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was a sen Of Mme: Magwootl; a tete
late Robert D¢aa wood, and rea1404
the greater part oft his.hfetime In•Mil
• vertoap.•district. , To mourn his, lops he
leaves his widow, itis waged Mother,
two :sisters,' Mrs.. Alegi, Holmes, New-
ton, and Mrs:• Roy Fleming, Toronto,
. and' three brothers, Howard R., • Har -
,old E., and°Robert Willard, of Kincar-
dine. Funeral service were held Fri-
day
riday afternoon to Milverton cemetery,
with the Rev. R. Stevenaon, of Mill-
bank United, Ohnlrch, officiating.—
Kincardine News.
Happy Birthday Noted
The home of Mr. 'aaidr Mrs. Charles
Doan, St. George . Street, was the
scene of a happy gathering during
the waning hours of Friday afternoon
when a number of lady friends of
Mr. Dean's another gathered in honor
sof her birthday. Afternoon tea was
partaken of and happy felicitations
extended this fine aged lady.—Mit-
obeli Advocate.
Local Names On Prize List
In the July issue of The Canadian
Magazine we note the names of two
local people listed in the standing of
a "Movie Scrambles Contest," arrang-
ed by that publication a few Months
Argo. They are Frederick Thompson,
.Adelaide Street, Mitchell, and Miss
Buda L. E. Bauer, R. R. 5, M-itchell,
bath in line for prizes of $30. Since
prizes are being awarded to only f0
-people in the Dominion, and Mitchell
is the only one of the smaller com-
munities represented by more than
one .winner, it speaks 'highly for local
puzzle -solving ability. Congratulations!
—Mitchell Advocate.
Symbol of
Polite Society
"Look at' that! What is it?" some-
one said idly, as we dawdled up Made
eon Avenue' in a July sunset's after -
•g -low.
"That" was In a luggage store win-
dow. It was about six er seven ince-
es long, with ivory kntobs at either
end, one a ,• ILttle smaller than the
other. It looked as if, unrolled, .the
silken 'fatness between the two ivory
knobs-' might turn out to be a very
old Chinese scroll, with decorative,
squat figures ie gold and vermillion,
and legends having to do with filial
piety.
The proprietor of the store came
and etood in the doorway. It seemed
en odd hour in which to expect any-
one would come to buy luggage, but
liope springs eternal. .
"That," `•" he murmured, smiling
slightly, "is an umbrella. Nice size,
isn"f"it? Tuck in your pocketbook."
"That little thing—an umbrella?
Why it must open out to doll's size."
"You'd be aurprised," said the man.
"Like to step in and see it?"
"Oh no," we said, lamely. "We're
just looking."
"Come again," said the man, not to
be outdone.
Umbrellas have certainly changed
since Jonas Hathaway tickled London
one day In 1750 with one. Jonas
Hathaway was an English philan-
thropist and traveller. He travelled
a lot, among other places, in China.
That's how he came by an umbrella
to hoist over his head that rainy Oc-
tober day in London, to the scandal-
ized doubt of all who were in the
streets.
* * *
•
For umbrellas seem to .have origin-
ated in the Orient, if not in China it-
self. Its ' practical uses in eastern
'countries were impartially distributed
between protection from sun and
rain, and its aesthetic and cultural
implications. The antiquity of the
umbrella as a symbol of social status
among Hindus is well authenticated.
An early King of Slam, besides him-
self having a graduated social scale
of umbrellas for members of the
court, prevented the' great bulk of this
subjects from owning any umbrellas
rat • all --and of course they weren't
•permitted to borrow thein either!
Umbrellas, •the forbears pf this cur-
iously mechanized little object lying
in the window of the Madison Avenue
shop in a city of a new world that
could not have been imagined in) his
times, were formally used at the
feasts of Dionyeius. After the found
ing of Constantinople, the great habit-
ually carried umbrellas. Glories said
the umbrella came to Rome from the
Etruscans. Certainly it has always
been a mark of personal distinction
among the Arabs.
