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The Clinton News Record, 1936-12-10, Page 4PAGE 2' THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., DEC. 10, 1936. The Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS QF SUBSCRIPTION 6150 net- -wear in advance, to Cana- dian addresses 8200 to the :U.S. or' Aber foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears aro paid unless as the option of the publish- er. The date to which every sub- serwtion is paid is denoted on the label ADVERTISINGRATES— Tran- sient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each sub- sequent insertion.- Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," • "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 35e, each subsequent insertion 15c, Rates for display advertising made known on application, Communicationsintendedfor pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL, M. It. CLARK, Proprietor. ,Editor: H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial; Real Estate and k`ire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton' Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. .Bryde-, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont.. D. 11. 'McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: fluron Street. (Pew Doors west of Royal Bank) Hears—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 203. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. TIIEWIbB Robert Ames Bennet 4 SYNOPSIS. Allen' Garth is preparing to make a trip to a mine which he has discov- ered in the Canadian Northwest when an aeroplane appears at the little re- fueling station and an elderly man, a young man and a young woman alight. The two men who, are looking for mining prospects,, become much in- terested in some specimens of ore shown them by Garth, They are all raidter haughty, especially the girl, and treat Garth like 'a servant, but he shows his independence and does- n't allow himself to be ordered about. They decide to take Garth in their aeroplane to inspect his mine and if it turns out to be worth working to take a lease £or a year and give him sixty percent. of the oiitpiit. Garth leads them to his claim - and Ffuxby professes to think that he might have salted it. After some digging, which is done by Huxby-- and some consultation by Huxby and RamiIl, Garth feels that they are convincedof the poten- tial wealth of the mine. The party proposes to go back to the flying ma- chine for lunch, Huxby saying he will conte back and do some more digging. They suggest that probably Garth does not wish to come back with them and he says he will take a trip up the mountain side while they are gone. But Garth is suspicious of the two inen, so as soon as he gets out of sight he makes for the flying ma- chine, takes a part from the engine and disappears again. The party comes up to the machine in frantic haste, the elderly millionaire being almost exhausted by the speed at which they have hurried him along. Just as they were about to takeoff Garth walks out of the brush and wants to know what is the matter THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea - forth; Vice -President, John E. Pep- per, Brucefield; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Brumfield; James Sholdice, Walton; 'William Itnox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt,•Dub- lin; John E. Pepper, Bracefield; "lames Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, eaforth• Alex. McBwing, Blyth. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, 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 Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ranee or transact other business will +be promptly attended to tin applica- ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. Ati1;`l,fit off. AlWAYS TIME TABLE "Trains will arrive at and 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 12.02 p.m. Going Weat, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34, lye 12.02 p.ni. Going South 3.08 p.m. "Work -Seeking Youth Has Unhappy Experience) Wingbam, Dec. 7 -The unhappiesf Terson in the whole county today was Henry Hawke, a youth who is looking for some form of farm work to do. He went to a farm home last night in one of the near -by townships. The ;people were in bed and he decided to crawl into the hay in the barn and wait until morning. A gentlemanly .animal sporting stripes had also ett- 'tered thebarn and was on the barn floor when Henry entered. He tripped over "it" The odor was pungent, but he waited . until morning, only to find that the far- mer would not allow him near the house. A kind householder equipped him with some new clothing and Hen- ry headed back to Toronto with the intention of either getting work in that district or of going back to the old country. His fondest hopes ate that he will .never again meet a skunk. that knoll between the trees, fro it this way." A glace -at the onrushing black clouds of the thunderstorm sent even I-Iuxby hurrying to help the ,others. While they tied the upper corners of the blanket with rawhide' thongs and weighted the back edge with logs, Garth pulled the cane ashore and placed it bottom 'up . over the smoke racks. 