Bayne 'Trevors when general manager, had made many a sacrifice sale. Because the Blue Lake had knocked down to them before, did they still count confident- ly upon continued mismanagement? Surely they must know that the man- agement of the ranch had changt, ,And this brought her to the second point: How did it come about that they had a,ddressed, not her, bat Pol- lock Harnpton? Was this just a tri- fle? Long ago Judith had told herself that she must keep -her two eyes wide open for seeining trifles. in spite of her, though she scoffed at her "ner- ves," the girl had the uneasy convic- tion that this offer had been prompt- ed by Trevors, that Trevors, for par- • Hampton Came Galloping, Seeking Carson. pohes of his own, had giver/ instruc- tions that the letter be addressed toe Hampton; that this was the first sign of a fresh campaign directed against her from the dark; that trouble was. again beginning. Thoughtfully she smoothed out tlix. letter, impelling it on her file. Pollock Hampton, Foreman-at-Lat- ge, came and went on the ranch, car- rying orders, taking always a keen in- terest in whatever work fell to band,- an interest of a fresh kind, in that it was born of a growing understahdinge Tho men grew to like him; Bud Lee' tactfully sought to acquaint him with many ranch matters which would be of value ne him. Carson, however, grown nervous over the pew method of stock raising still in its experi- mental stage, was given to take any suggestion from Hampton in the light of a personal affrient. "D -'n him,' he growled deep in his, throat when Hampton had ridden ottt with word to shift one of the -herd into a fresh pasture, an act on which Carson had already deckled,' "some day 111 just take him between my thuto' an' finger an' anni-hilate (Continued next week.)' A boy entered a buey draper's slithoas and asked for "Half a yard of devil." He persisted in his request, tice plaining dress. that11was to match Ida i Still he was not understood, et he said suddenly, "That man ver there ste,srvbinlagekstiteny whatgrannyywwatatritts.:: “oi said the shopkeeper, "Yee, sir, ife blank sataii," replied the boy, "I knew the chap had twat names, but I didn't happeil to remota- ber the otie the stuff's called after." et:I1i43ntheya ildielfJrtt Y°aile"c1d4 11)411'''4 b6/:1,1,d) yiPoPtist1 a "0I, tif:ttotirdoplog4,1. 10Vooed