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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-03-20, Page 6Wingham Advance -Times. Published at Wd IGHAlal - ONTARIO Every Thursday 1VIorning, • W. _Logan Craig, Publisher ubScription rates — Oiie year $2,00 Six months $I.00, in advance. To U. S. A, $e.eo per year. Advertising rates on application. AM ADVA .-TIMES ThursdeY, March 20th, I93Q Wellington. Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at, reasonable rates. ;ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Bot 360 Phone . 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, 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 IgI.R.C..S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medmine; Licentiate of the -Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON 1 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. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m, to 8 p.m. 0 1' IiITI:luil a NIA STRT, animater anet weele.;enelaip of WOO rennin; Are .Rest In World, Before the war, when the rivalry between Britain ;.nit Germany was tierce, kis said !list the late herr Stines• paid a lawn sum to a Com- patriot who ela:ii,ed that he could Paralize our Indus ries, says awriter in London 7'it 131 r , His plan was to deprive us of pen Is. You smile, but his scheme, if .wo:Icable, might Inn's succeeded, Twill=, Sem a moment, What part pencils play. They are, in dispensable. Oni s til7vay eompany uses a million a :ear. Look now at yc ur own pencil, and read the interest!. g story of its evo- lution and .cnaltin Blackl,ead pentils date back to 1564, when the "13orrowdale mine,: with its deposits . f .graphite—plum- bago or blaek-leas—was discovered: Before then meta lie lead was used. Up to the end of he eighteenth cen- tury pencils were nade from the vire bin, graphite, Th. lumps were sawn into thin sheets, cut into :square strips, and thenen cased in wood. In 1795, an Englisl..tan, Elias Wolff, discovered how to make a pencil on. the lines of to -u. yes article, The graphite was c+.. ibinedwith anti- mony. The blackiead .:.ed nowadays is a mixture of grapl. ti;, special chalks, clays, and tithe,. . ete.rials-a secret:` The mixing is r.., .,apoitant process. Expert chem:...; supervise every stage, for the p. actions have to be absolutely cone. lid the blending perfect. Exhaus.. • laboratory tests composition and character follow Approved, the tire is ground to an extreme fns:, and transferred to cylinders; F'ru.., those it is .forced under great pen. _ire through dies and emerges in tit 'arm -of a eontinu- ous thread of ta nquired diameter. The next proe is to cut the threads to the p: , .•t• lengths. They are then dried, a. . • fired," like pot- tery, to a certain •JI3,erature. That makes them react fur their wooden easings. The wood for,L ish-ntade pencils is the best quasi,, cedar. Ingenious machines put it o'"slate" of pen- cil -length and wi, enough for sir pencils. The slats ,hen go to • a dry- ing -room for era .: -inn. That effect- ed,, they are ger ,r =d to take the strips of lead. The latter are laid in the grooves after ,.ate slat has been glued, and anotia :• lat is laid on top. The joint is pelf -r , and invisible. After the eat s .ave been cleaned, the six -pencil .tis are passed through a machii which cuts theta into separate pen ils — round, hexa- gon, or other shit;,. s. Other machines sandpaper thein : ; :•faces and smooth them for colortnr;. Several coats of the required color are applied auto- matically to each pencil. Then comes the polishing -- ..pert work, which gives the fine gime), finish—and, fin- ally, the stamping :ef the pencils with their grade, maker's name, and so on. WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR Toni Bilbeck is the narrator. ° He is a fat newspaper'writer who drives a bumble -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, Pians for a play at the Old. Soldiers' Home 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 ells despairs when she discovers his bow legs. Mrs, Hemingway later flatters Bilbeck and talks to him a-. of 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 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 - ELEPHANT'S LONG MEMORY. Female Expresses Sorrow Over Spot Where Her Mate Was Killed. The wonderful memory of ele- phants was recently exemplified at St. Thomas, Ont. Some elephants be- longing to a circus were being un- loaded. Among them was :Alice, aged 110, who had