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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-08-16, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 102S «MBS'*- ■>■ 4 A * .A 4 •» John Ainsley, Master Thief by Arthur Somers Roche ■—M or anything like that. I don’t ask you to promise not to give me away to anyone. You’d have to give your­ self away. I just want the promise I've asked.” “And if I don’t give it?” I asked, “I’m a killer,” he replied. “I can only go to the chair once. You give me your word within ten seconds or I’ll kill you." He meant it; there was not the slightest doubt in my mind as to it. It was the most humiliating moment of my life. Moreover, in addition to my humiliation I suffered the pangs of hope deferred. For I had no trade and no profession. On less than three hundred thousand dollars I could not hope to re-establish my­ self in my home town, under my proper name. And I milst divide with this scoundrel! What could I do? I gave him my word. I will say for him that, loathsome though lie was, he knew blood. He knew that I would rather have died than break my word to him, even though that word had been obtained under duress. He sighed with huge relief as soon “I said, does have ’Tn the morning a,Y seven,” I r§j plied. “Has he a n-lephone?” Thomassen inquired. “She has,” I corrected him. “Call her up and tell her — tell her anything, hut .see that she don’t come here to-morrow.” Meekly I took his orders. Again I ask, what could I' do? Thomassen had the insolence t > grin at me when I hung up. “Sweet and simple, isn’t it? this is a ting out dead for I v.ill nerve, Sunday School Wesson By CHARLES G, TRUMBULL, Litt, I), (Editor of the Sunday School Times) PAUL GARRIES THE GOSPEL ’ INTO EUROPE Golden Text Come over into Macedonia, help us.—Acts 16:9. and 15 YEARS AGO The heaviest electrical storms of the season passed over this district on Friday night. Two fine haras of Adolphus Hooper, of Hay Town­ ship, were struck by lightning ar.d completely destroyed. A barn own­ ed by Edward Denomic, fiauble Line and Robert Stanley, of the N. Bound­ ary of Biddulph were also burned. James St. Sunday School pi Grand Bend was a big success, ly 400 sat down to tables s with provisions. ghter to have auythug to do with af man who could write such nonsensi­ cal stuff to a girl. The girl them gave the letter to her mother t<» read and the tame so quiet the mosquitoes verandah. n house suddenly bet* that she could hear hissing on the back. The Accused—“I was not going; forty miles an hour— not twenty-— not even ten—in ficer came up I standstill,” The. Judge—“I you will be bucking into something. Forty shillings.“ o fart, when the of- was almost at ato IT- e«l '111 N ;ocThe first missionaries did not be­ lieve in merely evangelizing and then leaving /the new converts to themselves. Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go again and visit our bre­ thren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.” What the Scrip­ tures call “babes in Christ” must be brought up and built up on the Word of God. Now comes a severe controversy between Paul and Barnabas over the question of taking with them again John Merk, buck from their ary journey and had failed the older men (Acts 13:13). not wise to take him with them now, but Barnabas was determined to do so. So the missionaries separated and went in different directions. Barnabas taking Mark and Paul tak­ ing Silas. The Scofield Reference Bible comments significantly that Barnabas is heard of no more in the Bible story. Passing through Syria and Cillicia on the northeast of the Mediterran­ ean Sea, Paul comes to Derbe and Lystra and recruits another young man, Timothy, who was to become prominent in the early history of the church and was the recipient of two of Paul’s insired Episles. As Paul and Silas and Timothy went on journey, churches officially Jerusalem, week. Salvation was by grace alone, and, believing this, “so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.” Per­ haps churches would increase more effectively and steadily today if the gospel of sheer grace were preached more faithfully, and not any form of salvation by works. Are there times and places where God Himself may forbid us to preach His Word? Our first impulse might be to think that surely the proclaim­ ing of the Word of God is fitting, and sure to be blessed, at all times and in all places. But (he. Scriptures do not isay so; they plainly say other­ wise. For after this missionary party had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, being well to the west of what we now call Asia Minor, they naturally expected to go on preaching the Word of God in the Province in which they .found themselves, then called Asia. But they “were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to peach the Word in Asia.” So they passed on to Mysia and made their plans to go north into Bithy- nia, on the southern coast of the Euxine or Black Sea. Another sur­ prise, for here “the Spirit suffered them not.” Why did the Holy Spirit, who had commissioned Paul and the mission- must stop this ovBEGIN HERE TODAY John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, becomes a master crook, preying upon other thieves. In a deal with a “fencej” he ar­ ranges to dispose of a box of jewels which he stole from the ■White Eagle, a notorious inter­ national crook. -fThe doorbell of his apartment rings A man steps swiftly inside. “I cpme from Leedon,” the intruder says. Leedon was the. name of the, ‘fence,’ “I was hiding when J heard you dickering with him to­ day. I overheard you talk. And 1 decided that half of $300,000 would just about fix me up. Don’t try to draw a gun; I’ve got you covered through my pocket.” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I do not think that I. am a coward At any rate I laughed at him. “I suppose you expect me to be­ lieve you’d shoot?” I jeered. “I guess you’ll believe it when I tell you that I’m Swede Thomassen” he retorted. Leedon gave me a thousand dollars. But what’s a thou­ sand dollars to me? I’ve got to have iBHOugh money so that I can play the, Apart of the wealthy gentleman who has a whole suite on an ocean liner, whose privacy musn't be disturbed. I’ve got to have enough to bribe a lot of people if I want to make my get-away.” “Extremely interesting,” said I. “But why come to me? Why not get. it from your friend Leedon?” “Because as soon as Leedon saw tonight's papers , he found out why I was hiding, he made an excuse to get out. I didn’t know he’d seen the papers or I’d never have let him go. I found the paper after he’d gone. And there’s nothing I could prove against, him. And anyway, whether I could or not, he’d gone out to give me up. But you—you’re different.” “You can’t prove anything against me,” I told him. “I said you were different. Lee­ don uiuld stand a scandal. He isn't afraid of them. He claims to be an honest pawnbroker. But you—what do y.-u claim to be. Can you stand .police inquiry into your life?” He was more intelligent and bet­ ter educated than I had gathered from my newspaper reading. And M he had me. Not merely literally, hut a gun trained upon me. but figur­ atively, he had me. The subterran­ ean activities of such a man as Leedon were so well known to the police that fear of exposure by Th­ omasson would not^deter the pawn­ broker from delivering him up. It was l.y sometimes aiding the police that Leedon obtained a certain im­ munity. But my case was different. I could make no terms. And I was quite sure that if I refused Thomas­ sen, he would, whew captured, be­ tray me out of that sheer hatred for the world which made him the beast he was. ,, A man, then, whom T would have considered it a pleasurable duty to kill, had me at his mercy. And if I chose to perforin that pleasurable duty, the action meant the end of my security. For even though I pre­ tended that I had killed Thomassen while he was burglarizing my apart­ ment. the police would invariably ask ine certain questions which I would not care to answer. “A sensible man knows when he’s licked.” said Thomassen. “You look sensible.” “You expect me to hide you here while I’m waiting for Leedon to raise the money?” The murderer shook his head. “I am taking no chance like that. You would he on the level. You’d have to be. But I’m going to get out of town tonight. Leedon isn’t the only man who buys stolon goods. I want, half of the jewels themselves. Get out. the box.” “Do you think I keep them here?’ I asked. “They’re in a safe-deposit box downtown.” “Go get them," he ordered. I’ll be waiting right here.” And now sheer wrath at his in­ solence, combined with horror at his (■’•hue, made me forgetful of his three! of exposure—-or if not forget­ ful, f.reless. But Thomassen was not ■vreb’ intelligent; he. was also shrc”vl. The hand that was buried In 1 K jacket pocket was withdrawn with movement so speedy that it put t<’ shame my own gifts of leger­ demain. “No, you won't, " he jeered. ‘Noi- ih'1’' no”’ r*’” Ja+i»r! You're’ a sen­ sible man. Mr. Ainsley, or whatever you call yourself, as I said a minute bullet And I brain you’ll know Mr. and Mrs. Luther Braun called to Exeter owng to the of the latter’s mother, Mrs. and while here their infant dr became ill and died at the Jr Mr. and Mrs. A. Hastings. d we * dea Esse iught nine •re th iry of the if no 4 ago. You won't stop into a when You haven’t a chance, know what’s going, on in that ■of yours. You’re figuring that, take mo off my guard, But I a gentleman when T see one. You're a gentleman; I’m a killtp’. You give mo your word of honor that you won’t try to bump mo off yourself, ■that you won’t slug1 me or drug mo .king who had turned first mission- to as I had spoken. haven’t slept for two days,” he ’‘I’m going to hod. What time your servant — I suppose you one-—-get here?” whole 1>J' better than of New York tonight. sleep.” say for hk.n that he And get- I’m could not. think beast exam- prom- them I had to kill or drug I would had even though it might have n born of desperation or exhaus­ tion. For, demanding to be shown a bed, he hurled himself upon it, and was sound asleep in a moment, leaving me alone with my thoughts. They were not pleasant thoughts. Aside form the shattering of my dreams of rehabilitation, there was my vast self-contempt at becoming a confederate in the murder of Th­ omasson's victim. Yet