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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-01-26, Page 2CLINTON NE °"CO•'' CLINTON, ONTARIO errt7s at Subso jption--$2,©0 per year Sn •lvancc, to Canadianaddra see; 4-2':'1) to the T7,5i or other foreign countries No 'iaper di coi,tiuued "until all arrsars are paid unless at the o t ion of the publisher. The date to n'hich every subscription is ltaid 9s denoted on the label. dverttslnp Rates—Transient Over. tising, 12c per count" line for first insertion, 8c• tot each subsequent insertloa, Ilcadlpgcounts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to exceed one Mob, such: as "Wanted;' "Lost," Strayed," , etc:; inserted once for Zac, each subsequent insertion' ilio.. Adv,:=rtisementa, sent fly, without in- structions as to the number of -1,i eertions wantedwill run until order. ed out and will be charged, accord- Ingly : Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pubW cation' must,' as a guarantee of „good faith,, be accompanied by the nameot. the writer. M, R.a ARI', editor. G. E. HALL,' Proprietor. �+ cAGG R.sli 1 ANICER A general Banking Business transact-. ed. Notes Discounted. Drafts Issued. Interest Allowed on Deposits. Sale Notes Purchased. H. T. RANCE . Notary Publics. Conveyancer.',r. Financial,. Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire insurance Companies. Division. Court Office Clinton. W. BRYDONE Barrister, Solicitor, Notary POW°. etc. Olflee: SLOAN BLOCK CLINTON DR. J. C..GANDIER office hours: -1.30 to 9.80 p.m., 6.30 to 8.00 p.m.. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 p.m, Other hour by appointment only. Office 'and Residenc, — Victoria St. DR. FRED G. TI -t ncYViFSON Oilic e and Residence: Ontario Street Clinton., Ont. One door west of Anglican Ohurcli. Phone 172. Eyes examined and glasses fitted. DR. PERRCiVAL HEARN Office and. Residence: Theron Street - Clinton, Ont, Phone ,(Formerly oc up ed .b0 the 0, W. Thompson). late Dr., —„lcamined and Glasse( Fitted. Did, H. A. PICINTYRE' DEi4T18T • Olilco hours 0 to 12 A.38. and .1 to 6 P.M., except Tuesdays and Wednes- days. Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone 21. • DR. F. A. AXON DENTIST ., Clinton, Ont. Graduate of 0.C.D:Q„ Chicago, and R,C.D.S.,Toronto. Crown and Plate 'work a specialty D. H. McINNES Chiropractor.-Ele6'trleal Treatment. Of Wtnghum, will be at the Commer- cial Inn, Clinton, on Monday, Wednes- day and Friday foronooue ps oath week. Diseases of all triode eaoceeefully bandied. GEORGE ELi.IOTr ),Icensad Auctioneer for rho County. of Huron. Correspondence prompt!- answered. Immediate arrangemcnte can be made for Sales Date at The, News -Record, Clintoa, or by calling Phone 203. Charges_ Moderato and Satiat d—bei Guaranteed. OSCAR KLOJPP Ronor Graduate Carey a-onea' National School of Anetionoering,: Cbicago. Sin tial course token in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Merchandjae and Farm Sales, Rates in &eepjng with prevailing. -market Satisfaction as- aured.' Write or wire, Zuricb, One Phone 18.03. • B. R. HIGGINS Clinton, one General Fire and Life Iheurance, Agent for Hartford Windstorm, Live Stoek, Automobile and. Sickness and -Accident Insurance. Iitlron and Erie and Cana. da,Trust Bonds. Appointments tirade to : meat parties ' at BrhaeIIold, Varna -end .Hayfield. 'Phone 57. •' Ali ` : : • i, N ” deigNAL ASL C wa'� TIME TABLE' e'rains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Suffern and Goderioh Div. Going East, depart 6.44 a,m. +,c,• 8.62' p.m. Going West, ar. 11.e0,am" ar. 6.08 dp. 8.68 p.m. ar. 10.04 p.m. London, Huron E. truce Div. Going South, ar. '1.66 dp. 7.66 a.m. 4.10 p.m. 60123 North, depart 6.60 p.m. " ar. 11.40 ".11.61 a.m." The McKillop Fire hisuranee Co pail Heafl Office,ai"Ortll Ont. ' DIRECTORY: s President. -.arses Connolly, Goderich• Vice, Jeines Evans, Beechwood; Sep,:; Treaeui'er, '1"hoe.'