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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-09-07, Page 2PAGE TWO THE SEAFORTH NEWS, A "MURDER CASE" IN HURON OF THE LONG AGO Cheek Pierced.—Clifford, son sof Iii'iis book, "More ,Candid Chron-'Mr. arid Mrs, Samuel Jory, of Steph- •ifcles," Ilector ,Charlesworth, who re- en, had the im sfortuue to fall from a :eptly. 'became a .member of the Can tree one day recently, landing on ado -ab Radio' 'Coirrnission, and who some shoots growing atthe, bottom of dwas formerly editor o'f 'Toronto ;Satur-, the tree. One of the shoots 'penetrated, c!ayNight, mentions .avisit to Huron the cheek, piercing nasty hole that County many years ago, wshett heneededtwo stitches on the outside and was reporting for a To'ron'to paper: "•one of the inside. The late InspectorMurray, in his Operation at 91 -Mr. William Ky'dd :younger days one of the greatest and of Usb'oine, who is in his 9i1st year ;most discerning of detectives, never and is one cif the o'Idest'residents in .quite 'f.orgave ane ,for exploding an-, the community underwent an opera- ,.other alleged murder case 'before he tion at V'ic'toria hospital, London, last had lime to investigate it. In his old week, and is • reported getting along age he grew very opinionated, and if redn'arkably well. Mr. Kydd has splen - .a case Was brought to his a'ttenti'on, did vitality and until a couple of years which in 'its sutpeditcial details •reser-1 ago was seldom 111. bled some crime he had cleared up 'in' Itisouth he was ver apt to 'form Centralia Death. �Christo,p�her H. y Y .conclusion of, guilt 'beforehand. I 'Baskerville, of Centralia, died August :learned that he 'was going to Blyth ittl'29ibh following a paralytic stroke the '(Huron county to look into an affair' dray before. Deceased was in his 7dlst which involved the ,familiar rural,year and had been' sick for some •friars le of h.usiband, 'wife and hiredlnronehs. He was a lifelong resident o. man. The husband, who lived on al the comuniuncty, having been born on _farm 'five- or' six 'miles away from the secondsecond concession of ,Stephen . Tp, :Myth, had hanged himself in his barn' where he lived until retiring to Cen-' ;and :had 'beet found early in the mord tralia 315years ago, He is survived by ening by the hired man, who had :thene'his wife who was formerly .Elizabeth gone into town to inform the coro.n-(King, and also by one brother, Sam er and the .undertaker. In dropping'to1 cell of London. The 'funeral was from Centralia United Church to Exeter cemetery. Improving Exeter Park. -,Under the auspices of Exeter Women's Institute the Riverside Park is 'being developed at Exeter. Twenty-four men, under the leadership of Mr. ,B. W. F. Beavers met at the park last week and with three teams of horses' succeeded in saw, the welcome potentialities of ,a hauling and building up about one murder case, and communicated with hundred feet of stone em'bankmen't on :Murray. The famous detective had the south side of the ricer and. _a handled a similar case when young, in number of steps down to the river which the wife and, hired man were were cemented in, The labor was gratis, the oldest gentleman present unquestionably guilty, and • gave in- struction to go ahead .me the hypoth-r being Mr: R. G. Terry, aged 93 years. osis of murder until be could come to, In Hospital. -Mr. IL, Victor Hog- -_he scene personally. I\Vhen.II saw theagarth of Exeter is in the Christie St, coroner, who was the village apoth- hospital, Toronto, where be is under- ecary, he was very, much annoyed tthat' l going treatment. Mrs. �Hoggarth spent a. re,porter should have come all thea few days with him. He has been way frons Toronto on satelt' a wild] soaking regular trips to Timmins with goose .chase, and explained the whole poultry and produce. ' circumstances, The suicide was an in -1 competent farmer and in debt; the' Making Survey. --'A company of tel wife was a simple creature; the hired! men ,front the .Deparement of National man a 'bumpkin of small dntelligeticellDefence have established a camp at ..and certainl.. n'0 'h sical charm, As ligagadat for a few days and are en - Y P ) :for the suspicious bruises, 'his owtr ex-Igaged in making surveys for to-po- :amination had convinced him that(graphical maps, taking in all the val. hey had happened after the bodywas' leys, streams, etc. They are working :cut down and were too insigni,ficanti a radius of about fifteen miles frons :to cause death in any event, He ad-l'Clmton and had previously been at •wised me, however, to drive oand:W''nrgham, Listowel and Orangeville, mg ;interview the wife and judge 'for my -1 covering territory of .about one hund- sela red miles east and west and thirty The livery stable keeper, glad • to iles wide.m come along, drove me out'over they 'Gasoho-Turkheiim.