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Collage' of
Late Dia-
, Military District.
Ont. Office hours at
Monday, Wednesday,
from ane to
2814-18
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J. R. FORS'I'ER
:.Mer. Nem sad 'throat •
to Medicine, University of
Assistant New York Opbthal-
Aural Institute, Mborefield'a
Ind Hos-
LAt ondon,
office in ScThroat ott
over Umbach's Drug Store,
rth, third Wednesday ix each
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 53
_..00 Street South, Stratford.
ne 267, Stratford.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
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Insurance.
Policies liberal and unrestricted.
Over $1,000,000 paid in losses.
Itbtceptional opportunities for local
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LEGAL
R. S. HAYS.
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do-
gOnion Bank. Office in rear of the Do -
Minion Bank, Seaforth. Money to
lean.
Sea
As
tent Orators at To•dsv
Are Scarcely Inferior
To Those of $itt's Time
Has oratory declined? The answer
is. not among those who make their
appeal to the masses and are In dan-
ger of being called demagogues. To
prove this a writer in John O'l.on-
doe's Weekly choice excerpts are
taken. Lloyd cites 'some examples,
from which George, for Instance, will
,:aarcely be forgotten for his famous
:•ttack.on Lords Hugh and Robert
cell
in the Welch Dip -establishment
debate of 1912:—
"I say that charges of this kind
! rought against a whole people at
any rate ought not to be brought by
those whose family trees are laden
with the fruits et sacrilege. Look
at the whole story of the pillage of
the Reformation. They rubbed the
Roman catholic Church, they robbed
the monasteries, they robbed the
altars, they robbed the almshouses,
they robbed the poor, and they rob-
bed the dead. Then they come here,
when we are trying to seek at any
rate to recover some part of this
pillaged property for the poor for
whom it was originally given, and
they venture, with hands dripping
with the fat of sacrilege, to accuse
us of robbery of God."
William Jennings Bryan put him-
self . n the political map with one
speech, nay, with one sentence, which
is included in the following from his
1896 convention speech:
"Having behind us the producing
classes of this nation and the world
supported by the commercial inter -
BEST & BEST
Barristers, Solicitors. Convey-
kneers and Notaries Public, Etc.
Office in the Edge Building, opposite
The Expositor Office.
PROUDFOOT. KILLORAN AND
HOLMES
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub-
lic. etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
in Monday of each week. Office in
Kidd Block. W Proudfoot, H.C., J.
L. Killoran, B. E. Holmes.
VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and honorary member of
the'tcee'ical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary ?allege. Treats diseases of
all domestic animals by the most mod -
U n principles. Dentistry and Milk
Fever a specialty. Office opposite
Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth.
All orders left at the hotel will re -
D rive prompt attention. Night calls
gsesived at the office
JOHN GRIEVE, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderich street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
forth.
DIAMONDS.
Penr's LudelwAdouce'
,Tiger at Francs Intends Ise vast .add Done But It is Tat Peru has reedntly besit celebrating
To •.onquer the Prejudice
1 Ckeely, the eeutenalai ane vermin of Its in-
T at Foilt:wed the War I veld trade among the tel was for seeturies thecentre
lltbd oil white eaPDhtres Spanish Qogoln
Diamond takers are many, and dependence. unlit, the. Peruvian eapi-
they ply a g a of
gu e, palmion In South America,
as Brazilian diamonds of the first but' its people followed the lead of
water, and obtetuing high prloes for rebellious Chile and Buenos Ayres la
M. Clemenceau, the world -lemons flashing Atones which are known as i establishing deaadeindependence et the the nine-
tieth
l rad
'Tiger of France, celebrated his elifb- diamond "doublets." 4
second tl th birthday recently, and thee utiles" are no more genuine teeuth century. The constitution of
t bits f glass They 1880h by which Peru fe'now govern-
came news o s are nothing it is Just possible that In a few thin slice of real diamond cemented i Constitution. Nominally, th people
mouths, or even weeks, his name rase by invisible cement to the front of a ; are free and bave sovereign rights in
he country as It bit pi crystal of one of the lesser the choice of representatives, but in
i tgnee- reality the poverty and Ignorance
o dta vada than o
l hissevereillness.Yet the g but faked stques with s ed, is eery similar to the itmerimin '
Of
be ringing through t precious s, (haat". IA ten years they begin to
rang In the dark days of 1111. and With diamonds fe:c4ing such high the masses leaves them helpless. emerge into the realm of power and
pahabltaab on the Globe.
