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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-02-27, Page 6WINGI'IAADVANCE-TIMES ham Advance -Times. Published 'dt WINGHAM - ONTARIO Every 'Thursday Morning W, Logan Craig, Publisher kti l�rscr^fptiort gates — One year $2;00. Six months $t,00, in advance, To U. S. A. per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire .,Ins.11raunce Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Established 1$40 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. MUSTER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD l Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE 11'- 0.; Box, 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan ''Gf€iee,--Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE -11ARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical' Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54. -Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND. M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medreiae; 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 OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office Adjoining residence next to etnglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a,m. to 8 p.m. A. R.&F,E.DUVAL licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. Phone, 601-13. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191. J. D. McEWEN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. - Sales of Farm Stock and Imple extents, Real Estate, etc., conducted 'with satisfaction and at moderate charges. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address It..R. 1, Gorr•ie, Sales conducted any. vehete and satisfaction guaranteed. Gorge Walker, Gorri'e,-, can arrange dates. DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS i Eflcc MacDonald 1.31ock, Wingham A. J. WALKER 'IIIRN'ITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. j, 'Walker ;iocrused Funeral Director and Embalmer, ice Phone 106. Ras, Phone 224. st Limousine Funeral Coach. • A ROLLING STONE ;'=sniadian 'Writer of Frontier Fiction Has Run the Gamut of Experience, A. W. de Herriee Smith is one of 'he sue or seven Canadian writers of frontier notion who is making good; that is to say he finds it profitable to devoteeight hours a day in a down - .own office in Edmonton turning out thrillers ie which husky heroes of the north rescue fur -clad damsels of ap- propriate pulchritude from . the icy clutches of predatory villains in a No Man's Land somewhere under the diel:. AI;. Smith has run the gamutof experience as colorful as that of many f %fie characters he depicts. He is frlsh, of course, with an Irishman's sense of humor which he finds useful 'n getting characters out of tight eor- tors as well as in extricating himself :ram real life situations as tensely ,omplicated as any he has ever ere ated for the edification of his readers. Rolf Boldewood's stories of Aus- raiian bushrangers were responsible for young Smith's emigration from Cork to the fascinating continent down under, where, as he says, he was at once signally honored by 'be- ing appointed dead pig shifter in a .laughter house. But you can't keep a prospective writer of frontier fiction down long.' The urge to greater things is always in his bones. It is his fate to sample life along the fringes of civilization. He was suc- cessively bartender, groom, stock - rider, farmhand, ship's steward and stevedore. Shaking the dust of the baekblocks from his feet Smith served before the .nast in the Dutch East Indies and .among the South Sea Islands. After an informal tour of Egypt and Cey- lon he landed in Vancouver with three ebony elephants, a Cingalese catamaran, and a profound faith in he Canadian Government literature which he had read in Australia. When he had liquidated his tangible assets all he bad left was his faith n the aforesaid literature, which was duly rewarded by several nights' tree lodgings under the cedars in Stanley Park. While contemplating the star- ry grandeur of the Pleiades he con- cluded that it was his patriotic dutj to help' Canada along by boosting the stock of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, and though he could not "spik Italino" he nevertheless joined the gang of navvies in the railway yards .and helped to shift rails for a season until he decided to promote himself to logging at Capilano in the Canyon. Wielding the pick and shovel In Ni- cola Valley, hod -carrying in Calgary, toiling oh a horse ranch in the -,foot- hills brought him at last to home- steading at Paddle river, north of Edmonton. WENT