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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-08-27, Page 2Clinton News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO T.orme of Subscription -$2,00 per year in advance, to Canadian addressee; $2,60 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at. the option of the puhHeher. The. date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. Advertising Pates^-Tranelent adver- tising, 12e pm count line for fleet insertion, 8c for each subsequent insertion. Beading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to exceed one incb, such. as "Wanted,' "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once for 35C, each subsequent insertion 15e. Advertisements sent to without in. strnctl'ons as tothe number of in" sertioi s wanted will run until order- ed oat and will be charged accord- ingly. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication meet, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied be the name of the writer. G. E.. HALL, lil, R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. M. D. &TAGGART Banker A general Ranking Business transacted. Notes 'Discounted, Drafts issued. interest Allow- ed on Deposits. Sale Notes. Pur- chased. urchased. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In. surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies, e. Division .,curt Office: Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B., Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to w. Brydone- Sloan Block - Clinton, Ont, CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. (Office over J. G. Hovey's Drug Store) B. R. HIGGINS Notal. Publ,c, Conveyancer •General Insurance, including Fire. Wind, Sickness end Accident, Automo• bile. Huron & Erie Mortgage Corp- oration and Canada Trust Bonds, Box 127, Clinton P.O. Telephone 5?. DR. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 p.m., 6,30 to 8.00 p.m., Sundays. 12,30 to 1.30 p.m. Other hours by appointment oniy. Office and Residence — Victoria St, DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street -- Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglican Church, Phone 172 Eyes Exnmineu and Glasses Fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence: Huron Street • • Clinton, `Ont. Phone 69 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr. C. W. Thompson). Eyes Examined and Glaser Fitted. DR. H. A. MCINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian Nation's. Express, 'Minton, O'1L Extrai..lon a Spee:laity. Phone 21 D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Masseur often: Huron e(Fe kj oors West of Royal +ours --Tues., Thurs. and Sat., all day. Other hours by appointment. Bonsatl Office—Mon„ Wed. and Fri, forenoons. Seaforth Ofaoe—Mon., Wed. and L'riday afternoons. Phone 207. CONSULTING ENGINEER S. W, Archibald, B.A•Sc., (Tor.), O,L.S., Registered Professional En- gineer and Land Surveyor, Associate Member Engineering institute of Can- ada, Office, Seaforth, Ontario. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Coreespondence promptly answered. immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record,. _Clinton, ur by tailing Phoge 903. Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Bennewets, 8rodhagan, '1 lea -president,, James Connolly, uoderieh. Bee. -treasurer, D. F. Mehregor, Seaforth. Directors: James ()vans, Beechwood; Jam , Shouldice, Walton; Wm. f21nn, Flatlet„ Robt trerria, Huilett; .'onn POP - per, Bruceneld; A, Broadfoot, Seafortn; McCartney, Seaforth. Agents W. J. Yeo, R,R, No. 8, Clinton; J.,hn Murray, teatgrth; James Watt, 131y' i d. Pinchley, Seaforth, . ny money to be paid nay be paid to the Royal Bank, .linton• Bank of Com- merce, Seaforth, or. at Cal•+in nutt's Gro. eery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect- insurance or tranraot Other business will be promptly attended i onimplication to any of the ab.ve officers addressed to their reaped. live poet ofaoes. Losses impeded by the director w`+o lives nearest the scene. NADIAN HATIQNAL p IMS) CQCAtti iP ' ,vDoe SCOTTIE- 'w'aat mune before: After deptain Jim- My and his Chinese friends were rescued ..Seam the desert island, by the freighter Madrigal," they sight a strange looking craft ,]ring at .another boat.; Chung tattoo the telescope and tries to Identify the ship8. The toleecopa suddenly collapsed in Chung's hands, as telescopes will when you squeeze them. Chung was all dismay -where a momentbe. fore be wad delighted with the won- derful Magic Eye that would 'bring. d i s taut objects close up. "Looltee Stickee allee • gone", he wailed. I slibwed him how .it stretahed out and soon he had it working line, in