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The Wingham Advance Times, 1932-10-20, Page 6PAM:.. SIX llington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 WOO taken on all class of lnstta^, steCe at reasonable I•ates, Head Office, Guelph, Ont,, ABIMR COSENS, Agent, Wingham J W. BUSHFIELD ldarrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer" Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR. Office: Morton 'Block, Telephone No. 66. J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone giringham Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST _ Office Over Isard's Store H. • 1 . COLBORNE, E, A.O.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to. Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham .DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND 11.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. r , F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated 'Office adjoining residence urge so -inglicam Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity 'hone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 3 tt.m. A. R. & E. E. DUVAL 'licensed Drugless Practitioners £biropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic ,College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- leonded to. All business confidential. Phone 800. Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RA.DIONIC EQUIPMENT f y . Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. J. ALVIN FOX re, >r, ... Wingham, J. D. MeEWEN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r34. Sales of Farm Stock and Imple- ments, Real Estate, etc., conducted 'with satisfaction and at moderate tharges. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A. thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham It Will Pay You To Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. R..BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. R. C. ARMSTRONG LIVE STOCK And GENERAL AUCTIONEER Ability with special training en- ables roe to give you satisfaction. Ar- rangements made with W. J. Brown, Wingham,; or direct to Teeswater., Phone dSr2.2, THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER 2a Years' Experience 'in Farm Stock and Implements. Moderate Prices. Phone 331, THE WINGfIA ADVANC7 LIX PI S NBIS6 tV •*� SYNOPSIS Johnny green, 16 years old, who had spent all of his life aboard a tug boat, plying around New York City, was anode motherless when an •explo Rion sank the boat on which be, his mother and the man he called fath- er, were living. He is the only sur vivor, •struggling through the dark- ness to shore ... At dawn, amid surroundings entirely unknown, his life in New York begins. Unable to read, knowing nothing of life, hers taken in by a Jewish family, living and doing a second-hand clothing business on the Bowery. From the hour he sets foot in the city he had to fight his way through against bul- lies and toughs , , and soon became So proficient that he attracted the at- tention of a would-be manager of fighters who enters him in many boxing tournaments. , . . It was here that Pug Malone came into young Breen's life — an old fighter who was square and honest . . . He took Breen under his wing—sent him to night school and eventually took him to a health farm he had acquired . The scene shifts and the family of -'an Horns of Fifth Avenue is in- troduced ... Gilbert Van Horn, last of the old family, is a man about- town, bouttown, who meets Malone and Breen at one of the boxing shows . . Van Horn has a hidden chapter in his life . . . which has to do with his mother's maid, years ago, who left the family employ when about to be- come a mother. It was reported that she married an old captain of a river craft ... Van Horn has a ward, Jo- sephine, about Breen's age ... Van Horn, now interested in John .. pre- vails upon him to let him finance a course in, Civil Engineering at Col- umbia University. John and Jo- sephine meet—become attached to each other, Iove grows and they be- come engaged shortly after Breen graduates from college . . Josephine becomes restless as John gives full attention to his job and sails for Paris to select her trousseau . , . At the last moment Rantoul sails on the same boat. ...At sea the great oc- ean liner crashes into an iceberg and sinks all passengers taking to the lifeboats. Breen learns that Gilbert Van Horn was his father: Back home, Josephine returns Breen's ring and marries Rantoul, John, stunned, buries himself in his work and rises rapidly. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Almon Strauss, cabling from Paris, urged John Breen to continue the work of Colfax: "You have never met me, but I know and have confidence in you. We must net despair, no matter how dark the night. We must go forward wherever we see aur way or where we feel our way. Planning must con- tinue so that later on we will know what to clot" John Breen didn't know what to do. The pay he was getting was ne- cessary. If only the insatiable city would calm down, How it tossed and squeezed and misused its people. When the youth, Mitchel, was ov- erwhelmed by the myth, Hylan, when the shaky city was being pounded hourly by rumors, in that time when shipping and omen and dollars mingl- ed in red carnival, Josephine Rantoul splurged in a splendid orgy of waste. She even made money, and she dem- onstrated her ability -to spend it. The war carried Gerrit Rantoul in- to financial whirlpools where he nav- i igated with much skill. Munitions speculations sent his star to dizzy al- titudes, shot him upward on a rise of values. Rantoul, at last,' was Many tithes a millionaire, Rantoul, at a dollar a year, also served bis country while his New York office, in Pine Street, burned with activity. At the very beginning of the wild time, a Russian Commis- sion, beaded by a Grand Duke and carrying an ;unlimited credit; fell to the wiles of Josephine. A neoteric cult to which she subscribed includ- ed several Russians, who, in return for lavish entertainment, inducted the Grand Duke and his advisers to the genial atmosphere of St, -Botolph and rhe tender mercies of the great St. James. Rantoul after this killing, in which Josephine felt she held a char- ter interest, fell into the expanding schemes of George St. James. Almost without trying, and because of Josephine. "Clever, you know," he found himself on the inside in Shell Case Consolidated a fifty million dol- lar combination of enterprises previ- ously defunct. Tri -Nitro -Bullion also flux of following money, came a classic upward dash, Safety—the name itself gave security—began to soar and touched a point where the stock could not be bought at any price. Five hundred dollars a share was offered but few- were wise en- ough to sell. Rantoul's new place at Southamp- ton, bought lock, ' stock and barrel from a German `dye man, under sus- picion and therefore subject to forc- ed sale, appeared in pictures in the Sunday papers. It was a very elab- orate place and became the scene of the fatuous Allied Fair, the'great op- en air charity fete under the,manage- ment of the notorious Fugence Tor- pillier, the Society Ace. Seventy-five per cent. of the money taken was clear profit, for Torpillier. But Jo- sephine; in very becoming frocks, things with the new military effect, dawn gray, and sky blue, carried on her flirtations with an ever widening effect, She felt no fidelity among ad- mirers; she never made the fatai'tnis take of being bound up in any one man. Poor Rantoul, chanting his lit - Men hung at her elbow, bent over her, pursued her of wild infatuation." with the inten:eity began the erection of vast explosive work in New Jersey, manufacturing an 'unstable' compound with great rapidity as its chemists learned the business, in quantity production tests. Rantoul, who took on a strange fic- titious importance, was made Chair man of the Board. Tri -Nitro soared to dizzy heights with the booking of further Russian orders. Josephine did much to reconcile Gerrit Rantoul for her many annoying traits.' Tri -Bull, as it was called on the curb, led Ran- toul into the picric acid pool, a Sweet bit of business engineered by St. James. St. James, swinging Rantoul with him at the head of a group of the more daring newer men, bought a fleet of lake steamers and founded the world trading corporation of 'Ja- son, Fillmorea nd Jones, with pre- tentious offices on Broadway. This firm was named after three likeable chaps in his office. The issue was listed on the Stock Exchange and skyrocketed from the start. The world was hungry for genius, it lapp- ed up stocks and produced profits, and fought for the privilege of giv- ing away its. money. But St. James' greatest achievment was Safety Submarine, selling on the curb at ten, with few buyers, while jobbers washed the stock in petty larceny against a few lucky simple- tons who bought before the upward trend of war. With the advent of St. James and Rantoul, and the in- tle private ditty, at tines tasting le- cherous eyes at bold telephone tarts, girls who looked upon him as a pros- pective sugar papa, to employ terse terms of the time, nursed a burning jealousy. The sad part of his predica- ment was his real love for Josephine, based upon nothing but futility. The splurge she made, the bills she ran, the countless worthless 'follow- ers who rode in his cars, drank his liquor, ate his food, began to tell on him. Men hung at her elbow, bent over her, pursued