—On August 29, rolling, snow clad hills of the 'Huron, at 9 a.m. at' St. Peter's 'Lutheran Tract, l we reached the and at ass e I ' Church Rev. E. -h ' Turl ems pastor humble dwelling. It took onlyhalf al I and father of the bride, officiating, dozen ,questions to convince me of the, Charlotte Elizabeth Tuerkheim be complete absurdity of the suspicions came the wife 'of Edwin Gascho, which had been aroused with regard younger son of ,M•r.' and Mrs. Joseph to the wife, When 'I got ,back to town 'Gascho of Zurich.. The bride entered to wain For nay traits,'I was surprised, the church on the arm of her father, to note the number of Hien who came attended by Miss Geraldine Snrerus, into the the village hotel to take a niece "of the groom, The latter was furtive look at toe. (Finally one big supported by. Mr. John Tuerkheiin, fellow in a coon skin coat tools tour -',brother of the bride,' Mrs. 'Tarry Hess :age and approached me with the; presided' at the organ. bmmediately af- question "Are ybu a detective from, ter the ceremony the happy couple New York?" lI told him who 'I really left on a motor trip to Muskoka. was and asked why - on earth they, Rebuilding.—The foundation has al 'should think a detective would come ready been laid. for the Heist bake .all the a -ay from New York to :a Can-, shop at Zurich to replace the build :adieu village. "I dunno," he said, "its ,ing destroyed by fire . recently.. The a pretty serious case and we 'thought front of the building will trot be pat you Haight be one of thein there Pink-; np till after the bakery is in operation. ertons." I soon learned that at every Mr. Schilbe intends to rebuijd with a .farm house I had passed through the one story block of veneer brick and countryside we had :been seen and it 'fireproof roof and will have his Hy- , was assumed . that there "was some-, in,g quarters on the same floor as the -thin' loin' in the murder case over on store. Messrs. Yungblut & Son may the nth concession." The women folk not rebuild until the spring, but . are -diad sent their males into town after ,planning a building for their butcher dinner to find out whether an arrest shop of modern ardhi'teoture, -.was to be made. I was asked what S Lake 'Shore Development. -1A• new tth.ou.ght about the case and 'w'heaa iI location for su'm'mer hones 'has been unsaid II did not think there Was any opened up on the farm of Mr. John .case, my stook obviously fell, When 'Rau, a few miles north of Drysdlale. 'the ' Deputy ,Attorney General read 'my 'Several summer cottages have sheen *story .in the Mail ,and Empire next built this summer and foundations are > :enurn'ing be told .M•urray•not to' bother laid for few more. Hydro has been / -going to Huron to investigate, and run in. The beach is said to be good ,the 'iambus detedtive always 'felt that ;at this spot, S 'had unduly interlfered with the course of (justice, 'although 2 am sat: Another Fire at Zurich.—Fires do isfied that if ,he had investigated on not seen to come singly these days; the spot he ,would` 'have taken the for the County court house was not same view as I did. threatened with fire onkel but three times in recent weeks, amtd now Zur- ich comes forward with 'a second fire.; Tea Restriction •It happened on the 'Saturday eventing In April a restriction was placed on after the big fire When s'o'meone drop - "tea p "tea exports from 'Ceylon, Tndia, and ped a cigarette butt or match down in :Yam, in order to raise prices to the garage of Milton ,Deitz, igniting growers, who, for almost four years, gasoline: and starting a blaze that had been suffering devastating lasses. for a short time threatened the build- -. :El'igher prices have resulted, not only :ng. A. pail ,containing some gasb'line; at the gardens, but also here 'on, our 'ganite'd and the flames soared to the own markets, and many package teas ceiling. The alarm was quickly given already cost more than they did six and Mr. Len. Prang came with his nteinths ago. Some of the 'finer quality' ire • exttinguishe • and helped put out 'brands are as yet unchanged, how- the fire. Earl Thiel had both hands ever, and are, c'onse'quently, even bet- ,nd amus u'p to the a eevs badly ter value than at last April. ' . 