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The Wingham Advance Times, 1924-10-30, Page 2:reed , s 'sat lre • 'ej!!"40,11, ",1;111 l LSiii",,Ors IV •• es, • . vor insio • l'ar 3E3 436 111559 Alwa78 fresh and pure. — Sold oz1 n sealed aluinirtuvrt packets. megainumnsimatennow '.1601.1.6111611[141.1....010.1....111.11210101,1.1 IAN ie it ell Hearts Ct)liiiTiatid19 By BLIZABET1-1 YORK MILLER 4'WhIst hosirk co1st4rrtan4 krosn issisula Oka scsgaat erancnseitings depart." azazerstansmettsioncenstwojr, ,14,4101,,eie,t,aciliPse,e, 41 .11Sra7.."11,r.',. CHAPTER XXXVIII,—(Cont'd.) been married only a short time. Don't "I-Iad the Egan's any •children?" worry about Carrie Egan, dear—" Alice asked, feeling rather ashamed. "I'm net," Alice said. "Not in the of• herthi"self. • Way you n "Good heavens no! They'd only Usually Alice accompanied Philip • been married a short time when Tony I back to London on Mondays, but the was, killed." "I thought you said a year or niore." "Well, there could only have been one at that --and there wasn't even one' " Lois replied decisively. • Alice's hands tightened, •and she was conscious that her heart had be- gun to beat rather fast. Surely, if Mrs. Egan had had a son, Lois—who seemed to know all about her—would • have heard of it. Gould it be possible that Philip had made the statement next day she told him that she thought she would stay at the cbttage, •If he didn't object. He didn't object in the least. It was rather the reverse. He seemed pleased, almost relieved. "But wont yon b lonely?" he asked, a little anxiously. The I-Iemersleys were going, too. Alice smiled and shook her head. "Well, take care of yourself," Ardeyne said. She -waved farewell to the car that VINGOAIK ADYNNCE-TIMEa elee,,,AM) TU it 'WORST IS ?FT TO COMP Ilintint‘t • q.;,•111';;;' „1„1•,1 •;;,.;•.,d7r •,` r' 1 ;1 'iv • ' • FP • 18 11/ cow "IN NM MANIC II 1"`"e's•-•-• e-IF""Sesses - FM, Ardeyne as Mrs. Egan's friend, had ) to make all the arrangemeots. Ap-i paeently she possessed a bottomless purse, and the question of a apecial; carriage all the way from Calais was a matter of no moment. Another nurse; was engaged, a private imbulance in the confusion of being discovered was taking them all away, and turned ordered, and stacks of purchases made. I Ire such a queer attitude, with Mrs. back to the empty house.' Ardeyne saw to most of the, detaile' Egan? Alice qlosed her eyes, and saw She felt it was good to have the himself, for Mrs. Egan could scarcely ,, it all over again—the woman kneeling, place to herself. Even Philip's pres- , be coaxed from the boy's bedside, con kissing his hand, ad -his raising her ence would have .been disturbing. If fining her activities to the writing of lip with tender coneeassion. She had only she could force It-el:self to stop cheques and initiallinis of various caught the look OIL Philip"s face before caring so much for him. She had orders. - 1 he ecalized that she "was there. met older women whose sun did not It was nearly five o'clock before She berian. to ache with jealousy and rise and set with their husbands' corn- .. Philip realized that he had had no lunch and was in need of some re- freshment. He came into Mrs. Egan's sitting -room and found her there staring with haggard eyes over the I rim of teacup. "MaX is asleep arid the nurse sent , the terrible sense of her helplessness ings and goings. . . ' tobal. it "He woultin t have married me. if he conshat . "e • - It was her own father who lead liadn't cared for me," she assured ssio• widowed Carrie Egan. Another thing herself time and again. Philip must "''''' ;'• I" I had been hept. from her. Chris--ihave cared for her far and away be- wtoSlilheele Smarle would have told her, no yond what most men care for the doubt, only it hadn't happened to oc-,women they marry. m away" she said plaintively. - I e of ,I While she was havino• her solitar e Hugo's victim, Mrs. Egan herself 'it:limier, and not enjoying it very nauch, :%°11., ought