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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1924-8-28, Page 2Stories Abo \Ve11-Known c.fie Glue Sells of Britain, Among ? 'sheaf of , • good stories 3arouglrt bads by Sir Harry Lauder Trom his recent -world tour is one cone peening a Seotsman Who called an Eng `"Iishulan"tio account for having referred to the Ekngnish army.. "British Army, tf you please," he; insisted° later in the evening, when the two 'Were of a sing -song together, the High - lender called upon the other to sug- gest a song. "Rightel" said the Englishman: "Let's have the '13?uo 13ells wf Britain,' " Made ice Cream in the Faoe of Tragedy. In the hard school of adversity has ,Mrs, David Watt been tried and never been ,known to lose her sense of hu- mor, e r inhe face of tragedy. yen t �cu It was her farm at Britle, Mani- toba, toba, that the popular president of the Federated Women's Institutes, eo well- known in connection with the Women's Institute t exhibits at Toronto Exhibi- tion, was tested tothe limit of endur- ance. Sixteen years ago this summer there W<,4 a beautifulbeautifulwheat crop, and the mengetting were out the binders to start harvesting the following day, devastating hail storm Lame when a lavas h up suddenly: In a few minutes - the heavy av acresof grain were ruined. The fields looked as if the wheat had been ploughed under. Bits of straw were all that wasto me seen after the hail had done its work. Most people would have been pa alyzed over the disaster, but ''Mrs. Watt simply sat1, to, her daughters: "Well, girls) thin storm has taken all. our .erne! Let's have sonfething out of it!' _: Sc sloe'sent one daughter to gather up hail stones, which lay hi heaps against the buildings, end' the others girl ter eeme ,_ceeent, while she her- self got out the freezer, 'acid they inede ice cream, ' Glad It Was the <in,g and Not,,, the Minister. :. FIere is a yarn about tlx Bing which will ;b.e'new°to most readers, and which disproves a..curi-eut notion that -British lealigiOnises haye' 'Fast" the 'idea of Chni•oll'dt.:cipline - • ,.0 A. c3iui cli ' near Balmoral Castle, -where.11.e dIoje9ty wee enjoying`a t , holiday, had. just received; a new Min- ister sired there was a local bad man— e. poacher and. so fortis=who had seen neither t're rilinister .ror the King, One Sunday morning, the King °hap- 1 pone• to be walking along the bank of the Dee, vrl'en lie say; the poacher fishing.tor eenn on, The King stopped and said: "You. must leno,v that you've no right here, For ,one thing, this is water; and far aiother, this prose•rYaci is Sitndl}." • waddled thou h the skier r The Peag water and peering upwards, asked: �» t`W�110 are you?" ..The King smiled: "Oh, I'm the: King," he said. ` re- lieved. The- fisherman was instantly "What a fright ye. gave me," he exclaimed. "I thought ye were the - new minister." • The Regent of Abyssinia, accompanied by the Duke of York, is' shown leaving his residence at Albert Gate to visit the King at Buckingham Palace. Natural Resources Bulletin. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the In-. teridr at Ottawa says: Time was in Canada when nothir.g but clear white pine would be con- p r - were April rho t' ns. 'Whiteresting,• a •din o era to aid..Ie building P That crash -then, strangely for the.: standard lumber pine was'Urge the" flowers all ur oses and the cut practically to nesting; P yp P To budding, birds sali adaptable timber e . of this. univer Y P was enormous. • Cooling breezes of the market and This demand dight lingers: Where lovers tw b g forest fires have had their, effect upon These your'kingdcm howeyer, ver with this favored species, o beautysinners: ,P r And these your h the result that white pine is not as —D. Stewart Robinson. plentiful as heretofore, and many be substi-other varieties have had toThorough in London. tuted in building construction. s visit A young Scotchman on his first Spruce has largely' taken the place toLondon - dropped sik ence on the of white pine. One-third of Canada's round as lie was alighting from