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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1924-11-13, Page 7. •, $ • 4, iThtir day Novelnb6r x3t1.,•x,24, THE WINGDAM ADVANCE -TIMES Publi,shed at ONTARIO Every ThUrs Y MOln ng A. G. Sinith, Editor and 'J?rctPrietor PI.3. ElUott, Associate Editor Subscription,”-rateS—One year $2,00, six mouths $/.00, in advance, Advertisitg rates on application. 'Advertisements withbut specificdi- , ,,teefjons -will be inserted until forbid and charged accordingly• •'Changes for contratt advertisements be in the office, by noon, Monday. BUSINESS ,CARDS • ;yvEL.IiiNaTow MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 184o. ead Office, -Guelph, Ont, Risks taken on all classes of insur- ance at reasonable rates, ABNERCOSENS, Agent, Wifgharn J.W.DOHD' Office in Chisholm Block „FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box .366. Phone 198. - ONTARIO • DUDLEY HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought and Office—Meyer Block, Wingham R. V 44NSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. .Mon.ey to Loan at Lowest Rates. Windham, - Ontario J. A0 MORT4N BARRISTER, ETC. ' Wingharn, - Ontario DR/G.• ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons • Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over H. E. Isard's Store. W. R., HAIVI1LY WINQA ADVANCE41.)4S • wqu eth,, spdlils4 airnT. 1 j141 14; v RAFAE4,SABATINI copyrIgbtO, 12 by Rafael abattnt. "CAPTAIN ,BLOOD," a vitaaraph .piCture with J. warren rician In the title' ro!e Is e*.adaptation of this thriiiina navel CHAPTER 1, he had cbrie to 13ridgewater, posses- ; '),I -IE MESSENGE'R sew of a fortune that was approximate - Peter. Blood, bachelor of ;medicine lY the safne as that withwhich he had and Several other things besides, smo. • °riginallY set out frOnif Dublin eleven iced a pipe and tended the geranitnts' Y"Bresaifsee' be liked the boXed.ori the sill of his window' above ea his health was rapidly restored to him, Water Lane in the town of Bridge- water. Mr, Bloods attention was di; and because he conceived that he had vided between his task and 04 stream. Passed thr°ugh adventures enough for bf humanity, in the narrow' street be_ a man's lifetime, he determined to set- tle there, and take up at last the pro- lciw; a stream' which poured for the lession of Medicine from which he second time that day towards, Castle ,Field, where earlier in theaftertmOn had, with so little profit, broken away. Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had Isbat is his story, or s° umeli of preached a sermon. containing more it as matters' up to that night`six mon- treason than divinity. • tits later, when the battle of Sedge - These straggling, excited groups moor was fotight. were mainly composed of men. with Deeming the impending action I:1Q affair of his, as indeed it was not, and green boughs in their hats and the indifferent to the activity W' ith, which` most ludicrous of weapon in their Bridgewater Was that night agog Mr, hands. Some, it is true, shouldered Blood closed his ears to the sounds of fowling pieces, and here, and there' a sword was brandished; but more •of it, and went early to bed. them were armed with clubs, arid,mOst The armies came into collision in the neighborhood of two .o'clock in of them trailed the rnabarnOth' pikes the morning. Mr. Blood' slept undis- fashioned out of scythes, as formid- ttirbed through the distant boom Of able to the eye as they were clumsy to the hand. There were weavers brew- cannon. Not until four o'clock, did be z.waken from his tranquil slumbers. ers carpenters smiths masonsbricklay- ers, cobblers, and representatives of 15e sat I -1P in his bed, rubbed the 3leep r': every other of the trades_ of peace a- ;iront his eyes, and collected himself. mong these improvieed men of wa Blows were thundering upon the door Bridge -water, like Taunton has yielded °f ins house, and a voice was calling incoherently. lie leached for -"bed- so'.generously of its manhood to' the' se,rvice of the bastard Duke that for gown and slippers, went himself to open. There xn „slanting go. en light any to abstain whoge age and strength of the new -risen still Mr. Blood rccog- admitted. of his bearing arms was to nixed him for the yonng sliioniaster, brand himself a coward or a papist, Yet Peter Blood, who was not onl3r Jeremiah Pitt, who had been drawn by able to bear arms, but trained and skil- the general enthusiasm into the vortex led in their use, who was certain!), no of that rebellion. The ;wild-eyed !ad coward and a papist only when it so Plunged, headlong, hito speech, gasp - suited him, tended his geraniums and 'ng, breathless. "ft is Lori (..lildoy" he panted. "I -le smoked his pipe on that warm July ' ; evening as indifferently as if nothing ;is sorewounded... at Ogiett.orpe's were •'afoot. • Farm by the river. I bore him thith- • He laughed and sighed in one; but er. .. and .. :and he sent me for you. the laugh dominated the sigh, for Mr. Come away! Come away! •o, ' Blood was unsympathetic, as are most "Tbe sure, Ill come. But first self-sufficient men; and he was very give rime leave to get some clothes and self-stifficient; adversity had taught other •things I may need. At sight of the doctor, 'dressed and him so to be. A. more tender-hearted man, possessing, his vision and his booted, the ,case of instrnments tuck- knotirledge, might have found cause ed under his arm, the messenger dis- engaged hims,elf from those who pres- fottears in the contemplation of theSe see! about, shook off his weariness and. ardent, simple, Nonconformist sheep going forth to the shambles—escorted e t d seizing the bridle of his horse, he to the rallying ground on Castle Field climbed to the saddle. earts "Come along, sir,' he :cried "Mona by wives and daughters, sweeth, , and mothers, sustained by4the delusion behind. inc • Mr. Blood without wasting words; that the were to take the field de - B.Sc., M.D., C.M. • • Special attention paid to diseases of • Women and Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact- • eriology•and Scientific Medicine. Office in the Kerr Residence, bet- ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church.. ' All business given careful attention. • Phone. 54: , P. 0. Box it3. • Dr. Robt. C. Redmond IVI.R.C.S. (Eng.) I4R.d.P. (Land.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. 45, 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 .Josepliine Street. Phone 29, Dr. 'Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner • Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine • Office—Josephine St.,two doors south • of Brunswik Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence 151, ,,.-,, • DRUGLESS PHYSICIANS DR. F. A. PARKER • OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN All Diseases Treated • Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Open every, day except Monday and Wednesday afternoons. .0„teopathy Electricity •" Telephone 272. • A CHIROPRACTIC DLJ AUVIN FOX Fully. Qualified Graduate • ,Driigless Practice being in absolute • aacot'd with the Laws of Nature gives the 'very best results that may be ob- tained., 'in any •case. • HOUrs:. so - a.m., 2 --5 and 8,p,m, - Telephone 191. • DR. D. H. McInnes • CHIROPRACTOR Qualified Graduate • Adjustments given for' diseases of • all kiads, specialize in dealing with children. Lad3, attendant, Night calls • responded to,; Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont., in. house of the late Jas. Walker. Telephone 150. ,eweseseogatoesinnts,,..teesse..eken.,..s,,,,s PhOneS: Office /06, Resid. 