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The Clinton News Record, 1920-6-17, Page 7The "Quality Character o this brand has an International Reputation. Bess ATrial Packet will bring speedy , d. conviction �' the Mystcry Lodger By DOUGLAS ALEXANDER, "Oh I 'oven's a word to say agen left the sleeping child, but hh d only the young man asp lodger," declare Mrs. Moss, as she tested the heat of her. iron by a method probably as ancient as the use of the implement itself, "But wet does 'e' do for a livin'? That's wet puzzles me." "Well, there are many ways of earning a living that. everyone does not know about," suggested Celia Carr, her pretty,_eaeeer' face and. low - toned voice eloquent in defence of the subject; 'of 'Miss Moss's speculation's. "That's •as it may be. ' On'y it don't seen .right,-,soine'.ow, for lim•to shut hittself' up all day long ; in 'ds . room, 'ardly stirring out till its dark. More like a criminal than a respectable- young man!" "How absurd! I thought you said that Mr. Brendon was a student?" "Well,'that's wot 'e told me when 'e etnesscame ore a durin' the day; ht would beted no trouble; though I says to 'im then, 'Out at business durin' the day,' I says, "as always been my motter,' Men, as I'm always tor art that h broke off abruptly, mo- ment her own better, if not her earn- ing, half could be heard coming down the area steps. He eves returning from his usual un- successful task of looking for work a game- of hide-and-seek that' had gone on steadily for some years. Occasionally he returned from the chase=mellow, at other tines quarrel- some, according to the quality and quantity - of the liquid sustenance he had inbibed, Celia generally fled, as now, be- fore his advancing step. She mounted the stairs and almost ran unto' a .roan who was descending, him reached the paesage outside is o when she came upon himm. His, face was flushed, his eyes bright. "To -night is going to decide my whole future, little girl," he said. There was an odd tenderness in his voice' that made her heart throb with an ahnost sickening emotion. "To- morrow I may be less than nothing, or --n "Oh, but is it too late?" she ex- elaimed. Then, desperately: "I—I ea'w'you to -day with that man Daug-. han.You perhaps do not know what he is, but -but I heard a man say he was the biggest thief in London," He laughed harshly. "That may be his reputation, - But he may meet his snatch, and I' shall in- sist upon ,shares. Yet, after all, my fate is his to make or mar, And I believe it will be marred!" • 1 Farm homily's Ice -Box. This well -refrigerator serves the purpose of a family lee -box. The windlass raises' the rack of shelves into the housing above the well. A raeltet arrangement on the wheel holds the shelves in the housing until released, whereupon the•shelves with their burden of butter, milk, eggs and other food is -lowered until it reaches a point in the well chamber only a "Then—" Her timid hand touch- ed his sleeve. "I haven't a moment. I am late as it isHe shad' broken away and was gone in a moment. • Miserably Cella turned back, Re- lieved of her vigil, she was too wretch- ed even for the companionship. of Mrs. Moss., That good lady was in some distress, too, A defaulting lodger had vanished, o -wing two weeks' rent. and leaving an unlet room behind. The latter incident almost caused a sen- sation. It was late when Brendon returned. Lying awake, Celia heard him go his room, and wondered what crime had been perpetrated and what final persuasion had been used by the hate - 1 Daugb•an to wring consent from to have a few vases foe certain loW- ! ers. For instance, I have some yellow t Japanese tottery, I use it especially 'for yellow flowers or perhaps blue and yellow posies. If you have beds of paneles, use low bowie that are purple or yellnee How often we see in people's homes great bunches of flowers crowded into a vase of a.glaring cola! It is far snore artistic to arrange lowers singly. Use the glass or china, or what is still better the lead duo:. ports, for they can be bent to fit the bowls or vases, They are inexpensive and give the eft'ect that the flowers are really growing owin in the e saw1 , Eleven Things to Remember in Cake Making. Coarse. granulated sugar gives . a coarse-grained cake. Powdered sugar gives a close -grain- ed, dry cake, Fine granulated sugar gives best resulbe. Cake flour gives a light, tender, delicate cake. Bread flour ;gives a thiek, heavy cake. Too hot an oven forms crust before cake is light, with later cracking of top. Layer cake and cup cakes need tar hotter oven than loaf cakes. Cake made from egg yolks needs a slower oven than with white cakes. Cakes made with eggs to lighten need