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The Clinton News Record, 1933-12-28, Page 2PAGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is IPncorperated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are ' paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on. the label. 'advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12e per count line for first' insertion.' 8e for each ,subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 linea. Small advertisements; ' not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted!', "Lost," "Strayed," . ete., inserted ones for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion.15c. Rates for display ode vertising made known on applica- tion. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer.. G. E. HALL, M. R, CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. RA) CE Notary Public, Conveyancer 17`inancial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton. Frank Fingland, BX, LL.B. l8arrister, ' Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block Clinton, Ont, CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Ante - mobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O. Telephone 57. BEATRICE R. GREENE Teacher of Piano, Singing and Theory. Studio—Commercial Inn. Phone 172. THE CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD SYNONPSIS ,fort to rid himself of her, what might the rock' and plodded toward her S � the not do? . That night when the through the sand. Ruth Warren, bern and raised in drunken giantess had been goaded to As they returned to the. house Ruth an Eastern city, is willed a three- Ikill her by the voice. Ruth was cer- thought over her discovery. The de - quarter, interest in the Dead Lantern ranch in Arizona. With her youthful husband, who is in poor health, :and their small coon, David, they come to Arizona to take up where Ruth's brother, reported killed in Mexico, -had left off. They reach,.Dead Lan- tern, 85 miles from the nearest rail- road, with the help of Old Charley Th neighboring rancher who also tain that'in some fray Snavely con ; trolled' that voice. She now feared him as never be- fore; yet, she'must not let him sus- pect it, If she could only hold out, this week, until Old Charley and Will carne.... The next afternoon „Ruth and Da- d rode through e arroyo north of DOINGS IN'THE SCOUT pression in the rock was a reflector, and by sitting on the stone and sight- ing through the forked stick, one's mouth was placed at its focus. The sound of the voice was then consein'e ed and directed in a narrow beam to, the brown bowlder as light is reflect- ed from a headlight. That,was the Da- vidsecret of the 'old Medicine men. And Thane, the harp. When thea, met the old Snavely had learned of it. He had carries the rural mail. At the raneh road, the girl turned toward the seen Ruth, Kenneth and David that they find the partner, Snavely, and gulch, dismounted at the fence and first day had watched them strug- a huge woman, Indian Ann, who tied the horses. gling along the road toward the greet them suspiciously. As they She went first to the brown bowl- ranch. Then he had slipped into the trudge the 5 miles from ranch gate der and seated herself. Ruth waited gorge by way of the fissure and had to the house they pass a huge rock half an hour, while David played a, spoken to them. Afterwards, he in a gulch where a voice whispers had gone to the corral, told Ann that "Go back, Go back." Ruth's husband caught in a rain shortly after their arrival, contracts pneumonia and pas- ses away before medical aid can be brought. Ruth, •penniless and -with- out friends attempts to carry on but is balked at almost every turn by' the crafty and plotting Snavely. De- spite obstacles of all kinds Ruth gives notes on her ranch interest to purchase :cattle. Shu Is assisted by Old •Charley Thane end his son, Will Thane. A Mexican family has been hired to assist with the work. A peculiar sickness developes with the livestock. Snavely calls it "liver fever" .. , and says he has a pow- der for the water to cure the disease. Ruth's whole future is at stake en the development of the herd to meet her notes following up. DR. FRED, G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, One door west of Anglinan Church. Phone 172 Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Out. Phone, Office, 21; House, 89. the first round - bout, but she heard no voice. Then, systematically, she began to explore. She looked into every depression, be- hind every !bowlder, and among the scant piles of driftwood and leaves in the bed of the gulch. 