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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-01-12, Page 6Liang'to ' Mutual Fire Establiebed 04Q 'cad Office, Guelph, Ont. taken on, all classes of insure e at treasonable rates. WEIR t.'it; SENS, Agouti, Winkb,am. J. SUV. DODO Otiice ,a Cbisholrn Block FIR,ELIFE, ACCIDENT $.l`lIl HEALTH ern INSURANCE AND 'REAL ESTATE .Q, Box $6o Phone apo: , INGHA,M,, ONTARIO Jo W. BUSUFIELD Barrister,, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. en'Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Win,gham Suceesaor to Dudley Holmes R v VANST,ONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to . Loan at Lowest Rates Winghann. - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate] University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store. • H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C, R. Phone S4 Winaham Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, faculty of Medicine;:' Licentiate of the 'Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.a Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 2g. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto • Faculty of Medicine Office—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence ;;sr DR. G. ,W. HOWSON. DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER • OSTEOPATH All'Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to --"' .Anglican Church on. Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Hours -g a.m. to 8 p.m.. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. A. R. ,& F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic Cato, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. 'Office opposite Iiamilton's Jewelry Store, Main St, HOURS:- 2-5, 7,-8.3o p.m.r and by appointment. Out of town andnight tally re- s onded to. AU'b sirkeis ` confidential. p�. c fid lIcl.cs„Office pol Residence 6oz-z3. J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS ''PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone res. amours: TO -12 a.m., 2-5, 7-8; p.m., or by appointment' xNGl Ala ADVAN0E-TIMES had detected our presence in that rood, by the smell,' gave me an ink- lirag:. "Then you can tell people by their odor?” the doctor` asked. ' "As a deg does," she answered sim p1Y• 'He murdered your father, you say, before you were born? Do you know who your 'ether was? What was his "Flanka,," she answered. For an instant the doctor gazed at her wide-eyed; then, turning away to conceal his excitement, he struck' one, palm, softly, three or four times with the other fist, Presently he turned back to the girl. "Did Your mother swear you to any thing else?" No.» "Did she give you anything when she 1,ierl?" oNe "Not even' a message? I n'tean did she tell you anything,; anything about Flanka?" "She told me these words, said the girl, "she said them a, great many times, 'Ouan feef, ti oues. Ten soffit.'' " That isthe best reproduction I can make of the sound of then]. I` sup- posed she° was speaking in Maori,. until, glancing up at elx:e doctor, I saw that lie was as• much puzilud. as I was. "What' that? he asked. "Say it again." She repeated the syllables glibly and witliout the slightest variation in her inflection of then. "What does that mean?" he ques- tioned. "That's not your language nor mine." • She shook' her head. "You dont.understand it yourself?" Again she shook her head, and re- peated once more the queer, meaning- less syllables. There was a moment of silence, the doctor gazing at her in a puzzled way all ]xis faculties concentrated . upon this fresh mystery. He stdod perfectly still before,;her, her fears, or at least not doing it in except that the hand which held the any way that' is commonly practiced mirror permitted it to swing very by us modern people. He was giving slowly, pendulum -wise, before her, her orders, orders which he was pre though always at an angle that sent pared to enforce by brute strength if the bean ''straight into her eyes. , she should• make it necessary.' So. From my corner of the room, I much was plain from his manner. watched him breathlessly. Of course 1 Of course, I could not understand a it was perfectly obvious to see' what , word he said, The girl cowered at the he was doing. The examination• of, her ' voice; but it seemed to reassure her, eyes had been -a mere pretext.': His 1 for all of that. The wild light in her Heal object i p inducing the girl to eyes died. They. became sullen. She strain her eyes upward was,.to throw; squatted on the floor in a corner of her into a hypnotic sleep. The method the ,room. Evidently chairs and their he bad taken was an old-fashioned uses were as strange to her as her one, and one he rarely used; At the, present attitude would have been tri l.abratory, he hypnotized people al- Jane Perkins. most • daily by the simple and almost j Then began one of the strangest instantaneous process of having them I scenes I ever witnessed. Except for lie 