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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1950-07-14, Page 7IAN SIM, • 11 CHAPTER III SynoPols Dick Byrne returning to Bis - en Crossing, after unsuccessful effort in Musketoon In market- ing invention of his portable saw, heard that his pal Will MacLeod and sister Marion had left the trading post. Their uncle, Alexander MacLeod, asked Dick to deliver a mes- sage to White Rock. The mes- sage was addressed to "Nipe- gosis, by the hand of Richard Byrne." After Dick left, Kin- oceti, MacLeod's housekeeper's foster -son, came to the house. He asked for cartridges and found out that Dick had left for White Rock with the mes- sage. Kinoceti knew there THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH, Ont. OFFICERS: President, E. J. Trewartha, Clinton Vice -Pres. - J. L. Malone, Seaforth Manager and Sec.-Treas. - M. A. Reid, Seaforth. DIRECTORS: -E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; J. L Malone, Seaforth; S. H. Whit- more, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Bornholm; Robert Archibald, Sea - forth; John H. iMcEwing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Walton; Harvey Fuller, Goderich. AGENTS: J. E. Pepper, Brucefleld; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; George A. Watt, Blyth; J. F. Prueter, Brod- hagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels. waa a reward of $1000 for Will MacLeod and he was determin- ed to collect and stop Dick. "He's wanted for the killing of Jacques Regnier," O'Rourke' con- tinued steadily. "That's no news to you. He disappeared the day after the murder, two days ,be- fore we could get here to inveeti- gate the crime. His sister went with him. It was the middle of winter and we got no true trace of them. Now we have word. It's going to go hard with, him when we land him, as we. will, the way things look -on the evidence and the fact of •his running away. It looks as if- he might hang, Mac- Leod." "'Tis naght to me," muttered The MacLeod. "He's in White Rock, with his sister," O'Rourke said suddenly, watching the trader to try and surprise Itiminto some confirma- tion of his news. The source seem- ed fairly certain, but it was a long way to White Rock and they had already followed many futile trails, misled by false rumors. Alexander MacLeod shrugged his shoulders. The Mountie sergeant took seat in front of the fire, tamping down fresh tobacco on the dottel in his pipe, while MacLeod stood erect, one shoulder and eyebrow savage- ly awry, glowering. "I'11 commandeer supper and I Was Nearly Crazy With Fiery Itch - Midi I discovered Dr. D. D. Dennis' amazing- ly fast relief - D. D. D. Prescription. World Popular, this pure, cooling, liquid medication speeds peace and comfort from cruel Itching monied by 00661:0111, pimples, rashes, athlete • IQOS and other itch troubles. Trial bottle, 360 lint application checks even the most intense or money back. Ask druggist or D. D. ix Prescription (ordinary of extra strength). NOTICE. Town of Seaforth • All persons in the Municipality owning or harboring dogs must purchase 1950 License for same on or before June 30, 1950: Licenses will be issued from the Treasurer's Office in the Town Hall, or from the Tax Collector, J. Cummings. After that date summonses through the court will be issued to the owners or harbor- ers of dogs not having licenses. ALL DOGS MUST WEAR TAGS Your Business Directory, MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC E. A. McMASTER, Ef,.A., M.D. Internist P. - L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., daily, except Wednesday and Sun- day. EVENINGS: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only, -7-9 p.m. Appointments made in advance are desirable. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-W; Res. Seaforth DR, M. W. STAPLETON DR. ROSS HOWSON Physicians and Surgeons Phone 90 Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthat mei and Aural Institute, Moore - field's Eye and Golden Square 'Throat Hospital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Seaforth, third Wednesday in every month. 53 Waterloo St. South, Stratford. JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 Hensall AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and House- hold Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; sat- lafaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, So'aforth; R.R. 4, Reaforth, LEGAL EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer Correspondence promptly answer- ed. Imtnediate arrangements can be made for sale dates by phoning 203, Clinton. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors Etc. PATRICK D. McCONNELL H. GLENN HAYS County Crown Attorney SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phone 781, Seaforth SEAFORTH - ONTARIO OPTOMETRIST such Eitippliegs as I need, in the King's name, for an of whlob leave you a voucher on the E� "You're welcome to all of them," MacLeod replied, sourly, "though there's no reason I should, supply ye free with the means to hunt my kin. But you'll have a sup of good Scotch wi' me, sergeant? I ken you're but doing your duty. And you'll stay the night? 