'She returned to the rock and seat- ed herself wearily—it was hard walk- ing through the sand. David sprawl- ed on his stomach before the rock, tickling the sand on the edge of a doodle •bug cone. "Mania, what are we doing " "Just thinking." Presently David asked, "Do you hear that funny little bird?" "Oh David!" , For the first time Ruth turned her whole mind on her son. Just then she beard the twit- ter of. a bird. She had heard it off and one for some time, but only as one hears a sound while thinking hard upon something :Ise. The twitter carte again and Ruth started, then rose quickly to her feet. There was something strange about the sound of that bird—it was too close, as though the bird was sitting not ten feet away, perhaps even nearer. But there aws not a bird in sight. "Da- vid! Ruth was suddenly excited. "Get up on top of the rock and see if you can see the bird—we must find it, son!" "Isn't it close, Mama?" David held his hand out before him. "I think he's sitting on my finger, but when I look he's gone!" teenaged NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Ruth entered the gully which ran eastward a few yards south of the house, and followed it. At last she stopped beneath an ash tree which had a low branch. With 'the' paring knife she cut the potato in half and made numerous little cuts in the white surface. Into this surface she rubbed a pinch of powder from the liver fever box. She placed the piece of potato on the branch of the tree and, walking a short distance away, seated herself in the shade to wait, her eyes on the potato. i MINoE SCIIO Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed. Henri Beauty Shouue Over Counter's Jewelry Store Isaac Street Phone 223, open evenings. She waited more than an hour and was about to give up when a little gray bird flew down from the top of the ash tree and alighted on the branch. After a moment the bird hopped to the potato, looked it over, and took a speculative peck, Ruth watched so intently that her eyes burned. The little bird had tak- en several bites when it ceased and moved away from the potato. It stood upon a small twig and jerked its head as though trying to shake THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, George McCartney, R.R. No. 8, Seaforth; vice-president, Jas. Connolly„ Goderich; See. -treasurer, Martin A. Reid, . Seaforth. Directors: Thomas Moylan, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; James Shouldice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Robt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefieid; A. Broadfeot, Seaforth; George Leinhardt, Brodhagen. Agents: W. J. Yea, R.R. No. 8, Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchley, Selaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, err at Calvin Cart's Grocery, Goderich. ' ;Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applica, titan. to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post of- fices. Losses inspected by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. •ANAUTAN' ATIONAV° AILWAYS TIME TABLE Thain will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart . 7.08 a.m. going East depart 8.00 p.m. ',Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. Going West, depart 9.58 p.m. London. Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34.lve.11.54 a.m. Situ 'South ,. _ i S.08 1Lm. She looked into every depression, bjehind every bowlder he would finish milking and that she should go and see who was corning through the gulch. She was 'tremendously thrilled ov- er her discovery. She told herself that now she had Snavely where she wanted him. WORLD New Peace Use For Old Warship A series of week -end _conferences of Portsmouth Rovers and Scouts is too he held aboard- the historic British warship the 'Implacable.!' • tri^ e A Scout Rhodes Scholar A former Boy Scout again has won a Rhodes Oxford scholarship, R.L.D. Fenerty, B,A., LL.B., of • Alberta a gra'livate member of the 10th Cal- gary Scout Troop. Ruth lay awake late that night planning how she could prove the ori- gin of the voice to Ann. She came to the conclusion she would do noth- ing until Sunday. With Will and Old Charley helping, she could get Ann to come for a ride in the mach, ins on some pretext or other. They would take her to the gulch and show her what the voice was. Then, with- out returning to the ranch they would all go into town and place the whole thing in Mr. Martin's hands. On Saturday Ruth and David ar- rived at the mail box later than us•+ eel. The girl stayed on her horse Slowly, Ruth moved away from the rock, trying,, from the infrequent sounds of the bird, to go toward it. She soon discovered that if she went a few feet to right or left she could not hear the ound at all, al- though David, behind her on the bowlder said, "Hear it!", at regular intervals. The sound seemed to come from the south in a narrow band. An though she were following an invis- ible beam of light the girl walked slowly toward the cliff. It was weird; the voice of the bird grew only slight- ly louder—always, it seemed but a few feet befoin her face. Ten yards from the cliff a bird flew out of a waist -high bush and darted up the gulch. Ruth ran to the bush. It was a very ordinary bush, rather sparse, differing in no way from any other bush. A foot or so behind it rose the wall of sandstone. To left and right, ran other bushes, growing as close to the wall as they could find earth, none of them tall. Then Ruth saw something which her eyes would have missed' six months before—in the bush was a dry stick about two feet tall with a forked top. This stick did not belong to the bush; it had been stuck into the sand like a stake. something from its mouth or throat. Then the little wings drooped, • the bird toppled, hung by a single claw for a moment, and dropped to the ground. Ruth buried