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The Clinton News Record, 1938-10-27, Page 2(.'AGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Tit URS., OCT. 27, i9gg.. "hills Of Destiiay" By Agnes Louise Provost SYNOPSIS XXVI which Stanley had hidden under the rear seat of his es • was m est is 1 iLee Hollister returns unexpectedly A shrill outcry• from somewhere m Iron abroad to find Matt Blair, his the rear made them start nervously foster father and owner of the Circle It resolved itself into a high-keyed s7 ranch, dead by his own hand, The torrent of Mexican -Spanish, and -hien wench is going to ruin. Virginia,' something more guttural. It stop :Matt's daughter, returns home from ped, and Curly came in, :New York to help Lee save, her prep -I "It's all right. It's the old woman ',arty. Her uncle, 'Ellison Archer, has who cooks for. Slanty. She 'owned persuaded her to sell the ,ranch to up that Slanty hasn't been here since Milton •Bradish, a scheming former' yesterday, but he says he's often partner of Matt's, Milton's son, Stan- i away all night." 'ley, in -love with Virginia, tries to) "You spoke of a man named Law - discredit Lee in Virginia's styes. But lor," Bradish said abruptly, "Where Virginia and Lee became engaged.' does he come in?" 'Then Stanley accuses Lee of being' "Useta be manager of the Circle 'Matt's son, and Lee sets out to prover ,V but he was no 'good. Lee iruun thatthis statement is untrue. He is him off. We thought he'd gone, but caught in the old Bonanza mine in one of the boys seen him lately rid - .a slide planned by the .crook Slanty in' away from this place. Nobody Gano, who has been intriguing for knows where he's stayin' but it looks Lee's downfall. When Lee disappears like he was in cahoots with Slanty." the Circle V ranch turns out to find Virginia was already on her way 'him, The men ride first to the old to the waiting car. Each new thing 'Rancho Ceballos, ( was a little worse, and inactivity was • maddening. • ' I Bradish was the last to come, still The Clinton News -Record with his heavy stare taking in each detail of the place where a bitter man had sat waiting for- him, day after day, with a gun across his with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 'x1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or •ether foreign countries, No paper• 'discontinued until all arrears are 'paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the /label. • ADVERTISING RATES -- Transient advertising 12e per count line for first insertion. 8e. for each subse- -quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. 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FOOT CORRECTION 'by manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 201 GEORGE ELLIOTT ,d acensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron E;arrespondence promptly answered lemnelliete arrangements can be made +for Sales Date at The News-Reeord, 'Clinton, or by calling phone 203. 'Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed: THE McUILLOP MUTUAL lire Insurance Company Eead Office, Seaforth, Ont s'• Officers: "President, Thomas. Moylan, Sea - (forth: Vice ?resident, William Knox, i•Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A, Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex, i Etoadfoot, Seaforth;. James Shpldiee, Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. " Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex, .Mcidwing, .Blyth,• Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents:. E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, .Goderich, Phone. 603r31, Clinton; • James, Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, °'Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKer- 'eher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. ' i$iewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmutb, 'Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid -may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of • Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cvtt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties dedirisg to effect insur .ante or transact other business will be, promptly attended to on applica- tion to any ,ofthe above officers ad-' :dressed to their respective post °M - aces. Losses inspected by the director • veho lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN' ATO A