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THE INGHA ADVANCE -'HIES
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OUR CHANGING PARLIAMENT
Political life is notoriously unser
taxa,,.
The numerous elections in re-
-cent .years have seen almost acom
P
lete shake-up in the personnel of the
House of Commons: There has come
to the desk of the Free Press, Lon-
don, the latest issue of that interest-
ing publication, The Parliamentary
Guide. A perusal of this volume
reveals the fact that the present House
of Commons contains astonishingly
few members who sat in Parliament
:before 1917. Even of those returned
:in the war -time election of that year,
nosily a small percentage are left.
Robert White, Conservative member
ifor Westmount, is the veteran of the
-House by many years. Mr. White's
father was the late Hon. Thomas
`White minister of interior in the
'Government , of Sir John A. McDon-
-ald. • He was a brilliant man, regard-
ed as a possible successor of the
.Conservative chieftain. He came
to an untimely 'death in 1888, and his
son, Robert, was elected in his place
for the old seat of Cardwell. He was
-returned again in 1881, but before the
1896 election, retired, not to re-enter
public.:life until' over thirty years lat-
er, when he was elected tin 1922 for
Westmount, holding his seat again in
1926.
•For continual :representation, Hon.
IsndolpheeiLernieux is the dean of Par-
liament.. Mr. Lemieux was first el-
ected to the House • in 1896, then a
young man of 3o, and, has held his
at" fintil the present. In the same
election, Henri Bourassa, then but 2S,
was first returned to the House He
sat in Parliament until 1904, when for
a tirne he :entered provincial politics,
not returning to the Dominion Arena
until: the election of 1925. Of those
,elected in ,goo only.'; two are left in
Parliament, Hon. Hugh Guthrie, who
is Conservative leader, and has sat
continuously for South Wellington,
and Hon. Chas. Marcil, who was the
'Speaker from 1908 until 1911, There
-are only three of those first elected,in
1904, Sir George Perley, Hon. Ernest
Lapointe and George Parent. Alto -
Charles Dunning and Hon. H. H.
Stevens wlfo came from England; Hon
Peter Heenan, who is an Irishman,
and Hon. Robert Forke, a Scotchman.
Among the Irishmen is one world.-
wanderer,
orld-wanderer, James C. Brady, new Con-
servative member for Skeena B. C.
Mr. 'Brady, according to The Guide,
was born in Dublin, but has lived in
Gibraltar, India, South Africa, Austra-
lia and New Zealand. He came to
Canada from New Zealand in 1911 and
for the past t4 years has been teach-
ing school in Prince Rupert, resigning
theP rincipalship of the high school
in 1926 to enter politics.
That the West is beginning to grow
old is shown by the appearance of
native sons in Parliament. There are
three born in Manitoba; -one in Sask-
atchewan and two in British Colum-
bia in Parliament. The West is evi-
dently starting to contribute of her
sons to the East, as Leslie 'G Bell,
Conservative member for Ste. Anto-
ine, was.born in Rapid City, Man.
The present Parliament has among
its members the first Tlkranian repne-
sentative in the person of Michael
Luchkovitch, member for Vegreville.
However, he was born not in Europe,
but in the United States, coming to
Canada as a youth of 15 in 1907. There
is also an Icelandic representative,
Joseph T. Thorson. He was born
in Winnipeg, and likewise graduated
from Manitoba University, later being
selected as Rhodes scholar for his
province..
TOURIST TIME EXTENDED
Tourists entering Canada may now
i receive a permit for sixty days, in-
stead of thirty as formerly, and un-
der certain restrictions the time may
be extended to ninety days. Organi-
zations interested in the tourist traf-
fic have been seeking to have the
,thirty -day limit extended. The long-
er period, should be a considerable
•
First Reeve of Ripley _
The death of one of Ripley's fore-
most citizens occurred Friday morning
in the person of John B. Martyn,
!.x -reeve of the village, after an illness
of nine months. Deceased, who was
a native of Huron Township, was
born 65 years ago, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Martyn, who emi-
• grated from Scotland. To him is
due the credit of taking hydro power
! to Ripley. Surviving hire are his
widow and a large family. The fun-
eral was h,eld, on, IVIo'tday to Ripley
Cemetery.
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Copyright, 1926, by collier's, Weekly and G. P, Putnam Sons
"12lili Grimm's Progress" ls, a picturixation by Film Booking Offices of
America, Inc.,, (F. B. O"j of H. C. Witwer's stories of the same name:
SYNOPSIS
Barbara .Baxter infiiaenoes
Grimm, a rare/ taxi-driver, to go to
.New York to seek his fortune. Re
is constantly at odds with Jack
Fairfax, a wealthy 'bounder, al-
though, Bill has helped Fairfax out
of a legal scrape. T3iUZ and Pansy
Pilkington, now in the city to be-
come a "stage star," are not in love,
although Barbara thinks so. Bill is
assaulted by Fairfax and .Tierney, a
"bruiser," and begins to train as a
fighter.
