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a
n she staoke,
isidigestion, I guess," she
spi'ngiy. Anti then ---"Bring
i. any ebecle book, dear, , :"
Ellen ditixt.'i speak, She sensed a
:speration in that toneless vAc:e, a
ed (NI hurry, Turning, she ran. into
house, : scampered too the desk
here the check book lay. She
aught it. and a fountain pen and
ip*nery, t+.-, her mother, and watch -
:s her fnothcr's shaking hand wrote
check,—wrote it to what, in Ellen's
aaowtedge <+f the family finances, was
n alarnline, anolant. It was only a# -
ter the check was carefully made out
t‘:' a strange name, and as carefully
blotted, that the woman spoke again.
"Ellen;' she said, dear. Get your
ha: and take this, at once to the post-
byi+�.cx,
INSTAL..
SECOND Il\�
SY_.NO ' ,IS
Prelude . , .�, �•a ; ,,�:w., ., .
Church warned genely, age: W .
dered why' I' •a n _ arra._ ,, .
mother, first . as, a r,ev.
bubbling child, t:2e_. a ehar,.. A.,
girl,, Ellen had lived elegies
believe laud c•i b� M
side word her "s...t_a.:_- 2::
tr. At IV year_ _
garden. El.,.,. . �...
story of he .. , *zeekees _
she had
autee
her ares trier
v,
rear ,'• ...:-� . _:� '.
t.Tte !see
:seas 'et .^. t a rya. : g ,ed
•
stoten kiss, _,
lone)&t;C'a'.^sk Ara.., , . .., area .,. .». ., , stew, she ;a., :,, �"a.,•_„
to reran::., M,,. ., ..,,. , , 1 ,
Ellen eIts:~ WITH arra. .+.. .. ,+.., .aa-aiR gas:
GO ON .1r 1 v , .. .'L.�.. 4 A. v ,e ssene weed.
l`r..n i :.-..-i ..ice. +, a erre __:c ., _ :ver:
made _AT ..
for Several -ree-•"'es re end
1¢e galled a - -was esse - , ,., x,. ,arra., 4 t,e.r ..._ __.
hhte :::enc the 4 sre eight_„a: 1 se .v yY' .. aM:'�,- . _., se ae
the d„_. es and T ,.-.,_s! ._ :el - _. ; 2: her e es TM.-
a?a ab et -r, c. at _»err. Sc. 1 :a- :-a :z2, watching.
-trine garde= and 'waited y=,ir ._._,•i. a.'1... ..:+.,n 717:1'.-..7a•�:,.� Il"�¢•' '^.”' CI '- ..
watched iLT his train. Aced _:.:�._.''- 1.. 1 :y ere; '^ ,_au ane, melee eeseassaree
maw lt- the trails the 17:=2:1:-/ hale ... _. _.. had e in x.. ed , at ether
er
ght r= _ me—s e p a�S4'a_ 3:' 1 a _ pie e -he
k+ra:,r.� is -o fay, weeks _ ,. ,,. valley below ;.he htinse, 1 an it ;t : saw a -•v . white-haired. w rea.•n be-
at:
-
at the sta sa. and saw it g, in came a reken..he. else!'.„ eeeseem-e The house lay in the Iast light of the
And I ,"`,raked, wall m:r ;seei .;theeked figrze. - ` setting sun, it was her world.
fall of the news I had t ie12-I wait- • " -rt ee __: l M c,:.'d as site •
ed to him thetidings eel his seeg orn e ha the village. And send it spec-
fiat- I thought. . ar2ir. *, #i`n .,,,"Swere. ti.- 9a q;d « p tial delivery, and register it.'e
going t be. a boy!) but lie .�, "�': =° �jI . $
• llen, even in the face of her mo -
game althea= h I waited all ef that
_ "" r t •ir' : tiler's tragic Kerry, couldn't quite
night Asia) the next dare. -site= 1
tar tete message shat $t mg he tea. _ : - £ i ' ze asp the seriousness of the letter,
s
not eceei syr bas ere_, I Her mother's sudden illness seemed
;en? leo-
'se much more important.
stairs, andirto=rreamardl_r'd' l ..