'down and telling thin that they what I could gather from their fines were going to sleep. But that method' and, from the inflection of his ques ' was absolutely dependent upon a con- tions and her sullen, half -defiant au- dition' which could not exist here. The swers, it was, totally' unintelligible to patient must expect to be hypnotized me, Even theinflections told me little, and be in a state of willing submission for the language itself is spoken in We had no reason to suppose that a queer sort of sing -song, which be - Jane Perkins would submit herself to trayed no family relationship with any'' any such test as that in th. hands of other language I. ever heard. But in strangers. And even with his mirror the doctor's face I could read strange he would not be able to hypnotize her matters—excitemen4, dawning cornpre if she should si'tspect that this was hension and dawning horror, too. Jr. what he was trying to do, and should was strangely tantalizing to know that resist. • But his confident, friendly this mystery, the clue to -which I had, manner, his easy assumption of au- vainly sought, was in process of be- thority, the fact that he carne ,from ° ing unraveled righf before my eyes the same part of ,the world as her-' an'.l I was as much in. the dark as self—all this'spedily disarmed sus -:I ever. picion. Then, as if the doctor had read my At the end of three or four minutes thoughts, he spoke to the girl in En- of silence the doctor turned away; and `glish. laid his little mirror upon the table. "Fanenna," he said, "I am; talking "It's five minutes past eight," he English. I am going to ask you ques- said, with a second glance at his i tions in English, and you will under - watch, "We haven't any time to lose stand me. Did you understand what 'Close • all the windows; that's the first I said then?" thing to do—and lock them. And then The girl nodded. And yet I was sure we'll bolt both doors, -it won't do to that if I had spoken to her she would take any chances -and, in general, try not have comprehended a word; It to be ready for anything she may do. was in its way as strange and perfect 1 think you'd better stand behind her a demonstration of the possibilities of chair; over yonder, where she. won't hynotism as I had ever seen: The see you at first. Now—are you ready? doctor called in Jane Perkins' inemory He stationed himstelf where he had to act as the girl's interpreter. ' stood before, just a pace or two away "What is the man's name," the doe - front the chair where the girl lay- tor asked, "the man who sent you?" asleep. '`His eyes were shining, and Her answer was two words that every line of the attitude of his big sounded, like "Osa Enns." I saw that sinewy body bespoke the relaxation for a moment it puzzled the doctor as possible only to nervous systems of much as it did me. But the next mol very high order, the relaxation that meat, evidently, he understood, for,his is ready to exert its "utmost effort in -face lighted rather grimly. any direction; that is braced .against "You came away did you, without nothing because it is expecting any- the thing he sent you to get?" `. thinShe She trod,ded, And then, softly at first but growitig "And you hadn't been told to kill louder, he began to hum onee more' the old pian? You didn't mean :to kill that old Maori ddath chant, 1 him when you stolre.into the house?" From my station behind the chair I She answered with a deep -throated could see nothing of the girl, except I guttural, even to my ears, unxnistak- one hand, which hung out over the 1 ably in the negative. it.I fixedm eyes that "Then whydid o kill him?" arm of, Y Y I Y u and as I stood there saw it change She flung back her. head, her. •eyes saw in it the index of Some mysteri- blazed defiance •and from her lips ' that" forth atorrentof speech. ' oris incredible transformationpourc.l p , must 'bt permeating every fiber of her.' "Stop!'.' said the doctol'. "Tf you y bod . It ht1 .. been Jane Perkins' hand' can understand English, you can talk pudgy, lifeless, inexpressive, Now, in -lit, too. Speak in the same language definably, it was different, altogether I 1 axil• speaking in, and tell. why you different. The fingers stretched apart' killed him." a little as if they tingled with the { "I was sworn to kill. him." warmth and life of a new current; iii- The words came thickly, slowly, tenser, more electrical. The handl clumsily, for tongue and lips, Were opened wide, then slowly clenched finding difficulty with them,.but they itself into a fist; and last of all it I were clearly and quite intelligibly En - spring open again, distended t6 its glish. widest reach, with galvanie quickness. I saw the doctor's face light up at which Jane Perkins' nerves would the sound of them, for it was the coin never have been capable of command pietion of the most interesting'exeper- D. H. 1 cINNES CHIROPRACTOR. ELECTRICITY. Adjustments given for diseases of in dealingwith ail, kinds; specialize