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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-02-08, Page 6A, SI •T HE W TNGHA 4 ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday February ;8 X934 Wellington Mutual ,Fire Insurance Co, Established 1840, Risks taken on all class of irasur-' N,nrnee at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. .;, :'BER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. I3USHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan Office -Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes IL S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Ontario,, "!6ilTingharP 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. H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W R:n hly. Phon 54 Wt gam SYNOPSIS To get fifteen thousand dollars to save the family honor, Nancy Gordon promises to marry the well-to-do Dr. Richard Morgan. Her beloved broth- Roddy, has come home from New York to confess that he has taken that amount from the bank where he. works—because a woman needed it— and, that he will be jailed if he is found out before he returns it. So Nancy, in, love with the penniless Page Roemer, decides to borrowthe money from Morgan, and pledges her- self to marry himin return. He ag- rees to the bargain, feeling sure he can make her love him. While they are talking at his )douse, Roemer com- es to see him. "Oh, Richard, don't let him come in here," begs Nancy when she hears his name. And as Richard looks at her the pitiful little secret of her love for Page is reveal- ed to him. DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M:R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lend.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated. sob in her throat; her face pltckered and 'quivered with tears like ,a ,child's, "Oh, Nancy!" she sobbed. They clasped each other, weeping. They held each other for a long time and, then Mrs. Gordon felt the girl's loot cheek: She chew back, looked at her. "You're ill, child!" was too poor to pay; he .was thinking of her and her mother, Nancy's lips shook but she commanded herself. "Papa," she said softly, "Marna—" she held her hands out to then ten- derly; "I've come to tell you—Roddy is 'safe; he's got the money, all of it, and he's gone to'pay it back. I think he'll get there beore they even find it out," Her father merely stared, incredu- lous, but her 'nattier uttered a choked cry. "Oh, Nancy; How did •he get it? Who lent him all that?" Nancy held her breath. If she told them, she didnot know what her fa- ther might do. He loved her, he might take it hard, he might even go to Richard about it, and he could not pay it back, it would ruin him. She looked from one worn white face to the other and her eyes misted; she was doing it for there, she knew it now, for all of them—because she lov- ed them, she loved them so much it was an anguish to see them suffer. "I - borrowed it, Mama," she an- swered softly, "I got it and—and. Rod- dy and I will pay it back." Mr. Gordon half rose from his chair. "Who did you get that money from, Nancy?" he demanded hoarsely, Nancy backed away from them; they were both dazed but their eyes followed her. "I can't tell you today," she gasped, "that's part of it — the pledge, I mean, but T'll tell you next week." She broke away; she must not tell them, she dared not—yet! She turned a little wildly and ran out of the room. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "If you stay—if they come to get you before you pay it back—it will kill them both -I mean' father and mother. You must go, Roddy!" "You're a trump, Sis!" he said thickly, "you've saved me—I--I feel like a brute to let you do it, I—I'll,go btu .I've got to tell them first, I mean the governor and mother." "I'll tell them!" Nancy shivered. "You can't stop for-it—if you. lose this train they— they might arrest you, they may be on their way now!" She kissed' hie? Studdenly. "Oh, Rod, be good now! elle sobbed. He could not speak, but he wrung her hand; then the gate slammed and he was gone. Nancy rose snowy, steadying her- self an instant with one hand on tate • `ienly my head, Mama, I didn't sleep last night." Her mother rose, "You lie down," she said gently, struggling to be her- self again. "I'll get you a cup of tea." The hot tea and toast revived her ca.:little, and the touch of her mother's hands on her hot forehead • soothed her. She felt like a child ag=ain, being ;comforted after a hurt. "Don't go yet," she whispered, and in the ;twilight Mrs. Gordon sat fora long time beside her daughter's bed, holding leer hand. • They did not talk much, The &der woman was.' thinking of her son; the girl, . of tomorrow. But after a while they heard' the front door open and Mrs. •Gordon ' rose hurriedly. "There's Papa; I`ll go get his din- ner for him. I hope he can eat! You needn't come down, child, if your head still aches." Nancy let her go; her head did not ache so badly now, but she, was glad to escape her father's questions. She had work to