-, Too bad I didn't ask the boy to
Mire dour_ And I t dam aid began #s=,� wait," she said, "He could just as
•-to mit a blue �: for _�n A-
d r
I whistled, hareas I -pitted., I :.are- b well have taken a letter back"
"I couldn't," said her mother with
n t whistledince •-• andI cc- t ..
any -
never whistled 'r^Ea'%; a ET'ew4 1+,2. c r; ag.reat effort "have trusted it to t - +ne else, this letter. You'd have had
wily, I _gness, rile were a girl. ... _
* - i to sake it, anyway, . , . And I'm glad
A boy ernnlle`i leave had any ase seer
a mother *h whistled bade-- , . qY� ? ti—remember that, always, Ellen!—that
$it is just about all the money I have.
A boy--"
I rm utterly gratefulthat there was
An at :,ne y
^ E1' u r ether had
stepped talking.ce
Her .t'had ` - fi 'enough, And -- I don't want a doc-
tor, I'U1 not ill. I'm never ill
dwindled a,.a in._, a funny, tragic'
silence. And Ellen saw her face" g
i She rose again and turned heavily
odinv white, fel: her hand ga c3�ill M '� !away, toward the house. And Ellen,
dlip, T--awith no other word, but cluthcing the
It was then that Ellen starting to:
her feet, saw her m*.ether's bead saz
forward, "I'm going for the doctor," she halfithat didn't have time to wonder about
'm '`g•tl=s; r�r the dcce lr: ° sae half ' .sobbed. "Your chest , .. Is it your hanything. But she raeched the post -
;office with a good margin .of min-
i -Ines, and followed her mother's in-
lstructions soberly, and started back
)home,
The way led past the doctor's
square white house. He wasn't in.
But she left a mesage with the doc-
envelope, went out of the garden and
.started townward. She walked so fast
seabed. "Your cites:... Is it your aware :seaegingse
heart, darling? is it--'
Ellen motber had rallied. Her
smile Was 'leis wan than it had been. started forward. "Was there bad news
-"My heart?" questioned Ellen's na in the letter? You're epset_--"
shier. "Oh — n011sense! Indigestion, But when the answer came it wasn't
no doubt. Something I—' even then an answer. For Ellen's mother, her
ate managed a trifle of gayety, "some- hand again pressed to her breast, was tor's aged housekeeper — who eyed
thing 'I ate as a child, no doubt! rm rising. And as she rose to her feet, her with a frank curiosity—and hur-
quite well, now...." 'she was looking beyond Ellen. She tied on.
* *swayed slightly—and then, as if she "Mother'1I be cross," she told her -
*t didn'toccur to Ellen in the couldn't help it, she sat down again. self, as she scuffed her feet along in
weeks that passed, tr., ask her moth- But her voice was steady, though tone- the dust of the road --"'because I've
asked the doctor to stop by. But she
GIRL SENTENCED TO GUILLOTINE
can't go on, having these funny spells!
I wonder who the letter was from?"
The letter! Ellen couldn't help be-
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ing curious about it — couldn't help
feeling that it held the elements of
mystery. It didn't, of that she was
sure, relate to business, for what bus-
iness dealings could have to do with
such a large check? It must be some-
thing strange and ominous. It might
almost go back, across the years, to
her father. And yet.
The house lay in the last light of
the setting sun, it was her world. Its
four walls bounded all of her life, and
her childhood, and her fragile store
of experience. It was her. home —
surrounded by her garden.
Down the path she went, with its
border of fading beauty, in through
the wide opened door, In the hallway
she paused for a moment before .a
dim mirror andautomatically fluffed
her hair. Suddenly, without knowing
why she did it, she was calling wild-
ly, was running toward the stairs.