been with Barnum's circus, and had earlier been a come panion of Jumbo, the world-famous elephant, whose departurefrom the Zoological Gardens, London, nearly half a gent>,iry ago caused a sensation n England. (fin rash ng the rpt where Jumbo wr:`; killed by a train, in Se tgniter, 1.95, 1' a stoped ain.ped, trunlpe,�:d 'shrrilly and went own on her knees starting the ei ht other elephants c t the Party on rampage. It e w only with great d faculty that Alive w,y�� ppa fief�,,, t. ?lie falrit 'ct de o is l". tions 1 _�a sot orrow wheel sire a fain lad to :cross he spot where :umbo was killed. When Jumbo lett the Zoo for Bar- um's, his wife Ace was left behind. his gave vogue to a popular song with the refrain: If you really loved nee As you ought to do, You wouldn't go to Alneriky And leave .are in the Zoo, Alice went to America later; but it i11 surprise racy people to read that she is still living. •19,. R. & F. E. DUVAL a Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Cainadiaif. Chiro-pp`€'tae(it ' " e Toronto,and National Col s Co g. lege, Chicago. t Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. n Phone, 601-13. T J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours; 2-5, -7-8, or by appointment. Phone tOt. J. D. MCEWEN. LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14, + Sales of Farm Stock and Imple•• 1 taients, Real Estate, . etc., conducted! 'with satisfaction and at raoderate , Loquacity on the Bench. Newly -appointed judges are Inver - ably warned agaii:.,t. undue loquacity n the bench A rlr:adful example of suoh verbosity is f mid in elle cas o ora Eskgrove Aeots Judge o a undred years a„ Eskgrove could evej be content e.nth eplena stete- nt and his en res. to adorn the tale oftenled him into almost lee 1 credible depths of pathos. Condenin- Inc a tailor to c?e, ii Ycir murderins e so dier he deelar, d, "Not only did you murder him, 1' hereby he was be- reaved of life,bu y t n i t did thrust, or push, or pierce, or project or propel the lethal weapon throng!!, his regi- mental breeches, which were his Ma- jesty's." On another occasion, sentencing two crirninaic for hiiusnbreaking with violence, ho r nolo 1 a long recital of their crimes by r •pioring: "And' all this you did, God preserve ve us,' just, as the fancily were sitting down to dinner," ' 'Value of !Meld Orops, Th,' In,1 c;t the, principal flold r 7'o;us r'f' '029 .14 c st.yinnted at $086,- 186,n01) by ihci bet -trillion Bureau of •a'P+i',:.;,` in; ,eoi !.pared with the eel 1 ,-•i yc i, (if 1,1,1,25,003,000 and tr ye hni.°re .u1 x1,173,133;0,10. he valito of wheat foe 1539 la esti. ie,-:.' I et. a345,840,000 as compered .s 1 car' finel figures of $4-51,4. s,r, ..' $169.951.000; barley, + ° 'Ile; ii1,1:35,000; liars 7P, o(,f); otltor grains, w, r; t,cit!terries, $69,968,000; hay, ' _a., ;t20tt,99 (;00; root 0,3,92.9,000, ;L h n charges, me r THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD Athorough knowledge ofFarm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where and satisfaction guaranteed, George Walker, Gorrie, can arrange dates. DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office MacDonald .13]ock, Wiegha;n A. J. WALKER URNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. 3, Walker !sensed `- Funeral Director and Embalmer. ffice Phone 106• Res. Phone 224. !test. Limousine Funeral Coach. d 7 i, ti.li) !'line Feet, rl ) rey )aehlt ease jitnip Biers' Horne, being greeted royal! and meeting Pilk Henwether and others. The play at the Old Soldiers Horne 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 meld up by two escaped convicts, one of whom is captured by Bilbeck after a struggle. • Tlie 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 tay there, and Mr. Hemrningway, hearing this over the phone, says he is coining -right to the home—as he is suspicious of his wife and Bilbeck. Meanwhile the' sheriff arrives. 