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OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
fio the Editur av all thixn
Wingham Paypers:
• Deer Sur:—
Wan noight lasht wake, whin the
missus wus: out to a quiltin bee, thim
Hoigh School byes came down shtaiirs
to show vie a few shtunts, an shure,
'tis quare tings they do be taichin the
childer these toinies, '
"Optickal delusions," sez they, "'tis
whin yer oies desaive ye, an ye tink
ye see tings that nivir wus theer at
aTI, at all,"
"Shure," see I; " tis mesilf that has
been seein optickal delusions all me
loife, widout ivir attindin Hoigh
School."
I am not certain now whether they
said delusions arr illusions,.` but it
doesn't -make any differ, bat '1 remim-
ber me Quid brother Matt. tellin me
av tbravell_in over the Australian dis-
ert wance wid.an explorin parthy, an
wpin they wus all nearly dead fer
want av walker, they tought they saw
granetrees wavin in the wind, 'an
shParklin shprings burstin out av the
hillsoides, but 'twas all a fake. Matt.
said the whole ,parthy wud hev been
hilt intoirely wid the hate'ety the sun,
an the awful thirst, if they had not
been found be a parthy av natives,
arr, black fellahs, as he called thim,
These' black fellahs showed thim how
to git a little liquid. out av the root
av certain :plants growin in that dis-
e'rt"counthry, an that saved theer,
loives. Matt. said it wus a purty poor
dhrink, an tashted loike \'1ishter Fer-
guson's four be tom- beer, but at laist
it wus' wet, an that anus the main king
wid thim at the toime.
Yis; the wurruld is full av optickal
llusions, •so to shpake, an wid payple.
seein tings that ain't' so, loike the`
fellah pullin rabbits out av the byes''
pocket at the big Chautauqua tint
lnsht Summer, arr loike whin ye see
a rnirnber av parleytnint an tink we
do be lookin at a shtatesntan, Whin,
faith, 'tis only a pollytician we see,
an often a moighty loight weight .wan
at that, (Av coorse, this doesn't rc-
fer, to Jarge).
Arr take the missus, fer inshtance,
whin she looks at thim grandchilder
av ours, she• tinks she sees the best
an purtiest an clivirist kiddies in the
whole wurnuld, whin, shure, they do
be nobetther than the ordinary run
av dirty faced shpalpanes, barrin the
sicond wan an he is a wondherfiil
bye, an they say he does be lookin
more loike his grandad iviry day.
Arr meliby Sre git hould av a sade
catalog in the shpring, an hev visions
av growin the mosht woiidherful gar-
den, wid flowers an vegetables galore,
an thin, •afther ye hev nearly bruk
yer ould back shpadin an rakin the
whole back' lot, an plantin tings, ye
shpind the resht av the summer
throyin to kape.the bugs aff the per-
' taties an the whoite• buttherfloies
away fruit the cabbiclges. 1 tink web-
by thim sade catalogs do be the
wursht optickal illusions there is, fer
til the fall about all ye hev afther all
yer harrud`\ urrulc is' a few wurrumy
carrot's an onions, a bushel arr two
av shmall pertat•ies an some samples
av about the wurst lookin tuberkler
bugonias an gladioliums in town, an
thin the frosht conies an puts yer to-
matoes • out av • business befoor they
hev toime to git roipe;
Yis, sometoimes I wondher if theer
is much ilse but optiekal illusions all
troo loife. '
Wanting T =slit minshun, befoor-
I do be c1osin 'up 'this letther is that
I notish that 'yer correspondiitwho
wroites up the news from Delmore
way has been' tinkin up some purty
good'verses, that back up what I wus
afther saying about the manny an var-
ied ways we use that little wurrud
e
up:
Yours fer' a bigger an betther
Canada,
Timothy Hay.
t*SORHEAL IN QUICKEST TIME KNOWN
"Sores on 'g,ulcers,for months. Doctors
failed to heal. Then'Sootlla-Sarva' healed
them in few days." Jules Simard. "Soothe -
Sabra" heals sores, ulcers, boils, burns,
scalds, eczema, like magic.' All druggists.