tebi.ldren. Lady attendant. Right calls responded to. +Office on Scott St., Wingharn, Ont. Phone xso GEORGE AL A. SIT�DL. ---Broker— —Broker -- Phone 7a. Lucknow, Ontario 3 Money to lend'ort Brat and second mortgages. on farm and other real es tate properties at a reasonable rata o ;interest, also on first Chattel mort- gages en stock and on personal notes. A few. farms on hand for sale or to rr'ent;, on easy ter-rxis ing. invent he had ever tried. `l.'he girl f '1'lle doctor broke off his song, and was still st bmergtd, completely in there followed for one dead moment, her wild, primitive, under -self. She THOMAS FELLS .AUCTIONEER IiREALREALES'1Y ATE SOLD Farm A. thorough knowledgeof Stook Plume eat, Wimg'haim — - 4w� W. J. ROYCE PI,UMB"NG AND HEATING t e 5$t Phone Night h - P one:88 azi WdN wrolnw•wYxrL,iwWwW.�w++-J+:W:.uW.fw: 4u.+..NYiW+t',W: nItNll,iYYtY, YIIIIisPluli,"rr" i,Yr v Y FJoO'ffintexo6, Regd. 224 A,w VVALKE "UINtbYIT/LIRE ]btA�L: -.and• 11tAT.:I IBBC', atot BgtxiputeM b1,1 AI IO: aI41Str��aii��w a silence, which was shattered at the end of it by a strange, weird, half -sup- pressed outcry. The next instant the girl had flashed oat of her chair, and Stood confronting r me; The quickness 1 of her motion was absolutely , inde- scribable. Iter face was now the on.. we had seen in the hospital and had glimpsed dimly in the dark in Henry Morgan's study. At the sight of me, she shrank, crouched, rather, for something about the action suggested that it might be followed by a spring. Her hand flashed to her bosons and expiated there for something—a knife, prob- ably—that it did not find, What she would have done then, "whether she would have flung herself upon. me tin- ar,nxed, I do not.knrrwv, but the doctor began speaking :ttr.l er,jttst thein, qui- etly, " u er a a e' vand 'm .th Gori ly, r e M tongue, Ile was not trying .to.so the was no more JanePerkins than as if she had occupied another body alto- I gether and yet, by the strange hypno- tic' of suggestion, the doctor was compelling her to use Jane Pere English'. totall knowledge �" 151 C kms of ng ith w f "Who swore you to such an oath?" he : asked. I "My mother, when she 'was dying, It was a vengeance. He had murdered my father, ide murdered ;hint before I was born," he her blouse s ()uC of the front of to .pulled, a little chamois -skin bag vehicll hung around herEneck by a fine gold chain, "By this," she said, '"It had be. longed to him, the murderer, •My 1 mother kept •it •and gave it -to tn'e so that I should knowtllitn," .Foran instant tsntl xstand •bttt, rininedr,ately .; after, 'the "iayaY'shet "I Suppose," Said the Doctor, "That You have Taken Precautions for Apprehending Her "' When ,She Comes Back?" lit the tiiidsit of that silence the girl sprang suddenly erect, and from'her tense attitude it was evident that she was listening; that she had heard something. To our ears all. was still. "Bearing abnormal, too" murmured the doctor in a swift 'aside to me. Then he spoke to the girl. "Tanen, na," he said, "you are to go•into that other room. and wait until I call for you. When I want you, 1 will call, 'Perkins' and you will come out, 'be lieving that it is the first time I have called you from the bedroom, You will remember the knife and vase of . water, but you will' believe that you have dreamed, -it. And when I call the word, `Perkins' you will wake up ani], comte in. Go now."' He unlocked the door as 11e spoke, She obeyed without. hesitation. By that time I myself heard footsteps ap- roachin Y down the corridor. A b "Go in there after liter, Phelps," said the doctor, "arid see that the windows and doors. in all the other rooms of tmandbolted. the apartment eYYt are locked, Then eohlte back here as quickly as you can," I heard a tapat the doom just as I int hin task,andin mediate- was finishing g the:i e octroxei.it. . ly afterwardheard tlit, doctor open When I'retur•xred to.the sittingroom, , t d towardi andspoke rather he turned 1T (. Sl t quickly.'There e was a note of sup- pressed excitement in his voice, "].'helps, hc:re'3 Ashton; come to pay us a coli:" Without waiting` for me to comment on the situation, he turned back to the district attorney, ' u hunlikely,"h •. a"t tl o g t it not he said i r "that, with one intenitoa �or,, another, c. , you would make us a visit this eve- ning." pis xnanneti was perfectly neutral, neither :friendly in the old way, nor irtystilt an tit might have been ex, - t `lac i •t sited after the scene n, the la e l :, tore: �,lyarck , . • Ashton flushed a little, "Oh, I've come to apologize," be said. "My ac- cusation against you and Mr. Phelps this afternoon was quite unwarranted.' We both .spoke at once at that, dis- claiming any offense, and the doctor, after a glance'at his watch; cgneluded by asking him to sit down' and offer- ing him a' cigar, 1 very much ,hc,e,.: that both thee invitations won... declined, "for with that girl in ti.:. next roorri and Wilkins' knock mo- mentarily