The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-02-06, Page 6WING I A1VI AilV4Z'
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Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly
Phone 54 Wingham
DR. RDFT. C. REDMOND
M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Londe)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
A +UiRL„ 'Mat
trlitS. ,so l i„ ties Seized am) facatat ati,
:achene o elteftener In Broad Dap
li
y-
li ht, : efe1d, Tor Ransom.
Led b;> a young female with bob-
:ie'p lhai, , Chinese',pirates recently
:i.zcd the ..Toptettr:sti stenaster Deli.
.wt fru, tuid I'etbbt'd the Messengers, asst
when the shit) was at ewe r'eveaied
themselves as a gang of despexadoos,
warmed with revolvers, Three Indican.
Nteards oil hoard were shot, one see-.
i'! ttsiy.
x he Deli, Marti, which Is owned by
rtte Osaka Shosen leaislsa, left Ewa-
;:ow at four o'clock. She tarried 1.4b
Uhinesc• passengers.
A., i6: usual in these waters, stria
,lent ,preettutlorte had 'been taken
gainst capture by pirates disguised
harmless Chinese passenger.
:$Pune; steel grilles enelotteti alae
:;teeiag.:e part of the ship, tend shut
the bridge elle from any suds ee at-
etek, Indian guards were also posted
at the approach to the bridge,.
.6.11 these precautions, however,
Proved lleelese when the woneau lead-
er of the pirates gave the sigual for
::.t rt:ac k,
Thi. 0.1n of the Chinese' eteer.age
;'as en44:1`8, armed with revolvers, at
n aped from their biding phtcrs
:aid attacked the ship. Headed by
their woman lender brandishing two
i•vo1vers they rushed towards the
l‘r:d;. e. The three Indian guards,
`:tke'n unawares, were ruthlesslyshot
delete
Tits steel gates of the grille were
quiekly smashed, and in as. moment
the desperadoes swarmed up tie
brelge, overpowering the second oi3t-
ear, who was on watch,
.At the sante time as this attaek
inion the deck took place other par-
ties of pirates appeared In the engin--
room, where no resistance was after.
ed. In a few minutes all liras over
and She pirates were in control et
the ship.
lander the threat of instant death
the officers of the Deli Meru were
forced to steer their ship to Bias Hay,
where so many ships have been pil-
laged in recent years. Throughout the
journey the woman leader of the pir-
ates, who was well dressed, kept con
stant watch. a.
The Deli Mara reached her desti-
nation, and anchored in the Saniehu
Inlet, where the pirates looted the
vessel in broad daylight. They also
robbed the passengers and ship's of-
ficers
<ficers of their valuables, and it is
believed that their total haul
amounted to $3,000+.
At half -past eight the looting was
over, and the pirates took the booty
ashore in two of the ship's lifeboats.
They also took with then. four
DR. R. L. STEWART deck passengers, wealthy Chinese
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Met . ine• Licentiate of the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office in Chisholm Block
Josephine Street. Phone 29
DR.. G. W. HOWSON
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Office over John Galbraith's Store.
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Phone, 601-13.
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SERVICE
A, J. Walker
Licensed 1Auetr:ral Director and
Embalmer,
Office Phone 106. Res. Phone 224,
I"ateet Limousine k'uneral Coaelr.
business men, belonging to Shanghai,
whom they are holding for ransom,
and threaten to kill if the ransom is
not paid.
The ship then proceeded to Hong
Kong, where the wounded men -were
taken to hospital.
KEY TO MIRACLES.
Amazing. Feats Are .the Result •of
4nhinal Psychology_
For really strange sights we re
eommend you 'to an institution in
Moscow, where you can see a wild cat
mothering a tiny manse; a domestic
cat fostering a brood of rats; :a wolf
playing with a rani; a bear that oper-
ates a water -pumping system; birds
that jump on the muzzle of a gun as
loon as it is fired; and dogs that
-talk" to their masters.
These amazing feats are the result
cf
trainiug by Vladimir Darcy. i
Russian who has devoted years to the
scientific study of animal psychology.
