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The Clinton News Record, 1939-04-27, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS•RECORT THURS., APRIL 27, 1939 'TOM AYLMER:: At the time the story opens is living in Peru, man- aging 'silver mines belonging to his father. !FELICE' PARDO: A Peruvian who, although young, has been ::fifteen years in the service of the Aylmer vniining enterprise. IIe is the most trusted native employee, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS Mrs. MERCY AYLMER: Tone's mother; egotistical and exacting. JANE. BRADSHAW: Tom •Aylmer's fiancee. At the thne the -story opens, the expectation is that'. these two, will marry on Tom's next leave in 'England, ANGUS MAINE: A young Scot on Ayhner's staff, and close corepan- ion of Tom. JACOB FERNANDEZ: A rich, eld- erly South American whose hobby is the study of bird life.' He is a bachelor and is engaged upon a monumental literary work on the subject of bird life, "Thus far he had played the game.' Benny iabdured industriously, and a -week .seldom passed, without some .additions to tthe hoard. He produced, treasures.; of : =doubted, value, but these only reached his net fitfully, and much that he discovered of an- cient pottery and'. broken shards while they interested him as greatly as the rest, awoke no enthusiasm 'in the Garcia brothers, for they felt these $ragme uts might grace 'a museum, but possessed . no intrinsic value to ' be measured in cash. Still, they :kept their own counsels and hoped for some great coup at any minute. "It must" have been about this time that the explorer brought me his great red stone set in gold. Then perhaps two years later, an unex- pected incident confirmed growing suspicions and the brothers discover The Clinton News -Record with which is incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or +other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are gond unless- at the option of the, pub - Maher. 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Emilia Garcia died and his brother`• set about selling their estate and leaving the distriet. • He was a widower, but had a ' son in Cuba and, I think, joined him. It happened that my father, who was ed themselves to be the victims of then still alive, though an old man, fraud. It transpired that one, Felice knew the regions of Puno and already Pardo, worked as a foreman on the possessled considerable property in Garcia fruit farms, and seeking him that State. Ile was' familiar'witle the about some matter of business, Juan Garden fruit farm and sent me to Garcia spoke with his young wife. •It see the surviving brother, and Purvey chanced to be theday of a festa and the quality of the place. Thus I the girl, attired in all her finery, was met Jima Garcia and learned from about to set out for Puno, She wore him something of Benny's adventures. at her throat a remarkably brilliant He told me all he knew and felt yellow stone mounted in gold, and very positive that our friend had being by this time pretty well versed swindled him and his brother in the in the matter of gems. Juan recog- past. Against this, however, in hon- nized it for 'a topaz, Benny had esty he set the fact that the adven- dredged net a few lesser specimens. turer. now dwelt at Lima in very but none to be contrasted with this modest conditibns and did not suggest remarkable stone. Julia Pardo handed a man who had by any means conte the treasure to her master, that he into a fortune. Ile' had kept an eye might examine it and --quite ignor- upon Benny, in hope some day to ant of • what she was doing --explain- bowl him out, but failed to do' so. ed that her father, Benjamin Boss Garcia, however, knew his direction at who worked on Lake Titicaca, had Lima and gave it to me. found the jewel in the mud and given "We heard, six months later, that it to her as a birthday present. Like Juan had 'sold tele place to, focal poo- everybody else, of course, Julia was ple and left the country. And then, unaware of the truth and had no turning out an old pocket -book, I notion that Benny and the Garcias found my note of Benny's direction were operating together, in Limaand- took occasion to visit Juan then returned the brooch to him, But I was too late by a month. Signora Pardo' and went his way; Signora Boss welcomed nee andre whereupon two things hapepned—one lated that her husband had received to the pian and one to the woman, another offer from the North and ac- Itwseemed fairly clear to the Garcias that Benny had not dealt justly with them, for if he could keep the 'find of the great „topaz to himself and regard 'it of such little worth as to hand it to his daughter, what might he not have done with far more val- uable treasure trove? They deter- mined to take no step that would alarm Benny, but wait for his next appearance and then tackle him to- al happened half a century ago, you gether. understand, and Benny must, too, most probably be long since ,dead, He' would- be more than a' hundred years old if still alive. But his par- rot is left to bridge the gaff appar- ently. It may have been still in his about Juan 'Garcia when he saw the old house when I called there, but jewel and, knowing her parent pretty) if so, I did not see eta' well, guessed that Benny's story of' They thanked