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The Wingham Advance Times, 1931-06-04, Page 6THE WINGHAM ADVANCETIME$ 'Wipham Advance -Times. W. Logan Craig - Publisher Published at WINGHAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning 1ubseription Fates— One year $2,00. Size months $1„00, in advance. To U. S. A, $2.50 per year. Advertising rates on application. Wellington Mutual. Fire Insurance Co. Established 7840 Risks taken on all class of insur •snce at reasonable rates, Head Office, Guelph, Ont. .&W'.0 iz eCIRNS. Pwa vr- J. DD "'"Two doors south of Field's :Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSI-II~IELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.. Money to Loan Office -Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. 14. CRAWFORD $ORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone ingiaam' -r Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER. ETC. Wingham, Ontario - DR. O. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. 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Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191, THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed, DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS °ffice MacDonald Block, Wingham, A..1. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. I. w :lcensed Funeral Diredtor and Rtnbalmer. )ffice Phone 166. Res; Phone 224, *teat Limousine Funeral Coach. err or 14f11441LL •WNJ��� • ., 1}fA y By, t air 7i1 KAT N " Maggie Johnson, whose father is a letter -carrier, her mother a lazy,wo- man who has "seen better days," and her sister a bootlegger's sweetheart who works in a beauty parlor, is a stock girl in the "Mack" stores, the Five -and -Ten of •San Francisco. A boy whom she knows only as "Joe Grant," but who is really Joseph Grant McKenzie res tMerrill, son o h o f the owner of the "Mack," is learning the business, by starting at the bottom. He doesn't like the job until he meets Maggie. And neither of them realizes that they are falling in love with each other, at first. Joe is impressed, by Maggie's intelligence and goodheart- edness, and gives her advice on the subject nearest her heart, how to live. the ideal life. She makes a sugges- tion for a better way of selling cer- tain lines, He. tells his father, as if it were his own idea, greatly pleasing the old man. He finds that the girls he used to know don't interest him as much as Maggie does, and when Maggie discloses her love in a burst of jealousy, he realizes that he loves her, too. Joe is afraid that if Maggie finds out who he really is she will not have anything more todo with him.. So he pretends that it is some other fel- low's car when he takes her 'home in his big yellow roadster. And on the way they talk, at last, about marriage. Joe that night reveals to his father for the first time that he has been working in the store under an as- sumed name, and tells him about Maggie.. Joe's mother has him invite Maggie to a fine dinner party at a fashion- able restaurant. There Maggie .gets her first intimation that he is some- thing besides a boy in the store. She thinks she has been deliberate- ly tricked. She starts to leave in mortification when she sees her poor- ly dressed father and dowdy mother coming toward the dinner party. They explain that Maggie's sister, Liz,is at night court with her friend, who has been arrested for speeding. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "You'll say nothing and you'll do nothing," she said in a voice that si- lenced all five or her hearers. "You have done enough, Joe Grant. We aren't—your sort. We don't belong —here, in a room like this. And we do belong together, I'm not much— you've been laughing at me all this time, and I guess anyone who under- stood what was going on would laugh at me!—but I wouldn't be anything, I wouldn't have a right even to try to be ideal—if I .wouldn't stick to my own folks! I don't care—" Her eyes were blazing, her level, pitiless voice bored through him—"I don't care," said Maggie trembling, "what you think of us! My father and mo- ther belong to me, and my sister does, and I'm as glad, Joe," she end - "I mean it. I'm never going to see him again. I'm done!" Blindly, swiftly, hugging her father tightly to. her on one side, holding her mother's handtight on the other, Maggie went with thenfrom the room. She reclaimed her shabby coat, and they three went through the foyer of the big ,-. hotel and out Y into the cool eveningdarkness to- gether. gethe.r. Maggie signalled a taxicab, and they all got in. "Now it's all right, Ma," she said, in a breathless, light voice. "We'll get Liz out, and she'll stop .running with Chess after this night's work, you'll see, and may pick up someone who's worth something." "Oh, dearie, I feel so. awful that Ma and me follered you!. But I'm afraid you'll feel bad, Maggie," her father faltered. The nightmare went on and on. They were in a horrible smelly wide place of benches and spittoons and harsh lights, and her mother was cry- ing noisily, and Pop, pale and dishev- elled and very quiet, was asking her, for God's sake, to stop.