There are about 1,600,000,poitsutan, 'In twhile
a gretioalat varlbset godce"spiheniermeanleaden"
000 in- have.come endgone, transients who
habitants on the glebe. Of these sincerely or otht.... d' capitalize the
60,000,000 die every year. 187.136 , veteran sentiment. But it ds not until
Per day, 5,595 per hour, about 90 veterans begin to 'emerge, after a de -
per minute, or three to every
st condo.
eft
The election oleo lends support le tb ti
optaien. '
History,,: however, intervenes In
time to care us Isom utter cynicism,.
It has always been ten or more years
after a war of come:Naace'1 before
any political force was generated *-
menet
menet the veterans. The American
Civil War end the Franco-Prussian
War provide modern instances of that
law.
The majority of the eoldlere in.pity
wear are . young',men Under bhtrty
When they retarn to, civil life, they
are of no real weight le the commun-
ity. They are employes and subor-
as It had rung, at frequent intervals, J prices, it seems, on the, face of it,
for more than forty years before.' au absolute certainty that a fortune
awaits the man, who can find outjbe
Clemenceau is in, temporary eotlDes way to make genuine diamonds.
because the French people believe at Demme of men have spent half their
the moment that the Peace of Ver- lives and all they.possessed In try -
sallies was a snare and a delusion, Ing to make real diamonds, but their
efforts have only led them to penury.
and that Clemenceau was largeleCu'sy re -
There. Is no doubt that People
contesponsible for it. Clemenceau's own would be very surprised K they saw
contention is that the treaty gave one day to a shop the legend: :Real
France everything she was entitled e d taken
to, and that the fault for the present
sltdation lies with those who sue
ceeded him and who failed to enforce
the provisions of the treaty. Me has
been attacked by pacifists and pul-
ing philosophers abroad as a raging
militarist, while at home the masses
of French people have been taught to
regard him as a timid weakling who
In France's great hour refused to
pluck the fruits of victory.
It would be unjust to blame the
French people for this Ingratitude
to their greatest citizen. The blame
Iles with the politicians, and of all
politicians the French politician is
perhaps the most virulent. In the
LORD iLIRKENi. .
,•sts, the laboring interests, and the
toilers everywhere, we will answer
their demand for a gold standard by
saying to them: You shall not press
down upon the brow of labor this
crown of thorns, you shall not crucify
mankind upon a cross of gold."
But the opening passage of his
speech at the St. Louis convention
"bows that he could repeat:-`
MEDICAL "Eight years ago a Democratic
DR. GEORGE HETT.EMANN. national convention placed in my
hand the standard of the party and
of Goderich. . i tan candidate.
sc
'c Phits
hats t iissioned me as
Oateop Ycram t
Specialist in Women's and Children's .Four years later that commission was
diseases, reheumatism, Mute, chronic
and nervous disorders; eye, ear, nose
and throat. Consolation free. Office
above Umback's Drug store, Seaforth,
a'aesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m
C. J. W. HARN. M.D.C.M.
426 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
Specialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin-
ary diseases of men and women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
McGill University, Montreal; member
of Colles• of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coun-
cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
of Resident - Medical staff of General
' Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 68.
Hansell, Ontario.
PR. F. J. BURROWS
,Office and residence, Goderich street
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROBS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
,Chicago Clinical School • of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
Ragland; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office—Back of Do -
'minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5,
Night calla answered from residence,
,victoria street, Seaforth.
renewed. I conic to -night to this
Democratic national convention to re-
turn the commission. You may dis-
pute whether I have fought a good
tight, you may dispute whether I
have finished my course, but you
cannot deny that I have kept the
faith."