the old man for his story. and Tom proposed another drink. "Another small brandy, my boy, if you please," he answered, "My aged throat is clay. I have not talked so •muoh these many days." cepted it, He was gone, so she said, in search of new guano islands, and proposed to, be away some months. She had heard from Truxillo, to sae that all was well with him, only ,a few days before I paid my visit. "And . that was the last ever heard of Benny Boss. He never came home again and his. end, like his beginning, was wrapped in mystery. These things Somebody else, however, took quite another line of action. Julia Pardo was not Benny's daughter for nothing, and her wits now came to her assistance. She had marked an air of surprise finding it beside the was was untrue. Her first care, therefore, was to seek him instantly, inform hien of the in- cident and do precisely what the Garcias had designed net to do. Benny never missed a festa, and an hour or two later hisdaughter found hula and told him what had happened. The news must have been little to his liking, but he took it calmly and concealed his.purpose. He returned CHAPTER IV THE PARROT'S SI)CRET A day of two later Jacob Fernand- ez reached his destination and left home to his wife, announced the fact the steamer, but an incident occurred that an offer of most important work had reached hien and in a few hours departed, directing silence as to his movements until she should hear more. "Benny vanished from. the ,scene of action and months passed before his circle saw him again; but after he had beenon k g e a week, erne a letter to Emilio Garcia stating that he had been offered a very lucrative task far up country, but might be expected back when his work was accomplished. He gave to direction, however'. ando• no information as to' 1 what he was about. Inquiry at his hone produced no re1is for Signora Bess had hat nothing front d noun g f om her husband, neither had Julia Pardo. Po- lice administration was rather primi- tive in those such and days inquiries h q as the Garcias directed to be made threw no light upon the missing man. Kis letter had come from Lima, but nothing further could be found and it was believed that the had probably take ship from Callao for a destina- tion unknown. "Before a year was told, Benny returned and reported himself. He appeared much amazed to receive a chilly .greeting and declared himself innocent of any disloyal deed. His only wish was to get back to work at the dredging. He was much con- certed re his reception, and expreseed' utmost indignation to learnthat. the Garcias had abandoned their under- taking and never wanted: to see him again. But when they demanded to know where he had worked upon the lake, that they might pursue their quest without him, he absolutely de- clined to furnish any information as to his hunting grounds. Soon after his final quarrel with the Garcias, Benny appears to have left the neigh- bourhood and come to live at. Lima. they say to one another. "Many years passed," concluded "Successfully, sir?" asked Torn. before he did so which modified the lives of a younger generation and ultimately enriched the ancient man's memories. Nor did he omit to mention, when relating the final chapters of Benny's remarkable career, how he himself was indirectly responsible for their discovery. Mr. Fernandez spent much of his time with a big, black cigar, in the company of the blue and orange par- rot. It appeared to love the sea and revel in a measure of sunshine and air long denied it. It bawled germy Borst jovially from morning .till. night and rejoiced in a diet of fruit and led chilies:. Anus and Tom on Angus caro upon the parer one forenoon and found Jacob in his deck chair listening to the bird. He held up his hand for silence as they approached and did net speak until the parrot had ended some meaning- less chatter. Then he told them an interesting fact. "You imagined, Aylmer, that your parrot's) vocabulary was limited to two words the name 'of hie, old master; and so did I; yet listening. to him this morning, I have made a very singular discovery. After shouting 'Benny Boss' one or twice, he proceeds to repeat a mysterious formula of sounds apparently quite meaningless; but the point is that he does repeat ,them. He makes • about. ten or a dozen odd' noises and he echoes them eelactly on evpery oc- casion." "Not " ordinary parrot chatter, six$ asked Angus. ' "No, :fly friend -not ordinary par- rot chatter by any means. No man is probably more familiar with the Ianguage of birds tha myself and I have spent many a year in striving to ascertain the meaning of what n'ti?'.r.ennei .fnenns• nenew"'.S,ynte sessee'"'o°"'"'"r*r'.".'. e': In isen ent'r"■ e% Summed up, it all means that the j HALF PAYING INCOME TAX YOUR WORLD AND MISE } (copyright) ;a by JOHN C. KIRKWODD 'r.'Vk ria"a'tAiSaVi elea V'NeVa n°w°""d°"VWLY"'.'" A .'