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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1924-03-06, Page 6dry Sts it, Life snerity Wished >mpany lone for which r, oper- reports. depart #s the policy- ,rdinary {mpany, syees of are pro- olicies. comber us total ncroase 'he new o year policies lag 35,- 5. Dur- policy sinre- ,red -En-• rated to so paid, lompany exceeds:. with the and at- e degree fulfilled. policy - I $4,417,- 0,000 for net Sur - capital to $19,"-, e Direct- etr own. ich will sting -to. rder to for new, he high ey have d, have {visions further anter in rills. sophora y bless- conclu- ugh left et down electttle r finest d some - or and t loolfbd eted to ou ain't bankers t a car - le mar- part ac part in e farm ppen to elves to no dan- grrown to the t worth - a home or our ay or a •ot is. Is grow - modern e to us. e wheel grease. Iderably cease 10 electric cheap to help, that are omplish- By BLIZAl3E7`li VK MijteBR "TVhen hearts cotnmaeed, Front minds the ,eafert eott:lselidiips depart." maidenname. "A relative of yqurs,,' , Buying Men in Bits. mumeyv'> dv t' aunt alk nay, brother," said N71hs Canna i A very 'strange a ver tsi Ahc 'ieeolli)1,l`5nrjri a She; 'ad,poarp"d int a 1 o"ndon l nglont, daily to.' .ver heard Y }e} 1 o ars britt .i'- - ee 1 {�1{l,man offered himself as will. rnele} 1}neW r1Gne ha$S boon suchf,a rtn to urtdergv any apera ion .W e, person but sh,'1{vas •wei used to rets thererwee a "spotting cit ids chance, e.nce; even m.-famxly afitirxs So ' -she of recovery''" merelytremarked IIow-iiiterestrti 1" '210' one seems to know exactly what' And," lylxs. Carnal conten- ued; "I.thought l'd a-Sit,hi.n to bre:Slc'is the le„al a po t of,tito ease• its his journey and stop, over with. us ouch an r, er .wets aageuted, and the f'ox• a week or so. .It's a good many man; died undo the: operation, it years ,since. I've, seen ” your -=your seems possible -that the operator alight' Uncle John " ' bo indicted tor manslaughter. 411440 1+e'vI elVy uu' q, fe eveY1' .p -n a ,a tusi it og'$k�, :sorlcd z I al3,e*;eattleone rcv:.efses yam,' r ca l ila> you more , a , remr iron 5l dr «, net. Norte, bove• are fl3ren3 T�es t f �3 t 3J idrzugl` rooms. After • ,nner CHAPTER ?t. (Gont'd.)d th ' 1 sontetmies wi ,nnpay &&er antler easdra3•J... of was clear- would have expatiated, upon the nodi - a .Ardeyne compress p g for dancing, and every{ o 3 's g hrisee her Smarts cal expermient. The blind American s w e e ltn had known whatwas coming, Hugo gathered there for coffee, � hood's s memory of C • arc=+tl� =aQ� p 'once silos• Rouse, u •e it r. Ch i"me c c ' icnaxi I s s' lire Brasile had killed Tony Egan; his' ' •1 Mrs. Cama remain_ sho had, never met a single xelatipe'on 15 filen and business partner, a either Side the ami Egan had also been a friend of. the plan she s desperately reviewing ngPro- was just a little` ashamed of their'iso- eye ti pubic similar to his own who , H u s•s-w Eg h plan she .had cuneus eel for the.. Pro- doctor. ` - ,, servation of /mi. ing thee happiness• nation:. Other; people' had shoals of would be willing 'to undergo a some -" r' e• "Smax•le has recovered' his sanity, � • heartache, relations, but she and Iter another. wheal painful operation which might � ��� ry •�{' a t,�{� "T should like to' see him," ` Alice It is, howevox, a well lino wn tact that both surgeons snit{ patients' di the band plays , f Philip had" not been ere, � s re 'll � to r large' sums � in the lounge, part whichfor suitable human sub,` Pox _e ed his lips. ,Ileu • fore- fact that barrin a fleeting child -i 6 S W hileosr3 Ceeah,o: m But poor lett Ym fl Fsufferingfrom H + for a man and Tony id of family: Bu Ahce 'advertised d �r Ardeyne said. "There was notktxng•to She was suffering from , seemed. not -to-have one .who Was the p do but let him out." • sneered •s Egan. genes in regret ' 'brought' on bIt had been disturb a too free- indul- slightest bit of nee to them for social subject, anre, lin finally him otor{ scale "And youcallyourself a brain spa-` log to meet Hector Gaunt again. All Purposes. these yearn she had regretted hint; but ' They talked a little more before Years ata salary of 11;250 a year. ciaUnfortunatel Philip Ardeyne pri- father; painlessly., There: had been so Ardeyne said. good night. He wanted Several operations were performed Unfortunately,to+hire a car for to -morrow and Make upon the substitute, but all without Lonely agreed thanwith the seixtimerds her many 'ether err *tlabo t. s to think had been rather a•picnic of ineeting uncle John, the desired effect. So the millionaire tone more the actual Words ex- even tow 3 but 11irs. Cariia said aro:, He' brother pressed. 