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In this uorthef steal part'of York -the old'negro song, "`One ,more rl
shire' it is .hilly. You can'tgavel;' to crow,:' 'and 8Ing, "IOne mora
g r bank
�half� � ..mite •, 'any�'fxhe�e:,: on.,�,a,. •road; �� �- .xK:: � to 'h'
without, mending -a number Q:tarns,
captl 'mac P'
and.'twists+: so yolr are:`;almost sure'` going up and afowu tbeee hale we
,iii the serf distance to ,go' up .awl have been :thrilled ac
by WWI ' sights;'
down steep bents wil ntthe Acar or .and memories.One 'day we were
busyou- ride in has' to -change, gears. near Ow place -.where Captain!cook-
And a you are ' a Iedestriau, even ainqus Pacife• adventurer,. on irony' 4
' with fairly good feet to'atlfust tl►eni, . sons ;and ;to 330any-10ds, was bob!.
selves xto ,tile, road, itis ii. good thing in 1.728. The '00440 has ,disap.
to use the'Palntist,s prayer ; -''Laid, • peared, but the field it stood in •is a .
make' my ;-feet like hind's feet," stili called_Cook's Ga l The- cot -
These •Cleveland; bills ; •of� whish 1 tage 'was'°takken down,. sent -t Ans;T,
write..nioke this country, skirted on, traliia and rebuilt.-.; Australia 'would,;
e, .nor ,eas y' t -e •;sea. an on:, ; kf5 have t11i t`giVeii.aiid1i1ea ant`
the southwest by the „higher hills: •field: at, a ' inuseuin .sight,, and - old
of�the nioorlands,a picturesque and Roseberry Topping in the. distooece :.:
romantic area...: St'rream:4i, generally a- very high -peaked .liill overlooking
named becks,, meander in' the deeper it, a.nd'• this roinnantie. country Where
depths of the valleys °.after• i. ushiaig doubtless Goole played and 'climbed
down the heights, and' making here; As a' boy, ' By the way, the Rev.
• find thererreeiPitczus falls, lielpwg; 'Sidney Davison of Le�ainlngt- n who °
•_to inak'e pletures 'to snap and re ;was . aster- ofn the •'united .ehurcia
menitaer• The_becks are often found; at • Wilighain for • some ,years; and,
passing throligh entrancing wood- preached perhaps his first 'sermou<
land .whose beauty is made ,available' . in Canada°:at Benmiller, .care fro -u,
intimately to the wanderer :seeking -wider- the. shadow: of .Roseberry,;
loveliness, by 'public pathways that from a village called Great Ayton. ''
'
run over hill and dale Rand have • The Kittle, town of Guisboro .also . .
clone so; for generations—pathwas°s 'is in that region, tucked aw,
for - those . who -like. to• . •walk and another. cradle ,of the hills,, It ''le;
I_ i-ays worth avisit; its story ,goes
back' through ri any':cen cries.
. The place in which I stay incl you, walk .or ride down the chef '
Write is.ta little town iiestliug in street 'it is .easy ,to • pick out the
a •`valley of these -.Cleveland hills, ancient buildings. and dwellings. The
Its story •,gods back :to the. middle old chureh and- the. ruins of • the
centuries, though. there are,,v few - priory, i'iory, that 'old monastery' which.
buildings that `betray aa age' that must have been a wonder and_ a
.goes, farther back than • 300 years. thing' of great beauty in stone,' as
After going down a 'steep road. for a- wane• -great.' attractive fragufent 'of
mile," and up,'and_ up „a,- :'high that asticred building is still' con-
.grade„ rood ,for . • another ' mile. spletious--a great arch,: • . imposing .-
with the usual turns, • a lane of enough • .and grand ;;enough `still,
cli eaiuv loveliness'•lu 9iunrer • time: crowning the -ruins. and rubble to .
