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Broadfoot, Brucefield; James Sholdice, Walton; William Knox, Londesboro; George Leonhardt, Dub- lin; John E. Pepper, Brucefield; James Connolly, Goderich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex, McEwing, 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. McIiercher, 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- ance or transact other- business will be promptly attended to on appl ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ees. Losses inspected• by the director who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN NATIONAL ' AILWAYS 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 .in. Going West, depart 12.02 p.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34. lve 12.02 p.m. Going South 3.08 p.m. THURS., DEC. 24, 1936. rrrr erremmerm women wrremerrerrreedwxr ,ra• YOUR WORLD AND. MINE by .JOHN C. KIRKWOOD (Copyright) r1. or rer rrr.:w.W. erre.'. er. rremrrr■'.' erreerre. A young man known to me says' a character which is not admirable that his rule of life is to live to the full today and let tomorrow take care of itself. He is "out" for mon- ey, and is not very particular as to how he shall get it. He does not mean to become a thief or a murder- er, but he, will not be very much con- cerned about whether or not he makes others poorer in the course, of his money -getting. This young man -aged about 22 —means also to indulge his appetites without restraint. If he wants to go on a "binge", then he will do so without remorse or fear of conse- quences. If he wants to gorge him- self with food—and he acknowledges that his appetite for food is elaphan- tine—then he will not be restrained by the thought 'of pains or bad ef- fects. As to morals he professes to hold them in contempt. "We live to- day — there is no hereafter" is his saying. For the present this young man is employed respectably during the day. He has ambitions. He is doing his day's work creditably. He is not a slacker. He recognizes that his pro- motion depends on doing his work ef- ficiently and in accordance with the expectation of his employers. But if ever this youth, in the course of his progress, finds himself able to "do" New C. N. R. Service To Mining Districts In recognition ' of the tremendous strides made by mining activities in the Sturgeon Lake and Red Lake dis- tricts and of the great increase in rail traffic, W. A. Kingsland, vice - President of the Central Region, Canadian National Railways, has an- nounced additional train service be- tween Long Lae and Port Arthur and extra passenger equipment on "The Continental Limited" between Nakina and Sioux Lookout. In both .cases the adjustment of the services have been made with a view to meeting the requirements of passengers interest- ed in mining developments. The passenger schedule between Long Lac and Port Arthur is increas- ed from three days per week to five days per week. Train No. 79, con- necting with "The Continental Lim- ited", west bound, at Long Lac, now operates on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. In the reverse direction, 'from Port Arthur,, train No. 80, operates on the same days and connects with the east bound "Continental. Limited" at Long Lac. Commencing December 15th, a new sleeping car, consisting of 10 sections, one compartment and drawing room, was operated between Nakina and Sioux Lookout bn both the east and west bound "Continental Limited", so that passengers to or from Toron- to and other points may have the opportunity of transferring to those sleepers at a reasonable hour en route and remain in the cars at their con- venience. West bound, the special cars will be shunted to a siding at Sioux Lookout and passengers may remain in their berths until 8 o'clock in the morning. Eastbound, the cars may be occupied during the early hours of the evening and the change made the following morning before the train arrives at Nakina, at 9,30 SAIL. CA1IIiIIT D THE WILD By Robert Ames Bennet 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 than, 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 rather 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 output. They become so interested that they try to get away in their plane leaving him behind so they can put in their claim for the mine. They are thwar- ted in this and their plane is swept down the falls and destroyed. Garth then agrees to lead then out if they will do just as he says and he has got them out to the Mackenzie. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Without a word of thanks, she dragged the blanket to the edge of the nearest outburnt fire and began brushing the fluffy gray wood ashes upon it with a spruce spray. Her father had been gazing thoughtfully at Garth. He took up his empty fox - skin bag. "Come on, Vivian. This is wash- day. Take Lilith's bag and get your potash." Lilith Ramill had not returned from her own dip and wood -ashes laun- dering. Garth sat down beside the tin cup and little aluminum pot to mend a rip in the left leg of his buckskin trousers. Still in a friendly mood, but with shrewd calculation in his eyes, Mr. Ramill stretched out on his back in the long grass beside Garth. "Well, young man, it appears that the game is played out. The joke on us is that you had the cards stacked. An old deck, and no stakes up," First Ramill and then Huxby rath- Garth differed: "Why not put it will give him much contenment, or will win him worthwhile friends, or will promote him