'burned, causing painlful in'ju'ries for a few day's: HURON- NEWS. floor'after it was 'cut down, the :body, which was still limp, had 'been "..bruised, and when this became' known the story :was at once started that the wi€e and the hired man had beaten. the husband to death and =then staged the surroundings of an alleged suicide. The coroner in this case would not entertain such a theory but the Crown officials at Goderich, the county town, Skilful 'workmen need. not travel • afar to earn 'their 'bread, 'Currie's School Re-Opens—.The .op - One dog 'yelping at nothing NOM ening of the new school at S.S. Na. 9, et 'ten thousand straining 'a't Itheir East Wawanosh took place on Friday i.:coll�a.t's. last. The new brick sdhaol house re- , 'Dispatch is the 'soul Of busineas. places the old _ one destroyed b fire Y y Mr, 'Holman had offered. to resign and ,that be did so .before a witness, Reeve Goldthorpe. "Mr, Hol - dean is not under. suspicion in any connection with cash shortages," said the warden, "but there are certain Clerical irregularities 'having to do with the orders Inc payments which the auditors wish explained." D. Margaret Strang Marries.Ranche aKnmwn throughout the Do'nainioa as "the little doctor of` White Mud Valley," Dr, Margaret Strang, medi, cal missionary of Dixouville, Alberta daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Henry Strang of Usborne'township, nee IHensala was married early last month to William ;S'ava'ge, rancher prospect or, of that district, it became known last Wednesday. The marriage wa solemnized at First Presbyterial a Church, Edmonton, with Rev. Andre Osborn, D.D., minister of the church officiating. Mn, and Mrs. Williams o Edmonton,. friend's of the couple, wer the attendants. Mr. `Savage is the son of, the late R. E. Savage and Mrs M. Savage, who 'formerly resided nea ILynr'bur.n, 'Alberta, :where they owne a ranch. Following the ceremony which was quiet at the request of Dr !Strang, the,couple left ,on a roto camping trip for several weeks. iDr Stnang's mother stated that she wa informed of her daughter's approach ing marriage while she was on fur lough during June and July but co'm plied with her daughter's wishes . dt not announcing it. Mrs. Strang sai that Dr, ,Strang intended to return t Dixonviile to carry on her'work a medical 'missionary which she has un dertaken there,with so 'much success Mr: Savage, Mrs. Strang said, reside near the town of Peace 'River Weir marriage. ,His present ranch is sit uated close to Dixonville where 'Dr Strang is located. Dr. Strang, wh was the second wo'ntan to gradual from the Medical ,School of the Ifni versity of 'Western Ontario, received her doctor's. degree in 1'91:9. Atte spending a year: as interne at the Ha milton Hospital, site volunteered he services as medical missionary for th Presbyterian Church in the West (Since that time she has been itistrum ental in building the little log churcl and manse and ministering to 'th people of that district. - Spiritual Awakening at Nile -Ther are evidences of a spiritual awaken ing at the Nile chdreh• and common ity these days. Some Oxford Group meetings have been held with the help of. workers from Mitchell, ,Seaforth and Stratford, and the good `work is being followedth up by e local young people. Amputation r Association Meets: 1Goderic'h was the scene of -the regular monthly meeting of the 'Western On- tario •branch o'f the Amputation As- sociation last week when representa- tives gathered epresenta-tives.gathered 'fro'm London, Wood- stoc c, St. Thomas and other p'la'ces. ]After the. busisa'fs° meeting at ;Hotel Sunset and a -delightful sail on Lake iHurpn, dinner was served. • Fell Re -union,' -The Fell family held a