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Office Over Isard's Store
TRIO INDIAN MOCCASIN,
Become for the "Paleface"
Bedroom Comfort.
Many thousands of pain a moe-
oasius are solkl annually to vaeation-2
going Americans, particularly in the
northern anti western parts of the
country, according to a correepondent
writine in the New York Times, Orig-
inated:band used by the Indians in
all seasons and. all weathers, the
mocea.sin• bas beeome for the "pale-
face' a bedroom comfort. Travellers,
Particularly women, bud the mem
-
eosin a most satisfactory kind of
footwear to take along in place of the
high -heeled boudoir slipper which re-
quires more room in a bag. The
moccasin is pliant and can be tucked
in anywhere,
There is an endless variety of nine-
casins offered, depeeding on the sec-
tion of the country in which they are
obtained. In Canada one sees the
moccasin fashioned entirely of light-
colored seal, beautifully soft and
silky. Here and there are found
suede moccasins in blues and pinks,
luxuriously edged with soft fur and
elaborasely beaded. There are some
In pure white---eny ones to fit a
small baby, as well as the larger
sizes. The cheaper and more com-
mon, a course, are the light tan
leather, but they are not to be scorn-
ed. They will stand long, hard usage.
The original style of Indian !nee-
ca.sins, made.of buckskin, which were
laced high around the ankles to keep
the snow out, are still being menu -
others have toe ornaments of dYed
WINGI.IAXt AD
ANCE-TIMES
Thureday, July 17t1, 193
WHA.1 HAPPENED BEFORE
Dr. Long, out fishing. with Alexan-•
der Pierce, a detective, tells of hit
projected trip to Southley Downs.
Pierce advises him to: keep his eyes
open wide while'there,On the way in
train .13r, Long is 'attracted:by a
girl, wholater faint. .Dr. Long
treats hr, and looking: into her bag;
is astounded to find a loaded, revolve
ea. Now read 011—
Chapter II ,
I heard the conductor shout be-
hind Me, I turned from her, even
as her eyes were upon me.' It was
my station and I did not stop to re-
alize the screaming folly of leaving
the train.
factuted. Some are beaded, Men who have , thrown aWay, the:
wrong card in the biggest .poker
porcupine quills. It is. diMetilt to oh-.
tein these. hand of their lives might have some
inkling Of the way I felt. For three'
:SMTIOGi."Fr4 GOLD. minutes. I stood fuming, watching
Ever !the vapishing end of the train. It
. "
"Is this Dr. Long?" spoke a voice
behind me,:
. Southern manor house and., do any
other ,thing. j' in the air end the
atmosphere, as all men leziow Who
have visited the South. It is a tra-
dition, too, The Voice • itself was
rather wavering 'and shrill; rather
more, aged than I remembered it.
Then he turned to the impassive
Oriental behind hint
• Ahmed Dee,'" he ,asked, "didn't
joe come?" ,
I didn't hear the answer, for :
turned to shake, bands with a tall,
straight youth that was Southley's
Son. He:Was about twenty-one, evi-
dently an undergraduate 'at College.
I' "My Son Ernest," the old man
told Cue. He tried to straighten up.
"Already -teller than his 'father." '
'We walked into the great draw-
ing-eoom and there two other Men
arose to greet us.
Mr. Hayward," my host exclaimed.
"And adether Mr. Hayward, his Sen."
It was Wholly possible that. his
One of the Cleverest Tricks soon sWept out of sight.
Devised.
• According to news from Perth,
gold worth £11,250 has been smug-
gled out of West Australia by one of
the cleverest tricks ever devistd by. a
gold stealer.
Though it happened some little
time ago, it is only now that the
whole story has Come to light.
veice changed -ifig-htly when he in-
troduced these two. But, of course,
and lots of ,'em. And the Worst of
itisthe plant broke three days after
1 came. Spite work, I think,"
. I looked at 'hint, expecting to find
him in jest, There are Dien that joke
:•like that. semetemes.• But his :face
gave no sign, And I was to learn
before the night was donethatsuch
renmeks were ea -lite to be expected
f rose the elder Hayward,
A long,. tremulous : call suddenly
shietered out of the darkness— seem-
ingly below the yeeaecle. It was a
plaintive, haunting cry, but except to
a naturalist: not worth a moment's
thought. I had been enough in the
wilderness to recognize it as the cry
of a certain large 'species :of owl—a
night -hunter that is often found in
our Florida: marshes,' : Those on the,.
veranda: with me must have heard
the samesotind dozens, of times: But
foll.c Of theiti started in their chairs,
and one of the four tittered a lialf7
sinothered gasp:of dismay.
