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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-03-27, Page 6W>MIl►�1a1�1>Rll advance -Tires. Pelblished at WINGHAM ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W. Logan Craig, Publisher subscription rates — One year $2.00, Six months $x,00, in advance. To U. S. A. $2.5o per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insuralnce 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. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO. J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. oney to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. at Lowest Rates Money to Loan 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. 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D. `MCEW IEN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. Sales of Farm Stock and Imple- ments, Real Estate, etc., conducted with satisfaction and at moderate Charges, THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD orough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 28.1, Wingham STORY BEHIND RADIUM DAME SCIENCE PLA •EP ;BLE -01' ROMANCE -MAKER. Pierre Curie Met. Future Wife When Both Were Students -Gave Credit of IDiseovere to His Wife --Widow Lives ,Alone With Deneehter. One .day, Pierre Curie, a student in the Faculty of Sciences, Paris, no- tired a slim, dark -eyed girl student. She was obviously not French, for she Spoke with a strong foreign ae eent. She spoke but little, but she worked with .a concentration that faseivated the French student 01 ecience, They became friendly, andgradu- ally the grey -eyed girl with the de- liberate, assured manner, told him tier story, writes 'George Goodwin in '.Cit -Bits,, She told bine of her father, the Polish professor, of her first endeav- ors to enter the University of Cra- cow, and of her rejection on account. of her sex. Pierre Curie learnt hoe. Prof. Skludowski set to work to teach his brilliant daughter in order the she should be able to enter- the Uni- versity of Paris. The . two students- got .into till: habit of working in the great labor- atory side by side. They eomparec. notes, exchanged their ideas on scien- tiiie subjects: They fell in love. Bu; reeeTee WINGHAM' ADVANCE -TIMES ltilt nzAm: IR MANS, tuarrimatp EIA FRANK D.1=1-61.7104 \ WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR "What were you doing here?" de-' >•aended the sheriff. "There's some Tom Bilbeck is the narrator. He thing peculiar about this." is a fat newspaper writer who drives "Yes, there is," I admitted, "Coyne. a tumble-down car he calls Grand- .down stairs to the main room where mother Page. He is in love with it is warmer and 1'11 explain what. Maryella, his rival being Jim Coop- happened." er. The three are members of an am- i,{y plan was obviotts. By leading ateur dramatic group, Plans for a the crowd off I wouldo give Maryella playat the Old Soldiers' Home are an opportunity of getting out. under way. Grandmother Page has The men started to go when we engine trouble while Maryella is out were stopped at the door by the liar - driving with Bilbeck, arid Cooper, ried arrival of Mr. Hemmingway, wh,o. r g passing in a big roadster, taunts him., forced his way past:, the others into After Maryelia'has left Bilbeck is able to start his car again, The amateur players are to give Pygmalion and Galateaat 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 neither had money. All they pos- ;bout the play. Bilbeck pats her hand, messed was their e utual love anuq only to find a rough, hand grasping their passion for 4 eu itic researc' p`" ` him by the shoulder and lifting him ste:ue.ai x �d sufficient. 'they took rr plunge, married, and set up house i out of his seat. a tiny apartment consisting of 'a lie The escape of prisoners from the tng room, bedroom, and kitchenette. local Penitentiary, keeps Bilbeck busy Every day :they spent long hourr. iu the laboratory. In the evenings at his newspaper work, so that he they returned to pore over books gets away from the dramatic group. Mule. Curie, still little .mare than a The players arrive at the Old Sol, for all her brilliant record ass diers' Home, being :greeted royally student, prepared the simple' evening ureal; she :tidied up, mended her bus- and meeting ?ilk Henwether and band's socks and underlinen. The,. others. -'' she plunged into scientific work. The play at the Old'Soldiers' Presently, however, Pierre hard t Home is interrupted because of a go alone each morning to the fru,- versity. And a little' later he was 'fire, the players