. E, Hays, Seafortb. Directors: George 11icCartneyy, Sea,, forth; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth• Y.t Grieve, WultonetWm. Ring, Seeforth; Ir es, McElwee, Clinton; Robert Ferries IIariock; John lienneweir; Brodtlegea; Jas, Connolly, Goderich. Agents: 'Alex. Leitch, Clinton; 3. W. Yeo,, Goderlch; : Ed. Hinchray, 'Sea - forth; 1V. Chesney, Egmondvilie; It G. Jarmuth, BrodIaegen. ` Any money to be paid CO.,n may bo paid lo Moorish Clothing CClinton, or at Cutts Grocery, Goderich. Parties de tring to affect BBisuranee or transact other business will lig promptly attendee to on appilcatidn to any of the above officers addressed to shear .`'respectivs .post oflleei Loeser inspected by the Director who Uves dearest, the eeeae. 1 i ' Mime 01116,people could ped to astir --riot Halm* Wiled ien metal—401 t a div' ----7 e ft. X00; par got 910113, bulk tea' --tea ex t'�"'1rtieit came °'SA.LADAr' �lvf'1tred-freeit ilito kris@"S'ALADA"!. Faitlr. BEGIN HERE •TODAY Peter Newhall, Augusta, Ge., :flees to Alaska, after being told by Iva Iehinie, Russian violinist, he had drowned 'Paul Sarichef, Ishniin's sec- retaryy, following a quarrel. Ishmin arid Peter's wife, Dorothy, had urged him to flee. lie joins Big•Chris Lar son in response to a distress signal at see, forcing his sea jacket upon him, Their launch, hits rocks. Dorothy receives word that her hus- band's body, :identified: by his sea jacket, has been buried in Alaska. She feels free to receive Ishmin's atten- tions.: But Peter had•been rescued by another, ship. His appearanceis com- ppletely changed and he is known as Lime;iuice- Pete. He finds his identity completely covered and takes a job in a cannery,. • Larson's body occupies his grave, Ishntin and Dorothyego to Alaska 'to return Peter's body to Georgia. They do not recognize Peter, who is chosen head guide. A storm carries their ship to sea, stranding then' at the grave. Peter and Dorothy hunt. He carries her across a stream. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY' CHAPTER IX: (Cont'd.) It was only an incident of the trail, and it disturbed her that, as she walked on toward camp, she could not get it out of her mind. R did not. please her that 13he could be moved, even vaguely and faintly, by this crude, rough man of the barrens. Yet, somehow, she had been caused to think of the lover of her,,girlhood. Memories, tender and dear, bad been quickened to life. To Pete the moment had been of nothing less than glory. /Ie,, too, knew it was only an adventure of the trail, that it was but the image of a hopeless dream that must never —could never --came true; yet for an instant it'had lifted ; him, as with Wings, out of the valley of the shadow. CHAPTER X. PETE SAVES ISIiMIN. - Dorothy found, to her great ser - prise, that the days of waiting passed rather swiftly. .She slept long in the mornings on the comfortable, rudely contrived grass mattress that Pete had made for her; she played cards with Ivan, and made many little ad- venturous excursions Into the 'wild with one or both of the two white men. Ivan was consideration itself, .always willing to beguile herwith his marvel- ous music, wooing her with his finesse of ardor, fascinating her in hours of talk with the intricacies of his bril- liant intellect and of his complex, marvelously attractive personality. Yet she owed a great deal to the head guide, too. In particular he watched out for her material comfort, superintending the preparation of her meals so that every cup 01 coffee, every succulent b„ yeast of ptarmigan was exactly to her taste, .keeping her ever warm and dry, refilling her mate tress every day with freshly cut grass Rid 'keeping the fire bright every moiling in the camp stove for her to dress by. It was not so easy to explain the instinctive comradeship she felt for him, Of conree he was the one man of her.oivn race in the entire com- pany and here --+far from the cities of Bien- bonds ,off race were revealed as of surprising strength. From Pete's point of view the days wentby in a single Bash between the curtains of night; and he dreaded to his hearths depth the !tour certain to come when the Warrior would roll in on the waves and carry Dorothy out of his life. His attitude toward Ivan was too complex ever to completely straighten out in his