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Joey snorted again, "Maybe not
so queer either. I reckon if some of.
the city folks in that company would
tun out here and get a line on their
lawyer and their manager, they'd
re 4 want the militia called out to protect
'em. Anyway, I'm glad yo're goin'
to be home to keep that ornery cuss
where he belongs. I bet he's either
rustlin' stock or runnin' a moonshine
stili, maybe both. If ye see him
around here again, throw a gun on
him."
From the cabin door Toey watched
Synops I eye on hint "It ain't Honey's fault, I • He did full justice to Joey's meal. Lee go tall upstanding steno
and it's harder on her than anybody An hour later the last crumb etas •,•,,,,••„e,, universe„ -•._
By Agnes Louise Provost
Lee Hollister, returning une ; ect-' else. Don't ye Honey; the dishes; were washed, and
,edl from, a trip abroad to the'Cirele ly back to its foundations. Matt was
• y—ye old firebrand!” !Lee had saddled the buckskin again.
V ranch, owned by Matt Blair who „ g•
one and that was irreparable, but
for. 20 years had been like a father) Bon't worry about that, Joey. I'm His Movements were light and quiet, the rest would come right somehow.
fe Lee, is doubled to 'see signs offather
not anxious to quarrel with anybody, his voice low. Voices carried on these Lee was home. ' `
I'nm likely to get too mad and their 'still nights.
.neglect as 'he ]'ides over the ranch.) ” "By the way, Joey, what's Slaney! Lee topped the rise from Joey's
lie is upset, too, when he meets Slott-
wish T hadn't. 1Valley
ravine into the of the Sun,
I A brief grin twitched the .corner of Gano tip to now?" .
r'ty Gano, a. trouble maker on, Matt's 1' mouth. Firebrand was right Bothl "Slanty� Where'd ye see hint?" Night had shut down'on th
land. Joey, old prospector befriended
' by the ranch owner, explains every- temper of the waif Matt had brought mysterious ..at his feet, veiled with
. thing when, he tells Lee that Matt is to ,the Circle V years before. The "Just outside Valley Pass. • .First shadows, stretching on and on, into a
dead by his own hand. The ranch is time I've seen him on 'Circle V land liquid blackness against the ,far hills.
temper was still there, but," as Joey
going to ruin under a new manager said, it knew who was boss .:.Matt since Matt ordered him off and told These were Matt Blair's wide acres
named Lawlor, appointed by, Matt's must have hail his hands fall in those him to stay off.. He offered me a job! that he had bought with toil and built
daughter Virginia, who is living .it early days, taming that half mvild kid, and said he was looking for strays. into affluence, had labored over and
New York with her aunt and uncle, but he had done it; and the kid_had 1 persuaded him that he wouldn't find loved. These distant rectangles of
made a 'God of Matt.
Lee' turned any here, and he sidled off."light marked the familiar low build -
IV I • betye did. Joey snorted lee -dings which had once been home to Lee
back to the open door and leaned B
Lee turned back to Joey•abruptly. against the jamb, slowly rolling a fully. "Slanty's had a run of luck Hollister, but he would be a stranger
Nobody's going to jump your claim, cigarette. , I lately, and it's swelled his hat size there now, without welcome, except
Joey. If anybody tries it, you let me somethin' outrageous. He's manager i for the few old hands; certainly with -
He looked up toward the head of for the old Cebalios place—yeah, man- out authority. Welcome or not, he
know and I'll take him apart. And ,
the Circle ,V isn't going to he sold— the ravine where the trail was still ager! Ye know it was took over for , was `going up, there before long to
not yet. I'm gbring greyly visible running up and out. the mortgages when old Don Luis take his own survey of the new man-
goin east to Vir- i
ginia back." i It would be nearly dark in that great died. Some company's got it now, ,ager and get the lie of the land. But
"Now, Lee, you be careful!" Joey grassy'bowl, with the sun dropping 1 disremember the name; but Slanty's snot yet. Tonight, by plane if he could
like a plummet behind the hills. In beenput in until theydecide what get it, he was starting east. Somehow,
sat up suddenly and fixed a worried
the distance the twinklinglights of
i they'll do. Old Sidewinder Morse fixed by persuasion of diplomacy, by force
,, ranch and bunk house would be corn- up tate rale, so I reckon he did it. I if necessary, he meant to bring Honey
• ing in -or would the house be dark Kinda funny, too. Ye wouldn't think Blair back to her shattered ' inherit -
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and sullen, now that no one was there even Sidewinder would want to take lance.
with which is Incorporated but this Lawlor, who was Virginia's a chance on Slanty."