in honour. They say that opportunity makes the thief. In the early days of this country, when its railways were new and ever expanding_, their area of coverage, men of money and position and identifying themselveswith rail- road building let themselves forget the Ten Commandments, They be- came "grabbers". . They "watered" stocks mercilessly. They bribed right and left. They used their pow- er to ruin the weak and the trusting. In the new lands of the West, they crushed the farmers. They had the farmers at their mercy. They charg- ed them excessively for the transpor- tation of their wheat. They refused to allow wheat growers to erect com- petitive elevators. They withheld cars from farmers for the carriage of their grain in order to force far- mers to their knees. These would- be rich men cared nothing about the ruin and the misery which they brought about by their greed for money. These rich railroad builders did acquire immense wealth, which they passed on to their sons and daughters. Many. a great fortune in Canada today had its origin in the ra- somebody, then his professed present pacity of parents and grandparents. attitude is, "Let the other man be- ` Even in these present times there are ware." 1_1441A those who are making much money at the expense of the public. They I confess that I am alarmed by are using opportunity, and opportun this young man's code. He has no pa- ity makes them thieves. tience with my sober .counsels or The present troubles in Spain have views. He thinks that I am an old their origin in the greed and selfish- fo aback number. He looks I ness of the rich and of those in high ggy— places. For centuries the poor in with approval and envy on certain Spam have been kept poor and illiter- rich men who have attained to riches ate by those of great fortunes. Rus - by buccaneering practices. Isia went to pieces because her aris- This young mans father was atrats defrauded the and re- "promoter"—a man engaged profes- sionally poor , sionally in the development of buss- fused them justice. Britain s history ness enterprises—industrial compan-� is filled with the stories of rebel- ies, mining ventures, mergers, and sollions of the oppressed poor against on. He went smash in 1929, and did the rich and powerful who denied the not live long after his failure—af-' poor the common rights of man. The ter his loss of fortune. The son seems 1 growth of communism in this and embittered by his experience since other countries is explained by in - his kill and that Garth was bounding up again. He instantly pulled the trigger a second time. Knocked ov- er by the shock of the bullet, the millionaire sprawled across the flac- cid body of Garth. Even as the roar of the second shot dinned in his ears, the killer saw what he had done. The pistol drop- ped from his paralyzed hand. He stiffened erect on his knees to glare at that upper -most body. It did not move. Before he could recover his wits, Lilith burst screaming from the spruce thicket. Half clad, wet hair er gingerly copied Garth's method. according to the facts, sir? I offer- flying, she dashed forward to fling Like him, both wound up with a ed a square deal—a straight business herself down on her bare knees beside swim. Neither, however, ventured proposition. The placer was in on her father. Under the partly wash - far out into the vast slow' flood of that. Had I not sent out my papers ed off coat of mosquito dope, his face the Mackenzie. for record, I would have had no le- was the same sallow gray as Garth's; With the landing came the corn - gal claim to offer in my bargain- She looked up, her eyes black with pdy. The others ended their bathing in' horror. Huxby had risen to his feet, "Why—er— But when I refused before Garth. tread waterto lie was advancing, once more cool. your terms, and you refused mine, watch them. Both had wrrunggout She flung out a forbidding hand. their clothes and flung them well up you said you preferred to play out «Stop! Keep away! You — mur- derer!" 1 tl J .I His lips tightened. "You're mad, darling—clear off your head. I shot half -dry rags, and dashed back in, to„ to save your father, not at him. No, dress under water. Mr. Ramill,how- gamble. listen—you • must listen to me! The ever, had no desire to put on wet "But -'your game? You had the damned roughneck attacked your clothes. He beat at the zizzing pests placer clinched. Why not have said father with the knife—had him down. with his tattered union suit. It en- so at once, or at least there at the At my' first shot he dodged. I abllake when you turned the tables on thought I missed, Your father sprang trousersus him to get into the leather us? I might have accepted your up just as I fired again. It's the moreethan half a hundredetimes. and coat without being stungterms. At least we could have flown truth.” Garth's mirth was mixed with ad- miration for the mine investor's nerve. Along with this he felt a glow of satisfaction over the results of what his rigorous training had done for the once -soft millionaire. Though still heavy -set, the portly gentleman had become something of an athlete in appearance. His flab- by muscles had been hardened; his loose jowels were now firm, His paunch had disappeared. He was side of it, just recall yourself as you a crimson blotch. What, need of lean about the waist and hips, and were when you reached the mono- wasting powder on a man shot full -chested, plane cabin." through the ,head? "My word, sir," Garth sang out. That held the millionaire for