"If you hadn't run away the oth-
er day I'd of licked you, yteu big
stiff!" I says politely.
Then the jollity begin!
Ten minutes later Butch Ford
managed to halt the thing with the
aid of the other highly surprised
athletes in the gym. The mill was
stopped just in time to save a nice
boy from serious injury. That boy
was me!
"1'll meet you in the ring inside
of a mmith and make you like it!"
I gasped, when Butch pried my bat-
tered eyes open. "You knew too
much for me, Tierney, but at that
you wasn't able to knock- me for a
loop!" ..
"He couldn't flatten you with an
ax!" enthusiastically says Butch,
patting my heaving back. "I seen
all I wanted to see—you can take
it, Bill, and that's one thing I wish-
ed to know for sure. I'll toss you
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promptly howled the gallery. I
Pawed ' desperately at the air and
Tierney sunk his other glove to the
trademark in my midsection. MY
knees sagged, and I fought for my lO
breath, while a deep 'mice yelled: ):
"In the stomach, Tierney; he don't.
like 'em down below!"
"Shut up, Monkey!" Butch Ford
screamed back. "D'ye know any-
body which does like 'em below?"
That brought a loud laugh from
the crowd, and the .next minute I
made 'ern all stand up shrieking by
connecting solidly with a left hook
to Tierney's chin. It shook him up,
and he backed away, looking.' sur-
prised and serious. I liked they ef-
fect of that punch and shot dyer a
hard right to the same place.. Tier-
ney was slow in ducking and got
the full force of it on the side of
his head. He went to his knees,
and the din lye.fld of made a boiler
factory seem like a graveyard on.
Sunday.
1 finally put two stiff lefts to
Tierney's face, and, measuring him.:
carefully as he came rushing in, I
hit him flush on the jaw with my
right. It was a terrible panch with
everything I had behind it, and he
dropped for the second time in a
quivering heap. But I thought I'd
hit a concrete wall! Awful burning
pains shot up my arms, and the
clenched fist inside my right glove
was just numb: I couldn't keep
back a short cry of agony, and
quick as a flash one of Tierney's
seconds roared: "He's broke his
hand, Jim! Get up and take him"
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He crashed to the floor, flat and motionless on his face.
ED with ,this big palookafive .weeks
from today—
"And I'll smack him out of the
ring into your lap!" Tierney fin-
ishes for him—and walked out of
the gym.
A couple of days before my ieart-
rendiug scuffle with Jim Tierney I
heard through Butcb Ford that
Jack Fairfax was running a keen
night club called La Palais on Fif-
ty-first street off Broadway. So
with Butch and O'Brien I climbed
into a tuxedo and up we went. We
got past the ham eyed doormen
and lookouts without no trouble,
our swell fronts helping us, and
surprise cumber one comes when
I'm greeted by Pansy Pilkington!
She's the hostess, she tells me, and
adding that Fairfax had amply
apologized to her for his rough
words in her apartment that day
and he was now imitating a perfect
gentleman. At another table, not
ten feet from us, is Barbara Baxter
and a boy friend. Net only that,
each of 'em had what seemed like
a highball in front of 'em. •
Oo-la-la!
Barbara happened to look up and
see me staring at her, and she got
first red and then white. At the
same minute Jack Fairfax come
striding across the floor, followed
by three or four husky waiters.
They headed right for me, and, as
usually. Fairfax got behind his
bodyguards when we come to-
gether.
"I want the rest of that dough
you owe me, Fairfax," I says in a
low, but business -like voice, "or Pll
take it right out of your cash reg-
ister!"
"Throw him out, boys!" snarls
Fairfax to his merry Inen just as
Butch and O'Brien jumped to my
side.
The fun waxed fast and *fu-
rious for half an hour, and when
the excitement died, down a trifle.
Fairfax and a waiter had been
pinched for selling whisky. 1 found
myself standing beside Barbara,.
wondering what it was all about!
' "What are you doing iii a plate
like this, and who's that bird which
was with you?" 1 demanded,
She frowned and regarded ,me
coldly,
"My escort is another enforce•
ment officer," she says. "We've
been working together for a week,
and I dame here ,with him tonight
in the line of duty!
And she Ieft ens standing there.
T didn't do much sleeping on that
particular night—just Short cat-
naps, from which I'd wake with a
start, sitting up in bed. I
got up at 7 p. ea. and finished my
last workout for Jim Tierney at 2
the next morning.
in the dressing room that tight
while Butch bandaged my hands
with the regulation soft cloth, his
instructions to me was the salts as
they'd been hourly for the past five
weeks: "Don't try to slug with
Tierney, box him and take the fight
on points!"
