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The unusually large assortment of these new fabrics which we are showing, representing many entirely new ideas, which lend themselves to so many pur- poses, make them particularly desirable for summer wear for both young and old. Visit our Wash Goods Department and see these new materials. Stewart Bros. RECOLLECTIONS (Continued(Continued from last'week.) My mind went farther back to the days when I played with the Cum- ming children on this same farm, but I did not see the old black sheep, the wool of which Mrs. Cumming always kept to keep the family supplied way stocken yarn. I It was now well on in the afternoon and I had done so much talking— and I had done so much walking and talking that I commenced to feel that I should be laying plans for` something to eat. I knew I had en- joyed many a good meal at Hyslop's and decided to try it again. I found the family all at home. Mrs. Jack • 1 Hudson was there and soon had a good supper ready, to which I did full justice. We had supper in the same room in which I have eaten many times before, both in the days of Mn t and Mra. Hyslop when I sometimes was given the job of carrying Jennie Hyslop around after supper while her mother did the milking, and when the Murray family lived there I remem- ber of two boys going there en an errand. It was in maple syrup sea- son and Mrs. Murray brought out a pitcher of maple syrup and a loaf of hone -made bread, both of which dis- appeared in a very short time.. Much as I enjoyed my visit and supper at Hislop's,I just had to make Egmondvilie that night, so I started on my way again. Just after reach- ing the road I looked- south to where Armstrong's log house used to stand, but the only thing that marks the location of that old log house is a stub of a tree about five feet high. I did not see Mary Ellen (Mrs. Geo. Sills) coming out driving old Fan in the buggy, nor did I .see Jim coast- ing down the hill with his hand - sleigh. Jim Armstrong had the best handaleigh in that.partof the coun- try when he was a boy; his father made it/for him. Charlie Armstrong used to pull teeth with a pair of pinchers and a neighbor boy once got permission to go and have a tooth pulled. He liked the pulling so well that he had two more pulled out and then got a seyere scolding when he got home for having more than one tooth pulled. I then looked across the road where Murray's old house once stood. There is very little to indicate there had ever been a house there, except a cedar gate post on the side of the road—round at one end and square at the other. Mr. Armstrong hewed this gate post nearly forty-five years ago; the holes for the hinges err: still to be seen. Now just a little further west we come to what used to be the Steve Keating fifty. About fifty or sixty rods north of the road there is a gentle rise in the land and here once stood a log house which was burned one night. When we awoke in the morning about"all that was left of that house was a pile of hot ashes. Few people saw this fire and among the very few was Bill Murray, who always slept with one eye open and very few things escaped his notice. Now rigHt across the road from here is what we used to call the Canada Company fifty. This place was farmed by Mr. Armstrong in my young days. On one occasion he was having a plowing bee and brought out a keg of liquid refreshments from Egmondville the day before the bee . to have it tapped and all ready for next day. The keg was taken into a grainery, or stable, that stood near the road and in company with a neighbor and two boys looking on, Mr. Armstrong drove a wooden tap into the keg. The tap was very dry and the 'contents of that keg hit the - ceiling and hit pretty ne&rly every- thing else within reach. Mr. Arm- strong exclaimed: Oh, Cal, we are going to loose it all! Of course he added some slight emphasis to this which I could' give you word for word, but for the sake of smooth rending will refrain from doing .so. Some grain bags were wrapped a- round the wooden tap and a boy sent on a hurried trip to Cal's house for two tin pails, which were pretty well filled before the tap swelled up suf- ficiently to staunch the flow of the boisterous beverage. I rather think that product of the brewery would have lost some of its kick before next day, especially that portion of it in the two tin pails. It may be that this unlucky spill was due to the fact that there were just thirteen acres in the field to be plowed and the (lay was Friday. Thirteen acres was all the cleared land on this place at that time but it is now nearly all cleared and is the east half of Bi11 Grunt- rtiett's farm. We are now near Gum Patrick's and looking up to the house I noticed that many of the old apple trees are gone. I