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Zurich Herald, 1934-07-12, Page 2S Y By the Author of `Pencarrow" By NELLE M. SC.ANLAN INSTALMENT ONE THE PENCARROWS Kelly Pencarrow unsaddled his horse, patted his Clank, and threw a ' cover over his back, The borse 1 whinnied as Kelly closed the lower half of the stable door. Stamping his cold feet on the frozen ground, he swung bis arms to warm up a little :before turning into bed for an hour's sleep. 'Phe sun was high when he awoke with a, start, and all the familiar, clattering sounds of the farm were at 'their noisiest. He sprang up, annoy- ed at leaving overslept, and puzzled that no one had called him, He stretched luxuriously, his young, healthy body responding to the pull and thrust. Tired? Sleepy? What are a few hours' sleep when you are 'young? He could dance all night, ride twenty miles there and back, and plough next day without betray- ing a sign of weariness. long, lonely ride, hut for the thought of what lay ahead! Bessie Pencar- row was dying. Kelly urged his horse along the bush track. .At the end of five miles he came to the main highway, a wider metalled road that linked the district_ with the railway. • At noon he stopped for dinner at a farmhouse, and ate hungrily of roast mutton, potatoes, cabbage, apple pie and cream. And he drank three large cups of strong tea. Finding that he had made Pooh time in the morning*, he let the horse jog along easily after dinner, Vincent Crawford was not the man to pamper him. He worked hard him- self, and expected his men to do the same. He had no objection to Kelly ' dancing, provided it didnot interfere with his work. The milking was finished, and they were having breakfast when Kelly appeared, confused and apologetic. "Why didn't you call me? I've never overslept before." "It's all right, boy. Have your break- fast now," There was a kindlier note in his voice. Mrs. Crawford said nothing, but in her face was a look of tender- ness, a maternal understanding, that stabbed to quick response some warn- ing instinct. They had let him sleep on. Why? There must be some rea- son. Something had happened; some- thing was wrong. He was now con- sciously aware of an atmosphere of suspense; an acute wave of evmpathy flowed towards him. It startled and unnerved him. "Finish your breakfast, boy. Finish your breakfast," "There's something wrong, 1 know," and Kelly glanced quickly from Craw- ford to his wife. 'A telegram; it came late last night. Harrison was passing and brougbt it over from the post office?' Crawford was a stout, slowish man of sixty, with sparse sandy hair. His deliberate manner of speech was as unhurried now as ever. "From home?" Kelly asked, quick al;are1.. e^ioxt Llai ting' Man one 1.V -the other, His mother, 'father, Genevieve Pat? "Yes; from home." "Not not Father?" "No; nor your mother. It's your dear old Grannie who is ill. They want you to go down at once, as it's only a master of days now, and she's asking for you." Grannie! Somehow he had not thought of Grannie. She seemed im- mortal. Though she was old, she was intensely alive; one did not associate her with death. - To Kelly she bad always seemed old; old and lovely and wonderfully wise, The passing gears made no change in her to his young eyes. When he was a baby Grannie's hair was white, and her face all tiny wrinkles. One could imagine other people dying, but not Grannie. From the eminence of the farm, a great sweep of country was spread out: rich, rugged, broken country, and the simple, scattered homesteads. with its rutted roads of frozen earth, It was a heavenly day, as he said: clear, cold, brilliant; the sunlight in- tensifying every colour; the air like wine. 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His grandfather, twisted with rheumatism, but sharing her glow of triumph in what they had achieved. His Aunt Kitty whose hole world centred in Robin Her- rick, her only child, For him she renewed the ambitious but abandoned dreams of her youth. And all the others. The party was celebrating the launching of a new generation, the third: the marriage of his couein Ella to the Englishman, Philip Gentry. He recalled the joy in Michael's face at having solved the problem of keeping Ella with him at Duffield, despite her marriage. He had made Gentry a partner in Duffield station—Gentry, who didn't care. It was in a blind passion of rage, a sudden madness of disappointment at finding tba.t Gentry, and not he, would share Duffield with Michael, that Kelly had struck the blow. Gentry had Iaughed at him and his wild love for the big, lonely sheep farm. It was a blow that had shattered the unity of the Pencarrow ;family. That night Grannie had had her first heart attack. A sense cf guilt, that he was responsible, could not be dispelled, and, deep though his regret for her sake, he could not bring him- eelt to to •, rieroai... .wit.bi realty Gentry or� 'liis Uncle Michael. He would do anything for Grannie, al- most anything; but he could not apologise. To -day, Kelly, maturing into man- hood, was the outgrowth of those youthful tendencies; hot-headed and impulsive. He could, however, be generous. He had an odd attractive- ness, and was spasmodically a leader, but he was too quick to take offence and throw everything