Turn to the nobility and Lord
Birkenhead's recent Irish speech has
splendid passages, from which the
following sentences are culled:
"If we in our day should be so
happy as to succeed, history will re-
cord of our generation that we in-
herited indeed a mighty Empire, but
that in our day it was menaced
abroad by a powerful and most reso-
lute enemy, while at home it was
enfeebled at its very heart by a
plague spot of disaffection and
sedition. And in such stn event
the annals of that history will
record on a shining page that
we — our generation — after five
years of martial vicissitude, broke
in rout the foreign enemy, and, hav-
ing done so. here at our doors re-
captured in a nobler conquest this
island of incomparable beauty, and,
in doing so, became reconciled to
a people so individual in its genius,
so tenacious in love or hate, so cap-
tivating in its nobler moods."
In older centuries there were
statesmen who could appeal to a
great people, as witntsss the Elder
Pitt at the opening of the Seven
Years' War:
"Shall we tarnish the lustre of this
nation by an ignominious surrender
of its rights and fairest possessions?
Shall this great kingdom, that. has
survived, whole and entire, the Dan-
ish depredations, the Scottish in-
roads, and the Norman Conquest;
that has stood the threatened Rive -
elfin of the Spanish Armada, now fall
prostrate before the House of Bour-
bon? Surely, my lords, this nation
is no longer what it was! Shall a
people, that. seventeen years ago wa
the terror of the world, now stoop
so low as to tell its ancient levet
crate enemy take- all we have, onl
give us peace? It is impossible!"
AUCSTDNEERS
THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
d:Karon and Perth. -'Correspotdenee i
arrangements for sale dates man be
Ifl its by calling up hone 97, Seaforth
diamonds made here. Orders Arabian Campaign. for any size and quantity." Jewelers .One of the most stlrrhn episodes
all over the world would snow great of Cul. Lawrence'smoatArabian i carn-
ally
and diamond dealers gener-
ally would exhibit signs of panic. If, Paige, says Mr. Lowell Thomas in
however, the notice in the window Asia Magazine, was the battle fought
1 tedth first sentence at felts, the ancient rock city that,
two cads, as employers and men of weight
BATTLE AT PETER. - in the community that real soldier
— _ i leadership is evolved and the, fellow-
' and idealism of the war ripens
Stirring Episode of Col. Lawrence's ,and materializes.
About 1929, two general elections
hence, it will be cafe to prophesy
that the majority of the members of
Parliament wit] be ex -soldiers. It
cannot very well be otherwise,' with
were sects o to
e this entire able-bodied generation be-
lt
o-
It would leave the Jewelers cold. It until the war awoke It, had heF.n. ing ex-soldiere. But that there will
Is the last sentence that would cause axle?p for almost two 'tnogeaud be a soldier party is not likely, unless
dismay. y.r`'-- the elder generation, by a dogged de -
The fact is, that genuine diamonds. "The b:.ttle took place In October, termination to play the old party
diamonds eitac:ly similar to those 1917. The Turkish 'commander,
that are mined in the blue earth of
Kimberley, or found In the river beds
of Brasil, can be made by man. Dia-
monds. and carbon, and the black -
lead which le brushed on firegrates,
and with which we write In the form
of a pencil, are all the same stuff.
They are all carbon; the only differ-
ence
iffer
ence is that diamonds are crystallized
carbon.
How nature makes diamonds we'
do not know with any certainty. It
la certain, however, that there must
have been great heat and enormous
pressures involy,-d In the making of
these gleaming precious stones. Men
of science -have at various times car-
ried out many ,•xi!'riments to obtain
these great hear.+ and pressures, but
all their money and time was wasted.
'Then Moissoe. the French chemist,
set up an eLtik.r..• furnace which pro-
duced beats more intense than scien-
tists had thought possible. The or-
dinary fire we burn to heat our
rooms in winter is Icy cold compared
with the temperatures that Moisson
attained with his electric arcs.