reunion, at Harbor Park, God- erich last Friday • with about fifty people ;'present from Staffa, Mitchell, Seaforth, Varna and 'Goderich. Many interesting reminiscences were ex- changed by the older people and games .and race's enjoyed by the younger folk. ,According to a brief history given by John Fell, the oldest memlber, the late Thomas ,Fell remov- ed: with his 'family from ''Whitby in 1859 to a solid bush farm two and a hall utiles west of Staffa, in Hibbert towns'hip, Perth County, where the year before he had built a log house. The hardships and privations encoun- tered were overcome. There were nine ch'ild'ren. Bn' J'anu'ary, 11970, the smother died, the -youngest c'hil'd being only two years of age and the eldest thir- teen. )After this Mr. Fell. carried- on alone until 4890, when his health lie-' can to fail and his 'doctor advised a trip to the Old Country. 'He made the trip and stayed about three Months. Onthe return voyage he died on board ship at the age of 64. years. The THURSDAY; ISE'?TEM'BER 7, 1933 officers for the reunion next year at•e:THE AUTHOR OF CAVALCADE President, 1Ral15'11Stephenson, of Var-i ! !Rarely does a young man,, intent na• sec-treas,,. Miss IEdna Fell, .'God -, upon -:a career: in letters, make a name ericli; s,ports committee, D. L 3'ill, and a.fortuee'before he is thirty;.niore IGoderich; ,W'illiam Fell,'Staffa, and rarely still does he aclrieve spectacular Ernest Robinson, Mitchell. The prize, sue'cess white still 'but hell conscious whalers in, the races' were: Children' of -hie-intentions: Byron, it. is ,true, under 4 years, David Hill, Keith" Ro- woke to Iliad ']hi'm'self factious at twen- binson; 6 to 9, Ivan ,Stephenson,'Dor- y -one, and might, with the exercise is Smale; 9 to 19, Ross ,Snni•le, Ivan of a little care, have lived to go to Stephenson; men's race, John Fell; !bed a rich man, but then Byron knew ladies' race, Mrs. D. 11. Hill; necktie precisely what he meant to do a'd did race, Mrs. Wil'bert Fell and J• T. Fell; t. Mi. Coward has equalled the noble elastic relay race, the winning side re- lord in the extent, at least, in iais,re- ceiving a baglof, peanuts; snowshoe putation, and 'vastly excelled pian in grace, Mrs. Albert .Swale and 'Will the accunrulating wealth"derived'from Stephenson; girls' slipper kick, Mrs. royalties• and, copyright, but it is by no Ernest Robinson, Mrs. Albert Snaale; urians clear that he knows what he w'hea't' guessing contest, Mrs. Ernest is doing, why he is doing it, or what, Robinson, -fundamentally, he wanes to do.. No "A" .Come an to Train,—The Hur- that his progress is entirely blind, for on 'Regiment will not 'go into camp of a part, df his 'achievement he is fully conscious, though it is the part that this year but the various companies at rl,timately is, least ;interesting. Sn Goderich, Clinton, Wingham and Sea - technique, in :'facility, in knowledge o: Eonth, will have a period of borne how to make his points 'acid ,build up training this Mall. "A" Comiypany„1 God - his effects, this still young man has enroll; will cosn:mence training next few.'competitors, to fear. Iii the me - week; .and will continue for nine chanical field o'f his craft he is sore nights, tivo.nights a week. 'At The of (himself as few ;eaters of his age conclusion of the period' of training (though Congreve ' at twenty-three there will bean inspection of the en - .4 had little o learn) have 'leen sure, tire regiment at 'Clinton by the D;:C• but it is not 'by any easiness of pen Out All Night on the Lake.—Co'n- or glibness of dialogue, despite much siderable anxiety was caused on Mon_ seeming evidence go the contrary, that day night last by the failure of John he has an enduring ,claim upon the ("Reddy") McDonald to return -with attention of•'tlte intelligent. He holds his motor tfisiiing boat, the 'Margaret, after leaving tie harbor early its the morning to ,lift and reset his nets, He was accotnp'anied by his craw of two helpers and by three boys, Bur- rell • J'ones-IBatem'an, Raymond Murray and Roy Mundy. When he did not re- turn other 'fishing boats ,put out in the hope of fitjdiiig'him, going in a.north- westerly direction as the :Margaret had- done on leaving ,port. "Reddy's" brother Bert sounded the foghorn at intervals and