AILWAYS. {i r knees, From far away Slanty Gano saw the rolling cloud of dust speeding out from the Valley of the Sunand resolving itself into° a racing car. Every crime has its• inevitable stupidity, and Slanty' ;tad been guilty of several. One had been in not re- moving Brirestone'a blood-stained saddle and letting it be buried under the blast; another had been in ling- ering here too long. First he had lost a good hour the night before trying to catch Lee's , horse, but Brimstone, always disdainful of strangers, had this time eluded hien. When he had given it up, he had ridden to a secluded spot nearby and had let time and discretion slip by him in the companionship of a bot- tle. Presently he had slept. When he awoke, greying darkness told him that dawn was close. Slanty stumbled to his feet with a startled curse for his own carelessness and went after his horse. Caution warn- ed hien to get away from this neigh- borhood as rapidly as possible. • He wheeled swiftly, circled the end of Turkey Gulch and started on his way home, only to catch sight of that distant rolling cloud; cutting off his return. Slanty had the eyes of a hawk. He saw that it was young Bradish's car, but what was 'it doing. there at this hour, and going ab that rate of speed? And it was full. He turned back to deeper shelter, caught a sound and stiffened, Horses! He dismounted, wormed his., way to a point of vantage and peered. Corning out of the mouth. of Tur- key Gulch were intent They were Circle V men and they rode with a purpose, scanning trail and hillside. Hard faced men, strangely quiet. And all of then, were armed. Men did not hunt 'strayed cattle that way. Crouched low in his env, ei•b botween the rolling dust cloud and the riding men, with a deed in his pocket bearing the smeared im- print of a bloody thumb, Slanty knew that he was a fugitiv The news spread quickly. Strange awe caste and went. Neighbors dropped work or business to come and offerhelp, and went on to snake the offer good. Many of thein,: came direct to Virginia, tacitly recogniz- ing a claim. At the ranch house relations be- tween the inmates wore noticeably strained, but Virginia saw little of the others, They would' all have de - period gladly, but to leave just now might create an unpleasant impres- sion or even definitely arouso sus- picion in this place where feeling was running so high, The Archers fussed around anxiously, pallidly seared at this turn of affairs, but no one paid any attention to them, least of all the Bradishes, for whose favor they had toiled so long. The elder Bradish was bluntly.rude to his now, useless agent, and Stanley was Her- vously on edge. There were several natters that were worrying hien bad,, ly, and one of them was a thousand dollar bill. If they should catch Gano and find that bill on him, Stan- ley Bradish was going to have a bad time trying to explain it, ' Stanley might have been still, more concerned if he had known -what the sheriff had said to one of his depu- ties with a brief glance toward the plate where Stanley was carefully going over his oar. "Keep an eye on that bird, and the TIME 'TABLE old man too. Slanty was flashing a •''¢,Frain will arrive at. and depart from lintotn a follows.; thousand dollar bill down. in Saund- C e ht Buffalo and C}nderic6 Dlv:' jere the other night, , andyoung Bar -1 'Going East;' depart 658 a.m. clay at the. First National say the Best, de art. 8.00 ,indIicid: cashed a oheelc for five of 'em Going West,, depart 11.45 p.m." only., two days before. Likewise that Going Going West, depart 10.00 p,an.l.deecl;business sounds queer. If they London, Huron &,,Brace shown any"signs of starting back &Going North, ar, 11.25Ive. 11.47 p.m, east in a hurry, discourage 'em." tZoing South ar. 2.50, leave 8A8 P.m.