.'""oY""1""i' AB 1'r"d •4 "I'11 never grow ,old,. I'll die first." sertively, more aggresively,' than diti So said a preacher who was near his the young people of past days; they 70th year. He meant, of course, that impress their views, their lives, then, he would go on keeping young until ambitions and their activities on us the very last. Also, this preacher with great vigour. In. otherwords, said that there was always something 'young people pour' their youthfulness better ahead than had been passed. into ut, and we who are growing ofd Most ageing persions are younger are revived and sustained by their at their age than were those of equal1wine. years in the generations past. No Finally, there is this circumstance: longer is age 70 regarded as repres- most of us need to work harder and eating oi'd age. One must reach 80 longer in order to earn the income to be considered old, and the number required for our necessities, It costs of men and women of age 80 who re- more to live nowadays than in olden main astonishingly young in appear- tiniest This is because we have learn- ance, activity and spirit ,seems to be ed to give much of the labour which always increasing. Undoubtedly one was once performed in the home to explanation of what may be called factories and to others. Thus, we youthfulness in men(and women of give the greater part of our washing 70 and over is the multiplied stimufas to laundries; we have bakeries to tions of present times. We have so supply ns with bread and cakes and much about us 'to keep our minds. pies` and biscuits; we give to am- end ways fresh. Transportation fac- neries the preservation work which ilities, including the motor car, are .was once done at home; we do not greater today than 60 years ago;: and. traneportation facilities mean, that all of us.move about more and go traveI- ling more. These repeated contacts make one clothes as once we did. This transfer of labour to others has towelled us to earn the money needed to pay those whom we ern - with new places, new sights, new ploy; also, this transfer of labour to experiences and different people others has tended to keept us from stimulate us—keep us fresh -minded wearing out se early as did our and fresh -spirited: we draw in new grandparents—has tended to keep us life from what we see and touch, young and strong longer. Then, too, we read more and cone verse more than did those of past daps. We have radio pouring in on AIas, however, the new pace of life us hourly its stimulations of mind has had this result; it calls for an and interest. We are advertised to intensity of effort on the part of by a thousand advertisers, each urg- most workers to such a degree that ing us to live more abundantly. Our persons of 40 and onward are less stores are more numerous than was wanted today than in former times. the case 50 years ago, and are bright- This means' that increasingly it is er places than were the stores in our harder for persons over 45 and 50 grand -parents' days. to both get and hold employment— Also, there is the larger influence this despite the fact that they may of young people on us who are grow- have perfect health and undoubted ing old: young people live more • as- competency, The circumstance that many of us cannot hope to have continuity of "I can say . that only negative re- wage -paid employment after 50 sults have rewarded my efforts. They makes it imperative that we save talk to each other without a doubt, money in our pro -50 years, and per - but their speed of utterance and their haps save it in the form of life in - many notes pitched in a key to.which surancpr that type of life insurance our own ears are not attuned, render which provides us with a pension be - the task practically hopeless. I do };tuning at age 60 or 65. not know what the birds Say to each Also, it becomes prudence to con - other, but I do knew when they are sider deeply anddecisively in •our talking, bird language, and your par-, pre -50 years what we can and shalt rot utters a string of mostly invent- do after 50 is reached, should our prehensible sounds which never be- wage paid employment be taken from longed to his native vocabulary. He us. Sonie persons decide to open a VMS either' taught them by set pur- store 01 their own—a grocery store, pose, or picked thein up by his init- a restaurant or tearoom, a tobacco ative instinct after hearing them very' stove. , Many buy house to. rent to constantly repeated, though what the roomers or 'tenants; and some buy language can possibly be I do not trucks and take up the haulage bust - know." nese. Fewer persons ,become market Angus was fired with a great idea, gardeners and farmer in a small way. "Might it be Aymara, sir?" he ask- Some take up tho sale of life insur- ed: "The Aymara language still sur- ance. Some become laborers. Some wives, I have read. Or if not actually just remain idle, and move to some that, something like it handed down small town where living costs are from Inca days. There was a list of low. Inca words published in 1644 before the language had ceased to be spok- en." But Jacob laughed and shook his head. "If the parrot is talking a dead language, Angus, then he would have to be more than three hundred years old. No, no, my lad. But granting that he is talking a language at all, then it is no great assumption that somebody taught him. I will go even further and guess that Benny Boss was the teacher. Granted so much,. then another mystery confronts us. Benny, with all his accomplishments,. was no linguist. He spoke the usual Peruvian argot, enriching it with English oaths, of which he was very proud. He spoke good, Parliamentary English, too. Now we will listen to the parrot and