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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-06-04, Page 2Clinit;,,n News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Terms of Subscription $2.00 per year. in advance,"to Canadian addressee: 32.50 to the U.S. or otber foreign countries. No paper discontinued, 'until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher, The Bate to which every subscription is • fold is denoted on the Zabel Advertising Pates --Transient adver,. .tieing,. 12e pm count tine- for first Insertion. Be for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted;" "Lost," "Strayed," etc.,Inserted once for 36e.' each Subsequent: Insertion lee. Advertisements sent til 'without m• structions as to the number of in• sertlo.'s wanted wttl run' enttl order- ed out and. win .be charged accord. Ingle,. 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Parties desiring to effect inauranee er tranract ether business will,b'o promptly attended t on application to any of the ab.ve officers addressed to their respec- tive poet otflees. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene: , WAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at, and depart from Clinton as follows: Suffalo•and G6derich Rtv. Going East, depart 6.58 a.m. " " " 2,55 p.M. Going West, depart 11.55 " " " 10.09 pm. London, Huron & Bruce Going South, depart . 7,38 a.m. 1111,t 3.83 p.m. Going North, depart ` 0.30 p,m,1 " " arik11.60 dp. 11.58 am, THE TLJLE MARS-il MURDER STORY OF'A MISSING ACTRESS AND THE TAXING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. BY NANCY BARB MAVITY. CHAPTER I. The disappearance of Mrs. Don Ellsworth ("Sheila O'Shay")—it was always printed in this fashion, usually with the addendum that Miss O'Shay's song and dance hit, "Burn 'Ent tJp," had made half a million dolialt; in royalties for its composer -had al- ready been front page stuff foe three days. To be sure, on the third day, as on the first, there was no further infor- mation than the stark fact that the ever -spectacular Sheila had spectacu- larly disappeared. .But an essential factor in a big news story is con- tinuity; the city editor's abhorrence of a vacuum far exceed's nature's. Therefore, in pursuance of tactics technically known as "nursing the story along," the newsboys were un- intelligibly shouting "Huekstry!" to announce that the Ellsworth mystery still deserved the name.. Ono of them, at the moment, was roaming the street under Dr. Cavan- augh's window, hoarsely reiterating, "All abo..t the Ellsworth mystery! Latest news of the missing actress! Her -aid! Her-ald!" Dr. Cavanaugh, reclining on the chaise -longue with a smoking- stand nicely adjusted at his elbow and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology propped with its lower edge resting on the curve of his rotund ,riddle, glanced fleetingly from the page be- fore him to the window, He even let the Journal flatten itself out on his waistcoated are while he wondered at a human nature which rushes out to buy a paper, in order to find out that there are no further incidents to re- late about people in whom the buyers have no personal interest whatever. As he reached to pick up the maga- zine, the telephone on the fiat -topper] mahogany desk across the roost set up a seeies of intermittent summonses insistent as an alarm clock. ."M-nt. I thought so. About time," Dr. Cavanaugh grunted, heaving his large bulk from the chaise -longue. Before picking ap the receiver, how- ever, he drew a nickel out of his trousers pocket and laid it on the smoking stand. It was a habit of Dr. Cavanaugh's to bet with himself on his own judgment. When he lost, the coin was deposited in a small elephant - shaped box ori the desk -but the coirs in the box were few. "Dr. Cavanaugh speaking," "Dr. Cavanaugh, this is Don Ells- worth. I wondered --may I conte over and talk to you?" The voice at the other end of the wire was embarrass- ed and yet urgent, speaking rapld(y but with hesitations—the voice of a man who has held an impulse in check, only to act upon it suddenly in the end, • Dr. Cavanaugh reached out for the nickel and restored it to his trousers pocket. Then he leafed rapidly through the pages of the memorandum calendar that stood close to the tele- phone on the desk. "Certainly. I'm rather full up for the balance of the week, Say Friday -4 at four?" Dr. Cavanaugh viewed the mouth piece of the telephone with a faint smile as he made this test of Ells - worth's patience. From what he knew of Don Ellsworth, Friday at fear would not suit him at all. But he did permit a trace of that smile to color his tone. "Bub—I simply can't wait till Fri- day." The voice was more sure of itself now: If the