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The Clinton News Record, 1938-06-23, Page 2AGE 2, oat TJtE CI4NToN Ngws-REcouri THI(JRS.,..1UNE 23, 1,935, fiy Agnes es 1 ottise Provost Synopsis Lee Hollister returning ,tnexpect- '.edly to the Circle'V ranch, ]lis home from childhood, is troubled by sipns of mieglect, Fresh from a "trio abroad, .die is worried too when he meets tSlanty'Gino, a trouble maker. Shanty "lad been run off the land 'previously by Matt Blair, Lee's foster father sand owner.of the ranch. Shanty is. now manager, of the old Ceballos place, •Joey, prospector befriended by Matt, "tells Lee that Matt killed himself, pro- bably discouraged by hard times. The -ranch is going to ruin under Lawlor, •manager appointed. by Matt's daught_ er Virginia, who is living with her aunt and uncle in New York -the Archers. tee goes east and persuades Virginia to return to the enrich •to save it. 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She had forgotten that'it was pos- sible to eat with such 'appetite. , And she drank coffee from a large tin cup with a business like handle and wond- Leaning against the door, be ab- sently lit a cigarette and, looked slow- ly around. It was a comfortable' sort of room, shabby and a little neglected, because Matt could rarely be ;nduced to spend money on himself. There was the familiar armchair,' sagging somewhat from long years of accom- ered, as Lee Hollister neatly placed n.odating Matt's ample, frame; there a flat stone for a saucer, what would was the old'desk in the middle of the her aunt say if she could see her naw, room ,on whose surface a boy named side by sidein the dusk with the Lee Hollister had burned the Circle wizened old"prospector and: the young V brand one day. That was the place. man who had been one of her father's where 1ilatt had always sat` evenings "hands". Mrs. Archer and the well when he stayed indoors at all, and served ease of the cottage were far that was where Ling had found him away; so were Stanley Bradish and that early morning, with his gun. Be- all the lavishly spending crowd with side him. whom she had motored and danced and golfed through days that were crowded to the brim, . Lee was Quiet; his cleanprofile showing darkly against the fire. Joey chattered contentedly. When they were through he proffered an anx- ious suggestion. "I was thinkin', Honey, if ye felt lonely about stayin' up there with just Ling, me and Lee The chair in which he' had died had been moved from its usual place. Lee crossed the room soundlessly and put it back again. He stood beside it, looking toward the closed door; went over toa window and looked out; looked back again with thoughtful intentness; returned to the desk and stood looking down at that, puzzling for the answer that would not come. could conte up=" I He could see Matt now, stretched "Thanks, Joey, but I shan't be out in the old chair, large, good hum - afraid." She was, but she didn't ored, keen, with hie shaggy greying want Lee Hollister to know it. head and beloved pipe, talking wisely "Lee was sayin'," Joey continued and kindly, or listening with silent urgently, "that ye oughta have some chuckles to a long-legged, black -head - woman to cone help -with the work. ed boy perched on the', edge of the He says it ain't no kind of a way desk. for a young lady to, live, with nobody Lee bent forward now, pulled out but a pack of sten folks around. Lee the second drawer, and, with the sure - is, awful fussy, he is ." ness of long custom, slid his hand Lee, Lee, Lee! 'beneath the obstinate upper drawer "I'll thunk about it. Joey—but I and gave it a pressure of strong must go how.,It's ahnost dark." She finger tips which brought it sliding jumped up with a quick shiver. Night out obediently. An old tobacco tin was corning on with a keen tang in was still there, a few cartridges, some the air, and her silk shirt was thin. odds and ends of paper. Nothing Lee arose also and disappeared into very valuable. It gave Lee a queer the cabin. A moment later a man's feeling to be looking at it again. coat was laid around her shoulders, There was something so personal "Reckon you forget that this cline- about these familiar trifles, so alive ate is half a mile up in the air and He had known that these things gets cold awful sudden," he drawled. would be here. Joey had told him "I'll ride back with you, Virginia," that Virginia had given orders that She was glad to have hint as they nothing should be touched except the left the friendly circle of the fire and necessary papers. plunged into a deepening dusk. It was He 'bent lower, peering intently a rocky climb to the head of the raw- Pulled the drawer out, moving the :ne and loose stones rolled treacher- haphazard contents lightiy, hushing ously under her horse's feet, but once them aside and/back again. out on the valley floor it was straight Something caught his eye—a tiny going, They could see the ranch house gleam half lost lost in the crack. He with its lamp -lit windows. Lee rode took out his knife and coaxed it into closer. His hand touched her arm. clearer view. - It was a trifling thing when he "That means 