'Tis bad weather:" "And may be worse,',' answered O'Rourke. It was not like The MacLeod to be so free with his 'Scotch, so pressing with his hopes for others' comfort. Not without very good reason. "That same du- ty keeps me Went your good liquor and sends me on." He got his pipe going, wonder- ing, pondering. Even as Dick Byrne had done, he likened MacLeod to an old dog -fox. "I'd like to know," O'Rourke told himself, "just how much he had to do with his nephews getaway. The lad's sister went with him. And he wants me to stop over- night. He's a bit too kind. I've got a hunch be was not as sur- prised to see me as he might have been. He's got a lot to say of what goes on in this neck of the woods and little there is he doesn't know. He might have sent some one ahead to White Rock to warn Will MacLeod of pursuit. "It would not be Peace River, Jack, for he would be double-cross- ing himself. That breed would sell his soul for the thousand -dollar re- ward. But there might have been a leak, It's dirty weather, but the wind's shifting, at that. I might get a break. At any rate I'll try for one." The snow stopped falling within an hour after O'Rourke had set out on the trail to apprehend Will MacLeod for murder. Within an- other hour, on a steadily falling thermometer, a crust was falling so that he could glissade over the surface at good speed. He toted a rifle and a pair of bearpaw extra snowshoes for special circumstanc- es. The weather could not be de- pended upon for more than a few hours at a time. Three men upon the same trail. Dick Byrne, unconscious he was followed. Kinoceti, swift in pur- suit, knowing the country as a wolf or moose might know it, the con- tours where one might avoid, the bitter wind; bent upon an errand fraught with villainy and greed. Then O'Rourke of the Mounted, handicapped but steadfast, Nem- esis of the Law; intent upon •bring- ing in bis man if he had to follow him all the way to the North Pole. It was hard going. Dick Byrne faltered a little in his stride. He had made thirty-eight miles the day before through softening snow that braked his efforts and stiffen- ed his sinews, softened as they were by months in Musketoon. Daylight was falling and he was crossing a strip of barrens. There was timber ahead he must reach for a fire. Then Elk River -and the White Rock, the end of his mission. The wind was rising with sun- set in a freakish trick of the sea- son. Drifts had filled up the val- leys and disguised the slopes, but he knew he was almost through. All about was utmost solitude. He had seen no living thing. He ach- ed to make fire, eat, and dig in. The cold pressed in on him con- stantly. It was like running wa- ter, it never stopped its attack. The coming gale whined, gath- ering force. It gnawed 'into the exposed spot on his left cheek and he forged on toward the trees. He set all his virility into reach- ing the goal where he could get flame, meat, sleep. It was a hard game he was bucking. It tested a man to the limit. You must make no slips. If you once went. down Fifty below, and getting colder. The trees appeared to retreat in the growing gloom. Suddenly the wind seemed to explode like a great bomb. It's whine changed to a shrill shriek -a howl. Byrne staggered, head down against the JOSEPH L.. RYAN Specialist in farm stook and im- plements and househeld abets. Satisfaction guaranteed. Licensed lin Eaten and Perth Counties. rat partioUlara and Open dates, write Ori .1:0010131OEIPPEI L, WAN; .1t. itc.iblin. Phone • • . 44004:10.‘ ,tgilL9:41EV AVA JOHN E. LONGSTAFF Optometrist Eyes examined. Glasses fitted. Phone 791 MAIN ST: - SEAFORTH Hours: 9-6 Wed. 9-12.30; Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. CHIROPRACTIC D. H. McINNES The office of D. H. McInnes, Chiropractor and Drugless Thera- pist, Commercial Hotel, is closed for vacation and will reopen Thurs- day, July 27th. VETERINARY J. 0. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.S. D. MAPLESDEN, D.V.M.; V.S. Main Street - Seaforth • PHONE 105 ACCOUNTING RONALD G. McCANN Accountant CLINTON - ONTARIO Phone 561 Rattenbury St. E. C.N.R. TIME TABLE GOING EAST (Morning) Goderich (leave) Seaforth Stratford (arrive) (Afternoon) (leave) Goderich Seaforth Stratford (arrive) GOING WEST (Morning) (leave) Stratford Seatorth Goderioh (arrive) (Atterrition) PM. 9.36 10.21 11.00 A.M. 5.40 6.20 7.16 P.M. 3.00 8.46 4.40 United States tourists in Ontario's Niagara area will be 'getting shining new Canadian silver dol- lars, like the one inset, in their ch Inge shortly. Happy about the prospect are, left to right, D. Leo Dolan, Director of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau, Ottawa; Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe, Canada's Minister of Trade and Commerce, and J. C. McGlashan,. Chairman of