a slower oven than calces with baking powder or soda. To prevent bulging in middle, have batter thicker at edges of tin than in the centre when cake enters oven. Never beat cake after egg whites are folded in. footor two above the water, A. simple blocking device at the bottom, of the shaft serves to keep the shelves from being lowered into the water. Almost any dug well can be made to serve the purpose ofan ice -box by setting the -well pipe to one side of the well, chamber instead of in the centre of the shaft asis usually the case. • them, Both halted instinctively, and the dim hall -light fell on the white, strained face -of Mrs. Moss's mystery lodger. "I—er—you startled me," he mur- mured, but his voice sounded pleased for all the agitation his manner re- vealed. "Mr. Brendon forgive me--but— but you look troubled." "Troubled!" He echoed the word with a curious inflection in his voice. Then he sighed, and a whimsical look passed like a shadow across his face. "Yes; not only my own troubles but other people's as well." Again that strange note In his voice. Celia glanced at him swiftly. Was he laughing at her? But his ex- pression was quite serious. "Gan—can I help you at all?" Heglanced at her pretty face, so sweet and sympathetic. "You have helped me," he whisper- ed; ' "Your -words, your smile have helped me already." "I am glad." She spoke .simply. She was e business young woman, dependiuite a ng gon her own efforts to gain her living, but at heart she was a child still. After a further word or two he re- lapsed into his odd, abstracted man- ner that might so easily have been construed as furtiveness, and with a murmured good night passed out into the street. Why 'should his unnamed anxieties cause, her such disturbance as well? The question was in Celia's mind as she entered her room. She awoke in the morning with a nervous headache. She was early astir, but Brendon was as early. She heard hint drag something across the floor. It sounded like packing. Flight! Her perturbed mind leaped to that instant conclusion. In her agitation, she crossed over to the window, which looked on to the street, and, pushing it up leaned out to get a breath of the fresh spring air. Then she almost collapsed, and all her floating suspicions were gathered together and shaped into certainty. Be1ov,; on the doorstep Mrs. Moss stood in animated conversation vvith two men in uniform—policemen.. They seemed insistent; she reluctant. Then all three figures entered the' house, and Celia could hear their heavy tread below. Quickly she ran up the few stairs and knocked et Brendon's door. "They are herel" she gasped, as ha opened the door. "They have traced you already. They are downstairs talking to Mrs. Moss now. Tho Deadly Fly. All of the flies that drive us to distraction in Summer ate descend- ants of the few flies that managed to. keep alive in cracks er behind the wall paper during the winter. They lay their eggs in horse manure, a dead animal, decaying garbage or an out- side toilet. They lay about 120 eggs. In from twelve hours to two or three days, these eggs hatch into maggots. After these have fed for several days on whatever form of filth they are crawling over, they change into the pupa stage and remain inactive for about three days. Then the fly emerges full size, and crawls over its home in the filth for a short time, getting its hairy body well covered with• germs before it stents out on its disease - spreading career. There is a new gen- eration of flies every eight or ten days and each fly has 120 children. It is estimated that one pair of flies begin- ning to breed in April, would have enough descendants by September, if none of them were destroyed, to cover the earth very many feet deep. In a town or village, a careless neighbor lets flies breed,• but in the country, with few exceptions, each farm breeds its own. So each farm can to some extent control the fly pest. During the lifetime of a fly, it seldom travels more than a fourth to a half mild from its breeding place, and often, not more than two or three hundred yards. Few farms are placed closer together than that, and if a farmer is troubled with flies, he can't lay the blame on his neighbor. Ninety per cent. of the flies breed in horse manure; the rest in' decaying garbage, dead animals and out houses. Any individual who wishes to have a flyless farm can have it df he is willing to carry out these five re- quirements: the killing of early flies, spreading manure weekly, handling garbage carefully, emptying waste water some distance from the house, and providing fly -proof toilet. Suddenly enlightenment came. Her face grew rosy, her whole body seem- ed to tingle with