1:Iemmin v a arrives just when Bil- g Y b-,ck is assisting Mrs. Hemrningway, who' has fainted, and of course thinks the worst. Meanwhile a disturbance is heard in the cellar, and all in the House rush down to it. • The Sheriff's horse has broken loose. Meanwhile Hemmingway sus- pects Bilbecle more and more, and Jim Cooper mixes in to tell Bilbeck he has arranged that the Hemmingways be divorced' and that Bilbeck is to marry Mrs. Heniniingway, To get back home, Henilningway must travel by foot, and Bilbeck of- fers to go with him. In violent clis- J agreement, they nevertheless start out together on snowshoes and skis and soon I3ilbeck tumbles over Hem- 1n#ii'way, the going being difficult. They lose their sense of direction. curious sense of fiuniliarity, a feeling as if I bad been there before. It was- n't so much that I recognized any thing specific, but I just felt more or less 'at home. There was something in the air. All at once the moon came out, and as it did the building toward which I, was heading loomed large against the sky, I knew at once why the neighbor- hood had seemed familiar. The build- ing was the Old Soldiers' Home, and I had walked' all day to return at night to the v ery� spot from which ` I had started! I had no very cheerful vision of a warm welcome upon nay return to the Home, but it was a case of . any port. in a storm, so I continued on my way. The Home was' still half a mile distant when the light went out. But I plugged on.;. I felt-pretty'sure that I could get in without !waking any one up, which,:I decided would 'be nisch the better way because I could avoid explanations. As I drew nearer in the shadow of the woods I saw a figure dart sud- enly f•orn the intervening moonlight to the Old Soldiers' Home. That struck me as rather curious. y Why ; should any one be in such a hurry and why so furtive? I thought it over quite a while as i • Just by way of diversion we now had an argument as to which way the !nearest farm -hoose lay froin- where we were. We had determined to postpone trying to reach Fait Oaks until morning and wanted food and shelter. for the night. I thought that I had seen. farm buildiegsron our right, about a mile back on the trail. Heminingway in- sisted that they were on the left. "There is no use quarreling about it," I said finally, "There is nothing to prevent each of us going the way he thinks is right. It's a cinch we will bothfind shelter if we keep go- ing far enough," So we separated. We had grown intensely tired of one another any- way; especially since hunger had lint an edge on our tempers. Hemming - way started southwest and. I breech- ed off rivee toward the north. It be- cain a e dui c very iapidiy alaer the soli was gone, but the'snow on the ground made it fairly easy to see and I was able to hit up quits a fast pace. Hut the farm -hoose I thought 7 had scan diel not materialize, I Could have ewoin it.. Was -i11 that :dircetion too Rather than give up I pushed on far- ther, I did not like the idea of ego- ing back to Hemmin;way and 'ad- mitting that I was wrong;. Surely if I'. kept on in the same direct tin :I - had -be•an going: I , would eventually reach scintc sort of shelter and food! ft 'was a hong time, though, before I saw e 'welcoming light. I eaglet say just haw' fang, but I would have guessed -several hours. Anyway I was so thoroittiily fatigued that I could just barely drag one ski after the other. Bet when I saw the light I quick-' ened nay pace and made- for it. I was'afraid that the people' who lined there would go to bed bcfoee I could arrive. As 1 passed over the snow I had 4 My hand found the switeh. I turn- ed it on, Sitting bolt upright in bed, with a revolver; levelled at ine, was Mary- ella,'` . There was no one else in sight! CHAPTER XII Several. Surprises "Throw up your bands," Maryella commanded, undecided how to treat a: burglar whom she knew by his first name, but choosing at length the con- . ventional procedure. "I will," I agreed, "if you'll point that shoe horn in ionic other direc- tion." She threw the weapon aside. "I£ you are a gentleman you will leave this room," she said firmly. "I don't know what you mean by this 'unwarrantable. intrusion." "A man came in here an I follow- ed ed hint." "Nonsense! Where' is lie?" It did sound a trifle fishy; P11 ad- mit, There was no one in sight. I'ev- en looked under the bed. "Now go," she ordered as if she were addressing an infant who had to be dealt with firmly. "I don't know what is the matter with you lately, Tom Bilbeck. You used to be a fairly sensible, dependable man; ''%// • 9% Sitting bolt upright in ,'Maryella I stood there waiting for something else to occur. . Then a solution occurred to me, It was doubtless the other escaped pris- oner, the one who had held us up in the road when we had started for home the first tune! The chances were that he wanted to get back into the sanitarium and release his partner. As soon as I arrived at that de- duction, I, too, hastened in the sante bed, with a revolver levelled direction that he