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The folloWhaffis kbll a fit; of prize
winners at the Walt5ld Bcbopl Fair,
held on Wednesday, Oeptembex 27th;
Grain:
Fall Wheat, Carl Holmes, Mary
Kreuter Laws McDosiald, peas, John
Taylor, Willie Dennis, Prank Dundas,;
barley, Harvey Bryan, Flora Harris,
George Sholdice; oats, George Lure,
Mary Kelly, Mary 1{rauter; O.A.C.
oats, sheaf James Turnbull, George
Sholdice; sheaf oats, (Gold Mine),
Willie'Dennis, Archie Somerville,
Lawrence Ryan; field corn, 6 stalks,
Walter Oster, Alex, Clark, George
Davidson.
Vegetables and Roots.
Best collection, Eva Scarlett, Law-
son Kearney; turnips (Swede), Flota
Harris, George Sholdice, Gordon Mur-
ray; beets, Archie Mose, Geo. David-
son, Eileen Stimore; beans (white
wax), George Sholdice, Lewis Mc-
Donald, Tennie Dennis; field corn,
Geo. Sholdice, Mary Addison, Jim
Turnbbll; tomatoes, Tom Kirkby,
Aileen Ryan, Jim Turnbull; Green
Mt. beans, Flora Harris; celery, Bert
Johnson, Jim Johnsfon, Beatrice
Kearney; Green Mountain potatoes,
Mary Addison, Isabel Reid; Swede
turnips, Blair Shaw, Flora Harris,
George Sholdice; carrots (Chantenay)
Aileen Stimore, Alex. Clark, Tennie
Dennis; mangolds, Orval Holmes,
Gordon Murray, Willie Dennis;
mangolds (Y.I), Gladys Leiper, Mary
Dickson, George Sholdice; carrots,
(O.A.C.), Alex, Clark, Olive Knox,
Tennie Dennis; Golden Bantam corn,
Orval Lindsay, Jim Ritchie, John Tay-
lor; popcorn, George Davidson, Arthur
McGavin, Grace Somerville; potatoes
(any variety), Johnny Taylor, Flora
Harris, Ethel Shaw; potatoes (Irish
Cobbler), Thomas Stevens, Flora Har-
ris, Willie Dennis; cucumbers, Orval
Holmes, John Taylor, Laura Hoy;
cauliflower, Vera ('ardiner, Earl Hoy,
Orval Holmes.
Min
Flowers.
Dahlias, Lewis McDonald, M. Bew-
ley, Laura Hoy; buttonhole bouquet,
Charles McDonald, Jim Turnbull,
Alex. Clark; pink and white Asters,
Jim Turnbull, Charles McDonald, D.
Driscoll; Gladioli, John McDonald,
Vera Gardiner; Salvia, M. Bolger, A.
Parsons, A. Carter; Dahlias, Jim An-
derson, Alex. Clark, A. Clark; sweet
peas, Charles McDonald, M. Bolger;
Gladioli, Lewis McDonald, Alex.
Clark; Phlox, Alice lioy, Alex. Clark,
B. Johnson; bouquet of flowers, Jean
Turnbull, Beatrice Kearney, Vera
Gardiner; bouquet of snap -dragons,
Jim Turnbull, Alex. Clark, John Mc-
Donald; collection of flowers, Viola
Ca rter.
Poultry.
White Leghorn cockerel and pullet,
George Sholdice, Ken Ritchie, Dave
Murray; half dozen heaviest hens'
eggs, Billie Thamer, Tom Dennis,
Arthur McGavin; pair Barred Rocks,
Jessie Dennis, George Love; pair
geese, Les. Reid, Eva Scarlett, Geo.
Davidson; pair White Leghorn pullets,
Ray Carter, Lou Kirkby, Gordon Mur-
ray.
Live Stock.
Grade Calf, Walter Oster, Tena
Dennis, W. Dennis; pure-bred bull,
Willie Dennis; pair spring lambs, A.
Somerville; calf raised on Royal
Purple meal, Tena Dennis, Willie
Dennis; best lamb, A. Somerville, D.