mind. In the firstplace lie had deep admiration and unfalter- ing respect for this genius from the East. Ho was pleased and gratified by the man's attitude toward Dorothy; is own most chivalrous instincts seemed reflected in the Russian:•. Yet sothetimes a sudden, white flame, strange to his sight and puzzling to his heart, mounted and• paled in the thin,., almost 'beautiful face; sometimes he was appalled. and estranged by a spark in the almond eyes, a gesture of the white hands; and: sometimes he. caught a fleeting expression on the classic countenance that wakened, in his own heart, a sullen, ahnosta mur- derous rage. Once, on bringing fresh fuel to the little camp stove In Doet-. othy'e tent, he found the girl in the Russian's arras. She ead just yielded to his lips, and she was convinced -at the instant that Pete appeared at the threshold- that in Ivan her destiny of happiness' was Secure. - But she was instantly cold, ipexplicably appalled, as she looked into Pete's face. She could not have explained why. The man looked drawn, as in the fast ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS W. MacMillan and. •Company Uulon Bari Building, Galt, Phone 603 AIsel Tepee.' and .hileldener W, MACi1.MILLAN, L.A. P-28 ISSUg No, 4—'28 ' stages, of fatigue; but there was ne conceivable excuse for her sense of shame, her strange drawing -in to herself and inability to emerge again into Ivan'e warmth. On 1ecr ing the tent Pete 'walked straight past the, camp fire on to the hills. He was'profoundly shaken and unnerved, not from amazement at what he had seen—he had realized that Ivan and Dorothy were virtually engaged—but at the narrow margin by which the girl had missed erre- vocable disaster. It had not been by too wide a• margin that he had re- strained a mad, tragic impulse to leap into the tent and shatter the man's life: He spent`a restless night after the incident, and his peace of mind had departed from hint. For all that this was his last dream on earth—the only shadow of happiness that he dared to hope for he felt that by all conscience he must cut it sheet. His trust in himself was shattered, and there was nothing for hint now but to turn away from the camp where his love was and vanish among the desolate hills. His star would soon set, the tower of his only strength was tottering. Yet the hours passed, andhe lay in his bunk, unable to reach up to this sacrifice of self. But if he had lost faith in him- self, a higher, better faith had come to him in these years in the wild, and the basic 'prayer, the first and Iast cry of all mankind', came easily to his lips: "Oh, Lord, '.abandon nie not in temptation, arid deliver nee from evil!" Yet it was a higher wisdom that He found the girl in the Russian's arms. temptation should conte to i-im, in an unexpected form, before the day that he saw break over the eastern hills eloped down again to darkness. The party of five had made serious inroads in the small caribou he had brought to camp, and partly with the idea of procuring fresh meat, and partly because he wanted to be alone with his bitter thoughts, Pete an- nounced his intention of penetrating the interior on a hunting expedition. Dorothy was lame:from a stiff climb al the evening previous, so she de- clined his invitation to go. Ivan, how- ever, looked up from his book with heightened interest. - "I'ni getting soft as mud from too much ease,"-, lie said. "I believe tel gowith you this morning. I believe can crack down one of those caribou with my piste''' Pete stiffened slightly. "I don't see how both of us can go, unless Mee.. Newhall wants to go, too;" he said quiet's+, so net to be overheard by the two natives. "True enough. It had slipped niy mirid' for a minute. We'll' take the natives with us-/ think it would be IL good plan to kill several eariboueif, we run into them, and try to eure thent—in preparation for emergencies —and these, men can help you carry the neat into camp.'She's safe enough by herself, isn't she? "As safe;,as she could be anywhere in the world. None of the wild beasts of the region will' come within miles of