speaker had reach- ed his decision to call Dr. Cavanaugh against inner opposition, his impulse, when balked from without, had gained singleness and strength. "It's urgent, Haven't you read the papers?" "Only casually." "It's about Sheila. I tell you, doc- tor, I'm almost wild. I'm at the enol of my rope. Couldn't you let ine come over now—tonight?" Dr. Cavanaugh glanced mournfully around the room, its outlines faintly blurred in the gray haze of tobacco smoke. The students' lamp which, he had brought from • Germany in • his university days and preferred to elec- tricity as a reading light, beamed mei- lowly down on the comfortably dented pillows of the chaise -longue, on the sober gray and black covers of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, He had had a hard day, delving . per: sistentiy, delicately, indefatigably into the dark recesses of the mind of a'patient afflicted with hysterical blindness. A hero and baffling day, with nothing to show for it in the way of results—yet. "The surgeon of the mind -an. -op- eration that takes a year—and the need of as steady a hand as if one were extracting a bullet from the heart muscle," he thought as his gaze briefly circled the room. His heavy shoulders heaved slight- ly in an inaudible sigh. 'But it was like Dr Cavanaugh that, once he had made' his decision, hemade no play of regret. He had scant patience with the form of self-aggrandizement which in grahting a favor makes the recipient pnconifortable. "All right, Don. Come along." The calm friendliness ' f his voice serried no hint of his relinquished evening's fest, "I hate to impose on you like this. But. Shelia—" 11 I hadn't been willing to see you, I'd have said so. I'll expect you in fifteen minutes." And for fifteen minutes Dr: Cavan- augh was lost to the world, deep in an article on focal infection as a fac- tor in dementia mimeos. - Except for its outside entrance and separate doorbell, the room had none of the stigma .of a doctor's office. It was furnished as a library, and the books which covered two' walls with a mosaic of warm, variegated color by no means excluded fiction. The 'half- dozen pictures that marched 'n line above the bare tops of the book cases were non -committal etchings—only the student versed in this somewhat austere art would have recognized these gray and white criss-crossed lines of ships and harbors and frag- mentary streets as extremely valuable (and, an artist would add, beautiful) possessions The chaise -longue, and the easy chairs were not too impos- ing to be comfortable. The only pro- fessional note on the wide desk with its worn green leather fittings was the unavoidable calendar pad—mid even this was fitted with a cover and was usually kept closed. But, for the matter of that, Dr. Cavanaugh was not an ordinary doc- tor. For his own purposes the roost was as carefully equipped as an oper- ating theatre for a surgeon. Beside, although unobstrusively, it expressed his own tastes, and Dr. Cavanaugh had reached a professional eminence which relieved hint of the necessity of impressing patients, His treat- ments were as expensive and as hard to obtain as Freud's—and, he occa• sionally admitted with a • humorous squint in his brown eyes which ah - solved, the remark of conceit, being without Freud's terrific single-mind- edness of genius, they were sometimes more successful. He had now, in the late forties, reached the point where he could afford t• take only the cases which ins terested him. Those eases were as likely as not to be ondertaken for no fee at all—to be written up later in one of those terse, stylistic mono- graphs which brought a blaze'of light into the dark thicke's of bejardoned medical journals. They were also like- ly to bring hint into court as the ]sat resort alienist of a harassed district attorney or a psychopathle million- aire. They had even brought him into the Sunday supplements and the front pages of reetropolitsn newspapers, where headline writers had been known to refer to him as the "criminal psychologist" and feature writets credited him with an astounding wiz- ardry. a His solution of the Barnes -Hill double murder, three years after the police had given it up, had extended his reputation to the laity, and had made his massive figure, his eonine head with its heavy features and sur- prisingly gentle brown eyes, fair game for the cartoonist. What the laity could scarcely appreciate—al- though the chief :of police did—was the skill with which he,eontrived to put.the explanation of that tortuous cats' cradle of facts into the hands of the authorities without making .them appear to have been fools. "I am not a criminologist," he ihi- sisted. "The study of human motives has been my professional