the bird and the piece of potato, then walked slowly back to the house. Her face was pale and her knees uncertain. In her room again, she unlocked her trunk, and after 'screwing up her courage, tast- ed the powder labelled Cyanide. It was common salt. The girl shuddered. How could any one deliberately poison cattle? But she knew that to Snavely, cattle were only a crop. He would not have killed a horse; but if by causing the cattle crop to fail he could gain pos- session of the ranch, that was an- other matter. Snavely had not forseen that she Would lock both boxes in her trunk and so bad no opportunity to re- change the contents, Later, Ann had "poisoned" the barbecue meat with She stepped through an opening on the right and came between the bush and the wall. Just behind the bush was a smooth depression in the sandstone about four feet across and perhaps a foot or more in deptin It was as 'hough someone had pres- sed a giant basin into the wall when the rock was soft. The lower third of this basin was beneath the surface of the sand. It was a perfectly nat- ural hollow such as are to be found in great numbers, scoired out by wind and water, in the sandstone stone hanks of ravines. But Ruth saw something else; a small flat- topped rock like a footstool lay on the ground inside the basin, and be- fore this stone were the marks of boot heels. Some one had recently sat upon this stone. She experiment- ed and found that when seated upon the stone her head came opposite the deepest point of the basin behind her. She called to David to go back to the bowlder and climb on top. When the boy was in Position she spoke in a normal tone.; "hello, Da, vitt ,. • "Hello, Mamal" His small voice reached.her across the intervening distance. Ruth lowered her voice toan ex- cited whisper. "Can you ;hear ma- ma. now?" •- David did not reply. •Then she saw• that the forked stick which she had already discovered was so placed that by sitting straighter she could just see the boy on the C.SE1101 Boys Want Scouting On the same day announcement was made of organization of the 135th Toronto Scout Troop, at St. Mark's Church, West Toronto, appli- cations to join were received from over 80 boys. The maximum num- ber per troop is 82. THURS., DEC. 28, 1933 if cholera cases (which others refus- ed to touch), and rendered first aid. "Drowning Patrols" manned rafts and saved fifteenpersons during the rush of countless thousands to take ceremonial baths in two lakes just before and during the eclipse. In previous years large numbers were drowned. Holding of the num, ber of cholera cases to the record minimum of three was credited largely to the eficiency of the Scout "Health Brigade." Before the comA ing of Scouting Muslim and Sikh boys would have nothing whatever to do with Hindus. o=71Ects.o Indian Boy Scouts' Mass Good Turn Punjab government reports pay high tribute to a "mass good turn" of 3,000 Muslim,. Sikh and Indian Christian Boy Scouts when 406,000 Hindu pilgrims gathered for a relig- ious festival at the village of Nur, ugshetra during last summer's ec- lipse. The Scouts assisted in prepar- ing and maintaining sanitary details, helped control traffic, took charge Calling 15,000,000 Old Scouts!' Development of an 'Old . 'Scout Branch of the world Boy Scout move-• rent, as another contribution to in, ternational youth friendliness, is the latest idea of Lord Baden-Powell. The Chief Scout declared there are some 15,000,000 old Scouts in the They never heard the whistles blow ¢ng To tell 'em that they'd soon be g Across the top to .face the slee Of the machine -gun's vicious ing It's awful cleansing, ain't To sea the "first wave" ci flat? No doubt the nations do wan sing, But not ,the way that you a ing. • • 1 They "cleaned up" on one g To hold their dead in veneer (That's quite high -principles But do those dead men thin You guys who have the pub Should make .this one th clear: "9Glory of war" is gone for go What's left is " misery, mu blood. I guess you'll wonder how I dare To beard a news -hound in his lair, I'll tell you why, Pat—I was there, world. —B. S., in Shelburne F. P. & G. WAR The following is an answer to an article entitled "The Glory of War," written by "Patsy" in the Boston World. Dear Patsy, though I must admit w There are times when you seem to hit 1 The six-inch spike right on the beak, is You made a miss the other week. You said that war was awful nice! Say, Patsy, what about the lice? And have you ever seen a rat back to the Dead Lantern, Snavely As big as any 'stable cat, And knew darn well that he had fed Upon your pals, •among the dead? That's rather "cleansing," ain't it, Pat? What have you got beneath your Mt? • It came upon me with a shock, Your head must be solid block! was forever beaten. Again she read the letter which she still. held in her hand. Harry had been captured by Mexican ban- dits, had been with them several months, had at last escaped, was bade ly hurt, and from then until the writing of the letter he bad been car-, ed for at the inaccessible Guiterrle Rancho, six days west of Harmasillo. He said that he was dictating the the letter to a traveller—the first person he had seen in many months who had any knowledge of the Eng- lish. Harry