spite of the laughter of the sailors, Care- fully be surveyed the ship , which fired' the cannon, then as we watch- ed him he seemed to turn three shades paler and dropped the glass with a sudden cry. "What is it Chung", I asked hur- riedly, But Chung was so upset that he lapsed into a curious chatter of Chinese and English and goodness knows what. I -could not under- stand a word of it. Everyone stee- ped tense and excited. Evidently Chung knew something was going on out there in the China Sea. I shook him roughly "What Is it" 1 said. "Pilates" said Chung and his teeth shattered. Pirates! So that was it. Those dreaded villians that infest the Chinese waters and prey on weak vessels, There was not much time to waste, if we wanted to save the little ship, at which they were fir- ing. The decks of the "Madrigal" be- came a scene of the wildest excite- ment, as we worked feverishly get- ting ready to tape off 1n our plane, toward the scene of battle. Soon we had it overboard, unlashed and'sway- ing at the aide of the derrick. "Pilatee" repeated Chung, savage- ly, and before I could stop him he -climbed out on the 'derrick boom and slid down the pulley ropes to the plane.. "Come' back, Chung" 3 yelled but I might as well have remained quiet for Chung sat with clenched fsts in the cockpit, swearing terrible things in Chinese. I was amazed. Chung, of all peo- ple, was the last man on earth that I would have expected to turn war- rior. It was not until a long time later that i learned that the Pirates had broken nu Chung's boyhood home :on ;the river and laid the dis- trict waste and ever since then he had hoped for a"chance 'to elean up on the Chinese bands,, Really, his was a case ofplendid courage, for he was actually soared white—or rather scared lemon yea low -with fear, yet he wanted to take revenge for the murde'P of his family, My respect for Chung grew immensely. Taking him along with me' in the, plane was impossible, however, I needed the room for an experienced gunner. The ' mate of the "Madrigal" had s o m e naval training on board a warship, so I took ]rim. Our artillery . eons feted of �/ two heavy shot- "/f guns and plenty of shells, also long range automatic pistol. We would have given a fortune for some really good bombs -big ones with plenty of Pep -but we had to take such weapons as happened•to be on board. (To bo continued) Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", 2010 Star Bnilding, Toronto, will receive his signed photo free. Chocolate Malted Milk The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. • - Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Mtn nkey Studies . May king Epidemic Cure Experimental Infantile Para-' lysis in Monkey Troop May Give Aid to Disease . Washington. -- Au artificaily pro- duced epidemic of infantile paralysis among a troop of monkeys at the Na- tional Instituto of Health may lead to curing the disease in humans. If a method can be found to cure or prevent tiro disease in monkeys, scion - theta of the institute explain, the chances are excellent for curing or preventing it in Truman beings and tor ending outbreaks such as the one ex- isting in New York City. The Insti- tute is part of the United States Pub- lic Health 'Service, , Monkeys are used in the institute's experimental epidemic because they react to an 1ufantile paralysfe inted- tion nearly the same as humans. ne- perimental vaccines are given to healthy monkeys to see if they will Prevent the animals from contracting' the disease. Monkeys that have the paralysis are treated with new serums which the experimenters hope 'hold the secret of the cure they seek. In the war on infantile paralysis, scientists aro combating an enemy they neither see nor understand. The infantile paralysis germ never has been isolated. It is one of the so- called "filterable viruses" like those that cause yellow Sever and smallpox. The germs in. this group are so small that they pass through the finest fil- ters that can be devised, and so cannot be filtered or "strained" out of a solu- tion and examined, Scientists are not absolutely sure whether intautile paralysis is spread i by contact or in some other way. It prevails in summer, while most dis- eases spread by contact reach their height in winter or early spring when people are closely crowded together indoors. Children from one to five years old are most susceptible. A majority of cases occur, in children un- der fifteen. An explanation of these facts may ltold the clew tocontrol of the infection, the institute of Health points out, Blood of adults, who have developed immunity through having had the dis- ease in a mild form and blood of re- covered infantile paralysis