her, and there are no other hu- mans." • "I'Il stay and •struggle with your book then; Ivan, Dorothy said. Soon they filed away into the hills, Ivan loading with his pistol.; then Pete, carrying Ms' rifle, and the two hunting knives, bringing up the rear. They deployed like a squad of ad- vancing. infantrymen as they neared i the first alder thicket; the two In dianefollowed a deopIy" .'torn bear trail, like the ruts of an old road, that conducted them easily through the heavy barrier of brush; and Pete' and ebec "Sports At rAetic}(1, Beginning -end of December and r'liundng until the -third week of 'parch and featuring the tastes}.' International Dog -sled Derby, the Quebec City • Winter sports is a niagnet`that brings the tourists from beat and fat, Illustra- tion Shows. Governor A. Harry Moore, of New. Jersey, and Mrs, Moore, taking a'bob-sled run down the Dufferiii'Terraoe just outside the Chateau Frontenac where they stayed" over the New Year's holiday with a diethrgulehed party Ivan seeking separate trails to the Wilson Publishing :CQinpany left. They were in' file again when they reached the more or less open hillside, but because of greater skill at choosing the trail, the two natives were more than a hundred yards ahead, of Ivan, and Pete was thirty yards farther in the rear. At that instant Peter caught the unmistakable thumping sound of run- ning baribou,'and turning, he had a brief glimpse of a barren doe in the - brush thickets behind. Tho animal Was better' than two hundred yards distant when Pete glimpsed her again, running in a great arc up the hill. She made the poorest kind of a target as she leaped through the 'scattered clumps of brush, but eager to procure meat as near camp as possible and not to miss any chances, and perhaps slightly startled and out ofhand by the animal'8 sudden appearance, Pete fired vainly at every opportunity. Whether or not he hit the animal at all he could not tell, for at the fourth shot she disappeared in the thicket al- most opposite Ivan, The echo of the 'trifle report rolled, dimmed, and was still, and the men stood in those queer, fixed attitudes that almost invariably follow any ex- citement. Presehtly Ivan beckoned and pointed into the brush thicket be- side him - "She is right here," Ire called.- "You must have got her—that last shot. I hear her thrashing around." '.. It seemed entirely probable that the deer had swept through the brush unseen and had fallen' wounded but a few yards from. Ivan. Pete started tor' grope fol ,further shells; /van - peered into the brush. It seemed to the head guide that, as he paused, hecould hear faintly the rustle and stir hi the brush that came so distinct to Ivan; and he was not greatly surprised to seethe latter draw his pistol and begin to fire., in evident excitement. He 'supposed, of course, that th•e man was putting the finishing touches to the fallen caribou. No blunie could be laid on Pete that he did not call a warning; he did not disinguish the real identity of the creature in the thickets until it wee. too late. The animal that suddenly bounded out of the thickets was a bear cub of that season, and it was squealing in mortal agony from' the pistol lead. There was no danger in hien; he was less than knee, height and was desper- ately seeking flight. But Pete knew, and the Indians, appalled on the hill above, knew, too, tliat a squealing cub means an enraged mother not far off. And in the wink of an eye the great, shaggy dain Caine roaring out of the thickets like an avalanche—straight toward the hepless Russian. • - Fear -ridden though she wits, the she••bear could' not seek flight when her 'dying cub cried for help. She charged with unspeakable ferocity. (To be continued.) e Sold for Song Tenor Singing in Coach De- lays Train in Germany Berlin—That music is stronger.: even than rigicl railway •e&rethrles was re- cently ,c1 inonstroted in the university tgwn of Tuebti en. 