LENT SUNDAY LAWS. Years Ago England Forbade. Frivolity on the Sabbath. Sunday holiday makers and trip- pers will be interested to know that a statutory law hi England, years ago prohibited suet frivollty. The Act of tinlformity, i5 v 2, requires: All persons, except those dissent- ing from the worship or doctrines of the Church of England and usually attending some place of worship not belonging to the Church of England, are, if they hays no lawful or reason- able excuse for absence, to endeavor to attend their parish church or ac- customed chapel, or, if reasonably prevented from so doing, some other enlace where the divine seryice of the Church of England is performed, all .11 plmw§ puttanq other day ease 1 Rioa, iii;e a ,T? Itebt rs oly detys., and to abide there orderly aha sober- ly during the time of common prayer, preaching, or other divine service there performed. Failure to observe this law renders the offending "par- ishioner or inhabitant of a pariah" who is not legally exempt from at- tendance ttendance at divine service on Sundays and holy days "liable in proceedings taken against him in the ecclesiasti- cal courts to be censured for the of- fence, admonished as to his attend- ance 1 nthe future, and to be con- demned in the costs of the pro- ceedings. Oddities In Bank Vaults. The heart of the late Stephen Ra - ditch, the Croat leader, has been found preserved in alcohol In the strong room of a Croatian bank, writes "Looker On," in the London Daily Chronicle. Stranger things things than, that, however, have fig - tired as bank lodgments. 1; have heard of the typewriter used by a famous dramatist being lodged to his crt?dit while he Went ona holiday, Pets have also been brought to banks for eafe keeping, and there is one wealthy client of a Scottish company who insists on placing her pet parrot in the bank each summer. Valuable stamp collections are also frequently lodged, and there was a story recent- ly of a United States bank which ac- cepted c-ccpted. a valuable pedigree cat and re- turned it to the customer with inter- est -in the form of a family of kittens. China Big Buyer In Italy. Data published by the; General Fac- ist Confederation', of Industries show the growing importance of the Chi- nese market to Italy, The most re- cent information .available refers to the import and export. trade `between the two countries in 1927. In five years thtr value of Italian exports to China has almost trebled, rising from x2,08$,000 in 1923 to $8,0$0,000 in 1927. During the same period Italian imports from CIiiva rohe from '$7e 674,000 in 1923 to $10,031 000 els 1926, to to $6,865,000 In 19271, with a balancer of $224,000 in Italyrs ra Italy's leading export is arts- .trial silk, followed at .a distance by alr'•r and Cardboard, ,felt and straw marble, tans, pigments and N::...y, :nail and clanks, 1r'lon.'e:s In Aviation. .4.? eery as 1912 Zeppelins were r:rr passengerh over regular .flitea in (4ermany r 1.4 WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR Tont Bilbeck is the narrator, He is a fat newspaper writer who drives a tumble-down car he . calls Grand- mother Page, • He is in love with Maryella, his rival being Jim Coop- er. The three are members of an am- ateur dramatic group. Plans for a play at the Old Soldiers' Horne are under way. Grandmother Page has engine trouble while Maryella is out driving with Bilbeck, and Cooper, passing in a big roadster, taunts him., 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 Bil- beck is to act as the statue, and Mary- ella 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 hint out of his seat. The escape of prisoners from the. local .penitentiary keeps Bilbeck busy at his newspaper work, so that he gets away from the dramatic group. The players arrive at the Old Sol- diers' Horne, being greeted royally and meeting Pilk Henwether and others. The play at the Old Soldiers' Home is interrupted because of a fire, the players and veterans escape: Riding away from the scene of the ill-fated play in their costumes and overcoats the group of players is held up by two escaped convicts, one of whom is captured by Bilbeck after a struggle, The captured thief is tied to a chair at the Old Soldier's Home. Un- able to leave the home as the car! refuses to budge, the players must stay there, and Mr. Hemmingway, hearing this over the phone, says he is corning right to the home—as he is suspicious of his wife and Bilbeck. Meanwhile the sheriff arrives. Hemmingway arrives just when Bil- beck is assisting Mrs. Hemmingway, who has fainted, and of course thinks the