that, blush of dismay. "Oli-I. never thought -does love come .like that?" she gasped, "Can he have guessed? Oh, how shall I ever face him again!" She was very much on the alert to avoid meeting him during the fol- lowing days. As a matter of fact, when next she saw hits it was not in the house, in which as a rule he re- tained so secluded, but out of doors. you,, . Whom did- you fear to meet? It was during the lunch hour, and "Oh, newspaper reporters hunting he was seated in. a big, ugly motor. -ear down the newest thing in the celebrity by the side of an individual who seem- line. You see, last night old Daugban ed all cigar. That was what struck produced a play of mine ---the first - her first. But .behind the cigar was and they say it's going to storm the a large featured face, and . the man's town, despite an alteration 11e insisted massive shoulders were covered by a on making at theeleventh hour. I costly fur coat. read the words aloud and they sound- He appeared to be arguing forcibly ed ridiculous. But last night his yet almost in a pleading manner, and judntent beat mine." the trouble in Brandon's pale, sensitive lie broke oft Tho girl was laugh - face deepened es he listened. He ing, weakly, hysterically. shook his head again 'and again, but Between laughter quickimagination extears she - at last apparently gave way. plained. s Two men passed by as Celia stood abled him•to realize what had hap- desired. there, blue -chinned, plastic -featured pend, slightly swaggering figures.. One oil "I kept it1 nshd" el s sald.se rdr now , `< Ears. them,nodded towards the big motor- failure too The Shape of Baby's Celia, success has made th big.differ- Plant Doctor's Miracles A frown sett] ed over his face. "Confound'Daughan; he has given me -away! Is there no chance of escape ?' "There is a skylight opening on to the leads," she whispered, frantically. For a moment, as thosemounting steps approached, he appeared considering it. Then his face set and he shook his head. A mist cane before the girl's eyes as the two policemen. and Mrs, Moss approached. Nearer and nearer like a remorseless fate they came. ':Chen, with a glance of Stolid indifference towards those two immovable figures on the landing, they suddenly turned away, following Mrs. Moss into the room which the defaulting lodger incl recently occupied. ' Celia looked up to find-Brendon's ey"I starindon't underattand1nI1y into hers. thought you said---" • "I —I am as much --bewildered as • Plant doctors and plant creators at Cambridge University aro engaged in a series of progressive miracles. Acres of land on the outskirts of Cambridge in England are growing literally hun- dreds of brand new varieties of wheats, barleys, oats and Potatoes; andmany of these illustrate strange- ly newly discovered secrets of her- edity. Some of the varieties are bred chiefly for yield. There is a new Wheat, known as "Yeoman," which has yielded 12 quarters to the acre. That is three times an ordinary crop —an event of real world importance. But perhaps the most startling dis- coveries of the new science are in producing plants that are proof against specific diseases. The Cam- bridge botanists or doctors have now reached such a pitch that, as one of them said, they can make almost sure of breeding plants that are ab- solutely resistant to certain dis- eases. At present they taeo that re most eagerly in pursuit of the p shall be immune from the wart or scab disease, lately threatening to be- come a national calamity. But a special investigator is being turned on to each of the more common farm products—wheat, oats, barley, pota- toes and roots, The results are to be shown in the summer to a distinguished assembly of the medical profession. The infer- ence is that this strange secret of heredity known as the Mendelian law, by which the Cambridge botanists are helped to their most striking success- es, may be applied to men and ether animals as well as plants! Models for Canadian Youth, I cannot think of a finer ser, vice that parents call render a child than to Help him rigidly to appraise .the moral and spiritual worth of man and wontenWell, known, of the best-known, of the so -canoe great. To reveal, Wil- berforce .or Florence Nightie. gal° to a child is to inspire and enrich a child, net only ey pia°' leg a titan!e figure le the Pan- theon of his imagination, but by malting cleer-wllat are the great, misses of the great. I am concerned abeut the Canadian child having shrines worthy of his revereneo and honor. Parents cannot expect to reveal to a child the essence of greatness and nobleness in another until after they . have ant answered far themselves the question of what greatness :real- ly le—until