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We Sell
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They assure safety
and convenience in
carrying i'noney
while travelling and
are negotiable every-
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Flon..Di, i3. M. 3f3atitter's Great-Giratati
Grandfather Was .Loyalist.
Not many people can, beast :desesnt
from a man who once was eentenced
to, be hanged. And not many would
evtin if they could. But it was with
no little ln'ide that the Premier of
New 13ruakawick, Hon, J. 13. M, Bax-
ter, at a recent public gathering, told
of just such an ancestor.
To
bo ,,tire anyone would be proud
of a Loyalist great -great-grandfather,
-ho after : being proscribed and ban-
ished for his loyalty, was iinaily fora -
ed to face death with the rebels'
rope just because he was a loyal.
British subject. And it particular-
ly fitting that the Premier of New
Brunswick should have recalled this
exper'ience of Capt. Simon Baxter on
such anoccasion as the unveiling of
a memorial to Major ( Iii'rid . Stud-
holme. For that famous British offi-
cer who built Fort Howe, besides
quelling the St. John river rebels,
striving off American raiders,. and
quieting Indian :uprisings during the
Revolutionary War, was crown agent
to help in settling' the Loyalists,,,:rho
sought new homes upon triose shores..
And the very .first Loyalist refugoe to
land at Fort Howe was Captain Si-
mon Baxter.
Many a. time has a politician's life
hung by a thread, With Premier
Baxter :this is literally so. For had
there not been a faulty strand in the
rope that was to hang• his grand-
father's grandfather the Premier
never would havii lived. Capt. Simon
Baxter would have hung, by the neck
till he was dead, instead of escaping
through the astonished crowd to .Bur-
goyne's army and his friends.
Byslow andpainful wa nfu stages did the
P sag s
captain move,sheltered and often
hidden by his friends along the way.
At last, dejected and in dire need,
he reached Fort Howe, receiving a
warm welcome from the same man
whose memory his great -great-grand-
son would one day extol from this
eaine :'pot.;
Major Studholme, beside giving
Capt. Baxter shelter, wrote to Hall-
fax in his behalf, with the result that
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WJNCI,AAM APVa C •TIVIgS
I3Y' WAY .C4NA A?
Airway via the Arctic and .Stt'lr:Arctic
• ' May lie Chosen as '1Crans;
Atlantic Home.
A race for supremacy along two
air liner over the Atlantic ocean, one
via the Arctic and sub-4reiie, and the
other aver a`seadrome dot''cd_(man
route, may be started within the next
year or two, aviation officials in Can-
ada believe,
Authorities at Ottawa, prone from
experience to regard startling devel-
opments with somo distrust, are 'will-
ing to admit that they see possiblli-'
ties in the northern reute which
would make Canada eventually the
skyway between civilizations of the
eastern and western world,
Three different concerus, one in
Canada, one in England, and one in
the United States, are at present in-
vestigating the possibilities of regu-
lar transatlantic air services which
would carry passengers, mail and ex-
press. All three are faced with ser-
ious technical difficulties which must
be overcome,
The American concern is now en-
gaged ha th9 construction of a full-
sized seadrome, a giant movable raft
on stilts, which will be tested off the
southeast coast of the United States
next year. 'In Canada, Warren
Scholl, an industrial engineer, now
making his headquarters in Winni-
peg,, is considering a route which
would be flown front Winnipeg to
Baker Lake, across Baffin Island to
Greenland, from there to Iceland and
the Faroe Islands and thence. 'to
London.
In England the Royal Geographic
Society has announced its intention
of organizing expedition g g an editio p n to study
conditions along a proposed route
which would carry aircraft across to
northern Canada, down to Edmonton
and then through to Vancouver.
In all three plans expense, it is
thought, will prove the main sordid-
oration. The cost of placing sea-
dromes ,across the Atlantic would be
enornnou.s, white that of equipping
and maintaining adequate airport's
the first refugee received a grant of in the far reaches of northern Can-
land of 5,00.0 acres near the Stud- ada, On the Greenland . ice cap and
holme's` grant. , through the sub -arctic islands would
AN OUTDOOR MUSEUM.
