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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-01-18, Page 6AGC SIX 'T'l1, WJNGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co, Established 1840, Ri,les.taleen on all class of insur- ',mce at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. �ABNER COSIES, Agent, Wingham J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes It S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. J. H. CRAW F ORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham -.- Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over 'Isard's Store. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST X-RAY 'Office, McDonald Block, Wingham. DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over J. M. McKay's Store. }L W. COLBORNIE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr: W. R. Hambly Phon 54 Wingham SYNOPSIS Roddy Gordon, who has gone to New York to make his fortune, re- turns home to confront his parents and his, sister with the fact that he has stolen fifteen thousand dollars from: the bank where he works to help "the loveliest woman in the world" and will soon be found ,out unless he can return it. "But .1 love her," declares Roddy to his angry fa- ther. "I'd steal for her, I'd die for her—" "A pretty story!" shouts his father. "You've broken your mother's heart, you've disgraced your father andy our sister—your young sister. Look at her, a girl in the morning of life -with a thief for a brother! NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Roddy -my son, my son!" He recoiled violently. "My God, what. was I going to do? I—" he turned stupidly, blindly, groping for the door. "I'd better go out now and —hang myself!" He groaned. "Oh, my boy, my poor boy!" his mother cried after him, tying to reach him,, trying to hang on to him with mother hands that never give R T. C. REDMOND D L Id:R.C.S. (ENG:) .R.C.P. (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated. Office adjoining residence nest to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sunday by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Hours, 272. Ho , 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. "Oh, they'll find out! They've got an accountant there—old Beaver. :He never liked me, he's got his 'nose to the ground like a hound now—looking for the trail. I' think he knows al- ready.,, "Then they might come after you —arrest you — tomorrow?" Nancy shuddered, 'remembering the . time; "it's after twelve now—it must be, Today then!" He nodded. "I don't care any more; I've had all I want froni father. I reckon I can take everything now —even handcuffs." "He didn't mean it, he didn't mean half of, it, he's mad and crazy with grief about it! You mustn't go, not this way', Roddy. Mama can't stand it, you'know how she feels -you're all she cares for!" He choked, irresolute. "I won't let father -I wcn,'t stand for it—he's in- sulted the woman ;I love, a beautiful good woman, whom he's never ''seen! I -Nance, what did I: do? I was wild -did I really try to strangle him?" She nodded, pressing her lips; firmly together tokeep from crying. • Roddy looked down strangely at his own hands, • stretching them out. "Lordy,' I might have killed him—I-- fire a York!" "They must be cruel an New York!' "They are; that's it, Nance, they get you and they break you. They have no hearts. I cant' see how they'll break me—even olcl Beaver with his nose to the ground, He wants my place for his nephew and he's going to get it." ' Nancy's hand clug to his shoulder. "Roddy, you can't go to jail," she. whispered with white lips. "I won't let you!" He smiled at her, an odd, twisted smile.` "You can't help it, Sis, I've got to go.' D'you remember old Ma- jor Lomax? He was always sending his enemies to jail to crack stones!" Roddy laughed hysterically. "I think he knows about this Rod:- I met him tonight and he asked about you—in such a strange way." "They'll all know presently. How they'll talk, Nance, all the old fogies, and the girls, too." "Roddy, you're only twenty-three. How long will they keep you in jail?'! "It's grand larceny. I reckon that's ten •years in New York." She gave a stifled cry, clinging, to him. up d I'clean,forgotten myself." But he did not look at her, he fun!