Something . was radically wrong
with the nerves of these Occupants
The voice was deferential; yet it it was to be expected. An instant he_ of Southley Downs. Evidently the
had neither the tone nor the rythm fore he had just introducedson
,swamp his so,
'-
swamp air had got into them and
of our Florida colored •men. I evidently the joy and pride of his life. left its poison. The elderly South
think that I expected to turn and
'see a white servitor—one of those
The man had been closely -watched gray-haired English butlers of an
11'W. COLBORNE, M
Dfor a long time by officers of the old and incomparable school. • It
. . .
•
golge-steeling detection staff. -
• Physician and Surgeon
Tick.tfh. they bad thole own ideas was a low voice. with a rather peen--
"Medical Representative D. S. C. R. ab -611.1 m, they had never been able
SuCcessor to Dr. W. R. HanablY to catch
pbcett 54 wiegaam frar-felief when he aunoune-
DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND
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DR. R. L. STEWART
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Vacuity -of Medicine; Licentiate of the
'Ontario College of Physicians and
Seirgeons.
Office in Chisholm Blocic
'Josephine Street. Phone 29
DR. G. W. HOWSON
DENTIST
Office over John Galbraith's Store.
F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated
Office Adjoining residence next to
Anglican Church on Centre Street.
Sundays by appointment.
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Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Licensed Drugless Practitioners
Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. ;
Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic
College, Toronto, and National Col-
lege., Chicago.
Out of town and night calls res -1
pomded to. All business confidential.
Phone 300.
3. ALVIN FOX
Registered Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPRACTIC AND
DRUGLESS PRACTICE
liar purring quality. And so I was
surprised to see the dusky face that
ed he was going with his wife on a looked into mine. It wasn't black,
trip to England, ostensibly to place yet quite dark enough to be that
o
a mulatto. Rut in a glance I knew
on the market a new engine which
many improvements were clef:nett that the man had no African blood
A patent was taken out and a sam- whatever.
was prepared for transport overseas. The shape of his
Though they were glad to seethe. tinctly Aryan. • He
last of lithe, the gold -stealing detec- finely chileled nose
tion sta.ff would not take any risks,
and the travellers' luggage was close-
ly scrutinized. Everything seemed to
be in order. There wasn't a trace of
gold.
But the sample engine was not as
innocent as it looked, for the "brass"
bearings and linings of cylinders
were composed of gold amalgam, the
total on the machine comprising not
less than 2,600 ounces of pure gold
valued at Z11,250.
pe engine made in his workshop. It
GOLF IN A 'PLANE.
One of the Most Remarkable Matches
on Record.
One of the moat remarkable golf
matches on record was played not
long ago over the Sonning (Berk-
shire, England) course.
The players were Capt. G. A. R.
Pennington, commandant of' the Na-
tional Flying Services Airdrome at
Reading, who used an airplane, and
A. Yonng, tete towel professional,
AO paired ordinaii; golf.
The match waes tor 12.5 a side, and
the tonditions, drawn up by the sec-
retary of the Sonning Club, were
that Capt. Pennington should take up
with him eighty golf ba3ls, each
wrapped in white eloth—to ensure
that it should not bounce off the
green—that he could fly as high or
as low as he wished, and that it
should be counted as a "tole oat" if
a ball pitched anywhere on the green.
The airman went over the course
1 before Young .started, and. he com-
pleted bis "round" in just iirider'for-
classical thin lips
But now it seemed to me that the
voice had an alien tone—a strain and
a nervousness that -was not readily
explaine.d. I bowed over the older
man's hand.
He was a huge ereature--Isix feet
tall and more than a little obese, and
perhaps sixty-five years of age. Be
•
was closely shaven, and his white
hair was • clipped close. He had
rather peculiar piercing gray eyes, a
firm mouth, and he had the look of
ley had evidently. not , heard the
sound. At leeet, he gave • no Sign,
His Son, the nerves of eVhose : hatid-
'sinuousness beyond all words.
I did no forget this was natural in
the man. But by some Satanic con-
triving of fate and eireemstance, his
candid -light bad found a reflection
in his eyes. 1 am a cold-blooded,
self-disciplined man, and if was not
just imagination, not just .delusion or
moon -madness that revealed to me a
strange, greenish glare, not unlike the
light to be seen in the eyes of certain
great, beasts of prey in the black,
depths.