to the wind in a flash of temper. He could be stub- born, also, and refuse to see things from any but his own point of view. In family councils after the quarrel, the cold logic of tris father left him unmoved. This stubborn attitude once again opened the breach between fa- ther and sou, the breach caused when Kelly refused to take law and join his father in the firm. His father was ambitious t.,r him; his mother laved hint; his sister, Gen- evieve, worshipped him; but it was his. Grannie who understond hfm, She had the gift of divination. No one else realised quite how much Duffield had meant to Kelly; no' one, perhaps, but Michael. And it was Michael who was so bitterly hurt over the incident, With one stroke he had kept Ella, but lost Kelly. Tormented by the thought of losing her, when sl: a and Gentry talked of taking up land in Hawkes lay, Uncle Michael had been blind to everything file. To. keep her near him was the one thought in his mind when he gave them., as a wedding -gift, a ha'f•share in Duffield. So engrossed had he been in his personal problem . that it had not occurred to him wbat this change would mean to Kelly. Kelly saw what the change would mean. Gentry, as part-ownex, a auth- ority; and he, a paid man, subject to orders. The indignity, as well as the inevitable conflict that must; follow, made it impossible; He could not go back to Duffield under these condi- tions. At first he felt that Michael had betrayed him, , betrayed Duffield and the Pencarrow heritage, by handing it over to a. stranger; to one who didn't care. Later, In calmer mood, he knew that Michael was not guilty of deliberate treachery towards him. Still, be could not forgive his uncle. As he struck Gentry's smiling face' that night Kelly had sworn that one day be would own Duffield. It wete.a wild, foolish threat, but he was deter- mined etermined never to set foot on that be- loved land 'white Gentry had' any share in It. When first one and tben another of the family had tried to patch up the. quarrel and "knock some sense into Kelly," as they put it, Kelly bad found his sole refuge in Grannie: "You're a fool, Kelly," Genevieve had said, "Chucking away a jolly good chance like that. Uncle Michael was going to leave you the other halt'--" "I don't want the other half. It isn't that. You don't understand; and he turned wearily away. But Grannie understood, Slue knew it was not the material loss that wor- ried him. He did not begrudge Gen- try and Ella their half share in the Profits. But they didn't care, as he repeated over and over again, They didn't care where they lived. Hawkes Bays or any other place would do. But to Kelly, the Pencarrows .. had made Duffield. It was something. (To Be Continued) Gems Froin Life's Scrapbook Generosity "Generosity is only benevolence in practice,"—Bishop Ken. "In this world, It is . not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."—Beacher. "Giving does not, impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us." —Mary Baker Eddy. "In giving, a man receives more than he gives."—George MacDonald. IDEAS Have you a Story, a Sketch or an Illustration that is saleable? Or perhaps you have some other saleable idea. Tell us about it. Send a stamped (3e) envelope for information about our 3Ervice. IDEAS Unlimited THIRTY.N1NE LEE AVENUE, TORONTO "True generosity is a duty as in- dispensably necessary as•those im- posed upon us by the law."—Gold- smith, "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."—Shakespeare. "That alone belongs to you which you have bestowed."— Vemuna. Six Escape Devil's Island Exquisite Quality GREE TEA 712 Also in Black of d Mixed Rec'-Ant Events From Overseas MORE MILES Blackpool, Eng, -- Probably no ;:place in the, British Isles displays a :livelier faith in complete national economic recovery that this Lan- cashire water -resort Blackpool. The mighty town of pteasure which in the holiday seeson counts on gathering in a gooday proportion of tourists from every part of Britain and from .the Continent, is determined to beat its own rec,.rds. Blackpool is still lel gthening its promenade --as it has been doing for at least 30 years. Ther is a saying the town will no be nappy until it has girdled the entire "oast of Eng- land and Scotland with ltd "prom." Just now ,-xtenaions are ins hand which will give a total length of nearly eighty mile;. At one point an underground garage is being built to hold several. bund eed automobiles. WEAK AFTER DAYS ON SEA, FRENCH CONVICTS REACH BRITISH GUIANA GEORGETOWN, British Gaian L — WO' 1 and emaciated from the rip,ors of a long voyage under the blazing tropical sun, six men stepped ashore from a tiny open boat—fugitives from the dread French penal colony of Devil's Island. They were exhausted, hungry, and l thirsty, and their bodies were burned almost black from seven days of ex- posure on. the open sett. But the six —five Frenchman and one S,.aniard— plauned to push on to the West In- dian Island of Trinidad, another sea voyage of 300 miles, They were given medical attention here. Police of the colony fo••got the niceties of law temporarily to give the six shelter ashore and feted for the coming journey, But they warned the fugitives they must not stay here long, lu a few days the escaped pris- oners