waited on the pier throughout the night, 'being joined from time to time by anxious relatives .Of the absent ones. When morning dawned the fishermen` still had not returned, but about 7 .o'clock the 'Government steamer Miseford, which had left port on her way to Sarnia, returned with the Margaret in town and everybody safe. After resetting his nets to true , northwest, "Reddy" had turnedsouthto look after anoth- er gang of nets' and had run out of gas when about ten miles from the harbor. IFor:tunately the, weather was calm or there might have been a less happy sequel to the adventure. Forty -,Mile Rule Introduced—A new rule goes into effect this year for the tGoderich fair, namely, that exhibitors ins home manufactures 'enlist reside within a radius of forty miles of Go- cleric's, This applies to exhibitors in ladies' fancy work, sewing, etc., c'ann- ed fruits and baking. The idea is, to eliminate the "profes'sional” exlfi'bit- ors in these classes who exhibit on a wholesale scale andkill off the more local competition. Mrs. Duncan 'Murchison. — The death :of Janet Is'abelia.Hardie, widow ,of the late 'Duncan Murchison,' :oc- curred at her late residence, Wingli'am on Friday, August 26th.' Mrs. Murch- ison had not enioyed\the best of health for two years but it was only for two weeks prior tq her death that she was seriously ill. Born in "Freder- icton, O'hio, in 1957 she moved with her :parents. while an infant to (Galt, 'Ontario, and .when she was twelve years old they settled in Culross Tp. fIn 1956 sire was married to !Duncan Murchison who predeceased' her 29 years ago. After their marriage they farmed in 'Turnberry. Mrs. Murchison Thad lived in 'W'ingham for the past six year. She was a ,Presbyterian. SSurvivieg4'are .five children: C. H. ast Spring. A program of addresses and music marked tlte• opening of the new Currie's School. House Burned.—Robert Kicks' Sas- deuce in LowerWingfs�am was des- troyed by tire last week, 10 the ,mor ring fire broke oat near the chimney in the kitchen but the family were able to extinguish the _fire. At about 1,46 the fire again' broke out; scorching the walls of a bedroom and burning cloth- ing, The firemen were called and -ex-. ex- tinguished all traces 01 fire; 'About' 4 p.m. fire Was again discovered and this time the house burned to' the ground as the well was pumped dry, There was a small insurance on the building. Clerk Denies 'Offering to Quit.= .County Clerk George W. 'Holman, who has'' been prevented by'illness from appearing for examits'ation at/the probe into county finances, issued. a denial that he had offered to resign'p as reonted . He said that 'Warden Ballantyne or anyone else had nut the authority to make such a statement. IWiarden Ballantyne, shown Ibis state- ment of the clerk, em'phatica'lly re- peated drat • ] When You have A 'HORSE YY s'OU WATT REMOVED, I Murchison, Long Brannch; • Gordon• Murchison; British 'Colum'bia; Mrs. Russell ,Bloonefieid, Windsor, ]Wilfred on the homestead, Turnberry, and 'Mas. Gordon Godkin, at home. She is alao survived'hy-two'brothers and two sisters. ' New Agent at Wingham.--IH. Pet- erson, of Windsor, has been appointed Imperial Oil agent at WinEd'ham, re- pl'a'cing Mr. 'Sam Chittick, who 'has been superannuated, Return from Visit. M•r. and Mrs, R. A. Ashton returned home on Sat- urday after spending the 'past week in ( Sarnia.. Miss Fau'line's many friends here will be glad to learn she is im- 1 proving as well as can be ex'pe'cted after her operation in Sarnia hos'pital where she is in training. Miss 'Beryl 'Ashton returned home with her par- ents after visiting, her ssiter, Mrs. Strangway, for the ,past three weeks. -'Wingham Advance -Times. Bird Electrocuted... -A 'bird sat on a Hydro wire at 'G:orrie the other day in such a position that it caused a short circuit and Was burned to -death,. also blow'ing out the transformer. 