+ -Later .in the. day a packaged bag returned to his room.' He did not try it again. Virginia was hone scarcely at all, except occasionally to 'catch a brief rest .and to see that Ling had suf- ticient help in preparing meals for the men who came and went, The secondday dragged out to ghastly length, but there; was no trace of Lee, and no sign of Slanty Gano or Lawlor. Men began to shake their heads. There were plenty of places around here where a man's body might lie hidden for a score of years. Only Virginia and one other re- fused to believe that Lee was dead. The other came at dusk and touched her arm shyly with a little brown hand. "I not hate you any MOte. My heart it break for you, and for Lee. I help you fin' heem." ! : "Thanks, Josefa," Virginia -held the small hand closely. "But you mustn't believe that he's dead. I can't believe ' it—I won't " "No!" said Josefa stoutly, he is not dead. We know it, you and L" In the black tunnel of the Bon- anza a gaunt shadow of a man lay. He was weak, from hunger and loss of blood and half delirious from thirst, but he lived. Years. ago Don Luis' reckless mining had turned his own claim and Matt's into a maze of intersecting tunnels, and through these Lee staggered and crawled, now fainting, now stumb- ling to his feet again, but somehow keeping a sense of direction in a head which one moment felt like ‘a lump of lead and the next like a floating feather. He was hunting for a gleam of light or a breath of cool air, but neither came. What he did• find was a puddle of muddy' water and buried his face in it greed-- lily, reed-eily, Hind and all. But it was only a puddle, and he knew -that. very shortly it would be gone. He pul- led .hinnself tohis feet and, went blindly on. Presently he lost all sense of time. . kIe did not know: that it was the noon of the second day which found him back at the place where Slanty had left hint. It was a cluttered mass of rock and dirt now, and but for that gleam of consciousness and the will to crawl, he might have been beneath it. He .felt gropingly over the mass that held him prisoner and tried to pull that floating feath- er of a head down to where he could reason with it. The blast had been set on his side of the old cave-in,. Slaptat had. left no evidence of fresh earth and. torn rocks to be" noticed from the outer side. Probablyno one would think of Deming here anyway. Slanty had known better than to set a heavy, blast, and the sound was not unusual in these hills, where prospectors still carne. And Lee was supposed to have started on a journey. He groped further. The pile bar- rier sloped sharply. That meant that it would be shallower on the right hand side. He began to dig, dogged- ly and blindly, with bare hands, Even as he worked, then were pas- sing' through Turkey Gulch, less than a hundred yards away. One of the deputies looked up at the yawning black hoie, "N'o chance of anybody hiding in the old Bonanza, is there?" Curly shook his head. "I was up there yesterday with the sheriff. Ye can't • get but a little ways in. Both tunnels is blocked' by cave' -ins, and' they ain'troom for a jack rabbit to squeeze through. The last one come just. after Matt died:" They rode on. Back in rthe rubble- choked tunnel he digging hand's had stopped: Lee was sinking down, down, into that deadening coma of weakness and exhaustion. Starvation and thirst --a rat 'in a trap. Ile lay very still. (Continued) T. B. E'UUi:ATIONAL Ite.L+'E'faN'tala IN HURON COUNTY Educational meetings on the sub- ject of Bovine T. B, and particularly about the Restricted Area Plan, are being held tails' week in the north east Townships' of Huron County. Cattle owners are turning out hi large numbers to acquaint theme. selves with the rules, and regulations. Catnvassers in each school section in the districts where the meetings have been held, are already circular•. ,zing the livestock men to find out if they are in favour or opposed to the Restricted ,Anna Plan, The meetings for the coining week are as follows: November 1st -10.00 am. Currie's Corners, November 1st --,2 p,m. Kingsbridge, November 2m1-10 .a.m. Dungannon, November 2nd --2 p.m Carlow, November 3rd -10 a.m. Benmiller, •November 3rd -2 p.m. St. Helens, November 4-10 a,m. 51, Augustine, Noyember ith-•-2 p.m.Zion. Some Brief Notes on the Canada Temperance Act NO. 6 THE ONTARIO GOVERNMLNg"S APPEAL DISMISSED Subsequent to the decision pre-, viously related of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario government asked (gave of the Privy Council to enter an appeal from that decision. In doing so they sent a bodyof mat- erial contained in the Factum they Siad prepared for the Supreme Oour of Canada dealing with the claim that the Canada Temperance Aet was ultra vires. The Supreme Court had declined that under the submis- sion of the Dominion government .it could not deal with the question of the validity and this evidence there- fore fell to the ground, Recogniz- ing that its tenor was calculated