concern for a good many -years.. What I've picked up on the side is just a hobby --a hob- by drat happens to it in with my pro- fessional inteleots, Clues? Well, we can't afford to ignore clues, though I'm no •expect in tb'at line, But the most revealing eines cannot be put under the, microscope—they are in ;the workings of the human. mind." - The cries ofthe newsboy had cried away down the :street when footsteps sounded on the 'flagged path leading around the side of the house to .tic office entrance. Dr. Cavanaugh rose and opened the door before the young' man on the stoop had lifted his hand to the bell. "Come in, Don: Take off your coat and have a cigar." "This is awful good of you, doctor. There's -nobody, hone?" "Barbara is out for the evening. She will be sorry to have missed you. But if you wanted to talk to me pro- fessionally, it's probably just as well," "Yes—I—" The broken' seatences died out in a mumble as Ellsworth turned to lay his •oat and hat across the back of a chair, Don Ellsworth's face, as he turned to the light, was a curious blend of anxiety, embarrassment and the hab- itant self -Assurance of one for whom money was accustomed to make all rough places smooth, The anxiety and the ,self-assurance. remained, but it was impossible for embarrassment to linger in the impersonal, widely toles - ant presence of Dr. Cavanaugh. Don found' himself relaxing .in an easy chair, A good part of his life, smothered in wealth since he first be- came known as the "millionaire baby," had been spent in getting into and out of scrapes! but they had all been in the tradition of sueli misdenream,rs. The present situation found him with- out a code to indicate which way ,to turn. "You read about Sheila—that she's gone? Vanished a week ago, without a trace. I've got to find out what has become of her!" "A week ago," Dr. Cavanaugh said meditatively, clipping the end off his cigar and pushing the smoking stand soarer his 'visitor. "And the news- papers—which, I suppose, means the police—have had it for three days. Isn't your agitation a trifle retarded?" (To be continued.) The Possessions of An Ancient Lady An amber cat, An aspen tree, .And a little white house Belong to me; A silver spoon,. A pewter pot, A :rive of bees And a garden -plot; .A Wedgewood plate, A blue -ringed cup— And time to dream When the moon comes up. Once, bong ago, When I was young, 1 had jade And opals strung Ou silver nolo, And a gown of silk, A 1'lattean fah, Sr c a skin like milk, Ant beside all these— Over and ,over— I had the heart Of a Mutton—le lover. At: amber cat, An aspen tree, And a little white ]rouse Belong to me; And time to dream, When tbo sun goes down, Of a flashing smile In a face of brown, And time -to think, When the moon. Inas sot, 01 sombre eyes Like polished jet. —a sliver spoon, A pewter pot, A hive of bees And a garden -plot; A Wedgewood plate And a blue -ringed. cup An time for dreams When the moon coulee 09. —Marion Doyle, in The Harp, Pride's Fail "Pm proud of Brown," said a schoolmaster to a visitor on whom he wished to make a good impression. "I have so inculcated in him the love of knowledge that he now prefers study to play. I suppose at this moment he is writing Latin prose- He rose He called the lad to him, "Brown," he said, "let me see what you are doing." "I -1'd rather not, sir," said Brown, "Come, Brown, let me see what you have been writing," the schoolmaster persisted. Still the boy demurred, so the schoolmaster took ,possession of the paper! and there, in neat incitation of feminine - handwriting, he read: "Please excuse my son Santee from school today. He is wanted at home." A pares own• good breeding is his best security against other people's in manners:—Lord 'Chesterfield. .What New Y .'rk �0�/2 AI7 AT7' II S t f Is We;. ring BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON c*' CAIN Illttstsatod D'fiesstnu)cinq Lesson Ps,r• 4,1a/ /zr11%oq SCOTTIE - 'a 1tisIted Witft ?;very. Pattern • .What eame•:be0ore—Anter ,many ad- venturea fly1Ug,over China,.Captain Jim. in Y e. is f eight d trainuandiau0ts. picots He aoes td friend, Lieut: Stono,- on, board, seeking a brother who has oleo been captured, by bandits: e Atter we bad Cut the freight en - gineiree from the cars, we roared. along the tracks at a great rate, Now and then we rushed by 'little groups of soldiers in the fields. Soon we would be :near the enemy's head -1 having the: advantage' of being on quartere.,,, top of the tender, he quite naturally ';We're getting jumped higher and went further, Out of the' corner of my eye I saw him sail thru' the air. A Chinese officer was • striving to' quiet a fran- tic horse. Straight as a bullet sail- ed. Scottie landing right on the, back , of that Chinaman's neck, Off the horse they both went, and of all .the blood curdling yells— .whew!