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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-02-13, Page 6a,. 11 ii r", +,NFA,{M: WING; AM ADVANCE -TIMES Witngharn Advance -Times. Published at WING76IAYuI , ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W. Logan Craig, Publisher ibscription rates One year $2.00. Six months $x.00, in advance: To U. S. A. $2.5o per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ,Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. slIklitNER COSENS, Agent, Wingharn J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGI4AM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD 'Banister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, ' Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes N R. VANSTONE 'HAMSTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. • H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham MYSTIC GEMS OF INDIA TUE E ROME OF VALIJ4131;191 AND R911E STONES, Wisest Savants Bare Not Been ,Able to .Determine Origin or Solve Axys-. tory Which Surmounts Priiceless andVneanuy Stones. India is the home of valuable and rare gems, and 'even in this modern age, and scientific enlightenment, the wisest savants have net been able to determine the origin or solve the mystery which surmounts" many priceless and absolutely uncanny stones. There are diamonds, says Vishnu Ire I(andihar, in an article in the New York Herald -Tribune, that seem to weep when the moon is full; there are pearls from the head of the King Cobra which make rain; there are rubies, scarlet purple in tint, which cure bloodpoisoning; there are emer- alds which remove skin diseases, germs wonderful to behold and al- most impossible to value. But these are held secret, hidden carefully for generations to gigantic vaults, the en- trance to which is known only to the heads of the old families who are proud to possess them. Some of them come to light on rare occasions, when an old palace is pulled .down to make room: for a factory, or a poor agriculturist comes upon a hidden store in a new plot of ground which he is trying to bring under cultivation. A few months ago a common -look - ng antique necklace, belonging to the royal family . of Tanjore in South India, was sold in the Sowkar- peth or Bankers Lane in Madras. The purchaser, desiring to give it as a present to his daughter. -in-law cn New Year's Day, gave it for resetting. The jeweller found that the`dia- urond, hanging as a pendant, was a very peculiar one, 'brought it back to the owner and suggested that it ;should he reset as a ring. It weighed five and one-half carats. The owner kept it to consult other jewellers. On examination it was found to contain wonderful properties. It was generally of a bluish tint, but during the day it took on a rosy shade. The moment it was brought under the direct rays of the sun, however, it turned full blue. When taken into a dark room it gave out no light at al]. In the evening 'le went to open the safe and was estonisheq to Grunt the whole gaffe Flooded with brilliant whole safe flooded with brilliant moonlight. The diamond was illum- inating.the whole interior of the safe. He lifted it up and found that the wad of cotton wool on which he had placed the jewel was wet. It was found that the stone lost its lustre when the moon waned and would not give any light during the day. Traditon has it that there are jewels called the sun and moon :atones which glow in darkness only when the sun and moon is shining. The mythology of the Hindus gives a story of how Krishna, the eighth. incarnation of Vishnu, had to .fight a bear demon for the sake of •a sun stone. . From Ceylon conies the wonderful elephant pearl. "Until I examined (this jewel myself," said Dr. Joseph Pearson, director of the Colombo Mu- seum, "I had been ander the impres- to sion that the references to these pearls in Oriental literature were more of a kit}d 9f mythological leg - `end than reality:" ilk. G. Rodrigo, of Borella, Ceylon, the possessor of this, unique gear, had taken the elephant DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.RC.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST OfficeJohn Galbraith's Store over F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office Adjoining residence next Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity 9 a.m. to' 8 p.m. Phone 272, Hours, Thursday, February 13'1'4 /939` WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR sorry for him, Poor fellow, all he had sciousness. $ -.