224, A. .11. WALK viLTRNXTURE DEA I.,ER ritINtRAL DIRRCTOR 1110tOr Rquiptt eat WINOTIAM ONTARIO .444*.A.044b.. y, in fence of Right, of Liberty, as all Bri- did as he , was bidden, Pitt 1 ouched. dgewater knew and had known now- the horse with his spur. The little 'for some hours, that it was Mon- crowd gave way, and thus, upon the mouth's intention to deliver battle that crupper of that doubly -laden horse, same night. The Dukerwas to lead a clinging to the belt of his companion, surprise attack upon the Ro'yalist ar- Peter Blood set out upon his Odyssey my -.under Feversham that was now. For this Pitt, in! whom. he beheld no encamped on Sedgernoor. 11,Ir. Blood more than the messenger of a wound,. assumed that Lord Feversham wbuld ed rebel gentleman, was indeed the be equally well-informed, and if in very messenger of Fate. this assumption he was wrong, at least CHAPTER II he was justified of „it. He was not to n ' , suppose the Royalist conimander so . KIRKE'S DRAGOONS. indifferently skilled in the trade he Oglethorpe's farm. stood a-. mile .',CaPtaitt:.,:Picibart Was..,'artinSed,;",' ',1'..guiltY,, 'tile ,:elerlt-paSSed On to Pitt,' wide: .14trbOtir,' With:' . . 1)oyitni :think Jt's, • to.; beuefit , hi's: who,;;boldly' ,byttne'd 'his', .gui t, '' .,1.'"he) their ' ni,b4zies..: .beto:reen. 'Ythe'' health'",we'r4.,, „taking - bin?: ',' There,S, Lord'Oiref J*.nStiee, Stirlred,,lar '.i.itat..E!' 1;and the .'wide -facadeof''Cl'ove,rmitent':" 640' belltg:Planted :along. -,t4o.t,§0.0 ,:" rTfi.,,iciol*:".w.i,trt6o'.'.c. 0.1e:d.''' fo•r• ,-' the' :Ione„'.' ,DeVealedq 'JtSelf.'l,,,clOrninaittlY,•.,, 1 frOrti Weston. to •, ftB,ridgewater,' I. ancl . Rine Was 'Captalm.„1H;obart;i.::itki testA,!..:'Plkee4 .op,, a,,' 'gentle ,I;hill ,aboVe. the i' '.. ,•'.,,:, ,' he'll serve f Or one of :them as well as If ed briskly .'to, the': Manner ''n 'Which' tb.tvn; . Qi. 'F' a., ,Wicle, .Colibled' Space ; 94:; -,'• '' ' , , ,', ;, '' .litother. Colonel -Kirke'll "learnthese he hid fond:audtakert.l. he., three Pids-'1,1be.. spa,front they fOttrid .'a: guard:, of, noncoarfor ntirig loafs something they'll' ones,, together ' with Lord 'Gil4oy.'1 red-Coated.'.Milrtia. drawn 11p:I.to,:.reeetve':' not forget -hi generatioris,'! - '.., ' Upon - the ,.orders '' of ' his, ,. rc,91pite1, he.then,?,' . .. ' ' ' ',' • ' '. ',,..'':'' ..,- -.,'', ,, '';.::',,: ' ..'.,,., ,,,', '''Yoit're. hanging: met without trial? would. have. hanged Pitt out 01 hand, '' To ,inspect' them ' tainc-,ClOverapi Faith, then,' it's inistaken. I am.' We're lit was,, restrained by the: lies',Of the ,Steed, 'After :him 'in the Intiform Of in Tatigietrs,'after all, it,•seeins, Where, prisoner Bibod,. who led hint to In. colonel of the Barbados Militia, roit'''' • ' 1 ' ' vonr regiment, belongs,”. ..' ' ' ' ' .. ..' ileve that)' Pitt, was , w po.ei 'of tlie realm 1 ed ar:tall„., eprPulent. man who towered: The , Captain considered' hint With' a and a persOn ,of '. considerationhead' and sli,oulders. el)ove the ; Gov.., kindling • eye and soldier ' reeOgUized it was the three men..•were i .scnte,need I ernOri:with maleVolenee. plainly writ-',' oldier.. ' ' . , ''., ., . , , ., '. to . death. for hili treason.' , ', ' :. .., tett 'on" his enormous Yellowish., .ponn,-,, • .1 ,, '' ' "Whip the hell may'yOU'lle'?" lie ex.,' . Tho tribulations with , which . Peter teliance. ::'4tItis ,side, and contra•Sting ploded,' BloOd was visited as a result' of his ,Oddly. with his' grOsszteSs;..inevingwith :' !' . • .' . . . . 