patients is used in making serums. Stronger serums are needed for mare successful treatment, the institute holds, and at- tempts Are being made to develop these in various animals. Great progress In treating the par - Metals, welch is the aftermath of the actual disease, has been made through exercise and massage of the affected muscles, physicians of the institute point out. This treatment is begun after all tenderness from the acute condition oe the disease has passed. This is Bravery London. -Bernard •Gilmurray, U1= TIME TABLE f stem man, received the 1930 Carnegie Trains will arrive at and depart from' Hero award for his feat of rescuing Clinton aa follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. ' Going Eget, depart 8.58 a.m. /1 11„ 8.05 can, Going Weet, depart 11.55 a.ni. 11 45 11 9.44 p.m. a fellow workman from a burning 1ime. kiln. The kiln was filled to within a foot of the top with burning coals when the workman fell in. Gil murray immediately jumped in, and with a shovel tread the man front the London, Huron & Bruce coals. Gilmurray wee burned so bad - Going South 3,08 p.m, lv himself that he spent months in a Going North 11,58 a.m. hospital. The ',' edieval Spell "Lwow, then a day in Lublin. Here's a thing you musn't miss," a Warsaw banker urged as we looked over my itinerary. "Stop off at Zenon (Za- mosh) It's about halfway between those two towns. By all means, you must have an hour or two in Zamosc," "And why should I take the time for Zamosc? What is there to see?" "Something you'll 'not find any- where else in Poland, and maybe not anywhere else in all Euxope. Zamosc has a medieval market -place, arcaded clear around. No one's ever dared to 'restore' one Building in any other tyfie of architecture. it's as lovely att when it was first planned. It's just about perfect," he added 'with an en- thusiasm that- was surely contagiottr. My banker wee right. The market- place was evorthy of all his enthusi- asm, and mine added to his, it was worth the discomfort of the journey. It was, as he'd said, just about per- fect. From the Senator and Mule. Senator, from the friend who spoke English, I pieced together bits of his- tory and learned of Jan Zamoyski, the hetenan who founded the town. (There were four hetmans in Poland, the most important officers of the king.) That explained his nameafor ski is the Polish equivalent of a French de or a German von, and means "front"; Zamoyski then means "the man from Zamese," Now this Jan Zamoyski must have been a very important person... . I was speechless with joy over the market -place, as many times as I went into it that day and Um nest. An architect from Italy designed it -what to -day we'd call "city plan- ning" -with high brick walls sur- rounding the whole town, with the market -place arcnded all around, and streets put iti where there was space left. Half shutmy eyes and I might have been in Italy, for it was perfect Renaissance architecture. I .gazed anti gazed at the arcades; I strolled along through them, peering into the dim little shops, exclaiming over the vault- ing, measuring the walls -four fent thick, or five, with heavy buttresses; the whole place in such good repair. Above the shops were three floors of apartments 'with plastered walls -- blue or buff or white. So strong is the Zamoyski tradition that no one has remodeled a house, in all these years, nor introduced any other style; prob- ably no one has ever wanted to. Not one touch of Gothic, not a hint of baroque with its curls and fussiness. The town hall may be a century later than the rest, but with its fine tower it belongs in the picture. The plate is an absolute unit, And over it all the medieval spell. -Grace Humphrey. in "Poland the Unexplored." Trails 3 want no road that's only straight, With ,dust clouds whitely Melding; None such as these can lead my feet, To where my heart is going. But let me find a twisty path, That keeps on crying "Fellow," And rushes up a mist -white hill, Or drops to dew -wet hollow: Or guides me to a place bf ferns, I had not thought to see], However crookedly it runs, - It's straight enough foe me,•' INJUSTICE It is a great gift of the gods to be born with a haired and 'contempt of all injustice and meannoss. THE TULE MARSH MURIIF STORY OF A MISSING ACTRESS AND T1IE TAXING OP WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. BY NANCY BARR MAVITY, SYNOPSIS.. Don Dltswarth's wife, the former act- ress Sheila O'Shay, disappears,; leaving no .trace, Dr, Cavanaugh, the great criminal psychologist, learns that their marr)ed- life has been very unhappy. Peter Piper, Ilorald reporter,tries to get aninterview with Dr, Cavanaugn. Instead he meets Barbara. the