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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-10-01, Page 6eee riugham Advance -Times, Published at NGHAM - ONTARIO Every Thurr,day Morning W. Logan Craig - Publisher Rnbscription rates — One year $2.00, Six months $L00, in advatrce, To U. S. A. $2.50 per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- u see at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD -Two doors mouth of Field's Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Z. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W; BUSHFIELD , Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. c Money to Loan 1 Office—Meyer Block, Wingharn 1 Successor to Dudley Holmes I J. H. CRAWFORD r Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. r, Successor to R. Vanstone t "gingham -:- Ontario • J. A. MORTON tl BARRISTER. ETC. ii Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. CROSS ei DENTIST n'. Office Over Isard's Store li P, H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. P' sl Physician and. 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Start- "He's dead" ane, Herbert' Robinson and his sis- er, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and ieighbors, are in the habit of holding an incredibly rapid drumming when ling as it was at the beginning, in- "Who is dead?".Sperry asked, with creasing as it did from a slow beat to his voice drawn a trifle thin. . '''"A bullet just above the ear. That's a bad place. Thank goodness there's not much blood, Cold'water will take it out of the carpet. Not hot. Not hot. Do you want to set the stain?" "Look here," Sperry said, Iooking around the table, "I don't like this. It's darned grisly! "Oh, fudge!" Herbert put in irrev- erently. "Let her rave, or i1 or what- ever it is. Do you mean that a man is dead?"—to the .medium, "Yes. She has the revolver. She needn't cry so. He was' so cruel to her. He was a beast. Sullen." "Can you see the woman?" I asked. "If it's sent out to be cleaned it will cause trouble. Hang it in the closet," Herbert muttered something about the movies having nothing on us, and was angrily 'hushed. "Now then," Sperry said in a busi- ness -like voice, "you see a dead man, and a young woman with him, Can you describe the room?" "A small room, his dressing -room. He was shaving, There is still lather on his face." "`And the woman killed him?" "I don't know. Oh, I don't know. No, she didn't. He did it!" "He did it himself?" There was no answer to that, but a sort of sulky silence. "Are you getting this, Clara?" Mrs. Dane asked sharply. "Don't miss a word. Who knows what this may de- velop into?" • I looked at the secretary, and it as clear that she was terrified. I of up and took my chair to her. caning back, I picked up my for- gotten watch from the floor. It was still going, and the hands narked nine -thirty. "Now," Sperry said in a soothing tone, you said there was a shot fired and a Ivan was killed. Where was this? What house?" "Two shots, One is in the ceiling to resstng-roam.," "And the other killed him?" But here, instead of a reply we the words, "."library paste." Quite without warning the medi groaned, and Sperry believed trance was over, "She's coming out," he said. glass of wine, somebody." But s did not come out. Instead, she ttti. ed in the chair, "He's so heavy to lift," she n tcred. Then: "Get the lather off 1 free. The lather. The lather," She subsided into the chair and gan to breathe with difficulty. want to go out. I want air, If I con only go to sleep and forget it. T drawing -room furniture is scatter over the house," "Cion you tell us about the house `somebody asked. • There was a distinct pause, Then "Certainly, A brick house. The ser �•ant's entrance is locked, but the ke s on a nail, among the vines, All th rawing-room furniture is scattere hrough the house, "She must mean the furniture o his room." Mrs. Dane whispered, The remainder of the sitting was chaotic. The secretary's notes consist of unrelated words often being child- ish, i .On going over the written notes the ext day, when the stenographic re- ord had been copied en a typewriter perry and I found that one word re- urred frequently. The word was curtain." Of the extraordinary scene that allowed the breaking up of the se- ttee, I have the keenest recollection. iss Jeremy came out of her trance eak and looking extremely ill, and perry's motor took ber home. She new nothing of what had happened, ad hoped we had been satisfied, I greement, we diel not, tell her what ad transpired, and she was not cirri- s. Herbert saw her to the car, and time back, looking grave. We were ending together in the center of the' sniantled room, with the lights go' g full now. • "Well," he said, "it is one of two ings. Either we've been gloriously ked, or we've been let in on a very y little crime," It was Mrs, Dan's custom to serve Southern eggnog as a sort of night- ' on, her evenings, and we found it aitinfor us g hi the library. Tn the e a.rrnth of its open fire, and the cheer its lamps, even in the dignity and passiveness of the butler, there was malting sane and wholesome. The weekly meetings, At one of them, the initial shock was over Herbert Irs..Dane, who is hostess, varies the ;rogram by arranging a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jeremy, a friend of dr. Sperry and not a professional, as he medium. commenced to gibe. "Your fountain pen, Horace," he said to me, "Making out a statement for services rendered, by its eager- ness." OW GO ON WITH THE STORY it The answer to