The Clinton News Record, 1924-12-04, Page 2• D. HeTAGGART
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BANKERS
tL general Banking Business transaet-
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nterest Allowed on -Deposita, Sale"
Notes purchased, "..
It T. RANCE
, Notary FffiblIc- Conveyancer,
Einancial; ReI Eiftute. and Fire In-'
ru1snoo -Agent. Representing 14 Fire
insurenee- Companies., . .
Division .Court Office, Clinton.
W. BRYDONE
rrister, Soflclor, otary-Public etc.
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114.0AN EILOcK CLINTON
DR.. J C. GANDIER
Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 pm., 7.30.
to MO p.M. Siindays, 12.30 to 1.30 p.m.
Other hems by apPointment only.
Office and ResideneeVictoria St.
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DR. METCALF
BAY,FIELD, ONT.
Office I-loura--,-2 to 4,, .7 to 8.
Other hours by appointment.
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, Office Hours .
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Phones
Office, 218W -Residence, 218.1
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•- Office antrIlesiclence:
Kuron Street Clinton, Out,
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(Formerly oecupied- by the late Dr.
G, W. Thompson).
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M. T. CORLESS
°LINTON, ONT.
Disirlet Agent
The ()Merle and Equitable Life
and Accident Insurance Co.
West Wawanosh Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
Established 1878,
President, John, A. Meltenzie, Kinder -
eine; Vice -President, H. L. Salkeld,
iSioderich; Secretary, Time, G. Allen,
Dungannon. Total amoUnt of insur.
elide neatly $12,000,000. In ten years
number of policies have increased
from 2,700 to 4,600. ' Flat rate of 82
per 81000, Cash on hand 826,000,
H. L. Salkeld - Goderich, Ont.
Wes. Stevens, Clinton, Local Agent.
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctiorieer for the County ,
of Huron.
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Clinton, or by calling Phone 203.
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ciatton, Ont. °
General Vire and Life Insurance. ,Agent
for Hartford Windstorm,- Live Stec*,
Atitomobile andBickeese and Accident
Disimehee. Hurot and Erie and Cana-
da 'Trust Bonds. Appointments made
to meet partie.e itt Briecefleld, Varna
and Bayfield. 'Phone 57.
The McKillop Mutual
fire Insurance Company
Head Office, Seafc;brith, Ont.
DIRECTCRYI
President, James Connelly, Goderieh;
Vice, fames Evans, Beechwood; Sea-
Treaeurer, Thee. IS Heys, Settforthe
Direetors: George McCartney, Sea.
forth; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth; 2. G.
Grieve, Walton; Wm. Ring, Seaforth;
M. McElwee, Clinton; Robert „Ferries,
Harlock; John Bennewelr, Brodhagen;
Jas. ComzellY, Goderice.
; Agents: Alex, Leitch, Clinton; Je W.
Teo, Goderich; Ed. Hinchray, Sea.
forth; W. Chesney, Egmondville; R.
G. Jarmuth, Brodbagen.
Any money to be paid In may he
pall to IVIcorlsh Clothing Co., Clinton,
or at Cult's Grocery, Goderich.
Partie.s desiring to affect Insurance
or transact, other bus heee Will be
promptly attended to Cal application to
any of the above officers addressed to
theft eespective post office. Lessee
inspected by the Director who lives
nearest the sea ,
''Nearly'everyonti hay
ripping, tearing headaches
at times. Ditordored atom-
ach-elusitielliiver dace it.
Cheer UPI here's t)te.v1
reloitif -Chamberlain
They put the_elotmmaahh ting lec=11;b-igit
Alt eittainaia. 26o.. orcbr from 9
Chamberlain IVIedielne Co., Toronto..
1
A .1I111.'11,:: -RATES. ,
hThis s'Park/a1d.