Would Serve as a Monument to Fre-
historic Creatures.
An outdoor museum, extending
along the rights - of - way of railway
lines in. Western Canada, in which
concrete casts of the skeletons of
dinosaurs, ,mammoths and mastodons
would stand, has been suggested by a
member of the National Museum
star. The creation of such an•out-
door museum would serve as a monu-
ment to the strange beasts which
roamed parts of Canada millions of
years ago, the official thinks, and
would, besides, be unique as an at-
traction to tourists travelling the
railways.
The American Museum of Natural
History, New York, has made casts
inplaster
of arts o somethe
p E of
skeletons of their prehistoric mon-
sters. The official can show workmen
iiow to make such oasts in concrete,
and these will last out in the weather
as long as the concrete abutments of
bridges.
It would be a great advertisement
for the railroads and Canada if a
Canadian mastodon were standing;
not in the village, or on the street,
but on the mountain side, possibly
among -the bushes or trees in sight
of the railroad car windows near
Jasper, and a:dinosaur near Banff, in
view of the C.P.R., would cause the
European papers to write about it. ,
Moor, Once a Lake.
The floods that have devastated a
large part of Somerset, England,
serve to emphasize the fact that i
most of the great plain of Sedgemoor
was once a sea -lake, writes "Looker
On" in the London Daily Chronicle.
Drainage is responsible for the fact
that it is now fertile land, though
even in..a.normal winter floods are
only too common. Incidentally, the
drainage ditches are known as
rhines• Bordered with pollarded' wil-
lows, they are a typical feature of
that part of the. West Country.
. It is said that the Duke of Mon-
mouth Wag told to "Beware of the
Rhine!" Thinking of the German
river, he only laughed at the warn-
ing. But;•at the Battle of Sedgemoor
it was a Somerset rhine that proved
his 'undoing, for it prevented his fol-
lowers from falling upon the roya_i
army by surprise, as they had hoped.
be equally or nearly as great.
Every modern aid to air navigation
will be required if any of these :ser-
vices are to be maintained with suf-
ficient regularity to make rth'eta suc-
cessful. Already,, though', the perfec-
tion of neon beacons With their fog
penetrating properties, the develop-
ment of radio beacons which guide
filers•,. in the thickest weather and the
partial perfection ,of 'supersensitive
altimeters which make blind landings
possible under some conditions have
taken much hazard from cross-coun-
try and over -water flying.
The element of cold in northern
flying has beenconquered toa great
extent. In well heated and well insu-
lated cabin planes passengers now fly
in comparative comfort when the
temperature outside is as low as 60
below. Improvements in aero engines
have remotied much of the risk of
power
plant failure,
The establishment ,of sub -polar
routes, over which fog and stores will
be the pilot's enemies, involves the
construction of adequate air ports
and; seaplane bases close enough to-
gether to enable a pilot to run for a
safe landing from storms he cannot
face. It involves .also the institution
of a first-class meteorological service
transmitted by radio and adequate
surveys of airport sites.
This last requirement, officials
point out, is necessitated by :the fact
that the altimeter, which tells the
pilot his height above ground, is, in
reality, a barometer, and is affected
by changes in weather. Surveys •of
airport sites would establish in each
case, the exact elevation of the land-
ing surface above sea level.
Pilots then flying to a landing in
dense fog, unable to see the ground,
would be able to spot the landing
area marked out with neon lights.
They would know the elevation of the
ground and they would be given the
barometer reading at the port by
radio. This would enable them to cor-
rect their altimeter reading so that
they could make a perfect landing
without seeing the ground at all.
Manufacturers of supersensitive al-
timeters are at present working out a
system whereby the calculations ne-
cessary for the correction of alti-
meter readings from barometer read-
ings on the ground may be simplified.
Within a short time, it is expected,
these calculations will be carried on
a special slide rule.
I • The perfection of these iiiiprove-
nrents, aviation authorities think, will
eliminate the few remaining .hazards
in thick weather flying and will make
possible the projection of rout.ea
never before successfully flown. The
rest of the word leading up to the
esablishmont of such routes, they
say, is a matter of engineering and
transportation of supplies.
