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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-12-17, Page 6PAGE ham Advance -Ti ues. :published at WINQ 1-1A111I - ONTARIO Every Tbursday Morning STs9. Logan Craig - Publisher tbsox ption rates •R•' One year Sit. months $1.00., in aadvanee. To U. S, A. $$2.50 per year. Advertising rates- 'in application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Go.. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- aaxsce t seasonable rates. ,ead Office, Guelph, Ont. ...3NER COSENS; Agent, Wingliar!! J. W. DODD Two doors south of Field's Eutcner shop. VMS, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P: 0. Box :366 Phone 45 "WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD urriister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. FL CRAWFORD Banister, 'Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER. ETC, ' Sia 'haft,. Ontario g D.R. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store 1-1. Y• • COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and liftelical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Haenbly Phone 54 Windham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND - R.C.S..(ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lund.) 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 Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER 1 OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining restaence next co Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity .''leant 272, Hours; 9 a.m. to 8 n.rn. A: R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Dtugles: Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- nded to, All business . confidential. .Phone 300. wry ' J. ALVIN FOX ,Jteistered Drugless Practitioner trrIROi'RA4TIC AND " DRICtG . aS fi cTiclf • :}M ELECTRO-THTRA1?Y Bottrst 2-6, ?-d, et` t y appoinfiiiefE. Phone 191. THOMAS FELLS u5,113, AUCTIONEER 2 a•- 'REAL ESTATE SOLD '414, thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham ,.ICI -LARD B. JACKSON AucTIOtelt8R Phone 613x6, Wroxeter, or address „ It 1; Gtrortie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. DR. A. W. IRW I N DENTIST — X-RAY McDonald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER URNITU1 B AND FUNERAL. SERV/CZ A. J. WALKER acensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. iffice Phone 106. Res. Phone 224. . Funeral C. e`%i. ate 'C..itkatou�srtte c4 THE WNW—IAA ADVANCE- `x M ES Thurs., cember Li, 193. ;. .. l "IYif y dear girl," I sad, "we are not going.;' to do anything, The Neighbor - 'hood Club has been doing a little am- ateur research work, 'which as now batt•: That's all." Sperry took than away in his cat', but he ;turned on nage door -step, "Wait downstairs for ole, he hate!, "I am coiling, back," I remained in the library until he it4•turned, uneasily pacing the floor. Mrs. Danes medieine, and: yon For where were we 'after all? we. SYNAPSIS' people, Horace Johnson (who tells the story), his wife, • old Mrs. 'Dane, Herbert Robinson :and his sis- ter, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and neighbors, are in the habit of holding weekly meetings. At ane of them, Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the program -by unexpectedly arranging a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jere- my, a friend of Dr. Sperry and not a professional, as the medium. At the first sitting the medium tells the details of a murder as it is occur- ring. Later that night Sperry learns that a neighbour, Arthur Wells, has been shot tnysttriousIy. With John- son he goes to the Wells residence and they find confirmation of the mediums account. Mrs. Wells tells them her husband shat himself in a fit of depression. The French maid admits she went out at rhe time -Wells was shot, tele- phoning from a nearby drug store. Johnson goes to the drug store where the clerk tells hien the maid phoned to the Ellingham louse, telling sonte- body there not "to call that night." At a second seance Miss Jeremy adds details about a summ r resort where Charles Ellingham was known to have been at the same time • that Mrs. Wells was there. She also tells of a pocketbook being lost which contained some important car tickets and letters. Mrs. Dane, alone of the women, seems thrilled by the investi- gation. Johnson goes alone and investi- gates the deserted house. He is fri- ghtened by strange noises, as of an 1 intruder in the house, but completes his investigation. He leaves the house and in his ex- citement carries off the fire tongs, leaving them in his own hall rack where his wife , discovers them the next morning and reproaches him for his nocturnal wanderings. He also forgets to bring away his overcoat, which is carried off by the