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DISAPPOINTMENTS NOT NEW
TO TIMOTHY
To the Edilur av all thim Winghani
Paypers.
Deer- Sur:-
• Ye will rimirnber that lasht wake I
had to shtop: wroitin about dishap-
pointmints•be rayson,av havin to git
ready to go downtown to hear Misht-
er Grattan O'Leary slipake, an that
wus another dishappointrnin:t, fer he
didn't come. Av coorse the praicher
man showed us thio pickters av the
woild North Land wus all roight in a
sinse, but he wussen't the man we
ixpickted, an mebby wussen't aven
Irish. ,
Me mild brother Matt used to tell
me tall'shtories av ,the Yukon, an av
the mad rush on the trail •av nointy
,eight, ;so he did, but that wus befoor
he married -the war wieldy wid foive
Guilder an sittled down in Alberta,
Matt wus always a bould by in lookin
fer adventures, an, shure, it tuk a lot
to shtop hint whin he got an oidea in
his ould heaud.
1 Miebby ye know that our commun-
ity doinin ekub isnow a .ting :av the
pasht, an I kin tell ye the rayson. The
riussus wudden't shtand fer it anny
logger an coorse whin the prisi-
dint's woife fell down on the jawb we
cudd,en't carry on fanny more, I can't
say that I blame her very much whin
1 tinlc av the way the min I sint her
behaved thiinsilves. Wan was an in-
surance agiot who talked business all
the tonne, an indeed up be sellin her
polisiaics fer the grindc;h't1K,ler; another
feflah hal, e: -wake shtummiek' an cuci
herrudly ate annyting, an another wus
a foundhry man who elaned up the
table an thin said he wud bey to go
hone an git his dinner befoor he with
back to wurruk. But it was the lasht
sutra' that brine the camels back, so
to sphake, I sint a new married ;man
up to the house won slay fer dinner.
an that's where 1 made the inislitake
av the sayion, fer'he wus nivir dote:
tellinthe: znissus how his woife did:
tings. The missus had Salada tay fruzn
1VIeGee's, but the fellah said his woife
always bought her's loose from Chris-
tie, The mate wus a roast fit fer a
king, an wus bought. fruln Nortrop,
but this lad said his woife loiked
Field's mate betther. His .woife pre-
ferred Carter's bread, befoor Gibson's
bat she loiked Gibson's cakes betther
an so he want on talkin till I wondher
the znissus managed to ` tape her
tongue aff him, but annyway it wus
the manes av breakin up our coo'
munity doinin club.
1 tink rnebby we hey too manny
clubs an organoizashuns in town anny
way, fer laivin out the Churches; we
musht l'iev twinty other shows av wan
koind an' anither. Ther's the Masons,
Oddfellahs, Lions, Curlers, Senior
and Junior Hockey tames, the Arena,
the Radio Club, the Chamber of Com-
merce, retail merchants, the Canadian
Club, Jawn Hanna's Resht Rooms, an.
mebby a lot .more that don't come'
to me moind at prisint,' Thin the wizen
titin hey- their Aistern Shtar Club, the
W. C. T. U., the Wimmin's Iiishtitoot
their bowlin club in the summer toime
an pint. tays an card parthies galore.
It is an interestinwurruld to live
in, but inebby, it is poshible to hey
too much av a good ting. •
Yours till nixt wake,
Timothy Hay.
BLUEVALE
Gordon McKay, who recently pur-
chased the Turvey garage to fit up
for , a creamery, has now purchased
the former Methodist church and is
fitting up the basement which will
;be a much more satisfactory place.
When coming home from church on
Sunday, Mrs. William Thornton had.
the misfortune to slip and fall on the
ice and hurt her back, and otherwise
received .a bad shanking up. Her
many friends hope she will soon be
well again.
James Kerney is at present suffer-
ing from an attack of pleurisy.
Mr. B. Jamieson of Toronto occu-
pied the pulpit in the. Presbyterian
Church on Sunday.:
Recreating Old France
at Quebec
0tteafthe n
most colorful and striking functions
' : dais continent, it wa's,•reser'vgd for.
evct'r. put, on all i' over herself' an the
' the old: City of `Giue'bec . to red su
K 'bull recently given in the two,. balls of the
Lgas rr in the Ancient tkapitel.