'When the -Berlin-Switzerland ex-, press came • to s stop . there shortly atter midnight an Italian tenor's voice was heard tossing an aria from "Tosca in one of the coaches. Travelers, brakeman, - the conductor and baggage porters collgosted before the coach anti listened in rapt atten- tion. Tia station master, nervously look- ing athis watch, was undeclded. whether to permit the singer to finish the aria or whether to interrupt it with the shrill whistle giving the seem] for departure. 'he conductor reassured hie. "'There is an 'electric engine on aur . I Sin. We can "tnalce ;tip lost . time, Please, •Blease do let the singer eel ettee-e'"- The .station master assented. Four minutes elate, the train pulled out: Iteporter—Are you Mr. Spaulde, the: potato king'' llliaguetei—;''e0 but I dia7ilre the term.; ' 011, kings and silver. kings and sb' en are so COM-MOD,Call ane the potatenatate, 'WI:ry are :S'ou putting 'personal' en that letter to Mr. Daraind? "I want' Iris with to open i't. SMARTLY SIMPLE PAJAMAS , The chic two-piece pajamas'pictur- ed here are an attractive and easily fashioned style. The jacket is shown sleeveless or with short' kimono, sleeves, a square or round neck, and with oz without a patch pocket. The trousers have, - elastic - or tape rum through the top and ate straight or gathered at the lower edge. No. 1114 is in sizes 34, 36,'38, 40 and 42 inches bust, Any sire requires 41e, yards 36 or 40 -inch material. Price 20c the, pattern. 'Our Fashion Book, illustrating the newest and most practical style, will be of interest to every- hand” dress- maker. Price of the book let the copy. ROW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your acme and address plain- Iy, giving number and size of such patterns as you want, Enciise 20c an statnps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it "carefully) for Each number' and addrebs your order to Patters Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 79 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. - Patternssent by return mail. ` ---am'-- Protective Coloring Chameleons are a kind of eft— A, lizard nature: has bereft Of power to bite or scratch or ,claw em To sill an enemy y v wit h awe. v .. Nor are; they swift to get away When larger creatures look their way. .And se they supply •change their hue To green, or red, or brown, or blue. Or beige, or peach, or tan, or fawn, To match the object they are on.. When en a lily leaf they curl They swiffly change ;to whilt,ish pearl,; And ,eag preying n from the • Sir, ire iy g Do not discern' that they are there. When on a rock their heads they lay They shift" their° shade to 'brownish gray And Jaguars eannot find out '.hat they are anywhere about, And so,• though niither weak nor ' streeg, ' Their lives are usually long; In short, they use the oratty tricks Which roes' engaged in polities Hata utilized since days of old To keels thte officers they bold. I ishebo First Tititimp•- Iouesty t at po]icy, atter ale." Second Tea:itirs— "\Vhat makes yer think flet? "Re niomber that, dog I etole?" "Yes." "'Welly I (tried two•witole clays to'se'1i int 0.11' no one offered more'n five shillings, so I went, ".bike an honest roan an' returned 'him ,to'.h' old lady. what :owned 'ran, and she give ino a acct rill, raw alk!•" ewe Carl Not So ‘6Moderri" OW, Columbia; In- rrz'=u for F ads • Her More C oirnet satit e r an Ever' on Visit to Homeland 7 'cic. -So calfetl ' inocicin" Japan- ce,o,gials are not nearly r -o modern as thea gaities would have one ,believe, aocordine to'h i 5 hash Sugimoto author of " ADaughtcr of a Samurai and fair many years a professor in the extension department of Udl'uinbia Mrs Sa;'imato is spending'( y'ear's' leave` of "absence in Tokio with one of her daughters,: her visit to her homeland being the first in many years. In 'a recent interview the authop made the surprising statement that she finds the Japan bf to -day. 01000 conservative than the Japan she knew some years ago. She hastened to explain the statement by going on to say that of course the Japan' p3 to -day has progressed' greatly in adapting to Japanese. civilization the many mechanical, conveniences which the estern world has to offer. DON'T WANT TO FORGET PAST. "But," she added, "there is an in- creaaed