myster- ious stranger. Mrs. Dale learns of his I peculiar actions and charges him with possessing an unsuspected sense of humor. He visits Mrs. Dane and tells her how he had carried off the fire -tongs house. One bullet was somewhere in and left behind his overcoat in his the ceiling, or in the floor of the nur- excitement. She then tells him she sery. I thought it ought to be found. I don't know whether he found it or not. I've been afraid to see turn." She sat, clasping and unclasping her hands in her lap. She was a proud woman, and surrender had to be married to Miss Jeremy when come hard. The struggle was mark- the club meets again. ed in her face. She looked as though Hawkins, the butler, is identified as she had not slept for days. andshe fixed that. It was terrible And all :the "thee he lay there, wit! his eyes half openee" The letters, it scents, were all ov er the place, Elinor. thought of ,the curtain, cut a receptacle for them but she was afraid of the police. Fin ally she gave them to Clara, win was to take them away and burn them. They did everything they could think of, all the time listening for Suzanne Gautier's return; filled the second empty chamber of the revolv- er, dragged the body out of the hall and washed the carpet, and called D. Sperry, not rowing that he was at Mrs. Dane's and could not come. Clara bad only a little time, and with the letters in her handbag she started down the stairs. There she heard some one, possibly Ellingham, on the back stairs, and in her haste, shefell, hurting her knee, and she !must have dropped the handbag at that time. They knew BOW' that Haw- kins had found it later un. But for a few days they didn't know, and hence the advertisement. "I think we would better explain Hawkins," Sperry said. 'Hawkins was married to Miss Clara ber,, some years ago, while she was with Mrs. Wells. They had kept it a secret, and recently she has broken with hien." "He was infatuated with another woman,' Clara said briefly. "That's a personal matter. It has nothing to do with this case." "It explains Hawkins' letter." 1 promised her a book. Do. yon re - Member? I told your pian, and he allowed me to go up to the library it was there; on the table, I had ex- , Ilected to llaVe to search for it, but it _ was lying out, I fastened it to my n belt, under my long coat." 1 "And placed it in the rack at Mrs. Dane's?" Sperry was watching her intently, with the same sort of gene intentness he wears when examining a chest. "1 put it in the closet in my roots. I meant to get rid of it, when I had a little time. 1 don't know how it got downstairs, but 1 think—" "lies?„ 1 "We are house-cleaning. A house- maid was washing closets. I suppose she found it and, thinking it was one of Mrs. Dane's, took it downstairs. :That is, unless--" It was clear that, like Elinor, she had a supernatural in her mind. She looked gaunt and and haggard. . ."Mr, Ellingham was anxious to get it," she finished. "He had taken Mr. Johnson's overcoat by mistake one night when you were both he the he u,e, and tate notes were in it. He saw that the stick was important." "Clara," Sperry asked, "did you see the day you advertised for your bag, another similar advertisement?' "I saw it.It frightened e m�•� " g d "Yon have no idea who inserted it?" • "None whatever." "Didyou ever see Miss Jeremy be- fore the first sitting? Or hear of her?" "Never." ever-." "Or between the seances?" oto Elinor rose and drew her veil down. "We must go," she said. "Surely now you will cease these ter- rible investigations. I •cannot stand much more. I am going mad." "There will be no more seances," Sperry said gravely. "What are you going to do?" She turned to nie, I daresay because I re- presented what to her was her su- preme' dread, the law. "It d.oesn't explain how that med- um knew everything tha happened," Clara put in, excitedly. "She knew it all, even the library pastel I can tell you Mr. Johnson, I was close to fainting a dozen times before I fin- ally did it." "Did you know of our seances?" I asked Mrs. Wells. "Yes. I may as well tell you that I haven't been in Florida. How could I? The children are there, but eeee "Did you tell Charlie Ellingham about them?" "After the second one I warned him and I think he went to the. had advertised for the finder of the pocketbook and turns over to John- son an answer she had received from one having guilty knowledge of the crime. Dr. Sperry announces he is beingthe person who answered Mrs. Dane's advertisement, Johnston's missing overcoat is nailed to him, but the letters contained in the. pock- et are missing. Sperry accompanied by Johnston, makes another search in Well'e house for the letters written by the slayer -1* •,,4 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY There was, on the contrary, a def- inite place beyond which the medium could not go. She did not know who had killed At thur Wells., To city surprise, Sperry and Her- bert Robinson came together to see intthat morning at my office, Sperry like myself, was pale and tired, but' "You think I am frightened," she said slowly. ."And I am, terribly fri- ghtened. But not about discovery. That has come and cannot be help - i4 "Then why?" "How does this woman, this med- ium, know these things?" Her voice rose, with an unexpected hysterical ,a catch. "It is superhuman. I am al- most mad." "We're going to get to the bottom of this," Sperry said soothingly. "Be sure that it is not what you think it is, Elinor. There's a simple ex- planation, and I think I've got it, What about the stick that was taken had had the meditate's story clabro- ' eted and confirmed; but the fact re- ntained that step by step, through her unknown "control" the Neighbore. hood Club had, followed a tragedy from its beginning, or almost its be- €, > ln'n its c.n ginning, g, tud. Was everything on which • I bad built my life to go? Its philosophy, its science, even its theology, before the revelations of a young woman who knew hardly the rudiments of. the very things she was destroying? Was death, then, not peace and an • awakening to newthings, but a wretched anddissociated clutching after the old? A wrench which only loosened but did not break our earth - ly ties? It was well that Sperry came back when he did, bringing with hint a • breath of fresh night air and stalwart sanity, Hepacing tty, found nae still the room. "The thing 3 want to know," I said fretfully, "is where this leaves us? Where are we? For God's sake, where are we?" "First of all," he said, "have you anything to drink? Not for me. For yourself. You look sick:"• "We do not keep intoxicants in the house." "Oh, piffle," ,I lie said. i "Where is W it, Horace?" "I have a little gin." "Where?" "Well," said Sperry, when he had lighted a cigar. "So you want to know where we are?" I drew a chair before the book- shelves, ook shelves, which in our old-fashioned house reach almost to the ceiling, and withdrawing a volume of Josephus, I brought down the bottle. "Nov and then, when I have had a bad day," I explained, "I find that it makes me sleep." He poured out some and 1 drank' it, being careful to rinse the glass afterward. "I would like to save something cut of'the wreck." "That's easy. . Horace, you should be a heart specialist, and I should have taken the law. It's as plain as the alphabet." IIe took his notes of the sittings from Itis pocket,. "1'm going to read a few things. Keep avant is left of yon r mind on them, This is the first sitting." "The knee hurts. It is very bad. Arnica will take the pain out " 1 want to go 'out, I Want air:: If 1 could only go to sleep and. forget it. 'i'Ite drawing :t'oom furniture is scattered all over the !louse," "Now the second sitting: "It is writing, (The stick), "It is writing, but the water washed .it aw- ay, All o[ it, not a trace,'. 1f only the pocketbook were not lost. Car- t%ckcts and letters. It will be ter- rible if the: letters are found.' 'Haw- c ts may have it. Th curtain n wrs much safer, "That pert's safe enough unless it made a hole in the fluor above." "Ola, if you're going to read a lot of irrevalent materia]—" "Irr.evalent • nothing! Wake up, Horace! But remember this. I ani not explaining the physical phenom- ena, We'll never do that. It wasn't extraordinary, as such things go. Otir little .mediumin a trance condition has read poor Clara's mind. it's all here, all that Clara knew and noth- ing that she didn't know, A. mind- reader, friend Horace. And Heaven help me wase!!. I marry herr' • 4' * 4' 4' *• 4s * at , As I have said, the Neighborhood Club ended its investigations with this conclusion, which I believe is properly reached. It is only fair to state that there are those among us who have accepted that theory in the Wells case, but who have preferred to consider that behind both it and the physical phenomena of the sean- Ctshere t was an rntelligenae that dir- ected both, an intelligence not of this world as we know it. Both Herbert and Alice Robinson are now pro- nounced spiritualists, although Miss Jeremy, now Mrs. Sperry, has defin- itely abandoned all investigative work. Personally, I have evolved no the- ory. It seems beyond dispute that certain individuals can read . minds, and that these same, or other so- called "sensitives," are capable of lib- erating a formof invisible energy which, however, they turn to no far- ther account than the useless ringing of bells, moving of small tables, and flinging about of divers objects. To nae, I admit, the solution of the Wells case as one of mind-reading