'When, three hours later, the crash- ing thunderstorm passed older and the heavy downpour of rain ceased, all the party were wet from the drip through the blanket. But the fire still smoldered and the half -smoked meat was dry under the canoe. . "Had you been used to canoeing," Garth said, "we need not have lost all this time. But you'll get enough drenchings 'later on. Wring out the blanket and fetch the meat"` He launched the' canoe again, un- aided, and directed the others to their places. All had to kneel, fac- ing the narrower prow of the double - stemmed craft. First came Huxby, with his wolfskin treasure bag for knee -pad. Lilith !melt on the front part of the lengthwise folded blan- ket. Her father had the end of the blanket behind her. • At the wobble of the unsteady craft he squatted back on his heels and clutched the gunwalls. The others held to willow branches while Garth loaded in the neat be- hind his own place. He stepped a- board and began to paddle with a steady stroke that sent the canoe gliding out into the swamp stream. A paddle lay beside each of the others: Lilith was first to dip hers overside. At a murmured word from her, Huxby followed suit. Both of then had done a bit of amateur ca- noeing at the fashionable beaches. incl Huxby covers him with his pistol' -They were able to start in at once and tells him to place his gun on the, wing. It is evident that they intend to fly back to the Mackenzie and leave him, Garth places his gun as ordered, then unties and rope holding the plane and stands holding it while Huxby tries to start the engine, which would not go. He then tells them that he hasthe part of the engine in his pocket but will not allow them to come near h i nt until a 11 a r out. He. then lets the plane go, fling- ing the Iine out into the water and drifts clown stream towards a falls. When they see the plane is doomed and realize that they are in his pow. er Mr. Hamill says they will do just as he says if he will lead them back to the Mackenzie, Garth shoots a moose and prepares food for the company, which they are hungry enough to enjoy, Miss Ha- mill, although still very disdainful of Garth, is brought to the extremity of slicing off a piece of moose liver and cooking it over a fire for her supper, • fully as an Athabaskan Indian, he drove the canoe clear of dangerous whirlpools -and dodged•pastrocks with deft, twists of his paddle. At the foot of the rapids, he head- ed in alongside a bit of gravely beach and helped Mr. Ramill and Lilith a- shore, When he remarked that there was gold in the gravel, Iluxby near- ly upset the canoe in his haste to get out and look. "Gold! Why didn't, we bring the gold pan?" Garth laughed and stretched out on the dry grass -above the gravel. "Gallant gentleman, your lady is building the tire." "Don't mind 111e, Vivian,". Lilith chimed in on the banter. "You can use the cup for panning. I need only the pot to boil Alan's tea." Huxby glanced sidelong at Garth and hastened to help the girl. Her father had flattened out beside Garth. With a yawn, Garth stretched up his arms and let thein fall. The left one carne down 'across the millionaire's body. The back of the hand felt a lump under the leather coat. 'I3uxby had•riot again gained possession of the pistol. Nothing would have been easier than to have pulled out the weapon and flung it into the stream. The impulse to do so passed as quickly as it flashed into Garth's mind. He was not that kind of sportsman who Shoots from the backs of elephants. is far more sport stalking -a beast that has a chance to kill the stalker.' The chechahcos had now experienc- ed the different phases of canoeing— days of paddling through muskeg, a portage, and the running of rapids. But all proved to be no more than a mild sample of the difficulties and hardships that followed. In the next two weeks three more rapids had to be shot and two very hard portages made. Between tunes, the canoe was paddled interminably through meandering channels that twisted and looped and split off in blind leads. Workmen's Compensation Statement During November there were 5,567 accidents reported to The Workmen's Compensation Board, as compared with 5,726 during Ooctober, and 5,132 during November a year ago. The fatal eases numbered 53. 