1freS11-.MOr
SO said captain ,Garnett, of the ong1aa. gree
u aid bound ei,.•ood,11,1 j
01' Singapore,' Many 'years .ego," and the
no ene on board coalci say that be waS --002
"If 5 only
ad
egaln envelope,
e.eve, W]ICU 11f1
.-aelt-sertentrtry
trAtsrs, Ry
'RACE ,
14Ap.the,
illieSmire cnsd
effleer, of tile .
het • teas he, , Itio'st 'people iinagine that the ear -1
ilest-civilizetion in the Beltien telandS
yeal, piece of luck! "was Roman.. There are traces in Snnt-
#47:44elitance of land of a mysterious .eulture ;earlier
than that which followed in the walte
Saelee,"ef50,18201. mOlan,, of 'the all -conquering eagles of ,t.ite.
olyelx,,Iiis wife received. Win With all Eiterual City: t 1
unusulal exn1;ession on her face, axid. Long before the Romans set foot hi
le In abnormal coxiditien t
looger you StelaSseking a goed blood
medieine like Ilood'e Sextette:trine,
the longer it will take end the more
difficult it tern be far you te gee
back to "normeley,"
Not only boils, pimp!ee, eruptions;
but headaches, neryoue .spella, • all -
gone fOttlings, indigestion and 1000
of appetite Are readily traced to
ins -
pure blood. Thousands dais getting
on the rightroad to health Iron, the
clay they began taking Hood's thirea-
&ad,' while. he 'W;It3:,alin011nping hjg';,promo- Britain the Caledonians built a great '
I
!t, tion she began to laugh and said: ; defensive worir in the form of a
wrong, To /tin aground on a sar.d. beat -tied' ,O ese black• p*a"Fortune never coulee in dilblets 1"dyke " with forte along it at tug:liar
San] San, ‘vith 320 chance of gotting off till 3, th'o.'trOite on ewtt-tiyllentre Has you heard? eve iave won interr,ffis It started on the E: st Coast
Y°1-ut Pott and lo a sPecial huntY to the stuid boats air, nititte, diseen corative AI to ' wale: e Oalashielsatnot°w• t°1 -if
the next licte, juse tylien you are near
05101110 a 2000 sitiely ,destto them :Well inigh an•n franc s. n the. i°tte113' tl-e Dt' , a then
01505 , P - Y
shouted, Pivoine1, really turnedsouth throne,h Scott, Boicl.er-
ttme, but when tilts, happens , ete the "Well, it deee set:m.11:1rd to inur t • • , •' ;1' .P. Fel], "Chniberland '
coast of Sumatra, where swarms of dered 'on shell a fine dav!" ." • lhe Sh9wnd kin.e. the list. In tlfre'O Placoo this 50116110 r-srtinsa-
I
bloodthirsty savages are alvnvs ne.
a'es 51Pit Dine looked, he yin led tion survi er; as
, d, ay, cap a; ,A 3.121250 ve got -ax • .
to pounce npcin any. shin in distress ideeo, ^ broedite But euddenly his face -was an the Catrail, the Dell's Dyke, and
it is a very 'bad jolg," indeed.
While the captain was epealting, his
keen eyes were wandering' restlessly
to and fro along the great mass of
dark -green leaves that coveted the
shore, and the first officer, who was
standing beide him, envy his litmds
themseivee together, till they grew and his armwering, "All right, go made? . •
The ea /Jain turned quickly 'and "3"Icie'd' .1„n a tone of regregand envy , the Picts' Work Ditch. The dyke was
found himself face tie face -with the Ilireured. _ mime twenty-six feet hroad, supnorted
chief enginedr--a king, gaunt keen. Thele is
a lucky fellow there who on. either side b3erarnparte, eaelgabout
eeven feet high and twelve feet thick.
bsekMg "Cape Gadder," who whisper., won 1,000,000-1,000,000!"
Whatever Joel Bradford's "Ickes A Peep Into
522 vex Seethe' ale Muldrees 021
pd a few words in his ear. Why Were They Built? I
,
may have been, the eaptain's •face Industry. , forts built,' on hill -tops. The Viaite
e I Caterthum, porearshire, i0 a good
chneh suddeely and Ine lips press brightened wonderfully as he listened, . Do you know eoss .3'onr oxample- 'of these - It, consists of four
MAPLE PRODUCTS
OF THE DOMMON
VALUE OF 1924 HARVEST
TOTALS $5,991,141.
POUr Eastern Provinces Have'
About ,60,000 Farmers En-
gaged. in This Industry.
In, the '1924 season Canada is esti-
mated to have produced "maple' pro-
ducts to the value of $5,991,141, Whicls
Is the -highest for some years and 00121'
pares very-lavorably with the v,alues-
aeoruing from 'this industry 'in the
war years , when prices were eon-
siderably stilerulated.., The Demi:limes
estimated. production of maple sugar
101934 was 9,385,415 pounds Valued at
81.907,599; end of maple syrup 4,070,-
696 gallon's valued at $4(083,542.