they, know that great- ness is not a hatter of passing fame, but of abiding worth, moral and spiritual, and' that hi a democranY no mean is great who does not greatly serve. I. would warn parents. agaluet the danger of filling the shrines of their children • with second and 'third and event fifth -rata figures, Parents -must have the courage to say to a child—"This' man, however well known, is not worthy of your respect for he lacks nobility. This man,. how- ever rich or powerful, however nusherous• his benefactions, is not a truly great and noble per- son." We owe our children the truth at all 'times and under all cir- cumstances. Let parents be generous in their appraisals of the worthy, but let them be un- sparing in their condemnation of those who are unworthy of a child's love and reverence: ILS.' Full of Thrills - Reforming the Calendar ,;:+1., rna• 1t we Should do that, every yidlf would begin with a Sunday, and. the day of the weak and the day of the month would he the same overt year.• Me" mortal Day would alwitYs fall on Thursday, and Christmas. always on al Sunday. In .°onsiclei�ing aeve have to the calendar, however, keep in mind that a large pati of Christendom observes a church year in which there are movable, feasts, do• pending especiallydpon Easter anti: Whitsunday, The Jewish Passover is aiways'near the Christian Toaster', bat rarely eolncides with It, 73at since the holy days were intended to be com- memorative annlvei•earleS, there 15 no longer'' any reason ivity they should be movable, ' The ,metbod of fixing them' is a heritage from the old Jew• ish calendar, which depended on the mom and had thirteen lnontl:ts, day le 0110 da of 1l0 Week and tl 'It y Of the month were ,unchanged from rear to year, the feasts could be fixed on certain days of certain months, like Christtnas, To bring that about one schen;e proposes to change the time •of the beginning of the year to March - a return to the old system, whips wad in use as lately as when George Washington was born. Then Easter would always be on April 12; Whit• sunday would be the annual spare daday between May 81 and June 1; "leap day" would - 50015 at the end of February, which would then be the last month of the old year. M. Flatnmarfon, the French astrone met, has a more radical proposal. He would begin the year ,as the vernal" equinox, give new navies to all the months and place Raster at the end of his new first month, It is unlikely that any such plan, making serious changes In the habits and thoughts of many hundred million people, will be adopted; but the simpler changes sug- gested would be'easily understood and easily accepted. When the earth lkr t began Its s a annual clrouit othe sun it mane a great mistake 111' not colnplet!ng• the trip in an exact inultlple et the time It took to rovelYe on its AXIS, Instead of doing so, It used up a trifle more 'than a quarter of a day that it might have saved if it had hurried a bit, There are two Cvays of stating that Surplus fraction of a day,- but the dif- ference In accuracy between them 10 so slight that It takes throe' thousand years to amount to a whole day. The year we use In our calendar Is. 365 .236$6 days,;, or 835 days, 6 hours 9 minutes, 9 e8'conds, Even if we were to drop the fraction the 865 Is divisible neither by twelve, the number' of the months, riot by seven,"the number of days in a week; 50 it is 110.. wonder. that then have a calendar rid Ott In devlsin fl un red 0 4e have produced nothing that Is not coe. fusing, hard' to remember,. and dif- ferent year from year.' Our months are not only Irregular but irregularly irregular, The first four months' of the year are of three different lengths, Suggestions of reforlh, which leave beeii"much discussed abroad, are all based en the same general principles, but they differ in details: The one .point on whichallof the plana agree 15 that• the year should be divided in- to four series of three nonths each of 80, $0, 81' days respectively, Thus each season would have thirteen weeks. That accounts for 364 days and leaves to be disposed of one day in each of -three years and two i11 the fourth year. It Is agreed that such ex. tra days should be counted neither In a month ndr in a week, but should be outside both. The simplest plan would bo to make them extra days at the end of the year or at the beginning,—which would be the same thing—and so to add them to what is already a holiday season, je tl. n The ,people who are talking of the air route from Cairo to the Cape as though there would soon be passenger services running, have got hold of the wrong end of the stick, says the Man- chester Guardian, There aren't going to be any queues waiting