The instant the gong rang to
start us off Tierney leaped at Hie
with a swinging overhand right,
which caught me on the ear and
Sent ,rte to the ropes. "There he
goee'! Itnott1t him out, Tierney1"
That handler made a wonderful.
guess. That's just what I'd done--
broke
one-broke my right hand with the blow
that sent Tierney to the canvas!.
Ile staggered to his feet at nine -
again, punch-drunk, but tougher
than rhino hide. This time I
couldn't keep him • out of •a clinch,
and when the referee broke us I
only bad one good' hand lo stall
him off. It wasn't enough. With a
snee'•ing grin on his battered lips,
Tierney proceeded to make a
punching bag out of me for the rest
of that round, I was down twice
for a count of four, once for a
count of seven, and the welcome'
bell ending the massacre found me
on the mat formy fourth trip. I
did the best I could with only a
left hand to work with, and as 1''
dragged myself to my corner and
flopped onthe stool I heard the
referee say to the sport writers as
he leaned over the ropes:
"This lad can't fight—but, oh,
hove he does!"
Butch's parting slap on the back
as he ducked down under the ropes
helped revive me a bit. 1 shook
my head from side to side to clear
away the cobwebs, and something
inside me whispered; "Faint with
your right as if it wasn't hurt—
outsmart him!" Like a machine I
stuck my left in Tierney's face and
drew myuseless right back slight-
ly like 1 was going to punch with
it. Tierney covered up instantly.
Ile loked puzzled and glanced
quickly at his corner. "Be careful!"
his seconds yelled. "He faked that
right—he never broke it at all."
Tierney kept backing away, and I
jabbed him viciously again : and
again with my left, still using my
bum right as a threat.
He swung his own right when the
mob commanded him to take a
chance; and I sidestepped ,the
punch, with the same movement
bringing up my left in a uppercut
which caught him squarely over
the heart. Why, I even, seen the
whites of his eyes turn, up and hie'
color go a pasty gray, He cursed
and landed lightly "below my belt,
and the mob razzed him, but 1'd al-
ready started another wicked left
for his jaw. It caught him right on
the button, and he crashed to the
floor, roiling'over twice, to end up
flat and motionless on his face,
They could of counted 200 in-
stead of ten; Jinn: Tierney wasn't
Ole
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ring for twenty
leave the g
a
le to a
minutes after the fight, and I'd won
my first start by a knockout in less
than two rounds.
It was just a jubilee in niy dress-
ing room—Butch fixing up 1ntq bum
paw and everybody talking at once,
when through the open door walks
Barbara Baxter!
"I--1 couldn't resist seeing what
would happen to you tonight,
she says Softly', "and 1 Want you to
know how glad--hbw proud 1 ail
that yea won. You were --•oh, just
spiendidt 1 wish you could have
heard what they were saying all
around me -1 got quite a thrill,
Bili, I'm not going to affect an ad-
m{ration that 1 do not feel for your
new profession,: but 1 hope, since
you have entered it, that you'll be.
come o champion to
(To be Continued)
The matron of the present day has
succeeded :in gaining for herself a
1.urli more prominent position than
x''
accorded to hein less modern
Custom in the past usually
" mended that the wile should :sink'
.no, obscurity and that the husband
;houid wear the laurels and gatliea
'am e. '
Occasionally tradition has allowed
wife to share her husband's
:am In a few coniparatively rare
esteems the wife has boon famous
ad the husband unknown.
Not many persons have heard of
he husband of Charlotte Drente,
as. Piozz!, Mrs. Siddons, • Felicia
latnans, Mrs.,,, Gaskell, and a fain
;umber of others, nevertheless they
:xistedas here cited.
In 1844 Mr. Nicholls, who came to
')e curate to Charlotte Bronte's fath-
eme laid himself at Charlotte's feet.
"he rejected him and told her friend
`lint she could see nothing in him.
.fight years tater he,renewed his pro -
:meal, and Charlotte was so touched
"1' his ardor that she referred him to
ta.ther. Mr. Bronte stormed and rav-
ed, and Mr. Nicholls tort ]lamworth.
ED 1852 he returned and in 1854 he
'ed Charlotte to the altar. She said,
"I pray that I may be enabled'to re-
pay as I ought the affectionate devo-
tion of a truthful, honorable man."
For nine months the couple lived in
lerfect happiness, and then when she
work on that morning in March and
saw her husband bending over her.
praying for her life, she whispered,.
` "Oh, I am not going to die, am I?
He will not separate us—we have
been so happy!" But they were sep-
arated, and though. -the fame of
Charlotte ,has increased with the
passing of the years, no one now re-
members Arthur Nicholls, the young
curate who brought peace and hap-
piness into a life which on the whole
was not very bright.