For the iiri3t tinie an atexemt luxe
been niade in 1924 to secure stetisties
of the maple products Industry for the
'whole 00 Canade., Quebee is 'comencin:
IY regarded as the elmost exclusive
producer of meade-Producite in Canada;
and It, 15 not generally known -Bent the
&atilt) teat flour1shee,3.180 in Other sec-
tions of the country. The flgutes,
gathered this year show that the 're-
venue 'setured by eertaie other :pro-
Vinces of Canada from the maple
groems le by no meet:le-en insignifidlint
Item, 111 'teta1'eagreeu1tuta1ev4lue,
The 1924 eatimate eollowe aocenseus
taken ef the etideintry in 1921,Whee,
according to the returns xeceiVed-, it
was fousill that there were 22,628,060
maple trees throughout theDeinInion
being tapped In commercial groves.
Of this total, .19,232,503, or '8e per.
emit, were in the Province Of Quebec;
3,182,872 111. Ontario; 104,439 in New.
Brunowick; 98;086 in NOM ,Seotia; 60
in- Prince Edward Island and 20 in
British Columbie. Quebec in that Yeat
aecounted for 70 per cent. of the total
value of sugar and syrup prodeced,
this redeced percentage being dee to
the lower prices reeeived for products
than in the case of some of the o'her
'provinces.
Quebec Leads in Production.
•
. Four proelneee are taken Into ac-
coente, M commercial, production in
1024. Quebec leads with 8876,520
pounds of engem worth $1,'775,305 and
1,176,6e6 gelione et maple syrup worth
$2;035,646, a total of 84,010,051. One
tario accounted tor 407,280 pounde of
sugar Worth 497,747, and 773,826 gal-
lons of syrilp, worthe$1,705,276, a total
of $1,893,023. The produetion of the
two Maritime P.roVinces 'was- 'approxi-
mately the seine. Nova Scotia's sugar
production was 51,500 pounds' -worth
;17;510 ,arel of syrup 9,565 gallons
worth 725,252. NOW Brunswick's out-
put was 50,110 pounds of eager worth
$17,037 and 27,368 ,gallons of salmi)
Werth- 844,405. '
,It has been estimated that in the
four Eastern provinces there are same
60,000 farmers engliged in., the indite -
try, and, yet, it is father' eztintated
that not oxie-half of the available
sugar maples in this area are made
produetive.,A. reelization of this situa-
tion has actuated the vations pro-
vinces, paticularly Quebec, Into
stimulating the .industry by encourag-
ing further adoption among farmers,
establishing school's, ,and, preteeting
the industry. There is an ever-in-
tereasing merket for Canadian. maM
p
fileffincte to be built up on greater pro:
duction. .
An 'increase in the export of maple
products, to evident 'at the present
time. Export of maple Syrup in 1922
aniounted., to .3,659' gallops -worth
79,152, which by 1923 had increased to
2,886 galMns worth 01,954. In. 1924
they were 6,502 gallons werth $14,137.
In this lag,"year, whilst there was -a
normal ,increase in shipm.ents to the
'United States,' the first customer, tho'se
to the United Kingdom had more than
doubled.. Maple suger experts in 192e
were 2,092,715 'pounds war* 71-64',889;
In 1926, 2,738,227 pounds worth ,e374,1,
457; , and in 1924 2,784,070 pounds
worth $545,415.
CANAhottiMALALRAof
TIME, TABLK• • •
Tralne will -arrive at and extent frero
Clieten'aS
Buffalo .and CiederleffDiv
Going East, depart ' 6.25 a.m.
, 8.52 p.m,
Going ',Yea, ear. . 11,10 ' amn.
01. 6,08 dp. 0.51 p.m.
" an „ 10.04 MM.
London,. Huron & Bruce Div., ,
Going South, ar. 7.56 dp. 726
.4.15 0.00,
Going North, depart. 6.50 p,ra.
" '11.05 11.13 a.zia,
No man can be free Where there
Sato a force superior - te the 'Tette
,
whether thatforce resides m a Icien•
41.r
50 the people,
ahead; sou ded eur risingly liopeful a it of th circles of stone, the idiarneter of the
, • , . , , n P No in tier what the qu 1 y e _ .