to, get some rest your - 0. sea, he replied. must have known the identiy of the the telephone bell ran,. girl Phillip had been kincl enough to 1 "The doctor wishes to speak to you, He poured himself a cap ef tea and i man.y. -ft was intolerable; life itself madam,":sad -Hie parlorinaid. ate several sandwiches, standing. S, he e seemed to giow more impossible day! .A.lice got tip so Inarriedly to answer looked shrivelled and tired and old, so' unlike the buoyant happy-go-lucky by day. There was nobody 10 turn the summons that she knocked over - woman of other days. She must be to—pot even, mumsey. Alice's eyes her chair, . filled with tear 4 and as she tried to i * * ,. • very fond a that poor little boy, he thought. dab them away without betraying her -1 When Philip Ardeyne waved good- ,aphii,„ you're not going to let me go Self, Lois Heriameraley Satup and; bye to his young wife that Monday all the way out there alone, are you?" stared at her in gonsternation... linorning he had not the remotest idea she asked. • "Oh, Alice, have 1 Said aelertlemg tee that forces might be busy with the shook his head. "No, I shall go to." • from her indefirately., make you unhappy? 1 didn't. mean , malicious intent of separating him .1 wilithe you!, He ssioke as though that , I was thinking of something; His mind was full of plans for the bhuad asbeean matter teof ntionacfr,rwtah; aArl., . else," Alice replied. "It's nothing, ;week's work, and he was a little, re - really, ' ilieved that Alice preferred to stine cision made on the spur of the mo- ment. It was not merely -a doctor she Lois edged over and snuggled down at The Rushes instead of com- needed fax- that journey:it was a against her skirts. ing back to town. Ae had so much to , friend ,is are such a matter-of-fact young ;fie devote any -time to socialactivities. I She clenchedwenher hands together in "Please forgive me. You and Philip do that he wo•ulcl not have been able' , a gesture of passionate gratitude, and couple s Sometimes 1 forget that 37°1 -I've ;Already he was 'looking ahead to the next week -end, when perhaps he id her big tired...eyes overflowed. W°11- — "Oh, Phil, how can I ever thank you have alittle more liberty. enough! If you are with us, I shan't But when he got to Harley Street he ..asaaia,a he found that Dr. Townshend had al- "Poor Carrie! I wish I understood ready retnrned, having had as long a suck faith." holiday as he cared. to take. This "But you won't let him diel 1 know • meant an immediate relief from rou- you won't. There's something about tine work. . you, Phil—I can't explain --one fee% The lecture, which was to have been so safe when you're 'around." delivered that Thursday, was post- This sentiment had. also impelled poned a couple of months ,according to i - a tote Ardeyne found on his (leek with siege. Mrs. Camay, too, had felt that Mrs. Carnay to engineer Alice's mar - the morning's mail? the reason being there was.something very safe about He went into the adjoining 100111 where the boy lay sleeping. The breathing Was quick and shallow, and every now and then a little moan of pain escaped the lad's uncoesdicrus lips. They had given him something to make hirn sleep. Ardeyne shook his head. How pitiful it was; how fu- tile,he thought. Yet one must do wfteve'ii can be done. The famous air ! ; after every rtzeari Cleanses mouth an teeth ;iltid aids ditiesdon. , eratzt:,117 elevesierelagegaaneilateletiearde Its filloyor satisfies the eirav/uff for. stveets. , • 'Wrigley's is double value in the herself* and pleaSurse provides, Sealed it. Parity Package. that the summer clinics were not suf- ficiently well attended. Well, that was a 'relief, too. 