'le had "argued against the her five years ,of marmage.ending in Y at last gave up hope and resigned him - . P had 1 b lovas a little peculiar m some things" self to a life of dankness release of Hu o.Smarle, but the board such tragedy; there a a Ways: sen rand he had not been very well lately. g Alice a solace; and the shadow :of Five yeast ago Maes Emma` Galiag- was up against the stubborn fact that.It would be better if she met him whatever might happen- in the future; Hugo' Smarle a menace, So she had alone. He might require tactful coax- lien,- a wealthy young lady, was ter he moment -and for some time a in to get him alter his plans. ribly burned' by the explosion of a, upon insisted upon the'attenda pt, t la o of place repelling g " List -the man who killed Tony Egan P e surface of .Ardeyne thought to:himse f:`, Sha spirit stove: Her chin, neck, and physicians removing skin enough•Yro p -ski s living l�ghty nth wants to tell him about Alice and me. was. sane. And, as the doctor said,p , ,chest were left almost raw. To con- his own body to 'graft upon the scar, there' was nothing to do, but let him I hope 'uncle John',isn't a tremendous• - meat crack and'plunge her into the i?Deal the scars the doctors �perfgrmsd, One by: one, no fewer than Sort You?" ly - important person' -or given twenty-three different operations in pieces of skin were out tram his god Vu"How can it possibly affect you - p fanciful prejudices. Suppose he doesn't Ardeyne asked. Poor. Tony was, kill- ed in a quarrel by a lunatic who has been confined at Broadmoor for fifteen years. • The man isn't. going" to bother you, and 'surely you aren't hankering after further revenge? I ked a talk With one of'his relatives, a.rsensible sort of fellow, and he assured me 'that Smarle would'be'well looked after. He has' a family --a wife and a daughter, I believe—and they are going to take him .to some quiet place abroad." Mrs. Egan"shrugged her shapely' brown shoulders "There's a side of it of which you• ]slow nothing," she said. I would have given half of what I possess to keep Hugo Smarle where he was for the rest. of his life. Sane, you say!; Does that mean he can contract bu.i- ness?,r "Certainly it does." Ardeyne was: puzzled. "Well, X say he's not sane. You watch and see. He'll be making hor- rible accusations before' long. It was money over which. Tony and he quar- relled. You'll see. He'll rake that all up again and try; to rob me. Perhaps. he'll murder me.- Then I: hope you'll be satisfied. Letting a maniac loose on the world! 'Really, :Phil,. you doc- tors take a lot on e?ourselves—a fear- ful responsibility -I call . it. Hpgo Smarle's been 'waiting for this oppor- tunity. That's why `he's pretended to be cured—" Ardeyne laughed. "Every madman pretends -to be cured, 'as yon; gut it, or, rather, :he imagines himself never to have been anything but sane, But you can't quarrel with me about this fellow, Smarle. There was nothing -whatever to do but free him. -P may 'tell you that he'd have beer} discharged. a year ago if I hadn't held out against it." "There'll be a law suit: You'll see," Mrs. Egan passionately continued her own train of thought. "It will drag along for years, no doubt, and in the end, whether IWin or lose, I'll find myself impoverished by costs. Oh, you doctors and lawyers{ ,A" clever gang you are -always working to- gether to the advantage, of your own pockets. 'The uncle who died and left you such a nice. little fortune was a lawyer, wasn't he?" "PIe was," Philip replied, "but he didn't make his money by it. That came originally from his father, who I225 hurried with her treasured child front ,'close friend- ship's, which might at any 'mo- ment depths, Well, it had cracked. And now she was expecting the plunge, al- though by no meats reconciled to it, With a book" on her knees she at in the little slip of a sitting-roombe- fore 'the 'olivewood 'fire and thought over what it might have been like for her and for •Alice had she braved things out as the left-handed wife of Hector Augustus Gaunt. Wouldthe child -really have suffered? No one would have known Hector had made that quite clear to her. His old wife was alive; he had heard from her on the subject of money after a long lapse of years, but there had been no question of her bothering him, no question of denouncing him for the bigamist he undoubtedly was. • But Jean had been badly frightened. The baby was coining—the baby who would have no name; and there was mad, 'but chivalrous . Hugo Sniarle wishing to marry her and father her child. Thinking about Hugo, Jean was forced to admit a great deal that was favorable to him. Hugo had alwas been kind to her and no: one in the wide world would ever havegiies'sed from -him that Alice was not his own child. Thank. heaven, thougght. Jean, there had never been any other chil- dren. like me?" (To be continued.) Living in Temple Bar. Several famous London arches are inhabited. The Marble, Arch, for in- etanee, contains ;pito " roomy apart- ments, and, so does the arch which 'forms the entrance 'to Constitution to be grafted upon his ownhead, in have operated at -least as powerfull Hill: place of :dna which" he had lost in a'in cases of this kind as the hope Our ancestore' seem to have had a' 'mining boident. • manetary gain. passion for saving space. 