'My name is lllood, sir—Peter errand of mercy to ogiutburpes au easy stripling grace, came a slight Blood, at your service," Farm contained two SOUreeS of thank- yotmg lady in 4 modish riding -gown. "Aye -'--aye! Codso! That's the fulness: one that lie was 'tried at all. The broad brim of a grey hat with a nanie. You were in . French service the other that his trial took place on scarlet sweep of ostrich plume shnded. once, were you not? Five years, ago, the Ipth of SePtember. Until the 8 an oval, face Upon wilt& the climate or, more, you were in Tangiers, the sentences passed by the court of !of «tlfe Tropic' of Cancer had ,made no "That is so. I knew your ,colotiel." the Lords Comatissioners had. been IiMpression, so delicately .falr was its "Faith, you May be renewing the carried out liberallY and expeditiously% !complexion, Ringlets of red -brown acquaintanee." The captain 'laughed But on the mornittg of the teat there hair hung to her shoulders. unpleasantly. "What brings you here arrived at Taunton a courier from Peter Blood caught himself star - sir?" ., a . sir?" •' Lord Sunm derland, the Secretary of g ; in sort of amazement at that "This wounded gentleman. I was State, with a letter for Lord Jeffreys piquant face, which seemed here so fetched to attend him. I am a xnecli- wherein he was informed that His ottt of place, and finding his stare re. Majesty had been, graciously pleased, turned, he shiftexl uncorniortably. He doctor --.you?" Seorn of, that 'to command that eleven hundred re. was in ,no case for inspection by such lie—as he conceived it-- rang in the bets should be furnished for trans- dainty eyesas these. Nevertheless, heavy, hectoring voice. Mr. Blood's portation to some of His Majesty's they continued to inspect him with smile annoyed him. , • 'southern plantations; Jamaica, • Dar- round -eyed, almost childlike wonder • I am a physician practising my bados, or any of th.e Leeward Is- and pity, ; Their owner touched the calling in the town of Bridgewater. lands. scarlet sleeve of her companion. The' "Which. you reached by way of This demand was not dictated by Colonel plainly gave her no more Lyme Regis in the. following of your nierey. Slaves were urgently requir- than the half of his attention. • His bastard Duke." led in 'the plantations.- A thousand little beady eyes were fixed upon. It was Mr. Illood's turn to sneer. "prisoners were to , be, distributed fair-haired, sturdy young Pitt, who "If your wit were as big as youramong some eight courtiers: These was standing side Blood. The Gov-- voice, my dear, it's the gr-ent manprisoners were to be kept there for ernorhad also come to a haqt, t you'd be by this. Yell be remeniber- the space of tent years before being "My dear Colonel Bishop, it is or you to take first hoice and at your own priee. After' that we'll send the rest to auction, • • Colonel Bishop nodded his 'ac- knowledgement and advaLaced alone • towards the rebels -convict. Before • the young Someretshirt shipmaster he came to a halt, and stoocl an. in.- stant pondering hhn. "Fifteen pounds for this one." T,he master of the convict ship made a face of dismay. 'Fifteen poundsh! i n't hall what I meant to ' "It is double what I had meant to give," grunted the Colonel.' They • hargaoiunzdedsand Pitt was taken at twen- typ • Peter Blood lost himself in unpro- fitable speculations. He was in no , mood for conversation, nor was Pitt, lwho stood dumbly at his side. • To Pitt, this separation, was the poignant !climax' of all his sufferings. Blood ',noticed that the girl was speaking to !Bishop, and pointing up the line with a silver -hilted riding -whip she car- a-ied. Than slowly, they came until ' • !tile Colonel was abreast of Blood, He 'would have passed on, but that the ilady tapped his arm with her whip. • "Bat this is the man I meant," she ing, Captain, that Lord Gilcloy will rettorecr to liberty, -the parties to sa'cl- have friends and relatives on the whom they were assigned entering' in- This one? Bah! A bag of bones. Tory side, who'll have something to to security to see that transportation What should 1 do with hint?" say to Colonel Kirke if his lordship was immediately effected. Thus it; He was turning away when Captain should' be handled like a common fe- happened that Peter Blood, and with . Gardner interposed. lon. • 'You'll go warily, Captain, or, as hint Jeremy- Pitt and