Murray; Agricultural colt, Bert John-
ston, Jim Johnston; general purpose
sucking colt, H. Bolger, W. Thamer,
Len Kirkby; grade calf under six
months, Willie Dennis; blood colt,
S. Beattie, H. Bolger; pair hogs six
months or under, Jim Ritchie; spring
calf and spring colt, Len Kirkby, W.
Thamer, H. Bolger.
Hitching Contests.
Girls, Effie Balfour; boys, A. Som-
erville.
Fruits
Apples—Northern Spy, Willie Mc-
Pherson, Elmer Ellacott, S. Beattie;
Talman Sweets, ,S. Bryan, j ieo><:ge
Pollard, Geo. Sholdice; King of Tomp-
kins, F. Harris, G. Sholdice, Leslie
Reid; Plums, Amy Parsons, Ross
Driscoll, Walter Shortreed; Pears,
Bert Johnston, Jean Stevens, Doug-
las Hemingway; collection of Fall and
Winter Apples, Ross Driscoll, Mabel
Bewley, Lawson Kearney.
Nature Study.
Collection Mounted Leaves, George
Sholdice, D. Staples, Grace Somer-
ville; collection of shells, D. Staples,
Mary Munn; collection of forest tim-
hers, (named), Gordon Murray, Geo.
Sholdice, Eva Scarlett; collection of
insects, Alex. Clark, Sinclair Hem-
ingway, Geo. Davidson.
Art and Writing.
Painting of fruit by a teacher,
Elizabeth Dodds, S.S. No. 12, Grey,;
E. M. Little, S.S. No. 7, McKillop;
relief map of North America, Effie
Balfour, Elma Hill, Clifford Hoegyf
map of Ontario, Dave Murray, Geo.
Sholdice, Alex. Clark; alphabet and
name from pupil starting at Easter,
1921, Isobel Farquharson, Edith Pride,
Dorothy Driscoll.
Needlework.
Fancywork collection (any teacher)
E. M. Little, E. Dodds; lawn handker-
chief, Eileen Stimore, Dorothy Dris.
toll, Tessie Dennis; dressed doll, Irene
McLaughlin, Lea Rapson, Florence
Ryan; crocheting, Alice Hoy, Mary
Dickson, Ida Cochrane; patch, Al.
leen Stimore, Dorothy Driscoll, Jean
Drager; hand made apron, Dorothy
Driscoll, Eva Scarlett, Elda McPher-
eon; crocheting, Evelyn McPher-
son, Aileen Ryan, Edith Pride; cro-
chet insertion for towel, Effie Bal-
four, Elda McPherson, Mary Dickson;
3 buttonholes, Nellie Holmes, Ale -
thea Carter, M. Farquharson.
Open to ex-pupils—Crochet yoke—
Mrs. Carter, Aileen Ryan, Olive
Knapp; embroidered pillow case,
Ida Driscoll; pair fancy towels, Ida
Driscoll, Mrs. Somerville, Della
Thornton; tray cloth and centre,
Mrs. Somerville, Della Thornton;
tatting, Ida Driscoll, Rita Harris,
Myrtle Stimore; table center Edna
McCall, Ethel Dennis, Ida Driscoll.
Domestic Science.
White bread, Flora Harris, Muriel
Farquharson, Grace Somerville; school
lunch, Bessie Johnson, Eva SJcarlett,
Take Fruit-ages"The
Wonderful Fruit Medicine
- '1105 CARTIER Sr., Motrrasar.
"I suffered terribly from -Cowslips.
tion and •Ilyspepsia for many years,
I felt pains after eating and had gas,
constant headaches and was unable
to sleep ht night. I ass getting so
thin that I was frigh4pned.
'At last, a friend advised me to take
Fiuit-a-lives" and 1n a short time the
Constipation was banished, I felt no
more pain, headaches or dyspepsia,
and 'now I am vigorous, strong
and well."
Madan% ARTHUR BEAUCHER.
SOo a box, 6 fur $2.50, trial eine 25o.
At dealers or sent postpaid by
Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa.