a IumUer cut isnow obtained from bus, and ear industriously looking spruce, while the Douglas fir of Brit- for it when a policeman remonstrated ish Columbia furnishes about 15' per with him for blocking traffic. cent. i the I '`,t have lost'sixpence,'' - said With, the advance in prices of pine Scot. and spruce, the hemlock is finding a P ! "Well, you'll never find it in this larger market: At first only the bet crowd remarked' the bobble. "I'll tergrades' of hemlock were saleable, find it when the street clears. Come but with. the increasing scarcity of the ask tali ht." woods - the lowergrades have b g better When the young man returned the now come into use for purposes where hobble had gone orf duty, but Wean- a higher grade lumber is- not required.' time a road gang had been. busy dig - Hemlock is a fairly stiff wood but ging up the street preparing for a rather splintery. It holds nails well,l.mew pavement. and where it is kept dry or where it f ” lt'on," said Scotty to himself, "but To My Enchantress. Greening hedgerows:, And daisy -dotted meadows; Gleaning sunshine And ,richly wetted shadows; Isle Royale, in Lake. Superior, is soon to be converted into a matchless sporting reserve and paced' at the disposal of thepublic: On it are forests: and herds of deer, caribou and moose awl other gime, The Open Road. out on the open road to -day, Oh, i's, 1 l and feat 1Vrt.1 the dust of wheels Where the eager soul moves'en to its. t l sweats in the neat; And the fretful s t Where the stout heart • laughs at the hill climb,,' 1 .wa': -the.way: .:time faint heart whines in} .And Oh, it's ,out.on the open road be ln1e:, �theday. fY ,1 And it's, 011. tor file end n f of the road- . But heed you the sights side, be; r the way may Or it's weary For the dnst from beneath and the grit in the teeth Is not all thele i;s to see: But groan are the trees by the road- side, And the heatber passing, fair; And the blue o'erhead lights- the grey we tread To- the purple shadows' lair. And hear you the songs ot the •road- side, Or it's s•crry the way, I fear; For the creak and squeal ,of the grind- ing wheel Is not all there is to hear: But the song -sparrow sings in the hedgerow, And the bobolink lilts by. the stream; And the sough of the trees in the even- ing breeze Will sing itself into our dream. And love yen the souls by the wayside, Or it's lonelyothe way will be; And seltlsli gain, with souls in pain, Is a thing not geed to see: But a manly bursen lifted, Or a womanly fear allayed, Or ria. childish laugh, as the drink we • quaff,.•> Will be goad in the evenings shade. And marl: you the Cross by the road- side, Or it's meaningless' all will be; For souls adrift with the sedCon's"shift Is Calvary's tragedy: And the hope of the world's redemp- tion, And the- pledge of brotherhood, Is God coming again to the souls of men By the Cross• by the open road. -B. C. Freeman, is continually under water it is fairly. The demand for lumber and the enormous losses of valuable species by forest fires are gradually, forci g cheaper and poorer grades of timbers on the market, While at present those being used are quite satisfactory for, ordinary purposes, there can be no question that we will continually have I to find substitutes as our better tim- ber grows scarcer, Taking No Ftlsks. • "Now I want a very careful chant-, feur—one who does not take the slight- est risks," warned, the would-be em- ployer. "I'm your many sir," answered the aiP licaiil "Can I have my salary in ad'V'an ce ?" When en your sumnisr vacation tack and practice kindness to anirrials they are thorough in London." CREAM PIE. All the way from British Columbia comes this recipe for a really delicious cream pie. It is hent by Mrs. George C. Curie, who says, "This is a rather extravagant recipe, but so good!" 2 cups sweet dream, i; well beaten eggs, B•cup grantilated' Sugar, 1 thsp. cornstarch, 1/ tsp. salt, flavoring to suit" the taste. Beat the eggs ;well: and add the sugar, salt -and cornstarch., Then beat again until ,smooth, . add the creim and bake' in a .erioderate oven like cus- tard pie. Whipped cream or Meringue spread over the top of the pie makes it especially tine. The largeet railwayaY Signal -box x in Great Britain is at Glasgow, and con- tains 488separate levers. Quoiable' Aneccpoles. 