to prejudice the mined of the English 'jurists, Mr. Rowell made applications to the Register of the Supreme Court who ordered the return of the documents and the excision .of this natter. • Shortly afteward a legal action of leery peculiar aspect accuirred at C'ooksville in Peel County A .lair. Varley, who had purchased some liquor in Toronto,' took it into the hotel' at Cooksville and quite openly consumed it in the rotunda, Two policemen were conveniently present and promptly arrested him. He was charged -under the Liquor Control Act with consuming Iiquor in a pub- lic place. The Moderation League defended him, Mr. Greer, its presi- dent, conducting the case, while Mee Sedgwick (then of the Attorney: General's Department and who had attacked the Canada Temperance Act in the Supreme Court hearing) con- ducted the prosecution. The =gist - rate convicted Mr. Varley of e. breach of the Liquor Control Aa. The Moderation League appealed from the decision to the County Judge. At the hearing, the same legal representatives appeared. Ar- gument re the validity of the Can- ada Temperance Act and much of the material contained in the Ontar- io government's Factum prepared for the Supreme Court and recalled from England, was rehearsed. It is under- stood tate counsel were agreed that if one Act obtained the other could not be operative, a conclusion that wholly conflicts with precedent and practice for many years, In delivering judgement, the Judge resorted' to a somewhat unusual pro- cedure. He refused the appeal, but in doing so rendered a lengthy judg- ment in which he held that the Can- ada Temperance Act was ultra vires, It would appear that the Varley ease was a planned affair with the gov- criunent• and the Moderation League cooperating, and it is suggested that the original purpose was to put the government's argument on the ques- tion of the validity of the Canada Temperance Act on the legal records so that it might . be cited as such in argument before the Privy Coun: ell, • The decision of Judge Grout (now deceased) -was very welcome to the Ontario government and Mr. Heir, barn began immediately to use it in an attempt to justify his attitude and his action in ignoring the Can- ada Temperance Act, despite the faot'that on two occasions the Can- ada Temperance Aot had been held valid by the highest legal authority, the Privy Council, and that the de- cision of a county judge on a ques- tion' of constitutionality is in itself of very Little legal weight. As the time for the hearing of the gove#rnment's 'appeal to the Privy Couneil drew near it became evident that the government was not at all confident of its ease. When the hearing was called its represent- ative asked to be allowed "to with- clraw" the appeal. The legal rep- resentative of Tlie Ontario Temper- ance.Fedeeaation and' the three count- ies refused to consent to this pro- cedure. The reason for this attitude was that such a course left the way open for the government to revive the aetion at any time if they chose. After some transatlantic consulta- tions the case was "dismissed" with the assent of the Ontario. govern- ment. "Dismissed" means that that particular action is finally disposed of and cannot` be revived. The On- tario. government thus failed in its action and the decision of the' Sup- reme Court still stands though Mr. Hepburn- continues to ignore it and continues to violate the law of the Tana. • WHAT HE WENT FOR A clergymen who had failed' to gain the confidence and esteem 4f his flock was giving his farewell ser- mon. He stated: "My clear .friends,—It is clear God does not love you fee I have not buried any of you. It s equally clear you do not love one -mother, for I have not tnarriecl'nay of you. It is painfully clear you do net love me, for you have not paid me, my last quarter's salary, I shalt, however, be independent of you In future, as I go to take the position of 'chaplain at a convict prison." He then calmly gave out his text: 'I go to prepere a place for you.' .■ver "��pi/� ��.�� VIe lt' etta" kS o a ful hetet at steady healthful e furrtao abundance is heeled. sera jests e araco or he So clean e k est Caine,.asy to ban e to ick. "e longi.ith at n 9 t- -gaud pleasure lea hovel lea d e --.°so it ron ace the e sic des n an --leaves earl fuels: t Tome teem 3 + orb lear0an co dee ' <, beating`leant asrt �. °uY a r deader about Ask Your n 140100fostos 'gOL 09,11/21"V arta `N11154rItte°14EATESt Two Money saving conveniences. 