Bernice Kearney; candy, butter scotch,
John McDonald, Jean Drager, Helen
Chandler; chocolate cake, Jean
Hood, Agnes Davidson, Ritchie Car-
ter; 4 /be. butter in rolls, Mary Mun-
roe, Flora Harris, Beatrice Kearney;
apple pie, Helen Steiss, Nellie
Holmes, May Robertson; buns, Mur-
iel Farquharson, Bessie Johnston,
Jean Hood; collection of baking—
Sadie Tomlinson, Myrtle Stimore,
Beatrice Kearney; butter tarts, Ber-
va Steiss, M, Addison, Beatrice Kear-
ney; baker's scones, Eva Scarlett,
Nellie Holmes, Grace Somerville,
Manual Training.
Axe handle, Dave Murray, Ross
Driscoll, John Munn; bird house, Har-
old Bolger, Willie Dennis, Geo. Shol-
dice; garden gate, Jim Alderson, Dave
Murray; newspaper rack, Dave Mur-
ray, Jim Alderson; milking stool, Earl
Hoy, W. Dennis, D. Murray; coop,
Dave Murray, Willie Dennis.
Open to Pupils under nine years—
Sunflower head, Earl Hoy, Charlie
Munn, Isabel Farquharson; carrots,
(Chantenay), Duncan McNicol,
Earl Hoy, Dorothy Driscoll; beets,
(Detroit dark red), Alvin Stevens,
Gertie Pride; beans, Clara McCall,
Charlie Munn, Ruth Manning; bou-
quet of nasturtiums, Jean Davidson,
Dorothy Driscoll, Lewis McDonald.
Rabbit, Ray Carter, Wayne Scott,
Earl Gillespie; pair pigeons, Douglas
Hemingway, .lith Alderson, Alvin
Stevens; best pet, Jack Cardiff, R.
Curter, A. Farquharson; squash, Ger-
trude Pride; pumpkin, Blair Shaw,
Enid Askin, Clara McCall.
Open to Pupils under seven years—
Pet, any kind, Norma Snelling, Jack
Drager, Olive Knox; pet not domes-
ticated, Dorothy Driscoll, Jack Turn-
bull.
Parade—No f, Hullett; No. 9, Mc-
Killop; No. 2, they.
Physical culture—No. 7, McKillop.
LIFE IN A WEST HIGHLAND
VILLAGE
Few people save fisher's, or shoot-
ing tenants, know the little West
Highland village of N—. It is 15
miles from the nearest station, and
lies as it were between the knees of
the hills. Sometimes in winter, when
the culverts are swept away by the
burns in spate, N— is cut off from
the outside world; once meal and flour
had to be brought to the inhabitants
on horseback, by the old road on the
other side of the loch, which is more
of a sheep track than a bridle -path.
The village is very scattered, and
though composed of 35 different
houses there is a distance of as much
as five miles between them. But this
makes life simpler, for as Mactavish
is the name of five distinct families
in no ways related, sobriquets of dif-
ferent sorts can be added on. For
instance there are the Mactavishes
of the Braes, and they are blood roy-
al. One member of the family, San-
dy, by name, married someone of
inferior birth, but his sisters saw to
it that there should be no children to
TIRED AND
RUN DOWN
Lydia E. Phikham's Vege-
table Compound Helped
Where Other Medi-
cines Failed
Vancouver B. (1—'1 took Lydia E.
I'lnitham's Vegetable compound be-
caetse 1 was tired and run down. I
had headaches and no appetite and
was troubled for two years with
sleeplessness. I tried many medi-
cines but nothing .did me any real
good. WVhile I was living in Wash-
ington l was recommended by a
friend to take the Vegetable Com-
pound. I am stronger and feel fine"
since then and am able to do my,
housework. I am willing for you to
use these facts as a testimonial"—
Mils. J. C. Gaaavas, 771 Hornby St.,
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Many women keep about their work
when It is a great effort because the
work must be done. Lydia E. Pink -
ham's Vegetable Compound `has
brought relief to thousands of tired
housewives by 'removing the troubles
which cause annoying symptoms.
If you are suffering frotn nervous-
ness, headache and backache, pains
In tight or Left side, tired and run-
down feelings, take Lydia E. Pink -
ham's Vegetable Compound.