Ahmand Das left the room, and I
spoke in the deadly quiet that fol-
lowed his departure.
"What is it, Miss Southley?" I
asked her as gently- as I could,
"What has frightened yog?"
"I must be ill," she said. "It was
just Ahrnand Das."
"1 know—and that wild light in
Isis eyes was natural. It was just
the glare from his candle."
She smiled at me, took me through
some of Elie great, downstairs rooms
of the manor house. The place was
almost Geoi•gian. There were many
little alcoves—the best of hiding
places—and long corridors and in-
definite flights of stairs, I was amaz-
ed at the size of it. •
"And what traditions it must
some body should have been of have!"
steel, gave a scarcely perceptible I exclairned. "You forgot,
Miss Southley. You were e'oing to
start, Both of the Haywarcls turned
tell me about the ghost.
ewith a nervous jerk, and the elder
I said . som ell) ing •that' sounded like an She paused and looked at me.
"I've decided I hadn't better."
1
• . so sorry. It ivould give an
:oath under his breath,
Josephine
'had been the most affected of all; A
isaw that lingering', - n g
' heti tin • sorrow .
egairi auded• zest to this v"But you wouldn't believeisit—" • •
I and when . I looked at her
"And you wouldn't' want Ine 10!
features was c.lis- OVerflowing opulence. As I shook eic her dark eyes.
G't '
had a straight, his hand a bell jingled in the hall.1 She uttered a little, nervous laugh
host
,stories arenmeant to be be -
that was almost For an instant the Hindu's face , hat 'was joeously must- "'But this stor is 1. l'ttl rff t
--a soundt
a.nd rather high showed in the,doorway, and Southley ical in spite of her embarrassment. Or Long. It has one or two rathei.
troublesome points—and it isn't to be
cheek -bones He wore the snow-
white turban of a.....:Mussulman But
most .of all 1 noticed his eji-es:,, They
were the eyes of a ,inkatic, very black,
and astoundingly deep They gave
no key to his thoughts, but suggested
the somber mysticism of the East.
Of course liewas one of ‘Southley's
servants ,and a native of Hindustan.
ty minutes, having found most of the "Yes, I'm 1„ong,' 1 told him.
ttl
ey ow
f
strokes. Yonng -was out iu thirty-five saldb--COnle OMand the car i01
s waiting." he
ELECTRO -THERAPY • th
e eouise was twenty-nine
Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by and home in thirty-three, a. score went on 'in his strange, purring
Phone 191. good enough to win almost any ordi- voice The great, black eyes fa.scina-
appointment.
nary match,
ted nie
3. D. McEWr..."N
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
Phone 602r14.
Sales of Farm Stock and Imple
events, Real Estate, etc., conducted
'With satisfaction and at moderate
ararges.
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock
,Phone 281, Wingharn '
RICHARD B. JACKSON
AUCTIONEER
?hone 8.13r6, Wroxeter, or address
R., 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any -
'where and satisfaction guaranteed.
DRS. A. 3. & A. W. IRWIN
DENTISTS
Offic MacDonald Mock, Wingham
A. J. WALKER
NITURE AND PUNERA
SERVICE
A. J. Walker
Ucensdd Funeral Director and
Embaltrier,
:flite Phone 106; R. Phone '9,24
imonsine ;Funeral Coatis.
New Zealand Bird Sanctuaries.
Several islands, along the coast of
Now Zealand have been set aside as
sanctuaries for the native birds
whieh are becoming scarce on the
mainland.
One of these is Little Barrier Is-
land, a steep, wooded islet about fifty
miles from Auckland, Ships of all
kinas pass within a few miles of it
on tie ir way to and from _Auckland,
but no one is allowed to land without
permission of the Government, and
(event for the caretaker, who keeps
wateli'for possible maurauders, there
are no hmnan beings on the island.
Near Went:mien is gapiti
big and hilly, onee the stronghold of
Maori, chiefs; it is now the equally
well -defended citadel of the native
birds.
Holley's Prairdest 11.1xperience,
"My funniest experience," said
George Robey, the English eorafe
singer,"was when Jack Johnson,
then world's heavyweight boxing
champion, was giving eXhibitiOnS
the Palladium. Vol' a, lark they put
me in the first bout with bite, and X
knocked him down." Johnsen was so
asionishod that it.e almost forgot to
get up again.
white blur. But when ive went into
Only' thirty-nino DO' cent. of the °iv ligljt'dhall' 1 thal
worm eeerieg.0 ,eit), depinas exe months bad changed him. The sight
elnsively On eeaL
dle-Iight was, 1 1hink7, the first real
19Pe4isbi- shock of my slay at Siptithley Downs.