and veterans escape .he proud father of a baby girl. The coining of the baby ended ill-fated play in their costumes Mme. Curie's scientific work. But and only fora while. She determined tr.:overcoats the group of players is held :10 her duty as a mother and house- .up by two escaped convicts, one of wife; and she also set her heart on whom is captured by Bilbeck after a z.ontinuing ,her joint scientific wort struggle, at the bench of their laboratory. The captured thief is tied to a Later another child came—a girl. • And it was the same again. The' sten chair at the Old Soldier's Home. Un - the room and stood, a figure of ven- geance, shaking his fist under my nose, "I've caught you," he' said, gl• firing at nye: "'Caught me.. ? ". T repeated wonder- ingly. :'Yes! I thought there ,was some- thing funny about it when you .agreed. to separate front me out there, 'I sus- petted that you wanted to throw me off the track and come back to my wife: You didn't deceive:Me. I cause back and, followed your tracks in the Moonlight.- And now I've caught g you. you viper!" All at once his eyes fellupon the ,dresser. There in plain view lay the strand of pearls which Maryella had worn at Galatea. ' Riding away from the scene of the der girl, she was still in her early able to leave the home as the . car teent es, redoubled her efforts, w ork- nt the harder in her tiny home, and In the university. She had long since, graduated, and so brilliantly that de- epite her .youth she had been appoint- ed a lecturer. This post brought a little more money' into the Curie lwme, but they remained poor. Pierre realized that his wife was a genius and, soul of honor, collabor-• ated with her as junior partner, •Never a shade of professional jea1- ;oust' marred that long and fruitful collaboration. Once when, as the result of hex researches into the magnetic proper- ties of. metals in solution, Mme. Curie had discovered the epoch-making, mysterious substance radium, hex husband was invited to London. The scientific world was seething with excitement at the news from Paris. The Royal Society invited t-' erre Curie to address it. He wrote in reply to point out 'that he dis- covery was his•wife's. The Royal Institute wrote,; too paper asking him.to 'read a p a p upon the x �P l? P discovery of radium. He replied c.,urteously that there must be some mistake, since not he, but. his wife, was the discoverer. The Royal Insti- tute declined to hear Mme. Curie, It might well have been possible for an egoist to have stolen the hon- or due to the woman who worked beside him. It would have been easy, since the world would readily ha,ve believed "that itwas the pian and not tri - woman who had been the moving spirit in the joint investigations. But P erre was jealous of his wife's scien- refuses , to budge, the players must I tay there, and. Mr. Hemmingway, hearing this over the phone, says he is coming right to the home—as he is suspicious of his wife and Bilbeck. Meanwhile the sheriff arrives. Hetnrningway arrives just when Bile beck is assisting Mrs. Hemmingway, 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 Bilbeck 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. Hemmingway. To get back home, Hemmingway must travel by foot, and Bilbeck of- fers to go with him. In violent dis- agreement, they nevertheless start • out together on snowshoes and skis and soon Bilbeck tumbles over Hem- mingway, the going being difficult. They lose their sense of direction. They separate. Bilbeck finds him- self back at the Old Soldiers' Horne, after going in a circle, sees an'i.n- a window,to Cruder' and jumps in find himself in Maryella's room. The Sheriff cones ,in, holding out a gun and saying he saw someone .come in and Bilbeck has to come out from under the bed, where he had been 'Biding. RICHARD. B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or adores R. R, 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any where and satisfaction guaranteed George Walker, Gorrie, can arrang ,dates_ S tilie reputation. Mai xly because 61 his insistence upon her work she was awarded the Nobel Prize. The discovery of 'radium had made both the Curies world-famous, Yet they declined to allow any intrusion upon the perfect harmony of their lives. The. prejudices of ' the world against the woman genius were now overcome. Mme. Curie, had received honorary degrees from many univer' "You didn't know 1 "was awake, did e''.ies. But her husband, far from you?" the sheriff exulted. "Well, I show." The explanation seemed satisfac- tory. Without asking any further