'It is colt• niense number of 'applications eeleable that the City :of London can-' way received, and Dr. Nalden, who no- 's skin grafting, the skin being taken and grafted upon his' -mother's • lac from twenty-three different persons. and arm. ;In the end the lady not onl The sums paid for other people's skin : completely recovered from injurfe Worked out at $1,000 per square,foot. I' which would have killed ninety -nen An advertisementones appeared in people : out of a hundred, but als a New -York paperto the effect that a showed -very slight disfigurement, Western millionaire, who weer about I In this. case, .of course, filial:lto fo be married, was prepared to pay was the motive, for the sacrifice, an five thousand dollars` for a right ear - perhaps similar disinterested motty {scribed ere' OUT wonder; ads• red 0111 - hat ora, eni Sale tion -- sat in anti 'of i.e. or gil St. rge 1118 ne. d e- ro y wee a brewer. Somehow the conversation ended. The 'whole thing, had destroyed the fine flavor of Philip ' Ardeyne'.s day, He wished with all his heart and soul that his name had been kept out of the newspapers, for because of that publicity Carrie Egan had known where to find him. Happily he was ignorant of the fact. that the same publicity had given the same informs- tion to Mrs. Carney, and was respon- sible ,for his second meeting with. Alice. • Mrs. Egan's dissatisfaction -with the. release of Hugo Smarle irritated him less than the fact of her being here, in' this hotel, a looker-on as it were upon these idyllic first hours of his romance. A year ago he had been— almost-,in.love with Carrie Egan. But sudden disgust hadrisen tip to cure him. . Yet she, was here, and once ho had made love to her. He feared her laughter, ,feared 'the pos sibility of her hurting Alice. The po- sition carried with it a certain amount. of humiliation. The dinner -gong sounded as be walked down the corridor i-way froni her rooms, and at the end, by the eon- cierge's desk inquiring for letters, he fe+bnd Alice: The girl threw him' a quick, inquir- ing 'glance. Perhaps she •expected to be told why he had suddenly appeared from that corridor. • ",'Mother's -,:tired, she said, "She's going to have dinner upstairs to- night." o- night" "Oh, I'm sorry -still, it will be rather nice to be alone, just you and me, eh"?" Alice smiled shyly. "Yes, it will be nice. Philip ---P "Yes, my darling?" They were Walking towards' the stairs to the :dingict'g room. Alice kept her face straight ahead and spoke in a very low tone. No one was -near, but she did not: want what sho was saying even to be.guessed. "Are you sure you care for me—a lot?" ° "Sure? . I should think I was!" "You really do love me, Philip -`for ever and ever'?" His 'answer Was as satisfactory as circunlstanpos permitted, " . And why should you get such ideas into your head? There never was anybody but you" (a slight exaggeration)"and there never will be. The sanno assur- ance from you, please." Toe a fleeting instant she turned and looked at him, her eyes so •liquid and lovely 'with brimming adoration that his very soul seemed to drown in their depths. There comes but one. woman in a man's life with such eyes of love; he is lucky, indeed, if he finds her. And Philipp Ardeyne told himself how lucky he was—this wonderful prize was his. How tenderly ho would cherish it. Quickly she picked up he book as the sitting -room dear opened. It was not -quite 'ten o'clock, but Alice' had come u,, pp, bringing Dr. Ardeyne with her. They hoped she was not too tired;; Alice herself was a little tired, And then' Mrs: Carney broke the news she had prepared for, them, keep- ing her face in shadow as much as possible.' ' not afford to widen ltd streets or leave dertook the operation, selected a suit open spaces -because land is so costly, able -candidate. A deed of agreement but in the, old days why was it thought was drawn up, and the physician necessary to . make thoroughfares agreed to keep the names of both