attractive daughter, and finds that she Was engag- ed to Iron Ellsworth before his marriage, The body is found in the tune le marshd utsiide the. city, The only ohm 1e a patch of scalp With some hair attached. Dr. Ca- van; .g... requests a strand of hair from Ellsworth and Mrs. Kane, Sheila's mail. Roth refuse, Peter Piper hopes 20 get advance information -about the body feund'in the marsh from Dr, Cavanaugh through Barbara, CHAPTER XVI. "He either dreads his fate too much, or his deserts are small, who fears to put it to the touch, to win or lose -it all," Peter chanted under his breath. , He did not reflect hnt the words had been written as a love poem nor that "hard-boiled" report- ers were not supposed to be given to the getting of seventeenth century lyrics. Once again he slid "Bossy" to the curb opposite the Cavanaugh en- trance, and '.waited. Barbara's tennis dress had not been a fancy "sports costume." It was built for real pluy, and her racquet showed signs of hare usage. If she wile the kind of girl who get up at eight o'clock in the morning to play tennis, the chances were that she did not merely play occasionally. Peter was placing a long bet that the morning tennis was a 3sily "workout" Not being a psychoanalyst he was tine troubled by the suspicion that his subconscious was arranging a p•rssible opportunity Sar him' to see Barbara again • and that he was pinning his faith on her because be desperately wanted that faith. But by the time he had waited half an hem., a chill grayness had seeped upwards from his toes and spread until it sbsorbed even the pale sunny ' blue of the sky. He was a fool --a fool without excuse. She was not coming Dr. Cavanaugh had doubt. less sent his report by mail. Even now it had been received at the police department on the morning delivery, and Jevons of the Record was pounri- ing out the story. He was so deep in despondency that he did not even see the shiny little sports coupe until the corner of his eye caught a flash of white and rose as Barbara slam- med the door of the car behind her. With that, he was across the street. "Thank God!" he said loudly and fervently. "Oh, yes?" The corners of Bar- bara's lips turned upward. "Is that the way newspaper men say 'Good morning?"' "You bet it is!" Peter agreed. "Look here," he hurried on, glancing uneasily at the closed front door of the Cavanaugb house. "The other day I asked you to do something for me, and you wouldn't. Now I'm going to ask you to do something else." "Meanwhile, you've done something for me," Barbara said gravely, "I don't think you reporters are half as inhuman es you pretend to be. I haven't looked in the papers lately, but I'm so sure you didn't write any- thing about me -that I'm going to thank you." Peter flushed, It was a rare op- portunity that the staff of the Herald room missed, for not one of them had ever seen Peter blash, "I don't know what I'd have done," he said with difficult honesty, "if a big story hadn't broken and let me out," "I'm glad you said that," Barbara said simply. "I like, people who tell the truth -when it isn't necessary. It's one of those impractical virtues --- you remember? Now what is it you'd like me to do?" "It's this," Peter answered with a directness equal to her own. "Your father is supposed to go to the city hall this morning with a report. I want you to stand here talking to mo 'when he comes out, rand introduce me to him. He'd naturally stop to meet one of your friends. I'll do the rest." "It emends simple," Barbara said. "The only trouble I can see with your very neat little pion is that I've never been actually introduced to you myself, The friends whom I ask to meet my father are not usually ac- quired so--sudden!yi" "Don't quibble!" Peter said sharp- ly. "The statement, you understand, will be public property in a few hours anyway. If I can get it from your father personalty, and get it first, I'll have a whale of a good story. If I don't -well, I'm sunk, that's all. Ansi, it he's more likely to nail it than to take it himself, I'm sunk anyway." "No," said ' Barbara. "He won't mail it Father never wastes time. I think for the occasion of a aisle, you almost might be -one of my friends." At that moment the front door opened, framime Dr. Cavanaugh's bulky figure for a moment before he deseenoed the steps with his usual air of deliberation covering the speed that comes of no waste motion. "Can you wait just a minute, fa- ther," Barbara called out, "I want you to meet M. Piper,' He's a friend of mine, who works on a newspaper:," Dr. Cavanaugh held out 'his hand with his grave, but friendly, smile. • "My dealings with the newspapers' 1} ave.uaually been at second hand," he Said, "But