Legislative Assembly an per,
four hundred year's101 e eostutxies p
tbnall i b the ball; it was the eigh-
teenth
weto Cowered y
century that .t✓vaa most prominently featured
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'and i�; �q'tss ,">I�taa',gily' ,�'x�nCb Arstor ca .
atm lib w 4 ot*i "14 PA Sttiie9lrrar Wit5 ; im-
Chateau Prontenae, where most of the guests at the ball
stayed. Lipper rights Lord and Lady Willingdon as Ring
Charles 1. of England and his buten, Renrietta Maria. Cower
left: Miss Yvette McKenna, debutante, for whom the ball was
given, in the charaeter,as Madame Louise lie meet:, daught'n
at Louis Xv.
bythe kion. N. perodeau, Lieutenant-
Gove
personated Willingdon
Governor of the province; Lord and Lady g
went beck a little further and represented Charles L
of England and his Queen Henrietta Maria, Premier
Tasehereau canis Cyst as ci'Aguesseau,, Chancellor and
Comptroller under Louis XIV,, and. Mrs. Taschereau
went as Marie Antoinette, ill-fated Queen of Prance.
Miss Yvette McKeaina, the debutante granddaughter
of Hon. N. Perodeetu,' fox whom the ball was. given,
appeared ee 11ittdanie Louise de Prance, daughter of
Lottis 'XV. Tri"till `some 1,100 guests came to the
, i ever ono had to state beforehand
;;belt• :•and, slime. y
in what eharaeter le.or she would appear, there was
'Ilei duplication, and. tire reeutt _ 'fats quite the most
bi;iltiagt� funetidn ever. shown in Quebec orfront all robably
any 'other city. In. Amexira. , 011435Ssbs carte
parts of Canada and,the Ea'stertt United States, and
hili' au ;,t+itatltt§rs.e wee at capacity for some
the . ani .
day* het method to aceOra iodaate them,
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WORLD'S ' BIGGEST FIS1
MYSTERY 31.1:>14:1S.i'L'It;3 4711 ,'k'il73i
DEEP.
Ships' Captains and Naval Ofileees.
Have Seen Stupendous Creatures
elven More Fantastic Than, Legere-
dory Marino Monsters of Old,
We usually think of' the 004 -
Serpent as a myth come {iown to us
through ages of marine tradition,
says1 a writer in Tit-I31ts. All the
same, within 'the last half - century
we have had the testimony of ships'
captains and naval officers who have
actually seen stupendous "creatures
even more fantastic and terrible than
the legendary marine monetors of
old.
The olet stories had some found-
ation. Viewed from behind, the
eight -foot tropical manatees lock like
mermaids. Moreover, the female
nurses her sea -baby human fashion,
holding it in one arm.
Sea ghouls are as terrible as the
fabled sea -serpent. Sea snakes are
aspoisonous as land snakes, and
some snap like wolves.
• There are sperm whales over sev-
euty feet long and forty feet in
girth. The mighty cuttle-fish hada.
arms long enough to encircle a
whale's body. The white' dog -fish -is
a shark that will gulp down sacks of
cinders as they are shot down the
chutes.
The gramus, or sea -arrow, once a
sacred sea beast, is famous for 1o1 -
lowing a ship in search of a, human
meal. The corpse-wbale, or sea
unicorn, will drive its tusk through
a vessel's side.
Tiger sharks, sometimes over
twenty feet long, are tireless and fe-
rocious. Another sea ruffian is the
hammerhead shark. But even more
terrible Is • the great two -ton sea -bat.
The sea -bat, or giant ray, is as
fierce as a tiger and as venomous es
a rattlesnake. He carries in his tail.
a foot -long, hollow ivory dagger,.
hard and sharp as steel.
The fish uses his tail as a whip,.
and with it scourges his prey. "When.
the point of the dagger touches the
victim': skin, a fatal poison is squirt-
ed and death ensues within 'six
minutes.
In '1.922 some Italian fishermen
drew into their nets a weird mam-
moth Soh. Its, two -foot mouth had
neither, tongue nor teeth, while it
carried' on the top of its head an
elephant -like trunk. Several years
ago a creature bigger than five adult
elephants, and weighing over fifteen
tons, was killed off Florida.