'Douglas' Egyptian Liniment reliev- es toothache and neuralgia. Invalu- able in cases of croup, 'sore throat and quinsy. Keep a bottle handy. the critical interest of his con+tempor ies mainly because he is bewildered and because he can give to bewilder meat a c'anviiucing, emotional ton 'het, generally among writers, belong to more positive imaginative quali'ties The certai'n!ty df his ,own uncertain ty did not emerge-from.his work unto by minor achievement, he h'ad cap •cured a half -shocked attention, 'but h succeeds, in keeping eyes focused an ears open 'by reason, largely, of a or ditalble refusal to content himself wit the type :of success that gave him no only a prodigious but a golden in fancy. His early pieces had a smoo'th Hess of glaze that caught the ligh and dazzled. He 'knew (who -better? the full uses of an impertinence the outraged though it pleased, of a soph isticated air that the adult ap likes t exploit in the young—and" 'to '• com plain of behind his batch. (Here, it was said, was the represen tative of a new, of a 'rather frighten ing, but quite definitely amusing gen enation. Mr. Caward became th rage; Mr. Coward became the type IBtat if he hard remained typical onl at the cost of remaining flippant t novelty would hive palled, and th new clever young man would soo have joined the company of all 'th other clever young men whose bone whiten the paths of our literary hell Not that what was said of trim w untrue, Mr. Coward was certafn'ly, i his debut, typical, and typical he re nriains, but'in a far profounder setts than that intended by his first ad ntirurts and his first denigrators. Th generation which 'Inc represents is un dou'btedly irreverent :and cynical an frank; but is all these things becaus it is afraid. 3t soon became apparels discerning eyes that Mr. ICow'ar was very much afraid. in 110'23 h wrote and produced The Vortex.' Th date is significant in the curve of 'hi career, for it marlcs the moment a which he ceased to be merely .smar and efficient and *became 'a writer whose .career it was worth while to watch. The play is ao'i explicitly about fear, bat Idar dominates it; the fear of 'e'motion.. II'f that had been its only claim' to attention it would have deserved no more than the temporary success which it achieved. But it had other claims. IIs was 'apparent, for in- stance that instead of: disavowing his fear or oinking it, Mr. Coward, fully conscious of the struggle and the de- ficiency in himself, was making a'viol- ent effort to be'honest, 'He could not co'n'e to .terms with emotion, but he refused to shirk the 'issue, Instead o m'anu'facturing an emotion of the theatre with which to fill the gap in his awn sensitive equipment, he was 'brave enough to display in its stead a nervous hysteria whichh was true to his bheme and to himself. It was not quite emotion, but at least it Was not sham emotion, It was a genuine some- thing, and from that rno!ment. Mr. Co- ward became a genuine s'ome'body. The struggle within •h5mseef hes 'Me - ver ceased. Several later Plays are,'it is true, in his earlier manner, with fa- cility 'and a queerly undorevitalized fun, presented as ends in themselves, and within, the framework of their de- liberate limitations they ,have 'been ex- cellent entertainm'ent, 'but in addition to these 'he has produced one or two. that.. hint 'higher and search more deeply. Hysteria has been controlled, a fuller emotion has, to some ex'tent,. taken its place, but fundamentally the emotion ,has remained tinged with a nervous sensibility, because even 'Inc, the reality w'hi'ch it attenup'ts ,to ex- press hes remained' a mystery to t'he writer, a mystery of power and terror, In Mir. •Cowards later comedies amelthing h'as, more than once db- scurely moved' in an attempt to 'brea'k .hrough the ,chosen, form, Hfs popular cputation is based' upon his ability tot Phone promptly to WILLIAM STONE SONS, LIMITED. Phone 22 — Ingersoll Phone 215 W — Stratford sign for Lorin," one is sometimes amazed `at the imaginative denseness of those who can hold 'their sides in- stead Of their breaths; who can bellow instead of shudder. . In the first 'of these two plays, especially, .the under- lying tereor'of life, the tortured twist-`'. ings of people caught up and mangled .iiithe processes ,of exis'tence, is soeap-. parent, so`startlingly present, that a very small extra turn of the screw might well, one thinks, freeze the gaiiety of it and stalls' A similar quality is observable in the early work of Cgngreve. Ln par- eicular there is a moment when the "Old Bachelor" turns anon his 'torm- entors with a sudden fierceness that :threatens