the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce, who accompanied a delegation from his area to Ottawa to appeal for the coins. Mr. McGlashan got an assurance from Finance Minister D. C. Abbott that Niagara banks would be allot- ted supplies of the dollars for local merchants. The silver dollar campaign has been advocated for some time by private organizations, which argued tourist will like to retain them as souvenirs of their Canadian trip. blustering, bellowing rage that was, so tremendous it almost cowed him. He was using up the last of his resistance and vitality to get to the timber. A.M. 10.45 11.86 12:20 Stratford (leave) Settferth Oidetifen (lirtive) vewsPAPSR. s.QC m warns satifiNo,dez BENEFIT BY THIS GOOD NEWS COMBINATION YOUR HOME TOWN PAPER gives you complete, dependable local news. 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Peace River Jack had ov- ertaken, and was awaiting the white man, through his native knowledge of the terrain. -He slid out his rifle from its elkh:de sheath against the frost; shook off a fur , mitten, after he had pumped a. It's a lot easier to keep a garden cartridge into the breech. A thou- healthy than to try to cure a sick one. The latter job is possible, el sand -dollar cartridge, stolen by old course, but it takes time and in the meantime one is apt to get dis- couraged. There is no dark secret about, flourishing flowers, vege- tables, grass and other things that go to make up a fine garden. The first point that matters is clean, vigorous soil and good geed or foundation stock. When one buys seed and plants from reput- able Canadian sources and does so regularly each year, there is far less danger from disease and in- sect pests. With certain bulky things, too, like potatoes and glad- ioli bulbs, most experts treat be- fore Atanting with sotne of the ready-W..1*ml chemicals now on the market. ' In our great grandfather's day they didn't have to worry much about diseases carried over in the soil, but that is not the case now. In the older sections of Canada, at least, there -are a lot of things lurk- ing in the soil, that only treatment of seed and fairly constant spray - • ,.... , :4'!Ot!liel*H4.e!t'lni:::4:-• PIY.P.' 40: they. ;,09;01)....44PiHitt'009'eti40.43 1/°:4wIn.4.1'wleCtwIvi;t11:114.14%!:..!4",b;'...ill'ir. 40'C'itt-Z: 731,f, a .larger Rise°. Ok 0040,„ :.' wPtil.M.i •:'::,.ii neoneseq, In #3001,tiii An Ounce Of Prevention Marie from MacLeod for the un- doing of MacLeod. This was a play that accorded well with the grim, sardonic humor of Peace River Jack. He saw Byrne get into shelter, select a birch, strip off its bark with the inflammable inner lining. His mood let him wait, like a cat with amouse. He put his mit- ten on again, covered his exposed rifle, waited while Byrne skillfully made his fire; started his supper, tea and rice with beef cubes, melt- ed pemmican, Swedish bread. That got going. Now Byrne needed a backlog, more fuel, so his fire would last all night. Not too easy a job With a hand -axe. A spurt of fire spat from the spruce. The report of the rifle sounded dully, but shook down snow from the laden branches. Peace River Jack cursed his aim. He had stood too long. He had his man down, thrashing in the snow, but The rifle belched again. Byrne stretched out, limp. Peace River Jack glided out of his cover and looked at his victim by the flickering. mounting light of the fire Byrne had kindled. He saw the dark stain of blood on the snow where it had spurted from the first wound in Byrne's thigh. He saw the brighter blotch on his forehead. and chuckled. Byrne would not reach White Rock. But Kinoceti would, staying near by in an old rendezvous of the tribe's. awaiting the arrival of his friends. and of one other man. He looked down at the white man, with a sudden flare of fer- ocity, of vengeance satisfied, mut- tered a sentence in his mother tongue, and vanished. The fire crackled and burned bright with flames of orange, red and violet as gas pockets in the wood were reached. Byrne crawl- ed toward it, leaving a splotchy trail. He did not know what had' happened, how it happened. The last bullet, creasing his skull, left him still stupid, though .conscious of his peril. He was crippled. There was no help. He might - must -stop the bleeding from his leg. He improvised a tourniquet. The intense cold would assist his surgery, but he was doomed. He had food for a day or so, but so soon as his scanty fuel gave out he was done. He had lost too much blood. The frost would em- brace him like a coiling serpent: it would get into his wounds. He would be dead before dawn, stiff as the frozen salmon they fed the ravenous sleigh dogs. He managed, half mechanically, to arrange the fire to get the max- imum of heat with the minimum of wood. Without a 'backlog the heat dissipated. The sky had cleared. The wind was over and the stars showed, brilliant as spear points piercing purple fabrics. They seemed to bring eternity closer. He would know all about that