at the Cairo booking office for a time. But for sheer joy of adventure and turmoil of experience the African route beats to a frazzle both the tions -Atlantic flight and the journey to Australia. You land here, and elephants come nosing round the camp. You land there, and you sleep• to the lullaby of lions roar- ing round, You. Land in a dry swamp and are beset by mosquitoes and centi- pedes. You get up and aro driven by a sandstorm which propels you 866 miles in less than three hours, and at a height of 7,000 or 8,000 feet you wrestle with innumerable whirlwinds caused by the furious heat. Sanitary Floors. The physician tolls us that dust and dirt are prolific sources of disease. Cracks in floors, while being unsight- ly in appearance, harbor an unbeliev- able quantity of dirt. A new 'floor, if properly laid, is free frons this dis- agreeable feature, but in the course of time, these cracks will begin to appear, due to the shrinkage of the wood. If all floor cracks are filled with "crack filler" the, accumulation el dust and dirt will not be 111' evi- dence. Thus you may be assured of a sanitary floor surface and sickness may be avoided. It is a simple matter to remedy; just clean out the dust and dirt from the cracks with some sharp pointed instrument' and then thoroughly clean out with a scrubbing Welsh, eoap and water. When dry, the crack filler may be applied. It is made in stiff paste form and should. be applied with .a putty knife in much the salve manner as putty. To make the job complete the floor should then be waxed, ram- 'shed or painted, depending, of cauree, on "the present . finish -and the effect ear, • "Behold Merrison Daugltan in all his glory! That man's the biggest thief in London. It's scandalous--" The voice died away as he, was lost in the crowd. That scrap of conversation made Celia's heart: grow cold. Could Mrs. Moss's vague, suspicions have touch d the truth? `I•Ier'young lodger in the company of a man who was notorioue. as the biggest ;thief in London. And he looked:it. She wee glad ,!sot to emounter hint V.rhezt. she'.readhed holo• that night. But, there was a sick child en the tin'? heaorr,. iv 0Se.:mother had-,a`!ked Celia t0 attesi•'her during her a�se,0;o, and tiff lioc way upstairs Celia's der .Vsis aught 1byi t� well-known vetch' sound In t rou h the shtit'deor of his room . Trow en`n Ia de thisc'man's biddin , If I should flail it: would, mean Ills—. grace, ,lnnprisomilentl" li •. The girl tote herself Away,,e fled 'Upstairs, her. bteathi corning in b tnt�ng., gasps. • ! t wee trtio then: He teas,' content- i e felony.- h'he older ma till, . snm .. y l n g i plating., turntltexl hint, •astd Ito wi�a drijai;irli it'0iv whether ho should sudhiimb o. t is$. 0' once. Little girl -- The lotss that -followed was inter- rupted by the reappearance of litIrs.. Moss. "Tlio rooms shall he spring -cleaned and tho beds 'aired, and all ready for you to -night, .Such a comfort, those days, to 'ave the police on the pra- ises!" reth- isesl ;t roods was let. Her crises., (The End.) r 'MO v sd+0 dfired to dd n word that yiiktt eeidello gftdsl �etil ;';t I rI jGyilig afi, irradistlbie iu1Vul3e, she The Surprise. _ Laet hit;lit, hafoie. I went to steely, ire I heard the wind's consp ''To raid. the earth with thunder (Igen; ]full of defiant Orel The 'Palo moon hastened on her Pay, • ' peo.,rfti1 of sa}padovrs, dismal, gray, TbI fiborigag, `,vrxou 7. half -i bke g 1 'a 11,11, s of Starlit, u }N ' 1'0 tt o:14C Xma� 4 S > I , . r ry tik, a i3 4 Y.f '}r. Aub �.hr,� , lv i �., ' iii 11ei,inat 1 Fii51 siViii.piv 5!111. Ii r evsw0, in1ijf ' a g lden ttf'todil, au, vk.41✓�laLYtaB�+. 0Yi. ..... Wonderful Hopper. The grasshopper will spring two hundred times the length of its own body. The dragon fly, by its strength of wing, will sustain itself in the air for a long summer day with unabated speed. The house fly makes six hun- dred strokes with its wings, which will carry it five feet every second. If there is one bit of neglect more than another that a mother should be ashamed of it:surely is that of letting a boy grow,up,with his ears sticking Wide out from his head. And for this offence there is less excuse than most others. A grown man is surely going Lo be sensitive about 'this favorite feature of the caricaturists, andrunlilte a 'ao• mini, lid has no chance of hiding the defect with hair.. To avoid this it only takes the effort of seeing that the baby sleep with .the ear straight he is lying on and that his caps and hats are put on correctly. Tam 0 Shatter caps the little • • The boys wear seem to be the worst offend- ers in. the way of pushing ears out; of place, for there is no crown to bold t;oeap where it should