do. She packed a handbag with a few things she would need and she hurried, tumbling things over. Her wardrobe was small en- ough; she had not much choice, but she selected the simplest things she Nancy lay quite still, face down- ware on hdr bed, hands clasped close over her eyes, 'shutting out the light. Her head ached terribly, it ached so residence next t6 that the throbs ran down through her Office adjoining re Street. old bench where she had sunk, and body and shook her with anguish. It Anglican Church on Centrethen she went slowly into the° house. was fearful, yet it was a blc ssieg, Sunday by appointment. Her mother was sitting in a rocker while it ache Osteopathy that she could not Osteopathy Electricity Hours, 4 p.m. think: If she tried to think she would Phone 272. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street Wingbam Telephone 300. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed` Drugless Practitioner CHIROIPRACTIC - DRUGLESS. THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham. by the window, her face hidden in her hands. Her father sat in the same chair where be had slept that morn- ing. His gray hair was standing up on top of his head 'and he had not shaved; he looked older than ever. He stared around at Nancy. "Where's Roddy?" he demanded hoarsely. "Where's he hiding? I haven't seen him this morning My THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham. Fl Will Pay You to Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. ENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. R, C ARMSTRONQ LIVE STOCK And GENERAL AUCTIONEER Ability with special training en- able me to give you satisfaction. Ar- rangements made with W. 3. Brown, Winghar'ra; or direct to Teeswater. Phone 45r2-2. remember that she had promised to marry Richard on Monday. She did not want to think. Through her went the crashing and rushing of Roddy's train -going to New. York; she felt as if the steel wheels passed over her and left her bleeding. ` She had saved him, he would get there in time to pay the money back, they would never know., And she had spared the two down; stairs too. It had crushed her father to think of his girl shamed for her brother. Nancy's lips twithced with pain at the thought; he had looked so like death in his sleep. The feeling had come to her with a horrible swift surprise —her father was growing old! She clutched at her pillows, shaking. Her world might tumble down and she would have noone left—no one but —it was too much. She rose on her elbow and stared out of the window with plain blurred eyes—Richard! She gave a little cry andplunged her head down again in- to her pillows, sobbing and shaking with fear. Then the pain in her head began again, and she stopped thinking, she lay after a while very still and limp, like a shot bird ;,unable to use its wings. Sheer exhaustion, a sleepless night and the longracking of her nerves had told. The girl had fallen into a heavy, dreamless sleep. She was still sleeping when her mother quietly opened the door and carne in. The huddled figure on the bed startled her; there was something in Nancy's very attitude that suggest- ed misery and apprehensions, Mrs. Gordon came hurriedly across the room and touched her flushed cheek and her hot forehead, She had the skillful mother hands • and she knew the feel of fever. •• Nancy 'started ep on her elbow. "What is it, Marna?" she crief fever- ishly. ,I -Ter mother shook her head. "No- thing at all now;dear. Papa went out to the bank for a while, he had to do something. He wanted to come up here and see you but 1 stopped hitn. Don't you think you ought to tell him --about the money you bor- rowed, Nancy'." Nancy, sitting 'on the side of her : bed now, shaped her arms about her cheek mother's neck, laying.her against hers, "�: "It'll tell hbi1—'V, 1 tell yott both itext week-4, ,p rotrxised' that, Olt, lliatna, don't 't ask tne-4was so glad to get tfl or Rod ` for d.� Mt -s Gordon drew along breath, a Nancy stumbled to the window and looked. THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER 20 Years' Experience in Parer Stock and Implements. Moderate Prices. Phone 331. A. J. VValker E. and N� ;F1�R R d ,FUNERAL SERVICE . t. h 01 t rvi A!llet`bu ed plain Where he stood, with his face lifted and unshadowed, she saw him plainly. She could see the look in his eyes, It:, set her heart '•heating again and her fingers tightened on the sill, "Nee" she said faintly, "not really -- but my head did ache dreadfully. 