When its three-inch skin was cut
open it was found that this giant.had.
enjoyed a. lunch of four hundred-
weight of coral, a black fish weighing:
1,500 pounds, and a large.octopus.
In 1922 there swam into Cristobal
harbor, Panama, a whale so' colossal
that it had to be overcome -by ma-
chase -gun fire, When :`killed and
towed to the . docks,. all efforts- to
raise it proved' unavailing, though
powerful ` seventy -ton : cranes were
used, and a railway engine hauled at
steel -cables. • -
The .most eXtraordinary testimony
of the existence' to -day, of the sea -
serpent comes from Australia. -
Farmers living amid the swamps.
have been perplexed at the, frequent
disappearap:ce of their „Fettle. They
thought .,thieves, took the .:animals'
and bore them away by boat, but
there were no tracks of men or
horses—only a curioud wide fu.erow
.leading to the beach. ,
One night a boy was awakened by
the dogs, and , calling some farm
hands, rushed out with his gun. He
was amazed to see "a great dark ob-
ject resembling a huge snake, travel-
ling across' fences and paddockfs at
a terrific rate, ..Its head was held
high in the air, and in its' mouth
was a struggling calf.”
The wide trail was followed to the
beach, and the monster was seen to
plunge into the sea.
Blue Eyes and Brown.
The character and color of the
minute particles of pigment on the
surface of the iris of our eyes, which
determines whether they shall be
blue or brown, is being studied be-
Cause it seems to be a matter closely
related . to heredity.
It has been proved that if both
parents have genuinely blue eyes
dying-out,and the brown -eyed peo-
But'the brown pigment seems to be
master over the blue, and that is
probably the reason why, as close ob-
servers tell us, blue eyes are yearly
bepomtng fewer in Britain. The
blue-eyed strain in 'our population is
dying out ,and the brown -eyed peo-
ple are surviving. This is probably
aecounted for,,ley the fact that if one
parent has brown eyes and the other
blue, their tbildren are much more
likely to have brown eyes than blue.
Some observers think. that : the
great eh.ange-'over from country life
to citylife which 'revolutionized Bri-
tain a oentury ago largely 'accounts
for the rgradual disappearance of
blue eyes. Certainly fishermen and
farmers and :sailors, people who
spend most of their times in the
open, are usually blue-eyed.
Snails Run Hates.
Will snail -racing become a pop-
ular sport? The question• is being
asired in Wales, where , cl'owd% are
clockingto see the new pastime.
' iiith • .their owners' colors painted
on their slieils,, the snails raceon a
coorse about a yard square, and are
attracted to the winning .post by a
pile of wet dxy' leaves.
Booing is by no means a sietnele
matter, as '.the snails oftext` oe'rwelop
an unfortunate' habit df sleepirxg ort
tho course, anal evesi after a good.:
start they frequently go the wrong
way. They are Ao ktiyed with':graeis t
atiehs by theirs'owvners, who tap tlui
tent or right horn as required.
t1e1d. of bili' Acre of ! Oboe'
sore f tb o o p a a a a laiat§ 11
boot /00 tons of tobaeoes,
i'pts, by
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FATE OF FAIR IN HANDS OF
COUNCIL
Latter To Be Asked( To Make Up
Deficit of Over $x,000
GODERICH, Jan. 2o—With a defi
cit of over $x,000 on the books, the
members: and directors of the Goder-
ich Agricultural and Industrial Soci-
ety, at their annual meeting today,
discussed the advisability of contin-
•wing the organization under such a
condition for another year. In view
of the fact that the society is a muni-
cipal one, it was decided to wait on
the Town Council and seek aid from
it in wiping out this debt. If the Coun
Gil conies to their assistance, the di-
rectors will consider carrying on the
organization.
Last year's fall fair was up to the
standard, but the small attendance is
given as the cause of the deficit. Over
$loo oT this amount is prize m :my
which has. net been paid,.