Srcarning--
"Mother! Mother darling! Where
are you? 'Where are. you-"
There was no answer, only a whisp-
ered echo from quiet rooms. Ellen,
with the cold fingers of dread touch-
her heart, found herself running up
the flight of stairs that led: to the ;se-
cond floor.
Ellen knocked, sat too softly, upon
the panel of her mother's door. And
then when she heard: no sound from
within, she jerked the door open and
parsed, panting on the threshold,
At first, as she stood there, she
knew .a great sense of relief. It was
as she had supposed --her mother was
lying on the bed, resting! .As she
tiptoed across the room, Ellen thought
that her Mother was really asleep.
Por her lijsr were smiling very beam-
Violctte Noicres, if, photobrap11-
ed when she faited in the )Valais de
justice, ,immediately after, she had
been sentenced to the guillotine
for
the nauriter of her father, and the at-
tempted murder, of her mother, The
girl calmly admitted the patrieicl ,
saying iter father, a railroad eng neer,
had abused her. She will be the first
woman ; to be executed in France for
more than forty years, should her
sentence be carried out, The practice
ill the past has beer to conannunte
capital sentences in the cases of wo-
men, to life imprisonment.
tihully, withtheir old magic; and her
eyes were softly closed—it was as if,
in truth, she were the sleeping beauty.
At first Ellen thought her mother
was asleep, And then suddenly she
know completely and utterly, and with
an overtvlaelnaiug scnseeof aloneness,
that her another was not sleeping,
Perhaps it was something in the
sweetness of her mother's smile. I'er-
haps it was something in the chill
magic of the room, But Ellen knew
surely .: And yet, knowing, she did
not ,touch that still figure, and: neith-
er did she cry. Instead she walked
very close to the bed, And as she
came close, she saw that her another's
fingers held a letter, ever so slightly
crumpled, It was the letter that had
come only the space of a few hours
ago.
Ellen, scarcely knowing what she
did, reached over and' took the letter
from her mother's hand. She smooth-
ed out its wrinkles very methodically,
and read.
And then, suddenly, she was lying
on the :floor, beside her mother's bed,
sobbing out all of her heartache and
her disillusionment and her pain.
For the letter, -written with -brutal
frankness, in an untaught hand, was
from a woman. A woman who told
of a man's death in a cheap lodging
hawse, in another state. "Toward the
last," wrote the woman, "he spoke of
you, often. But stili and all, there
wasn't any reason why he should have
seen you! He'd stopped loving you
—and he did love me. Maybe he
thought you were well to do—and, at
the end, he hadn't anything. And af-
ter all, you were his wife, for there
was never any divorce. And now that
there's no money for funeral expenses
—well, of course, if you want charity
to bury him ... But a grave and a
marker and all the rest—"here she
named a sum of • money, a sum that
Ellen had seen her mother write upon
Ia check.
"1 don't suppose, though," the let-
ter ended, "that it matters much, now,
Only he was sort of proud, always."
Ellen, sobbing, understood at last.
But Ellen was never to know the
details of her father's final degenera-
tion,his o r o f death,' or of his barilla
All that she ever knew was that the
last check'her mother had written was
returned, duly endorsed by some dis-
tant firm of undertakers, to the bank.
She never knew_ the final chapter
of her mother's tragic story! But she
did know, at last, why her 'mother
had crept away from the city, from
people — why she had tried to shield
her only child from cities, and' from
people.
The darkness; creeping ghostlike in-
to a room of sadness and death and
despair, brought with it a swift mem-
ory of the' garden, the garden as it
had been a month before.
Through that darkness Ellen could
hear the approaching . rumble of the
doctor's Ford. But she was aware of.
it subjectively. The only actual sound
that she heard was the echo of her
mother's voice speaking. Saying—
"Love lightly. Don't get intense
about love. Don't give anything. ,
Take everything, but don't—"
(Continued Next Week)
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
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THE CHRISTIAN STANDARD OF
LIFE.