that was the pen self, aimed at him with apparent ac - ; Miss Jeremy, the medium, was due t curacy, and followed by an outcry rt 8.30 and at 8.20 niy wife assisted Virs. Dane into one of the straight hairs at the table, and Sperry, sent rent by her, returned with a darkish tundle in his arms, and carrying a fight bamboo rod. "Don't ask nae what they are for," e said to Herbert's grin of amuse- ient. "Every workman has his tools." Herbert examined the rod, but it nas what it appeared to be, and no- ting else. from him. "Here, stop itl" he said. "I've got ink all over me!" \Ye laughed consumedly. The sit- ting had taken on all the attributes of practical joking. The table no longer quivered under my hands. "Please be sure you are holding my hands tight. Hold. then very tight," said Miss Jeremy. Hed voice sound- ed faint and far away. Her head was dropped forward on her chest, and Some one had started the pehono- she suddenly sagged in her chair. raph in the library, and it was play- Sperry broke the circle and coming g gloomily, "Shall we meet beyond ie river?" when Miss Jeremy came She was not at all what we had to her, took her pulse. It was, he re- ported, very rapid, `'You can move and talk now if you like," he said, "She's in trance, and pected. Twenty-six, I should say, there will be no more physical dem- nd in black dinner dress. She seem- onstrations." ( like a perfectly normal young WO- Mrs. Dane was the first to speak. an, even attractive in a fragile, de- I was looking for my fountain pen, :ate way. Not much personality, and Herbert Was again examining the rhaps, the very word "medium" • stand. ecludes that. A "sensitive" I think i "I believe it now," Mrs. Dane said. e called herself. We were present-. "I saw your watch go, Horace, but to her, and but for the stripped , tomorrow I won't believe it at all." d bare room, it might have been "How about your coin•?" paruon. y evening after any dinner, with ;asked. « I .Can she take shorthand? We idge ,dge waiting, f ought to have a record," v' We all liked her, and Sperry, Sper- `"Probably not in the dark:" v, the bachelor, the iconoclast, the • "We can have some light now," C ntifeminist, was staring at her with Sperry said, uriously intent eyes. There was a sort of restrained Miss Jeremy gave the room only movement in the room now. Herbert e most casual of glances. Wined on a bracket light, and I mov- `Where shall I sit?" she asked to ed away the roller chair. lfrs. Dane indicated her place, and e asked for a small stand to be ought in and placed about two feet note boot. and penal hind her chair, and two chairs to nk it, and then to take the black th from the table and hang it over "Go and get Clara, Horace," Mies. Dane said to me, "and have her bring' a .' Nothing, ! I\oth I b l my absence I of ti d e ,eve, happened during Miss Jeremy was sunk in her chair and breathing heavily when I came b pen the drawing-ro Dors, .rte the bamboo roc! which was laid across back. with. Clara, and Sperry was still the back of the chairs. Thus arrang- watching her pulse. Suddenly my cd, the curtain formed a low screen wife said: behind her, with the stand beyond it. "Why, look! She's wearing my On this stand we placed, at her order bracelet!" various articles from our pockets—I a fountain pen, Sperry a knife; and my wife contributed a gold bracelet. We all felt, I fancy, rather absurd. We arranged between us that we were to sit one on each side of her, and Sperry warned me not to jet go of her hand for a moment, "They have a way of switching hands," he explained in a whisper. "If she wants to scratch her nose I'll scratch it." We were, we discovered, not to touch the table, but to sit around it at a distance of a few inches, holding This proved to be the case, arad was, I regret to say, the cause of a most unjust suspicion on tny' wife's Pert, -- - . r , •e ee o . ' • "Take down everything that hap- pens, Clara, and all we say," Mrs, Dane said in a low tone. "Even if it sounds like nonsense put it down." For some five. minutes, perhaps, Miss Jeremy breathed stertorously, and it was during that interval that we introduced Clara and took up oar positions. Sperry sat near the med- itttn now, where Herbert had been, Thursday, October lst 193 but I looked over to see Sperry at a corner desk, intently working over t small o'""•• object in the pa11n of his hand. He:started when he heard inc, then laughed and held out his hand '"Library paste!" he, said. "It rolls into 'a soft, malleable ball, It could quite easily 1)e used to fill a small hole in plaster. The paper would paste down over it, too." "Then you thinks-•--?" ""I'm not thinking at all. The thing she described may have taken place int Timbuctoo, May have happened ten years ago. May be the plot of some book she read." "On the other hand," I replied,'"it is just ,possible that it was here, in this neighborhood, while we weee sit- ting in that room." "Have you any idea of the tine?" "I know exactly. It was half -past nine." At midnight, shortly after we had reached. hone, Sperry called me on the phone. "Be careful, Horace," he said. "Don't let Mrs, Horace think anything has happened, Arthur Wells killed 'himself. tonight, shot himself in the head. I want you to go there with me." "Arthur Wells!" "Yes. I say, Horace, did you hap- pen 'to notice the time the seance be- gan tonight?" "It was five minutes after nine when my watch fell," "Then it would have been about half past nine when the trance be- gan?" (Continued Next Week) TIM AND THE CARD GAME To the Editor av all thim Wingltam