The election ' of officers was held o-
ver until the next meeting,. when the
decision of the.'I'own Council will be
received,
SON, WOULD SEND 75 YEAR
OLD MOTHER TO GOAL
Will Not Turn Farm Over As
Ordered By Court
Hearing a motion. in which a son
g
would, have his 75 -year-old mother
committed to jail for contempt of a
cottrt order was adjourned for two
weeks by justice Fisher ,in weekly.
high court to -day,
Stanley Hubbard is p. plaintiff' in the
motion and his mother, lVtrs, Ellen
Hubbard, is defendant. li"oth parties
reside in 1'lymptou Township, Lamb
toe County. The motion is• tine to
commit the' defendant for failing to
carry out the terms of a judgment to
i'convey a farm to the plaintiff.
T.ast fall, at Sarnia, the son stied the
ittother to severe possession of the.
farm. Justice Wright presided at the
hearing, and at that ' tittle the two day of one that has made the name
Iwhereby the mother would turn the'. of Scotland as glorious in literature
farm over to her son, and judgment as it ever was in the shining. list ofwas entered to that effect. Since that `battle, in invention, in engineering
I time, it is alleged, the mother has re-' or in any other achievements that
(fused to carry out the terms of the I have added so largely to the social
i judgment. ' well-being of every civilized com-
Mrs. Hubbard is a widow and 75 1 rnunity the world over. Robert Burns
years of age. J. Ray Donahue, of Sar- i left the world at the early age of
nia represented her in court; Charles thirty-seven before scarcely attain -
Weir of Sarnia appeiared for William ling full manhood but he left behind
Hubbard, another son, in whose name him traces of genius so; brilliant that
the •farm is said to be registered now they will never be forgotten. The
and Howard Cluff represented. Stan -4 thousands of gems of song he gave.
ley Hubbard. 4 the world will sparkle for ever while.
After hearing particulars of the mo- }language is still needed an the earth,
tion, Justice Fisher directed that the !His songs of the affections—tire bet-
motion be adjourned for two weeksd ter class of them—have never been
without court costs to anyone, and • exc,elle't1 by the most classical lyrist
that if the 'court order is not carried ` in any tongue. He came ,into the
out by that time the motion for con- world at a time when his countrymen,
tempt will their be considered. The,' were depressed and discouraged but
case to receive Bearing, he said, must I he roused their pride and fired their'
be set down before February 2. f imagination ands taught them the art
of being independent though poor,
--- ; when be sang -
1 els there for honest. poverty,
[A smile costs nothing, butgive l 'Thathangs his head and a' that-.
stuck, It enriches Thos who receive :The coward slave: we pass him by,
without making poorer those who ; 1i'< dare bc.:poor for a' t
: ltati"
give. It takes but a moment but the f
memory of it lasts sometimes formicr.
None is so richor mighty that he cavi.. BELGRA,VE.
:;et along without it, and none is so
poor but that he can be made rich by 1' The 13elgrave Women's Institute
it. A. smile creates happiness in the i held their first meeting of re28 at the
Home, fosters good will in business, `"Manse"the new Home of Mrs. . (Rev.) '
and is the countersign of fiicn lship, �j Scobie. Beautiftul weather prevailed
It brings rest to the weary, cheer to land there was a splendid attendance.
the. discouraged,
sunshine to the sad, Several matters of business were dis-
and
and' it is nature's best anitctot e for l oussed. and ,dispose -d of, Thu Roll Call
lc. Ye i eanno be boo lit !lEvvasentsr•k:'s1)°11
dedtowithCurr tittrotnb t g ,beggeal o stolen, feltit isscnnctliiig A report of the Women's
that is of no value to itnyone until it :Institute Convention iii l.on'doii was
isgiven away.Some people etre too' given by the delegate, Miss: 1Viartlia.
I 1
tired to give you a smile. Give them
one
'which was very interest-
n of yours, as none needs a smile', ing, There was also a paper giron by
so much as he who has no more to :Which Mrs. Seobie on 'Keeping Out of Ruts'
ei
fiiclt was enjoyed by everyone. ,
give.yone. 5 mils
. , } osett Clegg, co triUted a solo c
titledu
"Song . of Love" and'was ac -
,
cont pained by Mrs. Daft Geddes.
De -
Ott January twenty-fifth, Scotsmen Vicious refreshments were served by
of all Climes willcelcbiate the birth- Mrs, Scobie ted Mrs. john VanCamp.
A SMILE
SCOTSMAN'S, NIGHT