her Ewith the in- tensity of wild infatuation. Then things began to get a little out of hand. St. James, in the process of squeezing bag holders, nipped Gerrit Rantoul for a million; it was a start. Josephine had jilted St. James. Then Tri -Bull was condemned by the Government as unsafe. The Army would have none of it. The Navy re- fused even to use it in depth bombs. It was reported as an unstable ex- plosive. Gerrit Rantoullost heavily in Tri -Bull, finding himself 'possess- ed of most of St. James' holdings, exchanged for value before the bad news seeped through that the stuff was worthless. It was one of the little forgotten tragedies among the big men, well behind the front. The expensive apartment at the St. Botolph had been succeeded by a more lavish suite covering two floors of the new Du Barry. A super -flat with private elevators and exclusive' service, an expensive nest bordering on the eastern edge of Central Park. Poor Rantoul fairly groaned when be began to realize the drain of this es- tablishment, He was `worn down by his• excitement, irritable. throngh his worries, and Josephine, spending his money and banking, her own, rode on the necks of her admirers,What a flaining time. of lurid patriotism it was( In the great hotels, foremost in the vast entertainment for charity Josephine lived on high. It was at this time that Cloissy evolved his famous scent, Parfutn Josephine! )J. ':c )J• Judge Marvin Belly, white, ruddy of face, still the stolid substantial 11-. gore of unshakable integrity, read the lists of casualties in the club, the same club where he had so often sat with his friend,, Gilbert Van Horn. The old Avenue had seen many stir- ring marches, and the day when the great Liberty Loan .Parade swept up the Avenue he had marched. But his eyes looked, down the columns of killings, down the lists of the lost, the lists of wounded, and then he found it. John Breen, Major, llth Engin- eers. Wounded at Argonne Forest, "Poor Gilbert. I can almost feel him here, looking at ,this, but no, he would have been across too." John Breen had departed for the war. John had no particular desire to fight, or to live. His utter care- lessness, as is often the case, was set down as transcendent courage. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre. A month later he forgot it somewhere, and never mentioned it, He concentrated, on engineering. "John has been wounded," Marvin Kelly; suet Josephine in the St. Bot- olph. The war was en its last legs. John had survived. "He'll probably never get back to the front." A look of great concern came' into Jose- phine'.s eyes. "And they've pinned' a few medals on him, the Croix de Guerre," he added. That night Josephine dressed in somber black, her blond'' hair glearn- ing. Collar and cuffs of fine white lace gave her the severe air of a very high class domestic; a simple gown, close fitting and exp'ensive.,, "Gerrit; I'm going across. I feel it my- duty." ' Thera" the armsitice uproar swept the greater city, the floodgates 'of re- lief deluged the avenues' and cross streets with flying ticker 'tape and. scraps of paper. The town 'was wild; crazy. Josephine, in a becoming uni- form of olive drab, with a shiny Sam, Browne belt, sailed from the scene of. her triumps leaving a trail of bills and an army of domestic servants to the tender disposition of 'her aged spouse. Judge Marvin Kelly, as trustee of her private fortune, smiled at the complete and thorough manner in which this very 'capable and practical woman had built up the resources of" the fortune of Van Horn. Mrs. Wentworth left for Kentucky. "Thank heaven, for a rest," she add - "When you see John, give'him my regards." Judge Kelly had approved certain agreements as to real. estate, "Dear Marvin, how lovely of you to think of him," She kissed the sol- id old sachem, and was gone. Gerrit Rantoul, always the gentle- man, to all outward appearances, took her to the steamer and then turned back' to the city to survey the wreck. That cur St. James, was a rotter. Jason, Fillmore and Jones, a paper company, was on the edge of complete' disintegration. Gerrit Ran- toul struggled like a Christian to un- load his stock on others before the inevitable crash. The Southampton place went at a sacrifice. The luxurious apartment in the Du Barry followed. Rantoul was badly able to keep ten feet ahead of the wolves. "Old Rantoul's on the run." The word,_was on the street. , His credit -evaporated. By the most desperate effort he saved a few thousands, here and there, and by moving back to his fraternity club, a rather stuffy place, with college trimmings, he managed to hold his own in the city, One Thur s,> ty, October 20,. •3. When you can't sleep, it's