A dark, fierce -eyed, eyelash countert- oPnden tho Oifthollstatioes• ' wallpaper tiniy be, or the .Price Baked Inner °Inert' neing eighty IS000S• The
,,, , , , water colors.
dest6.1t is fl •st produced stenee. ere ttienty-five feet thick. at the
top end over a 'hundred , feet thick at ,
ance had just peeled- above the bushes 'rot a moment- or two there., was al fee et, every ,-
for ' a moment aed then- vanished like hustle 'amidship and then officers.and in 1
. "That's one,",said the captain grim- barricade, whigh was now cempleted, After the -Parts af .the design to .be the base' . l
n' ghost, ' ; ' • '. meri elike 'crouched doWn behind the .
1,3,, "and 71,10.,e the.re,s one of these to await tile ,eseauit , , printed in each color- are separately -Beyond. the outer citeie ,is .a..1 ditch
They scent plunder 'as yultares scent e fierce sbaut and the crackie "Qf half, e
, to the rirelleils. . This may be done
drawn they nre ready for 00150100011111) with an earthen breastwork raiind it;
while beyond this, again, runs a double
rascals there are Always plenty more., On caine the Malays, and presentlY
carrion -5 -bad luck to them! 'And we a dozen MatehloclM,. followed by the- eitoer hy engraving the design on cop- entrenehmeut The enttences to these
Iladren't so much as a pistol on hotted, craeleof the heavy,bullets in the ship's vatous circles. are' zigiagged; so that,
except My. did revol-ylee yonder, that planking, -told that they, had landed - e
per rollers Or by taking yveeden.roll-
era and 'Working out the desigif by 'each roe -mini covered by fortificatione.1
The fort at Barnultin, lit Aberdetti- -
must go and break its lock just ,at the upon the sand -hank. , In anothee rne., moons tit small braes 'stripe', the spike
Shire, has five great stone circlee, all
ends of which are driven into . the '
wrong thnej" • ment they cane svrirrniner up over the . . - perfectly round and flawlessly built
although _there are no toolmarks, to
show how 'they Were shaped. .
These buildings are interesting but
not puzzling, 'Seem -lee we. know for
what purposethey :Were bullt; but
there are Others, canimonly knowe' he
Pidts'. Burghs, to Which no use can be
Arid now the matted boughs of the bnlwarks, yelling like hungry wolves: Before the actual printing. takes
thicket began to bond ah.d vivo,. in But they yelled to a very different! pleee the paper he given a background.
all directions, showing- that a large tune when their bare feet came plumP This is clone"DY 'passing the huge reels,
of paper through. machines fitted with
mechanical aams whiCh brush the
paper with a suitable coloring matter.
The reels of tinted paper now pass
to the 111111100015, where the regulated
heat removes every trace of moisturet
In the meantime the rciachines are
made ready by arranging the pattern
and rollers around a larke driim. As
the paper is -fed Into one end .of the
fight it 'out like men than be killed like lish sellers, knocked sewn emir or five, machine, each roller prints upon. it ono
sheep. Here, ray lade, be smart and and considerably discouraged the rest. of the cellars that go to make up the
;tumble em d .r
some casks and coal -sacked at that moment, 13 to
however, 13,mnlette design.
tend make a baxricade along here. Un- came the crews ,of -the other two beats, Vie coloring matter is applied to the
ship the capstati-bars. They're handy brandishing their krisses "(curved TontiV
Toners by means oe endless wen
things to knock a fellow down -with-.daggers), and shouting like madmen;
Here, you an V' (to the cabin -boy), but all at on c.e there came a shall) belts which, passing through the color
"break .a lot of bottles all about the "whish," like the his of an an
deck on the port side. It'll astortish serpent, followettby a screaming and
their bare feet a bit And here, car- howling from the Malays, to which all
penter0 bring the grindstone along and their previous crys were as nothing.
put an edge °teen the sheath -knives „Tea Bradford had carried one end ef is passed through a machine with an
—smart,. now the fire hose 'down into the engine
The men obeyed as gleefully as if eobm, and was now flooding the bare -
playing a game, instead of preparing limbed savages ',with seining water
to light for their lives, against an from the boflor
enemy who knew no mercy. But every i This new evea-pon turnued the day
man knew well how fearfully the at, (ince. The force of the jet was suf-
chances were against them. Pour &lent 10 knock the pirates right off
boats, crowded with aemed men, could their feet, and between the broken
now be seen corning rotted the point glass and the boiling water they' very
to attack them, end all that the Ma-, seen had enough of it Roarag like
lays would have to do would be to pull bulls, they -tumbled headlong over the
up to the edge a the sand -bank, land ship's side into the sea, only to glad
there, and scraMble right up into the to escape; and the deck was deal' in
Steamer, which had heeled over so less than two Minutes.