'Plaits -seven years ago,„ •i'n ,the vii - lege of Chard, 'Somerset a• „small, brown -haired girl was teachiati. lines hi a Board school. She herself was •The then only thirteen years of i,ro, , l,ic passage of till',?, 'has brought m• ity changes 'into tiler child-tett:h•,r's life, • ittlti: to -dao she finds beresif ths first u'onlau 1'11 history to ho it en '01')' r of ` a'Britisli Govel•n'll'tent.. One of the : most a•cznarkab:e women ofour time, s11e b' Ings hard, proctical.. experience to I' e r an.' in -e duties as Parliamentary Secretary to the " Ministry of Labor, fur, spending a few years as a teacher, :,he entered the: world of industryas a shop assistant, and, was destined to tramp the streets to look for a job. At :k5 •age hof fifteen Margaret. Iondfvl.�ma?rat?dto Baichlon, h - re she f(hind remp eetnolt as an assistant in an Outfitter's shop. Later she nYov- ed to London, where, in subsequent. years, she was to experience unemploy- ment and the disconrageipcint of walls- shopto shop 0o cnlg n a in from P sieua loll, oge er S e Miss i51ar area Bondfleid 9 Motor' Tourist 'elms of Canada ''. 'r A really gratifying feature of the post-war period in, Canede which has been cbar•e.cte sized by snich depreeeior i11 s), in anY,pliases, of the national life bas been tho marked and iieiea"il g favor with which the Dolilinion has come to be regarded by the people of the United, States as a country of holiday diversion, Tourist traffic from the:Itopiib11c'has developed at such a ielirarkable rate since the war that from a guite,insignifioant worth it has canis to be one of the; greatest sources of revenue, and the American tourist is now a major Dominion resource. Bach summer Canada is now flooded by thusands of Americans holiday -bent across, the„ " b'order.. in Who travel up , . able manner, ,and pene- trateconceivable i . trate . nbo`-ever•Y eectieii„ot „thee collie try. ' Without actual figures. at Band it has ...been perfectly apparent each summer since the conclusion of the" that the .tide was swelling, as' re- war b �.. D. B. Iitiox has just co`m: ited an ox- r 1 1 f 1 . . efficiently advertised g t tourists elleiit volume, of 'Quotable Ailec- t' Alt th h spent tenflow .,- .. , •. _ Canada and induced a greater 'fho following year, The year d , a ib years behind various counters in ,I.on- Party. It was, therefore, a hating til Stilted in the formation Of ` the. Laior turning clotea and s nce h 'Himself deacr es them t b 1 11 not mind if quote e a cot�_� �e. One which. ._ ready ve„ that the.pres;ont Y Y ticulai•1Y well worth quoting describes 'd d overworked. h should t b' per'nted -,. , uoav onein will establasli a don and the provinces, ata time when buts to her groat abilities and 801\ e in this rho assistants were Ua y organize tat a e ymou :congress as P � r evident PO orly pea ,, an overwor e year she s ou have been a1) 1923 created; 1001 aS quO il ,e, le will n i. ,. a retardregard, but it is al - lin t 1 Ois par -dl d 1 t th Pl •th C I t a conversation between a magistrate Th conditions moved her to agi- to porha s the most rnzn^rtan� t' atle summer w. P w perhaps, • These con - i aixd.^ e. ,'.1 vement, and started •her union est in ,the :: world—that" of tt is regard.' + tate.foa an ao . , p .`� � possible 1'11? not been found p _ ,< .