(International Temperance Sunday)
Sunday, Oct. 28-Ephesians 4:17 to
5:21.
GOLDEN TEXT.
And be not drunk with wine, where-
in is excess; but be filled with the
Spirit. (Eph, 5:18.)
The really Christian life is so "im-
possible" that it takes a miracle, and
a whole series of miracles, for any hu-
man being to live it, It does not mean
merely living a deecnt or moral life,
such as many who arc not Christians
are living. It goes far beyond that, as
a careful study of this searching les-
son will show.
The Christian life is not a better
life, or an improved life, but an ab-
solutely new life, The spiritual new
birth is as new a ereation as was the
physical or first birth of any human
being,
Chrstians' forgiveness of one anoth-
er, for example, is to be as complete
as G,ind's forgiveness: "Porgiving.one
another, even as God for Christ's sake
hath forgiven; you."
The Christian's life is to be filled
with "all goodness and righteousness
and truth."
Ti. is a life actually "filled with the
Spirit"—that is, with God Ilimself.
!
The' Christian's life is to be one.
of unceasing thanksgiving; "Giving
thanks always for =all thrngs unto God
and the Rather in the name ..of our
Lord Jesus Christ,"
And. Christians arc never to live for
themselves or unto themselves, but
doing everything as unto the Lord,
prove what is meant by "submitting
yourselves one to another in the fear
of God,"
This sort of life is plainly impos-
sible to any human being, if we bad
to depend upon our own strength or
will power to live it. So the begin-
ning of the Christian life is . the new
birth from above, wheal by receiving
Christ as Saviour, one reeeives God.
as on'e's new life. For, "if any elan
he in Christ, he is a new creation: old
things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new" (2 Can 5:17),
In contrast with this miraculous'
life of doing the impossible, Here is
the description of those who had not
received'Christ as Saviour: "Having
the understanding darkened, ' being
alienated from the life of God through
the ignorance that is in them[, be-
cause of the blindness of their heart."
In other words, those who are not
Christians, the unsaved, are "dead in
the trespasses and sins . , having no
hope, and without God" (Eph. 2:1, 12)
They cannot even understand the
meaning of true righteousness, nor
can they know God's will, still less
do it,
Hence the vital iutportanec that men
be renewed in the Spirit of their mind;
reformation of the old mind will not
do, but only an entirely new mind,
which can hear God's voice, know His
will, and then have supernatural
strength to do it.
Some of the definite standards of
the Christian life, as given in these
lesson chapters, are the following:
Lying must be put away, ,and in-
stead, "speak every man truth Al ith
his neighbor: for we are members one
of another." To put away lying means
a standard of absolute truthfulness
and honesty that most people break
a dozen times a day. But Christ said,
"1 am the truth"; and those who have
received Christ as their life can be
empowered of Him, to live in real
truthfulness.
"Let not the sun go down upon
your wrath," is another of these stan-
dards, The Christian does not cherish
a grudge, or hold on to anger.
"Neither give place to the devil."
The devil, .or Satan, is not a figure
of speech, any more than Christ is.
He is a person, Christ's great enemy,
and, therefore, the enemy of those
who are Christ's. His power is far
more than a match for any human
strength or wisdom. The. only way
any can can refuse to "give place to
the devil" is by committing the mat-
ter to Christ, daily and continually.
"Let him that stole steal no more."
There are more ways of stealing than
Thursday, October 35
1934
Even Rheumatic ' Pains
Eased Fast Now!
BAD HEADACHES, NEURITIS PAiNS OFTEN
RELIEVED IN MINUTES THIS WAY
Remember the pictures below 'when
you want fast relief from pain.
Demand and get the method doc-
tors prescribe --Aspirin.
Millions have found that Aspirin
eases even a bad headache, neuritis
or rheumatic pain often in a few
minutes!