questions he folded her into his arms and they cooed over one another with shameless disregard of the audience. While interest was centered on -.the reunited Hemmingway family, Julius the convict seized the opportunity to edge near the door. No one noticed his gradual progress, and now, all at once he made a quick dash for liberty. The, crawcl started in pursuit, leav- ing the Hemniingways to their own devices. Fortunately for Julius most of his pursuers were Ai least twice his age, and were further impeded by rheuma- tism, canes and crutches. I might pos- sibly have caught' him, but 1 hadn't the Heart. I was in too low spirits myself to wish to see any other hu- man being in trouble. Th e rest followed hint outdoors, but I considered that I had' done my duty when 1 had gone as far as the main floor. Something else was wor- rying me. The problem of Maryella's disappearance was of a thousandfold more interest to me than the mere capture of the ex -convict. Knowing that I. safe from; interrup- tion for a 'moment," I went upstairs to 'Maryella's room once- more. tee ba "ivfy wife's 'pearls!" he exclaimed -' It was eni savagely. "So you :came right to hex' had evidently room! My God, 1 can't conceive of 'settle their d `such iniquity. Where is she now? could,' What have you done with her? ; Maryella's I • preserved a dignified '.silence. !wreck, The What use to argue with .a raving ,very dejected maniac like that? i ment, There "Have you killed her?" he demand- could be. •I ed hoarsely. "Where is the' body?" He ran -around the room, looked under the bed and in bureau drawers, as if he expected to find mingled'por- tions of his spouse cut tip into con venient. sizes and stored away. At last he saw the other door .and approached it. ' "Don't go in there," I warned. " I . w "Why not.? Ha.l So that's ts' ihere yeti have her concealed?" way, I barred his way, but he ran at the :like an enraged bull and hurled me pty. .The Hemminways retired to her room to ifferences as best they room was certainly a dismantled bed' gave a air to the entire_ paart- was only one place she walked directly to'the Tn the room :stood an army com- prising ahnost all of the male'popula- tion. The sheriff was taking; no chan- ces of being outnumbered. exhibiting any . sigma of jealousy, seemed to go out of his way to stress was, 1 heard you break in and 1 fol - the larger part played in their sue- lowed 'you to this room and locked eess by his wife. r Whon Pierre Curie was killed in .1 vote in'' I�Ce peered nearsightcclly at street accident 'in Paris, his widow rrrY face. Well I'm blessed, durn me almost disappeared frons the world if I am t. Ain't you one of the men She continued her work; but the say- that started for town?" our of life had' gone. Recently, Main. ' am," .l admitted. ""Porn llilbeel "' exclaimed Jiin Cooper, conrit,g forward. "I'm glad Carie was lured from her seclusion to reer'ive from' American adnxirerr $250,000 worth of radium. .Nathin:.; eine could have drawn her from her you came back. It's all for tete best., rettrtirnent. I Want you to be the first to con - To -day, Mme. Curie is a frail -look- ing little woman iu delicate health. iii lives alone with 'a daughter. Never going out socially, she still to boric lone hour's al. her scientific wort,, end is adrvoeatieg that moil ,y ebt ined from the commercialization of scientifte. discoveries ,should be enolr'd' to aid all research search workers,. But the taxicab that cmertched the DRS. A. 3. & A. W. IR ' IN :if ':t her beloved husband, quench DENTISTS . d rl:u) for her the joy of life. If she !rebore ou, it is because in 80 do- °ffice MacDonald block, Wingham ;." honors the memory of bee worker. The The wor'ld bears much of. the great A. J. WALKER o ws of Metall, hc'eaus0 so often ]b t • etor it r are tragic, the rr eorrds FURNITURE AI FUNERAL i teairpeethous passion, -aItlmate SERVICE A, J. Walker Licensed Funeral Director and Exnbalrtler. Office Phone 100. 12.05. Phone 224. Latest Lifnousirte Funeral Coach, r';. 13ut whero. in our. modern In tray We and a story so bean- !fie! ean- !t i! as this? Teal is a ciuestion not easily an- d, 'Pin `love story behind ra- r1 n *ne of the epie love stories 1 hr. world, for all that no poet has ,reg of the romance of the' tiny orkerie to whom the world ewes it it Lh, gratelate me on my engagement to Miss Waite," My'sttinnecl mind refused to assim- ilate his statcnicnt In the midst of a battle 1 suppose a soldier. would not pay nnicli attention to the news that :his sweetheart lied Married an, other man. 