paypers; Deer Sur:— , I don't want ye to tink whin ye rade this lettber that I do be in the habit av shpindin me toime playin cards, fer., shure, 'tis a silly game in- toirely fer a shtrong man, but I earn- ed quoite a lot about thim little pick - ter pashteboords in the -lumber camp, an on the river dhroives, whin 1 wus a young fellah, so I did. Av coorse we hadn't much Ilse to do on thirty jawbs whin we got troo wid our day's wurruk, so it wus shinall blame to us if we shpint our avenins wid the kings, an quanes, an tin shpots. Some woise min tink that we shod be able to (threw some lissons from iviry ixpayrience we hev in loife, an mebby they do be roight in theer oideas. Per inshtance, ye moight say that a got lot av the thrttbble in the wurruld to- day is be rayson av too ,nanny wim- um min wantin doiminds, an too few min the wantin shpades, arr in other wurruds 'tis shtoyle an pleasure we hev been ,A he .t- t tt yI ei. d f 11 c S c f a M w hands and thus forming the circle. The rest of the party were as we S And for twenty minutes we sat thus, had been, save that we no longer k and nothing 'happened. She was fully touched'hands. Suddenly. Miss Jer- emybegan to breathe more quietly, a and to !Hove about in her chair Then h' tiently and told us to put our hands sire sat upright. ou on the table. `.`Good evening, friends," she said, I had'put my opened watch on the "1 ant glad to see you all again." e< table before me, a night watch with a I caught Herbert's eye and he al luminous dial. .At five minutes after grinned. di nine I felt the top of the table waver "Good evening, little Bright Byes," in under my fingers, a. curious, fluid-like he said, '"Bow's everything in the motion. !nappy btmting ground tonight?" th "The table is going to move, I "Dark and cold," she said, "Dark fa said. and cold. And the knee hurts. It's tid However, curiously enough, the ta- very bad. if the key is on the naiil-- ble did not move. Instead, my watch, arnica will take the" pain out," a before illy eyes, slid to the' edge of Herbert, who was still flippantly ca the table and dropped to the floor, amused, said: w and inmost instantly an object which "Don't bother about your Icitee, w we recognized as Sperry's knife, was Give its some local stuff, Gossip. If of flung over the curtain, and struck the you can." itn cChscious and even spoke once or twice, and at last she moved inpo- wall behind Mrs. Dane violently. ."Sure, T ,eau,, and it Will make your so nr,r curl,1 Then h�eta suddenly there was women of the party reacted quickly, One of the women screamed, end- aftlict', an not plain livin nn harrud wurrulc. Let Shpades be thrumps, fer the nixt foive arr tin years, an iviry- budy play the game fair, an nut be throyin to chate somebody disc • out av a thrick, an, shure, 'tis a betther wurruld we wild bt afther Navin, "so' ''e wud. An hearts wud be another good suit to pick fer thrumps—• an koind hearts, an honest hearts, an brave hearts, an thrue hearts, China are the hoigh cards in the dick, wlroile faint hearts, an harrud hearts, an cruel hearts, an false hearts, do be' the low 'cards, an the.fellahs that hould thim nivir win the game. I am tould that a lot av min in'the cities, yis, an wintntin too, be dhraw- in clubs fer thruntp, an don't shpind much toime iri dicer homes at all, at all, so they don't, but hey theer club rooms fer Cheer shpare tonne, 'Thin too thim anitnishun thin al- ways belaive in playin clubs, inshtid av hearts, whin dailin wid other conn- tilries, an so we bey wars, an :dis- t'ucicshun follied be poverty an croime, an unimploymint, an the rich gittin richer, an the poor gittin poor- er, an the divil puttin on extra hilp to kape up wid his wtirruk. If payple wud only 'play shpades, which mane diggin, an harrud wur- ruk,,an hearts that mane love an lcoindness, tings wud soon roight thimsilves; .but, inshtid av that,' too rnanny av us do be playin doiminds, that mane wealth an oidleness, an clubs, that Inane wars an .thrubble, an ivirybody throyin to git the shtart av the other fellah, no matther how they do it, an so tings kape gittin wurse an wurse all the toime, Yis, payple do be playin the wrong cards so they do. SPIRIN NIIIIIIitiIIiiiItIHIIIIHIIllllliillllllillllIIIIlllllillllIIIIIll111iIlillIIt BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, LOOK for the name Bayer and the' word genuine on the package asf Tpictured above when you buyAspIrin. hen you'll know that you are get ting the genuine Bayer product that thousands of physicians prescribe. Bayer Aspirin is SAFE, as Iniilionst of 'users have proved. It does not. depress the heart, and no harmtfur after-effects follow its use. Bayer Aspirin is the universal: antidote for pains of all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache Genuine Bayer Aspirin is cold at alq druggists in boxes of 12 and is bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade --mark of Bayer manufacture of a tonoaceticaci(ettr of sa.licylic:acid. Yours till nixt wake, Timothy Hay. 9 Along the -Concrete UYE EADG... That prices' are low and that means bargains. Wise merchants with stocks on hand want to convert them in- to cash and are looking for buyers. Newspaper advertising points the way to both — when the buyer and seller have a message of common in- terests. The great news of the day and the unprecedent- -ed bargains for the thrifty. It means great savings for the buyer and a cleaning out of shelves for the seller. It is time to buy and time to advertise bargains to the buyer. THE Advance -Times Wingharn, {Mario