much when she stilt& as to be vereti "Guess they won't Want another
easily boarded. . at dose of thair medicine," chuckled
Even the hope of being able to go Mr. Bradford, as he came up the ere-
aIoft and defend themselyes in the 'gine 00001 stair, ;flushed and breath -
rigging, should the worst come to the leee, but triumphant.
worst, was now taken away from, He was right, and -two hours more
them, for this would be only giving saw them beyond the reach of danger;
thems'elves' to be pjeked off like spar-, for the steamer floated again with the
rows by the bullets of the Matchlocks,: rising tide, while a fresh breele,
whose long, shining barrels could be springing up from the southtvest, soon.
seen here and there above the black cartied them frir away from that per -
heads of their enemies. likes shore.—By.David Ker,
number of 0105 must be in motion be- down upon the broken babies that'
hind them, while three or four Ma- strewed the deck, while three 'or four,
lays even' ventured right out upon a Who lied missed their footing, fell
low-, sandy point fronting toward the sprawling all their length among the
shoal on which the steamer was sharp -pointed glass, pricking tfiem-
attended, and began to drag a large selves from head -to foot, as if they
Tram (native boat) down to the were being tatooed. •
water's edge. 1Vfeanwhi3e, a shower of big stones
"Well, we'll have to fight km it, from the ballast -bags, flung among
anyhow?" cried the captain. 4Better them with unerring aim by the Eng -
Another Girl.
"I don't like your heart action," eald
the rnetlieal exemniner. "You've had
some trouble with Angina Pectoris.'
"You're partly right, doetor," said
the applicant sheepiehly, "only that
ain't hen name." '
Logan, b ales were produced by
crossing blackberriee and raspberries.
troughs .22190110 supplies of the right
color being applied to each roller.
After the rolls of paper are- printed
they pass to the ‚dryingroome, To
give the wallpaper a superier finish It
ingraved roller revolving against
soft plain one. In this way, the differ.
ent 'markings or "grains" are pressed
Otto the paper. •
Thoroughly dried for the last time
the paper is mechanically meaouree,
rolled, and cut.
.A.s the Tolls are being wound, the
machine marks off the. paper Into
lengehs. This mark, the operator
leeks for. When. It appears, the )132. -
chine is stopped for a. moment, the
palm' ls eut, arid the neatly wound
rolls are reit:weed ready for use.
PIVOINE, THE
UNAPPRECIATED ONE
Sy.J. H. Fleshy Aine
,
. Translated by
William, Is, McPherson
IVI. Pivoine had long been enileted
In the melancholy legion of the unap-
preciated. Unaleeir,eciateti at twenty,
he remained still mope unappreciated
at thitty.five, When a, patron of the
Cefe Robes-pierre told hinIt. that 'he
looked like Pasteur, the compliment
was only gall and extreme' bitterness
to him.
He wcire-a short beard, trimmed ex-
actly like that of the conqueror of
rabies, .and he could tot undergone,
why a man of his quality should be a
simple bank clerk,
For a long time he had' found noth-
eto -adniire in. what _ids content'.
perarieS 'were. doing. If "he read in a
newspaper that one of his former
schoolmates had ,been made -a sub -
Secretary of etate or heel received the
Cross of the Legion of Honor or WAS
sin1ply Making a 'fortune, his heart.
was as tull of blackness as a box' of
shoe - •
"What luck!' he ,groaned. "Nothing
but luck! At school he steoa below'
me! Or else it was intrigue, some lott,
intrigue! Ali! the idiots who believe
in justice,"
.A.t thirty-five, having married and
acquired a .male heir, now several
months old, he was leading a Some:
-what haradeted existence. His salary.
at the berth would not. have suffIced
to make ends meet- if the household
had not been eMeducted With the
strictest economy. ",
Behind the wicket it,t which he was,
nienotononely pectujelea he experienced
gnawing§ Of spirit sharper than ehose
00 the anther of ,Ecclesiestes. Frn121
illoining till eV -ening people appeared
anted, with checks, bank notes and
securitie.e Fortune' inthese tantaliz-
ing forms, peer:eel continually under
M. Pivoineee nose without ever Smil-
ing at that unapprecia,tcd gentlonian,
pa,e 1120, bon -over, there wes an mi-
lieus), agltation at the bank, -M. Lu-
ne01010, one of the aesistantemaaagers,
lied die -a the, befereedtd thet eir.