worst. Meanwhile a disturbance is heard. in the cellar;4 and all in the house rush down to it. trir 1 NE AIMS /' 7'> AXiEp Br FRAN14 Xs, .PRV N He struck his forehead a sharp blow with the palm of his hand. "My heaven! To think I ant mar- ried to you!" Mrs. Idemmingway's eyes, usually so placid, blazed „in response to his anger. "You needn't be any longer than it takes r to get a divorce," she e x- cl imed half -hysterical with anger. "If you're going to believe everything. you hear we might as well separate and get it over with." Comrade Henwether and I were observing the scene, he with apprais- ing looks seeking `to read in their faces what he missed in their speech- es, and I with a chill horror at the. serioi ness of their breach. "I think she likes you best after. all," vouchsafed Pilk. "He's a mite better looking than you be, but you've got a way withyou that goes with the ladies, durned if you ain't." Mrs. Hemmingway shrugged her shoulders helplessly and started from. the room. Mr. Hemmingway follow- ed to the door, which she sammed in his face. I quickly gave up my intentions of going up -stairs, which involved pass- ing- through the living -room, and went back to the basement instead, convinced that safety lay in sticking "Well, I'nz jiggered!" exclaimed the sheriff. "There's a lot of life in that old horse yet. I didn't suppose' he could do that," "Is he frightened?" Mrs. Lillielove asked. , "No, He's just lonesome. He ain't used to being alone at night, and I suppose he was going to look for me." The inference was that either the sheriff slept in the stable with the horse or the horse slept in the house with the sheriff. At any rate I had an explanation of the ghostly sounds which had awakened me from my doze when I started on my ill-fated expedition down -stairs which had cul- urinated in the sensational mix-up with the Heinrningways. While the sheriff and some of the others recaptured the horse and tied hint to •a ring in the stone wall, I went bach to tine main floor, I want - 'ed to be alone and think, As 1 came up from the basement to the living• -room which was now beginning to get light with .the first' chill dawn of winter Morning, 1 no- ticed Mr. and Mrs, Hemrningway in .eager conversation. Apparently they were approaching some sort of ne- gotiations for Peace -because they were standing together and once or twice he made as if to take her in his arm s, Far be it fr.oin inc to interrupt any reconciliation between the Herrrnting ways, There and there only lay my hope of retaining my job and inciden- tally the respect of the community: l.was carefully tip -toeing across the living -room "'to the door which led to the stairway., perfectly willing to have My lrrogreti unnoted, •wheu 1 was arrested, nay frozen in my tracks by the piercing voice, of Pilk I3en- wetiter cautiously subdued to a 'long shorernan's hail, "Hey, Mr, Bilbeck!" he called. "1 want to warn. you, There's a feller here trying to steal y'ottr- girl away from you» -the pretty blond, one that was making eyes at you last night." Mr. and . Mrs, Ifennnnigway, who. bad reached the sobbing -on -shoulder stage o ftheir reconciliation, now se- parated suddenly as if a shell .fad exploded between them. "Sol" the husband shouted, his an- ger at white heat once more, "My suspicions were true atter all!' Yon: made such a fool of yourself that ev- erybody noticed it, And to think that you would try to lure me back by soft words! "You vampire! dotted: the lake, and near the shore some boys were rigging up an ice- boat. " One of them was up on the mast threading a halyard' through a pulley block. I remember when I had done that sort " of thing on my first ice -boat. I sighed, I could never do it ag` gain -not with my Weight! Breakfast was announced. I went down, fully but not ornamentally clothed. • The only one of our party who spoke to me was Jim Cooper. Mrs. Lillielove looked as if she were go- ing to, but suild'ei 1y she blushed and lowered her eyes to her plate with-- out ith=out saying anything. • "Goodmorning," iro assured' reg; Jme cheerfully. "Isn't this a fine day?" He rubbed his 'hands gleefully, as ir he had done it himself and expected to be complimented for his skill. "Yes," I mumbled, hurt and puz- zled to find myself an outcast in rimy own circle. Later I discovered that Comrade Henwether had been doing a tray• ellogue on my prowess as a lady- killer, which had been interrupted., by my arrival. Mrs. Henuningway's eyes were red from weeping. Poor woman, s"he had not had any sleep at all, 'I judged. "Are you really in love with