He found he could obtain the tem-
perature he needed. The problem re-
mained whether he could obtain the
pressure. It is a well-known fact that
molten iron expands as it cools. Mots -
son wq,ndered how to snake use of
this property in iron so that it would
help him to make diamonds. Eventu-
ally he took a crucible and melted
iron within it. Then he mixed some
carbon into the rotten iron, and dis-
solved it.
Taking the crucible, he inserted it
in his electric furnace and subjected
it to a heat of 4,000 degrees Centi-
grade. Whipping the crucible out of
the furnace, he plunged it straight
into a crucible full of molten lead.
The queer .thing is that the tem-
perature of molten lead is so much
lower than that of molten iron that
it was like plunging the iron into
cold water. The iron immediately on
making contact with the crucible be-
came solid at once, and as it solidi -
lied it exerted enormous pressure on
the molten nidal in the centre.
Moisson, waiting until the iron
was solid throughout, gradually dis-
t ;7:ed away all the iron by using
acids, and in the centre he found
several minute diamonds, all black
and discolored, and one or two dia-
monds that were quite white. 'Thus
he showed men. how to make dia-
monds.
But it doesn't pay to make them.
They cannot be made big enough to
be of commercial value. You can
buy a bigger diamond for $50 than
yott can make by spending $50,000.
Experiments -1n making real dia-
monds have not been quite fruitless.
After one experiment that was ma-
rled on in the United States at enor-
mous expense, the- experimenters
looked in vain'for the nice -sized dia-
monds they rather expected. Instead
they found a quantity of fine black
dust that was practically as hard as
a diamond. That dust is now known
as carborundum, and it is more use-
ful than diamonds in the realms of
commerce, It is used both in the
form of powder and made up into
wheels and- blocks by being mixed
with .wet fine clay and felspar,
moulded and pressed.
M. CLEMENCEAU.
course of his career Clemenceau has
made many enemies. Just now he
appears to have far more enemies
than friends. The .Present Govern-
ment is not unnaturally inclined to
blame him for what it has been un-
able to accomplish, The nerves of the
French people are far from normal.
The fear of Germany has not been
wholly removed, and for this they
hold Clemenceau and the Treaty of
Versailles responsible. Thus the
statesman who was regarded as the
savior of his country three years ago
has sunk into disrespect.
Clemenceap declines to coincide in
the justness of the popular attitude.
lie refuses to take it lying down and
intends to return to the political
arena. Veteran newspaperman that
he is, he will return through a news-
phper. It has not yet been started,
but it is understood that it will be
called the French Nation, and will be
edited by Andre Tardieu, formerly
French High Commissioner to the
United States. Georges Clemenceau
will be the chief editorial contribu-
tor, as Theodore Roosevelt was after
he had nominally retired from poli-
tics, but when - he was in reality
crouching for another spring. The
original intention of the editors and
those behind the paper, who are
said to have unlimited funds at
their command, was to launch the
enterprise two years ago, when
Clemenceau returned from Egypt.
The business arrangements were then
in the hands of M. Loucheur, for-
merly a Minister in Clemenceau'.
Cabinet, and Clemenceau asserts that
Loucheur betrayed him. He is no*
a favorite of Briand's and must be
reckoned one of the Tiger's enemies.
In making the announcement,
Tardieu said that the intention Is
for Clemenceau to write one article
a week, but he has confidence that
once he gets started there will be
no stopping him, and he is likely to
dominate every issue of the paper.
If Tardieu's remarks about the news-
paper situation in Paris are correct,
a great future awaits the French
Nation. He says that, with the ex-
ception,pf a few Royalist organs, like
the Action Francaise, all other pa-
pers in France are exactly alike. The
French people do not get the news,
Indeed, a presentation of news for
the sake of news is not a feature of
French papers. The Petit Parisien is
about -the only paper in France that
would be accepted as a modern
Journal by people used to English-
speaking newspapers in large cities.
The others consider their own
political opinions the vital news of
every Issue.
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— TIM Fspositor s'iM Charge mod-
Ante and satisfaction gaaranteei I Marriages In France.