Just bear in mind this medicine has
been used by women for nearly fifty
years. That is a long record of serv-
ice, and stands upon. the foundation.
of merit.
austli
h segg paX4r �tttti d6 Sn+lktt r;
hone9&eelt. I..^ 4ey l $[ has
differe�lt valuablet�,�, tb, i , an '".41e2y ter a wife; with ad : left.
ws herold-age pension and''t,at of
her son killed in the war, pay for a
maid from. the I4ewia, who is glad to
receive 30a. a the,
and her hoard.
A ,Bard Life -
In N-_- the old -age pension is
seen at its beat, for there, where rent
is as low as $2 a year, water and
fuel free, rates 6s. in the pound, it is
possible for old folk to live on the,
10s. a week.` It has meant that many
an old body has been a wePome guest
in a house that otherwise could not
have afforded to support him, or her;
thus to -day the old people are well
looked after. One old man called
Rovy Barn (The White-haired) had
when he married his wife made out
-that his age nearly approximated
hers, and thus, though he has long
been eligible for an old age• pension,
pride forbids the disclosure of his
age. She awaits with longing the
time . when the regular 10a. a week
will help to supplement their diet of
potatoes grown on their croft and
milk begged from neighbors.
It may sound to' the uninitiated'that
life must be easy and sweet in this
hill village, but there is the other side
of the picture—namely, that wages
are correspondingly low. A keeper
probably does not get more than £60
a year, plus tips from shooting ten-
ants. Of course he has his croft,
where he grows potatoes, corn and
hay, and has his cows, sheep and
hens. All the corn and hay grown is
used for the horses and other ani-
mals. Generally the keepers supply
the lodge with milk, cream, butter,
and eggs during the season. Some
may keep wild cattle on the hills,
which they can sell profitably when
full grown. And while it is true
that fuel in the shape of wood and
peat is free for the cutting, and
water for the fetching, the crofters
have to pay heavily on •all goods
brought by rail and carrier. Thus a
loaf of bread is 61d. there, butter
2s. 3d. the pound, meat Is. 4d., and a
cake of pipeclay, four of which could
be bought in a town for a Id., costs
2d. there. Flour is 3s. 6d. a stone,
oatmeal, 8s.; thus there is 2d. or 3d.
added on to every commodity. Oat-
meal forms the chief food, either in
the form of porridge, brose, or oat-
cake, with the additions of milk,
cream, and croudy. Fresh girdle
scones with "butter from the churn
and trout from the burn" was the old
Highland idea of luxury. The peaty
water infuses excellent tea, and the
people will have none of the cheap
teas, but the best at 3s. the pound.
Ghillieing.
Besides the work on the crofts, there
is sometimes work to be had repair-
ing the roads or making new paths
for the tenant. In summer many of
the men are employed as ghillies on
the loch, for which they receive 8s.
a day, while those who are employed
for deer -stalking get a trifle more.
The ghillies and the keepers dress in
thick tweeds and long hhnd knitted
stockings with smart diced tops and
good boots. Commercial travellers
say that it is no use offering the
people cheap stuff, for they will not
have it; they would rather pay more
and obtain a good article. Many of
them are well made, handsome fel-.
lows, with the dignity and good breed-
ing of the true Celt. The visitors,
in contrast, often look poor, shilpit
creatures, less well built and develop-
ed.
Highland Welcome.
Whoever calls on the crofters is
made to feel that he or she has come
at the best possible time; whether
the kitchen is full of the shearing
party, or the hay is just being got in,
or the turnips hoed, or the baby nurs-
ed, the welcome is royal. A herd boy
rises to greet one with "Wasna it
herself I was wishing to see?" What-
ever the hospitality is that is offered,
it is done with a grace;' the musician
of the house (self-taught) plays, the
story teller tells his best yarn and
the lady feeds one on home-made
scones, butter and jam. In N—
many of the women still spin the
wool for their husbands' stockings.