before those stars paled to the next sun, Byrne told hinaself. Or be wfluld know-nothing. The wood he fed changed to flaming gases, to carbon, to ash that glowed briefly and faded. What bad been living trees turned to dust. And he -a living man? Grudgingly he fed the fire an- other precious stick. He would fight as long as he could. Thoughts came in sudden rush- es, like flashbacks in, an all - assembled fllm. Why had Will gone away? Why had they not written him? Marion -she was not far from loving him -would have if he had made good, taut he had failed. He was going' out now, She would find some one else. Plenty a men to love a girl, like Dick ing or dusting of the plants can keep in control. In using any of these solutions one should remem- ber to follow directions carefully. If these call for soaking several minutes or several hours, then that is the only effective proce- dure. Of course it is not necessary to treat many kinds of seeds pro- vided of course 'We get good stock 1 the first place. Be Ready For Pests The second bit of advice from the experts is to be ready for any attack of insects or disease before the 'damage gets serious. In this preventive policy a lit- tle special equipment will prove in- valuable. A good sprayer or duster and a few pounds of material to use in the same are just as im- portant as cultivating tools and fertilizer for the growing end of the job. It is possible to buy the raw in - Marion. Not many like her. Not any. The invention! There was the cam he had finally contrived and never been satisfied with. Now he suddenly saw the perfect device. A thought that meant something, was worth money. But what was the use of it now? Wasted. He could not last much longer. Somebody had shot at him. Who? Why? • Another thought shot across his mind. [t was a grisly one, but this was a grisly situation. Whoever found him, eventually, would dis- cover his money belt, with the five hundred dollars in it he had failed to earn. It might be an honest man, or at least one fearful of MacLeod, anxious to get in his favor. And the money was Mac- Leod's. TM -I: Byrne had no one especial- ly to leave it to -unless it might help Marion. But it was not his. He It id tailed. He got out a small notebook and a pencil and wrote briefly': Money in my belt belongs to Alexander MacLeod. Five h u nd red dollars. Richard A. Byrne. (Continued Next Week) It, SOLUTION TO BOXWORD PUZZLE • ACROSS ..).4 Perth 4. Japan 7. Car S. Erode 10. Impel 11. Sledge 15. Mis 16. Lunate 19, Oregon 22. Iliad 23. Cane 25. Sharp 26. Prone 27. Ounce 30. Bee 31. Aonian 34. Assets 37. Roe 38. Orate 40. Mango 41. Credo 42. Bass 45, Brave' 46. Series 49. Rudder 52. Cat 52. Toting 56. Grave 57. Limbo 58. Non 59. Money 60, Trend „ DOWN 1. Prison 2. Rupee 3. Hello 4. Jest 5, Poe 6. Nag 7. Comic 9. Own 12. Leipoa 13. Deign 14. Endue 17. tlnseat 18. Again 20. Repeat 21. Gross 24. Arbor 38. Unrobe 29. Chess 32, Osmose 33, Inner 35. Secern 36. Emend 38. Orbit 39. Adapt 43. Ascend 44. Satin 47. Ergot 48, Inane 50. Ugly 51. Dire 54. Okra 55. Inn gardeners have turned to dliat ,4114 dusters. For a core or (1011.41 - one can get a hand -operated gurl ' that will cover a large garden, '41 a very few minutes. Get Going Fast The maid thing with sprays and dusts is to have a little material ready and to start -Using it at the drstisign of trouble. If this is done there will be no trouble in coping with almost any type of bug or disease. A point to keep in mind is that insects, pests, divide themselves into two types -those that bite or eat holes in the foliage, and those that suck the juices. Damage from the first is soon noticeable, that by the latter shows up When the leaves or plants wiltForrilie bit- ers or eaters we use a poise's, for the suckers a burning spray. A Real Illness Nobody expects a man suffering from tuberculosis to cure himself without help. But many people ex- pect a person suffering from men- tal illness to "snap out of it" un- assisted. Mental illness is just as real as physical illness. It is no more a disgrace than cancer or pneumonia. And, like Many ill- nesses, it can often be cured by competent medical attention. A Popular Pastime "Eating out" is a pastime that has become . extremely popular M PHONE 139: SEAFORTH Authorized- surge Service "rie410.: • • , SafO Olt T. IRDE mortar Crafts en Seaforth Exeter Clinton Seaforth Showrooms Open Tuesday See Dr. Harburn for appoint+ ment any other time, or Phone 41-3, Exeter. 1 Proclamation Under authority of By -Law No. 111, for the Town of Seaforth, no dogs shall be allowed to run at large in the Town of Seaforth from June 1st to September 1, 1950. - Any dogs so found running at large, contrary to this By -Law, shall be liable to be killed and the owner or harborer prosecuted. TAKE NOTICE ! All complaints must be in written and specific form, and the complainant pre- pared to appear as a witness in any charges made following their complaint. J. E. 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