- Maggie was pleading with a clerk,' asking him to hurry a certain case, and good-nat- uredly enough, he did hurry it, and almost immediately a little door op- ened, and 'Lizabeth' and Chess Riv- ers and another girl and came out. out. The instant she saw her daring, pretty, independent sister frightened and tearful and white-faced, Maggie's heart seemed to turn liquid, and she ran across the courtroom and held out her arms, and 'Lizabeth caught her, and they cried together. And when the Judge looked down aver his desk, disapprovingof this •confusion, Maggie, with her face wet and her lips trembling and her little arm link- ed tight in 'Lizabeth's, was looking imploringly up. A policeman, rang- ing the prisoners, told Maggie to go back and sit down, but Maggie only burst out the more imploringly: 'Oh, please -please let my sister come home! She's never run with this kind of man before_—she isn't like you think—my father and moth- er'll -die if my sister has to go to jail." Somebody rapped, and Maggie was silent; and the murmuring and ,glanc- ing at papers went on between the Judge and the clerk. And, then, quite suddenly, His Honour looked down again at Maggie, unsmilingly but very kindly, and Chess had to pay one hundred dollars' bail, and no- body else had to pay anything at ell, and the charge against Elizabeth Johnson was dismissed. Dismissed! They were blunderingotoward the hall and the street, between the ;al- most empty brown ,wood benches, and the hinged brownwood gates, and the spittoons, under the harsh lights, when suddenly Joe Grant—on- ly he wasn't Joe Grant any more- rat Joe jerked loose and s rum ed passionately, tears spilling from her eyes now, but her mouth steady, "I'm as glad to be clone with you as you are with me!" She turned to Mr. Merrill, who had sat with a fan of big bilis: open in his fingers, watching her with a 'sort of breath- less 'concentration, It was almost as if he were afraid that she would not dare say what she : was so rapidly and fiu•iously saying, and as if Ile likedto hear her. She tookthree of the bilis, folded them, shut them into her flat worn purse, . "That's thirty," she said to him with a nod. "1 owe you thirty. Thank you. It won't be more than'. that, Don't--" and, with a glance of utter contempt toward Joe, she drop- ped her voice to confidence—a confi- dence that George Merrill, under the circumstances, found infinitely touch- ing, between his humblest little eni. ployee' and himself—"Don't let Jae follow tis, Mr. Merrill," said 1Vlaggie, a " vas"': - nt him spinrling aeeen 4 % ...... came hurriedly in, with an important - "looking sergeant of police, and carne up to them. "Everything all right?" Joe said anxiously and quickly, looking keen- ly at Maggie, "Thank you, yes. It was a mistake. We're just gain' home." "Quite a faln'ly party," said Chess Rivers sneeringly, coming up. And then the nightmare . began again—Maggie could never remember exactly how, 'Lizabeth turned on Chess and told him that never as long as she livedwould she go out again with a man who was a boot- legger, ootlegger, and blamed it on the girls who went with him, and Chess said. something quick and ugly about the Johnsons trot being able to put on airs, with Maggie Johnson running around the way she did with a mil- lionaire—Chess had recognized Joe that very first day, at the cottage, because' he used to see Joe at the boxing matches, R15 { Then Chess was lying on the dirty marble floor, with blood on his cheek and. joe was looking quite tall and calm and proud, but a little breath- less, with two policemen holding him. And as Chess, still shouting, got to his feet, Joe jerked loose and sent him spinning again, and that time the policeman gripped Joe again and - walked him away, and a third police- man began to shove Chess out of the room. The clerk took the Johnsons out through a big greasy swinging door, and they were in the dark street again. All a nightmar,e. , All a nightmare. And yet, as the endless night wore on, she began to be afraid she would never wake up, They got home, somehow—partly walking, partly in a street can And they sat in the kitchen, and Maggie made tea. "Maggie, for goodness' sake, how did you feel when you learned that your friend was, really Joe Merrill? I never will. get that straight," said Liz. "Oh, all right." "Maggie, if. you get him we're fix- ed for life," Liz said eagerly. "I won't," she assured her sister, "Maggie—why do you act so funny about it? As far as my shaming you to -night goes, why, I didn't