'The benefits awarded amounted to 1478,118.47, of which $394,357.58 was. for compensation and $83,710.89 for medical aid. The benefits awarded to date this year amount to $4,996,223.23, as COM., Tared with ' $4,847,303.91, during the same period 'last year, and the num- ber of accidents reported' this year to date are 55,938, as against 53,714 during the corresponding period of 1935. NOW • GO ON WITH T13L STORY Another • day saw the canoe com- plete. The eow and ball hides, gum- med and sewn together, formed the cover, hair side in. •The result was a craft Iarge enough for the party but shorter and broader than the aver- age canoe. At Garth's suggestion, Lilith had begun tanning the calfskin. Mr. Ha- mill tended the smudge -fire, After cutting the birch billets, Huxby had at first sat around brooding. Then, suddenly, he went off up the brook. He did not come back until after the canoe was finished. But he brought the abandoned blanket. Garth was beginning to shape into paddles the slabs of wood that he had rived from the birch billets. 'He glancecl from the blanket to the clouds overhead, and from them to Lilith's tattered skirt. "Not half bad, Huxby. That blanket will soon be needed. Too splendid a sunrise this warning. We're in for a storm.—Miss Hamill Down in the lower country, the pests of black gnats, mosquitoes and stinging flies became worse. At the same time the flask of grease and pitch dope began to give out. Most of the camps were on wet ground. For clays the party were drenched by a steady drizzle, varied only by down- pours ownpours that kept Lilith and her fath- er ather bailing the canoe. Several tines fog on the water compelled Garth to put ashore. With- out sight, even his training could not enable him to follow the right chan- nel. He was not an Indian. But be- tween the forced halts, he put to still longer hours of paddling. Matters were coining to a pinch. After the first wetting by the rain, what remained of the meat spoiled. It became so flyblown and tainted that Lilith threw it away before Garth could preventthe wastage. He decided to give thein all another lesson. - In the fast that followed, Mr. Ra - mill was the first to fail. Huxby came next; Lilith last of the three, By the third day they had given up all paddling. On the fourth, they lay slumped in the bottom of the canoe. Garth only tightened his belt again and dipped his paddle in its strong, steady, seemingly tireless stroke. and help a little. But twe days pas- sed before Mr, Ramat gained enough balance and assurance to rise on his knees and try stroking his paddle. Even after this, Garth had to bear the brunt of the heavy work. Much of the time the others were forced to stop off, to get the cramp out of their knees or rest their arms. And when they paddled, their unskillful strokes kept Garth twisting his own stroke to keep the canoe from being swerved from side to side like a ship with the yaws. Had work been the only considera- tion, he would as soon have done it all. There were, however, reasons for more speed than he could make alone with the heavily loaded skin - covered etaft. The summer was now far along. The days were rapidly shortening, the nights becoming cold- er and darker. Delay would mean a serious chance of being caught in early autumn bliz- zards. Even Lilith Hamill might not be able to ssuvivo an all -day drive of sleet. Such a storm would nndoubt edly kill her father and, not improb- ably, Huxby also, Persistent use of the paddles would continue the roughening of the three chechaheos, st would also quicken the speed of the canoe as they acquired skill from practice. He himself kept to his stroke like the born voyageur he was, dipping his paddle for hour after hour. His steady pull never varied except when, at long intervals, he shifted the pad- dle over to the other side. He stop- ped that clockiike stroke only when landings had to be made for food or sleep. On the third day Lilith attempted to keep stroke with him, She pad- dled until so exhausted that she broke down and wept. After that Huxby quit less often, though he never came so near to overtiring himself. They had twice camped ole mus- keg. The third afternoon brought them to broken ridges where the stream dashed through a gorge. So far as could be seen, the rapids look- ed easy to shoot. But Garth said it that calfskin is cured enough for you was a portage. to wear. Make a skirt of it." He slung a pack from his tump- "How about Vivian's shoes?" she line and took the canoe on his shoul- asked. "He's walking on his up- dens. The total load was a full two pers." hundred and fifty pounds. At sight "He's welcome to Iny old mecca- of it, the others took on all the rest sins. They may last out our par- of the meat and equipment. For miles tages." Garth led them up and down rocky Though Huxby's ears reddened, he slopes, through brush and