linanager and had such a curious way "They're q pair." (Continued Next Week)
THE NEW ERA They re a queer
of going about his job?. He wondered •
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION t -. _
mf Lawlor was spreading himself ar-
81.60 ver year in advance, to Can-.if
in Matt's house, using Matt's jr a-ti"f.ti'.L.r.S. a`f,Yr. :•.YhA.4;•.M.W.,,Yr.Y.Yr. A,WI.Y. VW.
adieu. addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or
things, and a thin flame of anger ran ..
ether foreign countries. No' parer •• YOUR. WORLD I MINE E
discontinued until all arrears arelalong his nerves. ,..
paid unless at the option of the pub- A match rasped in the cabin, lamp- ;.1;,:
pub-
lisher. The date to which every sub- 1 stove wavered and grew steady, a (Copyright)
ascription is paid is denoted on the stove lid rattled, Joey's voice came 4 .�
label.`• •
his
ng An
ntou m. e valley.
The :wide grassy floor lay vague and
he and Joey remembered the blazing' ,Joey peered back suspiciously.
out to him. by JOHN C KIRKWOOD �!
"Ye goin' up to the house, Lee?" 1't .. .r
ADVERTISING RATES —Transient r"r+'.�...YL rr wrrr w.v.'.ti wr.9r.�r . S. .S.PA. vrrrwr..
'.advertising 12c per count line for; "No." The monosyllable was clip -
first insertion. Sc. for each subse- ped. "I was going up to look things Some weeks ago a man called on and in the past 50 years I have never
liis future. He was heard of hm. I can recall aother
nes.
Tient insertion. Heading counts 2 over, and I'd like to see Curly a 10 yeare tosof age—alk overtm educated English- youth whomt I knew when I wasna lad.
lines. Small advertisements not to Darrell and old Ling, but that will
exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", have to keep. You needn't tell any- man. For four years he had been The railway fascinated him. He was
"Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once body I've been here, Joey. I'll turn the "ghost"of a man occupying a the son of a doctor, but he became e
y u again before tonveryhonorable office in Canada's af- brakeman, and went out of his fain -
for 36e., each subsequent insertion li g . g, say in about a
15c. Rates for display advertising week and then if you don't mind I'll fairs—a position requiring its holder ily's life and ken.
made known on application. hang out with you until I've settled to make many public addresses on ail I supose that all my reader's know
Communications intended for pub- somewhere." sorts of subjects. The occupant of of young men who acquired the loose
go anywhere this office was quite unable himself foot and who have been quite lost, as
lication must, as a guarantee of good "Mind! Don't you dast
to prepare all the addresses which he far as their kin are concerned and it
faith, be accompanied by the name else, Lee Hollister. Now I'll have sup -
of the writer. per ready in two shakes. Ye doggone, was called on to make. Botts the factor maybe that some young people in and
G. E. HALL - Proprietor drnery young nuisance, I'm plumb of time and the factor of ability made about Clinton feel an urge to leave
tickled to death to se you back." it quite impossible to prepare all his home in a 'purpose to see the world.
Joey clattered pans fiercely, taking own epeches; so he had hired this ed- I am not addressing myself to them,
. H. T. RANCE out on harmless iron and tin his rage mated Englishman to get up his but rather those who are settled down
Notary Public, Conveyancer ' that It should be necessary for Lee, speeches.` This man did his work with .or without content. I• want to
Financial. Real Estate and Fire In- who had been raised in that ranch most creditably, But the time came say to those who may yearn for new
eurance Agent, Representing 14 Firs when his employer went out of office environments and new experiences
insurance Comimpanlea. house, to find any other place to stay
fibision Court Office, Clinton I than at the Circle V. and with his going the Englishman that :all future happiness and wel-
fare grinned at him, pulled out of lost his job. Ease are contingent on their taking
Frank Fin land S.A. LL.B.This man said that he wanted to go root some place.
g ,moodier thoughts grin
that .pepper. to Vancouver, • Vancouver lured him,Imagine the ease of the Englishman
+SaSucces Solicitor, Notary K.C.loyalty,. but the grin faded quickly.of whom I have written. He has un -
Successor to W. Brydene, .. Ic "This Lawlor business," he said He had been in many places in Europe
Sloan Block . — Clinton: Ont. slowly, "I don't get it yet. He looks Asia and Africa, but he had never usual assets, but 'the preservation
to mne like somebody's had break Who
teen to time Pacific coast of America. and increase of these assets are con-
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for planned sell -advancement. One
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even in a hamlet, or on a farm. Big-
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purpose, not of the pocket -book.