do any- thing that all the girls of his crowd aren't doing every day!" Liz pleaded eagerly. "And if he makes that an excuse for breaking his engagement "I'll sue him," said Ma heavily. "Here in this kitchen he sat, last Sun- day afternoon, and tole me with his own mouth-" "You don't have to sue him!" Liz said. "He's crazy about her. Isn't he, Maggie?" "I wasn't listening, Ma. I'm sorry. Liz, but I'm going to bed." "I'm going to sit up with Ma," said 'Lizabeth. Their topic was good for several more hours of exclamation, analysis and debate. Mrs. Johnson and her oldest dau- ghter slept late the next morning. They reached the kitchen together at about ten o'clock, having had not more than five hours of rest, and be- gan at once on the leisurely break- fast that Maggie, as usual, had left ready to heat. There were cups on the table, and coffee in the pot, and bread was sliced; there was a fat lit- tle bottle of cream, and Maggie had left -half the mixture of an omelette in a yellow bowl. 'Lizabeth was the one who first found time to pick up the newspaper, and her inyoluntary horrified "Oh, God!" caused her mother, startled, to join her at the stove. They read it together. 1 It was all there, Joseph Merrill's picture, on the .front page, was em- bellished, in a rococo border, with a sketch representing two silhouetted youths fighting in a tourtroom, with horrified women fleeing in every di- rection. "It'll just about kill Maggie!" said 'Lizabeth, agasht. "Go on readin', Liz." ` ... young Merrill, who, as far as could be ascertained, has been masquerading, since liis departure from college, as a day labourer, and who, according to reports, has ac- quired an enviable acquaintance with the city's underworld, was detained without bail and spent the night in the city's jail. At an early hour this morning efforts to reach his father at the country place at Elmingdale -were :net with th' continued on page four column three. . " 'Lizabeth read rapidly. And suddenly, in their midst, was Pop. He had come home for his ear- ly Saturday lunch; he was as shocked as themselves.. "Where's Maggie?" he asked prehensively. "laid she see the per?" "She's at the store, of course," Ma answered disapprovingly, "Tile store was closed to -day, They're putting in the automat. She must—" Pa said vaguely—"she must of went out!" "Maggie :wouldn't never tlo any- thing•-des'prit-' 'Lizabeth was be- ginning, when Maggie herself came in. Sheeame in quietly, through the kitchen door, and stood looking at theirs as if she were surpirsed to find thein all there together. Her plain little new suit was brushed and trim —the homespun upon which Maggie's Heart had been set for weeks before she really dared to spend the neces- sary dollars: on it. %Ter cheeks were red, but her, beautiful eyes looked tired and set in delicate shadows. "'evvcli's sakes, where've you been? 1Zott had Mei and me worried," ap-- pa- (Thursday, June 4th, 1931 'Lizabeth said. "Well," Maggie explained quietly, "I went to see Mrs, Merrill." "\Vhat'j' do that for?" demanded the mother. "There was something I wanted to talk to her about, Ma," Maggie said wearily, "What?" The question was shot, like a bullet, "Joe," the girl said simply.'. And she sat down' at the table and leaned her forehead wearily on her hand, "You never had the gall to do that, Maggie Johnson," 'Lizabeth whis- pered, impressed, "Oh, yes, I did. I told her where Joe was, and they sent over to the jail, and Joe came in while I was there. And him and his father and itall over. , mother and mo talked "Maggie" It was the older sister. "Don't he love you any more?" "He says he loves me," she •said, dully. "Oh, Maggie—fevven's sakes! Joe Merrill!" "And because he loves me," Mag- gie said deliberately, "he's going to sail this morning for Japan. He sees that he'd only hurt me and make it harder here.' Her shamed, hopeless voice died away. "So I guess I'd better do these dishes,",;she said. "He'll forget you before he's past the Heads!" her mother predicted, in the awful. silence that followed. "You can't depend on them rich people, dearie," her father, sorrowful and sympathetic, said timidly. "Maggie, they just got him to say he'd do that so's to break it off!' 