A British flib is the 14e greeted me with llle fltl"•5t
pipe-lish, the i'mAteat swimmer in the /„L., colkinet a
fte.th .1i31!,
He took iny bag and ,led the way
to the CAL I am not nsttally partitu..
holy observant. of casual ,accmain-
tances; bin 1 ftnind myself' :undying
the dark, straight form in ..front of
me There was a quality in his OM,
'riage. that was ,particularly absorbing.
couldn't quite grasp. what it was -
rather think is. was the somewhat
stealthy way- with whiell he Placed
his feet, a sinuousness and is ,,,race
that one might expect in a dancer. I
couldn't hear his ftiotfall on the grav-
el; and I fell to conjecturing what:a
successful hunter, he would be -i-trethe
Western mountains, It usually takes
years of • practice to 'learn to stalk.
:He scented to know how intuitively,
The man walked just like acat , He
Placed his feet the same way,
"The °O'er must have missed the '
train," he told me in. hiS correct !
bus liesitoiit English, as : he , helpcd
ine into Smalley's great touring ear. I
Sonthley himsglf met Inc on the
great veranda. The •: shadows were
'heavy there, and his •face just a
went to meet hitn. .They .talked to-
gether an instant, •and the old than
was beside me again by the time I
had turned to the 'younger Hayward.
e He was a man poSSibly, my own
age. Fie alSo was in the neweSt of
dinner garb. He had a rather large,
dark face—perhaps a trifle "severe and
forbidding. "rhere wee ,a dull light
tha,t might have. bnen ambition and
might have been a thousand other
ilee3g.ralti on (Nited.,
trf his fine, old fate. in the si71t can -
things in his eyes. .
heard South) ey speak cif
you," tlie Younger man told 1110_,
am Vitas Hayward, • It may help you
to keep us straight to know my .eriv-
en nnine.."
-,, "I think that is Joe' noN
'Then We all stood esp. • The' whole
world faded ---.the glittering table, the
watchful fares of the men, the dark
body. :of' the Hindu Servant-- and
left only the slender form at the
thrlo'shold of the, door.
"She's been on•a visit to the shere,
and she was carried past her. station
—like, the little stupid that she is," I
heard Southley saying from far
away: had to send for her In the
ear, Josephine ---conte up and „Meet
my friend, :Doctor 1.ong,,
my clang:liter, Miss Sout 171 e y."
The girl at the doorway was the
same girl I had 'c.areied in my arms
that afternoon; and she had not yet
removed ,'the' iutrigning 1,4 ti e Itat
from the fine, brown bait,
"I" hope you don't mind 'candle-
light," Southley apologized' during
the excellent meal. "'We h a vt a
, vale lighting ,platit, but it's seriously
, out ot, order. We're sending for
now ear!.
"I prefer candles,. and I'd have 'ent
if 1 liad enough .servantS to keep
1 110311 trimmed," "Ws the
most rt:stful light on earth."
Then tilt: elde3- Iliiyiyard grunted in
his place., .
"I fall ail (wet the ••.17f,use with
'on," he said. "I like bright lights,
I "Did you ever encounter just this
atmosphere before?" She asked me.
"It's these niarshes 1 think—the
traditions of this old house."
"All it needs is a ghost," I told
her. ."If you can present a • ghost,
it's going to be the biggest week cif
my life."
"It's here already."
"Yon don't mean it!"
""The newest, most novel ghost in
the world!"
She said it lightly; and I kept
my eyes upOn her, Then we heard
the elder Hayward grunting from
his chair.
"Oh, don't tell that • silly story
again, Josephine," he muttered.
"I've heard it till I'm tired.
"Then take him into the' library,
at all."
Joe," her: father seggusted. "'I de couldn't laugh' into her earnest
Want' him to hear it--Lanci since it face . I' didn't •feel lik 1aug 1 i •.
laughed at, even if it isn't to be be-
lieved. I hope you'll be able tb laugh
—but I'm afraid you won't. It's been
a tradition in this house since nay
father came, forty years ago. And
it isn't nice—at All. It's just that
Southley Downs needs a doctor—even
In ore than I do."
"And maybe Pin the one it needs."
"Our ghost isn't the ghost of a
man," she said. "It isn't the ghost of
a lovely, girl who died for a sweet-
heart—or even a little child."