be, and after pushing it up and down for a time it usually settles ori the poor little chap's oars.' loafs anvil Twists lam -edible Navies Curling tongs. and corsets are ap- pllances of the toilet commonly as- sociated vtith feminity at its most feminine. Nevertheless, there have been many prototypes in real life of Conan Doyle's elderly British colonel, the secret of whose unrelaxed mili- tary figure Is revealed when an Arab bullet, that ought to have Milled him, is deflected by his corset steel. In the days of famous dandies— Beau Brumnlell, Beau Nash and those other historic beaus who took theft copied from the names of signs over personal appearance so seriously, and business places, but that was not the serious affairs so frivolously—the hair novelist's only source of selection, dresser's achievements were deemed Sohn Forster, his biographer, found Chesterton's Grievance. About the biggest man I ever saw, declares a writer, is Mr, G. K. Chester- ton. He is considerably over six feet in height, with tangled curls on a great head set on a massive body. I rode with him in an open automobile down Oxford Street and Piccadilly, and he attracted as much attention as the Ring going to open Parliament. "Why," I said, "they all know you," "Yes," replied Chesterton in a grieved tone, "and 1f they don't, they aslt," Speaking of "burdensome" names, Stray Stories tells of one Arthur Pep• per of Liverpool, England, who be• stowed unen his infant daughter a name that comprised every letter in the alpbabet; running from Anna to Yetty Zeno. It seems surprising that the names of Dickens's characters, odd though they were, should be found in real life; for it was from life that many of.them were taken. Some, as Is known, were of great Importance, and the services of the more skillful practitioners were eagerly sought. But there is no shock to our sensibilities—a pian who is merely a beau may fairly be expected to behave very much after the man- ner of a belle, It is different when a man who amounts to something is caught indul- ging in small vanity. Curl papers are, Somehow, always comic--cartoouists and humorists have reveled from Dickens down 1n holding up to ridicule War Dairies. the woman in curl papers—and a mas- a Men in the navy resented the order forbidding them to keep diaries dur- ing the war, but after a certain en- gagement a British ship picked up a floating sea chest in which there was a diary full of information that would have been invaluable to the Germans. Writers charged the censors with stupidity because they deleted imagin- ary incidents front short stories, but the Germans published broadcast as examples of British treachery fiction passed by the censors as too ludicrous to be taken.. seriously. The censors made mistakes, but not so many as some people, would have us believe. They had a difficult work to do and on the whole did it well, Raising Sunken Ships. The business of raising stinker ships promises to bo so lnerative that a num- ber of companies have been farmed for that purpose alone, Great Britain has recovered more than live hundred of the six thousand ships that it lost during the war, and the salvage Com- panies of the United States plan to raise all American craft that they can find, unless the difficulties are insur- mountable, C NR,Ne�rz omGTR, B o and The Canadian Government has chosen as its represehttatives. to sit on the Board of Management of the Grand Trunk Railway, Carlos A, Hayes, Vice - Flowers. ilia del i Garden i'ali n G r ,h G G How few of its realize that to ar- range flowers in an artistic manner is an art! One must always remember that the vase is Secondary. It is well President, in charge of Traffic in the C,N.R., and Samuel J. kitingerford, As- sistant Vice -President of Operating, Maintenance and Construction Dept.; Canadian National Railways, both of whom have 'had over thirty years of actual railroad experience and have risen step by step until at present they are recognized among the fore- most railway Hien of Canada; cacti an expert in his own respective field of 'service. Mr. Carlos A. Hayes was, bort. at 'West Springfield, 'Wiese., Marek 10th, 1865, and entered railway service in al April, 1882, holding various cleric positions in Lilo accounting and gener- al freight departments of the Boston and Maine Railroad at Springfield' and 1loston unlit November, 1103. ].'loft 1890 to 1192 he was with the Central NSW England and W`estorn, and I hila - el hla and }Loading Railways, He jl it ... lt,T. joined the R. in 1802 as Noty Mg - land land Agenit of its National Despatch t, becoming Manager in 18964 fu rill r1 '190 he became Assistant General r the a,'i'.lt, at Chi, Agent for Freight