� � , n • ,_ hilstlt has r' In f 1V ne da i 1 ileo ant o Av, � s tl e g un- r 11 0 1 he ane r airman of t G P which s h h • .,.....an a career ,;.._... to keep anything like accurate tabon I d the t t. kl P f 'h Trade Co q - oxine .. .class -lno _ .. tall m t ti lists who enter the Damani u a replied the constable d f B 't sin every walk of life before and her abilities were soon Points by the railways, f y as ce, _ e,ivagis ra e- paralleled in the history ,o working the ra e Union Congress, .wiose 1 thousands of American vac`a- E were avin a very sated ergo- t Now known aflec membership exceeds 6 00 000 t11cSa th d P int lvitli,a cabdriver :el. n If Britons drunk," exclaimed the magistrate. harinland her abilitytoput triko which involved some l 70,000 flc by ni otos an.Incieasing y popular her lie c method of holidaying, especially since "Ah," pointed out the constable, "but her life and soul into everything she -Workers, and had until Miss Fond- there lvorn't no cabdriver there; yer fie'd a ••iroached the probl`ehs Keen in Canada.. haus come to devote such at - d PP ver v;orshtp, tionatelyas Our Maggie gie" to thou No woman had ever held the 'pest o • g girl relialiie tree- "But sands 'O rl 1 ", "But that doesn't 'rove he was through the recent boiler halters' figures are• obtainable on. touris ,R she lies won this descripi'.ion gh tested�'by th 1 oes. 1 I In 1898 she became Assistant Secre progress for seven menthe, Hier skill tentidn to, highway building. Figures ' tart' of • the Shop Assistants' Union, as a negotiator til tis proved by, elle set. of motor entries from the United The next is about Ole 1\Iamnry "Else, and held this: post for ten years, until Element orf this di'sp'ute, ii•hich lieeStates in the summer season have for whose name `,betrays her dark and h led the lite Mrs Ramsay `�rhievcd in t remarkably svhi tiiile Years been s umme ea Yugo e for dusky origin even `before we hear her speak. She was dusting her. Southern of the Women's Labor League Her Slight iat acture with hazel eyes tically doubled the very ,. .. �,... i *soleus year. worship I•" she succeeded MacDonald as" Organizing Secretary ,;alter her appointment, menta„acid in 1923 these figures substantial mistress' drawing -room, •and came great eloquence sincerity, organizing that smile 'at one from a cnarnling total 'o the p' presently upon a snail, bronze bust of lability, and active work in all women/s face to see her fors -trotting” at a Half Expend Nearly $120,000,000. Willi "Mis' Juliet, chile," she said, as she creation of the National Federation of among a group of friends, pile .feels various states of the 'Union, for tcau went over the' bard's face with her Women- Workers, were later rewarded that he clia•nl is different frdm that lug Purposes•, a largely iucreased num duster, "who am die yere go/annuli?" ibyher appointment as Chief Officer of anyone e. se. But to sea her on a her of automobiles and parties._ There "That, is Shakeepeare, Lise," replied of the Women's Sedtion of the Nation-- platform. at the Albert hall, .rousing. were registered fora' period of from Mise Juliet, • "a wonderful.poet, who a1 Union of General Worker`s. •It:was her audience by -hei e oguaiice and ; one to six Months 1,956 motor vehicles tied centuries ago." `Dat him, :miss? exclaimed Old , pointment to the Governmen':. ; remains in the minds of all X110 Kayo 272,444 motor vehicles; and for "a period Mammy 'Lire incrcduloua'.y. `'Leri, ;. Miss Bondfield was the only woman witnasse•t it. I (31 wenty-Your hours, '1,662,200 motor Use- done hyear •o' Mistah Shakespeare delegate at the_ historic Tra"'de nidn 1 Miss `Bendfield sails for Caiidda on Vehicles,. .Assuming that each vehicle 1 101 ob times. `Everybody seems to Congress at Plymouth in 1899, wnen September 13 - to *lake a survey of so registered at the ditferent border know him, 'Deed. I done hyear so the resolution was moved which ie- 'coriilitions`in=the Dpiiiinion. points carried four passengers, who much 'bout hili slat, I alias thought he ---- -- p am Shakespeare. i movements, and her assistance in the Circle Club dance, or enjoying a •joke There -entered Canada in 1923, from 1 this post that she resigned upon ap blazingsincerity, is the picture which_ for °a period of from two to thirty days; was a white gemmun!" * ,y * I said a couple.' : As usual, in such cases, I am"esged.on to a third. I'm, sure, you'll forgive lie when:you've read it. "Tee fret time a man speaks in pub - lie he cutters nedr c. agony in a shorter space of time thhn'at any other part of his career. A' certain young gentle- man -it would be unkind to give his name=felt the truth of this the other day when he found"`hirnself facing an audience of free and independent elec- tors.