buy- exeessively 'narrow, - and to build er and seller secret. houses and'shops over the City gates? i The operation was performed. The The last of these was the famous upper half of the volunteer's ear was. Temple Bar, removed is June, 1879. It out away, together with about four stood where the Griffin stands nova op- t inches of skin at the back of the ear, poeite Child's Bank. I and grafted on the millionaire's head. When it was doomed to demolition, The two men had to lie practically partly on account of its serious ob motionless until, after twelve days, the struction to overgrowing street traffic flesh had united, and the rest at the ear was -cut away end grafted. Still more wonderful was the case of a Scottish lady who sustained shock- ing injuries in a runaway accident, Her skull and both legs weretree- tured, and her left arm and one side of her face badly lacerated.. Her son, a young physician,- aban- doned his practice and set himself to endeavor to restore his mother's lite. Everyone else had given, up her case as hopeless. Day -and night lie do, voted his whole time to liar, and so in- spired not only her nurses, but the poor sufferer herself, thatsho sur- vived and began slowly to mend, But the mutilation of the face caused terrible disfigurement. The son there - "By the way, dear,"—ostensibly Jean addressed Alice—"Uncle John Belies is on his way to Genoa from Paris, I had a telegram from asking me to meet.him at Ventimiglia--- "Uncle John Baliss?" echoed Alice. Balliss, she knew, was her mother's Ancient Proverbs and partly because it was falling' into a state of decay, many tons of ledgers and other'reeords were removed from the room over the central arch. These, were the accumulated archives of Child's Bank, To this day the cheques of this' historic house bear on their face a print of Temple Bar. He Who Knows, He who knows and knows that he knows, is master. • He who knows and does not know that he knows, needs" a teacher. He who does not know and knows that he does not know, needs Iove. Tie who does not know and does not know that he does not know, to lost.— The Prairie Street. Lovers of beauty' laughat this gr ' town, Where dust lies thick on ragg curbside trees And compass -needle streets lead •t and. down And, lose themselves' in amp prairie seas. • {{-sire IS no winding scented' land, hilt Crowned with a steepled church, garden wall, • Of old grey stone where lilacs bloc and fill - The air .with fragrance when May rains fall. But here is the unsoftened majest; Of the wide earth where all wide streets end, And from the dusty corner one 1 see 'The full moon -rise and flaming descend. ' The long main street, whence 'fa ere' teams go forth, Lies like an old sea road, star -pe north. CHAPTER X, It was a pity th t Jean Carney had not thio remotest Suspicion of that other Weman's presence hi'the hotel. The Mimosa- Palace was a big blare, yet they would have been certain to meet that evening if Mrs. Qarnay -eel, had not decided to dine in her own :SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO OF CANADA PANY HEAD OFFIOE MtdONTRE4 The Record of a Great rear Simply Told AT DI SC E MB11t 3100 1923 The Company had a68etS, Invested In the best classes of securities, of 4 4. 1 1 4 4' 4 r•,• 1 1 1 1 1 116 1 l) 1!• 4 1 ► On increase for the year of $3540,0041 The total liability of the Company (including reserves and other liabilities to policyholders of $185,586,000) amounted to • .1•, 4r..,..••eaaaln Gal ;4i The Company has set tAsWe for unforeseen contingencies v., the sum of 4 t 4 44,4 • ,. 4%4 4..'• 4 e t' i t s • 1 'e. 1. t. 1 a • Leaving a ouiliitio over a ll liabilitists and contingency tunas of • (An.increase for the year of $3,603,000) The cash income for the year, from premiums, interest, rents. etc., wan . ....... , .. • .. • . • (An increase for the ye'a'r elf $10,714,041) Total paynients to policy holders or their represen- tatives for death claims, maturing policies and other benefits, in 1923 amounted to . •:.. • • . New paid assuraances issued during the year totalled . The Com (A.n increase tot the year of $16,593,000) ' y� lanyhad assurances in force (net) amounting to '039765 ,000 (An increase for the year of 5,73,350,600) $200,257,000 -i'87,885,000 3,500,000 $179872,000 $46„965,0 00 $22,145,000 $107,391;000 The 318,443 ordinary policies of the Company protect homes anti businesses at home and abroad, while in addition 22,731 commerciai Riad industrial employees are protected under Sun Life group assurance policies Dividends to policyholders again materially increased Every figure in this statement sets NEW HIGH ECO n C radia Life fsur nc or s mJ 1 h d't� nt`£