All—man or Maid—can read the skies
and know the ways of birds and ani-
mals. One woman this summer told
a very curious tale. She was driving
her cow home to the byre when she
noticed a wee bird start up and fly
across the river; as jt was flying
across a salmon jumped at it unsuc-
cessfully. A keeper, particularly in-
ested in bird love, said he had never
heard of such a thing before; perhaps
it was because there were less flies
on the water than he had ever re-
lnem6ered. He said if it had been a
pike he would not have been surpris-
ed, for he had caught one once with
a great bulge from behind, and a
friend opened the pike's mouth and
caught hold of a webbed foot; after a
few moments they pulled out an al-
most fully fledged duck. Trout also
have been known to attack ducks, and
even to make their feet bleed, but as
far as the keepers at N— knew no
salmon before had risen for a bird.
But, as the keeper said, "our knowl-
edge of the ways of fish is not exact;
we cannot ascertain their customs and
habits; at best we make a surmise."
With Highland intonatian,' f`knowl-
edge" is a lofty word full of nobility
and reality, while "ascertain" sug-
gests searching and watching, by day
and by night, in the mists and in
starlight, by the aid not only of books
but by rich and ripe experience.
A Lonely Life for the Women.
The crofters e s to N— are bilingual,
speaking both Gaelic and English
with fluency. Some of the old folk
have not much English; old Macken-
zie, when asked how his wife is, in-
variably replies, "She is not very
good the day.". Old Mackay tells a
story of a degenerate man who re-
fused to speak Gaelic, Efe was ask-
ed how .his parents were. He replied
that they were dead. Teen he was
asked what had happened to his horse
—that Who dead also. Now Mackay
said it Was a dreadful thing to use
the same word for his horse as his
CaRltal l�fptd ' 40Po
Reserve 1tj
Over 126. U auelles,.
It 15 not necessary to make .a speel}IYJ.jp;
est ,branch of The Molspna Rauh agile'
ho deposit "money. Bend .your depcelt ibo
mall. Write to -day to the' nearest • managek
Molsone Bank for information.
BRANCHES IN 'BIOS DISTRICT%
Brucgfield St.,Marys _ • Kirieton,
".Ehteter. Clinton Heneafl. Zurich
parents; in Gaelic he would have said
his horse was dead but that his par-
ents were changed.
Life is hard, especially in the win-
ter time, and the loneliness of some
of the women is great. One of the
keeper's wives comforts herself by
looking through her husband's glass-
es at the next house two miles away.
She says it is a gneat solace to her
to see heir neighbors moving about
the yard. Another, an old woman of
eighty-three whom we surprised
whitewashing her cottage, told us
that the honeysuckle covering her
doorway was, with its scent and col-
or, a perfect treasure to her. Thus,
if life is hard and the gloom of the
mountains oppressive, the people have
their own compensations and trea-
sures. They remind one of the end
of a Yeats play. "Did you see an old
woman going down the paths?" "I
did not, but I saw a young girl, and
she had the walk of a queen."
E% -KAISER'S BRIDE COMES OF
ECCENTRIC FAMILY
Although the betrothal of the ex -
Kaiser and the Princess Herminie, of
Reuss, is a generally accepted fact,
Mr. Frederick Cunliffe -Owen, C.B.E.,
.almost goes the length of forbidding
the banns on the ground that both
the contracting parties aro of tainted
stock and any children that might be
born of the union would probably be
imbeciles. The brief review of the
family of the Princess which Mr.
Owen gives in the New York Times
is an unflattering one, and indicates
that if the Princess herself has a
sound mind she is rarely fortunate.
He does not suggest that she is in
any way doltish, but the fact that
she is to become the wife of the most
execrated old man in the world is
surely no evidence of powerful
qualities of intellect. Indeed, the
Princess appears to. be beloved by
the people upon her estate, in whose
welfare she has always been inter-
ested, and it is probable that after
her marriage she will devote herself
entirely to her new husband and her
children. But it is unlikely that o'er
she will lavish upon him the venera-
tion, affection and care that were the
daily offerings of the former Kaiser -
in.