because your nerves won't let you. You need not spend a sleepless night if there's any Aspirin on hand! Take two tablets, drink a little hot water—and go to sleep. It works like magic, This relieves your nerves of any little nagging pain or discomfort that keeps you wide awake, and Nature does the rest. Any day you have a headache, you take Aspirin and get immediate relief. Remember its comfort at night, when you can't get to sleep. ASPIRIN TRADE—MARK REG. IN CANADA thing he did not do. He never cried for help. He might be a coward, a quitter, a rotter, and all of the things people thought of him, but he never shouted for assistance from his rich wife. . "Damn her!" Gerrit Rantoul hated Josephine. Hated her so he could not find words to express his aversion. Yet, when at last a letter came from her, he trembled, as he tore it open, acid cursed her. Dear G. I have just seen John. The dear boy looks so splendid in his uniform. He is so fit and brown and has completely recovered from his wound. He is in Paris with a commission, an engineering expert. He says that great man, Almon Strauss, had them send for him Think of it. Almon Strauss, the man you once almost got interested in those Peruvian mines. John is a hero, and he has. the Croix de. Guerre and such lovely ribbons, (Continued Next Week) A HEALTH SERV ICE •OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPAPIIES' IN CANADA OUR ,MOTHERS There are many people who be- lieve that a woman; just "because' she is a woman, knows how to take care of herself during • pregnancy and al- so how to care for her baby.' That such is not the case is shown by the fact that Since expectant mo- thers and mothers of young children have secured advice from qualified persons, there has been a tremend- ous reduction in the anlount of: ill- ness and the number of deaths oc- curring in these groups. It was not that parents. of two or three generations ago Moved their children; less than do the parents of. today, but their love could not over- come the diarrhoeas caused by dir- ty milk, and so what was known as "sunnier complaint" 'carried off the young children in tremendous num- bers. We are given intelligence, and by use of our intelligence we raise our- selves above the level of animals who'' have no reasoning power. ' We pro- gress because we make use of the - knowledge which is made available- to us from the investigations and ex- perience of the whole world. The expectant mother requires certain medical examinations early in her pregnancy. Abnormal conditions. can be corected in the early months, and their correction may save her much suffering; indeed it may mean the saving of her life. Most pregnancies are perfectly normal;. the mother has her baby in. a natural and safe way. The impor- tant point is that no mother . can know that her pregnancy' will be a. normal : one, Proper supervision is,. the only way by which she can be assured that the dangers of any ab- normal condition will be overcome. Pregnancy should be made not on- ly safe but comfortable. Thereis no reason why discomforts should not be --avoided as far as possible. The mother wants a healthy baby. and her own 'health after confinement. These benefits canbest be; secured through superviison during pregnancy and adequate care at confinement. During pregnancy, the quality and quantity of foodeaten is of import- ance. Milk, vegetables and fruits• should be used in abundance, as they supply the vitamins and the miner- als required to build the bones and teeth of the new baby, The expectant mother should seek advice from her doctor. Friends and others mean well, but generally do not know: The mother need not fear that her baby will be marked because - of some disagreeable experience. She should realize that improper food, lack of fresh air, lack of rest and oth- er similar conditions will not only injure' her health but will interfere with the proper development of her. baby. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to they, Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, will be answered personally by let- ter. Borgus: "I can't understand why that Jones girl don't take an interest in toe; Don't a girl like a man with a future ahead of him?" Wilgus: "Sometimes; but my ad- vice would be to try her with a pres- ent behind yott." THE FAMILY DOOR DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST -- X-RAY Office,, MeDonald Block, Wingham. I' A. J. WAL ER NITURE AND PUNEL'AL SERVICE A J. 't VALRCER Licensed Puneral Diteet w tad Embalmer. Office Phone 106. Res, Phone P..24, I attest Limousine Anteral Coach, A Handicap ThAT EVENING A {VICE ,BIG JUICY STEAK . •(lee, tete:rh 'MAT 1 sop! 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