Mrs. Hemmingway? it,ttentions honorable?" to the crowd. !Her husband at staring moodily at We went back . to bed later for a his plate, but ate very little. morning nap. When they woke :me up next time—this was. for breakfast -I refused to arise until I was pro- vided with some clothes. • _ It was all very well to prowl a- round in white tights at night when I was hunting ghosts, but it would look rather silly to appear in them in:broad daylight going about the ordinary business of life, such as eat- ing soft boiled eggs or bringing in'. an armful of wood. Unfortunately I am a larger Titan than most of the veterans. I tried .on several pair of trousers without finding any that •I would dare trust. 'We had just about given it up as a bad job when some one suggested that Comrade Dreyenfurth was very nearly my size. His other pants were commandeer- ed. 1 have mentioned I believe, that Abel Dreycnfurth's west leg had been wilfully missing since Antietam. For. that reason the Dreyenfurth trousers last twice as long as most men's. He uses the material in the extra leg to reinforce the seat. For that reason they did not give me all the protection I could have wished, They were likethefirst in- tallment of a magazine serial—good as far as they went, but tantalizing. Still they were better than noth- ing, so I got up. The sun was bright. and dazzling. 7: went . to the window to look out., What a beautiful world it was! Tons of snow had been carelessly tossed over the reap with the lavish hand cif -an inconceivable giant. In some places were grateful drifts as high as a man, and against a sited in the yard was piled up even with the roof. Tt had been a tremnenclous storm. lusidc we had not realised the''amount of snow ,that had fallen. • City people 'never know what a snowstorm is like, It falls ornstrcets that are shovelled clear almost as fast as it comes down; and the little patch- es that remain are almost immediate- ly soiled with tracks acid the soot of countless chimneys. But out in the open it is different. There you can get an idea. of the way the Lord in- tended the world to look in the win-. ter time. Strangely enough the lake, which lay peacefully crystallized at the foot of the hill where the I-Totne stood, 'was comparatively free from snow. The wind had swept its glistening surface clear, and it lay a. clear black blot on a white universe. ,Fere and there fishing shanties Maryella and Mrs. Lillielove con- versed with painful animation about crochet stitches and new fashions. After breakfast Jim Cooper got me one . side. "Are .you jeally in love with Mrs. Hemmingway?" he' demanded, fixing my eye with a:look that demanded ail honest reply. "Are your intentions honorable?" "Of course I'm not in love with her!" I replied with .bitter emphasis. "And 1 haven't any 'intentions." "It's all for the best, then. You and I must reconcile them," ' I started away -hastily. "Not on your life. I haven't any skin op niy shins now just because I mixed in trying to help Mrs. Hem- i rninway, You do the reconciling, You fix it op and get ill the credit!" will," he declared confidently. "1 eau do it, And all .I ask is a lit- tle thanks," That's the way with Jinx. He's one of the best little fixers I know. He is" always eager to make some one happy. Whatever happens he like to feel that he is the man who mended the mainspring. And .he, likes to be thanked;` too. Half a dozen thanks, and Jim will go without -his breakfast any day . It's a vice with him. He has to be thank- ed for something about, every so of- ten, or he gets terribly depressed and thinks that he is not .much use to the world. In 'an Anglo-Saxon coirimunity a confirmed . thankomaniac is continu- ally getting hurt. Since I haveve learn- ed of his habit, I always thank him every time 1 see/him, even if I can't think of anything he has done. It saves a lot of trouble. So Jim agreed to fix up between the Hemmingways. With elaborate formality he invited there into a small' room off from the living -loom which served' as an office for .Colonel Stew- art, They followed him wonderingly, and a he closed the door. Jim . was back again even sooner that I expected. What chance had a lad of his slender build against an exasperated man as large as .Hein- niingway. He picked himself .up from the .rug where he had landed and: re- moved the cane chair seat which was around his neck. "I suppose it's all for the best," he observed. "What?" I asked, without enthus- iasm. "Well,. I had , to agree that you would marry Mrs. Hemmingway," he explained painstakingly. "I; tried to make him see different, but