remembered a threshing scene on this farm in the days of a former owner and before the frame barn was built; it was stack thresh- ing near the old log stable just a little north-east of where Gum's driv- ing house now stands. There was a grey jug at this threshing—not a brown jug; it was a grey jug for I saw it coming; it came by way of the old school road through Laidla 's bush and then up, through the fields until it reached the stacks where the threshing was in progress, where it was sampled and the contents proved to have a kick. (Someone may think that the writer came with this grey jug but not so he merely met it on its way and then visited the scene of its operations later in the day.) Mrs. Humphrey Quinlan and p ytwo daughters prepared the supper for ! this threshing which was served on tables out in the open in the shade of the old apple trees. At the supper table two men, who had been sampl- ing the contents of that grey- jug PARA IFOVNT PICTURES CORPORATIONS Specks' 10 -Reel Attraction - MA SLAUWITER "., THE GREATEST MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE The truism "comparisons are odious" holds good in the amusement field as elsewhere. During the pate season we have played four outstanding. attractions; "Connecticut Yankee," "Queen of Sheba," Grand- ma's Boy," 'and "Over the Hill," each of which, if the question as to which was greatest was asked, would have vglient sup - So ,was in presenting the fifth, while we do not claim that you personally will like it better than any of the above, we do confi- dently state that no single one of them will be more generally and favorably remembered. "MANSLAUG$TER" is an intensely engrossing, up-to-date e story of modern -yjruth that broadcasts the challenge, "Is our civilization, like that of Ancient Rome, racing to ruin on a wave of jazz and gasoli e." Thomas Meighen, as the prosecuting attorney, who brings about a three-year conviction of the girl he loves in an effort to save her from herself, has the most telling role of his career. Gowns, sets, iltxury galore, thrills in profusion with drama as intense, as anything you ever.Saiv and spectacle swing the barbarian invasion of Rome that rivals those of "T1Ce Queen of Sheba." See This Picture May 3, 4 a,>d 5 Next Week Bud. Matinees, Friday, 4.15; Saturday, 3.15 p.m. COME IN THE AFTERNOON, IF POSSIBLE. PRINCESS 9. quite freely, got int, a discussion which soon turned to an argument and got so warm that they commenc- ed ommence ed to punctuate their sentences by hurling cups of hot tea across the table at each other. This was done with such telling effect that the blood soon commenced to trickle down the faces of the contestants, This con- duct rather disturbed the ladies who fled for safety and the supper party was broken up rather abruptly. One than who happened algagg'•just about supper time, went to another thresh- ing that evening and in reporting the fray told that there were chunks of flesh as big as his fist going up the straw carriers. The day was now far gone, but my feet were so used to turning in at Grummett's gate that I just could not get them past without going in for a few minutes. Now Grummett's is a great place for. plenty to eat and is headquarters for apple pie and cream but .for once I had to refuse to eat as I had just come from a good sup- per at Hyslop's. This farm of Grum- mett's is oris of the farms that has changed a great deal in the last 30 yeses. The old log house and stable, which !stood close to the road, have been replaced by a fine cement block house and frame barn with good stabling. There is still a log building on the place which I helped to put up in my young days. The four ccrners were fitted and dove -tailed by Jim Cumming, Billy McNaughton, Jim McConnell and a neighbor boy. I also thought of a log stable of earlier days that we used to call Pat Keat- ing's stable. This stable was burned one evening about nine or ten o'clock. There was a strong southeast wind and the burning shingles were fall- ing on our house and some of them going very close to the barn, and the surroundings were well lighted up forInc a while. Now as I started westward again, the first farm on my right was where 1 was born and spent the best of my life. Bob Doig now owns that farm and was plowing in the orchard. Bob has very graciously left the old log house standing that the old place may seem natural whenever any of the family come back on a visit. If the house had a goad coat of whitewash inside it would look very much like it did .when a family of nearly a dozen of us lived in it. The gate at the road has gone from its old loca- tion, (and by the way that old gat• was of the swinging type, not of the drag type so comma' at the present day; I mean the kin,! that you have to drag