. If you will try to recall the names
and lives of the world's great men
and women, you will find that most of
them attained to greatness in a small
community. Their greatness was not
contingent on their going far from
home. They became great because
they took root: Greatness is service
and service in abundant measure can
he rendered to a far-flung company
from a single centre.
' 1 d him • ith d 1'k C •1 What he would do when he got to tingent on his settling down—sonic
P lc ke um, With
goo men i eCurly
Piano and Voice and Darrell already on the place?
Studio—E. 0. Nickle, Phone 23w. Who is 'winding up Matt's affairs?
80-tf. The bank? Judge Harvey?"
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Walton; James Connolly, Goderich;
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Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton.
List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1,
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"Neither of 'ern. Honey is."
"Honey! Not all alone?"
"Why—yes." Joey sounded apolo-
getic. "That's the way Matt fixed it
in his will; all his property to go to
Honey, and her to have the handlin'
of the will and everything, unless she
was a minor when be died, and then
the Judge was to be the executor and
guardeen. I guess Matt kinda count-
ed on the Judge bein' here to advise
her anyway, and you around to help
her run things, but now that she'.=
back east, it don't seem to work out
that way. I dunno how she came to
hire this Lawlor' nest."
Joey's voice trailed off on a dis
couraged note; but picked up quickly
in defence of Matt's mistaken judge-
' tient
"Ye see, it was an old will, Matt
was aintin' to make a new one—he
told that hisself. Said h'e "affairs
was gettin' k'nd'a complicated for the
'old one. But he never got around to
it."
(
Joey smothereda sigh and went
back to his pans, Lee stayed for a
moment longer in the doorway, star-
ing out at the thickening dusk with
thoughtfully narrowed' eyes. Yes, it
was pretty clear that the shrewd old
judge was not advising Virginia'
Maybe he'd drop in and see the judge
himself.: He might be glad •of legal
advice before this was over. He began
to whistle softly, and went on down
the slope to find .his horse..
The buckskin pricked his ears and
turned inquiring eyes on him. Lee
ran a friendly hand along his neck
land stripped off saddle and bridle.
"You look pretty good after a day's:
travel, but I'ns giving you a rest.
Make the most of it, fella, because
we're moving on tonight." •
1 The buckskin breathed approvingly
down his neck, shook h.imnself with
evident satisfaction and moved to-
ward a sufficient tuft of grass. Lee
looked back toward the lighted door=
way, suddenly conscious that he was
hungry. Wood smoke was curling
out of the chimney, bacon sizzling,
flapjacks were on the way, the odor
of boiling coffee drifted out to nseet.
hien. There was a fight ahead of Lee,
and he meant to put up a, fight for
Joey, too. He went on up; to the cabin,
DANA I iAN 1 A U'NAL, AILWAYS.
TIME TABLE
Trains will arrive at sand depart from
Clinton as follows:
Buffalo and Goderich Div,
Going East, depart 7.03 a.m.
Going East, depart . 3..00 p.m..
Going West, depart 11.45 p.m.
Going West, depart 10.00 p.m.
London, Ifiuron & Bruce
Going North, ar. 11.25 lye. 11.47 p.m.
Going South ar. 2.60, leave 3.08 p.m.
•
Vancouver he did not know, nor was place. He ought to many, and let
he very much concerned about the marriage be a sort of anchor. A wife
meter. My advice was, "Go to Van- and children would fill many blank
rouvei'. Taste it to the full, and then and bleak places in his life. By set-
ettle down someplace—someplace in tling down, he would become/ a cit -
the Western or Eastern hemisphere izen of a particular community. He
es -seeable to you, but settle down, could invest himself in that coimxiun-
'?tta this vagabond life of yours. It RS". He would get many returns-
was perhaps all right for you to be itiany dividends: from these invest-
was
in your young years, but ments. His life'would lose its aim -
loose -footed
the time has arrived when you should lessness, its futility. He would find
settle dowim" the experiences, labour and achieve
The man left me, determined to go achieve -
silents of every day cumulative—en-
The
Vancouver. He agreed with the iichingly. The wasted years of the
counsels which I gave him' but wheth-would be redeemed.
er he is now settled down, and where 'None of us has long to live. Seventy
he is, I do not know. ' or eighty years may seem to those
What is in my mind is this: there ism their teens and twenties to be a
are very many young persons, both vshorort enough for ton period . et sevens
male and female, who would like to y g y y haveyeaia
ma
roam around the world—who want to wh
purpose in life, and it isthey those who who'
visit many lands, to see many sights; have a purpose in life who are assured
and some of these young persons do happiness. The planned life—that is
set out to see the world. They manage the big thought, not the drifting or
somehow or other to get work in the •aimless or casual life.