'welcome home,' Vir- had it, a thin, triangular scrap of ginia. And I suppose Curly is round- metal with little enough meaning in ting up the whole outfit to meet the a place where odds and ends had been boss." e dropped for year's. The broken oft "Oh—am. I boss?" She laughed. tip of somebody's knife. He laid it Somehow it gave her a pleasant sense en the palm of his hand, of ownership that she had not felt "I'd give a lot," he reflected sob - before. "It's rather absurd, isn't it? arty, "I'd give everything I own to Will you cone in?" ' know just how long you've been "Not this time, thanks. I want to awe, see Ling about something, and later He found an old envelope,• wrapped I may sit under your live oak and the bit of metal in it, stowed it in 'have a cigarette or two. It's an old las pocket and closed the drawer, habit of mine." Then he looked up, Tt was an odd way to respond to There was a light scrabbling 'of in invitation. She wondered slightly, bony fingers on the door panel. Ling and then dismissed it. They rode on stood on the other side. n a star -glimmering darkness, talk- • "Missy corrin'." he said softly. ing little. For two people who had "You stay bleakfas', Lee?" quarreled so bitterly, they were con-, "way yes, if Iin asked," Ile gr'n- ried at Ling's astuteness: "I reckon I can manage another." /, A moment later the chair was back in its former, place. Lee gave a quick glance around the room and went down the hall to meet Virginia. tent. Lee's business with Ling was soon transacted. It consisted of a brief question and a grinning reply. "No tlouble 'tall. Pack up plonto when tel-glam come, talcee shack by blunk house. Velly mad." Lee grinned satisfaction and left with a glance toward the cabin by the bunk house where Lawlor,' no longer spreading himself ostentat- iously in Matt's rooms, had hastily betaken himself. H had apparently forgotten the matter of the cigarette under the live oak which spread its dense shadow over a knoll just beyond the house. Virginia looked out twice but saw no one there. But late that night, long after lights Were out, as she tossed wakefully, alone save for old Ling in his distant Protect Carrots Against Rust Fly Carrot rust flies winter in the ground, ,and soon after emerging in the spring lay their eggs upon the soil immediately surrounding the tiny carrot seedlings. The maggots, when they hatch, kill many of the small carrots, or burrow into the roots of the larger ones, forming tunnels Much damage is occasioned in this There are two generations' of lean-to, in a house of creeping mem-.way' ones, a vagrant breeze brought a faint odor of cigarette smoke. She shoed out of bed and went over to a window. Darkness out there, a shadowy valley. And over there by the live oak, a tiny point of fire. For five minutes she watched it. It moved .lightly: once it swung down and up again, but it stayed. Lee—on guard. She crept back into bed and slept like a child. Early the next morning Lee rode out of Joey's ravine just in time to receive a sour glance from Lawlor and a grinning hail from Carly, and Darrell, all on their way to the upper range, and turned up. the valley again to the ranch house, quite as if he had not spent a large part of the previous night only a hundred feet or so away from it. He went around hack of Ling puttering with unusual care among his pots and pans. • Ling 'the carrot rust fly every year. The first one is in. late May ane early June, the second generation appearing in late August and early September. By delaying planting until the middle of June, injury from the first generation will be avoided as by that time most of the flies have disappear- ed. • When . carrots are planted early for the summer market, the rust fly can be controlled by watering the seedlings twice with corrosive sub- limate, used in the strength of one ounce to 10 gallons of water. Make the first application during the first week in ,Tune and the second a week later. Pour the solution oven the plants, being careful to wet then thoroughly as well as' two or three inches of the surface of the soil on either side of the seedlings. Corrosive sublimate should never he mixed in metal vessels as it quickly eats away usually clattered.' the container, and in so doing loses "Missy long time sleep," he con- much of its strength, . Wooden pails fided amiably. "Bleakfas,' Lee?"' or grani,teware containers should be "Had it, thanks. I'll go in the office used, • and hang around," I Carrots should be harvested as early It was the opportunity that Lee as Possible to 'escape, damage from had been waiting for, He, closed the the maggots of the second genera - office door behind him. tion which appears in late August. .:'"?''"Aiw r„nrr ewws?'"' r wd1""'"" wrr"„ v'sw"' Relief Labor on the Fa m YOUR WORLD ANI) MINE (gopyri by JOHN, C. ;+- There'' •is eve'y' indication at this Lht) . •e time that the cro0s ht Mutton County •" will at least reach the bumper stage KIRKWOOD A mote would quieki g dle is: he did Mat restore 'the wastes in' his life by the intake of food. This is time of the mind and soul as it is of the body. Wo cannot live on ourselves. Nature requires