feeling o nthe part of thought- ful Japanese that they must not throw away the old civilization. Theyaiiust not lose themselves in an enthusiasm for something new and forget allof the past. That is what I mean when I -say the Japanese are more con-: servative than ever. They are con- servative in that they are adapting theniselvea rationally' to the mixing( of Eastern and Westean'civilization,I 'Commenting on the modern move-' meat:' among Japanese women ' and espeeially young girls, Mrs. Sugimoto expresasd the view that 'girls who dreLse in extreme foreign sytylo and bob thein! hair are not nearly so radical in their beliefs and actions aa many Japanese s girls who dress in Japanese'style. The author went'on to say. that a great deal of the blame for the ultra- modern conduct of many Japanese. girls may 'be laid at the, door of their parents. She pointed out that too many Japanese girl`s; after receiving a liberal education, are given no op- portunity to express themselves through normal •channels. This, re- striction, she believes, is largely re- sponsible for the "modern outbursts" of many girls, who are merely seeking an outlet for their pent-up feelingn. SPENT GIRLHOOD IN JAPAN i �,r ik3iay its+, ,(e'„•. �.5Or-T /AT Use 4t.forsllt , C SAFllidti �i., AND ,u?'L'• WASH!NGa ` pverywomane tiaid-of Shue it a. Codd Exam. Paris Police 'Will' Speed Ii quiries into Accidents Parts —+ Aoguing chauffeurs', ` and scribbling (Policemen, holding a public post: mortem on an adeldent, are to be eliminated from the Picturesque life of Paris. It hasc'been discovered that these liouily assemblages, block traffic. A minimum of fifteen minutes is consumed at the scene of airy re- spectably importalnt collision by the collider and .the co1l1dee 'waving`their arms, edtablishing to. the assembled crowd their absolute: innocence, •the listing'of witnesses by: tthe .two Sides and the polfceman's'tnvostlgtiition. All taxi chauffeurs hereafter are -to' carry printed slips giving the details: of their idantity insteadeef having the piiliceman •get them laboriously, web punctuated with speeches on the hope - Gess imbecility of tha, •other party to -- ` the controversy. Likewise the police: baro bean• in stritcted tto observe .the relative 'land - Um: of the two ems quickly and to elear •the highway before taking testi', monjt.. Mrs. Sugimoto spent her girlhood in Japan during' that great transition period in Japanese history when the Nippon Empire was discarding feud - `diem and a traditional policy of na- tional isolation. She sailed to the shores of Aneriea•te become the :bride Edit Japanese, leaving behind her the manners end` traditions which had been instilled in her froni -birth. Some years later,at the death of her bus - bandy Mrs. Sugimoto returned to Ja- pan far a few years with her two daughters, one of whore is now mar- ried and living in 'Kobe. HOW Its 'Done Naturalists Have long been (puzzled as to how the partridge made 'the peculiar drumming, ' sound and the ;probable reason for 4t, said Harrison F. Lewis, Chief Federal migratory bird officer for Ontario and Quebec. This question has 'tow: been solved by means, of close-up moving picture'; which chow that tate bird makes the noises of moving its wings rapidly through the atr 4' ;ttract its mate. Neglect of Research Manitoba Free Press (Lib.): The nation, that neglects the advantages to be obtained from the research lab- oratony will inevitably. ,fall by the wayside. And yet the Canadian Gov- ernment is spending only $170,000 this year on research work,; and there are, ew adequate laboratory facilities for carrying en industrial research, With only a few exceptions, the industries of Canada aro not strong enough yet to provide their own facillties, al- though they might do mort than ap- pears to be the ease... Canada has been nr:glbcting a powerful moans to her . material advancement which other countries have found to be ex- ceedingly valuable. It Is time that she bestirred herself and employed the method that is open to her of ac-' eeierating her progress and develop- ment and increasing the prosperity