this younger generation has a waw of adding to our educe- tion." !I" hoped I might meet you if I careearo:.nd," Peter said with a die- *UE'Na. 35--'31. arming, grin. "In fact, I'm suppose l to be eooling ay heels outside Carrie I eerwell's doorstep at this women , but I cooled them outside yours in- stead. I'm working on the Tule marsh story for the 'Herald: We have it Brom Camberwell that certain evidence was turned over to yea for identification, and that your 'report would be submitted this morning. Would' you have•any objection to giv- ing me the substance of that report these few minutes In advance? I take it that it will be made public at once, of course; but if I had it from you direct and -well, a few minutes be- fore the other boys trothold of it, it would be a help.” ,,. Dr. Cavanaugh paused, his face de- void of expression, while Peter felt hie hands grow icy with anxiety. "Some day," he laid at last, "I am „going to write a monograph on occu- pational psychology. So you're try- ing to work a little gentle graft through Barbara here?" Peter swallowed. "Yes," he said, looking rather as if he were backed against a wall in front of a fleeing squad. "A queer .thing, human nature," Dr, Cavanaugh mused. "If you sad denied it, I should have sent you peek- ing. But I see no real harm in telling you that -the body found in the marsh is that of Mss, Don Ellsworth," "Whoop-ee!" Peter's face was illum- ined with an incredibly wide grin. }lis wide -set gray eyes were sparks of ex- citement. He turned to Barbara, his arm extended for an eager hand clasp. But Barbara was leaning against the side of the car, her knuckles white where her fingers chitin to the door handle for support, Her eyes were closed. Her lips were only a faint compressed line against the pallor of her pinched, was face. Then, with an effort that summoned the last reserves of vitality, she open- ed her eyes. "I'm glad you got your story, Mr. Piper," she said, and crumpled to the running board. CHAPTER XVII. Dr. Cavanaugh, despite his age and his position on the steps, several feet farther away from the curb, was the fleet to reach Barbara's side. Peter, in fact, wee rigid wit]. astonishment, his face a blank mask pf amazement. Only the sight of Cavanaugh's dark figure bending low, obscuring Peter's vision of the little heap of rose and white on the running board, brought his feet into tardy 'action, Dr. Cavanaugh turned his head as Peter reached his side. "If your reaction time is always ns slow as that," he observed, "you'll be at a disadvantage in a number of situations." "What -do you think-" ' Peter stammered inanely "It's nothing to be upset about," Dr. Cavanaugh assured him. He did not add that the degree of Peter's concern 'was rather excessive, The s-ght of a faint could hardly be in itself alarming to an experienced newspaper reporter. "Too much ten- nis before breakfast. I've warned her before that she played too hard," he continued, extracting a small bottle front his pocket. He withdrew the cork and waved the phial under Bar- bara's nose. "She'll be all right in a few minutes." Pete: abstractedly picked up the tennis racket from the sidewalk and stood turning it in his fingers. "But can't 3-50 something?" he asked miserably. Barbara's eyes opened wearily and closed again. In another moment she had struggled unsteadily to her feet. "Don't be in a hurry," Dr. Cavan- augh advised. "You've gone at things a little too hard and yet paid the penalty in a Uniting attack. POature'e way of enforcing withdrawal from the scene of activity. A day's rest in bed will: set you up finely." "Mayn't I carry her in?" Peter had never in his life felt so incompetent. There was a hint of humor in 1)r, Cava'augh's glance. "No such romantic measures ate neceseary, young man," he said, "My arm will be quite sufdcien:i-thoxgh less spectacular. I'm not saying this to hurry you, but wasn't there some- thing about your trying to get a story to your office ahead of time?" "Suffering cats!" Peter exclaimed. "I forget all about it. 