expected, at the door, it was rather too close quarters to lie cbm fortable. But my chief seemed to ;be pterfectly, at ease, " • "I`ll confess," The began,' lighting a cigar of his own, "that I'm'a little cur- ious to know'what caused, your change of heart; what it -was that convineed you that Phelps and I aren't engaged in a conspiracy tothwart justice:" "1 ani afraid that l atn a self -con- victed egoist," said ,Ashton. ',,qt took an hour or more of thought to' eccur. to ire that there are other people be- sides myself, living in The Meredith, and that Jane Perkins might have giv- en that, place as her address, without any reference to me whatever, might have given it in perfectly good faith. So when I Caine home to dinner I made some inquiries, and was cool enoughby that time net to be over- whelmed with surprise to find that the address was apparently given in good faith. At any rate, there is a house- maid named Jane Perkins living in this hotel." The .doctor simulated no surprise over this announcement. He merely nodded .calmly, and said: "Yon will not have: seen her yet, 1 suppose." ' "So you know about her, too!" ex- claimed Ashton. "And ,you were a- head of me again. Wellothat's not '-e- markable; you kept your temper and I didn't. But though 1 haven't seen her yet, I don't believe you' have, eith- er, ' because I have been given tc' un+ derstand that it's her evening out. "I suppose,", said the doctor "that "Yes," said Ashton; "theres a man on watch tin her room now. She won't go far: I understand•she's been ill the greater part of the week.' you have taken precautions for 'appre- hending her when she comes back?", The doctor smiled and wavedhis hand toward the telephone. "rsu may as well tell your man to go home," he .said; "the girl's here." Ashton sprang right out of his chair. "What's that! he demanded. "You've got her here; hiding her from Hie?" "If I were hiding her from you, 1 shouldn't have told you. No, she's not in hiding at all. She's doing up the bedrooms in this. apartment.,' She'll come when I 'call her, whichhI mean to do in :a very few minutes. ' When she conies, I mean to make a little examination of her mind to0determine her actual connection with the crime." (Continued next week) CLAIM PLOW ON HIGHWAYS IS HARD ON THE FARMERS District Papers Say a Farmer Living Some Distance Off the Main High- way Has to Use a Sleigh, While the Main Road is Apt to Get Bare. Apparently there is a difference of opinion about 'keeping the highways open for auto traffic in winter months Just recently one of the plows start- ed operations on the road. between Stratford and Goderich. Comment made on the.ideaby pa- pers in Seaforth and Clinton is ra- th'er interesting, The Clinton News- Recoil in its current issue remarks: "No 'doubt it is fine for those liv- ing on the highway to have the; road cleared pf snow so they can get out with their cars, but its is, rather awk- ward for those who live a few miles off, bet who' have to get to the high- way to come to town. They 'have to bringg runner's and along the scrape , bare highway with them, because they cannot ,use wheels over the snow-covered sideroads•" The View in Seaforth The Huron Expositor published at Seaforth, says on the same question: "The 'Cle announce policy {the Pro-, r dl �'o vincial J=Ii hwa s Department of keep b Y p P leg the lit h ` a • o for the motor x e w s en g �' Y p traffic, during the wintermonths, was put into effect on the Stratford] Godcrich Highway for the first time on Thursday of last week. �n that large Ipower ' ' plowwent day 'a < ge', through, cutting out a ten -foot road , Y1 • ) r 5 d •ieli �,oY and oil tl e etur:tt from Go er , pletely cleared the pa.vement, Again on Tuesday of this week, a large rotary plow went through, bet on that occasion the result was riot so appai•eiit, as '611 account of the. storm the trach, was 'blown it1 again ah badly, as ever, within an .hour. Y The enormous arid ever inCt'ct5inj;, capital invested irt automobiles bylie general i tblxc has, no 'doubt, created 'p a very strong demand,. for an;;a,ll 'year opportunity to rise 'them, and 'there: are many districts in ()ntarid where the `Highways learn 'be 'kept topeit motor .traffic dining ing the winter,, at ti cost w ii h 'while tent, is 401 not txerlraps pioltibitivt'i Tbtlrsday, January x 9 You may not 'ire able to get "$ALARA" Orange Pekoe ]lend hu ever ' storey hut most good grocers sell it. 