of her people. William the Conqueror Seal Found in London Guildhall London—A seal originaIiy attached. to the chatter of William the Con- queror, wfaich 'always. was assented to have been lost be;jond hope of re covers, has been found at tate Cued.' ba1l. • Among an old and inlseeldeneens collection ofeertieles a red bagwas discovered containing pieces of wax which when pieced together with the aid of Brittisit Museum experte• prov- ed to be the centre of the long miss- ing coal. . The I•Iusband—"Ian misjudge me, dear. Lying is not one of my fail- ings." Iris Wife—"No, it certainly isn't." A Sale of Medals Recalls "Wellington's Right Hand" The Adventurous : Story of General Picton : Is Closed by an Auction of His Decorations Medals and decorations won by fa- Twice he was summoned to receive mous Generals of bygone times in his- the thanks of Parliament, of which he torte battles occasionally and found on the auction counter. While it has been decreed in England that the star and crosses of high orders must re- vert to the Crown on the death of the. recipient, other important decorations have been purchased at sales by col- lectors. Only the other day the. medals of Sir 'Thomas Picton,' the "right hand of Wellington" at Waterloo, were put up for sale. • The career of Sir Thomas Picton was one of asvontur© from hie first assignment as a Lieutenant at Gibral- tar to his death at the head of his troops in England's greatest victory, .Ile was a man who ltad;a talent for making both friends and eueniies. For years he was enmeshed In the courts 'en, charges of .erueltywhileacting aa Governor of alio Island of. Trinidad, captured front' Spain. The alcalde laid before him an order calling for the "question" of a woman criminal by torture •and in a moment of inadver tends lie,signed it. All England was divided into fac- tione on Piston's indictment in 1804. Not for two yearn' did the trial come 'to a conclueloa, with a verdict of guilty—from which he 'promptly. ap- pealed.- In a second trial he was acuittocl anti his enemies were routed. From that clay on General Picton was known as one of the finest fighting men' Great Britain ever produced. With superb recklessness he led his division against Napoleon's forces in. trio 'Peninsular War, heading the storming party which •took the; Castle of . Badajos. At Vittoria and Ciudad Rodrigo ho was mentioned in dis- patches. His men, idolized him, and England rang with the fame of his (A - was a member, sitting for Pembroke. For forty yeses he hail been a soldier, when Napoleon suddenly returned• from hie exile on the Island of Elba and commenced the campaign that envied in his final downfall. Did Pis- ton have a premonition that his end was near? "When you hear of my death you wilt hear of a bloody day," he told a friend. On his way to the coast to embark, General Picton stopped at an inn, at Canterbury where a public dinner was Held for him. Two weeks later, to the day, his body lay in the same room, - watched over by a guard ofhongr. He had led the Fifth Division in the bat- tle of Quatre Bras when Napoleon's • attack was repulsed. ' The next: day, came Waterloo. Pluton . died leading a bayonet charge. Only when his body was ken' from the field as it discovered to w that he had been wounded at Quatre Bras by a musket bail, bet had kept his injury steadfastly to himself, fear- ing the effect the news of it might have onhis troops. Courageous to the last, Picton met the fate of a soldier and a hero. Generoue he had always been; The. inhabitante•,:of Trinidad had voted the,, stem of 31,000 to him during his trial as a sign of their confidence in his justness. Shortly afterward fire des- troyed the capital of the island and Picton, immediately gave the 35,000 to the fund for relief of the sufferers.',; A monument in St, Paul's. in Lon- don and a huge column erected be subscription near Caormarthen in South Wales, his family seat, bear testi:bony to.. a' nation's' respect for a gallant warrior. vamseccasnaescaN ref 4ro0t(s al ea..—it,,. ,oasisAr.s AKING Pies, Cakes, Buns alld Bread DOE: ALL, Y UR BAKING BEST j