'You're right, I've got to beat it?' He was half Ivey across the street when Dr, Cavanaugh called him back. "By the way," he said, "yon might return my daughter's tennis racquet." For the secop.i time that morning Peter blushed, as he looked down and saw the racquet unconsciously clutch- ed in hie hand. He bouticled back to tie curb and tilted it against the side of th ear. 3arbara said nothing. She leaned against hoe father's encircling arm, and as far as Peter could judge, was oblivious to any other presence. ),continued.) es Rise U.S. Postage Rat To Great Britain and Ireland Washington, -Rates of postage will be increased on letters and postcards mailed in the United States and ad- dressed for delivery in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State on Sept. 1. The rate on letters will be 6 cents for the first ounce or fraction thereof and 3 cents for each additional ounce or fraction, and the rate on single postcards will be 3 cents. The present rate of postage to these botntrie8 18 2 cents on letters. and Single postcards. (To a • • Saida '%usage P lace is a IeY. csit Is l y i tang 1 .ve Ancient and Oddly Titled Sinecures Still Exist in eta riitaia Most of Them Have Been Done Away With, But Some Remain, as Recent Budget Proves ' London; -Few, Perhaps, have ever per, after paying his deputy, `was heard of the King's, Clock Grower; or:, $8,500 a year. The -Chaff Wax had the Surveyor of the Green Wax; or $1,800 from tiro Hanaper Office, plus the "Husband of the Four•and-a-half $1,200 in fees, did nothing and paid Por 'Cent, Duties" -since these par- his deputy $750; The Clerk- of the Denim, ofaces are no longer in being. Custody of the Debts of Lunatics drew But they, and a number of others al- $2,500 a year and paid his deputy $650. most as, quaintly . named, existed in The beeper of the Great Seal of Scot England' in the the not very distant land received $1,000 a year in salary past, and were held by persons who and 55,000 in foes and got the work drew the comfortable salaries attach- done for $2,000. ed to them and paid other people a I Thera wore also the Chief •Pectis mare fraction of what they themselves motor of the C,.urt of Common Pleas, received. I the 'Hereditary Chief Usher of the Ex' Same people were reminded of these,chequer, the Surveyor of the Green oddly titled sinecures when Philip Wax in the Exchequer, the Patentee Snowden's budget revealed recently I of the Subpoena Office, the Clerk of that the "Lord of the Liberty of Fur- Presentations, the Clerk of Dispense - nese in Lancashire" (of whom few if' (sous, the Chirographer of the Com any taxpayers had ever, previouely:me» Pleas, and the Four Miami's 01 heard) gets 545 a year from the etc -the Common Pleas, all doing nothing, chequer. f or practically nothing, and getting The "Lard of the Liberty of Pur- anything from 51,500 to $10,000 a year, ness' is the Duke of :Buccleuch, and 1 When a certain George Arbuthnot, the 545 a year is paid him aa compen- , fated to be the last Receiver of the sation for an ancient privilege be aur- First Fruits and Tenths, was asked by rendered in 1806. Ia Parliamentary investigating commit. But the sum mentioned is a pit- tee what his job was, he replied that tante, anyway, and the people who be did not exactly know, but it bad, are asking why it is paid at all and something to do with the first year's grumbling because, as the budget also 'income from the livings of certain revealed, the community is still pro -1 clergy in the King's Books. }Ie aiding about 507,825 a year in pensions"Imagined" these were paid yearly. for the household servants of Queen � And perhaps be was not receiver 0f Victoria, ought to thank their state in -!the tenths, not only of the arrears of stead that the Hereditary Admiral of ,the tenths. His deputy, who had on the Coasts of Cumberland and West- o$Ice in the Temple, would, he blandly moreland (Lord Leetsdale), the Her-iasserted, know better. The one cer- editary Chief Butler (the Duke of Nor- I tain thing was that George Arbuthnot folk), the Grand Almoner and Grand I drew down $1,100 a year. Falconer and the holders of other * �, high•sounding offices still in existence This idyllic state of things came to are no longer on the nation's payroll• an end in March, 1831. The govern - Most of them were on it until wellwent of tiro day abolished more than into the last century, and even in 1200 offices. those easygoing days there were roc -I The Ring's Coclr °rower had gone tions' in Parliament 'when some one somewhat earlier, This official's duty drew attention to the fact that the in bygone centuries was to crow the august office of King's Turnspit was hours in the precincts of the Royal held by a nobleman who drew a salary i Palace every night from Ash We -fines - of 5125 for it and paid a lackey $25 a clay till Easter. On the first Ash Wed Year to do the work, The posts of the neeclay spent in England by George Doorkeeper of the Ring's Pantry, the III., however, that monarcb, !mper- I(ing's Officer of Bread, the Clerk 01 feotly acquainted with 'English cum - the Irone and the Surveyor of the toms, took the performance of the Moltings of the Mint, and no end of Brower as a personal insult. other jobs tbat were "snaps" pure and X6 -r, Snowden's budget revealed al - simple or involved barely any lvorlr, so that the Receiver General of the