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very handsome but they are not suf
ficiently legible and should be re
placed.
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Daylight-saving has started in Tor
onto, and many other municipalities
will soon follow suit. This change of
time when it is not uniform through
out the, Province, is a nuisance.
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It is said that smoke in Toronto
cuts off about 50 per cent of the sun
light. We have no such trouble here.
This is another of the advantages of
living in a smaller centre.
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1 The Japs paid the United States
$2,214,007' for sinking the Panay.
This appears like a lot bf money and
it is for the sinking of just ‘»ne gun- >
boat but it is only a drop in the bug- ‘
ket when compared with what
Jap-China conflict will cost,
ijt
Mr. (J. E. Powell, Social Credit
pert, of England, who is in jail
defamatory libel, will head for b
.when released from the Alberta
We venture to say he wishes he
never taken his Alberta job.
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A Winnipeg aiderman was convict
ed of shoplifting 73 cents’ worth of
groceries. Rather a bad example for
a man in his position,
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It has been suggested that elemen
tary teachers be given the degree of
/‘Bachelor of Primary
;They would much rather
in salary.
TOALTH IN THE GROUND
We hear so often of our natural re-
sources- in this country that we take
it for granted. We have stored by na
ture rich blessings that are waiting
for some one to find them. The gold
and §Uver production in the northern
parts of the province is evcr increas
ing and many are of the opinion that
this Is just the beginning of this ?n-
dustry.
In this district we have .-alt works
and before long an effort will be
made to locate oil in the Clinton dis
trict The opinion has been express
ed many times that oil will some day
be produced in this district.
In the papers recently we noticed
that north of Peterborough they are
mining nepheline syenite which is us
ed in the manufacture of glass,, taking
the place of feldspar. This newly dis
covered substance is very pure, more
SO than the feldspar found in the
United States. It is shipped to Roch
ester at a price that is cheaper than
feldspar and those who own the feld
spar mines of Carolina, have search
ed the United States to find a similar
product but so far without results.
They are now trying to get Wash
ington to place a duty on nepheline so
that their mines will not be affected
by this superior product.
The nepheline syenite comes from
the large rock hills north of Stoney
Lake,, a district we tramped over as a
boy. An attempt to mine mica was
tried- in this location but the quantity
was not sufficient to continue oper
ations. It was thought by all the res
idents and those yho summer in that
locality that these large hills, of rock
were of no value, except for the few
berries that grow about the place. But
now in this desolate place is a thriv
ing industry.
Truly we have only commenced to-
find the wealth that nature has stored
away.
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the
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ome
jail,
had
HEADACHE AFTER
HEADACHE
Now* She’s Free Krom Them
A woman writes:—“I would like
! everyone who suffers from headaches
■to try Kruschen Salts. Before taking
Kruschen I was seldom free from a
headache. But since I have been tak
ing it regularly I have hardly had a
headache, for which I am very thank
ful. I have been taking a small dose
of Kruschen every morning in a glass
of warm water, before my breakfast,
and I feel so welt”—(Mrs.) A.E.D.
How do you deal with headaches?'
Do you just take something to deaden
the pain, without getting rid of the
trouble which causes the pain?
Headaches can generally be traced
to a. disordered stomach and to- the
unsuspected retention in the system
of stagnating waste material which
poisons the blood. Remove these
poisons—prevent them forming again
—and you’ll never have to worry any
more—from that cause. And that it
just how Kruschen Salts bring swift-
and lasting relief from headaches.
Kruschen aids Nature to, cleanse your
body completely of clogging waste
matter.
Education,”
have a raise
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g^ salaries in
Ss. Ss
Children who earn la:
the movies, appear to have much
trouble retaining some of their earn
ings from their parents and others.
Something should be done about this.
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The railways of the United Stages
want a Ioan of $300,000,000 .and oth
er concessions. The railways in Can
ada present a serious problem. In
Britain they re-organized their trans
portation system with success. It
might be wise to study thoroughly
what they did in the Old Land.