Animals, he has found, will let some
human b;1.,g s do almost anything
h them, and he•suggests this as
then key to many of the miracles re-
c.ardod ii}• history, including Daniel
in the 1i•.•rs' den. •
Durcv has caught wolves to fear
sheep, turned a gentle dove into e
vielnus creature; and taught a .ehlm-
vane. to write.
During the war several of hie
tra .t i seals were used as mine-
turceee Equipped with a mouth at-
tachment of razor -blade sharpness'
they sought mines under water, and
with a fe=w slashes rendered then in-
effective. Actual photographs' testify
to the truth of this,
Newspapers '2,000 Yeats Old.
"Newspapers" in the form of larve
stone tablets have been discovered
during excavations at Ostia, in Italy.
One is said fo record the death el
Pompey in 49 B.C., and the will of
Julius Caesar tvith his bequests to
the people of Route.
Her::aatee of aria despatches from the
war in Gaul, Ceteear is often called
the father of journalism, but it seems
that Cicero, born in 106 B.C., has a
greater claim to this distinetiou. 01-
sero used to post in the galleries al
his villa at Tusculum a record or
journal of the passing events of note,
with a list of births, deaths, and mar-
riages. Frorn a letter of Cicero's it
is known that he used a system of
abbrevla.ted writing.
Brave Swedish ''U ornan,
"The Lifeboat" hast an article on a
Swedish woman who ltd a regular
member, of a lifeboat eTee% ellen
Naemi Sjoberg lives at l✓rtskar, and
goes out f.ehrug with her father, the
lifeboat eox»wain, in all weathers,
Shortly erten' a Hello -et was stationed
at En.3kar one of tie iifeboatmen left
the place asst no r,t.,• r jean :went be
burst se miss i;r,lar:'g has taken hip
plat+•. Iu f,s, at Britain woree
help In thewore, of launching, but
there are no'women , in the creme
Paanie Drkeer'a `t?*
An uran,11,i eontriva11�d C4tY1 A t
"porceptol.aqutaneter" must be con*
fronted by all Paris bus die-el:eel who
The drivingifetanet•�s. aliparatu
tents their ability to judge the,ebted
of approaching veehileio . -
seemoea
iIzst 'Upright Pleettk
The first upright piano wets
ktrated to 1880 "b' John Isaaa
ttta an Eng1lshttian; n..40. at
tftLre Was residing in the united sta.
WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR
Tont Bi1beck is the narrator,
is a fat newspaper writer who , driv
,�.
a
tumble-down car he calls Gran
mother:. Page, He is in love wi
Maryella, his rival being lira Coo
er, The a -nom r
three members of an a
ateur dramatis troop. flans for
Play at the Old Soldiers' Home ere
under way, Grandmother rage has
engine tremble while Maryella is out
driving with Bilbeck, and Cooper,.
passingin a big roadster, taunts hits.
� ,
After Maryella has :left Bilbeck is able
to start his car again.
The amateur players'are to give
Pygmalion and Galatea at the Old
Soldiers' Home. In their version I3ii-
beck is to :ret as the statue, and Mary -
elle despairs when she discovers his
bow legs. Mrs. Hemingway later
flatters Bilbeck and talks to him a-
bout the play. Bilbeck' pats her hand,
only to find a rough hand grasping
him by the shoulder and lifting him
Out Of his seat.
The escape of ;prisoner, from th
local penitentiary keeps Bilbeck bus
at his newspaper work, so that It
gets away from the dramatic grow.
The players arrive at the Old S.
tiers' Home, being greeted royall
and meeting Pill; Henwether an
others.
The play at tlie, Old Soldier
Horne .is interrupted because of a
fire, the players and veterans escape.
`:Then it's all for the best,' piped
Jim Cooper cheerfully:.
It is easier to be optimistic when
you are warm.
"Maybe we had better start honm,"
I suggested, thinking apprehensively
of those thirty long miles to town.
'\Vith the snow falling fast h may
get too deep for traction pretty soon.-
"You're
oon."
"'1 ou're right," echoed Jini. Let's
hurry. We can take off our make-
up after we get home."
By great good luck we .had left
our outer wraps in the main building.