- "He had prepared a very fervid,ora, tem' in support of his father's- oandi- dature for the local municipal council, but for the first few moments he could do nothing but gasp. Then, in re- spcnse to an encouraging cheer, he be- gan to speak. ' 'Mr.—Mr.-Chairman," he stain Silenced b --3r G 'rans,'Organ: mered, 'when I left home this morn Again is Heard'.ing, only two people on this earthwas gain.g to say, butnow—well, aged by a shell from a. Gertnan long - my father knows ! "—le; lee losv her. The next day, however, herange gun, the 'famous- organ in the consented to come in tor a few incechurch ot St. Gervais in Paris is my father and myself -knew what: -I Silent since 1918, when it was dam - again, again in use. - ='rrorsicor the 14'I1lYtary. A contrast in ships is shown in this photo of the old H.M.S. Worcester and the up-to-date D 22, submarine destroyer, photographed at Greenhithe. A Pigeon's Nest on the Dresser. men b installed Plow_ would - lik t have a -18 not directly hit by Although -it w u }"ou e y e i' eon's neat light on tc 'of our By that time the. McGees were se, Pg g P Y the shell, w 1`I1r1 U15 have recently been Ing a t enable • spent - $5 Per day per person during their'-sbjourn in, Canada, and for the shorter period, •all• renieined the full time of thee, pe�rmitd,,' and for the longer peri•oda, ane half of the time, the 'anioulit "bf' money: eiipended by these ,: tourists -in the different'pro- vinces of Canada . in 1923 would amount' Co.' nearly '$118 500;000 The' total `number of visiting'• cars, amounting to -1,936,600 in 1923, _com- pares with 996,318 in 1922, a virtual increase of 100 per cont., and- with 621,835 in 1921,-533,895 in 1920, and 237,953 in 1919. - The total figures tor 1923 divided by the various provinces are ..as failows:—Ontario 1,756,199; Quebec 100,696; British Columbia 63,- 945; New Brunswick 7,315; Manitoba 6,328; Alberta 983; Saskatchewan -946; Nova Scotia 381; and Prince Edward - Island 7. These figures, of course, re- fer to the poiirts at which cars en- tered Canada, and take no cognisance of automobiles visiting several pro- vinces. There are altogether 66 ports of entry, of which 16 are in Ontario, 20 in Quebec, 15 in British Columbia, 6 in Manitoba, 4 in New Brunswick, 2 in Nova Scotia, and one each In Alberta, at. au Aldershot barracks o ens r el ? That is -just what happened. much interested' that - they left .the titch killed scores of r, or- dv e-spp h Tommy, Atkins to inspect himself be- i a nia in Minnea olis last spring., s rin window 01)00 on• Purpose Sure the church the organ was - .:: .. n o • P 1ig,, .. . .. shippers in fore going. on parade; says- an English seriously damaged by ;steel anlinters g gP and two baby pigeons were hatched enough! Mie : Pigeon began iiyrng ,m,.. pierced the pipes and shattered .magazine: which and cared fcr;Irraha.t strange nesting and out, busily bringing sticks and - ale g or • was a mat- an infantry regiment winches place: feathers. She did not care at all who the case." The repair w k have but the male bird' logs cupies thin barracks, but mirrors nt watched her, laborious patching, and requirec><, Mrs, McGee writes a corresponds ter of 1 P Por some years played an important d It is portantof the Youth's Coiilpniiion, was out -timid. The nest was built on the considerable. `time. Tt was foul �sllpart In'the'training of a cavalryman. dresser, and. shortly after it was fintsh- n-alicing one"afte`rno`on when she came `o necessary replace only the hews. Most riding.. schools have large square The exact date of the-makingect the but it Ys believed mirrors on the walls, flied at .amount - organ is not known, i in the early part ed man's- height from the ground. The to have'• 'been built novice is directed to look in these as of the sixteenth century. it was play - ion after genera he passes, and so: learns to "hollow his ed upon for generat g back,"and to avoid` the varlaiis,faults tion by the noted family of organists,ng • into