was unable to write be, cause of a wound, and was still in bed. But his hurts were mending and before long he expected to be np. He requested Ruth to write his part- ner, Snavely, of the situation and ask him to go to Hermosillo. Ruth galloped to the ranch house, for she saw Snavely's horse standing by the little mesquite near the aback porch. She entered the front of the house and went through to the rear. (Continued next week) Harry Grey was coming back to the Dead Lantern, Snave5y was forever beaten while David dismounted and, crawl- ing through the fence, went to the box. He returned with the roll of papers and magazines. "There's a letter here too, Mama." ho said, as he held up the roll. Ruth worked the letter from under the string about the package and looked at it curiously. It was ad- dressed to her old apartment in Phil- adelphia; the writing was unfamilo tar, a child's writing. The original postmark was undecipherable, but as she opened the letter Ruth noticed that it bore a foreign stamp. dirty salt, and today the girl had kil- bowlder through the notch. IL was led a bird with the "fever medicine." like a gun sight. '!gain she whis- Ruth grew weaek with fear; • if the pered, "Come here, 'David." , man -'would do sixth things • in nn ef- It was uncanny; the 'b'oy slid from As her eyes met the first few words of the crudely written letter, Ruth's expression of mild curiosity was suddenly wiped out, She ute tered a cry and her face went white. She sat on her horse like one entranc- ed, lips parted breathlessly, eyes staring at the paper. Both David and Sanchez looked• on with interest. "Mama?" "David!" Ruth whirled about, "Uncle Harry—this letter he's a- live!" Ruth returned to the hone ranch in an eestacy of happiness. The whole world had changed; for in that world Ruth Warren felt that all her troubles were vanishing. To be sure, Harry was far away, sick, and in difficulties; but he was alive. Har- ry, her big brother the one person, she had really depended on all hell life—was alive! She told herself that she never had been quite satisfied with the story of ]tis death; it sound- ed plausible but somehow not like harry. He wasn't dead -he'd soon bewith her on the Dead Lantern ranch.. She felt incredibly young and light-hearted. As she and David neared the harn, chattering and laughing, Ruth fell to thinking of. Snavely. She pitied him, . Poor,. half-crazy, eccentric man—there was nothing to fear from him now. When Harry learned of the things he hacl done, Snavely would have to go. ; Just what she would do at pres- ent, Ruth had not decided. First, she 'would show Snavely the letter. Nothing he could. say or do would frighten her. now, and once he under- stood that, Harry, Grey was comins. MUSIC Is there' any song so soothing As the wind among the trees, Any melody more haunting Than the murmur of the bees As they hover o'er the clover When the day is nearly over? In the nightingale's soft trilling Sweet note of magic flue, Dulcimer and harp, commingle With the wood -winds and the lute, True accompaniment orchestral! Instrumentalist celestial!, Have you crouched in a muddy ditch, All rain and clay to your last stitch, And heard the "five ,nines" slamming round, And felt that ditch heave up and down? Or used your rifle -butt to crack • A square of tasty canned hard -tack? That's awful "cleansing," ain't it• Pat? I'll tell you something, straight. and flat: The base -camps all through France were full Of guys who shot your kind of bull! Those were the guys who used to plan "We'll fight and fight to our last man," And then they'd whisper, quietly, "As long as that last man ain't I." A a T de. ay Where the brooklet joins the river Hear the duet, flowing free, Swelling to a loud crescendo When the river meets the sea. Mighty billows shout the chorus Oratorios sonorous. In the woods, the little brown things Sing at work and think it play. And the leaves and waving grasses Practice humming all the day. While in marsh and hedge and thicket Claps the frog and chirps the cricket. But of all the sweetest music, If I had to make a choice, Is that melody exquisite -- Just a happy human voice. Melody to heaven ascending. -- Joy and love and beauty blending, In its range and power unending. —A. M, 'Bartholomew, in • Christian Science Monitor. A LIMITED FIELD `"n. IIe--You are always wishing what you haven't got. She—Well, what else can one for? TOO FEW BUSINESS FIRMS EMPLOY ADVER- TISING TO LESSEN THEIR COSTS OF SELLING. • Business enterprise today has two major prob- lems: 1. To increase sales; 2. To lessen the cost of selling. Yet so many omit the use of advertising, despite their readiness to agree to the proposition that "advertising lessens the cost of selling." We're. frankly amazed at the avoidance of ad- vertising in the face of the knowledge that it costs less to sell with the assistance of advertising than without it. Strange, strange—this human tendency to go contrary to what knowledge and experience have taught us is right! To lessen your cost of selling, we commend to you an adequate campaign of regular advertising in THE CLI T{ N NEWS .REC;r° D A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISINGr—READ ADS. IN THIS ISSUE PHONE 4