Therefore we were able to bundle up
warmly enough. I had a Iong, heat,
fur -lined driving -coat that covered in
from head to heels. •
The Liliielove bus got away first,
although Mrs. Lillielove herself elect_
ed io return with us. I had no non-
freezing solution in nay radiator so
I had let the water out as soon as
we arrived, and now had to fill it
up before I could start.
Grandmother responded nobly to
the first tnrn of the crank, 1 :men-
tally Thanked her far not misbehav-
ing on an'occasion which seemed al-
most too'good for a balky motor to
miss.
The old :uldiere crusaded to tiie
doors to see us off. Without the op-
position of the band Grandmother
Page did herself proud. We started
off amid a riot of sounds similar to
those made by a terrier hunting for
a rat in a . pile of rusty stove -pipes.
From that 1 could tell that the en-
gine was teorking perfectly.
1 don't quite understand how the
drivers of those up-to-date, silent ears
can locate trouble. Everything is so
thoroughly muffled that as far as 1
am concerned it is impossible to tell
how many cylinders are firing. With
Grandmother Page there is no_room
'for doubt.
If she fox-trots I know that only
three charges are.being exploded; if
she does a buck and wing it is al-
ternately two and three; but if the
racket is practically constant I can
rest easy in the knowledge that she
Y
is turns, her best on all four.
Above the noise of the motor could
he heard only the farewell of Com-
rade Pilk Henwether, He probably
had not heard the sham battie going
„n beneath Grandmother's hood.
"Good -by," he yelled with his ex
celletat lungs and highly trained vo-
rt al organs, "Don't feel bad about the
ire, bccausc' it was a' lot better than
1`liat man just radiated tact, It's
torr bad. he could not have beet: in
on the diplomatic courtesies ,that pre-
ceded the Eurepe<i War.' The trou-
ble could have beets so easily averted
by having the ,representation of the
powers draw lents to see which wniild
kill hiinl
It was a beautiful night even if the
snots, was tailing so thickly' that it
was itnpossibl to see thirty feet a-
head of the car. There is no peace
lite, that of a snow stolen, no purity
like h -
t of
'tth�.
t t earth in :a fresh white
blaarttrt. It eeented a shame tra lain
tracks in the. clean, glistening ex-
panse,
Maryella aniigiy wrapped in waren
robes,. sat beside me; the car was.
running smoothly, and there was a
hang drive ahead of us, What• more
frir
nowc
>ta>�'r�raflt«>Ia aid` PRANK i,:l>rvs
could 1 ask? it was all for the hest,
In the midst of such ,Pleasant rt�un-
He mations I noted hastily a dark object
es in the road, I turned quickly to avoid
4-
th.
1'-
In-
it and any lights
object directly in
the brakes just in
nitig'elowa a man
able:
illuaninat;ed another
our path, I put on
tittle to escape run-,
who stood inatitev-
CHAPTIR VII
More Trouble
What was the matter with him?
The answer was flashed upon me
when ' 13wticed that in either hand
he held a revolher, It was a hold-up!
I gasped with surprise, So did
Grandmother Page. 1 had forgotten
to feed her gasoline enough, and the
motor stopped. -
"Get rut," directed the man with
the guns briefly. •
Needless to say we did, and lined,
up in the customary attitude before
him and his fellow highwayman -With
our, hands elevated above our heads.
Instead of going through us as we
expected, one of the men climbed in-
y to the front seat and adjusted the
e spark preparatory to starting,
p. Their I knew who they were and
So why they bad stopped us. They were
y escaped convicts from the peniten-
d tiai•v, and they wanted the car to -get
away in!
tone else's' business,
le
I14 means. well, tO(), 1 do. not doubt
but that Jinn Cooper is one of the
best..hearted inen In: the world; brit
by the time he has helped half tt dos-
ee times in something you waist to
do by yourself :you; get to dread his
nppearanee on 'the, scene,
Bill's temper had not been improv-
ed any by Jim's earnest advice: Jie
twisted the crank sairagely and then
delivered 'a violent kick on the rad-
iator.
"WhO owns this Piece of junk, any-
,
way?" he demanded, at last-a:laproach-
irig• our grutip, . "Ts it yours?"
f -Ie pointed at. Jim.