With its, stone farmhouses az tViriiild= -convey a isowerftd-bripr�sion of the':
•ings and red tile roofs • nestling in •priory's former size and-. magnl11-
a cradle of a hill or perched on`so ne• cense. This monastic church watt •
r egged-, • ight, you come to a 'little founded in 1119 „AM. Burnt "by .fire
village , called -Tiverton. If inter- •in 12$9;', it was restored, ,' a; rich
e 1,:ancient" Ings • fou toile est''ablishmeiltrbu lt-nto- `sfatefii ,-
the
le lane that leads to the .grey cheered..—"and . convey on, 'Norin:a . • 7-
sto. �r .parish,clinrch.: whose bell has foundations in early decorated style.
HenryhI not -only •ordered the
ar_e -that-Go-aper side. for_cen- .H -_ y, Irlii only Y .. ,- . -. ._--:..
turies, ••and,;-•incidentahly; lis -seenP-destruetion of:'some .wives ---butt the
everythinrg•around •n buildings come destruction and -spoliation of sore
and go yet' it remains -the'lasting' monasteries "and'. cdnvents, and• this:
witness to verlasting "Things ,, ,:Wag One, So thorough 'was the ?dem :
Ir
Relie of Medieval Workmanship'
hip' struction and ruin thgt 'great heaps " r
In this delightful small •sanctuary . ofr stone, many :.carved and orna-
with its . weatherbeaten walls there inented; lay around the preeiircts for
is arching the nave in the centre year's. • .Thenvwhen the `villagers and
of the interior- of glorious triple Nor -,
others needed' stone:,'; for building ..
man stone arch, left 2S it was built I houses and , other buildings; ,-'they
by some . skilled Medieval workman..1 carried away "these. • sacred.silent
So •' much more has been altered, . stopes.reloquent of so mucfi •To this ' .
:-ehnngecl even in this little edifice day even -pigpens of stone can be w
within and without; but this was '! found in ;the neighborhood, beating
too good and too venerable to be i in some conspieuous-• place ia: • lovely
disturbed There it --is as- it _was -I carved stone ,belonging once to ,a
before the Wars: of ...the Roses; and I dedicated `house; oVaGod noticed
w hen Cromwell. and.. his soldiers I over :the -doorway of the. ational
-were-minded n in-ded to. ';destroy. so -much (_Provincial Bank , in_._the. town:. of
lovely ecclesiastical, architecture .Guisbaro;.an a quisitelY carved angel:,
and adornments in their puritanical face, with . wreathed brow; and •'I "'.w,
fanaticismN�dri
. , On this. nan arch, 1 guessed that it had 'ornamented some
three-.. times repeated," ,built and' pillar. or ;column of the once beauti . '
c!emen,d-together---ilosel there e�
int carvings of en, deer. sheep
and dogs, all ..is. -stone. I could dis-
cover on its time -worn surface -no
suggestion' of heavenly—things. Nary
an angel,::_and_ ne ksign_ of "a devil.
Not, a wing of angelic -•flight, not 'a
trumpet• of a Gabriel, ;not a sur'
pliced monk or anything like that.
Was this worker in 'StQie .just. a' of the two 'tense- S turns . of ;the
man • of this good earth, without high -Way,• that go steeply $:own, "and.
fanciful ,.flights of imagination,_ so then the'sharp turn of: all• after -
In love with common things, so do- these•.are passed. into the precipitous
mesticated,• that he 'preferred. to por- bottom level of, the valley: 'But .no; -'
tray -the co -111100a elan and.the every- the .sign. IS Lo remind• youi"' f'`t'he
day' things about -him, and thus • lit approach on theleft of the,castle• . - `.
this church -relate the lowly things driveway -that -comes into 'the first
of these S turns. -His.. lordship may ; -,
be driving out or on his horse at the
giffe'i ay where the lodgekeeper lives
When.:King.John signed the- Mama .
•Charts at Runnymede,,it is recorded
fh t' - ete`r-. e`-Brii , one of �the`irarons • ..