.humsfance secretly aelighted 0 con-
siderable.' p ercenta ge Of 'his „colleagues,
an' role, c*ployoc. Si C t f t I
all, fence lie 115' eieht of .eeMorita
would sgicejed to 21. 1.3,pmunies place,
41:00itiroino, who would advance a
Sing a Song of Sixpence.'
"Sixpenny -worth Of miracle," is a.
'striking expression from George Gio-
sing, the novelist. Mr. Kennedy Wile
liamoon weites a Summary of a story
that Gissing himself told. hi a lonely
Spot by a woodleaid.the.noveIist found
a small boy leaning against a tree;
his head, was buried in his hands, and
he 'was gobbing out his heart. The lad
hua been seat to pay a, debt with six.
otoP And recelvd fifty francs more a pence and had Jost the money. He
MOM'', finally Selpi3 other clerks, who
Wattle elee similarly one, grade in the
Was not go much afraid of facing his
establishment's salary scale. parents as he was serrowful at the
loss they sustained.
For a brief period. M. Pivoinigs sat- "Sixpence (twelve cents) dropped
isfaction was keen. Then it fell some' by the wayside and a whole family
degrees SIR sank below the freezing made wretched! I put myland in my
point. pocket and wronght sixpenerevortla of
"Fifty francs!'" he' groaned. "Fifty 'miracle," said Gissing.
trance to it num 11100.101e! kul that I'lovr little it sometimes tame to
imbecile out thPre (lee waa imeaking make a heart litti,MY!
ef a customer)'. ta geing to' draw The eignificante of the story be,
cheque for '10,0b0 franc's, Ile is an comes more 'apparent as Mr. William -
imbecile; tyoet have only to took at ,son takes a lobk behind -the scenes of
Gissing'e Private life as ielated in the
4ttention .was ;Private Pepers ,of Henry Ryeerofti
thacted to the tweeden-bike visage of Once ie his days of struggle the noyel-
81. wito weeling,,aheut ist lived in a baek bedroom_ on the top
the‘m
r said,te self, inward -I floor, but he changed to the front eel-
Ofithe'.
Sy -raging: • '1- , 1107 of the sante building; 'the cetiar
"That idiot to... going to be asefeeeet I had a 'stone floor and containe,d ii: bed,
manager! Fiftben thousand' Ora 'P``' a table, a chair and 3, washatand. He
nes amale tho changobceausc it aved I lin
year! And Must be contented with sixpence a Week; evith sixpence he
having my ealury raised to 9,000."
.At the ena of the day M. Pi -velem felt ; cooultidaleinhya I:thy:agile:last an' 011 bmkshu
bitterer and more unappreciated than a greatly coveted book and then lived
uSual. DestinY presented itself new art bread and butter for twentY.four
.only Wider the tom. of Carafon, a hours in order that lie might save the
15,000, arid ithesela PiVolrie, at 3,0e0. price --sixpence.
, He spent a evearleome night, bares- Writing lire book, NOW Street,
sod by nightmares, and awoke more in six Weeks by toiling ten hatirs a
cheerlase than 0110 -05111105'. day which day, he sometimes had to sell same
covered Paris, with clouds. He -went of his, own books to obtain the simp-
to t ie bank under his leaky umbrella, lest food. One day, however, he found
heartlheavy and his body weary, j sixpense in the street. Long after-.
At the ollice',there was nothing in wards he wrote concerning it, "I had
particular noticeable, except the ale an exaltation W11181112 71VId 1.8 me at
sence of M. Carafon, which at first' this moment." .
o'clock, however, an astonishing re. the impoverished boY because of his
remained unexplainea. At 11.30 GIE,Sing Wan abin to sympathize with
,port got into circulation. NI, 'Carafon, OWn grim knowledge of poverty.' •
'having,, suddenly inherited a fortune,
llad200000b,orelir000ioml. 011011010.Lyiing Down to Fly.