had gone. By the time I got to tate front of the build- ing he'had disappeared. An open win- dow; however, indicated very plainly where he had gone, and removing try skis I had no hesitation in following him. It was hard work for me to climb through, but I managed it; There was enough moonlight com- ing into the living -room where I found myself for Inc to see that there was no one there. I hardly expected that he would linger long, He was doubtless searching for the root!i in which Bill, his partner was confined. There was nothing on the main floor except .the living room and the service quarters. I glanced hastily in each room below and then trent up- stairs which was a more likely hunt- ing ground. I paused -at the head.'o:f stairs scarce breathing. He was not there. While I waited, senses alert and nerves taut, a figure glided out tlirougli -a door and went down the hall away from ins, It disaiipeered in a moment through another door. I Waited perhaps two inintttee. It re- appeared again and passed on to the next room, I was in a quandry': what to do. I(' 'I raised an alarm the chances were about even that he would escape.' It seemed !!eager .to' cal)ture him single handed. Therefore, when he disappeared in- to the next room I followed down the hall. As I did I heard a door in back of Inc open, but was too intent en 171y quarry to pay much attention to the sound in the ream, I casae to the door where 1 had seen my man disappear last. Yt stood open 1 stepped in and closed it soft- ly after ins. btaxt I- felt .gropingly for the e]ectric-light: Switch on the wall. . J.3,-efore I could flakd i1 there was a wciman's scrcaii in the room some- wherc ahead of Inc, and then at my back j heard a clicking sound in the door•I had just closed 4�. at zee, ,.as but now you act like a lunatic two- thirds of the time. "I'll go," I said mournfully; "but some day you'll realize how= unjustly 1 you have treated me." • I went to the door and turned the knob. It would not open. "What's the matter?" Maryella asked when I delayed. "I can't get out,' This door is lock- ed on the outside," "Absurd!" Maryella got out of bed and slipped. on her fur coat. "How could it be loekcd?" She sante over to the door, .As .she stood beside me I had a poignant spasm of heartache at the dainty de- sirability of her. "It wasno time for sentiment in a situation that -bade fair to become serious, but is challenge any man to be so near the person of the woman he loves and not be conscious of rippling hair, especially if it flows ovee her shoulders, end the soft t'endernoss of the skin flush- ed' with steep, She tried the door, "It is locked," she admitted with in- credulous eyes that sought mine quer tioni'hgiy,. "What does it mean?" I shook ally head. "I don't know." Just to bedoing something, 1 rat- tled the knob, "Be quiet inthere, eonsarn you," said a voice outside, "You're arrest- ed in the name of the law, and any- thing you say will be used agin' yoti!" It was the sheriff. How had he become involved in the midnight par- ade? What explanation could there be- of an officer of the law being on the scene of a crime? It was contrary to precedent. I even told him so through the locked door. "Don't argue with him," pleaded Maryella in a whisper. A new look of concein had come into her eyes. "What is it? What are you afraid of?" I asked, "Think how ow this is going to look when they find you and ' me here! Oh, Toni, low could you compromise nie:so?" "I didn't intend to. 7 wasn't even, thinking of you.' ' - "Oh," she murmured as if hurt. "Mrs. Heiimingway occupies all your thoughts,. I suppose." • My heart leaped joyfully. Even in a moment of stress site had time to be jealous. Maybe it was all for the best. "I'm sorry," I said penitently. "That won't do any good• We ought to be able to do something definite, to make this look -all right" "I'll do' anything you- say," I of- fered. "Shall I jump out of the win - dow?" "You, might break your neck," "It wouldn't matter," I said bitterly She disregarded my martyr -like speech. "Suppose you were to hide,' she suggested. "I'll ,say you jumped out of the window and then when they got out after you, you could es- cape." "Clever plan," I congratulated ad- miringly. "Where shall .I hide?" I' glanced doubtfully at the white enamelled iron bed which was bolted to the floor. It looked to me as if it were unde1slung.. ,. Ho�� ever, I'm the most obliging man you ever met so'I got down on.� the floor and, started to crawl under. ! 