Which budding horsemen fall. the Couperins. Oarsmen, tor, find mirrors useful as When the pipes were being put in to' training, thou h, to those ig-. prder, it was found that many: birds' aide t nests, swallows and martins, had been built inside. them lit the sun take ci The rays' of g minutes ie reach our earth; there are stars so distant that their liiht must travel for 30,000 years before we see it. norant of -the value of the dev:ice, the sight of a man rowing in a tub fixed to the bank and locking at himself in a large mirror pray- seem merely amus- ing. The kangaroo ,readily leaps from 60 to 70 feet. • The greatest, recorded leap of a horse is 37. feet. upon a pigeon • that had been hurt so badly that it could net fly. She talked softly to it and finally succeeded in taking -it into her arms. Carrying it home, she dressed its wounds and fed it., Shoe kept it for three days and let it go when: th'e little thing ,eeenieda anxious to •be about its business. Several days later she was attracted to her; hedi:coni• winclow'by -a pair of pigeons out on the ledge; they seemed much excited • over,",onlething: Several tinges ty day fcr a Week she noticed • them there. Then one 'warm spring clay when' the bedroom .window was' open ene of them, the female, walked 1right in, but her mate would not fol - ed two w'hite.eggs'appeared in it. Mrs. Pid-eon would remain on the eggs all night and 'until late in the morning; 1 then her mate would take np his share of the task for the afternoon. Of Saskatchewan, and Prince Edward Is- land -Holiday motor traffic 'to' Canada has in very rapid and remarkahl1e manner bite "a• come to. coiistivery important source of?Doiiiinion-revenue, to which;: In: vieiv of- its annual-. expansion':and future possibilities one would -natural- ly hesitate to put limits. This_ has been'buiit up and developed with sur- prisingly 1 little effort on Canada' part, and Is a -tribute to Canada's beauty and opportunities for holiday diver- sion, and the returns cut of all propor- tion which accrue in Canada to wisely course all the friends. and neighbors planned road -building piogranis. were anxious to see so unusuala sight, but Mrs. McGee was careful to'bring1 visitors only when the female was on. u e; c, w sight of anyone. 1 As I write the two baby pigeons that ' first saw the light in that strange I home are growing fast, "The birds are extraordinarily tidy," said Mrs.' • McGee. "I thought at first they might cause much trouble, but they haven't." On Augustust 11 Brantford, cel ebrated the for lal o penin g of the nen Leine Bridge e by a holidy: Lieutenant t,uve nornitury Geeksutt eremeely- pronouneed the bridge opera for traffic; and Hon. George S.Henry, minister of highways, Was preemie, 'ilie bridge' 10 428 feetJong, 64 fent wide and dost $335,000. .It is already, reoognizedas one of the most beautiful structures in the province. The Greatest Delusion. Selfishness always defeats Its own purpose, because It vitiates the ,very 'purposeof our being. ieneior we do Petty, mean,. selfish things -,:eve are up against an inexorable Yaw; and the law that we have violated -:,will punish us'and -make tis repay to the last far- thing, - Whittier tells us:— Thatto be, saved is only this— Salvation from ma'.selfishness: The poet is right, If It were 1101 for selfishness there would be no poverty. and very little `crime or suffering in the world. It' it wore not:.'for selfish nese, there, would have "been no wee in 1914, If it were not for selfisimess the great nations of the earth would not bo split by hatreds and jealous -lee 'and, wrangling over non-eeientials, as they are to -clay. 1f it, were not for • selfishniisia thins world 'would be. a Paradise, Selfishness is the greatest delusion of the Millan race, •; G --"Quite So.. An Irish laboroe • who was `always tato for his work manee'ed one main- ing to get `there early. • In ordodurage m, he fore - roan said,er. "toGoense, morninhig, Patt, I sea you have been getting here early rot i re alw arts behind,. h nd � lwe late, Before, you t • �t at as '.reilIS Las but u nose o