he in- sisted. You ought to be glad, Tom. She's a very sweet woman and will make a fine, wife." "You agreed' that I would marry her?" I demanded. "What in the name :of.. Mike have you got to say about it?" - "Well, he explained. "I lethim think that you had sent me to patch it up. Maybe I did wrong, but I thought it was all for the best," "Oh, Isee.e What difference'did it make, after all? One tangle more did not make it much worse. "People don't seem to appreciate it when a man goes out of his way to do thein a favor," he observed with mar- tyrlike resignation. "Pardon me," I said mechanically. "Didn't I thank you? I certainly am much obliged for your good inten- tions." "It was nothing at all, Tom. . I'd do it again for you any day. Whenever you get in a tight hole send for me. I'm always willing -to help. A little thanks is all the pay 1 want." Inmiensely cheered, he left me. It was all for the best -I had located a paper weight to throw at hiin if lie offered to do anything more for me. 1 picked up an old magazine' and tried to read. The story I started proved to be a serial. I asked Com- rade Dreyenfurth, who happened through, if they had a Copy of the number containing the next install- ment. "No," he replied with aggravated bitterness, "We get all our magazines Thursday, Febrtrrary 27th, 1930 from people who send 'em to as after they get through reading 'em. And nobody ever sent as a complete set yet. 'I gave up trying to read the. serials five years ago." "I can tell you what happens in the, November number," offered Mrs. 1E,,il-• lielove, who had seated 'herself near and had overheard the conversation. 1 read nearly all the magazines that come out:. It•'s terribly exciting when, you get six or seven heroines in tight, places all at once." (Continued Next Week) Sorban; I,*eeps You Yonne Smiling keeps the face looking - young, to one beauty spe- cialist; maintaining an air of cool serve le apt to cause double chills. Swordfish. Swordfish is now regarded am at. reed 4eileacy. West Indies Fruit for Cantina. Canada will become a great mar- ket for the fruits of the West In- dies, said Wilfred S. Lawson, of the Department of Justice, in the course, of au address to children recently at the Natio%al Museum, Ottawa. ' Mr.. Lawson took the children on an imag- inary maginaty steamship cruise to the West Indies and old Pai1ama, destroyed by Pirate Morgan in 1671, He showed, ahem beautiful la_ ern 'slides of the old cathedral tower, the only bit of the city now remaining, the walls of which are fii'teen,sfeet thick, Canada rias"no such ruins 10 attract tourists, to h -. amships, motels and national parks, only such thhtge' as tthe'toteilik poles, Most of wnieh, he suet, tree .nevi rutting and, neglected. on our 1 ac.u., ccast. Not' beim; of stone, this art d:sai: pears tepidly. The pictures c't women carrying. mads. on their hoads while the men., tele donkeys amused the children, as' did many other scenes and customs in the West Indies. Places 01 historic- interest istoricinterest a3 wail as many beautiful: bits Li scenery wereexplained to the ,°.hild reel. 'ter Ships. A little instrument thousands oi!- t.mues more sensitive than the human tar inay:be the -means of saving many unman lives and a great deal of the ex,iense• of shippii, - delays caused by 1: is a fog navigating compass and. sound iniltc:ator, resembling tu:e of wireless receiver and X-ray apparatus. Recent tests were highly "ti ccesnCul. By tneins of a faint whistle on the oee]t.•r and pin points of light on a. screen, the instrument indicates the direction, distance, and charaeteris- les of fog signals. It is also claimed that the appar- atus can be carried in airplanes, be used for locating d:stznt; gunfire, and for detecting raiding airplanes. Whelk Used in conjunction with a sound ray it will show the contour of the sea- bed and locate sunken ships. Lifeb ht to Ake 'Pianos. The world's fastest and largest lifeboat, built for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was launched from Messrs. John I. Thornycroft & Co.'s yard at Ifampton-on-Thames, in. England. She is the first lifeboat to be spe- cially built to help airplanes coming. down at sea. She. will have a• speed of about 18 knots and will be star toned at Dover. World Grain Exhibition. .Regina in 1932 will be the scene of a world grain exhibition which will be sof historic importance, •aid in which sixty cow:Arles will take part. The executive committee now work- ing out the plans look foran.attend- ance r. 500,000 people. 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