us.'to restore- our- Selves froin without. In the matter of our : bodies, we instinctively', and 'inevitably seek nourishment from'outside ourselves. Eveo the hour old infant turns to its mother's breast for the food need- ed by'it to keep it alive -and to help it grow, Yot, when it comes to the realms of the mind and, the soul, inany of us seem to feel that We do not need to seek' out nourishment' froin outside sources. We go along day after day just thinking our own thoughts and trying to. get along, in things related to the spirit, on our own experience and reflections. Thanking only our own thoughts and depending only on our own ex- periences and reflections can be liked to a pool of water unfed from :any springs or streams. Just as the stagnant pool becomes" foul, so do the mind and the soul which remain unfed. The wholesome pool is one having both inlets and outlets; and the wholesome mind and soul have inlets and outlets. Take the retailer, the fanner, the lawyer, the teacher. the labourar, who do not draw into themselves fresh life: they .perish. Their bodies may live on, and they may be con- tinuously active in respect of their kind of business; yet their rnind> and souls die, and it is their minds and sduls which make them differ- ent from the beasts of the field and the fowl of the au. Men and women who let themselves become not much different fronn the lower creations lose their likeness *to their divine parent; in other words, they starve the divinely -implanted quality of heavenly aspiration and let the days and the years pass without imper- ishable •achievement, Unquestionably the obligation on all hunnul beings is'to lift themselves above animal levels of life. Just eating, pleasuring lusting, fighting, is living on the animal level, Having 5ninds and souls there is obligation on us to use then, to develop them, always looking forward to acquiring and spreading the virtues which are heavenly—the virtues and practices enjoined on us by the Sermon on the Mount and by, all the Scriptures. Christianity differs from other relig- ions in its insistence on the cultiva- tion of meekness, kindliness, purity, solicitude for the welfare of our neighbour, honesty, integrity, gentle- ness. Some religions urge men to be warlike, selfish, intolerant of others, cruel to slaves, lustful, cheaters, thieves, murderers, oppressors of the poor. The gods of some religions are just men's own conceptions; they are magnified or exalted men; they are utterly different from the God and the Christ and the saints of our Bible. These religions may point men to a heaven—a life continuing after death. That is to say, there fo a belief in immortality, but life in the hereafter is°imagined to be a larger portion of the things desired on earth. There is just to be a larger enjoyment of fleshy pleasures in the heaven of their conception. I wonder if I may dare to say something which. is likely to 'shock and offend some of my readers. In brief it is this: I ant not very much interested in my hereafter. I ant persuaded that there is obligation on me to live divinely—according to the divine pattern,. -while I am, on this earth, This conviction does not, alas, make Inc live up to the high Ievels of the Christ example. I an. much like the farmer who gave as his reason for not buying a good book on the practice of farming, '1 am not farming now as good as I know how". And, in my case, I am most certainly not living now as good as I know how. I go to funerals, and I hear preach- ers talk about the life after death, and they read from the Scriptures, portions which tell of the after -life about th•, rose) ' •:•'i ul al the l ody I confess how:ver, that I am' nut .'•ted b,, funeral :. r 4'• sses and services. Nor am I' comforted by the reflection that in heaven we may meet and have conversation with those whom we loved on earth. I believe in the, immortality of the soul, but I own to being very much in the dark concerning the manner of life- in the hereafter; nor am I greatly interested, What does con- cern and interest one is how we live of earth in tjme rather than in eternity. And. in my .own case I am not trying to live' on earth in order that I shall have rewards in heaven. Working 00 living for rewards does not seem. to me to very noble. Surely we ought to work and live as duty and conscience and enlightenment in- form us. The mother does not love het' infant with expectation that tier, child will return her love. A. loan is not a good bookkeeper for reward's sake, Nor is' a man virtuous—should not be virtuous for the sake or re- ward, or because of fear. One, does not • de good "deeds in order to win Prow, Quite often someone whom I have helped in some way says to Me that i£, and when he gets<rich, he will give me something. Such a sugges- tion—that uggest. tion—that,I aided 'him hoping to get a reward -is rather disgusting. It reduces niy adtonto a trading level I am fully aware that 'men are en- joined to be virtuous and;, righteous and repentant for the sake' of the rewards which will"be given them in heaven.'' But what would we think of the quality of a boy's honesty' if his mother or father