through the mud and slush on a wet day and soil your Sunday shoes). I am very sorry to see so many gates of this kind in Ontario. If any of the farmers want to see t} model for a good new gate, go up to Almond Modeland's and take a look at his. This is the hest gate I know of in the township of Tuckersmith, that is, taking into consideration both the gate and the posts, and I have seen many gates for I was around that part of the country two season's when the cherries were ripe and went through many gates. Of course. all the places I visited had fine gates and I must 'be very careful not to say anything against the farm gates of my friends and spoil my chances of getting through their gates next time 1 come back when the cherries ere ripe or apple pies ere in season. But Iawayfrom am getting story. my When I passed by the locatigp of the old swinging gate I cast a longing glance up at the old log house and if I c'ould have done so would gladly have turned time backward about thirty-two years and gone into that old house where my boyhood days were spent, and after supper put a lighted match to the old tallow candy lantern and gone to the barn to feed the horses and then upstairs to bed and enjoy one good all-night sleep, and awake with a bright morning sun shining in the east window. 1 won- der if Elizabeth Akers had somewhat the same thought when she wrote: "Backward, turn backward oh Time in your flight," Willie Sproat's gate across the road and a little west, is also gone. The nice little grove of beech and maple trees on Sandy Sproat's place, now 'owned by Mr. Simpson, is almost gone, just a very few trees left. As I passed this grove I thought of an exciting chase many years ago when 5111 Murray was pathmaster on that section of the road. He had two neighbor boys helping him to spread gravel and bank up the sides to hold the gravel in place. A bushy -tailed black squirrel crossed the road and up into a tree in this grove. Mr. Murray said he wanted to catch that sauirrel alive. The boys smiled at the idea, but Bill Murray was a na- turalist and knew the habits of all tin little animals of field and forest. He first surveyed the surroundings and soon found a knot hole in an old log and said that was where the squirrel would go. Be then sent the boys up the trees to chase blackie down. They climbed many trees and several of them more than once be- fore that squirrel finally made ono long jump from a high limb and mode straight for that hole in the log. Bill was right there and lay right down on the hole, for he knew right well what the little fellow would do next, and sure enough he did it; he turned right around to cone out again, but a goo efat arm was over the hole, Again the man was equal to the occasion and instead of keeping the hole entirely closed he gave the little black fellow enough room to squeeze partly out and then closed tight on him and caught him by the back of the neck, but riot be- fore the squirrel had sunk his teeth through two shirts and left quite s msiek on the arm of his captor. A hof was then sent for a box and the little fellow was caged up. The, job was done in a comparatively short time and the pathmaster back on his job before the teams arrived with their second load of gravel for the da y. As we have now nearly reached the place where two roads cross, it is a good place to stop for this time. 1311 Eye Street, Sacramento, Cal. A PEN PICTURE OF J. J. MORRISON (By Bystander, in Saturday Night.) In the coming election campaign the people of Ontario are likely to hear more of J. J. Morrison than they have heard altogether since the em- battled farmers rushed the hustings in 1919. The farmers' movement in Ontario began eight or nine years ago under J. J. Morrison and he still beide the centre of the stage. As organizer for the 1919 campaign he had proved his worth so thoroughly. and had established himsdlf so firmly intheesteem of the rural e electorate, that the premiership of the Province, from which Sir Williaht Hearst had been ousted, was pressed upon hint. It will be remembered the Lieut. - Governor intimated that he would call the man who should be chosen by 'the D.P.O. representatives th0 organizer Was' that mon Ash b Morrison did not believe in clas£t gov 01 ° d k6 pdr, eminent and eouid not be railed ,feCtorllhip o upon to accept the' premlerBi Sir Adam Beck was put in notion by Hon. T. A. Crerar, supported by E. C. Drury and Manting Doherty and would have been Meted had no Morrison said:. "He shall not pass Depending upon his. personal infiu• ence in the farmers' organization throughout the Province the organ- izee"appealed to the riding assecia-. tions to forbid Sir Adam's election ono easily succeeded in defeating Mr. C:rerar's plan. E. C. Drury had Dolor - risdn's assent in