to tear the whole elaborate fabric of raillery to shreds, Without : ' warning, the framework of ,artificiality and wit is set a- tremble by- emotional charges that are too violent for its structure. But Congreve was a genius and a 'poet who, : fully aware of the clanger and of his own intention, found at length the principle of a ,new equilibrium, so that the was enabled,. e e d e- h 0 e ye e e s as n c e d d e e B'gtt'r go 'withoult rice 'far a tittle make an 'audience laugh, but seeing' than he in debt '.Eon long. Private Lives" and reading the "'De - in his 'greatest play, to achieve a positive beauty which it is difficult to conrp'are with anything less than. the marvels of Shakespeare's later com- edies. -Between Congreve and the young writer of today lies the abyss that severs genius from agreeable tal- eat; but the comparison is neither lud- icrous nor .negligible, because behind the contemporary slickness there does seem to lurk and peer, and occasional- ly to pounce, a shadowy 'adumbration of the depths that sees , a form_ _of words and, symbols more suitable to it thee those provided by the rules of sophisticated play -writing. IBut what in Congreve` was a t'rou'bling sense o:f loveliness is in til 'Coward a .bewildered horror. Both the eighteenth and the twentieth- century author has made use of a form that was to hand with an uneasy feel- ing that 1 did not fit the full'body of the imagination that had to be cloth- ed. Congreve was almost as certainly wrong as he was certainly triump'h-. ant. It was not The Mourning Bride with its deliberate onset upon the em- otions, but The Way of the World with its seeming denial of them, that 'crowned with -ultimate beauty the sharp questing of his spirit. Mr. Cow- ard may be right. We need further experiment and further evidence. All that can be said at present is that When he sets his course to seeming flippancy and disillusion he can mov 'and faintly 'terrify, that when he en- ters a solemn claim to touch the heart he fails, Once or twice' already, eschewing ease natural manner of his comedies, he has ventured upon ' a grandiose mouthing of sentiment which, mone- tary success apart, has fallenshort not only of his aim but of the stand- ard of his less pretentious achieve- 'ment, Itis as though, now and again, he has sought to rationalize, to ex- cuse, to justify, the vague promptings. of his spirit, seeking to release them from the amalgam of laughter and sophistication that sO well protects and even adorns then', into a clearer light and more definite focus, But the attempts have failed, resu'l'ting, some- how, in a •mutilation of his integrity. How else are we to understand "Gay- alcade," "Post Morten" and the un- easy satire of his dancing ladies and their cousins of the Ritz, if not as ef- forts to Ifind some explicable reason for what disturbs and torments him? (11 these attete'p'ts seem to lack hon- esty it is surely 'because the 'feeling that ostensibly prompts them is not • really the feeling far which 'their au- thor is . see'kin'g�tteran'ce. He'is. not moved by a fwll•yq rlress p'atrio'tism, nor even by a social indi'gn'ation, bat by a hidden sense of personal unhappiness and_'frus'tration for which these bor- rowed clothes snake an inadequate uniform. He is too clever to Ile taken in by his own manoeuvres. H a is too clever,per'h'aps, ever to he anything 'bu't an important pl'ay'wright masque. !H'e sees through too 'much: he sees through, that is the trouble, himself. He is not taken in by his success, and to Ghat extent is within reach of sAlva- - tion, But neither is he taken in by his emotions, and unless he 'Can be carried away to the extent of forgetting him- self in the *divine fury of a clear inten- tion he ,may -well waste himself its a ,weary circle. To express bonvincingiy the reality of .pain, of fear, or elation,. the writer must be Willing to abandon much of h'i'msellf—iswme'times even his sense of humor. • 'Pullets will develop with greater uniformity if separated from the cockerels 'when they are eight to 32 'weeks of age. The males are domin— eeri'n'g and tend to claim the feed 'hopper space that has been alldtted. to the females: IFurthenm'ore it is goad economy to sell the males 'before they become staggy.