Cost of Translations.
Language experts should find,
something to interest there in the
tariff of a translation firm I have
Just been looking over, writes "Look-
er Ort" in the London Daily Chron
idle. French and German, it seems,
are the cheapest languages to trams -
late. Italian and Spanish are a little
dearer, and Dutch and Scandinavian
languages come next on the list of
charges. Greek translations cost con-
siderably more than Russian—they
tank in cost with Roumanian, Hun-
garian, Serbian and Czech. Lithu-
anian comes next, while iPinnish,
"dearest" language t of . ail, costs
about eight times as much as Trench.
"Treasure Pot of the World."
iron Charle i'1x c re ntario v
s C a,•0
ister of 'Mines, referred to Northern
Ontario the other day as the troas-
ure ,dot of the world," and went on
to say that the natural resources. of
the province ytoided a total. of $1,
000,000,000 in 1028, and that with
the consummation of present power
projects, there will be carried out an
enormous .program of ' mineral dol.,
velopment.
'04n 'lri,000 Acres.
About 15,000 acres of farm lands
in Alberta are now owned by titled
members of the British nobility; 1h
eluding H, H. H. the 1'rince of Wales.•
the nuke of Sutherland, Bari Mlhto,
Lord Cheylesmore, Lord .Rodney, and
the Earl of 1!;iiiiloiit.
Charlie Wore Kilts.
A bright controversy has eheereo
the dull Scottish season in London.
Someone has suggested that Bonnie
Prince Charlie never wore the kilt,
The assertion took away the breath
of many amongt the Scottish com-
munity, and old records are being
dug up from the archives to prove
that the Young Pretender ''seldom
wore anything :else," as one news-
paper correspondent innocently puts
It, ,i3ut the evidence is scanty. Still.,
one zealot has unearthed a letter
written when Prince Charlie was, a,
boy, and proving•that he was kilted
'on ate]oast one public occasion, while
there 'are several authentic refer-
ences to his, kilt in records of his
wanderings after Culloden.
England's Stnalledt Church,
Culbone Churoh, the smallest in
England, 1ios at the bottom of it se-
cluded Eicrnoor eoxilbt;;; facing' the
Bristol Channel„ It seats only 24 'pet).
The chug ch takes its name frons
St. 'dulbouc, a Glarnorganshir`e'salrit,`
who, after the Drowning of .King Ar-
thur, retired to this sheltered spot
and founded a church.
HOW TO WRITE ; the last isstto'of the Tribune; but my
UP A WEDDING life amn tes bo wtip
one weddingbitioanrd tplieen rite' tj•riit}h rite .No}y
Robert fhtill;sin has for several ears i
. ter• .. years
bsen. editor 'of the Fountain Jon (S
"C.) Tribune, brit is believed 'to be on
his Luny to another clime at the pre
sent Writing, If so, he surely is harpy
for lie is .one of the few newsmen in
history who has managed to fulfil. a
desire that is almost universal in the
craft yet is perpetually suppressed:
that is
done death ear: have 119 stin �•;"
Lint you don't have to believe It.
Last week, :we learn from Chatta-
nooga News, Mr. Quillen wrote a re-
port of a local wedding as he had
wanted to write one all his long news-
paper life. After stating the naives Of
the bridal couple, their parents, the
clergyman and noting the tint.e and
place, the account ran a$' follows:
"The groom •is a popular young
bum who hasn't done a lick of work
since he .got .shipped in the Middle
of his junior year at college. He
Manages to dress well and keep a
supply of ..spending money because
his dad is a soft-hearted' old fool who
takes up his, bad checks instead of
lettirng him go to jail where he be-
longs:
"The bride is a skinny, .fast little
idiot, who has been kissed and,: handl-
ed by every boy in town since' she
was 12 years old. She paints like a
Sioux Indian; sucks cigarettes in se-
cret and• drinks corn Whiskey when]
she is out joy riding in her dad's car
at night. She. doesn't {nohow to
cook or. keep house.