must be away again, or be de- ported from the colony as "ardesir- abl es." Girl 'Crop Cruiser' To Make Daily Flights Wilmington, Del—Keeping tabs on growing truck farms from the vant- age point of a low-flying airplane is the new job discovered by Miss Pat- ricia F. Canning, an experienced flier. She has just been engaged by the hillips Packing Company, of Cam- bridge, Md., to make a daily inspect- ion from the air of their great acre- age of widely separated truck farms. Flying low, she is close enough to the ground to get a full view of the growing garden stuff, Every evening she is to report to headquarters the condition of the vegtables and fruits as she has observed thein. It is esti- mated that Miss Carling in her plane can perform a great deal more crop inspectnon service than could 50 men going about on foot, Good -Will Visit Unites Canadian-U.,S. Youth Rochester, N.Y•—Monee than 1900 Vesting men and women of two come tries shared food at a vast lawn pia-' Die and played together in a field data. HOLDS FALSE TFETH of games and races when the Youth � Federation of Mon roe County crossed TIGHT IW ; y T Lake Onta'io on sl go.t't will visit to Ontario, recently, , Sprinkle on Dr. Welnet s Powder. The Canadians met the 500 Amari Largest seller in world --bolds plate so tight they can't annoy yet so comfort. cans at the water frovit and eon- able they actually feel and net like year ducted them to Cobourg 'Park, where own. keeps mouth sanitary, bread, the field day was held, The Youth pleasant---specita,l comfort -cushion pre- Federation had delegates from vii• vents sensitive gurus from getting sore, Wally every church, !religious and Small cost—any drugstore. character -building organization in the county. 6,000,000 Visitors Blackpore, with its 7,000 hotels, boarding and apartment houses, re- ceives more that 6,000,000 visitors yearly, Titere was a time when derision was cast upon the town be- cause of it; alleged inability to pro- duee anything in the way of natural beauty. In recent years the town has made a gadent effort to give itself more than a touci' of tie verdant. Stanley Park, Said t" be the larg- est park in England with the excep- tion of Hyde Pari:—is now glorious- ly decked with almost evary device of the landscape gar,Iener. Pock gar- dens have been laid out on the North Shore. and if the plants therein do not flourish as might be wished one must onclude they don't appreciate strong sea air wlich firs earned fame for B!sckpoc'. Many Charges i. traveller retl'rnine to Black - el, after . n absence, say of • 20 tl'4 is amazed. The cent'r'e of the town, it is true, has not altered much. People are still pumped up the Tower, where the menagerie, acquar- ium and the ballroom also continue to draw their thousand:, The Winter Gardens, w:eh the fan ous Empress ballroom and Indian lt: nngt , are as thronged as ever. It is up North Shale where one beholds the most s`•riking changes. Gone is the old Glynn inn, a great resort with thirsty one- at "opening time" on a Sunday morning. In its place is a t,'.isy tram arid bus centre. Further along the cliffs that dilapi- dated wood; n drinking shanty known as Uncle Tom's Cabin has been des- troyed and at a little distance has arisen a new Uncle Torr in a comely hostelry of red brick. hotel in hundreds, e.nd wheh she did emerge the +raffia was held up for a royal progress. Much of the film was "shot" in the Tower Ilaillreom, the dancing holiday-makers providing the general spectacle. They were almost pain- fully anxious to follow the instruc- tions meganhoned 'by the film-maker, for if the result was successful it usually meant that Gracie rewarded them with a song. • in the ini.ervals she signed auto- graph boosts by the hundred. It is a toss-up whither Gracie enjoyed her- self at Blackpool more than did the thousands of her fellow Lancastrians when -they ;oined her tnexe in film- making. PLANES HELP Liverpool, Eng.,—More than 9,000 feet high mountains separating the coast of New Guinea from the gold fields the planes of the air services carry passengers and treight in 35 minutes. It takes Eight ,lays for the same distance afeet. Two thousand tons of cargo is transnorte.) by the air services every month. This ache evement of the flying craft was reported her when Alwin S. Cross, managirg d`.•rector of the Fijian Airways and director and technical adviser to Gttnea Airways, arrived from New Yerk. Accom- panying hilt. was Niko Raikuna, be- lieved to 'ea the first Fijian to visit this country since the war. The metamorpiosis furnishes of itself a commentary upon the change in the babes of the Lareashire "day- tripper." Bispham, whicn used to be in a tiny v'ilage on the cliffs, has grown to a eine wnich snakes it look almost ps big as the E acknool of a generation ago. MOVES,' FA AL London.