see Id . you can make top or tail' of his conversation. IIe utters words, sometimes as much as three syllables long, with a pause. after each, but let me first see if eithor of you can find anything to be called a familiar word among them." 1 Tho bird needed no incitement to strike lin,' and finding himself the object of their attention chattered as usual. Twice he repeated his harvest of garnered 'sun s e sounds, but n ease of g a , any sort ,accompanied the noise. Then he peered up at Tom with an odd, almost human loon in his yellow eye, "He is saying 'Understand that if you can!'" declared Jacob, scratch- ing the parrot's head. "Now does anything occur to either of you.?" "There are two noises that sound like words we know," suggested Ang- us. "Sometimes he mak= a word. Ile says 'cache' and he says 'west,' " They listened and caught these words again. "And he says 'no,'" added Tom. IIs last word but one is 'no.' All therest is gibberish." "To us," admitted Signor Fernand- ez, "but quite possibly for no other reason than that we are unfamiliar with the Language. A linguist night make sense of it. That one word 'cache' is- quite .significant in corn— lot-ion with Benny: Base. He spent half, his time hiding things, and if he was in a mind to impart his knowledge, might well have been at the trouble to conceal that, too, so that it left a challenge behind him. "If You take my advice you will get an export to listen: to the parrot —`somebody who ]mows languages. It's worth while." , (To be continued.) problem of gainful employment in the past -50 years grows more perplexing and ,more: urgent all the time; and because it remains an unsolved prob- lem forttens and hundreds of thous- ands of persons, these persons are torted to go on relief, and when one has to go on relief,one quickly de- teriorates physically, nieptaily and morally. These who live on farms ought to rejoice over the fact that their liveli- hood in the post -50 years is assured, for farmers can, 'make a living from their farms to the very end—this at least. Their life may not seem to be as colourful and as easy as is the life or town dwellers—ospecially the town dwellers who have wage -paid work. But these town dwellers have always over them a black cloud -the cloud of prospective unemployment after age 50. Farmers •should re- nmembei• that few farmers arse on re -1 lief. A town job may loop attractive to many farmers, yet there are multi- tudes of persons in towns who envy the security of the farmer class, 1 RECEIVE UNDER $2,000 YEAR; PAY 2,79 PER CENT OP TOTAL OTTAWA, ' Apt°il 16—Nearly half the Canadians wha paid income 'tax in the 1937-38 fiscal year had anin- come of less than 52,000 but con- tributed only 2,79 pee Dent, of the total individual income' tax collected by the department of national rev- enue. This was disclosed today in the current National 'Revenue Review, compiled on taxes collected during the fiscal period ended March 31, 1938. Total number of persons whe paid income tax in the 1937-38 ;fiscal year was 237,064 and of these 106,764 earned less than $2,000, Remainder was spread out among classes having incomes from $3,000 to more than $50,000 annually,; Income tax eolleoted from individ- uals totaled $40,444,830- of which $1,152,470 was paid by those in the Iowest income class. Total receiving incomes of 53,000 was 56,026 persons, who paid tax tetalling 51,196,682. Number of other indivdual taxpay- ers with amount of income and amount of tax paid in bracketss 30,973 persons (54,000, 51,196,682); 14,727 (55,000, 51,216,838); 8,016 ($6,000, $1,746,617); 6,148 .•(57,000, 51,180,612); 3,344 ($8,000, 51,104,- 250); 2,290 $9,000, 5985,368); 1,691 (510,000, 5919,723); 4,121 015,000, $3,753,354); 1,613 (520,000, 52,219,- 53,753,354); 1,613 ($20,000, 52,919,- 947); 763 (525,000, 52,361,043); 452 (530,000, 52,087,838); 314 ($35,000, $1,923,770); 215 (540,000, 51,622,- 398); 134 ($45,000•, 51,245,898); 91 (550,000, 51,095,111); 382 (more than 550,000, 514,027,159). I ant notsaying that farming is an occupation able to give farmers! a good cash income; yet there are farmers who have an adequate cash 1 income: they put more into their, farming than just physical labor. •. Also, I am not saying that farmers are getting a square deal: they get sadly underpaid for their milk and eggs. This is not because they are exploited by buyers; it is a conse- quence of several factors. One of these factors is': artisans in factories demand over -high wages — meaning wages which induetry cannot afford to pay, and wages which if and when paid require manufacturers to buy raw materials at as Iow price. It is a mistake to think that manu- facturers can charge consumers any price they care to ask. There is a limit to the price consumers can pay and when the price is too high, there is a reduction in the quantity of the product's purchases. Also, it is a mistake to think that manufacturing is a gold -mine enterprise. Most manufacturers have a hard time of it and keep solvent. much less make big profits. No matter how long we may live, we shall have ewith us the problem of how to live, and too many of us postpone attempting a solution of this problem until the day arrives when we find ourselves among the unem- ployed. 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