Mrs. Piozzi • was the woman who
was so friendly with Dr. Johnson, and
the woman who left a volume of
anecdotes about the great man.. Her
first husband was Mr. Thrale, who
was responsible for inviting Johnson
to his house. Mr. Thrale insist have
been a striking man: "I know no
man," said Johnson, "who is more
master of his wife and family than
Thrale. If he but holds up a. finger
he is obeyed."
When Mr. Thrale died his widow
felt that she was to a certain extent
free from the authority under which
she had chafed so long, and she be-
came afraid: that Dr. Johnson would
be her next dictator, so she chose
Pioszi, an Italian fiddler, who was
looked upon as a vagabond. Piozzi
must have seemed very desirable to
the wife who had been . accustomed
to the orders of her husband, and
to the uncouthness of Johnson, and
ehe was completely lander the spell
of the handsome and polite Italian.
Although she took her name, he still
remains a nonentity..
•`Felicia, Dorothea Browne published
her first book when she wee fourteen
:1rx,rs old, and then in 1812 issued
another volume, and also r1a r1':=d
Capt. Hemans of the Irish 4th Foot.
She was fascinated by his unirorm
end he was charmed with her tal-
ents. When the glamor wore eft.
which it did in five years, lie walked
out of the house and never returned.
,he was left to write poetry and to
bring up her five children, which elle
did for seventeen years.
Of a different kind was the hus-
band of Mrs. Gaskell. He was every-
Ihing that a husband should be. and
the time of the marriage he was.
ay far the better known. When he
suggested that she should help him
a the writing of a magazine article
'ie lit the fire which was to blaze
cut and dazzle the eyes of genera -
awls of readers who would be unable
n see the worthiness of Mr. Gaskell
rse1f. Later Mr. Gaskell 'suggest-
ed that in order to find solace cram
'inr sorrow after the death of her
son, she should writea novel, and
"Mary Barton" was the result. To-
wards the end of her life she bought
•vith the proceeds from her pen a
'iouse in which her husband lived for
'he rest of his life. Mr. Gaskell is an
example of the husband who deserves
rather more notice than is usually
-riven to him, for he not only set his
t1e on the road to fame, but also
": couraged her to persevere and kept
!emelt in the background so that
:l:o could carry on her work.
to the eighteenth century a young
girl named Simpson wanted to go on
he stage. . At the age of eighteen
the left Bury St. h;dmonds and fled•
.o London.. She had no money and
'o belongings, and when she applied
`.o theatre ' owners and producers she
found that several of them offered
o find her a position if she agreed
o their dishonorable conditions: I1;
les,iair she went to an actor named
:email -mid and asked his advice, "You
,nlst marry," he said. "But who will
marry me?" was her natural ques-
tion. He was silent for a time and
then said, ""I will, if you will have
me," and accordingly they were mar-
ried. Mr, Inchbald never rose to a
position of eminence, but his wiftlBdid..
In her day she was famous as a
writer of plays and books, 'Vet for
seven yearsshe was happy with her
husband, and in any case realized that
it was his eccentricity which had
saved her from ruin.
Perhaps, it is as wellthat when
l,1ie wile becomes famous the husband
remelts unknown, for there is 'noth-
ing so pitiitti as to hear a man ro-
an -red , 'to as "tire husband of his
.;lustrtou wile."',
Sleepy Climate.
Sleep is largely. a Matter • of dli-
rx ,tr, aocording t0 a bow theory,. It
>'d ,logions tnr ni:iind necde a tot. of
rat?.y food vied riot too much sleet;
ie. the tiopie s, on the other hand,. 5
lel o6 a mita natty litilu i;at ill the.
i:- ih thee hest rule,
WHEN you keep in your home or you
V V oificei important papers, negotiable
securities, jewelry and other valuables, you
run a daily risk of complete loss through fare
or theft.
A Safety Deposit Box in this Ban11, affords you ql:
place of absolute safety for your valuables. Th.
moderate •rental is a small price to pay for security.
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W.NGHAM BRANCH,
Manages•.
BLUEVALE
Charles Agar of Vancouver, was,
visiting at W. R. Yeo's during the
past week.
Mr. Andrew Holmes was visiting
at the home of Geo: Yeo. last Sunday,
Mrs. Gordon Yeo is now improving
from her recent illness,
Alfred Agar : is at present staying
at the home of W. R. Yeo, until he
recovers from his illness, which i5
now improving but quite slowly.
Mrs. joseph Curtis returned home
from Montreal, last week after spen4-
ing the past two months with her
daughter, Mrs. McKee there.
Mr. .and Mrs. Leonard Elliott spent
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ham.Miss :Hazel Mundell spent last week
visitin gher cousin, Mrs. Harold Gil-
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