1, RAMC() COKE SOLD IN CLINTON VICTOR FALCONER HAMC CONE HAMILTON BYPRODUCT COKE OVENS. LIMITED HAMILTON, CANADA J. B. MUSTARD COAL CO. W. J. MILLEI1 COAL CO. (ALSO BRUCI:FIELD) A. D. McCARTNEY I a t.N. iv 5;, �•; �Q1 iso eteg °nail ""aaAPAPAI es"A. r . i`.: .Pa`i a" Wna"saa'r'i A " a a c . . .*,a , • a nearby hamlet. When March came T :1:1 -the frenzied labour en Eden was YOUR t©RLD AND MINE ;etstmled, and in the stretching months, re - sae IC dreams began changing themselves as (Copyright) into realities. The old house -200 as and mere. years Old, with its ghosts by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD a: and fancies, and' with . a vast fire-. ey—had 1"%%%'►%atelaael,Ma4,%% eaaaaaa"a� %%%as%Lagar+aao%%%%aa'i,ae"d° %%% %%%% n%1S ton be ceae titaly rebuilt;also tithe tet - Mosel of us like to mad" books (each speaking in his turn and ac- eery barn. Water had to be piped which mirror our dreams.. When we cording. to' my mood and my -will to to the house from neighbouring were children we read with. rapture listen, Among - those to whom I springs. Ponds .and pools were made; Robinson Creme, Dog Crusoe, Swiss would listen often amulet be Charles a bridge was built for beauty's sake. Family Robinson, Tom Sawyer, The Lamar —a chatterbox—the man who A guest cottage was built. And tawt Giant Raft, Treasare Island, Black said that th la so, preciaus than everywhere the sward and the hill- Arcow, Young Fur natters and it is a shame to waste it an every sides and the paths 'and the road - many other books of adventure and bodyl: (ways were made beauteous.with which gave us captivating pictures flowers and' shrubbery and foliage„ of far countries and wonderful ex -I The work of snaking Eden eoantin- All the foregoing is. a sort of prem perieneos. Books about the Prairies, ued for years, The Ciosa's threw about the Arctic about the South taco• to what I want to say about caution and discretion to the wind'. Seas, aliuut the pampas, about Bow_ a book which I have but recently Adam—the Bustin -nee -left his wont- read—a book which entranced nte— nsen and woodsmen and Bunters and ed work in order to delve and build pirates and Indians, about treasure at book about the malting; of e. in ];den. Mrs, Cross's gardens gave country home—a book with tare de - hunting, about strange adventures, them ,Dots and' fruits and leafy fare books were read greedily, for they Iightfttl and happy title, "Taco On: like lettuce and cabbage in excessive A Country Hili'—a book by a wom-• mirrored' our dreams and desires; measures; and her pantry was al - they roused in us resolutions that an' Mrs, Ruth Cross—a book about ways laden with the good things we too would Iive adventurous lives. herself and her husband -- a book which go into glass jars. The cel - about thehe 40 -aerie farm in Con- lar was heaped' with potatoes, tur- But in our Did age many of us necticut whose name is "Edendale". p like to read books which. tell of the. This book has been published this nips, squash, apples and such things. placid life of the countryside, After` The woodshed was crowded to the year. Few persons seem to knotr rafters with los The house itself the long and exhausting years be- g tween 2ff and 60, -many of us want about it. Many, many persona ought was made homey in simple ways, ,to Icnow about it, read it, own it,•The fireside was over 'warming and to get away from the city— away- re -read it, talk about it, and be fn-' g from maelstroms of human activity, spired by ii:, soothing. n The windows looked out, away from pressure of money -male- I winter and' summer, on ravishing I have read numerous books about vistas, ing occupations—away from enervate the making of a camstry home ing aura' lather disillusioning social Everyone of them has given me un- I To begin with the Cross"s had life. We want to get into the bounded; pleasure — has set inc cash assets of only $2000. Yet in country, to have a home in the dreaming and desiring —and. some- a 10 -year period they made their country, to be expanses aped from other times purposing, But T have read, farm worth $15,000, and they lived by heated expanses of green fields' no book about country-home-mai:lag : on its produce. There were no child - We ',refer the company of birds and' excelling Mrsc Cross's book