'The young doctor felt that he needed to devote a little more time to that particular thesis, which happened to deal with hereditary in- sanity. nOee twice he had been tempted to throw a bombshell into the hard and fast doctrine of proclivity-, and proclaim the complete freedom of the iodividad as against the general accepted slavery of atavism. }Ie of Davos had` worked miracles in some • felt that in theory, at least, freedom! cases. If only they could get him was right, but could get no further 'there alive. But even then, there was than the unhappy conviction that it so much against poor Max 'Egan -1 - was was no more than theory. most of all hie mixed blood. and his So, for the moment, the 'lecture was age, and very likely his uplerneging• off hie mind, as well as the deadly The lazy life of an indulged grand.; asylum routine, which always depress- child of a rich planter in the tropics ed hire, and latterly had been ap- did not make for stamina. As far as proaehed with a distate amounting Ardeyne had been able to discover,' nearly to horror. His correspondence Max's most strenuous exercise had that morning approximated nothing, been riding about the plantation with and there vitae Only one appointment, his grandfather. He hadn't eiren been which was early and finished with by allowed to swim, for fear or the eleven. o'clock, Sharks which infested that particular Ardeyne then setled down to the part of the coast and made it very telephone and tried to get in touch dangerous. 'with someone who could take Carr -ie But he had done a great many Egan and her boy through to the En- things which European boys of 16,' gadine and see thein comfortably set- however precocious, scarcely dreaan of, tied 'with the famous Swiss siaecialist. His diet, as far as Ardevne ,could go - One man he tried was too busy and ther .frorn Mrs. Egan, had consisted the eeconcl was just on the point of chiefly a sralt, black coffee, and starting for Cornwall on his summer gars, And just previous to this break - holiday with a wife and a family of young children. It seemed a pity to spoil that plan, and Ardeyne let him Isrivt a, off, although sorely tempted to accept his reluctant eonsent, 4' I There seemed, however, to be no - Every Day. There are days when it seems easy to be happy and simple to be good; there are other days‘whert sixes and sevens are the only numerals on the calendar. What is the difference?' Is it in the conspiracy ,of fate -and the combination of odds against us? Or is it in the disposition that we bring to the business of living, the acting •of our part il1 the never-ending drama of courage and good Che.er? To -day brings its own problems and flings them at us or solution, heeding no'c onr protests that, like the unreadY child at school, we are not prepared. 50 often life seems to get theseump on us to a point a little in advance of our readiness to live it. Our duty con- fronts our courage at the lowest ebb; manifest destiny barb our trackwhdn - our resolution. is at its irreducible minimum. We cannot refer "its .insist:' ent demand to yesterday's perform- ance or to the auroral pronaiee of to- morroay. •Her e and now we are rea sponsible; decision is critical and Ma minent; the responsibility must be at once assumed, the choice immediately made. • We look in the glass and know that the years are taking their inevitable toll; day unto day is writing its; record, and what was said or done five utes ago is irrevocable. But if the evil, cannot be blotted out, neither can the good. To -day is forever offering a fresh chance after a false start. To-• day has; turned a page. Heaviness en- dured for a night; . joy came in the morning. Not the fool's irrational ex- uberance of ., mirth', not the silly cackle of the witness, but the firm serenity of mind that holds its own and merles 031 with a smile that con- veYs, a benison. • For one day, lay an effort, a sinner might impersonate a saint, a weakling seenvherole, a poltroon masquerade as a plumed knight. But thaie who wear the borrowed robes of virtue grow weary of the guise and doff It soon. The followed leaders and the heard commanders—and the good soldiers of the rink and file es well—are they who do not spurt ai the beginning of the march and lag' midway, bet con- tinue eteadfdst to the