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decided to
the schools
This help
HIT-AND-RUN DRIVING
INCREASES
The number of hit-and-run drivers-
has- increased this year. Can it be
that motorists are becoming more
reckless and callous or is it that rhe
motorists who meet with an accident
try to make good their escape because
the markers cannot be read easily
Most car drivers when they have an
accident stop and render every assist
ance possible to the injured but there
are the few that, either from fear or
hard-heartedness, drive on and leave
their victims by the wayside. Any
one having an accident is supposed to
report at once and should not leave
the scene of the mishap until told to
do so by a policeman.
One can hardly imagine a person
fleeing after injuring a fellow-citizen
but these incidents are becoming far
too many. The authorities will deal
very severely with hit-and-run drivers
when they are apprehended and it is
up* to the general public to give them
every assistance.
The markers in use this year are
Sc Sc Sc
The Government has
give greater assistance to
throughout the province,
will be welcome.
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Application has been made by a
number of interests for permission
to transport by highway truck goods
in bond over Canadian, territory, be
tween Detroit and Buffalo; It is esti
mated! that 200 trucks daily would use
this route if permission is granted.
Many protests have been made to
stop this and rightly so.
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The Ontario Provincial Police
force is to be re-organized to effect
the maximum
not afford to
forcemen t.
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12 pure breeds and several crosses.
"Xtra-Profit” and Standard
grades. See me (or full particulars,
place your order here;*
A. C. ADAMS,
Wingham, Ont.
'With popping eyes I took stock
: Of as fair a collection of feminity
As ever sat by the rolling sea.
Ruth Wheeler was there and Julie too
Betty Hupfer was making a human
f stew,
| To say the least I was amazed1
i And it was in a sort of a daze
! That I said good-bye to my old
friends
And hastened on, around a bend
'And over a hill and far away
; Searching for friends of another day.
The sun wag setting in the golden
west
And. I had sat down for a rest
Beside an ancient gnarled oak tree
When all of a sudden what should I
see-
But a knight in silvery armour bright
Astride a handsome charger white
The long slant rays of the sun
gleamed
On as princely a sight as I have seen
Ip many a year. Then the knight saw
mfe
came crashing, galloping over
the lea.
poor squire followed, with face
too solemn
be anyone else but Harold
McCallum.
“Forsooth what have we here,” he
cried,
As he rejgned up by his master’s side,
“ ’Tis nothing like this I e’er saw
afore.”
But his surly master coldly ignores
My doubtful “Hello”, and only says
“I know not who you are, my fez,
But we will take you to my castle
yonder,
So that you no- longer wander
About my feudal house alone,
For I am lord of every stone!”
In a trice I am perched on a charger
, high
And we head for the battlements
touching the sky
That in the distance I percieve
And I wonder what fate they hold for
me.
As over the rolling moors we went,
I heard them discussing some tourna
ment,
A., tournament, what tuck perhaps I
Would get a chance to satisfy
This burning desire to see once more
The friends I knew so well of yore.
What we had crossed the stagnant
moat
The voice of a herald in a cage
remote
Announced “Sir Bovle”, and looking
I saw
The knight at my side was—Ichabod.
“Why Ich, it’s me,” but he just waved
His gauntlet at the squire. “This
knave
Must learn to keep his portculis shut.
Give him a room and clothes and such
To make him presentable at the
board.”
I was then- unbound, my peace
restored,
When I was told that soon 1 might
Be presented at the feast that night.
I fixed myself up as best I could,
Then asked! the attendant if he would
Get the barber to give me a shave.
He said he would send a slave
To tend my needs, if I’d just wait
He’d send the new slave Admiral
Blake.
But of course by this time I was
inured
To such things and I assured
Him, that the Admiral would suit me
fine;
Then I prepared for the banquet at
nine.
Then came the feast. At the head of
the table
As in some old historic fable,
Sat Sir Boyle — Ichabod to you,
Ignoring my every attempt to renew
Our old acquaintance and I knew
That there was nothing else to do*
But act myself amid the splendour
Which I’ll tell about as I remember.
The hall was grand — so huge, I
thought.
Decorated with spoils of battles
fought
Far and wld'e: in this ancient land
Fought by the Gallant Sir Boyle and
his band.
Strange were the sights brought to
my eyes,
I thought my optics telling lies,
For perched on a dias, it touched my
heart
“Ace” Bateson wrapped up in a harp.