'j,'h6 mention of Maryella's name 1; iwever, made ole think with a sink- ing sensation of the predicament I'taot.utlwittingly placed her in..'I looks. ed arotincl to see how she was tak. ittg %t, She She �v s no�vltete i1t si r•1rt, a sig lit, first I was puzzled. Then I no - iced the 'door across the roon1. 'She nusst have gone in there. Prababiy it was a closet, 7 made no mention, however, of My susp%ciion Possibly the incident could . be ended without her teki.iig part in' it. abdi_aNtRn swa4m w;;:•s aside with insane violence. He yanked the .door open and then fell back in open-mouthed amazement. Standing in the door way'blinking at the sudden light was a man whom I recognized after a moment as Julius the escaped convictl, No one was any more surprised at'. the turn of events than I was. To be expecting to see a beautiful girl in negligee emerge: from a closet, and instead to behold a to.u.gh-looking maty with three days' growth of'whis- kers, is startling, Where vas Maryella?' I did not ask the question out loud. "Evening, gents," said Julius gen- closet, the door of which stood open, and penetrated its obscure depths. There, hidden by old .clothes, I found her unconscious upon the floor, huddled up in a disconsolate heap. No wonder she had fainted. To step into a closet as a haven of refuge and unexpectedly to find it occupied by another human being eves enough to shake the strongest heart. 1 lifted her out. How beautiful she was even in a faint!- How - clear her "What ere you ,doing here?" the sheriff inquired. "Why, it was sort of cold outside," explained Julius, "and •I thought you wouldn't mind my coming in to get warm. l3esidcs' I thought it was about: time for Bill and me to be moving, so I 'come to get hixn." Well, oF all the cussed nerve -1 the sheriff wondered, "Then where is 'my wife?" shouted Hen'irhingway, "What have you donc with the woman I love?" "COlr, �ohrt,•do you mean that?" From tine rear of the craned came Mrs. Hemmingway's voi ce. She struggled through the throng to react; the side of her. mate, Hde held out his arras to her, but paused stispieiotislyP "Where have you been?" "Safe in bed um l all this racket: woke Inc up." "Then this isn't you room?" No,' "first your peatls Were on the dres- ser I" "T:: lent thein to 11laryella for the t,Gan.'llkNb+N�iu nig skin and how soft the flesh around her, throat! 1 put her down oe the floor while I reconstructed the bed, After I had pat her upon it I hunt- ed up Mrs, Lilliolove, to whom I brie,fly,ex;plaincd•the facts in the case, swearing her to secrecy, She was im- mensely flattered at being taken into one of my amorous adventures, and agreed to help. Together we worked over Maryella until site showed signs of returning consciousness. Then, at Mrs. Lillie - love's suggestion, I left, I:t would be better to reserve explanations until after Maryella had been rested by •a long sleep. I was 'glad" to let it go at that. I was unbelievably tired myself,. The long hike on skis and the nervous strain of the last hour had worn nee out completely. I hunted up the cot which had been assigned enc in the firstplace and threw myself upon it, Perfectly content to let things stand in s'tatu quo until morning. CHAPTER XIII. By Ice -Boat The searching party had given up the chase of Julius long before I got up. It was a mighty tired bunch of old mien that assembled for break - last. They were going to eat and tlien go to bed for an all -day snooze. As for me, 1 was tremendously re- freshed and ready to face anything that came along. While we were at breakfast the sheriff, who had gone in to look at his other prisoner, came back wide- eyed .and trembling. "Boys," he said, "I've got bad news." "What is it? we demanded. "My prisoner is dea.d." "Dead?" some one echoed, "Yep. I didn't know he was ailing, neither, I went in just now to untie the ropes that I used to hitch him in bed with and he didn't move. I put fay hand on his head and it was cold a sice. He is a corpse, I tell you. I want one of you fellows to collie and examine hint for me." The old soldiers showed little in- clination to move, even for so excit- ing an "adventure, so it was up to?me. I accompanied the sheriff to the room which he was using as a ternporoary jail. The shades were drawn, but on the cot I could see the dim outline of a man's figure. Just as the sheriff had done, I first obeyed the impulse to, put my hand on l3iil's forehead. ft was cold and lifeless.' I shud- dered a little at the presence,of death. "Pull up the curtains," I suggested. The sheriff fumbled with the shade, which escaped from his nervous fin- gers and went up to the top with a bang. We both jumped as if we had been shot. I drew back the covers frons the in- n the cot. papier-mache statue of m • it?" stammered the s1 not seen our perfor- mance doubtless thought that Bill iv efly. escaped; too, sl I,ijnate form on It was the myself! "Gosh! What is sheriff, who had ante asxd as a trill gale fe l I explained hri "Then he has` sheriff sighed. "It looks like ie," I said. . Indeed he had.