- Nancy tugged at his .sleeve. "Come; bled at the lock of the long French back, Rod!" window, found it and, tearing it open, I . He shook his head. "I'd do come he .walked out over the sill like a blind man.' They heard the soft" thud of his plunge to the ground below. Mrs. Gordon's sobs came in gasps. "Oh, William, what have you done? You've driven your own boy crazy— he—he'll kill himself—I've got to stop !him, I've got to—I—" she was actu- ally at the window herself now, try- ing to climb out. But Nancy caught her, thrusting her back with firm young hand. "I'll go. Stay here! I'll go—I'11 stop him —leave it 'to me!" She pushed her back gently,looking over her head at her father. The light outside . was ghostly; white squares of ground with black shadows. etched where, in the daytime there were tall shrubs and hemlocks: Nancy stood still; too, rooted to the ground, listening, her heart in her throat. Thein she heard the faint crunch of gravel in the path behind. the lilac hedger Roddy was there, of an as old as he is in New A. R.:& F. E. DU'VAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY Street Wing North Telephone 300. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner 'CHIROOPRACTIC - DRUGLESS, ,THERAPY RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham, P. Will Pay You to Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. thing worse if he called her names." "You needn't go in there; go pop to your own room; you're tired out, I'11, tell Marga—that's all." He stood irresolute. "It wouldn't. be for long anway—" he said at last. "Don't you tell hint if I do stay to- night—tomorrow--" o-night—tomorrow: he laughed, wild- ly—"there'll be a jail ride tomorrow, Nance!" It was long past midnight; morning was in the 'air'. and the frost seemed to strike to the marrow in the :girl's. bones. She shook with a chill of fear. "Rod, why did you take it?" He' did not answer for a while; he stood staring at the ground, his face distorted in .the moonlight. He looked a mere boy, but his miseryy had made. black rings around his eyes. "Nance, you know I' didn't meanto keep it. • I took it little by little at first. I—well, there was a reason for it even then, T was going to put • it straight 'back, but I couldn't, I took her face in her hands, She was e here huddled heap of misery, and Nancy saw her shoulders rise and fall' with the struggle of suppressed sobs. The whole figure, the disheveled head and the blue -veined hands, tore the young girl's heart. "Don't," she whispered, patting her shoulder, "Please don't!" Her mother raised a haggard face, blurred and puffed with weeping. "Oh, Nancy, what shall we do? What can we do? I've lived too long!" "Hush, don't say Such things:" Mrs. Gordon drew along sigh, wip- ing her eyes. "hie down, Mama," she advised her softly, "please go -and lie down. If you're ill you •can't help Roddy at .all." But her mother only sank lower her chair. "1 can't rest," she said,- and then, petulanty: "leave me alone, Nancy, I_ don't want anything in the world but my boy!" Nancy turned silently and went back into the hall, but not to her own room; instead she went cautiously downstairs. The light was still burn- ing there and she saw her father 'sit ting bolt upright jn his chair beside the blackened hearth.. ' She went soft- ly into the room, drawing nearer step by step, staring at him in silent 'ter- ror. She thought he had,, died in his chair. He had not. He looked old and gray and broken, and his mouth hung open like a dead man's. Continued Next Week. Thursday, January 18, 1934: Well, 'I•• loved her and she wont marry a poor man. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON JESUS BEGINS HIS MINISTRY. Sunday, Jan. 21. -Matthew 4: 12-25: • Golden Text: Repent: for the Kingdom of Hea- ven is at hand. (Matt. 4:17.) In a little more than 300 words we have an account of the unique char- acter, amazing influence, .method` of work, supernatural power and activity and nation-wide fame of the, greatest man`that ever lived. The events re- ported. here took place almost two thousand years ago. The man died when He was in His early thirties, but letters and newspapers and legal doc- uments and ocuments'and national and international covenants throughout a large part of the world are dated in His memory: A.D. 1934. He was the greatest man. that