, that ceee.," iti. Pivoine
jubilantly; 'iutlis t case. 1 wirelre the To tie luxuriously on. soft 0111111001
assistant manager, 1 ,will, have the and thus pilot, YoUr OWn. small air.nut-
15,090 france."; • chine Is illaglateSt,poeeiblittY in,aeeial
A brief 'C'011yersat lob, with tb e
agar, -broeght confirmation that this " tel" eirocar'e are beteg designed'
Serodigioue metamorphoses was ini. and tare to he tested ixt flight, 1n,h1eh
pending. For the' fleet tlieze i11 years the nfi,riette'body, with wings On either
IQ. Pee -eine telt his heart filled 'With side, aceoielnociatoe ,juet,
pant,- lying prone., Th s Will enable
' I
lie lett the hamic i3.1211,0 springy ,stop ehe tiny. engine to drive tile inechitie,
*ea ire order Ito enjoy his "happiness more sWiftiy terougli thee' air than
oettel he diedelned the metro ana ilis woul b. „poeeible wlth the ir gisiet
auteele13:. ance set up- 10 a boily was PrOVided'
"K§S1M,5111 manager," he-kapt re- big enough for the p1101 to' aselime the
eeating 101) 1180010. ordinary sitting ponition. '
He "seel,-ffio
l.,d ,t' hear the' Manager ret , Perfect etenfoet will, it,
coneirryijiig noWe., ,But' then be tlgSill'OCT 113' 11,.
110 recalled , the manager's' looks and' frame, On- this the Pilot, inoittod 111
. ,
nOuld :mt. 1)050 •gox11011riflg the 1attr his Mitilature 'Inaehiee ' we.11- Ile' fece-
with himerelf.l ' downward, looltieg oat -wards threugh
1-.e lo Its like 4 calf,. lie thought 01 12100 s,5iu,lcov 01' iloways anti down -
"A ,calf ---and hc gete .30,000 franee e wv.rds through other ii,ttle windows
A burgh is a - single tower, perfectly
round in shape, wide at the hottom
and eattowing towards the top from
the outilile. The outer wale' of flibse
tow,ere, shaped into perfect eireles,
liaie no openings of Any sort exCept
the, entrance. Obviously, then, -the
buildings were never 'Intende'd . for
Mountain Treasure Houses,
wag', and betweett the two are count
-
Wee Towns, often too email for people
cever to have Uvea in them. The lag -
05 these mystery towers is tea of
Ramsay, in the Orkneys.
At pottery the Caledonians could
not compare with the Romans, since
the potter's 'wheel seems to have been
unknown amongst them. • Bye they al-
most excelled the "masters of the
world" in their ornaments. The Moun-
tains yielded their craftemen gold, sil-
ver, btonze, amber, rabies, and rock
crystals such as agate, Jasper, and
Iv •
made ornaments and weapons.
most people are familiar with the
shoulder-Mom:hes with which
landed's radial 'their laids. ,Broochee
such as these; only retich more ele.bor.
ate,- have. been found. in both cairns
and towers They are of goldr-
o-211-
•
vei, .01 both, circular iesba,pe, and In -
Y ' '
rings. Often they- are pewel-studied.
They were obviously made for Eagan-
ing, the heavy,- many-Imed—tastan--
stu e mentioned by Boman writer s an
being wore by the Calecloaane
e
eepeno are,
Even more interesting than ther-
naments are the weapens of the peo- •
ple. From bronze they made thern.
selves beautiful short'swords, log
d'aggens, shaped like the gladioli
leaves, on which the 11.6111AnS
mot -Milled their swords. The handl-ea
of ,these ifffives—"dirits" the Scots of
a later day, 011101 them—were of .gold
and eilvererichly chased end jewelled,
Their shields, or gages, are aleo
beautiful. They are small and round'
and are triode of bronze, embossed
with, circles at jewels and raised
,
All these 'things and many °there
have men supposed to date back to
about 500 13.,0..; but this year a dis-
covery, not .yet fuNy investigaled, lute
suggested 'thee, this early civilization
beilt up bY Britain's mystery eaCe
may date es 'far aS 2000 53,0. 01' far.
ther.- On the Castle Roch.,Edinburgh,
has been found a complete Map of the
heavens as they were in, the days of
the Pharaohs. • Who drew this plan
so long ago? Certainly no naked sav-
age! .