�]'iniled to the: wall we found a penciled note. It ran: Dear Sheriff: I' anti mighty -glad to. helve' met you and I should like to stay longer -but I've got another en - the seg P", Thursday, March 27th, 1930 rwcy gagement. Thanks very much for your horse.. Yours affectionete'l:y, BILL.. 1 sen afraid •I laughed . It was•,sitok'ii' a foolish ending to our supPosedi: tragedy. I went up -stairs to see how Mary- ella was getting along. I' found her awake, but still rix bed. She claimedl she felt as well as ever. I told lieu briefly what had hap- pened the night before and this morn- ing.' It seemed as if she had an ex- planation due her. Then she told of her terror at finding the strange meat in the. closet, Of course, his heists there substantiated my story to her - the previous ;night when I had said. that 'I had followed a man" to that room. (Continued next week.) 10R() IRWIN Viceroy' of India Is Equal to Itis:i High Tasks—Has Confidence Of Government. With sitor neelouds lowering over= India, all eyes turn' toward one man,. , the representative of the crowai there, and 'a great pro=consul of, em-- pine, Lord Irwin, the British vteeroerr,:. The fourth and eldest surviving: sen: of Lord Halifax,' the veuerabie,preat.- dent of " the English Church union and: leading layman of the Angier` Catholic party. Irwin (who was Bd-. ward Wood) 'inherited the religious convictions and spiritual devotion of his father. He is as far removed asi anything' possibly eould be from. the- Byzautinism of Lord Curzon or the. truculence of Sir Michael O'Dwyer. A key to his character may be founds in the fact that he is the author of at. life of John lieble, a Iloet and churehnian whose career. • and writ- ings are said to have strongly,. influ- enced him. Before Irwin went to India: he was for years a church warden at a Lon- don church where spiritual activity is: said to.:.be :combined with liturgical intensity. It was characteristic of him too, it is said, that when lie ar- rived in India to take up his duties as viceroy, he set aside all the official welcomes and deputations in: order to attend a three-hour service at Boma bay cathedral the next morning,. which happened to be a Good Friday. This incident, it is said, made a pro-*. found impression on the native popu lation, an impression which was re- - peated when after the service was over the viceroy visited- Gandhi and had a long talk on agriculture. All parties in Britain admit that It there is trouble in India, Lord Irwin is not to blame. Since assuming his office he has maintained a role of sustained -conciliation, and he is pop-: ula'r not only with leaders like. Ghali- di but with many of the extremists. Irwin was a somewhat different' type of Indian viceroy. He had served In the war as a major in the York- shire Dragoons and acted for a time, as assistant secretary to the National Service Ministry. But apart from this 'and the fact that he served for a time ,; in the Baldwin Ministry as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies anct;.also as President of the Board of Education, he had little training for the post that many regard ' as the most difficult" in the whole of the British Ecnptre. Irwin is a Conservative of moder- ate ;tendencies,' and cut -louse- enough is an intimate personal friend of fiord Lloyd recently recalled by the Labor Government because of difficulty in Egypt, Irwin, however, differs tre- mendously in temperament and char- . acter from the rather belligerent gen- tleman who was British High Com- missioner at ommissioner'.at Cairo, and it is the best possible tribute to Iris fairness and prestige that despite all the unrest now prevalent in India no leader of +•: •iy suggests that he should be recall ed PLEASING P INTING For P ri uSthHNers Our equipmeint is complete for the satisfactor3rh production of printing of every ¢escription fr Ora small card to a booklet. With th this equipment, ment, suitable stock, goes competent workman- ship. orkm a? shi. ; We will be pleased to consult you in regard to anything you .. may ;need. . a ThO Advance:Times • WINGHAM ONTAR4O 4,1 .11