-- The train was making a good speed . uddenly the driver saw two meat 75 yards an front . , . could he pull up in thnal , . . Could they jump clear? .. He' grabbed the coral of the engine whistle , • It broke. . and there was ns -warning sound... . This draiita of the footplate was revealed at an inquest at Clacton re- cently on JE,,tnes Moore, of Hornsey, N., and John Nader, of Colchester, who were cried while worlt on the line. GleEAT VVELt,OME i3la :kpoot Eng.,—Gracie Fields, one 'of the most p :puna" comediennes of the day, has 'est been in Black- pool as prineipal 'n the making of a movie of I.aucashi.e life The Prince of Wales himself couI;i hardly have' had a mot enthusiastic reception than was given tl: is ti uN da!ighter of Lancashire All day ,wng tl e tat,• and lassies of the mill towns, ,vita e good sprink- Beg of elf+,fo;k eto'ed round her the federation of The Bay of Quinie. Plates eau't possibly semi when YOU Issue No. 27---'34 FINED > OR KICKING DOG Stanley Stevens, of Thornton Heath, we at Croydon Borough Police Court recently fined twenty shillings for. kicking his dog. and or- dered to p.9 31s. 6d. costs. It was stated that the animal, a cocker spaniel, was qu etly following two -workman, to whom it had shown some attachment, when Stsv`'ens gave it a kick under the bate. arbarous Language ^- 1 —The writer who makes two words grow here only one grew before does not always deserve praise; more often than not he is helping to clutter up the language with unnecessary words. A report to the psychiatric consulting service of the Women's Division of the Emergency Work Bureau supplies an example. A. de- scription of the work with the staff begins with, "Referrals came from de- partments—." The sensitive reader swallows hard and comes to the next sentence, which begins, "Certain as- pects of typical referrals. , . ." The eye roams down the page and finds in the same paragraph, "The first referrals were . . ." Now it may be that persons who treat the language so brutally are correspondingly tend- er with the human beings who come before them. It is to be hoped so; there ought to be some compensation for so barbarous a word as "re- ferrals."—New York Sun. A woman writer is exulting over re- cently released figures showing that 11 per cent. more men than women are crazy. !eab, but who drove the men crazy? lackbird Pie CIrioago Daily News The United States is threatened with a foreign bird pest to which the imported house sparrow, the so-called English sparrow, is as nothing. European starlings, brought from England in shall lots to Massachu- setts and New York in 1876, 1890 and 1900, now number millions. They are dense in the east. They have in- vaded the Chicago region. They have spread to Canada. They have crossed the Mississippi and are reported from Iowa and Minnesota. If allowed to go on unchecked, they will soon cover the country. These bobtailed blackbirds were introduced by well.meaning, - but misguided, persons on the theory that they would help destroy such harmful insects as the clover weevil, the grasshopper: and the gypsy moth. They may do a little good in that way. But the harm they do in other ways is far greater. • In the first place, they are driving out, wherever they go, our beloved native American birds, in particular the purple martin, the red-headed woodpecker, the ' cardinal and the Mourning dove. In the second place, they destroy large quantities of fruit and vegetables, In the third place, they are persistent .the distri- butors. In the fourth place, they carry deadly chicken disOses. In the fifth place,` nesting gra variously in vast flocks, they drop ii`.h and destroy whole grcves of fine'Itrees. In the sixth place, they are noisy and altogether unlovely. In short there is nothing to be said in favor of their presence !n this continent. Jack Miner, Canada's well -know,: bird lover, has declared war on them. In one campaign he killed 17,000. But to his dismay, as he says, "a million came to their funeral," In another campaign 200,000 were killed. And still they come. Meanwhile, however, it has beei. discovered that starlings are edible Four -and -twenty of them, dressed, weigh about three pounds and are said 'to make a fine blackbird pie. If this is true, the more blackbird pie: our people eat the bei ter seem the chances of restoring equilibrium t', our native bird life and of freci:n ; the country from a Menace. PRINCE OF WALES HEADS EMPIRE BODY London—The Prince of Wales n:: cepted the presidency of the Engl:sh- speaking Union of the British Empire recently. a .CL MPJ R E /Mantic City Nig; `dile &ieeminent Hotel Achievement In the course of a day I have list- ened istened to some pretty weird alibis. I thought I knew therm all, but I heard a new one last night on the Hamilton highway, "How are your brakes, sir?" I ask- ed a driver who had just rammed the rear of another car and done consid- erable damage. "That's just it, officer," he said, "my brakes went bad on me al! at once and I was hurrying home to get them fixed before I got into trouble," Can you beat it? The man driving the ear that was hit was pretty peeved, but even he had to laugh. y. by ant Finally the ren alio had done the damage agreed to pay and 'phoned a garage for help. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't f? But 11 you were to make an analysis you'd find most accidents result from sbeer carelessness. Gee, what chances some people take! The man who drives a car with poor brakes takes a needless chance every minute, and when he gets into a smash he hasn't an excuse In the world. Brakes can be put into good order in a couple of hours and the charge is very little compared with the cost of an accident, Well, I'll be seeing you.