end of the long journey. of the days. • *poke balance ars4 AEI body else, but if it came to that— Yeeli an& t.1-(ticifEirt, made "e mem* 0140cm-how •1;4 4 II lo liferitiol doahille *it Vie ili;to every 0 -,*e iheytliAlto ASK Yeele riARDWAR'MAN POR A444" Sinblie Bic-Do:a*f3it; 410(Shopo-49"*Ight , le.ANADA ow' , edVoolietee / IAMBS SMPL¼ PLANT SOCKVItioE, OHT, thought Ardeyne, Carrie e could man- age quite all right with her trained nurse. It wes just her fancy that she, deeded a doctor. Ile went 6.tdiand ix) the hotel about twelve and found that Maio Egan, even since Saturday night, had taken a most alarming turn for the worse. 'errs. ligan was almost distracted and had called in a specialist, which was what she should have clone in the first plaec. Ardeyne had a short consulta- tion with him, and in the end they de- cided thilt poor little Max was strong enough to undertake the journey, hut it Would have to be in the most core- "fortable end luxitrioue cendltions pos- dowitiT itt hedlth hera hail I boue afraile which Mrs. `Egan touched upon very lightly in the dossier she gave the doctor. (To be continued.) A smile may 'go far even wet:holt' getting outside the liorno, Minard's remiment, ileale Cote vi LI Get0,14,r. ,f0; Ro:je±,111.4 10• • I of Calladian West • This lovely doll is fourteen inches tail. She has, beautiful soft curly hale,' and, eyes• that open and shut, She -wears a lovely dress trimmed with lace, arid, has real 'shoes, and stocking's and nat. Her arms, legs and bean all move and she is a real lady. We will give you thls lovely doll free of charge if you, will ,sell just 30 packeges, of lovely embossed Xmas postcards,booklets, seals and tags at ten cents, a ,package. • Send es. your name and we will send you the cards' to sell: When they •are sold you send tie' our Money and we send you. tlie 'lovely Doll Uy , mail, with. all -cnarges•prepaid,, We guarantee the sale of every package, and take back any not sold-. • IIOMER-WARREN CO. • latention the arrival of another titiec Englishman to the populaileis of the wa,etera • provincee and nobody • e -e much as asks a question any more, • The clay when loraa, dukes and pales were a curiosity in the west has long passed away. • Not poly have the westerners sold them broad ranches, but two Canadian gir?a In recent years have married, • eespectivelY, ari earl and a prinee. One of the biggeet social eyeuts of the sea - Fon or 1,921 Was the marriage of the 01th Earl of Minto to Miss Marion Cook, one of Montreal's most beauti- ful young 'women, There followea bit February this year the wedding of Miss Lois Booth of Ottawa and Prince - Dept. 93, Toronto ' •Erie of Denmark: •;;.ctvembiey's Tropical Trees. The hotteat sun never blisters a Negro's Skin; the black pigment pre - "Bow are • the wonderful tropioal vents the rays from penetrating. For sore Feet—rsifnard's .LlflIme, it trees which one sees at Weinbled kept alive in our comparatively ,cold. cli mate?" asked a visitor. The trees are kept warm by electricity. A systera of electric wires rums just beneath the surface of the earth surrounding 'Hite trees. These wires form what is israe- tleally a huge electric sitove, and, the temperature of the earth round tile roots is raised to the degree eeceesary for the trees' existence. • QiigerTaste; Ice Green' *as recently served ' in 'Labrador on board an American -des- troyer,. . The cantain, • hearing that there was an doeberg in the vicinity, , had a suddn hankering for something cold. He visited. the berg and return- ed with 'a quantity of cracked ice. Presently the freezer was turning merrily, and there was Inc cream on '. the bill ,of - fare. the captain should visit the jungles of Africa, .w.ould he ' hanker for hot lemonade? , , • , • "A young man is •like a , telescope," said the dashing girl, "You can draw him out, see through him, and spilt isp again." 