bogs. accepted the castoff footgear of the Twice they skirted sheer falls that man from whom he had sought to showed why he had taken to land. bilk a claim worth at least a million At last, below the lower fall, he dollars. He could not refuse. His launched the canoe in the eddy of a thick shoe soles had scuffed through deep pool. The others sank down on on the rocks that the pliant rawhide the bank, outspent. He built a fire moccasins passed over with slight and boiled tea for them. They ex- weari petted to camp overnight. He order - When Garth launched the canoe, he ed them back into the canoe. fastened it to the bank with a line "Can't chance waiting here. May made from the trimmings of the be .too foggy to see tomorrow," he ex- moose hides. For anchor he used plained. "Sit flat in the bottom,' and 4the wolfskin knapsack with its weight keep your paddles inboard." of platinum alloy. I They understood when a few "May as well make it useful," he strokes of his paddle brought the met Huxby's look of moody protest, canoe to the foot of the pool. For a "You are to have the bow seat, and long two miles they crouched low in so can continue to guard my sixty the bottom while the frail craft per cent. along with—" ' I glanced down the foaming, swirling A clap of ,thunder and the swish torrent of white water. Garth milli - of a wind miiof,a•wind gust through the birth tops, ed at their cowering backs. He had checked Garth's banter, He spoke a often shot worse rapids, and he had quick order: "Leanto the blanket on been down these once before. Skill - Whenever he found himself near- ing his hilt, he headed ashore, boiled tea, slept, and then put off again. The fifth day began todraw on the last reserve of his wiry. endurance. Towards noon he made the boggy shore, ahnost outspent. He dragged out the wolfskin knapsack anchor, with its load of platinum alloy. The girl and the two men lay in a stupor of starvation. He himself was so tir- ed that he could not have lifted even Lilith ashore. As he rested on the wet sedges he recalled the place as one of his for- mer camp sites. .A. spruce -covered ridge of higher ground here thrust out into the muskeg. The first re- membrance brought another. The se- cond gave him strength to pull his rifle front the canoe and climb aslant the ridge end. There was a berry patch on the east slope. The fruit would be better than nothing. He hoped, however, for something more,. Circling to get the wind in his face, he crept through the spruce thickets until he could peer out on the open ground of the berry patch. Luck was with him. The old black bear had gone off and left her cub. He rested the rifle barrel on a spruce branch to get a sure aim. That was the end of famine. Gorg- ed upon the fat, tender meat of the bear cub, even Mr. Hamill rapidly re- gained strength. He was still rather weak, however, when they came to the last portage. The approach to solid' ground was across a narrow belt of muskeg. Near the Tar side of the swamp, the millionaire failed to jump squarely upon a tussock of nigger head grass. He slipped and plunged headfirst into a pool. Huxby was following close behind, alert for every move of his partner. He sprang to grasp the feet of the sinking man. A heave dragged him out, slimed and spluttering. Huxby worked over him, scraping off 'mud, until Lilith hastened to help assist her father across the rest of the quagmire. Once on firm ground, the millionaire joked about his mishap. "Haven't had a bath since the last rain," he said. "This One is higher class—equal to the mud baths at Hot Springs. How about my pack Lil- ith?" She looked in his foxskin bag. "Ev- erything there, Dad—with some mud added." 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But all the time until they reached the evening camp and he started to wash the mud from the leather coat, he did not notice that the pistol was missing. At the announcement of the Ioss, Huxby met Garth's gaze with a stare of cold hostility. Garth walked up to him, empty-handed. (Continued next week.) GENERAL MOTORS ANNOUNCES (at e• • New Diamond Crown. Styling ... makes this new car the most beautiful in Chevrolet history, a speed- line masterpiece! New Valve -in -Head Engine ... more powerful than ever, faster on the "get-away"—with the lowest operating costs ever proved in a full-size car! New All -Steel, All -Silent Bodies ..: Built by Fisher, with the famous Turret Top of solid steel. Unisteel construction throughout. Plus All These i+'eatures ... Perfected Hydraulic Brakes; improved *`Knee -Action gliding ride; Safety glass in every window; Fisher No -Draft Ventila- tion—and many others. See the new Chevrolet "The Com- plete Car, Completely New" at our showrooms. 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