C ' ?h ._ e m ll
PSkelton... Castlb .who o d
o e x
Pe
Jahn to -Tut -h- -
freedom -giving document, made a
carious stipulation,ulation that' the owner
of Skelton Castle and h
is heirs
should.,..,attend gini on ,4every�.
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r.,isthe
s •••res :�onslbihty . �� io�the�,� •�.
p •
n overnmen
v nt rIo thinks .of =Drew a d, ,
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a at 0
•; :.:been made acquainted with the issues -Speak for he eop
le of Ontario
DrfAR' 'Ox i9ER
Leader of the ,Liberal Forty in pn-
fario, is a fairer of .550 acres in
• the County of Gr First • elected ? '
r
to-- the Ontario --Legislature ,in 1926,'
-
—
he has ` never been defeated in. his
'riding.:: He ' is easily one , of the = ;
In
he
e islators
nye l the
mite ed
mut- e legislators s
f
Prornnce. and is' an able '.plat orrn
speaker.,,_ •
THIS" BY-ELECTION Ili' THE SNOW is ` no ordinary
by-election. It was called in mid -winter to in prison the
ural vote.„ behind the.. Snowdrifts. "' Huron_ has- ` been
used as -a kite carried aloft above _the snow -bound con-
cessions 4 ---the Drew
easions to •obtain- a � dubiio><ts e ,
ed-:' romises.
re ' � e and -its. am zu>t --record of • 22 unfulfilled p
_ _... rthe...COA-
Is the .Government, deservingof a-; continuance a
r
rotest....
Sims ou
of
Ontario?•
s
o
fidence f thep �
.
ate
ae•
V
, Tuckey
.
Liberal
?B IkBn.N Il CEEY,
Liberal Candidate' - in ; Huron, ' was
ca�ised • on ` a farm among the people .
of ' this County.' ,Now :engaged in
,the trucking' business, he is- widely
-know•n-especially- thi iig'b
ii i
-.. he
c al service. For ht years
n eight- .
of- Exeter and w'as
has been ..Reeve - ,
Warden •of the County in 1943. His P
1
.,
_reputation and integrity are of the
very "highest.
get:iLway-: from ...husya olds--
crowdb`d highways., •
"uJ. coni ilete trete= in. ruliis}n.P ary.
Skelton -Castle
• Down _the hills main from ' Guis- •
boro _ to• Skelton one comes to_ the
beautifully wooded park -of Skelton
Castle. ' • road s n, . "Concealed
Road.” makes _one think; asp:., -elle
descent 'is made, that Mat is to
remind' the driver of any vehicle -
of. life to •the highest, the 'comniou
things' to.- the eternal? :
The- Cleveland Hills
At Saltburn, 'standing on one of
these high Cleveland Hills, aver=
oleo - be eaiu rd-a-;•broad--swntlr•
n: are
a --A sI1mI Pr S
s nd
of foreshoreP
dise' for holiday -makers -1 took Sun-
day services and .spoke, on a week,
day to a Rotary Club. To get there
of he.
the ascent c
ar. 1 ed `atn
one marvelled e 1
ilial Bill te. the .:town on_itsw_higll'_. ,
cliff. Would our bus make it? Double -Christmas ' Day, leading. his lady en.,
elbow turns on the'liamilton moun-•.:chap
the steepness -and the .luta• great his .arm from' ;her _• chamber to ;the •
el. The: -.tower__ of the ca>it e,. - "'
twincity. inat Ontariofhesouth
w,haerffiel ipt elleat axes try the, which I mistook for a church, ,IA ':;
a feature of°'the castle that giv'e's' a
ing hill, when. You have done that, reminder, of ,a.:. fortress „of the. 'old `
in halt the distance, and you get' clays, _.. Not far -�awvay is another
some idea of the breathless climbing tower of a very little church at
and- the ,sharp corners of • this pre- Lrplent'ham,, a quaint . fragnient� of •~:
`,: recall in a Norman• building: ' It is one of the „
all my -travels no -steeper grade or smallest churches in:'the;world, and '
cipitous roadway: I can
moray On so short a hill,
to and
d X50 one of• the quaintest
g into .• .
a town. It I's 'the last, lip grade of Not only is a.good listener popular
C eveland, at the• north, before you ,everywhere, but after awhile he
strike a fairly level plain that -leads knows something: "'
'You to; suef1; great towns as Reclean.