• "l'm glad it isn't a linle child. T
can't bear to think of their sleep
o
being suneasy tliv they would
walk." -
"Our ghost—isn't a human
being
bores 'Mr" Haywa.rd,, you'd better
not tell it here,. I want hitn to see
the house, anyway.' , '
Josephine and I went through the
'king hall, and into the 'library. There
were other candles licre,, and the
shadOws Were long and unaivaver-ing,
I held a chair Inc her, and took' one
myself.
"Of course I know you," 4110 :mid
at unce.
"I'm glad ef that I was sure
you had forgotten."' .
• I, NVO:S watching With ineneasura,ble
delight every change of expression in
her face, every :sliad-7,riv in her eyeSi,
the delicious rising and falling of the
color in hch
er eeks, She was in the
middle of a sentence, and all things
else were forgotten. Then, Slowly as
water freezes, the life utterly died in
her face. . ' • :
There is no other 'word, In a,
Moment, the witchery and mystery
that men call was. sparkling in. hr
e
eyes and dancing in iter smile, 'tier
tailor - was. at its ,beight, ' and I
was deinking it like wine. In the
my fitst iMpression was' that her.
coler w ..
as fading. • . ' :
She N17;1, watching' something just'
ver my shoulder, , Her 'gaze was
almost trance-hke; 'I he. light
nt went
oof her eyeS, and they \videried,
too., And a (14) less pereeptibie
change came in the set Of 'her li45.
'N./Cry slowly I turned. , I don't
kknowwhat 1 eXpeeted to see. llut
1 cuttainly expected. . ntithing as
connuoimittec as I sane Her CYO
Were flked on the form of An
hmad
'Pas, the servant, who was doing,
a household task at OW., end of the
, long. roinn,
li ri•Qr an instant I also followed Isis
111mi/ilia with a senseless fascinatin
o.
114ti. Was on hie hande and feet :on the
.
'nig, evidently cleaning' it soiled place
1 ,
,I(.711 the .carpet., 'And even in that aivlo-
'ward Position he, seerot.d tO i111000!with a strange, feline gri e • lithe
'ntexit was wnolly gone.. Probably
;et
e ng
•
•"It isn't very, cheerful, is it, doe....
tor?" she went on. "A nd it is rather
embarrassing. t� Sit, here arid tell
you things I know you, can't 'pok-
sibly believe.: My father came from
India forty years ago; andhefirelight
a tiger -cub with him. It was a petL--
tawny little, L'areatUre that played.
and romped and pulled at the .cur-
tains. :He brought two. servants, foe
Hindu nlan and my Mother's ayah,
noth these two servants are dead... Al-:,
though you would:hardly guess it
Ahmad ' Das was. born after they
came to this plantation.
"1.'he cub grew into a beautiful,
tawny, full-grown tiger; seemingly,
as gentle as a collie. But' one night
iiihen the wind blew it seemed to
go mad. l.r attacked the Hindu
woman, and she was badly torn be-
fliro 1.11Y7 fn.thce drove the' creature
off. In the condition . that :she was,
her W01.016 Were,even more clanger
ous than they 'otherwise weeld have
been. It -"was unquestionably the'
brutes intention to 'tarry •hr off—
!and maybe yon know, something
labout tigers.
I "They Say that they will play inc
literally hours with their human
preyjust as a tat .pleys with a
mouse, with the most' terrible crnel-
ty than can be imagined, The 'meet
attacked lily father l•hen, and leaped
through the Window , and eseetrea
intte the Marshes.
"When morning eante all the
negroes and, my .father and the
Hindu tracked the tiger down.. --and
finally killed hfin in the thiekets.
And when they got hack Ahmed
Das Was born. On IJI0 Very day, and,
the seine hour, that the tiger died,
eoerse that's just a detail,
Me legend that has groivii, im 'deals.'
with, the storh•s that , the colored,
people told—aliont npl ethi rig 'they
s11u7 thereafter," ,
She ,paused, and in the little
si-
10410(5 .We beard soine night bird give
its sleepy call froth the marsh,
3
"At first Ole SI•c'ries were rather
vague. Now and again they would'
get a glimpse of something tawny
and alive in the thickets. Everybody
laughed at first. But as time went
on it got increasingly hard to laugh:
'No many people tuld the same
story, And ove night a traveler
stopped at the house, tdmply speech-
less with fright. He said that a
tiger, clear and tawny in the moon-
light, had followed his horse,
"The stories all agreed on one
point, Tile beast was always seen
either on or about this hill on which,
tile house is bent. And then, one
midnight, a negro cause with a can -
d12 on wind errand into the library,,
the room we are now in. He told
He couldn't see at first. He just
heard something bounding about in
the shadows—playin.g with the cur-
tains. His candle -light showed him
something as big as an enormous.
hound—and yellow and black in
color, •
"That is substantially the legend„,
Dr. -Long. ec)f course I don't watt
you to think twice about it—if you
do you would take your bag and go.