--,. done was to make a break for liberty. ' "Is anything the .matter,?" he asked; TomBilbeck is the narrator.' He It was only because we were all "There is," I announced briefly. is a fat newspaper writer who drives against him that he was against us. "The pump froze while we were a tumble-down car he calls Grand- mother Page. He is in love with Maryella, his rival being Jim Coop- er. The three are members of an am- ateur dramatic group. Plans for a play at the Old Soldiers' Home are under way. Grandmother Page has engine trouble while Maryella is out driving with Bilbeck, and Cooper, passing in a big roadster, taunts him. After Maryella has left Bilbeck is able to start his car again. The amateur players are to give Pygmalion and Galatea at the Old Soldiers' Home. 'In their version Bil- beck is to act as the statue, and Mary- ella despairs when she discovers his bow legs. Mrs. Hemingway .later him Bilbeck and talks to him a- bout the play. Bilbeck' pats her hand, only to find a rough hand grasping hint, by the shoulder and lifting him out of his seat. The escape of prisoners froth the local penitentiary keeps Bilbeck busy at his newspaper work, so that he gets away from the dramatic group. The players arrive at the Old Sol- diers' Home,being greeted royally and meeting Pilk Henwether and others. alone, but there seemed no way of "I wish you had," 1 echoed feeling - The play at the Old Soldiers' Home is interrupted because of a fire, the players and veterans escape.? Riding away from the scene of the ill-fated play in their costumes and overcoats the group of players is held up by two escaped convicts, one of whom is captured by Bilbeck after a struggle. "Hard luck, old chap," I said to hire, He 1octked up at me. "It's all right," he said. "I don't mind a bit. I'rn glad too stay here overnight, where it's warm. Ian kind of wor- ried about Julius, though, out there in the snow. I wish you'd got him, too. He's delicate, and I'm afraid he'll catch cold." "Well, I'm going home," I. said by way of farewell. "But before I go is there anything I can do for you?"``.' "Not unless you're going to tell me what are you wearing those white up ready to go., things for. Did somebody steal "I didn't hear you come/' said your—" Maryella. "The car is awfully' quiet "No, they didn't," I snapped, turn- to -night, isn't it?" "It is,'' T assented glumly, `.'And will be for several days to come. When I had explained what had happened .a cry of dismay escaped the lips Cif Mrs. Henuningway. "I promised John, I would come right home as soon as the perform- ance was over, and he will be ter- ribly anxious," she wailed. "I wish I had gone home in the funeral bus," bemoaned Mrs. Lillie- love. hunting for escaped convicts, and as soon as 1 started the engine she strip- ped her gear. She won't run again until I get some new parts from the factory.,, I turned out the acetylene lights and started home. Jinn Cooper fol- lowed silently. Half way to the. Horne he said brightly: "It's all for the best, Tom, Think' how glad the automobile -repairmen will be." When we entered the ladies stood ing away. "Ain't you going to tell me?" ,"No;" I rejoined the rest of our group. around the fire. "I'll go out and start the car," I. notified them, "and back up to the gate once more. When .you hear me outside you can /come out." "Let me go with you," Jinn Coop- er offered: I would just as soon have gone A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Ont of town and night calls res- ponded to. Phone ,u mess confidential. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE • ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 74a or by ppointment. Phone 191. J. D. McEWEN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602014. He obeyed meekly enough. "Will you answer one question?" he asked deferentially. "Yes: What.f" "Are you a ghost?" "No:" "Then what are you?" "I only agreed to ansi tion." "Oh!" He was obviously disapopinted. "What are you going to do with znc?" pearl to the director for his opinion.. 1. w"'•rh:e twelve carats, bas shin- ing brilliant hues with creamy golden tier ssai is supposed to be 2,000 years ole. 