"It' i5 riot'," Jim.' disclaimed hastily,
"You couldn't give it to me on- a
bet."
I made a .nientnl resolve Co sctuarc-
up with ,hiin sometime for has Soorn-
ful cofament, No man likes to have
the ,things that lie oavns ridicalecl.
Grandmother might not have all the
modern attachments, but I loved ev-
ery bolt in her body,
"Then you must be the guy," Bill
said, indicating inc. "You come here
and start your ear."
Now, I had no particular desire to
have Grandmother, Page kidnapped.
It seemed simple enough to make a
perfunctory effort and tell them it
would not ;o.. So ',monkeyed with
5,
t
e 'We Lined up in the Customary Attitude Before Him.
It was a good scheme. They would
leave tracks hard to distinguish, and
could out -distance local pursuit.
"Cuss?" exclaimed the highway -
,man who was in the car.
"What's the trouble, Bili?" the
other one queried—without, however,
taking his eye or the muzzle of his
"There ain't any electric starter on
;this car.
' . Tiro Cooper laughed.
'You'll have to get a nar, Tom,
Wheneven highwaymen criticize it
yt:u have w admit ire getting out of
date.",
"Shut up,- commanded our guard.
I mentally applauded him -
"Can't you start her anyway, I3illr.'
"Sure, I can -tart her all right,"
Bill stated confidently.
It is grand to approach' a motor
in that frame of mind, especially in
cold weather. If there is anything in
this theory of one superiority of mind
over matter it is certainly correct to
hold a hopeful thought when about
to crank a car.
Bill grumbled a little though at
having to 'turn the engine over by
hand. He went out in front of the
car and grasped the handle, firmly,,
"When I. get her going, Julius,"
Bill said before cranking, "you make
a quick jump for the car and we'll
be off before anybody can start any-
thing "
"All right," assented Julius.
All arrangements for the getaway
completed, T3i11 cranked the car. He
cranked it several fitness in fact, with-
out any definite result. Grandmother
Page was behaving like a brick -like
a load of bricks, one might almost
say. She would respond to *none but
the hand of her master, and to the
ministrations of another she only
'gurgled,
"What's the matter, 13111? Can't
you start her?" questioned Jiin Coop-
er sympathetically. 'Probably it is
all fol' the best, Bill. This will teach
you to be patient and will likewise
develop the muscles, If you would
devote the same amount ' of energy
to the pursuit of an upright and nob-
le 'life you would doubtless become
President of the United States some
day, Think, Pill, of how this life of
crime has aged your poor old mo-
ther, Think of your. .mother, 131111
hill exploded at last,
"If that guy luta Orsi; h.tlother chirp,
Adios, plug Jiinil"
Jim subsided, but from time to
time theteafter'he writhed with ear-.
ei'nese to offer suggestions and eon,-
mcnts. i.e jdist naturally cannot keep.
from lending a helping hand in every.
tate levers aimlessly and cranked a
couple of times. I did not prince the
cylinders with gasoline and stuff a
'glove in the air-intake; as I knew I
would have to do to get her to res-
'pond.
es-'pond .
"She won't start," I announced.
Bill swore.
Jim Cooper smothered a strident
laugh. F
"What are you laughing at?" Bill
demanded harshly. ,
"Because," Jin. returned, "Tom
says he can start that car in any kind
of weather•`when no ane else can."
How cheerfully I could • have throt-
tled Jirn for that asinine repitition'
of my, footless boast!
"So you've been stalling, have
you?"
13111 turned upon me savagely.
"Now you start her; understand?
i�lts itto'nk'ey business l; 11 she's run-
ning in two minutes we inlay aiot'
blew your basins out," .
Something in his tone convinced
alto that 13111 was in "earnest, 1 lifted,
;the hood, primed the eylindcrs, Stuff-,
ed my glove in the intake and ttarncd
her over.