carried salaries with theme !Duchy of Cornwall takes the wave- * * * I lent of 581,080 a year for "tire loss of It was just before the Christmas of duty on the coinage of tin." Earl Nel- 1330 that the then Cieancellor of the son and "whoever hereafter shall bear Exchequer, Lord Althorp; announced: I the title of the victor of Trafalgar," "The government intend to abolish all gets 525,000 a year' from the nation, salaries of persons 'who are not doing 'and Lord Seaton, whose grandfather any wotit, No office that is not useful fought ably in the Peninsula and at will be continued."I Waterloo, gots 510,000. Among those who were baying it . The heirs and assigns of ono Thos, very "soft" at that time were various, Warren in the county of Berkshire re - officials of the Hauaper, a branch ot'jeeive every year about 560 for some the Court of Chancery which derived unstated reason. And the "poor its queer name from the fact that the scholars of Oxford," It seems, have writs it issued were kept in a hamper! their poverty alleviated by the nation or "hanapor:" yearly to the extent of 510. -The N.Y, The profit of the Clerk of the Hata- Timer.- "Pleasure-Loving" imes. 'P'leasure-Loving" French Called Industrious Race One of the most fantastic miscon- ceptions about the French is that they are a purely pleasure -loving people. The feet is, writes the Paris corres- pondent of "The London Daily Tele- graph" that the average Frenchman passes a most laborious day, and, ow- ing to the inadequacy of his wages, this is followed in thousands of rases by a laborious night in a second em- ployment, As for the French work- ing woman, she accepts a twelve or fourteen hours' clay as a matter of course. The remuneration for all this work does not permit of an extensive hone day. Consequently, a host of people will welcome a scheme that has been worked out by M: Gaston Gerard, Under Secretary of State at the Min- istry of Public Weeks and Tourist Traffic. As is well known, the crowd- ing into Paris and the big cities has left many empty houses and cottages in the villages, and M. Gerard's idea is that these Wright web be placed at the disposal, at a small cost, of Par- isian workers for a week's of a fort- night's holiday. Tho Department has asked every Prefect and every Moire to supply a list of such available dwelliugs, and steps Inc to be taken to put Parisians in possession of this information. New German School Has Walls of Glass The public soLooi, Am I(losterhof, just completed at Lubeck, Germany, marks a new departure in construe, tion. Glass cabinets for books take the place of the usual walls separating classrooms from corridors. The outer walls are also of glass. On the ground floor there is a break - feet and milk room. Each classroom has a bathroom and each desk in the physics department has its own gas, water and electrical connections. The geography room has a projection ape paratus by 'which- the movements •of celestial bodies are shown on the ceil- ing. There is also a greenhouse, in which pupils raise plants throughout the year, Tramp Steamers '" apidly Disappearing World Trade Turning to Liners, London. -Tho tramp steamer which used to ply to the strange parts of the world' seeking cargoes probablysoil will join the sailing vessel in near - extinction. A :calculation made in London shows that liners, both passenger and cargo, running on regular routes and time, as' contrasted with the tramp, comprise about 70 per cent, of the world's tonnage, Liners totaled but 86 per cent. of the world's tonnage in 1913. The change has been particularly noticeable in the port of London, Where, outside the timber trade, there how arevery few tramps as compare ed with pre-war days, Nearly event - body prefers to send goods in "par - cele" up. to 10,000 tons .or mora on one of the regular line ships. Canadian grain, for instance, used to eross.'the Atlantic and Pacific in tramp steamers. Now a large part of it comes across the oceans in the fast cargo liners or in the holds of passenger ships. There are half a dozen regular lines on the north Pa- cifia, formerly a tramp area, and even the River Plate ports are now on the schedule of the liners.. Sett affairs in general have been changed considerably by the shift from tramp steamer to liner. The seaman no longer signs on for a voyage"not excelling two years," but can tell his wife' almost til• the day when he will return. Jobs aro steadier, for largo liners stick to their schedule. But with the passing of the tramp steanier passes some of the last ves- tiges of the pioneering of another day, and one of the last links between the ship owner and the merchant adven tuners of the seventeenth century ire broken.