There were twice as many mar-
a8nmtiosleer. & � ' riages in France In 1920 as in 1913
idealised —623,860 against 312,036. The ex-
am*
dScow Sales ettsadsd it seof births over deaths last year
of the scanty. Seem ' rlr n was 169,000; compared with 68,000
"' �i�. La 1919. - lit tsilaTatilnt wcr0 1t Co7g Soothers
Ne. 14 Orders.i/iZ rt The Halals
The "Sonde."
An intensely dry, hot wind called
the "sonde," which blows down from
the Andes on the plains of Argentina,
was formerly thought to owe its heat'
to volcanoes. It is really a "foehn,"
such as occurs in Switzerland and
many other mountainous countries,
where winds, robbed of their mois-
ture in crossing the mountains, are
heated by Compression during their
descent.
Djenial Ptrim, sent out in three
itslu:nr.a frtrt Manu inure that see -
••a thu::sand men and several unite
of li;•'it aritilt rc.
accompanied by a
s'lucdrun of Germ•+n airplanes. On
October 21st, the columns were to
converge on Petra, white Lawrence
and his B^d;uius Net'.; safely
Lawrence had only two mountain
field guns and two machine guns,
but with them far mare than ria
h::;,rs he held the -8tst ridge use
utiles s loth of Petra. Vacation it, r
set half his men to a little -ridge on
the cp;bait• ski • of lu• r: !Icy.
'•Itlated at lmvieg captured the
trenckc; on liim, ' c.it rids-. trio'l'eri:s
�. : r. r• 11.1111 t:.. t .:e ; !i.ad docs : •. !.
he..tru Latrrc•.rc 's. fe•c.-s. 'l'itinkii.
that .h:• Ar,:'.a "r,;! retire -1 all the
ivay Int' Poi r.:, they cum•:,d en -
into tt:c•'vall,•y..
Laiin•ee,e let al. Ie c t a thousand of
the en•-t.ry'.a tr . , ,ms push headlong
between tire .we ridges. When he
had the 'Turks se'dged into the nar-
rowest part of the gorge, one of his
aides fired a rocket into the air. A
anoment later pandemonium broke
loose in the mountains of.Edom. The
Arabs poured a stream of lire from
all sides; the crack of rifles secured
;o come from every rock. With shrill
screen's the women and children
tumbled huge boulders on the heads
of the Turks and the Germans six -
hundred feet below. Utterly bewild-
ered, the invaders became panicky
and scattered in all directions.
"A few minutes berm i' lire sun
sank behind the sea-•-cale:eil moun-
tains, Lawrence and 3Laur Be..- ;.gain
sent up racks s. At the signal their
followers swept down it, ridges into
the valla,'. Th^.;' captured the c-::t:ro
i'urk!s'n L aimliert. n empiric tte':d
.ospital :....! li:-:.dr..,a cf pr.s:auers."
Oxide of Iron.
It is• oxide of iron that gives to
your blood its brilliant red color. If
blood contained no iron all men and
women would look like walking
corpses. Nowhere in nature is iron
foundin a "native" or pure state.
It occurs only in the form of oxides --
that is to say; as iron rust. Man's
greatest triumph was achieved when
he discovered how to "undo" iron
rust and get the iron out of it. But
for that our civilization to -day would
be no further advanced than that of
ancient Egypt or Assyria. Edwin E.
Slosson, in his remarkable new book,
"Creative Chemistry," says that
every year the blast furnaces of the
world release 72,000,000 tons of iron
from its oxides, and every year one-
fourth of that quantity reverts to
rust. Should man cease his efforts
in this direction for a generation
there would be. little left to shot►
that he had ever learned to extract
iron from is ores.
Qnicksands-
Quicksands are generally due to
springs finding an outlet under a bed
of sand. The rising water keeps the
grains of sand from adhering to one
another so as to form a compaet
substance. •
Scottish Cities' Populations.