Andrew Baynes,' "He may, be lean, but he's tough; I've said, it's a halter fon your neck were conveyed to. Bristol a,nd there!, tough and healthy. When half of yell be weaving this morning," shipped with some fifty others aboard, them was sick and the other half sick - Captain Hobart swept the warning the Jamaica Merchant Eleven died, ening, this rogue kept his legs and aside with a bluster of contempt, and amongst these was the yeoman (doctored his fellows. Say fifteen from Oglethorpe's Farrn. pounds for him., Colonel. That's Arabella,Bishop Inspects Peter Blood, the Rebel -Convict. follbwed. . - or so to the south of Bridg-ewater bn limit he acted upon it none the less. Peter Blood was the son of an frisk the •right bank of the river. On the Take up the day -bed," Said he, "and cheap enough.. medicos who had early resolved that the boy should follow.his 'own honour- able profession, and Peter Blood, be- ing quick to learn and oddly greedy of knowledge, had satisfied his parent ,by receiving at the age of twenty the de-, gree of baccalattrens medicinal Trin ity College, Dublin. His -father sur- vived that satisfaction by. three mon- tits only. His mother had then been dead some years already. -Thus' Peter Blood • came into an Inheritance of some few hundred pounds, with which he had set out to see the world. A set of curious chances led- him to take ter. ' bzidge, as they had been riding out of Bridgewater, they had met a van- guard of fugitives from the field of battle; hoarse voices cried a .warning that merciless pursuit was not far 'be- hind. But as Pitt's direction was' ci soutinvard one, bringing them ever nearer to Fevershan's headquarters, they -were presently clear of that hu- man flotsam and jetsam of the battle. In the spacious, stone -flagged hall, the doctor. found Lord. Gildoy stret- ched on a cane day -bed in care of Mrs. Baynes and her comely (laugh - service with the Dutch, then at war Mr. Blood knelt to his task. , He • The Arrest of Peter Blood with France; and a. predilection•for the was still intent upon this a half-hour convey hint on that to Bridgewater. (Continued in our next issue.) Lodge him- in that gaol. until I take • CHAPTER IV or(I eis about him." . • THE SLAVE MARKET As his lordship was carried out, the Towards the middle of December Captain became brisk.Mn Blood the Jamaica Merchant dropped anchor . in Carlisle Bay, and. put , ashore the saw no profit to himself in lingering. "By your leave, it's a -very good forty-two surviving rebels ccinvict. clayll said be. they beheld a town. of sufficiently . I'be wishing you," "By my leave, you'll remain imP°sing pioportions. A fort guarded the entrance of the awhile, the Captain ordered him Mr. Blood shrugged, and sat down. ! The Captain opened the press, took', the, huddled inmate by the collar of NESIONNIENSIEN his doublet, and lugged, him out into the open. "And who the devil's this?" quoth he. "Another nobleman?". Mr. Blood had a vision of those at gallows of which Captain. Hobart had ri spoken. On the spot he invented not -only a title but a whole family for the pl "Faith, we've said it, Captain. This in is Viscount Pitt, first cousin to Sir Thomas Vernon, who's married to la Moll Kirke, sister to your own colon- m el, and sometime lady in waiting upon m King James's queen." Both the Captain and his prisoner m gasped. But whereas thereafter young M Pitt discreetly held his peace, the N Captain rapped out a nasty oath. • "Fetch him along to Bridgewater. And make fast that fellow also," he • pointed to Baynes, "We'll show him N what it ' means to harbour and cont.