in liter- ren, no animals, no fowl; and one arty excellence or in the quality of would almost conclude no birds on ws'iterh;apture.' ;Eden, Only once is a biter mention-, The Cross's were motoring lanly,ecl—.a spring robin. It was flowers,. through a Connecticut byway, on a, trees foliage, gardens, ponds, garde sunny clay. They had emerged from ens, and domestic duties which took In my own case, I 'shall never a bit of the road which was tree- hold of the Cross's. have. a place in the country. Bttt rooted, and' there spread before theirI Do you wonder that 1, dreaming this knowledge clbos not take away sight was Eden --a hilly, wooded for years and years about a country anything from my dreaming about farmstead abandoned' by man.. The home, became a prisoner of "E'den golden September sun beautified On A Country Hill"2 I did not. everyacre of it. The rickety house, want to escape from my bondage ty ! and barn were possessed of charm. I made the book last for several The very sight of this tenantless days. I revelled .in the Se tembe V house which T. want --a low house; sioepiytg, sunny form amused m- end October sun and air. 2 mused facing the southwest, and overlook- stant purpose in the Cross's to own by the fireside. I ate fresh balked' lag a wide -spreading valley. I have rand waren they had traversed all i bread in the kitchen. I feasted On dteanied of a rouse arl waterfall, a the acres, their love for thisplace the stores of the pantry and cellar. Pond. I have visions of large fire- and their desire for it multiplied ht( But above all such pleasures was places and blazing wood fires. 2 then. - 'the joy of Mrs, Cross's writing. and would have a large library -a spat -J They sought out the owner — a her spirit. Mrs. Cross used words ,bus room with many books; a lib-•! reis painter shrewd 'Yankee farther—a bargainer. to paint with, and she a rany with a fine ,outlook; .a roost They bought his property for $2500 to be acclaimed. where r,cbuld live from morning nn- --41000 down, the rest on mortgaged I urge all my readers to read '11 night;, with ,easy. chairs ands Then began a ftniene labour to get, "Eden On A Cettntry Hill." Ask couches(. Other rooms would have things planted and ready for plant- your public library to get it, Own much less of my interest and would ing, Joking forward to the following this book, if you like books which not be inhabited much by e, 2. spring. Isoothe the spi mrit and which have would want My bedroom and a bath- I wonder if one will find in i magic power to transport you away room opening off this library :for any other book finer desoripticns 'frons. fret and turmoil and COMMA-, my own exclusive use. ' I would not of September and October not ing anxiety to the soft greenery of be, a gardener, for i shun physical "melancholy?' 'months for the !meadows and hillsides, far from the exercise. Yet I would like to have Cross's. Husband and wife week 1 starts of money-makers. Give this a gardener, , and flower -beds and ed madly from sunup to sunset enchanting book to friends of yours shrubberies and. fine trees. .( would --and beyond. They .transplanted wha- love gardens -=this at Christ. like the nearness of hens and roost- trees; they planted bulbs; they alas, Give it to your children, that ers,• for I• like to listen to their con- levelled hillocks which, :shut out they may have planted in them the versations. I would want liberty to views, And always withinthein desire for a cotmtry home, Give it drowse acid snooze. I think that I were .dreams of the Eden which 1 to those friends of yours who are should.. like to have , my meals they meant to make. There were ' to me in the library. My numerous small collisions of I responsive to themusic of wordsand broughtY craftsmanship. to fine literar y books would be persons—silent per- ideas and wills, but always ideas I The publishers are H. 0. Kinsey ons yet ver, real,very •communica-1 and wills were harmonized, & Co, Inc. New York. The U.S.A.. ,�y tive in their' own tongueless way, The winter months were spent in price of this book is, I hnagine''$8. cattle and fowl—perhaps, also- of pigs—to the company of human- be- ings. We want to rest. We want pveat composure; vre want peace-- tbe peace of Nature: a home in the ecuntrv. I continue to deeam about a hoarse on a hill - slab, in a particular section of Peel County, I have even planned the