'idle pearl was examined under a microscope and was found to have the basis of ivory. All the old tests of Indian jewels were tried, and it came out triumphant under them all. The stnrrn -pearl is said to drop. from the skies in a first cloud burst .and is (z' the color and size of the pomegranate seed, shining like a flash of lightning and snakes the pos- sessor immune from storm accidents or clangers of electrocution. Tradition says that the cobra jewel shines in the night and that the cobra feeds on the' toads and mice and insects that are attracted by its. light. The cobra takes it out and puts it on the ground, lying eoncealed be - side it and preys upon the rodents which come near, Re swallows it again and goes back to his bole. The jewel is said to melt and turn to pois- on when he is angry and so it Is diffi- ....' n duct1 ed er one guess Turn you over to the sheriff, I suppose." The sound of the shot had aroused curiosity at the Old Soldiers' Hone, and now half a dozen of the most nearly complete of the inmates, led by Colonel Stewart came down the road in military order. They were armed with rifles and had bayonets difficult and conversation practically fixed. T learned afterwards that the impossible. weapons were Spanish-American War The lights of the car were still trophies which were not loaded and bravely hurling wedges of illumina- tion into the black -and -white night. The seats were covered with snow. So was the windshield; around each wheel was a little heap. "You can get inside if you will," I told Cooper, "and advance the spark as soon as I get an explosion." He did as I directed. I primed the motor thoroughly. 1: had. no particular reason to suppose that the engine would start now when it had refused to do so half an hour 'before, except that from long experience I had great faith in the perversity of, inanimate Sales of Farm Stock an Imp le- 1e�•nc cult to get, but there are instances. Assents, Real Estate, etc., co at moderate with satisfaction and o eu where such jewels els are found. In the Poona district, 200 miles ,clrnrges. south of Bombay, a rich Zamindar obtained one such jewel. It has 'the property of curing all snakes' bites. It sticks to the wound only when. there is poison in the bite and falls off when the poison has ben ob- aorbed. H. W. B. Moreno, member of the Legislative Council of Bengal, Cat- cutta, , is the proud possessor of a ruby, which contains : under its shill- ing surface the image of a 'dark man,dressed in white purgee (the THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock I Phone 231, Winghan. RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address tI. R. 1, Gorrie. Saks conducted any- where and satisfaction guaranteed. George Walker, Gorrie, can arrange mites. S. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS ice MacDonald Block, Wingham A. J, WALKE' R. E URNITURE AND 'F'U'NERAL SERVICE A, 3. walker Licensed Funeral '.Director and Embalmer. Office Phone 106. Ices, Phone 224. testit Limousine Futrcral Coach. There were no handcuffs . so we bound our prisoner ing the arrival of the sheriff. declining his assistance, so we trailed •ly, out in the snow together with an oil lantern flickering 'unsteadily.. in the wind. It was only a few hundred yards to where the automobile was stand- ing, but the wind, which was increas- ing, threw the snow in to our faces in stinging blasts that made walking had not been fired for sixteen years. We told the Colonel what had hap- pened and he sent one of the old men back to the Home with the lad- ies with instructions to telephone the sheriff. The rest of us went after the other escaped prisoner. He had broken away from the road and gone into a patch of woods that lay alongside, as we could easily tell by his fresh tracks in the snow. It seemed as if it was goin'gto be a com- paratively simple matter to trail him. We changed our minds, however, when .the tracks led out of the con- subjects, especially internal-combus parative quiet of the timber -land to tion engines. Grandmother Page had thrown me down. in an emergency, but now that the immediate danger/ was -over 1 had no doubt • that she would start up cheerfully. There is something feminine about a gasoline. engine. "All ready," T said as ,I gave the tags and by sprcaeling out night have crank a sharp pull upward, picked up the footprints without much I noticed that it pulled rather hard, delay. As it was we worked slowly but I bent an extra effort and yanked and ineffectually. it over compression.: A complete circle of the field gave "Bang!" responded Grandmother us no clue. The snow was falling Page enthusiastically . more rapidly now and even our own The first explosion was followed tracks were filled in very scion after by a hideous clashing sound