In the stomach as 'in the glass
here, an Aspirin tablet starts to dis-
solve, or disintegrate; almost the
instant it touches moisture. It be-
gins "taking hold" . of your pain
practically as soon as you swallow it.
Equally important, Aspirin is
safe, For scientific tests show this:
Aspirin does not harm the heart.
Remember
these.:. two points.'
Aspirin Speed and Aspirin ,Safetg,
And, see that you get ASPIRIN. It
is made in Canada, and all druggists
have it. Look for the name Bayer -
in r the form of a cross on every
Aspirin tablet.
Get tin of 12 tablets or economical.
bottle of 24 or 100 at, any druggist's.
Why Aspirin Works So East
Drop an Aspirin
tablet in a glass of
water. Note that BE-
FORE it touches the
bottom, it is disinte-
grating.
IN 2 SECONDS BY STOP WATCH . What happens in these glasses
happens In your stomach -ASPIRIN
An Aspirin tablet starts to, disinte- tablets start "taking hold"of pain
n
grate and go to work. , a few minutes after taking.
g
When in Pain Remember These Pictures
— ASPIRIN DOES NOT HARM THE IaEART —
by robbing banks and cash drawers.
We can, if we areeemployed, steal our
employer's time; we can steal other
people's reputations; we can steal in
countless ways. The consistent Chris-
tian stops all such stealing.
And this cuts deeper still: "Let no
corrupt communication proceed out of
your mouth, but that which is good
to the use of edifying (building up),
that it may minister grace unto the
hearers." Suppose all the conversa-
tion of all Christians were conformed
to this verse!
It is a significant fact that two sins
are brought together in this inspired
Epistle: fornication and covetousness.
The "unclean person," and the "cov-
etous man, who is an idolater," are
classed together; and we are warned
that neither "hath any inheritance in
the kingdom of Christ and of God."
Covetousness means the wrong desire'
for money or property, or possessions.
of! any sort that are not ours. It is:
one of the commonest of sins—and"
often in the lives of those who may
pride themselves upon their morality.
But the Christian's standard of life,
according to God's Word, excludes~
one sin as rigidly as the other.
Christ once said to His disciples;
"I am the light of the world." And
now Paul writes to all true Chris-
tians:_ "Ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light in the Lord:
walk as children of light." That is a.
high standard indeed. It can be met
only by obeying the command in this;
lesson: "Be filled with the spirit." On-
ly as our lives are turned over uncon-
ditionally to the mastery of the Lord
Jesus Christ, can He fill us with. His:
Holy Spirit."
Professional Directory
J. W. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money to Loan.
Office -- Meyer Block, Wingham
Successor to Dudley Holmes.
H. W. COLBIORNE, M.D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Phone 54. Wingham
DR. G. W. HOWSON
DENTIST
Office Over Bondi's Fruit Store
A. R. & F. E. DUVAL
CIIIROIPRACTORS
CHIROPRACTIC arid
ELECTRO THERAPY.
North' Street Wingham
Telephone 300.
IR. S. HETHERINGT'ON
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
Office -- Morton Block.
Telephone No. 66
Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND
M.R.C.S. (England)
L.R.C.P. (London)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
DR. G. H. ROSS
DENTIST
Office — Over Isard's Store.
F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated.
Office adjoining residence next to
Anglican Church on Centre' St,:
Sunday .by appointment.
Osteopathy Electricity
Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m:
Business
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Furniture and
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service
Wingham, Ont.
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Stock.
Phone 231, Wingham.
J. H. CRAWFORD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Successor to R. Vanstone.
Wingham Ontario
DR. W. M. CONNELL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19.
DR. A. W. IRWIN
DENTIST -- X-RAY
Office, McDonald Block, Wingham
J. ALVIN FOX
Licensed Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPi.2ACTIC DRUGLESS
THERAPY - RADIONIC
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Hours by Appointment.
Phone 19L Wingham
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