* * *
((lett edtr.r 1'4e 2)
*al said ' 1 aloud. Wender ti! #fey
9a<ave a Sla.'Aal spa m, too!:la.,
4100, See eai,•dr a tali; geedeeeleieg
nein who 'was addrefleed; fir, Mr*.
e ''kava a Shalteepeere about eight
ett 'from Strratferd I
}'Indeed,' said I, .'''Does he writ@
player s •
"'" phi, no,' replied My inforatte}1C,
"we have built a village anti. Called, it
Sh ,kespeare but we have not rained
a poet yetAy,
"Westufard we went to the fine vil-
llage of .lelitc1e11 passed Carronbrook,
and On bee afternoot$ ,o€ Saturday, the
18th clay of December in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty oriole I was roused from a
sndoze. by the loud seream'of •the
whistle, the stoppage of the train, and
a hairy face looking in at the door and
srhouting eSeaforth Station.'
"I issued,- forth, carpet bag in hand,
ascended the platform and looked
around.
So this is Seaforth. Where will
I begin my explorations,?'"
The author of The Expositor article
of 1870 was fortunate enough to meet
with a Mr. Mair, one of the town of-
ficials who introduced him to several
of the early settlers -and he was aston-
is'hed to find so many from Scotland,
and the majority of these from Gallo-
way, his own native place.
"D'ye see that mien stan'in' in the
lumber yard. That's Pater Ramsay
frae the Parish o'' Borgue. He was a
lang time wood foster tae Sir John
Gordon."
".There's some hair Borgue folk see
stanrin' roon that sleigh. Willie
Sproat, and Geordy, and Jemy and
Davy, and Sandy; and yon'ers Jemy
Houston., John . Cunluiin and McCon-
nell a' frae Borgue."
"Guid day, gentlemen, hoo's times?"
"Hard times," 'said one.
"Nae times ava," said another.
"Wheat ga'in doon an! the turnips
in the grun •yet," said a third.
"There's Frank Fowler and Michael
Hews! Frank's frae Yorkshire and
Michael's a Dutchman, baith auld set-
tlers."
We walked slowly up the side of
the street, opposite the hotel. The
platform was literally crowded with
men of various ages, from the beard-
less youth in his teens to the frosty
locks of three score and ten.
"Whew!" ejaculated Mr. Mair, cast-
ing a glance at the crowd. "Every-
body's here the day I think. Ye were
wantin' tae see auld settlers and here
they are, as thrang as three in a bed.
There's McLeans and Broadfoots free
Ayrshire: Dicksons, Scotts and Gouira-
locks frae Roxborough, border thiels.
There's the • Walkers free Glengep.
There's Charters, Hallidays a n u
Paynes frae Kircudbright, Chesneys,
Campbells, Carnoahans and Irelands
frae the Waters of Fleet. There's the
Landsboroughs frae Lochinbeaek and
John Murray frae Galloway, better
ken'd by the name of Papples frae
Borgue. Yon,'ers the McCaas frac
Girthon,.and there's the Simmons frae
the Gatehouse .o' Fleet. That`s John
Logan, ane o' oor great merchants.
He's a Kilburnie man."
"How old is this village, Mr. Mair?"
"Ten years ago there was just one
wee log hoose and a tavern up at the
corner. This place was in bush then.
That's Dickson's new Post Office
alongside Hill's store. De see thae
two big brick houses, ane belongs to
Kidd & McMullan, the ither belongs
to Robbie Scott. It's a great house
drat. There s a library in't and a
printing Office, and Editor and a read'•
ing room. There's Insurance and As-
surance in't; there's Law an Justice
and Physic ,in t and the fine ants are
represented by Paltridge who is not-
ed for good humor."
"There's C. L. VanEgrn:ond go'n in-
to Carmichael's 'hotel. He was the
first settler in Huron. But come awe'
bent, and ye'il find a guid• wheen ac-
quaintances."
"We make a deal o' the hard times
now," said Willie Sproat, "but I mind
tele time,:that if I could o' got a tenth
o' what I'm worth noo, I would, have
thought I was a gentleman. I have
travelled a hundred and thirty miles
on a york shilling tae earn as much
at harvest as would pay my taxes
and the instalment on my land."