1 can't talk to you tonight, Page, indeed --I'd come down' if I could, but I-- can't!" -- can'tp, Her voice broke and he caught :the change in it: Hope mounted into cer- tainty; he was sure she loved him, but she was coqueting with it, playing with it, like a girl. He lifted his handsome head 'confidently. "Nancy, come down!" he cried. She said nothing, and in the still- ness the 'pine branch tapped against her window like a warning finger. Again he felt that: there was some- thing antics. "Nancy, come down!",' this time his. voice pleaded, "I can't Page, I—good night!" she waved her hand. to . him. "Cruel!" he said, and then: "to- morrow, Nancy!" She did not answer. She was lean- ing eaning: against the window now, watch- ing him go. He swung his guitar un- der his arm, waving his hat to her. But half -way to the gate she called to him. "Goodbye, Page," she called to him softly, "goodbye!" She could see his figure receding down the long quiet street. He was going out of her life and he did not know it. It wasincredible but it was true. (Continued Next Week,) here he stood, with Ills face Wt - and unshadowed, she saw !•dill ly. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON TIMELY WARNING (TEMiPER- ANCE LESSON). Sunday, Feb. 11 -Matthew 7.: 1.-29; Golden Text: Every tree that bringethnot forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast in- to the fire. (Matt. 7:19.) People often quote our Lord's com- mand: "Judge not, that ye be not judged," as though He were forbid- ding orbidding us ever to pass judgment upon others. That is far from the truth. The same passage in the Sermon on the Mount in which He utters this warning also enjoins the duty of judging; and the Lord enjoined the same duty elsewhere, as when He said: "Judge not according to the ap- pearance, but judge righteous judg- ment" . (John 7,24). Repeatedly throughout the New Testament the Christian duty of judging is reiterat- ed, as in such passages as lst Corin- thians 2:15; 6:2.6; 2nd Timothy' 4:2; lst John, 4:1.3, and the like. The injunction in this lesson to "judge not" was addressed to. hypo- crites, .and they 'were commanded to cast the beam out of their own eyes in order that they might "see clearly to cast out .the mote" from their bro- thers' eyes. Judging, in one. way ,or another, is almost a daily duty if we would' live safely in this world of sin, peril and deception. But wear given an -infall- ible standard, in the Scripture, by which to do our judging. persist- ent, privilege and duty of .P ent, prevailing prayer are urged in the Lord's word: "Ask, owl it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you," Here are three sive stages in prayer, each • oneprogresmore ear- nest and intensive than 'the one pre- ceding. ,Gocl wants us to pray, and to keep on praying, and to "pray through" or "pray without ceasing, in order that He may, answer our prayers as He longs to do. The so-called Golden Rule is enun- ciated by our Lord as summing, up "i he law and the prophets," All things whatsoever ye would that rneti should do to you, do ye evert so to them. ilut it takes Gocl's grace in our hearts to do this. It is contrary to human nature. Only after we have received Christ as Saviour\ by faith, and, have been born again from above, receiving as our own the very life of Gots its Christ, can we keep the Gol- den Rule in ottr• 'innermost heart -life and attitude as well as in aur outward acts. ' People sometimes 'object to the "narrowness" of Chrstianity, and complain that it is intolerant of othiu' religions: The Lord not only dad not objest to sttch narrowness, but He de- clared that it was the only way of, safety and eternal life, He warned' against the. "wide gate" and the "broad way" that lead to destrtctioii, and into which ;many go. "Because," "straight is' the.gate, and saith He, which ieadeth un- to the way, � be that Find it."� to life, and few the nss of the right sort is vital. Narrowness ` ti:on of' apostle ,Peter, by inspiration a The p tt� and by, the sale thitrg the Holy' Spirtt, in other: words when ,he 1eeamie one of the gteatest evangelistic •preachers „ i larie Nei' of th'e Christian era„ dee g tire- is there ta lvatio:tt in any 'oilier:` Ysthet' itatn tinder Ear there is noire ., ` eti atuoiti5 +inert, whereby heaven• Otv .. • ,. e sated r;At+t 4:1�). He ;`q trtust b had, a dark blue serge and a plain hat. The moon had risen splendidly and across the window was stretched tfre long branch of the pine, etched black against the silver sky. It 'was very still in the house. Nancy knew her father and mother had finished din- ner. They were sitting in the library now, on the other side of 'the house. She could even hear their voices, but the pine trees swinging • a little, tap- ped on her windowsill. Then she heard another sound, soft and sweet but penetrating, the faint notes of a love -song strummed on a guitar. Page —the girl trembled like a leaf; he had come, of course, with his guitar. Nancy stumbled to her window and looked • down. The moonlight' made the old garden like day. Below her; the grass -plot looked as if hoar -frost had whitened it. Nearer still was Page Roemer. (Nancy looked at him. How tall and slim he was -so much lighter in build than Richard. She could see his clean cut profile and his white forehead. He strummed on the guitar again, call- ing her with, the old soft notes appeal- ingly. Nancy answered. Page stopped Playing instantly, and in the ;noon light she saw the joy in his face, "Come down, Nancy; it's 'a lovely night!