places to which they go—temporary Quite too often we think that we
work :work paying then a wage suf- would like to live in some 'different,
ficient for their necessities. But be- town or city or -country; we are apt
cause these wanderers have no object to regard our present place of resicl-
other than pleasures—dubious pleas-ence and labour as being very ordin-
ure-they soon become very weary of'ary—without great attractions and
their manner of life. But this weari- prospects. We hear places declared
ness of theirs does not incline thein to to be more beautiful or of greater op -
settling down. Where would they set- portunities. And is probable that those
tie down? They have not the answer. dwelling in these places hear about
And they continue about the world, outer places allegedly more attractive
Their character has deteriorated sad- and offering more or better opportun-
ly. They have no stability of chorea- ities.
er,' no dominating object. They are I atm not counselling My readers to
not contributing anything to theood
g settle, down for over and ever where
of the world. They are in reality they now live... It. may be that some
tramps. Mere existence is the main wil find what they want most in some
thing with them—food to eat, shelter other community; but t do not counsel
at night, and clothing, which need be all my readers to settle some place,
none too good. The long -exercised and to conquer their urge to become
casualness of their way of life makes loose -footed. This does mean that .I
them fatalists., They lack a sense of am against travelling— against their
both direction and responsibility. taking journeys to far' :cities and
Their moral nature has probably been countries. I believe that it is good for
sloughed off completely. The years one to travel—in vacation periods, and
of life remaining to thein are with- then to r'etur'n to their homes.
•,i,t hope, without lure. They 'broke All our best growth—in character,
away from all family ties. They have in culture, in contentment, in achieve -
lost a consciousness of nationality. mei* and attainment, in service, in
They have lost both the will and the material wealth—is ' most assured
ability to do sustained work, - • when we have settled down; and when
I say "settled down" 1 do not mean
I recall one of my boyhood tom -
"aches. He belonged to a good.family.:mnaetivity,
•
But he lilted better than all things I want to see all people become
rooted in some community, and there
'Ise to be with horses. Livery stables
t
and race tracks attracted him. He to use their time, their talents, their
joined up with travelling .fiorsemen,`opportunities,for self -advancement -
Ladies' Ages Total 261
Years
When Mrs, Elizabeth Robb of Dun-
gannon, celebrated her 81st birthday
at her home in Dungannon, she en-
tertained as guests her neighbours,
Miss Henrietta Maise and Mrs. David
Girvin, who reside one on either side
of her. The combined ages of the
three amounted to 261, Mrs. Robb
being 81, Miss Maize 84 and Mrs.
Girvin 96. A birthday cake centred
the table, and the three spent the
afternoon reviewing days among the
early settlers. All enjoy the best of
health.
Gains for Our Generation
Every day we hear comments on
the appalling breakdown of civiliza-
tion. It is not .only . from venerable
graybeards that we hear of the good
old days. Even before the last de-
pression therd was no scarcity of
voices chorusing • a whisper of death.
It' is cheering to read an article
like that in The Rotarian, in which
Lord Tweedsmuir recounts the gains
of our generation. He does not refer
to the material gains. Indeed he is
inclined to regard material progress
as a sort of illusion and to feel that
on the whole our grandfathers were
in many ways more comfortable than
ive are. .
Indeed, it is our present uncomfort-
able condition which represents, he
feels, the major gain of our gener-
ation. The Great War taught us a
new humility. It showed the thin
crust separating a complex civiliza-
tion and primitive anarchy.
He believes that today there is less
dogma and more principle, less of
class barriers and false gentility and
more general sympathy. The idea of
the State has become less abstract
and a wider humanity is developing.
Looking around us we may see
many conditions which appear to
contradict these' statements. We may
see nationalism triumphing over has
manity in many lands. But at the
same time we see people awake to
the perils which beset us and no
longer taking institutions or ideals
for granted. Perhapsour generation
has registered some gains after all,
as Lord Tweedsmuir believes.
—London Free Press.
Ten Commandments to
Govern Business
1. Handle the hardest jobs first
each day. Easy ones are pleasures.
2. Do not be afraid of critics—criti-
cise yourself often.
3. Be glad and rejoice in the other
fellow's success—study his methods.
4. Do not be misled by dislikes.
Acid ruins the finest fabrics. How-
ever, both dislikes and acids may be
used to advantage.
5. Be enthusiastic—it's contagious.
6. Do not have the notion that suc-
cess means' simply money -snaking.
7. Be fair, and do at least one de-
cent act every day in the year.
8. Honor the chief. There must be
a head to everything.
9. Have confidence in yourself, and
make yourself it.
10. Harmonize your work. Let sun-
shine radiate and penetrate.
—Dr. J. R. Harry.
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