and then we made them. 1 was anxious to get a terrifying thumping which could started, too, while the roads were not be heard even above the explosion natinal headdress of the Hindus) badly drifted; of the Motor.and clad in white'robes, The face ."T thins: we've done all we cart to- `Cut her off!;' 1 yelled. is dark brown and 'the closer one night," 1 suggested to Colonel Stew- When Grandmother Page had sub - looks at the imago the more lirniin- art. '".Chat fellow is goint to have sided Inn., Cooper 'asked solicitously: a meadow. Here they ceased abrupt- ly, There was enough wind blowing, so that the snow was kept clear in some places and .drifted in ethers. He had evidently avoided the drifts. We had only one lantern or we could have searched to better aclvan- to a chair pend - "It's probably all for the chirped Jim., Cooper like a parrot. (Orinithologist's note: Parrots donot. chirp.) "Where do you find a ray of com- fort in this?" I demanded sarcasti- cally. "That's easy," Jinn explained. "For one thing 1 am glad that it wasn't my car. For another it will give us all a chance to spend..the night in an Old Soldiers' Home, which is some: thing most people who aren't veter- ans can't do." "Spend the night here?" Mrs. Hem- mingway exclaimed in dismays:. It's impossible. I have to go home!" "How ?" "I don't know how, but you must think rip some. way." "Nonsense!" I exclaimed. "It can't be done to -night. There's no train until morning, You Can call up your husband and explain it to him." "Oh, is there a telephone?" "Sure. There must be," said Jim Cooper. "You talk to John and tell him it's all for the best," "I'll try," Mrs."Hemmingway said cheerfully, The telephone was conveniently lo- cated in the living -room so that all private conversations were distinctly a,).idible to any one in the building.,`. After considerable delay in get`iing a long-distance connection, Mrs. Hemmingway managed to get the ear of her husband, who fortunately had not left the office. "Is that you, John?" she asked in the telephone. Apparently it was. "Well, listen, John dear, I can't get home to -night. I'rn going to stay all night at the Old Soldiers' Home." The rest of us tried to talk about something else so as not to appear to be listening, but we couldn't help it, and a sudden silence fell at her, next remark. "Yes; of course, Tom Bilbeck is here. It's all for the best." The receiver hummed for a mo- ment. Even we knew that he had raised his voice. "Silly; of course I'd come home if I could. But 'Tom broke his auto- mobile." best," nue does the face appear. The .ding Thebaw, of Burma, had in his possession a wonderful pair of earrings made of rubies, containing underneath their surface perfect 'lo- tuses. These were stated to have the power of curing all blood poisoning. Ring Thubaw wore thein to the day of hi': (loath. The' Maharajah of Midi has in his possession an emerald Cup of the deepest green rtint. All skin csseas es 'ae cured by using the water kept In that cup for three hones in the sun, .4 chief in Bombay has a mortar .rat pretle carved out of whole sap- ph':• s and gives the n edieines otwde therein as a cure of ,anaemia. in Travancore State there is an ine- a; elf tianw'lla, the Elephant God, eut rut of a ruby and an image of k ,.Yy.nn, or Vishnu, cut out of a. blue "No, no. He didn't break 'it on pur- pose." "Listen, dear, you mustn't say such things over the telephone. Some one might be listening. Besides, you are. entirely mistaken. How could I fall in love with a man who looks like Tom Bilbeck?" There was absolute silence in the room, also on the part of, Mrs. Hem rringway. "Yes, be has got a. _funny face. Of course I laugh at him and all that, but- What's that? You're coming here? Ohl Is there a train yet com- ing this way? Good! That willbe lots of fun. Then we can go home together in the morning. I am so glad. Good -by, dear!" Mrs. H•emnlingway hung •up the re- ceiver and turned hack to ourfran- tically silent company. I wished that 1 could say something to• show that 1 was alive, but my throat choked. Something in my face must have shown, however, because Mrs, Hem- mingway looked at me and exclaim- ed in dismay: "Did you hear what I said, Tom?" "Well, part of it," I admitted. "You .mustn't think I meant it." She tried hastily to repair the harm she had done. I simply had to make John think it was all right." A loud "Whoa." outside distracted our attention from the conversational tangle into which we had fallen. "The