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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-03-24, Page 17 Tltl111rsd ty,•:!March 24th, 1927 ��wWPbgPPYi,PJYi"J..qu 1927 ptlYPPJJI.PJPIPPPJPtlpJY1JJ.,i{J.i,,,i.J,IP.HJ•I� I gether in . the who lie 'dolls 0 of 245 'MARCH 192' - . members there are not more than a dozen nnentbers who sat in Parlia- ' rent before 1917, SB Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa The nationality of ,the members 1from the West is interesting Ontario - �- ---1T 4 wn : ;evidently still pred,alriinates in the. 6 7$0 West, as no less than 23 of the :neem- ; �p t� _ bers from beyond the . Great 'Lakes, [ r. ;158 ®jl 1-19 _ J 1 'were born in Ontario. There are 2-0 21 22 23 2411-25 2 411-2 �� seven ven who care from the Maritime 1 ri :Provinces and two frons Quebec. Old -27 28 29 s country settlers in the West are rep- "gg resented by no less than 21, including AU,P[JIq,N „t1i,A. llliJ"1,,i,ilf,1„l1,”„y,,,,,Yi:Y,MiiiaJi �” four such outstanding figures as Hon. THE INGHA ADVANCE -'HIES Published at WINGHAM, ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning A. G. Smith, Publisher Subscription rates—One year $2.00. 'Six months $1.00, in advance. Advertising rates on Application. 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. it depends largely on the flour you use. We b ;l e e you'll welcome this suggestion-- try Purity, the rich, vigorous -t1our—'made from the finest Western Wheat.. Thou?•.;ids of cooks say Purity Flour is best for cakes, pies, buns and bread. 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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 P. ��� r` �' n't tl'Yit'dc till T - r" t L f" r 0 Lr'", 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" Ft? it`•,• • i �.. w F i„.• 1*X..NF n , BJx., , fl ,. 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 •o 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. 26 A. M. BISHOP, 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 he ween end t with friends in Wing - ham.Miss :Hazel Mundell spent last week visitin gher cousin, Mrs. Harold Gil- kiuson, near Belmore. Once wear "Invictus" and. you'll wear no other eltIsTAI BEST 6YP0D SHOE W. J. 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