The only brother of the Princess,
Henry XXIV of Reuss, formerly
ruler of that principality, is deaf
and dumb, imbecile and blind, but
his infirmities were partly due to
accident and not wholly inherited. He
was born deaf and dumb, but was
idolized by his mother, a Princess Ida
of Schaumberg -Lippe. Whet; he was
a young boy it was decided that he
should be operated on for a defect in
his eye, a kind of squint. His mother
held him on her knee, but at the most
critical moment of the operation her
horror and grief at the sight of the
cutting that was going on, caused
her to make a sudden movement. The
result was that the oculist's lancet
was driven into the lad's eye, and he
was blinded. That the steel penetrat-
ed his brain seems probable from the
fact that he was also an imbecile.
The tragedy broke the Princess's
heart and she died shortly afterward
while her husband expressed his
feelings by thereafter refusing to
permit any reference to be made in
his presence to his afflicted son. He
would not even allow prayers to be
offered for his recovery in the church-
es.
This Prince Henry of Reuss was
a crank to the verge of imbecility.
He was so autocratic that he would
not allow a house to be built in his
capital of Greiz or a tree to be cut
down without his special sanction.
He also insisted upon personally ad-
ministering corporal punishment to
any of the Public School pupils who
were to be birthed. They were sent
to his palace for this purpose, for
the Prince held that as he was the
father of his people the caning of
them was his personal responsibility.
The Prince kept up a perpetual quar-
rel with Prussia because at one time
he suspected Bismarck of putting
a slight upon him at a royal dinner
Ile would not permit his people to
put . up any memorial to old Em-
peror William or to the Iron Chan-
cellor or even to the ex -Kaiser. A
death in the House of Hohenzollern,
was not recognized by: the Prince
of Reuss as an occasion for mourn-
ing. He dwelt in a magnificent'
mediaeval castle which was inno-
cent of any modern comfort& or-
conveniences.
rconveniences. There was neither'
running Water nor hot water, and
kitchens were at such an immense
distance from the dining room that
the food was always cold when it
arrived on the guests! plates.
The Reuss family consisted of the'
father, the imbecile prince, and four
daughters and the Iife of the latter
was a gloomy one from which they
' sought -escape in marriage at the-
earliest
heearliest opportunity. One of them,
to the disgust of her father, be-
came the wife of Count Eric Kunigl.
whose uncle was a dignitary at the
court of Reuss-Greiz. Another an-
cepted an Austrian baron who was
an officer in the Great War. An-
other, says Mr. Owen, married on:
1 a footing of equality Prince Chris-
' topher of Stolburg, scion of one of the
' mediatized families, that is to say, of'
the dynasties that exercised petty sov-
1 ereign sway in Germany prior to the-
! overthrow of the Holy Roman Em-
pire by the First Napoleon a little
more than a hundred years Ago. The
, first marriage of the Princess herself-
' was regarded as a mesalliance, for
her husband, Prince John Carolath,
was a mere Prussian noble and did`
not belong' to any mediatized house,.
Iwhose members were entitled to -
mate on terms of equality with
members of soverign dynasties. Her
I eldest inherits the status of his -
,father, not of his mother.
Several other members of the
1 Reuss family have been imbeciles
(-and for a long time the royal tribe
has been a veritable godsend to Ger-
man
erman comic publications and cartoon-
ists. Their court was the only one
in Europe where in the case of"
royal mourning the mourners were
to show the sincerity of their grief'
by wearing black underclothing.
The pomp of these petty princelings
was without modern parallel, and
Mr, Owen quotes from an old copy
of the Official Gazette of Reuss -
Gera: "The All -Highest" (meaning -
not the ex -Emperor but the Prince
of Reuss) "in token of his satisfac-
tion and recognition of the services
of a veteran fireman, had had the
high mercy and graciousness to re-
ward him by ,deigning to extend his
own All -Highest hand to be kissed."
The comic papers in other German
states were prompt to ask why the
gracious Prince should have extended'
his own royal hand when there were-
the
erethe hands of others which he might
have had extended as sufficient re-
ward to a humble fireman. Imbecile
or pompous to the verge of lunacy
though many members of the House
of Reuss have been they trace
their descent as far back as the •
Hohenzollern, and in the matter of
birth the Princess is considered the
equal of the egile of Doorn,
German financiers drilling for nat-
ural gas near Hamburg abandoned
ed search after a well that had',
been bored 1,000 feet filled with:
quicksand.
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