'A great Molly people do rtltt realize that such' a tea is on the market ---a4 ALADA" is much the finest Orange Pekoe Wend you ' can buy. 1 11145N1 PEKOE ORBALEIVNDGE' 2813,' ntar o Officials Join Market" Tour iii•<.etv'. <.., ail , ">1�s€9`e, x�a keen sense of the desirability of obtaining first hand infor- b b melon on the methods of market- ing of Canadian products overseas, and the opportunity of extending niarkets,for products, as well as a knowledge of the •'beet known co- operative system in the world, has led Hon. John Martin, Minister of Agriculture of the Ontario Govern- ment, to nominate two officials of his Department to accompany the first Canadian Farmers' Marketing- Tour to Great Britain and Denmark organized by the Canadian National Railways. The officials nominated by lion. Mr. Martin are Messrs." Reg. 8. Duncan, (left) Director of A-,ricul- tural Representatives of Ontario, and Frank C. Hart, (right) D'rec- tor of Co-operation. and Mart_tcts far the Ontario Department of Agri- culture. i -culture. In addition to these offi- cial f i-cial representatives of the Govern- ment three of the County Agrieul-. Represen`^tfv-es have also ed '11.e tour. ? uexo: a a H. A. Dorranoe, bounty. Agricul- tural Representative at Brantford; C. W. Bur xanan, Agricultural Rep, resentative at Port' Arthur, and A. P. MacVannell, Agricultural Repre-• sentative at Picton. The tour, which will include more than fifty agriculturists from. all parts"of Canada, will leave Hali- fax on Sunday,, January, 8th, by the 8,8. , "Lapland",. of the Red Star Line, and will be a month or more; in Britain and, Denmark, where all .the large marketing centres are to - be visited, with conferences with marketing authorities, the Empire Marketing Board, etc., and with special investigation of co-operative systems in England a .,1 Denmark. The party is to be rtleived by the, Pr'nee. of TC al :i' en wairuary 25th" and , will be entertained by the London 'City Corporation. the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, the Loed Mayor Of !Iarachect^r:• and the Lord l:,_annn of . E'er ._b:tr.tix... Thenc are- other districts where it would be 'folly to xiiake the attempt, and still others where the .cost, con- sidering the benefit'derived by the I community in question, would be too, great, and we believe the part 01 Huron County on No. 8 Highway is in this latter class. e This district can confidently look. for six or eight weeks' steady sleigh- ing during the winter. With the steady accumulation of snow during these weeks on the country roads, it is not hard to see at what <a disad- vantage country people would be at' if their main highway was ` swept clear of snow while concession roads and connecting links were full of it. The plow that went through here the other day took all... the .snow off the road to within two or three inch- es of the'pavement. Continued traf- fic or an hour's sun in the middle o.f. the day would spoil the road for. sleigh traffic. How then is the farmer going to do his teaming? The farmer living oit the Highway could. keep his forty rods or so of lane. clear of snow and, use wheels, ` if he wanted to. That is if be 'could get to town on wheels, but 'unless the town kept their streets glean, he could not get on the ,business 'sec'roe to the station or the mill, orwhere ever be was bound. And we do tot be, Neve that any town .its the 'very ineciiate future is going to -keep streetsfree of snow. iiut what`o.f the farmer a mile and auarter, two miles and a: half, lir; q five miles back o the Highway that is his main artery to market? He is •i the 11e <t not keep "set of r* dould o p a w crossroad. All he could, do would be to use the concession roads and take the long way round. That 'would mean that all concession roads in ad-- joining d-joining townships would have to be kept open, and as fit for traffic as, the emain roads have been kept in^" winter heretofore. To do that woulde entail a bill for road work almost as large ' as summer' upkeep, aiid we do not believe any township would wel- come such a•. project. Most of them.' think that road work costs are a- bout the limit now. If the farmer could keep his own car in commission all the year round it .would be a dif- ferent matter, but to pay the additiion al taxes in _order • that a transient tra- veller may run up and down the high- way , all winter in his car --well he: does not see it that way. Of; course, the •claim of the motor- ist is that the keeping of the high- ways open will ; stimulate business.. But whose business? As far as' we can see the 'only' gainers would be the large 'centres. '' Theb usiness of a smaller town merchant is contained: within a certain 'zone. If lie cultivates it as it should be cultivated, he will get it, iind in many instances the car will help himget it, but it is not the transient motor traveller froin.,whence it conies, and itis the transient travel- ler, not the resident, that is, the, user of the motor Gar bit this district, at';-', least, during the winter months. ," Listowel ratepayers carriedtwo money by-laws, one to aid • the P. I ,° lVTi11s; Company and tile other to re- leasing a mortgage on the Agricultur- al Society grounds, ii 8ter'l]C ,strength 4 aBighiiY a k'S Pia ty go £ art ier than ordinary flours. It is perfect fbr ydk baking— Ca�es l less burs and brei--- sot� one , tlYl1s necessary. fitParityrime to -day: -"*.i: 15 certain to please you., r . i'rrmf : ?loseCook Cogook. Idrxaited. ],Dolan l Mdnaaaal otto, 8*Ga1