Middlesborough: and • Stockton.' At Empty stomachs open .Minds to :
thebottom of that• hill you can alter • 'unpalatable' ideas.
'I.1
Sou'
THE''SOQ
• N�TO-BE FORIViFD- 'LIBERAL GOVERNMENT -�rYl' not
eat ,for a "snow -drift": vote... .:..will not: deceive you.with pre-
w.luch xe
- led.... t.'+will net s onsor
..4 .. -.. a-. '• . .'..
,•. , , :. ' not dE "a�nd:obT:
n t and, •class fie. a, font .�. . , 9
dl�cx�rnx a o,
•
#eruct in . all Canada' Urgently needed , social ',welfare, hearth' and
wme•..v..wm..,..' ,....vmvwevrn,ur� .'.•N.+v sr;..+'.•.vlK.v..•nufw.�.;,h-•w.M ..t. "v.w�.+w.... -,we�W .M.I.w i-r+..w..y.,..:.e,... '.=.+w+ -r .... -- �•'�� ',•n.,.r.•w._..•.•n-+r.�,.r.:
1 lotion b rildi enc artisan refusal"`t"o eiri. fad
�pen�zon
taxation 'agreements with the Dominion ,,Governfnent at Ottawa. ,::
.:., . 1eW om tax in. Ontario.
Will :nbt�,oxeate .the•.'epeatre:i��.de'uia ul,� +�� ...___. .
LL,
�. r,.. m. . ,.�,.:.V-G�,grna�r°�Im,.•�' "�,;"'.�,..�,.xa.�%=„a�wir�s.� ��:.:r, .� �' _.:;::.,u�r::,r,�r�=R-�.:�,ra�sswu�.' _ .::-r�,z .,t:r�
THIS .LIB ERA.L GO VERNM:BNT will remove: the three cents;:mextra
. Drew -unposed tax on' gasoline'+ . vbi11 'establish a.; real policy
. ' for Agrictilture.:. , , ...will .extend rural Ilydro to the maxnnutr
illintruarittredart
.... inl1 reduce'. the two. -thousand' new Civil' Servants.
added to the r vhic1al pa :oU., -by Dre ? sub-
stantially
ub-
stantisl _ reduce, cost_ of o eratiOn' • of the. Province ...:
zy p will: _ .
give ,.a better deal ^ to the aged and. in#irn .will sign a fair
and beneficial.. agreement' With, Ottawa.
1
T,-zettalligr,
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restTo~sb89. �n-i-1 �LIIdfears a11 take their
: o1
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of 'hours of restful' sled
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1 Y:.: erv- •rr.rr:.:: i:.
condition nda . eventualI 'result• zn n :1.r.
such •IL Co
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ousness .azul iirntabltdty, lode of appetite or fabigne:
s,
condition or rest-
yau. suil�er.•i'•zom nery
�, oll : , •_ ,
lessness `why not try Milburn's Health'and-Nervo�•Pills, . Thousands have
d Milburn s Health and Werra Tilts, bo 1oficial as a general,tenje., to
faun �
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the s steno and thus hel • remote refreshing: re$t'd solea„.
fou g P
, sk' your dru t -for l l'burn'tt health and Nerve Pilie,"idcritifled;
xc.Be&H e ' t n file box.
,. * • ` . 'hs 'T. Milburn Co,. Limiter of onto. .ani •
DEAD Olt DISABLE�
COWS '+2aCIt.��.0 0Q
T�Q�RSES each-
HOGS ; per cwt. $
-A0001ininta:TO•azZE AND dormrriox
ROD Y1.11! �'y4 q .y,` pi S4O,C
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Small Anus- • eniove . -
PHON:E' C!O'L,LtC'T
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