Graninother responded'. feebly:
"The batteries, are little. weak,"
commented, "They don't give' a
very good spark when it's so cold,'
.1 just the • tr1-
adjusted sn�. M coal . to open -
ate in less ctrrcnt and tried crank's
it There was no explosionwhat-
ever,
1 ' t -
as, 1 war
ever,
1 was beginning, r to get a little war-
ded,
Tied, 13i11, whostood over me with
a .e nn, seemed a trifle impatient% I
conld see that he did not believe that
was makingan honest 1 tel t 1;i;fo't't to
start,
"Try ,it nn the magneto," suggest -
"Take offthat coat and
g'o. Take it riff, I say!"
1 obeyed. Neither of ur; was pre
pared for what followed. I haut for-
gotten the: white tightt, which were
all 1 wore beneath toy overcoat, and
be, of ouurse, did not expect site to,
look as 'Dale as 1 did,
His jaw fell and his aria dropped: ,
limp •at.lias side.
"W -w -what are you?" he asked,,
It was probably the onlyopportun-
ity that 1 would have, and I made
the rrtost of it, As the muzzlef
o the
gun dropped I. jumped for hint and
pinned his arms to his sides,
We rolled over and over in the
snow, the revolver exploding as we.
fell,
Sometimes weight is an advantage.
arltage•.
This was a case in. point. In two,
minutes 1 wassitting onhis ches
t and.
had taken his weapons away from.
hien.
duke
lt4
ed Jim Cooper, , . Finger on trigger, ready to fire,.
"She never starts on the magneto,"
I looked around for the anter .ban
I replied. dit.
"Try it anywaY," 1111 commanded "Where is he?"
I asked.
briefly. "And hustle,"
So 1 did, As you may know, start-
ing a motor on the magneto involves
spinning the flywheel rapidly for sew -
Y n y
eral times before enough electricity
is generated to make a spark. It is
one of : the most likin r
ear t 1 ea >z exer-
cises I know of, especially es >eciall when the
motor has excellent compression such
as Grandmother Page boasted.
The perspiration dropped from
xray brow. and.tny'arut seemed like a
leaden weight that was about to,drop
off.
I paused for breath.
"Now ouquitkidding,"
Y yourg,
snarled the highwayman, shoving the`
muzzle of the revolver under try nose.
"Gone," replied. Maryella. "He ran
away when he sawo:u were win-
ning." 'f•
Y
"It's .
all for the best, .Jzfn,assert-
ed,. "You couldn't fight, hint and sit
on this other gentleman at the .sante
time anyway."
I ". rose` Froin my seat, ,e Get upl I
ordered my prisoner.
(Continued next week.)
Well Deserved Compliment
Our Linotype operator is having
quite a time finding names for his
twins. We suggest Etaoin'and Shrdiu
both wards being used quite often by
linot e operators and originated gmaEed 'by
them. -Augusta (Kan.) Gazette,
When Winter Comes
e vie•. 4ese�` eme`,`@c` ee
A "Snowmobile" used in the Maritime Provinces .
re OWN in the Maritime Provinces
lef the Canadian Fords wear snow
shoes. Here is a Ford "Snowmo-
tile" all set for - a hard winter.
Proof that it "ill get over the
roads no matter, how high' the
drifts may be is furnished b; cap-
tain Donald McMillan, 'the famodn
Arctic explorer, who was first to
use a "snowmobile" in the Far
North. With his Ford. thus equip-
ped he travelled nearly two thous-
and miles over ice on one expedi-
tion, at the rate of twenty-five
miles an hour. This, of course, is
far better than dogs can do in or-
dinary circumstances. The McMil-
lan "snowmobile" has a tractor
tread and runners.
A Model A Ford, such as that
shown in the accompanying ilium-
tration, is used by a Lumber : con-
cern in the Maritime Provinces. It.
travels regularly over .a rough
wood road at ' ten miles an hour.
Another used by a Large hotel, has
accomplished a speed of twenty-
five to thirty . miles an hour with
ease en well built'roads on which,
however, three or four feet of snow
has accumulated.
The "snowmobile" has skiis'
where the front wheelsordinarily
would be. Heavy chains furnish .
traction for. - the rear wheels ° no
matter how deep thesnow may be.
A Ford dealer has just reported
that one such ear regularly car
ries five passengers over a wood
road to a lumber camp.
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