trying out the ex- periment of a U.F.O. government, ether that the though neither then nor now did the proposition impress him as sound or politic. Class government has had its try- out and Mr. Drury at least agrees with Morrison in one thing—that it is quite impossible. In all other es- sentials Mr. Drury and Mr. Morrison are in disagreement. Most important of all are they at opposites in respect to the opinion that the farmers man continue to govern with the co-opera- tion of a definite section of the Lib- eral party. That is the whole issue. It is not too much then to say that the issue depends upon the degree of activity J. J. Morrison puts behind his undoubted influence with the farmers during the impending :c�ampaign. The following briefastory will deal with Mr. Morrison's career and his- tory only with the intention of giving an insight into the character of the man, and showing him as he is to readers who may not know muesli a- bout him, In the first place it may be well to introduce him by his proper name— plain James Morrison- The second J. should not be there at all and was adopted merely as an adjunct to dis- tinguish him from another James of the Morrison clan. However, it is too late to call him anything bat"J. J." He was born on the homestead in the county of Peel, Lot 12, 17th Conces- sion, and is othe third Canadian generation, though his father, Robert Morrison, was born near Edgeworths- town, County Longford, Ireland, the son of a tenant -farmer of the Ireland of Sir Samuel Ferguson, whose emi- grants went out to the ends of the world with no misgivings, or over- burden of that bitterness, seeded in the famine that began soon after Morrison senior set out for the "Queen's Bush" in Upper Canada. Robert Morrison had connections in Ontario and came to join them. re' He tramped from Edgeworthstown to Dublin, and came by ship from Liver- pool to Quebec, thence to the village of Arthur via Montreal, Bytown, Kingston, Toronto and Guelph. He married Charlotte Matthews daughter of. a remarkable woman whose story thrills with romance. This grand- mother of J. J. Morrison was Mary Summera,'the daughter of an English soldier. She was born in Barbadoes, was a woman of refinement and su- perior education and was governess to the children of General Pilkington, governor of Gibraltar, when her in- teregt Was won by a young Irish sergeant of the guard, named Mat- thews. The young woman bought her lover out of the army, and it was at her request they turned their faces to Canada to take up a new life. Did they live happy ever after? Well; there was politics in the family away back in those days, and when politics come in at the door happi- ness is apt to fly out at the window. He was Anglican and loyalist; she Presbyterian .and reformer. When the Meckenzj•C rebellion struck Upper Canada ex%dErgeant Matthews at the head of the- Wellington County vol- unteersl marched to Navy Isldttd to hedge in the rebels. His wife would prefer to see him at the head of a regiment supporting Mackenzie. The daughter of this union of extremes, who married Robert Morrison, in all things resembled her strong-willed mother, and it was her invariable rule to walk into Fergus four times a year to partake of tho sacrament of her faith. Of such stock was J. J. Morrison horn on July 25th, 1861. Xhough the Morrison homestead is at once pretty and comfortable the lives of all the Morrisons have beef} about as hard as the Ontario farm demands. Robert Morrison was a man of books himself, well read in theology, astronomy and history. The destined father of the U.F.O. got his taste for study and thirst of knowledge from the home library available to hint in the winter evenings. From regular school at- tendance he was called by the farm tasks when fourteen years of age; but when grown to man's estate could well be regarded as one of the best informed men in the county, and as such was selected rural school repre- sentative on the Advisory Council of Education to help in the preparation. of a report for Sir James Whitney. At twenty-five years of age J. J. Morrison came to Toronto to acquire e business training. His tutor was the late Connor O'Dea, from whose school he went to work for the late F. S. Spence in the office of his tem- perance paper, the "Canadian Citi- zen." Morrison was as zealous a temperance advocate as Frank Spence Mit neither had money, and R. J. Fleming was their financial patron, helping to keep the paper going. But they were days of short commons, and from "The Citizen" Morrison went to the office of G. F. Bostock and later to the 'Central a a a Loan Co. In 1888 he marriedMargaret Blythe, who, like grandmother Mat- thews, loved the land and took her husband hack from the city to their native township of Arthur. Robert Morrison lived till 1917, and "J. J." MeV dept411ties of, a good hors kap aid; Can ck, wh st track in Canada and roan the United Stateq 'This Morrison will not part and hoes may a'p . 