Age cage; the General Frolght Agent at Montreal in 1908, and Irrelght Traffic erf®rd Manager in 1911. In 1,913 he went to Canadian Government Railways , as General Traffic Manager, Eastern Lines, and became General Manager of Eastern Lines in 1917; lu November, 1918, he was appointed Vice -President in charge of Traffic for Canadian. Na- tional Railways at Toronto. Idr. Samuel J, Hungerford was born !n' Canada, near Bedford, Quo., July 15, 1872, ancl.. etytered railway service at an early age as Machinists' Appren- tice of the South Iflastern a Canadian Paclflc Railway at Farnham, Que, He 1 cin among his papers a carefully drawn list of names, wlh the sources from which he obtained them. Some of the names are too extravagant for any- thing ny thing but reality. Jolly Stick, 8111 Marigold, George Muzzle, William Why, Robert Gospel. Robbin Scrub• ban, Sarah Goldsaeks, Catharine Two; — Sophia Doomsday, Rosetta Dust and Sally Gimbiett. culine poet in curl papers is certain y reduced to a figure of tun! But it is related that Scope Davies, a friend of Lord Byron's, once entering the poet's chamber unexpectedly, Sound him re- posing comfortably in bed with his hair done up in curl papers. "Ha, ha, Byron!" cried Davies, teas- ingly. "I have at last caught you act- ing the part of the Sleeping Beauty!" "No, Scrape," was the sheepish re- ply, "the part of a dashed fool, you should have said." "Anything you please," conceded his friend, cheerfully. "But You have suc- ceeded admirably lu deceiving your friends; it was our conviction that your hair curled naturally." "Yes, naturally every night," replied the poet, "but don't, my dear. Scrope, let the cat out of the bag, for I ant as vain of my curls as a girl of sliteen," The tragic poet of the hyaeinthine locks! Who would have thought it? It suggests a creeping, eold suspicion that perhaps even those historic ring- lets ing lets of Disraeli—those famous ringlets dangling picturesquely above his pal- lid brow, or tbhust back with careful carelessness by a beringed hand—may also have been due rather to art than nature, ' In the naso of one distinguished head, that of Artemus Ward, the hu- morist, one of the very first Americans to captivate London, both socially and artistically, there was a real and rea- sonable excuse for resort to curling irons. He was amazingly long and lank in build, and lean of countenance, with a boldly hawklike nose—an oddi- ty of appearance that, with his grave, gentle, drawling utterance, greatly heightened the effect of his• comic speeches. Still there are limits; and after a bad attack of mountain fever his straight yellow hair became so thin and stringy about his pale and painfully cadaverous face hat lie de- cided that something must be done about it, His repent biographer, Mr, Don C. Seitz, tells how a friend met flim coming out of a shop with a pack-, age altd was at once hailed with: "2 want you; old fellow! I've been all over the city for them, and I've got them at last," "Got what?" "A pa121 of curling tongs. I am go- ing to have fny hair curled to lecture to -night. I mean to cross the plains in Carle, ,Cone home with me and try to ctu•1 it for me. I don't want to go held various positions in Quelec, ` to any idiot of a barber to be laughed tarso and Vermont, until 1809, when he was Evade a charge man at the at'The obliging friend oomplted, with Windsor St. Station, Montreal. 'Phis • position he held Until 1897, after which I more or less sitcCeseilibut it Hiss nob he received proniotton after promo- ' lag before ArLemus ie' for the owns Lion until ha joined the O.N.R. Ho be- "virtue trained he celled a d ltb601't adorn• came Superintendent of Rolling Sleek were 1 of the western limes of that road with meat, and it was not aat alwayr. s i- headquarters at Winnipeg, In 1010, krnieut to seek obar a aattesthd in a Five years later ho was promoted to dice so when ho eu hoSuperintendent of Rolling Stock at mama reference itt, his lecture on the Torontowith jurisdiction over all the ; Mormons; "A Molc}can lady's hair linesof the Canadian Northern and: rover curls—it is straight as an Ih• WAS e General Manager of Bast- cline's. Some people's hair won't curluntad ern bines of that company In Nevem- under any circumstances. My ]rah' bar, 1017. He received the appobit- won't Buri under two shillings.' i n . i Yl '�% Cb •Presde t it1 • of Assistant meat charge of Operation, Mahltonanro and To read a little and l]]]ull n lot is • Construction, Canadian National Rail, mnrC profitable than to it and read a o ways, 00 Decoistbor 1, 101A, th:nk a little,—Ann Blewott. QUEEN v . j UNIVERSITY ,111* Kingston,. .. Ont. 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