is more satisfactory than explanatory. For mental waves remain a mystery, acknowledged, as is ,electricity but of a nature yet nnt•eveali:Itt 'l'hoeghts, .: ane things: 'l'ltt1 :is. all we - know, Mrs, Dane, I believe, hail st speet.. ed the willtlon from the start, • ".Phe :Neighborhood Club has recent- ly .disbanded, ecent-ly.disbandcd, We tried outer things, but we had been s;poiled, Our ling winter was a failure, We read aa.. play or two; with Sperry's wife read,.: ing the hleroirt•e, and the rest of us taking other parts, She has 11 Itavrly voice, Inas Mrs, Sperry. But it was.. all stale and unprofitable, after the'• Wells affair: With Herbert un a lec- ture tour on Spirit realism; an 11 '. •' •p <l •l t ,. Dane at a senitorium for the win' d , e,ha e n w given up, • vv v o v t itand o vc t 8y and I spend out Moray eveningst Borne. THE END. For Treub!es due to Acid IN0IGESTION ACID STOMACH HEARTBURN HEADACNE GASES -NAUSEA Comes 1' THAT many people call indigos:.: acid in the stomach. The stomach. nerves have been over -stimulated, and food sours. The corrective is Sia alkali, which neutralizes the eeida instantly. And the best alkali known. to medical science is Phillips' Milk, of Magnesia. One spoonful of this harmless, tasteless alkali in water neutralizes instantly many times that mucle acid, and the symptoms disappear et once, You will never use erode methods when once you learn the; :ffelency of this. Go, get a small bottle to try. 13e sure to get the genuine Phillips' MU of Magnesia prescribed by p.. jsicians for 50 years in correcting excess acids. 50c a bottle—any drug store. (Made in Canada.) tion very often means excess., •sontsoma■iwai■nasiso■■■a■■ emErmsein■maimm ■ mumm ■soon ■■■■■iummuna veil; ■ ■ ■; ■ E ■ from my library?" ■ "Will you tell nae how you came MI "Yes. I tools it from the lower hall gi ■ ti) have it, doctor?" "I stole the stick from your office," Clara. told thorn. "She had been our first goveeness for the children," Elinor said, "and she often carne in. She had made a birthday smock for l3udcly, and she had it in her hand. She almost faint- ed. 1, couldn't tell her about Charlie Ellinham. I couldn't. I told her we had been struggling, and that 1 was afraid 1 had shot him. She is quick. She knew jtiet what to do, We work- ed fast. She said a suicide would not have fired one shot into the ceiling, 1 NI 11 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 1111111■ ■ ■ 111 MR the night—the night it happened." ■ "It was Charlie Ellingham's. He had left it there. We had to have it, II dc.ctor. Alone it might not mean il: mttcit, but with the other things yott ■ knew—teat then!, Clara.,, iii , "I stole it from your office," Clara III said, looking ' straight ahead. "We ■ had to have it. I ltitew at tixe sec - or d sitting that it was his. , to "When did you take it?" ■ "On Monday morning, 1 NI, -' 10'0111■011111■/M ■01111/11■111111111110i01111110110i1iillil iiinw111111r11w1111111111111111111. ■ DOES VE TISI R I E ES? PRI ®®E®EENE0®®■ • An Advertisement Addressed to the Public of this Community When you hear of a manufacturer who Spends $100,00 or more each year on advertising, you may feel like saying—"Terr- ible! aying—"Terr-ible! What waste and it is we—the public --who have to pay ,for it all!" But stop ! Before you make judgments,,look at facts. Manufacturers who advertise spend from 2 to 5 per cent. of their sales on advertising. Let us put it at 3 per cent. of the price which you pay for their article of sale. So if you pay 25 cents for an advertised article, you are paying three-fourths of one cent to pay for making it known to and wanted by you. The price would not be less—indeed, it might easily be more ---if the article had no money spent on it to make it known to and wanted by you. It is economy, so far as you are concerned, to have manu- facturers develop a huge demand for their product, by the agency of press advertising. YOU pay for the advertising, of course, but you pay a smaller price for the advertised article than would be necessary if the manufacturer's output were smaller! Advertised articles have to be better,than non -advertised articles, and since they are made in larger quantities, they can be de and sold at least as cheaply as imitative non-ad'vertisedar- tz o If you are a thrifty and wise buyer, you will buy the article. made known to you by faithfully -maintained press advertising. The stranger product should be shunned. 33e very friendly, therefore, to nationally -advertised products --foods,' toilet aids, motor carsradio set et nd all else ---which are also locally advertised—in this• newspaper. Issued by the Canadian. Weekly Newspapers Association. -'wf4.lyy.afvnNYLlWflei�rR S� \,,,...'�::,r ... �..; u,Jr; krlLtil• ent for 1