Here the landlord came in with
some more "peat reek" and a song
was called for. "Gies the 'Hills o'
Galloway' John, Man, 1 like to hear
it-"
John .sang the 'Hill o' Galloway' to
an attentive audience and when he
came to the last verse you could have
heard a pin drop:
"An' when auld Scotland's heathy hills
Her rural nymphs an'fjovial swains,
Her fllosiery wild's an' wimpl4n rills,
Awake nae apnir my ca.nty strains;
Where friendship dwells and freedom
reigns, '
Where heather Dooms and enoorcocks
craw,
0 dig my grave and lay my banes
Amang the bills o' Gallowa."
eleetene ebe ftitivate. fretglx't 'penia''
tions iqf o'o'eO4+04 Afridaa railvraygo, A>
aftli hb a item leading "Graffera
miles lttzg.ppro tlaatt 13 feet' in tgff,1
height cannot be accepted' for tran¢-
• Fairly 'obvious, of coarse. More
than one captured giraffe, travelling
by train T it)or some distant zoo, has
lifted its long neck at the wrong
moment in a 'tunnel or beneath .a
bridge. Cecil. John Rhodes himself
last a giraffe that way! ---a splendid.
Rhodesian giraffe that would have
looked well.. in lies 'private we at
Groote S cheer,
Giraffes are valuable. When C1def
Batho sent one as a present to Queen
Victoria in 1897, it was valued at
£ 1,000, The price has gone down
since then, though a wild animal deal-
er told me recently that he could al-
ways be sure of selling a good speci-
men for £200 at least.
* * *
The first expense was the license
f ee— £ 50 in Rhodesia. Then he
wouldhave to pay expeie-• native
trackers to find a troop of giraffes,.
The dealer caught his specimen him-
self. He had been a cattle hand in
the Argentine, and he knew how to
use the 'lasso. Galloping after the
troop on borsebaok at highest speed,,
he would nope his giraffe, draw along-
side and fling a bag over the giraffe's
head.
"It's -easy after that—except the
feeding," declared the dealer. "Gir-
affes like a diet of juicy leaves from
the acacia or mimosa. The only sub-.
stitthte is an texpensive mixture of
Loan, crushed mealies, molasses, sem-
olina, pumpkin, and fruit. You 'must
feed them properly. I once tried to
insure a giraffe for a short sea voy-
age, and the rate quoted was £50.
Now I have to take the 'risk myself,
or the profit would vanish."
It willbe a long time before Africa
says farewell to the giraffe; there
are still great troops from the Sahara
eolith to Bechuanaland. I first saw
'giraffes in the open' from a Congo
riser steamer. These towering crea-
tures, the tallest mammals in the
world, "the most fantastic form of
deer," as one naturalist called them,
these antediluvian animals 'seemed
tame. Many a lion -attacking a young
giraffe, however, has felt the sledge-
hammer heel kicks of the mother.
* * *
Sometimes the slide of a captured
giraffe will bear the scars telling , f
a battle it has survived—the grim
marks of a ''lion'a ride." But I believe
the leopard is the giraffe's most for-
midable enemy. A leopard will wait
in a tree, spring on a giraffe's back.
The giraffe relies on its marvellous
eyesight to detect the approaoh of en-
emies. Its scent is only moderate, but
the, eyes, set in a periscope, as it
were, are beautiful in appearance and
highly developed. The giraffe is com-
pletely dumb. Naturalists ridicule the
legend that the expiring giraffe utters
a weird cry. There is no vocal mech-
anism. Yet it is clear that giraffes are
able to communicate with others in a
troop, and I bare beard it stated that
this is achieved by signaling with the
tail.