Clever Pouglel
The two small children wave mak;
tog their way .howto from the kinder-
garten school, They talked, as child-
ren will, about all the eXciting things
that had been happening in their re-
spective homes. Then; . •
Gladys --"My- daddy sold our dog
lase week ate it came home yesterday
afternoon." • ,
Ivy—"How funny! 1 wonder how it
foued its way back?"
Gladys—"Why, you silly, it looked
on its collar, ef course!"
Unlike common. city gas, acetylene
will oxpMde merely npou being heated,
without any admixture of air.
THE RED CROSS MAKES THE
STRANGER FEEL AT HOME
A Leaf from a Traveller's Diary at Quebec
. By Mie. M. H. Conquest,
After seven days tossing on the sea,
viten we were rocked on the Cradle !
of, the deep by every wind that bleve,
it wag good te see the sight of "the
dteighter's Meese once again. HaPPY
indeed had the holiday beet,. in "the
Mother's, house of our native land,
but when ail is said and done, there is
something about the young new land .
that beektins with each power that'we
are unable to reeist her, and' We feel
anew the lure, the'call of the Weet.
Quebec was bur landing'stage. Here
we were, from all quarters of the
globe--retnining Canadians like my-
self who bad been home toesee the old
folk and take in Wembley,—new set-
tlers with the look of hope, determine'.
'tion, %me 'wonderment that bespeaks
the iminigrant—all together with . out
parcels, and our little people.
Long passages led to the Inn-a/gra-
tion sheds where uniformed officials
and Red Tape' met us at every turn.'
Finally, after the official eXaminationa
and questienings we were free from
the law and ready for the laa lap of .
our journey.
To' see the people from other lands,
tregelling ie a liberal education and
'en, insight worth having. We under-
stane to the utmost that one-half of
the world does not know .'how .the.
'otlice-half, Item The men and woz
,mensef 'Southern 'Europe with their
babies, ana their binidles, with their
"no Engleesh," -were indeed a study in
human nature. There was a patio:lee
In, their tirednees born of long years
oppieesion, calming one to specu-
late whether the new life 111 the great
free spaces, would evolve another and
prouder ioolt...
With much Joy we hailed the ap-
pearance of a Red Cross worker who
lued. a 'pup of steaming hot tea in lier
hand. Here was a haven of rest for
the travelatained people. In less
time than it takes, to write this I was
sitting at peace In a comfortable rock-
er with my friends around me, and we
were all enjoying an excellent cup of
coinfort and biscuits.' It was inter-
esting to 'watch the streams of people
Pouring in, to netice the giud surprise
on the facea of the young mothers and
fathers eaten they 'saw they ,equld
leave the babies in -bed fer a little
while. The smaller boys and girls,
Were delighted with the tiny red
tables .atid -chairs where their milk
and 'biscuits were waiting for them.
An invalid ladY, white-haired and pale
with the tedious sea-lourliey, wee
wheeled in in her chair, and soon the
nurses were in charge of her, malting
her -Comfortable lit every way.
A big husky -looking Jae was. telling
his story shyly and 'timidly. The Red
Cross heeded him it large box with
bread and previsions for his journey
on to Saskatcheetan, where he was go-
ing to Rine his brother on a Sam. The
lad was alone,' and witliont sufficient
means to buy thee-enemy:try foodstuff
and the Red Cross had been specially -
requested to look after hien. I cau see
1914 ehleing eyes now, as 1m looked his •
thanks and shuffled along with his box
under hiseartn. In erie nether of the
room I noticed some first aid !supplies,
.a selection a .thewell-knoWn health
book for women, "The Canadian
.Mother," also, the Little Blue Booke
and the familiar "Care Before Birth"
series of the Red Cross,
In an armchair a Ming' wolnan sat
weeping zee if the bottom had fallen
out of her world. A. kindly, sympa-
thetic cenversation with the Red
°rose ,sister, with the sound, sane ad.
Vice which the girl etood in need of,
helped to drY het tears and impreseed
one with the fact that there is still
need for the Red Cross, and that 'after
alrthere Is a typo -of help given at
such times that is More psychic than
physlcal, and who -better -fitted for this
delicate task than the kledly-faced sis-
ter in the eniferm of merey, humanity
and goedwill.
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