sheriff!" exclaimed - .t Stewart, going to the door. A fur -wrapped figure came in, shedding snow. "Evening, Sheriff," the colonel greeted: The sheriff unwrapped a muffler which had been over his mouth be- fore he responded. "Evening, Colonel." (Continued 'next week.) dere and There (468) Nine competitions, including` men's and women's handicap, events, men's and women's team. matches and mixed foursomes will feature the programme of the sec- ond annual Empress midwinter golf tournament to be played_ over the Colwood course at Victoria,. February 17-22. lathe E. W. Beatty trophy is the chief award for the men's and women's handicap emu. petitions. Miss Connie Wilson, champion fancy skater of North America and. Great Britain, will take a star part: in the Ice Pageant of the Prontenae, Winter Sports Club to be staged at. Quebec February 12.13. She will be supported by the best 'talent of Quebec and a group of stars from. Toronto, including the champion.- ship four of the Toronto Skating:• Club. Ottawa will be represented: by the Minto Skating Club and 24.. lady skaters from Toronto will per- form in the "Dense Moderne" num- ber. The greatest fireworks display of the year, the "Fete de Nuit" exhibi- tion at Quebec, recently, one of then features of the Winter Sports sea- son which lasts until March, con- sisted of a sham attack by hun- dreds of snowshoers bearing torches, upon the garrison of the citadel. The heavy explosions o.t Roman candles, bombs and rockets began the attack, which' culminated when the besiegers were driven back by the garrison, who sent vol- ley after volley of blanks crashing into the night. When the bugles sounded the "Cease Fire", the show was generally. voted one of the fin- est in. years. The outstanding : contributions that the Canadian Pacific Railway has made to the life of the Domin- ion in an industrial and cultural way were emphasized by E. W. Beatty, chairman and president of the road, at a recent address before the Canadian Industrial Traffic League at Montreal recently. His company, he said had in the past five years, spent over $249,000,000. on capital account alone and dur- ing the same period had built over 1,000 miles of branch. lines. ; 1929_ with its decrease in earnings, he regarded as an exceptional year not likely to be repeated in subse quent years. A considerable increase in grata shipments from Saint John has al- ready been established since the• new year, over the entire month of December, 1929, General Superin- tendent J. Woodman, of the Cana--.: dian Pacific Railway, states. Bush- els of grain for December export from Saint. John totaled 508,357; from January 1 to January 17, total was 651,438. The second annual Sea Music• Festival of the Pacific Coast passed into history 'January 19, when once. again capacity houses greeted the. final offerings. Outstanding among the features were the two ballad operas, "The Order of Good Cheer", incorporating French-Canadian sea chanteys of the 16th century, and "Bound for the Rio Grande", a rol- licking sea -song playlet by Captain Frederick Wallace. Each of these was repeated by request on three successive days. 7lhe 16th annual winter. carnival with the first official Western Can- ada Sid tournament will be held at Revelstoke, February 4-5. World records have been made on the ski hill at Revelstoke, and leading ski jumpers ofthe continent will at- tend the carnival. Get Your Share of Dollar Bargains at Isard's. Coats, Dresses, Sweaters, Blouses, Bloomers and other lines of gods—for only one dollar, a hard time travelling very far in this "What's the matter?" storm and he'll probably lay low "Didn't yott hear ,the racket she somewhere until it lets up. The Slier- 'was malting?" 1 asked sarcastically. iff can organize a big posse and pick "1 didn't observe anytiling•special," hire up after daylight." Jinn observed, which remark put him The Colonel agreed. 1-T.e was anx- by unanimous vote into the Loyal iousto get his leen under cover. Order of Henwethcrs. Pilk had no - We took .our prisoner backto the thing on 'hint for saying the wrong Home. 1ler e we found the lady y thing, Greeks sitting around disconsolate In silent exasperation I lifted the with their wraps on amici a group of hood and with the aid of the flicker- negli ;ee but wide-awake Gild soldiers ing lantern examined Grandmother's having the time of their lives over gizzard. the: extra attraction of a thiefAuiit. 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