His dextrous fingers glided along
As “Hick” Wheeler tenderly crooned
a song.
The knights were ranged with their
ladles fair,
A sense of chivalry filled the air.
(King Hastings was there in full attire
With Darrel Biggs his faithful squire.
But hark! double fanfare, clarion,
shrill,
Suddenly the hall grows Stille-
Adrienne, pride of Norman France,
Castonets clicking, goes Into her
dance.
The dervislt dancer whirls and sways,
Why Mess my soul, it’s Jean- McKay!
But before I can call her she is gone
And the panorama moves along.
And so the night was filled with
laughter,
Scarce any thoughts of the morning
after.
At length Sir Boyle proclaims it a
t abol® sot® <
And!
His,
To
And I rallied my defences.
But as I sat there undecided
What to do, I was derided
By my pride that seemed offended
That thus I had. condescended
To be frightened by such things.
But still the awful feeling, clings.
Then I listened mute, not caring
To a. story, the while not daring
To stir from where I sat,
A story so amazing that
I scarce can believe it at all,
As the handwriting on the wa.lL
When the story had been finished
I sat with awe yet undiminished
And was carried off In vision
Into a vast and deep incision
In the future ahead of time,
The future we think so sublime.
The light grew brighter, irridescent,
And I saw a land most pleasant
And it seems that I became
An aimless wanderer in the same.
Forgot were all my former worries,
There in the velvet grass
scurries
An animal I fail to recognize
In the midst of my surprise.
Then I wander aimlessly
Along the beach of a. silvery sea,
A stranger in an unknown land
Guided by an unknown hand.
But what!-a man with flaxen curls
Displaying his strength before some
girts.
I hasten on at breakneck speed
To finally recognize Creighton Reid!’
But surely — no, it cannot be
The lad who went to school with me,
His hair is long and shaggy too,
His body is painted a fearsome blue;
Then as- I reach him he sees me
And soon he’s,overpowered me!
I struggle at first with no avail,
Then ask him why he thus assails
A friend who long, long years ago
As an old school-mate he used to
know.
He looks at me and then the girls.
Then tenderly tidies his beautiful
curls;
Then he looks out at the sea
Eventually he turns to me.
The savage looks is gone from him
And now presently he begins
To loose the bond's about my wrists.
This done, the Reid of old insists
That T forgive him all these wrongs
And tell him of the dear old throngs
That daily climbed the dear old hilT.
Did they slowly climb- it still?
But I was as yet so ill at ease
I asked him if he would please
Explain himself, his conduct here,
The change in him in these few years.
Here my friend of Wingham High
Shed a tear and heaved a sigh,
And wiping the tear with a piece of
skin,
Me said he hated to begin
The story of that he knew so well,
The story he couldn't bear to tell.
I soothed him finally and he began
The story of how he became a man
Who eats his fellow-man. all up
Then uses his skull for a cup.
It seems that the gods had decreed'
The earth must suffer for its deeds;-
The world had become so up-to-date
It didn’t consdier the will of the fates.
I So great tremblings shook the globe
I As if some giant o’er it strode.
; Civilization vanished at a stroke
And1 all man's handiwork was broke.
The hand of Time back was turned,
And pressing him further I learned
That all the dear old chums of mine
Had figured in this great decline,
I When all these changes had taken
J place,
I,When the modern world had been
■ erased,
jMy friends were scattered. far and
wide
i About Time's fidcle country-side.
, “So I became a. cannibal
j And as- you can see I’m doing well
;jt've as nice a harem as- you. could
1 meet
] Just wait a second and you’ll have- &
: treat.”*
’ Astounded, as X sat* upon a rock,
t
1
of efficiency. We can
lag behind in law en-
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Now it is suggested that we have
another province, a union of the
Peace River block with Yukon Ter
ritory. Maybe the Rowell Commis
sion should invesigate this question
while they are still considering our
problems.
PROPHET’S ADDRESS
(Composed and Read by Harry Pos-
li££ at the Easter High School
Literary.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
Thence from out the shadows eerie,
There came a noise into my study,
And I seemed to sense somebody
In that very room with me.