I had given my word, and the Ainsloys do not break their word. And then, because I sleep, and because I could only of the presence of the whom I sheltered, I began to ine the situation to study the ise which I had made. I had said that I would bring the jewels here in the morning and divide with my unwelcome guqst, said that. I would not try Thomaseu, or to strike him him or anything like that, T had not promised that not betray him to the police. He was so confident that I would not dare to do that thing, that he had exact­ ed and promise. I reddened as I thought of this. He believed me to be so lost to decency that I would aid a filthy murderer to cheat jus­ tice rather than risk my own prec­ ious liberty. Well. T would surprise him. I would slip outside, telephone the police and then—what? Thommasen captured, would describe me in de­ tail; he would betray my acquaint­ ance with Leedon. That worthy, pro­ fessing of course, that he did not know that I was a thief, would give an even closer description of me. I would be a hunted, fugitive, in­ stead of a gentleman who plied his surreptitious trade without suspicion (To be continued) Oizzy Spells Shortness of Breath Was m Awfui State Mr. ‘ W. A. Smith, 343 Alexander St., Vancouver, B.C., writes:—“When I reached the ago of 40, all kinds of ailments seemed to take a crack at me, all! at the same time. I had dizzy spells, shortness of breath, and every­ thing would turn black before my eyes. Doctors claimed it was kidney trouble. I went to a specialist and he said I was oh the verge of a nervous break­ down; I truly was in an awful state. “I took various kinds of medieino, but they did mo absolutely no good, until, one day I met a friend who had been overseas a.nd was in the habit of taking nervous spells, the result of lug overseas service, and he told me to get and take them according to directions and I would feel the benefit after the first few doses. I did as he told me, and altogether I took six boxes, and they relieved me of my nervous con­ dition. That was three years ago and my Serves, to-day, are in perfect shape.” # J Price 50c. per box at all druggists or dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont........ I Paul thought it in this second missionary they delivered to the the decrees that had been given by the Council at which we studied last. aries’ work, and who was plainly guiding these missionaries, forbid them to carry the good news of sal­ vation irno the Provinces of Asia and Bithynia? The, Scriptures do not tell us why, and, therefore, we cannot know. But there is striking evidi-m-f That God has definite plans for the evangelization of certain countries at certain times. This work Is not indiscriminate and pro­ miscuous; if it i’s done as God di­ rects. it is sure to have blessed re­ sults; if it is not done under His guidm.vi. it may be useless, or worse. He riomises that His Word shall not return unto Him void, but shall pros;;* r in the thing whereto He sends it. (Isaiah 55:11). But He d'-s not send it we have right to expect it to prosper. As -’if missionaries yielded the JI >ly Spirit’s guidance they pass­ ed by Mysia and came down to the coast st Troas. Here Paul had his vision by night, as a man of Mace- dona stood by him with the plead­ ing call, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.” Dreams and visions may m>t always be from God, but we may always know whether they are or nut ir we seek God’s wisdom con­ cerning them, and if we are ready for IBs leading at any cost. Paul was assured that the Lord was call­ ing his party to preach the Gospel in Europe; they sailed from Troas straight to Samothracia, and then on to N'uipolis and Phillippi, having crossed the Aegean Sea. As always, when He leads us in any given direction, God had gone ahead and prepared the way in ad­ vance. At Phillippi there was a group of devout women who wor­ shipped God and met together re­ gularly for prayer. Paul’s mission­ ary party found its way on a Sab­ bath Day to this place of meeting, just outside the city, by a river side. A business woman named Lydia, who was a dealer n fine purple, and whose heart the Lord opened, listen­ ed eagerly to the good news pro­ claim! d by Paul. She believed in the One of whom Paul spoke, Jesus of Nazareth, the only Saviour of men She and her household were baptiz­ ed, and she asked the group of mis­ sionaries. if they judged her to be faithful to the Lord, to come to her house and abide there. Gladly they accepted this Christian fellowship and hospitality. It was the begin­ ning of the evangelization of Europe and of the Gospel opportunities that have (oine. down through the cen­ turies to us. It is interesting to note that up to this point in the Book of Acts the personal pronoun “they” has been used. In verse 10, however, the word “they” is changed to “we”; the text reads: “After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called for us to them.” It change in Luke, the Acts, Troas. On Sunday the congegation James St. Church were favored in the morning by a quartette by Mrs. Andrews, Mss Chowan, Mr. Andrews and Mr. E. Shapton. ing a duett Johnston. In tlm evm> hy Misses Qnanee t.nd Rev. Mr., preached