a Mr. Ramill's wound gave him no the beach. The moment they splat- tered ashore, the waiting swarms of blood -suckers buzzed to the feast. Huxby cursed, snatched up his the game." "My game," Garth qualified; "not yours. It was you and Huxby who thought you had the cards stacked to win. You fancied it a sure -thing o u t together, instead of going through all these weeks of privation and hardship." The last words won an amused glance from Garth. "Hardship—privation! You must know several fellow millionaires who cal] it prime sport to spend a month in the bush," "Sport?" "Oh, well, if you can't see that "Truth!" she cried—"truth! You've killed them—both!" A great shuddering seized her — shook her like a fit of ague. Al- most swooning, she sagged forward on the body of her father. Huxby advanced with wary quick- ness. But at sight of the two men he had shot, he thrust his coat -hidden pistol into its sheath. All the back of Garth's sideward turned head was "you look fit for the football squad. That should be worth more to you than a dozen platinum claims. At least, you might toss me my buck- skins." Mellowed by the bath and swim to a temporary return of friendliness, long moment. Then— Iless satisfaction, though for an ex- iled struck high up on the shoulder blade, between neck and arm. Huxby pulled the thickset body from under Lilith and opened the front of the leather coat. The steel -jacketed bul• let had drilled clean through and come out below the collarbone. "Look!" he . shouted his relief. "Your father—he's not killed, only knocked out. The wound's not seri- ous, so high up through the chest. Same way one of my classmates was shot by a holdup. Take hold. We'll get him into the canoe and make, a quick run down across to the refuel- es. Garth std Mr. Ramill and Hux-e sprangop f thetopenp-ouged bank, Huxby At the bitter'statement, the mil- ing post. That fellow Tobin - will by a ho the strip of sand shbelowed the .to - the snatched drna a lionaire flushed with anger. lie have medical kit" beached canoe. There he showed them sack. From it he snatched out a how to cheat the buzzing insect piece of rancid bear -cub fat, a clip' started to turn over on his side to The pulling of her' father from un - pests. Instead of stripping for bis of' pistol cartridges, and his "lost" frown at Garth, The movement drew der her had let the girl down upon laundry work, he muddied his ashes automatic. 'Garth's glance. Above a clump of the body of Garth. Huxby's eager and plastered the paste all over,his With swift, purposeful movements, wild currants, less than ten paces dis- assurance roused her from the semi - body and on the inside and outside he rubbed the fat on the rusty pistol tont, he glimpsed the top of Huxby's swoon. She struggled partly up, to of his clothes, and began working the mechanism, hat and the outthrust muzzle of the peer at her father, her hands braced He rubbed in the mess and gave It jammed repeatedly.. But as the I automatic. upon Garth's lax side. the weak solution of potash lye 'time sun -melted fat soaked the rust, the As Garth ducked forward, the pis- Even as she gazed, the gray of her to act. After that came the rias- action became normal. tol blared. Garth pitched down on father's face became less ghastly. But ing. He waded out and sat down in Still quick yet unhurried,.he load- his face. At the same instant, start- in place of the smile of relief for the water up to his neck. Thus pro- , ed the clip into the hollow butt and led by the shot, Mr. Ramill jerked up which Huxby looked, she sprang.up tected from the swarms of stingers, slid back the outer barrel to throw on his elbow. The long grass had, to flare at him in another outburst he stripped off one garment at a a cartridge into the breech. ' hidden him. Huxby could not have of denunciation: "Admitting how much I've bene- actly opposite reason. The bullet fited from your health cure, Dr. Garth, your methods have done my future son-in-law no good. As for my daughter, to drag a delicately nurtured lady into the dirt and pri- The wolfskin knapsack, with its the millionaire chuckled and came vations and dangers of your raw platinum alloy treasure, had been left down the beach to fling the sodden wilds—" attached to the mooring line of the garments out to their owner. His los- "Delicate!" Garth cut in. "Do you canoe. There was no bag for Garth. tering afterwards may have been for know of anyone more hard? The He made one by opening the front Huxby. Yet he went back to the point in her case is that she was on - of his buckskin shirt and hand -lad- dead fires with Garth, when the en- t ly a brittle, harsh alloy. Now she's ling wood ashes inside. 1 gineer muttered something about at least partly tempered into true Lilith went over beyond the spruce haveing dropped a penknife. thicket with her blanket -bagged ash -1 As the two disappeared over the steel. I had hopes of still better re- sults from the both of you. But hate and treachery blacken the blood." his father's collapse. He was rear justice in those possessing wealth and ed as the son of a rich man. He did power. Great wars have been waged not take too hard times with any sub-, and will be waged because the rich massiveness. It is true that he reso- and the powerful denied and will de- luetly set about the task of earninglny to the poor their fundamental money. He delivered newspapers. He' rights. "caddied" at golf courses, and in oth-� It is very, very true that what a er ways put himself in the way of making