- • fort rebels. And. take this fellow with M "Faith it will suit me very well,B"Ic'sa°1(dt 111 you." He pointed to Mr. lie. "For Bridgewater is my destina- • don." "Your destination there will be the III gaol." • , "All, bah!" We're surely joking!" III "There's a gallows for you if you IIIII prefer it. It's merely a question of 1111 now or later." • Worry is commonly attributed to thin persons on the theory that a person who worries cannot ' put on weight. The theory is wrong. There is no worry equal to that of a fat wo- man, and the heavier she gets the more she worries. young Bring Results Rude hands seized Mr. Blood IIII Pinning him to the ground, they tied IN the fainous Rttyter, and fought in the ed Jeremy Pitt sped to cover in a ly polled him to Inc feet again. Tbc, N 'You them \\Teekly in the Ev- ila the advantage of a commission under siderable alarm, and the battle -stain - Mediterranean engagement m which clothes -press. Baynes was uneasy, soldiersilitrailed out by the door lead_ N After the Peace of Nimeguen his • "Why, what's to fear?" Mr. Blood yard, where Pitt and Baynes already ra — Billioeodeowttrats- 3 ' al erybody ' s Column. of the th,,,,,,usttobtyhehiisntegtuiaorrcis Minit-.0 that great Mitch admiral lost his life. and. his wife and daughter trenibled, that lie spent two years in a Spanish country, this, and Christian. mei' do ing a4tec4 Tiiere were sounds of rend- 12 .2 • . timbers, .the shouts and laughter . ... In movelients are obscure, But we know reassured them. "It's a Christian I 1 t w . , _ . MI sea made hiln elect that this service' later when the dragoons invaded the should be upon that eleinent,, He had homestead. His' lOrdshin ShoWed cont. his wrists: behind his back, then rough - of a woinan it aCtitest agony. in - Ill mi AT) A\ CE T I MES in prison, though we do not know how' not make War noon the wounded, nor of .hrutal men; finally above all oat - due to this that tipoil his release he And then they came rattling and MI took his sword to France, and saw clanking into the stone -flagged hall service with the Preach in their war- --a round dozen jack -booted, lobster ,' CHAPTER III 1 ill , . .? Having reached, at. last, the age or giment, led by Et sturdy, black-broW- .4, N you have a car, or a hoUse, or gome stock Kt thirty-two, his appetite for adventure ed fellow with a deal of gold lace It was not uttil two months later, .,, , , .., different as the result of a. neglected Captain stamped forward to the day- Blood was brought to trial at Tatin- alim you want to sell? I surfeited, his health having grown in- about the breast of his coat. The on the X91.11 of September, that Peter Pn" wound, he was sttddenly overwhelmed bed; and scowled down upon the grey ton' Caistle •ttport a charge of high l'ai NI 1 si kness He took ship front faced suiferer, treason,• The hall, even to the galler- ill III/ he contrived to get there. It May he upon those who harbour them," er sounds came the piercing screams a• • ritig tipon the Spanish Netherlands. coated troopers of the Tangiers Re- LoRD cHxgF jusTicE „„ Ever invest a few cents, one of them. Perhaps by tome c Name, with intent to cross to Ireland. "A clammed rebel, and that's enough les—thronged with spectators, most But the vessel' being driven by stress for me, Ont with him my lads." of whom were ladies--WaS • hung, in a of weather into Bridgewater Bay, and VIr. Bloocl got between the ,day- scarlet. At the upper end, on Et raised Blood's health having grown worse bed and, the troopers, • dais, sat the Lbrds Commissioners, g decide& to go In the naine of humanity, sir " the five 3tulges in their scarlet robes 0" b tl e fact 'that it was his inOthees is r,ngland, Ao,t Tangiers. 'The gen- freys of, Went enthroned in the ir4- m ashore there additionally' urged, to a, said her on a nOte 'Of anger. "This atd, heavy dark perillOgs,„Bagon 'Jef- 1 NONNIONNINNONIONONNOININNNONONNIMINNONNN011it ., during t voya, e, .e Then, Phone us,. 84w, tell u8 about it. and see what profitable and quick results one of our • Clas,sified Ads will bring you, y native.' soll..r0.1'1,t1a.ty' , oil, r ' ' „ TI1141 $ $ $ I ' $ $ $ • • . , , 1