in Sunday last, ter accompanied him and with Mr. J. Johns. Mr. will the who Wickett, of London, James St. church on His wife and daugh- visited Mr. J. Johns. Mr. Wickett supply during the absence of pastor Rev. W. G, McAllister, is away on vacation. is reported that one of ourIt popular young ladies played a cruel joke on her mother recently. She accidently found a love letter* that her father had written to her mother. She read the letter to her mother substituting her own name and that of her lover. The mother raved with anger and stamped h^r foot n disgust forbidding her dau- Bad Bilious Spells ; Caused by j Liver Trouble ' Mrs, H. J. Vebert, Miscou Plains^ N.B., writes: — “For years I wip troubled with my liver and. used to have awfully bad bilious spells, anJ would not be able to work for weeks. “One day I decided to try MILBURN'S and I got wonderful relief in a veryj short time. “ Milburn’s Laxa-Liver Pills are small' and easy to take and do not griper,' weaken<or sicken like most laxative pills do. c- r Price 25c. a vial at all dealers ast' mailed direct on receipt of price bjC The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto^ I vsaxassBasasBxasL OWNING AND OPERATibtG BROADCASTING STATIOM CKCL. * SERVESo YOU BEST Judge by i'esults~not constfuction.^^ W. J. BEER, Maximite Dealer EXETER never before /mown wffhe pricer the wagon how- on the gate stoppng the hoy was not injured at continues to than ten new erected more to be built progress, dwelling this sum- occurred to Ml’. 50 YEARS AGO Mr. and 'Mrs. J. P. Ross were pre­ sented with a large handsome family Bible by Rev. Mr. Mitchell, on be­ half of the Methodist church, as a slight token of services rendered by the recipients in the choir, the lady having been organist for some time past. .a On Thursday morning last a horse belonging to -Mr. Wm. Fenwick, of Exeter, driven by his son, 12 years of age became frightened and start­ ed to run. When the horse came to Mr. Fenwick’s gate the boy pulled the linesk and turned him in, think­ ing to stop the animal. The horse stopped for an instant, and then leaped the gate ever caught horse. The all. Centralia no less houses have, been mer, with several before winter. A sad accident Win. Freeman on Lol 29, S. Bound­ ary, of Hay. about, a mile and a half west of Dashwood, which proved fa­ tal. Mr. Freeman was engaged along with several other of his neigh­ bors logging and somehow the hand­ spike struck him which resulted in his death a few days later. Weddings in Exeter sometime ago wire of very rare occurrence, but three weddings have taken place this week already and it. is difficult to say how many more there may be before the week is ended. The pulpit of the Presbyterian church was occupied on Sunday af­ ternoon by Rev. Mr. Cameron, of Kippen, in the absence of Rev. Mr. Hartley. Two boys of Credit on named Motz and Holtzmann had a serious accident. Friday evening. They were working in Schnarr <fc Welker’s flax mill when one of them placed his hand on a large horizontal shaft revolving with fearful rapidity. The other boy playfully placed his baud on top of the. other when immediate­ ly both arms wore drawn around thc+D+ur Sedan « JWy bypithev mu . Hirnw ’ fiiitiu•Mint UH MHUHttliilli K.’tff# HtHJI preach the Gospel unto is believed that the pronoun indicates that author of the Book of joined Paul's company the shaft. Motz had his arm broken above and below the elbow and bad­ ly torn. Holtzmann had his arm broken above the elbow while be­ low the elbow, it was bent almost in a semi-circle. Dr. Rollins was called and the boys are now pro­ gressing favorably. 25 YEARS AGO A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in Kirkton on Monday ev­ ening for the purpose of forming and erecting a telephone line from Exeter to St. Marys, Mr. J. G. Jones was elected vice-president and Dr Rollins one of the directors. ■ Mr. A. P. Smith, who has filled the position of teller in the Sover­ eign Bank snee its opening has re­ ceived the managership of the Bank at Marmora. Miss Elizabeth Wynn met with a painful accident, on Monday. She was standing on a box picking some plums when the box tipped, throw­ ing Miss Wynn upon her face. The force, of the fall burst a blood ves­ sel in her head. Mr. Robert Sweet has disposed of his boot and shoe and harness busi­ ness to Mr. G. House, of Goderich. Rev. visiting several day. On Thursday wind blow the grist mill. Among those issue of August Rowe & Atkinson, T. Hawkins Dr. Hannon, who lias been his son in the Northwest for weeks, returned home Tues- afternoon the high smokestack off the advertising in (he 13, 1903 we notice: furniture and undertakers; T. Hawkins <.C Son, hardware; E. J. Spackman, general store; W. C. Huston, furniture and updertaking; W. Johns, tailor; W. W. Taman, tailor; Jas. Murray & Co., foundry. Samuel Martin, music store; Jos. Cobbledick, warehouse; Harvey Bros., grist mill; Dr. Kins­ man <& Son, dentists; Dr, Anderson, dentist; Dickson & Carling, Barris­ ters <fc Solicitors; H. Brown, Au- tioneer; Gladman «fe Statibury, Bar­ risters & Solicitors; Ernest Elliott, Rud Estate <fe Insurance Agent. 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