Of the Scottish cities, Glasgow's
population is ?mow 1,034,069, an in-
crease of 26,662 on 1911, while Edin-
burgh's stands at 420,267, a decrease
of 3,779.
game, in some way ,offends that new
spirit abroad in the earbh as manifest-
ed in Russia, in the Labor party in
Britain, in the disarmament confer-
ence, in Ireland, in the Farmers' move-
ment, in the American negroes, in
India, and wherever the march of de-
mocracy
o-ntocracy encounters resistance from
prlege or tradition.
nide was chid wi ,joy, It lKit
notttof the nationt
en'lmpasjng *ad :Ave
Om *n ea ghb •treat before me, evidegt�if '
1n straits. I aeon learned the ",15"'w.`.'
ble. Iia /aid . ?ten his poeb••
book and I d w rewithal fob
us Fare.
which wax acceptyed with ill 4ty
gratitude.. a we fell iutoi
Om, Iii ended in nip aseepti alt in-'
vitation-for. he Would nett he denied
--to drop 4n with him` at Itis 11oy�,
whither he was bent, for tl app 'of
tea. I gemarked that my ,best re-
verted, over and over again to tits
trifling incidbnt, stressing tri
"good-
will," as he termed it, beyond all
necessity. He especially dwelt upon
oily being a "fellow.tBritieher," unit
eppke almost tenderly of the ties that
United us.
"And just to think you : had to
come all the way across the briny,
just to help a fellow -Briton!" -he said
more than once, es we 'sat in the
beautiful and richly--urnirthed libr-
ary of his really -splendid home.
In due time I rose to go. Then '•
came the incident that I repeat in
defense of Scottish generosity. My
new-found friend asked me if I had
any ebildren.
"I have two," replied I proudly.
"Boys or girls?" said he. ,
"Assorted," answered I.
"Well," and his face was beaming,
"I want you to accept this little gift
from me. It's not much—only five
pounds—'and I may tell you I am a
rich man and would not miss many
times the cum—hut I want you to
lake it and buy some little thing for
your boy, or girl, or both, just to
mark this happy meeting and this
happy little episode. It didn't mean
much to you, I know, but it meant a
lot to me. So take it, my friend,
with the regard of a fellow -Briton
that's 'muckle obleeged to ye'," hold-
ing the crisp note out in front of
him, his face aglow with patriotism
and kindliness.
Minnesota is the only state that
permits the marriage of girs fifteen
years old without the consent of par-
ents.
Mrs. Henry C. Wallace, wife of the
secretary of agriculture, has wone
considerable fame as -a writer for
farm journals.
The English Lutheran Synod re-
cently denied women equal voting
and council rights with the men of
the church.
There are 870,140 foreign -born wo-
men over 21 years of age living in
New York city, of whom 360,255 have
been naturalized.
The Bahai women conform to a
certain extent to the ancient tradi-
tions and veil themselves when they
appear firs- the street. . .
First 1%'omtan Barrister.
The first woman to pass the final
examination for the British Bar is a
28 -year-old girl of Hull; she cannot
be "called" to the Bar, however, till
she has put In twelve terms.
d Ker tMi to- Judged by recent local happenings, After
abut _S0 ger Oa it's ay eta labs that hal no' hold- since
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IS THE SCOTCHMAN STINGY?
In my last story, faithfully drawn
from life, I made my humble protest
against the all too prevalent idea
that the sons and daughters of old
Scotia are close and clinging in mat-
ters of finance. I prefer to think
and speak of bheni as economically
sound, as financially thoughtful, as
very self-controlled in matters of
gift and generosity. For Scotch self
denial is never more in evidence
than when they feel surging. within
them a longing for the joy, the sel-.
fish boy, that springs from giving
something away to somebody else.
This is one of the pleasures, one of
the forms of self-indulgence, over
which they have complete and instan-
taneous control; this insidious appe-
tite is, for the most part, eternly
nipped in the bud, as befits men 'who
are resolved to 'be masters of their
own souls.
I have often remarked how they
will sacrifice such joys as this when
honor and fair dealing are at stake.