'Lizabeth said. indignantly. Maggie looked at them all apath- etically. "I know all that. I know he loves me now, but that they're going to kill it, if they can. I know his ship pulls out in twenty minutes. and that I'll never see him again," she said simply. "But—" she glanced from one to.the other—"with things here like they are," she said, "and Ma. like she is, and Pa like he is, and you. like you are, Liz :what can I do? I've worked, I've tried to make my- self look good, and I've gone to night school, and I've tried to live the ideal life—but it doesn't seem to work, for me. If Joe had been what I thought he was, we could have climbed up together, But he wasn't, and I guess i his mother'sright-1 guess the time Os coming when he'll think of me as only a girl whose mother wasn't very strong, and whose father was a post- inan, and whose sister ran with a i Sottlegger that got us all pretty near- ly into jail!" She did not cry, she spoke evenly and gently, almost without expres- sion. But at the finish she reached up suddenly to the shelf above the sink, and snatched from its position the ideal leaflet, with its cryptic mea sage: "The way to begin living the ideal life is -to begin." Maggie looked at it a minute, and her face worked oddly. Then, quite quietly and composedly, she tore it into tiny scraps and fluttered them into the wet sink. And after that she walked slowly from the room,• and they heard her bedroom door close behind her. (Continued next week.) THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON XXIII-JUNE 7 Jesus Crucified.—Luke 23 Golden Text. He was wounded for our transgressions; Hewas bruis- ed for our inquiries;` the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripeswe are healed.--Isa. 53:5. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time. -From 6 a.m. to 3 pen. Fri- day,' April 7, A.D. 30. Place.—Pilate's judgment hall and Herocl's palace in Jerusalem. Cal- vary, outside the • wall of Jerusalem, probably on the north. CHRIST CONDEMNED TO N DEATH. II, CHRIST ON THE CROSS. And when they "' came unto the place which is called The skull. "Cal- vary" is the Latin form of "The Skull" and "Golotha" the, Aranie. There they crucified Hine •Cruci- fixion is of, all deaths the most hor- rible, and possibly the most painful, And the malefactors, one on the right hand and theother on the left, They were desperate characters, enemies of society, who did not hesitate to mur- der in order to get their booty. And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do, The forgiveness in this first sen - tette from the cross is the forgive- ness of redeemed humanity, And parting his garments among thein, they cast lots, These guards divided among themselves Christ's outer gar- ment, Ills hcaddress,His sandals, and tis eh.goilrddilengs " implies that they gaze dAnd the people ttood stoodbeholding. at a' solemn. spectacle, Psalm 22;17; To make ICED TEA Brew tea as usual." strain off lean s�alkow to cool, -add lemon and sugar to taste - pour ;rifto glasses kill -tuft of cracked ice 'Fresh from the Gardens", Zech. 12:10. And the rulers also scoffed at him. The rulers were mem- bers of the Sanhedrin; Matt. 27.41 lists them: the chief priests, scribes and elders. Saying, He saved others, let Him save Himself, if this is the Christ of God, His chosen. Thus ev- en Christ's enemies admitted that He was a Saviour, And the soldiers also mocked Him. It is no wonder that these coarse men joined in the abuse of Jesus when they heard the leading men of the nation deriding the divine suffer- er. Coming to Him, offering Him vinegar. Their mockery consisted in holding the wine -cup to His lips, and. then quickly snatching it away. And saying, If thou are the King of the Jews, save thyself. The Ro- man soldiers despised all Jews, and were glad to have this unchecked op- portunity of insulting their "King." And there was also a superscrip- tion over Him. This board was nail- ed to the cross over the criminal's head, and sometimes was hung from His neck as He was led forth to His execution. THIS . IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. THE SAVIOUR'S DEATH AND BURIAL. And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on Him. Mat- thew and Mary say both the robbers "reproached" Jesus; but Luke says that only one of them insulted Him and reviled Him; the Greek verbs used are quite different. Saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us. .This robber bade Jesus make good His claims to Messiahship. But the other answered. The sec- ond robber may have known of Jesus before, and may have been moved by the Saviour's gracious words and lov- ing deeds. And rebuking him said, Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou are in the seine condemnation? "You are soon to die and be ushered into the presence of God•" And we indeed justly; for we re- ceive the due . reward of our deeds. A dark career of violence, robbery, and murder lay behind this man, but he had at least the grace to admit that he was being justly punished. But this man hath done nothing a- miss. The recognition of such a character shows the beginning of the higher life in the man. And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom. The robber must have heard Jesus I11111 Pi IF Go Amazing Quick Way Pimples ended so quick by"Soothe. Salva" everybody is astonished. A doctor's amazing discovery. 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