„ ' She cjttng to the .vivdeti,silh "T can't, Page, my head ache's terr'ibly.„ "'l he„moon will cure it. Come on down," he pleaded, "I've got some- thing to say to you tonight, Nancy, please coxae down." Nancy knew what he had to say to. her; it had been trembling on his lips so long, and he had delayed it—be- cause delay is sweet. They liked to wait; an unspoken love was so much more tender, more illusive, more de- sirable than mere moods. But now it was too late. "I can't come down tonight, Page. No, really! Didn't %Mother tell you?" He drew down -his brows anxiously, "Yes but I didn't believe you'd stay up there—a night like this. Nancy, When can I comets" he added gravely. She tretnled, She could make no t/ don't know— don't k--� more promises! Z I ', ' ht Page, e my head •dna task me .tang • aches sol„ t1 . He could ked u y He loo P earnestly. not read the eyes so far above him, Change, • 'att incredible but he felt a g , change, c in (tet. „A. r 1 "Are you eat y Cried. HERE"5 AT 'UUICIf`.. ' TH WAY TCS STOP , COLI Taiga 2 Aspirin Tablets. 1f throat is sore. crush and dissolve 3 Aspirin Tablets prink lull Glass of water. Ina hall glass of'water Repeat' treetinent in 2 and Fa* accordtp1 to hours: direr Ides In, box.' 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Then the Lord warned against the deadly religious teachings of "false prophets, which come to' you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by •their fruits," He declared. Their' "evil friut" was their false re- ligious teaching. their utterances as "false prophets," even though they might be living outwardly"good" and moral lives, and even doing apparent- ly good works. For He went on to say of a time of coming judgment: "Many will say to Mein it,a' dap likened unto a foolish man, :,which• built his house upon the sand: and the raindescended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon thatrhouse; and it fell: and great. was the fall of it." words, true. Christian faith is not merely a matter of the head, but also' of the heart. ` • The Lord made this plain by des- cribing two classes of those who hear His sayings, The one class consist of those who hear His sayings and do•' then. Such a man islike a wise ratan,. who builds his house upon a rock. When the storms and floods come and' beat upon that house it stands secure, "for it was founded upon a' rock." But the man who hears Christ's - words "and doeth them not, shall be ' Lord, Lord, have we not .prophesier( in Thy name, and in Thy' name have cast out devils, and in Thy name (lone many wonderflu works? And then will I profess unto them I never knew you: depart from Me ye that work iniquity,” Merely professing tobe a follower of Christ, or a believer in Him, is not enough.' The entire life as well as the profession must be lived in humble God, I. can't think where he got hie streak from — my son a common' thief l" "You sha'n't say that of Roddy!" Mrs. Gordon cried for the hundredth time, "It isn't tette, he never rneartt to take it, it's some mistake. He meant to pay it back(,, "Yes," her husband assented harsh- ly, "he did. You're right about that, Sarah, T never knew a thief who did- n't mean to pay it back. They all:. do,"• "We've got to pay it back then!" his wife sobbed, "we've got to save him—if I take the cothes off my back —if Roddy's sent to jail I shall die!" "Die?" Mr. Gordon' raised his hag- gard face and stared, at her, "I'd ra- ther see Rod dead this minute than a Common thief. God knows I wish I had hint in his coffin now— nailed down tight!" «Papal " Nancy's ' ' tone startled hint, n ac e wisedhis eyesagain a ain to her face, is lips twitching t ng with ' nt lera b le (lain, She swayed ' toward him , her blue, e .y soft' she loved him beautiful and , tit his agony. She understood it. He had lost his pride in his sots arid he "It's a pity your wife has to go to. work, too." "Yes, but otherwise we'd never be able to pay for the labor-saving devic- es she's bought." _ ill, Nancy?" he Pleased With Canada The i>agnificent scenery' of Canada, so 'enthralled, Lord 141acmillan. chairman of the Royal Commission on' banking, that Seotsman thorh 'lie-lid,bd, he con- fessed; just prior to sailing for tingland on. the Empress of Brit ain, that it dwarfed the scenery • of, Seotiand, and' tlitit the only thing needed was. for some author to blend it 'with the romantic'hig+ tory at Canada, as Sir Walter Bdott had blended the seeriery of Seotlead' With .the rotnatttic bis tory ox'the land of Be>xrtfe Prince Charlie. A ,lake he visited in the Gatineatt Valley he admitted was More magnificent than Loch Lo- tiiond, while his description, of Lake Louise' was that it seemed vision. to him altitost a celestial The Butebard Gardens in Victoria t he asserted to'. be the ntos beauti- tun sight that the eye could refit ori --tri 4actthrbn'h'o♦it the whole I of the otninion the eminent Pi ivy Cottncillor• 'found Beauty arery+t haat eci red t Where be eat and d a u'�' , lie would tarty „ back memories that he Wtritfi;' blirir wonirt ebeitch.'