A friend of mine has often told me of
a good and conscientious Scot. a mem-
ber of Chalmers Church, Guelpif, who
was approached by himself and an-
other "manager" with a view to get-
ting his subscription for a new pipe
organ about to be installed.
"What were you thinking of giv-
ing?" they asked, after the scheme
had been outlined.
"I never think shoot the matters,"
replied the canny Presbyterian; "if
the Lord wants us tae ,hae a kist-o'-
whustles, nae doot he'll provide it,"
shaking his 'head piously.
'But we must 'use the means,'"
responded the chief solicitor, pleased
with the historic term.
"I lute nae means to speak o'," re-
joined he of the defensive—"an', ony-
way, I've just bought anither farm o'
a hundred an' fifty acres, an' that
leaves me harder up as I've been for
years," sighing like 'a furnace as he
gave the dread statistics.
"But that only makes you richer,"
cried both the despairing managers
in unison; 'band, besides, the congre-
gation looks to you, as an elder, to
set an example, you understand,"
The elder sat up straight in his
chair. He was at 'bay. "Aye. I'm an
elder, naedootan' ye ken fine, the
duties is speeribual an' no' feenancial.
I aye maintain a man should bide by
his sin pertikkler work. I've . been
est elder -P Chalmers Kirk for mair
as bhirty years, an' in a' that 'time
I've taken naethin' tc+ dae wi' the
music—an', an', I dinna think I'll in-
terfere neo," which so overwhelmed
the eortplussed.pair that they retired
in penniless dismay.
WHERE WAS THE SOLDIER
VOTE?
The recent federal election has
squelched—for the present at least—
the hope ,that was in the hearts of
many ex -soldiers that the great war
would produce a unity of opinion and
a solidarity of spirit amongst the
young men who served which would
result in good for the country.
The defeat of many soldier candi-
dates in all parts of the Dominion de-
monstrates for one thing that ex -
soldiers are in no sense unified.
To say that there were not enough
ex -soldiers and their fathers, mothers
-wives and other sympathizers in East
Toronto to elect Sergeant Rayfield,
V.C., would be to slander a very eal-
dierly community. But, old, drag-
gled, political bunk, hokum, walls,
walla, was potent enough to drive
thousands of ex -soldiers away from
'tire support of this very brave, honest
and capable young man who was run-
ning as a non-party candidate.
There are many ex -soldiers who
honestly expected a new political
force to arise in Canada out of the
war. To remove sixty -thousand
young .men out of a city .the size of
Toronto and set them apart for three
and four years would surely result
'one would imagine, in some thinking
and speculation upon the Iife they had
left. The recent election has very
effectively indicated that the sixty
thousand have dumbly returned to
that old life and accepted its old forms
and ideas and ideals. They felt no
loyalty to fellow -soldiers who were
on party tickets. They had no .sup-
port for a comrade who ran as a
soldier alone.
There is something to be said, of
course, for the argument that soldiers,
as such, can do more by re-entering
the old order of life in its various
phases and exert whatever influence
for good they may possess through
channels that are already made. That,
however, is the argument of the stand -
patter, the reactionary.
Another firm contention of those
who Coked the home Are is tint the
soldiers got no new ideasor idealism
for the privl'lege out of the war, end that oa every hand
wt to have been admit- is proof that the men who wet* away
`*g eidgiUm, amoral years have come home Un -
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w
I pretested, I made little of my
trifling service. I told him his gen-
erosity was more than I could accept
end still preserve my self-respect. In
answer to his continued insistence, I
even said: "If It's your sense of in-
dependence that is animating you,
give my miserable bagatelle and let
me go." ' - -
But it yeas -elfin vain. He. refused
to reient, standing before me and
pleading his case as though demand-
ing money instead of giving it away.
And finally, when he begged of me
to take it for his sake if not for
mine—to say nothing of my dear chil-
dren—I faltered, hesitated, yielded.
And, just as I was reaching out
my hand to take the currency—I woke
up.
I narrate such incidents with pain.
And, to offset -the unhappy impres-
sion they might provoke, I will now
relate another of a different sort,
highly creditable to the worthy race
that has been so long and so un-
worthily described as financially im-
pregnable. It happened during a vis-
it of some years ago to Glasgow.