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Limitro or CANADA M0/REAL TOkOtliTO WiNNIPEG O.Pkt:INTON, VAPOLK/S CALGARY ill .t 44; 4 about eight years ago, and worked for a time in quite humble jobs at Calgary - before he bought his reran at Marker- oo, of Wales bought his "HP." ranch at High River, • Alberta the Earl of Minto purchased his ranch in the same province. The Duke of Sutherland operates an immense ranch at Brooks. His half sister, the Countess Bubna, owii'ed the • Merino Ranch at Dog Pond, She was • a familiar figure at the Cochrane and , Morley races, picnics, gymkhana's and rodeos. Her two young daughters, the Countesses Ina and Ivy, would accom- pany her to the •vs•rious functions of the cow country and seemed to enjoy themselves huge,IY. Lately, they moved to BritiSh Columbia. Not far from Edmonton Lord, and Lady Rodney have a model farm adiere other young men of the English aris- tocracy pay to learn western farming. "There is an Italian prince here who is a man of • mystery and money," writes Winnifred Eaton Reeve, in the Montreal Stan.' "Asseciate,c1 wfth this prince in large ranching and ft/lane:lee undertakings is another member of the royal family._ Looking at this very exquieite.ly dressed personage one day, when they called upon us at cur ranch at Morley, I could not refrain from,re- marking, When he assured- me that he was manager of their ranch: 'Yon do not look like a rancher.' To which he replied witia a charming bow arid smile: Kept Right On Threshing. " but madame, you 'ave not see me w'en I am not ,expecting that you shall see Ilse. Zen 1 ani a very .dirty man. I am in ze overhauls t' " • Another titled 'raneb-- Owner was Lord Arbuthnot He was actually working -with a threshing outfit and his wife was doing her own housework et Alix, Alberta, when he succeeded to the titles and estates in Scotland. Did he leave hia threshing job? Not 'till the season. was over. Letters still come to friends and relatives in the west from Lord and Lady Arbuthnot, deploring .th.eir hard fate in being un-' able to live on their Tittle ranch at 4lsi:: Ca.p6taivent SirbeGhostEracis andkLe nan Lady Eaton, al Alix, Sir Francis is a S. on 01 Lord Oheyleamore of Coventry, and Lady Eaton is a -daughter of the Earl of Macclesfield. - - Captain Malcolm Mortimer, -whose Wife Was formerly Mrs. Lionel Brfru- more, is a grandson ,..of the Duke of Richmond, and' is a cousin of the late Cosmo Gordon Lennox, playwright and author. The Mortimers operate the Ghost Ranch„ a tea house, and a small hostelry on the Bariff-Winclermere Highway near Morley. The coining of royal a.nd titled peo- ple, as a matter of fact, is no new trend 'of the last few years. Ever since the west was opened they have settled there. Ibit the early' days, when. Alberta was still a. raw and pioneer state came such met as Sitorrancis McNaughton, san01 ,Lord McNaugh- ton, who for thirty years, ranched at Bow Nesis, Alberta, and who still main tains a home in this country to whith lie pays aii 'annual visit. Lady Adela Cochrane was one of the first of the -ow Oilers'." She established a ranch on the Bow river. Lord Norberry wan her nearest rieighbor. A son' of the then Lord Decies, member of the Beresford family, even married, a girl kiIld while rsoititia,iyinnzixlooei:d g'.ablfbio.edi.ghtIltae.awina.s Alberta soon afterwards, hut did riot Lord. Charle,s Peresforcl, ,csone out to So the list might be carried on to an indefinite length., addingto it mem- bers of the oldesteand noblest families of Frande, Italy and other nationalities. The Author's Error. "1 reed that 'book ;T:01,1 wrete a.hoitt ancient hislore," Said Lowbrow, 'and I can't say much for it; there are too many Mistakes in it" "Flow's Heat?" inquired the surprised author, "Well, one thing made nib Ian& You said a fellow named Eniniirits wee born in 348,13,0, and then a little far. thee on you said, he died 270 13,0, That kills bitn oft betore he Was bora," Clime is etated by an ,A,xnerieell judge 16 be duo to a physical deft af the brale, Thi e i$ based eA the reelelta or 40,000 tests Made bit the Chieap 11