Somebody that I could not see.
Then suddenly mv light went out
And a glowing all about
Me, made me turn in fear,
And listening closely I did hear
A voice no man e’er heard before
Coming from out my very door.
Panic-stricken, dumb with terror,
Sure said 1 ’tis some error
On the part of my poor sensest-’
Murray Johnson Dod%aenX?eS®to Wingtiam
there
Sends everyone to their beds away,
For the greatest part of the feast
consists
In. the bravery and gallantry in the
lists..
So I retired to my room
But before, lying down, by the light
of the moon
I took a stroll along the wall,
And in a pitiful mood I recall
Seeing a- lonely knight up there,
And stealing up on him unaware,
I recognized John Lamb, old Gtez,
But before I could withdraw
sneezed.
He looked up and I saw sorrow.
Then he broke down amd he said,
I
dreams.
But I tarried not and hurried along,
And1 in the Forum met a throng
Of women, busy with their yarn,.
I was certainly alarmed
When I saw Reta, Rhoda and Muriel
there
And, oh yes, Verne of the crooked
hair.
There were new togas for their men
If
I
“To-morrow
The very flower of his heart may
lost,
Tf he should lose the penny toss,
! For Do de had said that if he. lost
He would have to pay the cost,
And she would take Smith. Robertson,
The best at euchre under the sun.
I tried to spirit his troubles away,
And before I left he was almost gay,
He said he no longer felt so blue,.
.He’d throw the pennies straight and
true.
Then I said’ good-night and went
away
To bed and thoughts of what a day..
I rose next day with the rising sun,
But already the day was well begun,
So that when I was dressed and
sallied, fortli
Into the lists which were* the source
Of the greatest interest in history;
For here in these lists I was to- see
A battle of the century,
A battle that interests you and me;
For Donelda McLean and Edith Weir'
Were names you often used to hear
In Wingham High School as late
As the years ’37 and ’38.
But are you surprised when you hear
that
The prize for the victor in this
, combat
Is Johnny Gear displayed in a cage,
John, the popular scholastic sage?
Certainly not, and me neither;
But sad to say I can tell you neither
Who won the fight or who got John,
For I must needs be travelling on
My journey thru’ these strange lands
And telling you more about my
friends.
On a borrowed horse I made my way
Full forty nights and. forty days,
And many’s a strange thing I
perceived.
Bat to say the least I was relieved.
When up ahead I saw a dome
And a sign on- a, post saying “Estis in
Rome”
I nearly dropped right off my seat,
And. my calloused heart missed two
beats
When I saw before me
I. arch
With a name carved on
■ targe,
'Johnus Wettlauferi for
He lost the war but our hearts he’s
Won?
And below in smaller letters inscribed 1
The names of his wny, many wives! |
X passed Oil; into the famous city, i;.
■And met at last a road committee;
Keadfed! fey OoesW Coutts, it Seems;
A real construction man like. Ms
be
they ever came home from Gaul
again!
mfived around. Yonder among
ladies fair
’Was Gus Ellacott dressing the hair
Of Edith Mundy, the consul’s wife:
He’d recently been exiled for life.
As I lingered there I was accosted
jBy a laud shout from the Rostra,
I looked up and! was aware
The voice belonged to Ralphie Baird,
He was orating before a mass
Of children, his kindergarten class.
I talked with Rudy for a time
And then I thought I’d take a climb
Up the lordly Palatine
,And continue this search for friends
• of mine.
And there by the statue of the
Charioteer,
Sylvannus Apps whom they hold dear
Were Mary Cruikshank and Marg.
Coulter
Kneeling before his sacred altar.
I passed them by silently,
And in a scroll shop I saw “Cookie”’
She tried to sell me an Aeneid,
But I told! her she’d better keep it. .
So my journey was all but done,
But, oh yes, I have missed one,,
I saw Helen Bateson but she couldn’t
stay—
She said she was looking for a ray,
I thought this was powerful funny
And it so nice and bright, and sunny.
Here the voice began to fade
And I remembered I had laid
My head an this pillow aif hour
before,
But then the voice from out my door
“Mark these words: this mystic lore.”’
Only this and nothing more.
Harry Posliff.
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