ever•lived because He was more than man; God as well as man, Let us try to get the facts and teachings that are packed into this brief his- torical record. It was still early in the public min- istry of the Lord Jesus, but almost a year had passed since His wilderness experience of temptation that we studied last week. He had been in Jerusalem'and Judea, which are in the southern part of Syria, and now He beard that John the Baptist, His cou- sin, friend and special forerunner or herald, was cast into prison. Did He go at once to John with a message of comfort and 'assurance? "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, He depaited into Galilee," going to Nazareth and Cap- ernaum some eighty miles to the north. It is just the opposite of what we would expect. But the Saviour of the world 'makes no mit 1:' s. Nor is He ever lacking in lo.,--; Ti so loved the world that He gave His life to save all who believe. And: He loved John and admired hint; we shall have in a later' lesson Christ's tremendcus tribute: "Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen' a greater than John the Baptist." But, there are times in the exper- ience of God's children when, , for God's own loving and wise purpose, the heavens seem as brass,; -and God His face was ghastly in the moon- light, like a white mask, and his eye- lids twitched nervously. "Don't cry!" he said harshly. , "I'll be old when I come out—thirty-three a—nd done for. They never forget a fellow with a jail sentence, I—well, there's a way ouh,;of;it, Nance, a way for the family honor, too. I reckon father thought I'd forgotten it, but I haven't—I've seen it all the time. I —" he laughed bitterly—"I'm work- ing up to it." She tightened her arms about him fantically; she .knew. • "Roddy, you can't -you won't!" He laughed at her, his lips. twitch - course, she might have known it! She some more. There are some queer ing like his eyelids. fled lightly, making no sound, in the people there. Nance, you wouldn't "Father meant that—he knows • he direction and overtook him at the end understand—curb-brokers. I thought means it now -he thinks I'm a coward of the garden; it opened there—thru 'd make enough out of the' second because I didn't." I g� R. C. ARMSTRONG LIVE STOCK And GENERAL AUCTIONEER Ability with special training en- able me to give you satisfaction.. Ar- rangements made with W. J. Brown, Wingham; or direct to Teeswater. Phone 45r2-2. THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER 20 Years' Experience in Farm Stock and In1plemeilts. Moderate Prices, Phone 331. Ab Walker T"U RNI'TURt and FSERVICE iJ��I, Wxlrx ha lfYll >�l!� , Altlllilelltlatl`Rce gervice He had actually had his hands on his father's throat, bit I took to return the whole sum, "Rod," she clung to him, "not to - you' see? It was gambling, of night—promise me. Roddy, not to - course, but I wanted to:get rich, too. night! '.Come in—you needn't see fa - You -.get that. way in New York; you ther, go upstairs to your own room— just have to get rich quick! And I- you need the rest yes, you do— you well, I loved her and she won't marry are crazy! Rod, it'll kill mother, pro - a poor man." mise. me, not tonight!" "She made you steal!" Her frantic, clinging hands, the love "That's a lie!" he said brokenly, and pity in her eyes, pierced the boy's "she couldn't, she's beautiful, the has tortured soul. His lips shook, a sob such wonderful, eyes, Nance, ,they're choked him, like jewels, topazes, you know." Nancy's arm slipped about his neck "She was in dreadful trouble, she' she drew him along, she held'him had to have money—she told me. a- tight. She understood how her mother bout it, her poor old father might felt. It couldn't happen, it mustn't! have gone to jail -through a mistake, She .had dragged him to the back you know, and it took all the money, door now.' to save !him -she was so grateful, so "Roddy, go- up to your room—I'11 broken when T got it, Nance. She was tell Mama you'll stay tonight, she going to pay it all back—she will yet -- she feels dreadfully because she can't right off.. She feels as bad.as you do, but she's grateful—I did it for her, to save her, Nance. I'd do any- thing for her --I'd go to hell for her!'' „Rod!". ";I would!" he cried passionately. "I love, here. My God, Nance, you don't