'hopes never, b8 beateid:as �: pacer. • while " " nr the farm for his f PhilL of the U.F.O. came to him. HO. cons.. municated the idea to W. L. Srwltb. It was very simple. Bon. John Dr'y-. den in his day apd generale!' had* as Minister of Agiicultare, a`�ponsor.,;., ed the formation of FarmerII. which, because they were net 1.1 , up together like the Patrons of In- dustry or the Grange, . lacked punch, .' both politically and educationally. Morrison's plan was to federate them under the title United Farmers of Ontario and at one 'stroke replace both Patrons and Grangers. The war gave this federation of fasters' clubs class consciousness, and, direct ed by first class organization in 1919„ the farmers outnumbered any other .group returned to the Legislature. In the coming election J. J. . Morri- son will fight for the identity and life of the farmers' political organiza- tion. In 1919 the O.T,A. referendum taken at the same time as the election,: of members, brought out the farm women to the polls in force. There will be no similar incentive next . June. A decreased group of farmer legislators will come into the next Assembly. Neither Mr. Drury nor Mr. Morrison can be no sanguine is look for anything else. Mr. brow hopes there will be enough to carry on with. the support of those Liberals whose co-operation he has had since 1919. Mr, Morrison will appeal to the farmer candidates to turn their eyes from the lure of power. It will be enough he liblieves to stand in the I.egislature as an independent group asserting the demands of the class conscious farmers of Ontario. w„..r x .,.,i h eiM'" f as i' a' b: WINTHROP, y' Notes, -The Ladies' Aid and W. M. S. will hold their monthly meeting at. the home of Mrs, J. M. Govenlock next Wednesday, May 2nd.—Mr- Wm. Ttewartha has treated himself to a new Chevrolet car,—Mr. George Eaton, who has been engaged by Smalldon Bros., of Cranbrook, . to work on tree/ he dredge, left-thia..week to assume his. duties.—Mr. and Mrs. Holland, of Walton, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs, Theo. Holland.— The new telephone code made a little excitement for a few days. We will soon get the habit and everything will be back to normal again.—Mr. Ben Riley is erecting the' cement founda- tion for Mr. Alex. Cuthill's new barn. —Mr. W. G. McSpadden has been pressing a large quantity of hay in this vicinity during the past few weeks. MANLEY Notes.—,Mr. Gib. Murray and Mr. Stephen Eckert have returned from Detroit, where they spent the last three months. They like city life and may go back again in the near future. —Mr. George Sternigal has return- ed from a visit to some of the prin- cipal cities and has much improved in vigor.—The many friends of Mr. Fred Keoh)er's daughter, Irene, are pleas- ed to learn that she is rapidly im- proving.from an operation for appen- dicitis.—The maple syrup season is ager. While it was on, it was a bumper crop.—Mr. Con Eckert has returned to his home in Seaforth af- ter two weeks' sojourn amongst us. —Seeding operations are in full awing and if the weather, continues it will be of short duration—Mr. Joe John- ston's twelve -year-old son;, Aubert, was taken to the Memorial Hospital, Seaforth, and operated on for appen- dicitis and we are pleased to learn that he is improving nicely.—Mr. and Mrs. John Holdan left for Exeter last Tuesday to attend the wedding of their niece. DUBLIN Notes.—The funeral of Margaret Matthews, widow of the late Walter Burke, of St. Columban, took place on Monday afternoon when the C. N. R. train arrived from Stratford. A large cortege followed the remains to St. Columban Cemetery. Deceased and her sister made their home at Mt. Hope, London, for the past few years.—On Wednesday a grand old pioneer of Hibbert, one mile east of Dublin, was laid tq rest in Woodland cemetery at Mitchell when the last respect of relatives and friends were paid to Mr. John Aikenhead, who re- sided with his daughter,. Mrs. John Rogers, near Dublin. Dr. John Ai- kens, of the Methodist church, Winni- peg, and Miss Charlotte Aikens were here for the funeral. Bishop Fallon confirmed the largest class in the his- tory of St. Patrick's parish. The candidates were questioned by His Lordship o many articles of their faith and on, careful preparation by themselves and their acting pas- tor, Rev. Father McCardle. Reb. Father Goetz, Seaforth; Rev. Father White, St. Colnmtlan, Rev. Father Kelly, Mitchell, assisted Bis�Fat- Ion during the impressive r -- Miss Mary Beale spent Saturday Stratford,—Mrs. Jack Burns and daughter, Marie, are °pending a weak in Kitchener with their relatives.