said to him,' "Now, if you don't tell a lie, I'll give your 25 cents"? Is not that life cheaply lived which; is always governed by money? We hear the expression "cupboard love",: signifying that the reason why per- sons do certain things is to get some desired thing'in return, as compen- sation. In the affairs of business it is right to do things for money; indeed, we are under• compulsion to charge ,money for out merchandise or our service. My rule is to charge money for services given which are for the financial enrichment or bet- terment of the man or firm or or- ganization served. Thus, when' a young man came to me to talk over: the matter of whether Ire should start an in a particular class of business, I charged him for my advice, for I felt that I was preventing him from entering on an enterprise in which he was bound to lose very quickly quite $2000; but when a young man comes to me seeking counsel regarding what to do vocationally, my advice is gratis. by harvcst time. In no other year have the prospects • been better. Weather has •been ifleal and growth steady,and there .would now appear to be little fear of a June frost. '. With 'bumper crepe comes the de- mand for ,farm labor, which has 'be- come •a scas'ce- .commodity for some years past. Not because there . are no idle men, but Chiefly because,these idle men are either physically unfit- ted for farm work, or absolutely re- fuse to perform ,such work, • There are no six and' eight hour days. on the farm during the sum -1 Me r months and the work is men's work. For that reason we' might say that too many men, who are on relief, seems to have a greater dis- like of such work than they have of the evil one, or anything else. It should not be that way. And it was not that way until municipal re- lief, Government relief and every other kind of relief made the state of idleness more pleasant and profit- ` able flat an able-bodied man than that of earning his own liv!ng, . But it is that way now, ' It might not be a bad plan for the keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I began this contribution to the News -Record by saying that a man, in order to live above the level of an ox's'life, must take in food of sorts food for the replacement of waste. I said that the man who goes on living, relying only his own thoughts and experiences, is like a stagnant pool. Our stagnant state The arrow of prayer can never' be shot aright without bringing down some blessings. If it brings hot that which we seek, it shall bring us that which we need. Deferred duties generally mean neglected duties. 11 The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hunk about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver - while he is hunting for pearls. needs to be changed—by inflow and outflow of cleansing thoughts. Here are some of the cleansers which I have in mind: Give us to wake with smiles. Give us labour smiling. As the sun lightens the world, so may our loving kindness make bright this house of our habitation. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd Government to take a' census of the- undmployed, classify it, and then ,/ conscript the, able-bodied;arid have them available .for the, coming har- vest. Adopt the plan, of refusing re- lief, prresent or future, for all who refuse to work. We notice .that the Ontario 'De- partment of Public 'Welfare is aware of the,' present shortage of farm labs and with a view of encouraging un..' employed on the farms, has issued a set oh'"regulations which ,it hopes will meet' the situation. However, the farmers will incline to the. belief that the Department is a little over optimistic in its regula- tion. For instance, one of these regulations reads: "'Where the wag- es are from twenty -`to one.hundred dollars pier month, fifty per cent., of the earnings may be retained by all employable par•' 1 x ped men registered for and in receipt of relief, who ac- cept farm work." Perhaps' there are some of these relief workers who are worth twen- ty dollars a month and board. Per- haps there are some who are worth one hundred dollars, with board thrown in.' But there is no perhaps about the farmers' side of the goes- ' tion. He can not pay any such wag- es for unskilled labor, no matter how pressing his need may be. And if unemployed relief labor is looking for any such wages on the farm, they are looking In vain. There is plenty of work on the farm to take care of the big majority of those now living on relief, but it is work which must be performed at wages within the farmer's means. —Huron Expositor. 1 SPEAKING of RELATIONS What relation does the label on your News -Record bear to a "paid-up" condition? If it says you are in arrears—Please re- mit! The News -Record asaaaossasoa r) tl it`ll THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every clay tluough THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR 40 International Daily Newspaper It records for 0011 the world's clean, constructive doings. The Monitor dons not exploit crone or aeneattonl neither does it Igaon: them, but deals correctively with them. 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