For years and years the story was.
just told at intervals, and not even
the negroes were afraid. But two.
years ago— But you've heard enough,
Let's, talk of something else."
"If I'rrt to cure this house of its.
troubles, you'd better 'tell me all." I
told her,
She &aced herself and continued.
She was a sensible, cool-headed Am-
erican girl; and I had no doubt but
that the story was hard. for her to
tell. Already I was groping for some
natural explanation for the legends.
"Two years ago Sam, one of our
colored :nen, came wild-eyed into the
house and said that he had seen the.
thing just below our veranda --and,
all of us laughed at him. Perhaps a
month later' one ef the housernaids.
came with almost ali identical story
—she and one of the young colored.
tnen had been walking about the hill-
side, and it had suddenly emerged
from the shrubbery: It makes such a
story particularly disquieting, doetore
to have two people verify it.
(Continued Next Week)
T.4
Aere and
k;,•••• •
PI•Inee iye.baW Yoeagawa, eresi-
dent of the Japaneee House ef
rs, an Ms sort, flea. 1Yet.taso
Tokugawa. Japanese Ilinestet 10.
Canada, met recently on board
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of'
Russia: The Prince was on his.
way to London to attend the inter --
Parliamentary Conference and look
the opportunity to see his son who,
had come to Victoria from Ottawa.
to meet him,
Leaping into shark -infested wa:-
ters in the China Sea halfway
between Hong Kong and Shanghai,
Carpenter -Tom Ellworthy, of the
S.S. Empress of Russia, saved the;
life of Mrs Makareff, passenger on
the ship who had jumped over..
board in a fit of dementia. The
woman strongly resisted efforts to
resetie her and itla Engineer Dean
went to Ellworthy's asSistance, the .
two men succeeding in bringing her
back aboard ship after' long and
exisaustine-, struggles.
ITherc I
Beating the world's record in,
passenger traffic operation, West- ,,
ern Canada. conies into the lime-
light this year with the 1252 mile:
continuous run from Fort Vio.1.1.la01 •
•to Calgary of the Canadian Pacifie,
/ocornotive number 2808. A number
of locomotives of this class are now
being built by the railway, equip-.
'pad with roller -bearing- boxes.
which w -ill still further, facilitate' ..
engine operations o11 long runs.
The season's first climb of Mt.
Temple, .1 1,600-ftmt ,pealt in the
Rockies, Was made last week by
1)r. Thorington of Philadelphia,
wellknown writer and Alpinist, and
W, Kerr, of Vancouver. Edward
Peuz, doyen of, Swiss guides in the
Rockies, wasin charge of ,the throb,
wbieh started out from C:bateau
'Lake Louise at three in the morn-
ing and reaehed the summit at ten.
With the Opening of the New
Pines Hotel at Digby -and of' the-
Alg,onquin Hotel at St. Andrews -
by -the -Sea at the end of aline, the
tourist season lat the Maritime
Provinces is now in frill swing.
Reservations at both hotels are
• very heavy, forecasting a prosper-
ellS SO8,5011.
DirrienitieS Met' by C'etnadian, anet
united States? motorists Whell taking
their ears to Europe haVe been
overcome by facilities afforded bY'
the Canadian Pacific Rallwaye
under which the owner can Alp
enr as,baggage between Canada ant
European points in either direction.
'Ilse Company arrenges far tbe neei
cessarY customs and regietration
doenmente ,for every country to be
visited,driving licenses, license paa,
tes, and membership in the RoyaI
Atitomoblie Club. The ear is Un-
loaded within an hour of the ship's,
arrival and is furnished with 021
and a snatell supply erf gasoline stect
made ready for the road. There le
no red.tnpe and no bond or other
financial guarantee required.
believed to be the largest mime*,
ever taken by fIy oh, the Medway,
Cape Breton, Arehie Joudry,
ilangseoto Club guide, toolc a fish.
recently that weighed 32 The, was
42 Inches long and With a girth or
21 latches. The fish hes been pile-,
tographed tor teproduetten in the
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