know what love is, it runs thru' your veins like fire! When I° look into her eyes --I'd give my soul' for her. ,I'd--" He clenched his hands, shaken with passion ,a mad boy, mad with love. "I've save her anyway! They can send lne to jail -'--jail's noth- ing, death's nothing, shame's nothing --if you can give yourself for the wo- man you love!" 1 -Ie choked, clenching his hands a- gain, and Nancy said nothing. She stood looking at him: She thought she knew something of love,. too,: but —to steal for it! For a long moment they were dumb then she spoke hesitatingly. "If ---if we cottld only raise it—the whole of it—right away --•The trouble it would clean tis out is—if we clo, and Papa's too old to begin over a- gain." g "I won't have that!" said Roddy quickly. "I don't want a cent front 1 im--and lie can't do 'it. Nance, hers 1 gotsometlhittg weak' about his heart; anyway, he's 'too old ' why, they'd a broken gate -on the river' meadow, "Roddy," she called to him. "Roddy -,--wait l'r He stopped short and turned, the moonlight whitening his • haggard young face. "Don't come near me, Nance," the young fire -brand said fiercely, "you'd best keep away from a—a dirty thief! She• came up panting: "Rod, you're killing .Mama." That reached him; he pelt his hand uta with,a despairing gesture and pushed the lock of his hair out of his eyes. "I wish to the Lord I'd shot my- self in New York!" he� said hoarsely.. '1 he anguish of his tone went to his 1sister's heart; they were close of an 'age, Zest tweilt -one and ar,c, she was 1 y , lthey had always been together, She. ettinghirri to ,shaking. "Roddy, are you sure they'll find out right away? I mean those people n New York --before you carr put the mottey back?" Iriere1s SmpkstuMck' t, ay to Stop a Cold Take 2 Aspirin a Tablets. Drinkfullg lassofwater. If throat is sore; crush. • Repeat treatment in 2 and dissolve 3 Aspirin hours. Tablets in a half glass of water and gargle according to directions in box. Almost Instant Relief you buy, see that you get Aspirins Tablets. Aspirin is the trademark of The Bayer Company, Limited,, and the name Bayer in the form of a cross is on each tablet. They dissolve almost instantly. And thus work almost instantly when you take them. And for a gargles Aspirin Tablets dissolve so com- pletely they leave no irritating. at. particles. Get a box of • 12, Ask your doctor " 7 tablets ora 'about .this. And .,when ;gSntea's bottle of 24 or a�:. , p/I. 100' at any; drug store. in this Way The simple method pictured above is the way doctors throughout the world now treat colds..', It is recognized as the QUICK- EST, safest, surest way to treat a cold. For it will check an ordinary cold almost as fast as you caught ASPIRIN TABLETS ARE MADE IN CANADA DOES NOT HARM THE HEART ecies in the New Testament is one.of the unanswerable evidences. of the di- vine inspiration of the Bible. Christ, walking by the Sea of Gal- ilee, saw two brothers, fishermen, casting a net, and He said to them: "Follow Me, and I will , make you fishers of men." Simon Peter and Andrew were their names: They had: come to know Jesus almost a year earlier;,, as John's Gospel tells ' us. (John 1: 35-42.) At that time they had begun to believe that Jesus was the Messiah of Israel. Now, at His definite call to service, "they straight- way left then nets and followed Him.: He was, giving them the greatest call any man can have: tobring souls out, of death into salvation and life.' The Greek verb used in the account of another 'incident; in Luke 5: 10, shows that Christ there said, literally,- "From henceforth thou shalt take men' alive:" The Lord saw two other fishermen brothers, James and John, in a boat with their father mending "their :nets, •and He gave them the same, call. "And they immediately left the ship the prince was BRIDE TRAVELS SOLO A. new portrait of Princess Alexis M'Dvani, the former Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth• millions, as she arrived aboard her luxurious car in San Francisco to board a boat for the Orient. The honeymooning cou- ple had their plans interrupted when whispered, as if she thought her fa seems far away and unhearing, This ther would' Bear it and break' out a roust have seemed one of those" times gain: "Don't frighten her, Rod, go to to John. He knows today, in