:"The home was newly plastered for
the wedding and the exterior painted;
thus appropriately carrying out the
decorative scheme; for the groom was
newly plastered and the bride newly
painted. •
"The groom wore a rented dinner
suit over athletic underwear of inci-
tation sick, His pants were held up
by pale green suspenders, His i\To, 6
Patent leather shoes matched his
state of tightness and barinotiized
nicely with the axlegrease in his hail.
In adition to his jag he carried la
pocketknife, a bunch of keys, a dun
for the ring and his usual look of
tartest ity.
"The young people will make their
home with the bride's parents=which
means they will sponge on the ofd
ratan until he dies and then site will.
take in washing.
".Postscript by`editor: This may be
10th LINE I-IOWICK
Miss Marian Pritchard, a student
in the 'Stratford Business College, was
a week -end visitor at her home on
the Howick and Minto boundary.
Herman Litt is assisting Mr, Waft-
er :f:orshiu;gh for some time,,
Mr. 'and Mrs. Gordon Griffith' and
the former's another, all of Toronto,
were Sunday visitors at John Fleet's.
Lloyd Griffth returned with them,
Mr. Will Miller and son Howard,
of Listowol were Saturday visitors at
Thos: Strorii's,
• Mr, and Mrs. 'Hugh McLeod and
children visited with relatives in Clif-
ford on Sunday.
Wilmot Craig of Harriston was a
visitor at his home.
New "King's Highway" Signs
Hon. George S. Henry, Minister of
fHigh•ways, exhibited" in the Legisla-
ture last week one of the new signs
'which will designate the provincial
highway system.' The signs' measure
about two and a half fret in height,
topped by a crown:, In the mid-sec-
tion the number of the highway will
be given with the lettering _ above it
spelling outthe new slogan. They
Will have black letters • on a white
background.,
EAST WAWANOSH
IYIr. and Mrs. Charles Carter spent
Sunday at the Bome of Mr.:and Mrs.
Wm. Wellings.
Mrs. Robe, Montgomery and little
slaughter spent a day last 'week .at .the.
home r of her mother, Mrs. John El-
liott,
xr. John Cunningham spent San -
day at the hoine of Mrs. Geo. Kerr.
Miss Irene Taylor spent the week-
end at the l',orne of her parents, Mr.
and Ivirs. Torn Taylor.
Miss Catharine Currie spent: a few
days at the home of her grandparents,
Mr, and Mrs, W. J. Currie. .
Quite a few fanners from Here At-
tended the sale of Mr. R. Arnitsrong..
Mrs, Geo. Currie and daughter call-
ed at the home of Mrs. J. J. Kerr on
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till - Are deservedly the most pop:;
p� uiar shoe for Women trade on
the American Continent, and 'the
reasons are obvious —The one
= most particular reason being.
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"THAT ARE MADE TO FIT
.-1-7 ANY ANY NORMAL FOOT"
For instance they are made
_- from A A A A, which is very
=• narrow, to EEE which is very
n wide.
• Enna Jettick Shoes have
"caught on" with the women of
▪ Wingharn just as they have in
practically every large city in
= the United States and Canada,
Ln fact there should be real sat-
▪ isfaction for the women of
Winghani to know that 'they are
■ now able to procure in their
own town the same styles of
footwear as are being shown in
ii
the largest cities of the Ameri-
:.an Continent.
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Ili• Phone 129, Wingham
Sunday.
Mr. Geo, League visited at the
home of Mr, Geo. T. Currie.
Mr. John Taylor has, returned home
after spendinga few weeks in Hamil-
ton.
A card party was held at the home
of Mr. WM. Arbuckle. All reported
a veryj
... enjoyable time.
Miss Lenore. Wellings'•spent Satur-
day with Catherine Currie.
Mr, 'Geo.' Taylor, of Brussels spent
Sunday at the home of Mrs. Thomas
Taylor. b `
Mrs Taylorp spell/ Sunday with
friends in Biuevale.
Messrs. ,Deacon and John Currie
spent Sunday afternoon at the home
of R. R. Currie.
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