--that officer just knew theme old dragon had got him at last. Meanwhile I was doing a bit of . sailing on my own account. I jumped for a man on horseback but I miscalculated my speed and missed him entirely, Just behind hint, however, was a second • mounted China- man and I clos- ed in on him like a football tackler and off" Another snappy sports dress that Paris designed for youth. , And to make it just as simple as falling off a log! Don't you love the umbrella skirt plaits? The cross-over yoked bodice gives it much distinction. It's sleeve- less, of course. This ideal sports type is delightful in opaline yellow flat washable crepe silk. Style No. 3056 may be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inch% bust. White shantung is stunning too amt may be trimmed v ith vivid red bind ings. Skipper blue linen with white dots is sportive. Pale blue flat crepe, white wool jersey, light vivid blue, white and black striped sotto» broadcloth, calico print in yellow and brown and peach - pink pique will make up beautifully in this model. Size 16 requires 3% yards 354nch or 3 yards 39 -inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number a.id size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each numbr, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 Wesi. Adelaide St„ Toronto. Blackmail Biographers "Great God! may goodness shine un- dimmed! As stars come elea.r again When clouds of dust have blown away, So may the worth of noble men re- main Above the reach of smh'ohing cloy, "As mud, that's thrown by sordid hands Against the statue in the square, Is washer] away by thy pure rain, So may the reek that would befoul The cherished memories of our great, Be washed away and leave 130 stain: "For we become Rke what we prize; And turn from dross when we see gold, Great God, of the eternal skies! Let not the vandal minds, pull down The lives that help mankind to rise." —Charles B. McDuffee, in the Congre- gationalist. In the Same Boat '"Do you know what the hanging committee have done?" said the first artist. "They've ruined ray picture by putting it next to the worst daub in the exhibition." "I've got the sante Complaint," said the second artist. "I.looked in yester- day, and I found they've hung my pie- tore beside an absolutely frightful thing. Don't know what the place is coming to." "How do you do, you fellows?" said artist number three, joining them. "1 see they've hung your pictures side by side this year." When something has to be done we usually find a way to do It, eireseeleigetee THE GIANT AND THE PiGMY Atthougb it has the advantage of the height of the platform" above•.rail-level, when lined up against the Canadian Pacific Railway's new "8000" multiple -pressure locomotive, the Bantam Austin coupe, shown be the above pietute eannot measure up to the top of the huge cylinders of the great engine, which is the largest and most powerful of its kind in the world, and, 'unique on the American Continent. 'great speed -.but I could see that we viere going to hit with a sound thump, �. • Suddenly we jammed on the 'brakes, pulled the whistle ' valve wide open and skated into their midst like Ii shrieking, 'fire•eatieg dragon. "jump!" And jump we all did. "Scottie went into action` with the rest of us,- and -close pp to the lines," I yelled above the inter- nal racket an d clattering our en. Eine Was 'making, "Before long we must abandon ship and :set out on foot, Qtherwfse some stppid Chinese General may have ties put on . the track and stop. ns, • And it's going' to he just. the least bit difficult to make him believe we didn't steal this old wagon, So I think we'd better swap this thing' while we still own it," "Too late. Here he is," Stone re, piled. There, on the track, not Gait s- mile away was piled an immense num- ber 01 . wooden ties. Around about were perhaps a hundred soldiers with eight or ten officers on horse- back, "Jump before we're bit, Jed," I hollered. "Get a horse -somehow and ride for those woods. There wilebe plenty of vacant ponies when they hear us go into action with our brakes and whistle. You under- stand, Fu?" I added. "IIh Huh -- me savvy," Fu answer- ed. - The group of soldiers stood near the obstruction on the track and wafted• for us to arrive. Quite ap- parently. they expected us to set the brakes and conte to a stop. But they didn't know our brakes. Down we bore on them --not at any W/ "n` +•_ he went. There was no time to stop and palaver and argue about methods.. I bad to get a horse and get out— and so I dict. It was a regular bedlam let louse. Our old locomotive had slid into those ties, kicked a few off the track and then rolled over on her back, wheels in the air, like a tired old horse, (To be continued) .Note:—Any of our young readers writing •to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his signed photo free.