Purposing to sail the next day, and
having a few hours on my hands, I
resolved to spend one or two of them
in riding round the city on the deck
of a 'bus, the only line in the.world,
so far as I know, that gives its
patrons ha'penny fares. I had reach -
FEE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y.
HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH,:ONT.
OFFICERS:
J. Connolly, Goderich - - President
Jas. Evans, Beechwood vice-president
T. E. Hays, Seaforth - Secy -Tress.
AGENTS:
Alex. Leitch, R. R, No. 1, Clinton; Ed.
Hinchrey, Seaforth; John Murray,
Brucefteld, phone 6 on 187, Seaforth;
J. W. Yeo Goderich; a. G. Jar.
smith, BDottiagen.,
William Rinn, No. 2, Seaforth' John
Bennewies, Br'odhagen• James Evans,
lock; Geo. McCartney, lio. 88,, Seaforth,
Beechwood• M. Md'Swsn, Clinton; Jas.
Connolly, 6odsrich; D. F. McGregor,
R. B. No. 8, Seaforth; J. G.-Grievq
No. 4, Waltton; Robert Ferris, Hat- t pipes and eldan. .
GERMAN TOYS FOR ENGLISH
CHILDREN MAKE CHRISTMAS
CHEAPEST SINCE 1914.
This will be the cheapest Christmas .
in England since 1914, says a cable
to the New York Herald, It will be
cheap because it will be largely Ger-
man. The English child will play
with German field guns, German tanks
and German airplanes painted in red,
white and blue will operate a German
clockwork train painted in English
colors, and decorate a German •toy
tree with German candles and Ger-
man tinsels.
It is difficult for some parents to
forget, but the children these days
have only eyes and to them the ap-
peal of these toys is stronger than
youthful war impressions, so the
people of small means -will be able
to please their loved ones. It is the
first time since the war that toys
have been sold at a reasonable figure.
The German articles show the old
handiwork and as always tend
strongly toward miliartistic kulture,
but engines, boats, houses and dolls
likewise are plentiful. Dealers say
that 75 per cent. of the toys that are
now being' sold were made in Ger-
-many and the demand is so large he-
cnuse they can be sold at almost pre-
war
ro-war prices, a thing which similar ar-
ticles made at home cannot approach.
Among the novelties is an engine
operated by hot air, capable of run-
ning six hours and which is sold at
abAlso there is a wireless set cap-
le of receiving messages from the
Eiffel Tower and which is sold for
$15.
Among the Christmas gifts for mi-
lady this year there is a beautiful
array of smoking equipment, which
includes pipes studded. with jewels,
cigar holders In feminine bags for
carrying, and delicately beribboned
containers for the boudoir table. It
is further proof that women smokers
are going beyond the cigarette and
are trespassing on man's penchant
for etronger tobacco.
A fashionable Piccadilly shop
makes pipes according to the design
and pattern submitted by 'fashionable
customers. For many years this firm
has kept the secret of Mayfair's wo-
men pipei'smokers, accepting and fill-
ing -orders on the quiet, but with
smoking such an established fact
among women now it is showing its
wares openly.
There seem to be' many styles of
women's pipes, but they generally run
toward little bsiasa with Squad bowls
and thin black stems. Many ate
jewel studded,_highly .decorated and
neatly carved,.As a rule, Women pipe smokers do
not use the agate tobacco es men, but
they can eaeVly-buy,specially blended
Mixtures to suit their testes. A sales-
man for this particular firm says
that many' titled women have their
own special blend, which is ordered
by giving their open name. The rams
is more or less true of cigars, except
that this year there ,is a bigger de-
mand for them - than ever. Women
cigar smokers are not new. Sortie
women customers have been buying
them,for+ten years, but the firm re -
parte that the diet is growing weekly.
In -the showcase there is a woman's
Cabinet of 500 fragrant Havana* of
entail else, also women's handbags,
with pouches end a ease for tobacco,
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