the pre - bed --she'll die if you tell her this! sence of his Lord, why it was best He stood irresolute,' half pushed to for Christ to do as He did and stay away. And now a prophecy was fulfilled. "There are more direct and "indirect quotations and references to the Old Testament in Matthew than in any other New Testament book, about 100 of them." Seven centuries before Christ came to earth Isaiah had predicted, by di- vine inspiration, that, whereas God had "afflicted the land of Zebulun and the lane! of Naphtali ,'beyond Jor- dan, in Galilee, of, the nations," this; people that walked in darkness should see a great light, and the light should. shine upon those: dwelling in the land of the shadow of death (Isaiah 9.12,) Again, Isaiah prophesied that when the Messiah should come God would give I -Tim "for a ligi t of the Gentiles." (Isa. 42:6,) We read these very words, in this lesson in Matthew when Christ came from Nazareth to live in Caper - mann, and the prophecy was fulfilled iii'the exact geographical region nai11- cd by Isaiah, when "the people which sat' in darkness saw a great light; and to them which satin the region and shadow of death light is sprung tip." The detailed and liberal •fu1filImnent chair beside her vacant bed, hiding of !hundreds of Old. Testament proph., the kitchen door. It was dark in there and silent and he could go up the back -stairs. The thought of his own room and his white bed—Where he had .slept as a boy—suddenly leaped on him and pinched him with a sharp little pain, a needle thrust beside the great pain he carried with him. He groaned. "I'll stay, Nance, until until I have to go," he said thickly, "kr her sake —Mother's I mean." Mrs. Gordon's relief at Roddy's re- turn made her yield to Nancy's per- suasion, "Let Win be in his room for a while Mama. He's worn out, perhaps, he'll sleep a little—if papa doesn't break out again." Her mother had come upstairs with her to see Roddy, and Fancy had coaxed her away from his door and into her owl room. No one had a thought of sleep that night and it was daylight now. The soft gray of the dawn crept t in like a mist, and they ° heard suddenly- in their broken pans- es—the twittering of the birds in the vine outside the window, sank IMOaria old arm- , Mrs. Gordon san forced to desert the and their father, and followed 'Him." Reno to dodge'a recces sery The instant obedience of these four car atP disciples to: the call of the Saviour is er, • impressive. And it is the way of blessing. How much richer our lives would be, how many dissapointinents and failures and sorrows we should avoid, if we obeyed His Word instant- ly. Then the Lord made a tour of the entire Province of Galilee, and His public ministry included three differ- ent things: Teaching: Preaching the Gospel of the King- dom. ' Healing every kind of 'sickness., His teaching must have included opening the Old Testament. Scriptures to the Jews in their synagogues. His preaching was a proclaiming of. the Gospel of the Kingdom as at hand, just as John the Baptist had done. His healing was supernatural, mir- history aculous, omnipotent: it had no: limi- tations whatever. He healed all man - mer of sickness and all manner of dis- ease." The inspired narrative also tells us that He healed those who, were possessed with devils,." or de- mons, and the. "lunatic' or insane. Here and elsewhere the New Testa- ment is careful to distin uish between bodily disease and demon -possession, and between demon -possession and insanity.` They are different, but they . were all subject to the healing pow- er of the Lord. His fable was nation-wide, going throughout all Syria, and great crowds' of people followed Hun from every part of the country. If only theyhad all let Him heal their souls as well as their bodies, how different,• would have been! EDDIE SHORE AND WIFE Back from an enforced vacation, af- ter hislongstts,p ension following tlie. ' hockey fracas in Boston in which "Ade"was injured, Eddie Ace Bailey Short of the Boston Bruins hockey team, aitd Mil. Eddie Shore are here shown at the rail of the S.S. Monarch of Bermuda, as that ship reached New York, back from Bermuda, where they spent a part of the suspension period. Soon Shore will be !.lack on• the ice, wielding his stick for the glory of the Boston ice perforin �y.