• Cujca'aie Mold Via The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. - - Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. The Honey Bee Experimental Fat'.nhs. Note honey bees like some human be- ings here that fortunate or unfelt• unate ability of gathering to them- selves uiofe of that lenticularwealth, in which they are interested, than they can actually use, and also like human beings they strongly resent being relieved of any portion of R. In the ease of the bees, however, a goodly portion of their stores can be confiscated without any crash in the stock markets, hence the use of supers. Supers are merely additional boxes that ars added to the hive proper tor the purpose Of giving the bees sufticteut room in which to stere their serphls honey, The supers in general use are of the same size as the hive proper and are known as ileeIt suffers, some beekeepers, however, prefer to use shallow sup- ers, these Vera are a little better than Half the depth of the deep snore. During the winter months the bees are molly confined to a single ',chamber or to two chambers, that is the hive plus a deep or shal- low super. In the spring as the weather warms up and new nectar and pollen are available the bees begin to increase in number and soon more room is required, especial- ly where they wintered In single chambers This room is given by placing a super on top of Ole hive without a queen excluder, The bees are allowed to raise brood In these two ehambers Where the bees wintered in two chambers an addi- tional super will not be regtllred yet, Later in the season when more nec- tar is coining in titan the bees can use other supers will be required to take care of the surplus. A queen excluder is placed on top of those chambers in which brood is being raised and a super placed on top of the queen excluder When this first super Is about two-thirds fell oh honey it is lifted up and another sup - el' placed between it and the brood chamber and so .in until neat' the end of the flow. After the Crap is harvested one deep or shallow over fell of the best honey should be set aside until the fail and then placed back on top of the hive, This will give the bees plenty of food for the winter and ,provide them with two chambers to winter in. M the Ex- perimental Farm, Ottawa, It has been found that either a deep or shallow super may be used, but the use of the deep super allows for greater in tercbangeability of equipment. Where, however, the deep super is considered too heavy for ease in handling, the shallow super tits in as admirably, but at a lit0e greater oast.—C. B. Gooderham, Dominion Apiarist, Intpralvement "I suppose you find your daughter very much improved by her two years' stay at college?" said the visitor, "Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Proud. "Mary is a carnivorous reader now, and she frequently impoverishes music. But she ain't a bit stuck up, she's unanimous to everybody, and she never keeps a caller waitin' for her to dress; she just runs in, nein de plume, and you know that mattes one feel o comfortable!" Green: "You said you always Melo the last word with your wife, but since I've been here she continually ordered you about," Brown: "I do have the last word- Didn't you hear me sny 'All right'?" "We suatu't ask Mrs, Green to Join our bridge club next year. "Why not?" She entertained us today and ac• Wally adhered to our rule not to provide an elaborate luncheon." Wiley; How you've changed since we were married. You used to have such a happy contented look. Hubby: That was taken when I expected to marry you, and now l've gone and done it, Fair "Question - A pretentious resident in a board• ing house was relating his experience cf a tropical storm. "The thunderstorm was at its fiercest. Lightning played round ole like grapeshot. Closer and closer 1 shrank to the tree under which I stood, fully expecting every moment that it would be the first to be struck. I felt Liar." "How terrible!" exclaimed one lis- tener. "But why didn't you run to some other tree?'1 "Henry is so original. He says things to me I have never heard be- fore." "What? Has he asked you to nalry ilial".n N There's scarcely an ache or pain that Aspirin will not relieve promptly. It can't remove the cause, but it will relieve the pain ! Head- aches. Backaohes. Neuritis and neuralgia. Yes, and even rheumatism. Read proven directions for many) in'portant uses, Genuine Aspirin can't depress the heart. Look for the ,Sayer cross: blade in t t «Cls ISSUE No. 23-'31