Like its cousin, the camel, the gir-
affe can live without water for long
periods. The mothers always retreat
to the .driest places with their young,
for instinct has taught them that the
lions and leopards will not follow
them into the desert. Young giraffes
grow rapidly, reaching a height of 30
feet within six monthe. I believe the
maximum height, full grown, is 19
feet. -
* * *
This great height brings hazards to
the giraffe. Many have crashed into
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vent .almoatr .dally ;C,¥'1,11Saolw A. to!: and larger groype,. 00
glinffes are etas!trltes by' tram;, the; fid wale* 1I •requ tOd. t4 + leet,o,144.? h
glade of'the headti ' fasO ates and, aanywliere wiebdn: a atadius OfAve T1
then . blinds them ap,„ they stand be-
tween the 'hila. '
All things oonslderod,it is rgpiaark-
able Oat the giraffe Should remain foo
numeousnand' wfdeli distributed in
Africa. Protective coloring roust have
helped ..to :save the*. Bat 'tile early
White, bunters ...took heavy toll,partie-
ularly do South Afr1era, Giraffe hide
was in demand for the long whip lash-
es it, yielded, and the meat was al-
ways enjoyed. Bushmen hunted the
giraffes of the K'ala'hari with bows
and .poisoned arrows, driving the
troops northward! into the swamps,
There are a couple' of hundred gir-
affes in the Kaokoveld, the wild north-
ern section of Southwest Africa. Else-
where in the territory, no giraffe, as
a. rule, is seen. I remem1 er a pollee
sergeant tat Gobabds, on the eastern
border, telling me -of a giraffe mys-
tery he bad solved. Out on patrol
one day he met. a bushman wearing
a
pair of giraffe hide sandals, fresh-
ly
reshly made. He traced the sandals to a.
giraffe's carcass net far away—the
first giraffe he had ever seen in that
corner of the country. No doubt it
was a Stray from the north.
* a •.
Usually, the giraffe is a sociable
animal, and it will graze with the
antelopes and zebra when no others
of (its • kind are in the neigbboi+home
In captivity. it lives for about four-
teen
ourteen years, though the Pretoria Zoo
had a giraffe cow . from Southern
I-fhodesia for 18 years. The record
was established by the Antwerp Zoo,
where a giraffe cow .lived for twenty -i
eight Year®,
If you see a givaffe specimen
mounted in a museum, you may be
sure the officials are proud of it. The
giraffe skin presents the taxidermist'
with hes most intricate task. A skin:
alone may weigh 2,500 pounds, and
is extremely difficult to cure.
Inany case, the giraffe away from
its haunts in Africa represents a large
sum of money. Anyone can have a
lion skin on the floor, or a lion cub
in the garden. But the giraffe, the
swift, gigantic giraffe, is a prize from.
Africa indeed.
WIzat
FIRST A
kr.
Meant to One
Montreal Family I
=ET
MONTREAL',
hay Mb; 1939:
The Weenier. n of Canada.
Ball Telephone Company
st. Johns, Que.
Dear sir=
I em•,wrlttng you on behelf.of my awtber. father end e1n' faadl9
regarding the accident near"hacolle lest Saturday. in which awl brother and
slater were aerioualy injured., sa out Sha.
It to impossible to find words to express telephone
nks to you
1611 you also please convey our thanks to yeor
for what you'had to do with this accident. and for what your have been
massage to our home meant. This may he
was no the acme of ezceptcthatFhe is as employee of the?
company's.�n who it was, this man's knowledge
'yourself; we do not know Seo are told it was through
Bell Telephone compnnY•,•,
of First Aid that my slater was allowed to live.,
I assume the majority ofithe travelling public ere like oar.
actives, and do not realize what Bell Telephone First Aid moans. until it
does for them whet it'has done for ue..
• Again our sincerest thanks.
I remain.
<s
Moat sincerely yours.
THE SHEPHERD'S COLLIE
There is nothing more marvellous
in glorious green Scotland than the
collie sheep dog. One shepherd said
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,WALTER W. CREEGAN
PAM OtiEttETif'
. Bell Telephone Plant Wire Chief Walter Creegan
and Manager Paul Ouellette of St. Johne, were nearby
on the highway when two automobiles collided. While
Creegan—a skilleiLFirst Aider like 95 per cent of all
our outside plant workers— administered First Aid.
Ouellette summoned help by telephone. 3We are proud
that their quick action saved another precious life.
M..1.• HABHIRK,
Manager,
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dy and acquirement; but it was the
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come the acknowledged' index of so-
cial position. ,
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kering after umbrellas inherent in
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In 1773, there was an umbrella car-
ried in Paris which was fitted with a
lightning rod.
In 1863, Germany produced one that
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In 1938, umbrellas in luggage store
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Eike ancient rolled up Chinese scrolls.
The "maohiris" bas at least through,
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