money. His early associates —young men and women — rather cut him when he was not able toThe harvesting may be long delayed, stay in their set, and this cold shoul-;yet it will be garnered surely° dering of him embittered him. He' says that he is going to "show them"power creditably — by industry and Many a man has won fortune and some day. It is quite within the possibilities time, washed it clean of ashes, and tossed it upon the edge`of the beach. Before coming out, he took a luxur- ious swim in the clear river water. CHAPTER XV Kill To Steal. As was of course to be expected, known that his partner was lying so "Murderer! liar! There's his knife close beside Garth. where 1 left it. He did not have it! In the excitement of the moment, Liar! sneak! He' did not attack Dad.I he must have thought he had missed But you _you crawled up and shot (Continued next week) pian, or a class or a group of men, sows shall be reaped. This young man of whom I have been writing will reap what he sows — inevitably. that this young man, in the years a- head, will become rich—seeing that riches are his goal. But I cannot persuade myself that the possession of riches ruthlessly acquired, and of him—without warning-" Huxby dropped his mask. "What of it? The damned wood louse lied first. He thought it fun- ny to keep mum about having record- ed his claim—to play your father and me all this time. Great joke that. Only it backfired on him. I'm the only pilot who can find the valley. No one can say that the claim we file on is the same as the one he re- corded." The girl quivered, tensed, and bounded sideways. The belt -ax was lying near the knife. She clutched one in each hand and straightened erect, her eyes ablaze. "You beast!" she cried. "Go! Go, or I'll kill you!" He smiled with cool irony. "Why so theatrical? Hysterics are not in your line, any dear Lilith." That lowered her voice, but not the knife and ax. She began to edge towards hint, with the blades raised ready to strike. Her voice came from her stiffened lips, low and hoarse and deathly calm: "If you do not go, I will kill you, unless you first kill me." The smile left his lips. His eyes narrowed. He replied no less quiet- ly: "You are stark crazy. I'ni going. It may be two or three weeks before I can get back. That should be long enough for you to starve into sanity. You'll be glad to welcome pie then. Only, how about your father? Does it not sober you to realize it will be your fault if he dies?" For answer, she took a full step nearer. The look in her eyes daunt- ed him. He slanted sideways, caught up Garth's rifle, and ran across to the bank above the canoe. When, more slowly, she came to the top of the bank, he had the canoe launched and was heaving in the wolfskin knapsack. He jumped aboard with the rifle and one paddle. As he backed off- shore, she ran down to the water's edge and flung his engagement ring at his face. It struck his upjerked forearm and glanced outboard. The ash -cleaned diamond flashed like a bit of blue -white lightning that was instantly quenched in the water. The canoe swung around and went yawing out upon the mighty expanse of the Mackenzie. vision. To be rich is not necessarily evidence of misdoings. Yet it is gi- ven to only the few to be rich — to have millions. Fortunately riches are not essential to any man or woman in order to win worldly honour and to have happiness. Better than per- ishing money is character—is devo- tion to good causes — is the confi- dence and love of one's fellow men. That farmer who wins local or wider distinction for his achievements as a stockbreeder, or dairyman, or grow- er of grain finds in his triumphs a fine happiness. That school teacher whose pupils call him blessed is enviable. That mother who holds the love of her children to the end of life and beyond has a contentment and rewards surpassing the experi- ence of a Mrs. Wally Simpson. But- terfly lives are succeeded by oblivion. Hollywood stars fade away after a few years. Those whose names live in this world, and which shine with an un - fading lustre are those who serve their fellow men — who make many their debtors because of benefits con- ferred. Young people in these present times may feel the ground beneath their feet to be slippery, but they will in later years be glad if they do not let themselves be upset by their tem- tations and misled by the lures of these present times. Every age has offered its young people stones for bread. Ultimate prosperity and hap- piness go to those who stick fast to that which is good. Are you a smasher of the Ten Commandments, or an upholder of them? On your answer depends, for you and for many others, their sor- row, or their happiness and welfare, The shi picul, the shi mow, and the shi catty are the official weights and measures recently adopted by the National Government of China, and in view of the Canadian agricultural products imported by that country should be of interest to Canadian far- mers and statisticians. The 'shi picul is the unit in which all production es- timates are given, equalling 100,231 pounds, or 50 kilograms; the shi•mow, used in reporting acreage, is equal to 0.16474 acres, or 6.6667 acres; and the shi catty, used for smaller weights, is equivalent to one-hundredth of a shi picul, or 1.10231 pounds. The shi picul must not be confused with the one -hundred -and -thirty-three - and - a third pound picul, formerly used in the' Chinese Maritime Customs and still in general use in Sino -foreign commerce throughout China.