'Unfortunately- I stuck half=way. o g SII AINED 11 Lbs. in 8 Wks And a Boy Friend." writes Susan Salino..Thousaids say new Ironized Yeast adds to 15 ibs. in 3 weeks. Skin clears. like magic, Const!pation, nerves, end, Get pleasant Ironized Yeast tablets from drugaisc today. cate myself, It was useless. I had: used too much zeal in lay •effort tea get tender. c-. "If you don't come- out in ten sec- onds,I'll shoot. The sheriff• deliver- ed this ultimatum and began count-- ing, "One,—two,--three" The thought of the target that I: offered for even a very poor marks- man drove, me nearly frantic. I made - a superhuman effort. The bed rase from the floor and fell enart. I back• ed away from the debris. FEMALE CENTENARIANS.. Women Live Longer Than Married Ones, Says Observer. The wealth of matelal for the new science of human statistics available,: In the obituary solum s of a great, metropolitan newspaper has been tapped by two persons who recentler analyzed from different . viewpointa one year's collection of death notice* to the London Times. O. B. Gabb has. studied the records of persons dying at ages over ninety years and con- firms the curious fact, already known to students of human old age, that very old women are much more num- erous than: very old men. Eighteen obituaries were printed over 100 years old. Only three were men. He finds, too, that but eight of tits fifteen women had been married, a ratio far lower than the average of the British population. Single women apparently have a better chance of living to be centenarians than have married women. In the last fifteen years, Mr. Gabb continues, 117 death& of centenarians have been reported in the Times obituaries, approximately seven .each year except for the,eighteen In 1929 and twelve each lay 1925 and 1928. our hundred and, sixty eight deaths:' .of' persons over ninety were reported , in . 1929, Mr. Gabb ands; 342 women and 126 men. There seem to be, however, grow- ing tendencies toward cremation, which comprised 4,5 per cent. of the - notices, and "no Sowers" which ap- plied to 9.5 per cent. Out of a total of 16,388 notices, eleven specified. burial at sea, four. announced "no service" and two called for "no.!, tears. POVERTY VS. WEALTH.' Sandy Waste In Ontario Turned Into a Forest Nursery Station. In 1908, the Ontario Governmentf purchased several hundred: acres o abandoned farm land—a sandy waste —in Norfolk county for the purpose 1 establishing a forest nursery eta - ion. Several other stations have foie owed. In '1929,.'12,000,000 trees.. rowel on this "waste" land were dis- ributed for planting on private„ ounty and crown'properties. There s now a block of pine in Norfolk ounty, planted in 1909, that stands.: 35 feet tall and is eight inches in di- a meter. A little intensive thinking on the subject will bring home to one the, utter futility and waste of hard work in trying to turn "hard scrubble" soil Into a paying farm when it could be made to earn its way by planting it in tree crops, as evidenced by the above example. When this land was plant - d to trees in 1908; the previous own- re had abandoned it as being a total oss; a large portion of it ; lacked growth of any kind and was a wind - town, drifting, sandy waste. To -day he acres of fine young trees, small. akes:. and streams and 'artistically aid out grounds around . the fores- ees residence'bear'emphatic witness o what can be done by going about. it in the right way. I could almost make it, and I strug- gled hard to condense that, refractory Half inch of girth that .seas holding me back. It was no use. when I tried to back out. -To my dismay I found I could not move the other way either. "Throw up your, hands," said the sheriff outside. "I'n1 coming its, and if you )Hove Pll shoot." How the deuce could I throw up my hands? I might have thrown, up my feet, but I doubt' if I was capable of a motion of any sort. As the key clicked in the look 1 e e heard a scurrying of bare fest. Mai -y- I ells was retreating. The door opened, A hush of sur- b prise followed. 1 "Come out," ordered the sheriff, 1 "I seeyou, you denied ostrich." t I renewed my struggles' to extri- t 're ,!! . tii',vC .Vy. PLEASING PTJ For 0 F � s tuno i F.. t k C , a Cost° en Our equipment is complete for the satisfactory production of printing every of � a ,,!alai! card to a booklet. With this equipment, suitable stock, goes competent Workman- ship. 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