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The Huron Expositor, 1921-02-11, Page 1Sive e.. FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR WHOLE NUMBER 2774 — SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY '4,1921. COME ALONG For every day and hour you stand back and wait you're a big loser. Come along to Clothing g Co. Sale • $60 00 Coats fur .. , . $30 00 50 00 Coats for 25 00 40 00 Coats for 20 00 30 00 Coats for 15 00. 60 00 `nits for....., 30 00 50 00 Suits for '?7 50 10 00 Pants for... 6 00 3 00 Caps for..., ...... 1 50 20 00 Jackets for • 10 00 1 50 Socks for 75 1 00 Socks for ......................,..... 50 25 00 Rain Coats for. .. 15 00 12 00 Sweaters for ..,..., ... 6. 00 300 Gloves for 2 00 2 50 Mufflers for ....., 1 25 3 00 Shirts for ... .... 1 50 4 0o Overalls for.., 2 00 30 oo Muffs for 15 c10 3o co Fur Stoles for All Other Goods Equally Low 15 00 Seaforth Horticultural Socie CABINET-iMAKING IN AMERICt. In forming his Cabinet an Ameri- can President has some distinct ad ' vantages over a British Prime Minister. For one thing, he can take his time about it. The Presidential election is held at the beginning of November, but the new Administra- tion does not take office until the be- ginning of the following March. Fur- ther, he has a very wide freedom of •choice. It is net at all essential that an American Cabinet Minister shall have had any political training or experience whatsoever, or that he shall be a practised public speaker. The Constitution definitely makes Ministers ineligible for seats in either House of Congress, so there is nu call upon them to defend their policies against Parliamentary attacks. Accordingly it is not at alt unusual fur an American President to include in his Cabinet men, •quite unknown in political circles, whose success in business or in Al professional career indicates their possession of admini- strative ability. A new Cabinet is usually a group of men who have never previously been associated in any kind of undertaking. They make ane another's acquaintance at the first Cabinet meeting et, which they are summoned. It sounds incredible, but it is a fact, that one of the members of Mr. Wilson's first Cabinet, Mr. Franklin K. Lane, had to introduce himself to the President at the White house on the morning after Inaugura- tion Day. They had never met be- fore. It is not even absolutely necessary that a Cabinet Minister shall have been closely attached to the party in power. Mr. J. M. Dickinson, Secre- tary of War to President Taft, had not voted at the previous election, and had not broken off his connection with the Democratic party. But Mr. Taft *anted a Southerner, and saw no objdtion to a Southern Democrat who was not an ardent partisan, Such cases, however, are exceptional and when they occur they excite a good deal of critical comment. The composition of an American Cabinet must naturally be affected by the absence of that collective responsi- bility which r, at any rate. used to be—a feature of the British sys- tem. "They are not a Government," says Lord Bryce, "as Europeans un- derstand the term; they are a group of heads' of departments, whom the chief, though he usually consults them separately, often finds it useful to bring together in one room for a talk about politics, including appoint- ments, or to settle some administra- tive question which lies on the border- land between the provinces of two Ministers." As Professor Hart has put it, the Cabinet is a kind of Executive exchange. The contrast with our own system is illustrated by the custom of inviting the assistant secretary of a department to take temporarily the seat of his chief at •i Cabinet Council held when the lat- ter happens to be absent from Wash- ington. So alien is the doctrine of collective responsibility from the American practice that the opinion of the majority of the members carries no more weight than the President is Cole inclined to attach to it. The best known example is an incident of Lincoln's Presidency. He once brought before his Cabinet a proposalwhich, RF it turned out, he alone favored. He fonnd the votes to be seven noes and one aye. "'Therefnrel," he de- clared, "the ayes have it." As against this' much greater free- dom of choice in the composition of an American Cabinet there is one limitat ion—a geographical one— which has no parallel in our system. It is always thought desirable that the various sections of the country shall be represented, and that no one section shall have a preponderance. In the Constitution of the United States there is no mention of a Cab- inet.. The only article that can be constructed as even an indirect ref- erence to it is .that which empowers the President to "require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the Executive departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offrces." As re- gards any meeting for consultation or discussion, he appears to be at liberty, if he thinks fit. to held none at all, or to call to it whomsoever he pleases. Mr. Harding, it is reported. iptends to take advantage of this freedom bjr" Inviting to his Cabinet Councils the Vice -President of the United States, who is not the head of any department and whose onlx duty is presiding over the Senate. The creation of new departments, however. requires legislation. Ac- cordingly it will not be possible fir Mr. Harding to appoint, as is rumored to be his intention, a Minister of Public Welfare or a Minister of Public Works until a hill creating these departments has been passed by Congress. Some- times, ton, a provision in the Consti- tution interposes an unsuspected dif- ficulty in the way of a President. in m 1909 Mr. Roosevelt appointed Mr. P. h C. Knox, at the time a member of the Senate, to be his Secretary of State, Shortly after the appointment had been announced a Washington s, journalist happened to be waiting in y an ante -room of a Government office. To pass the time away he took up n copy of the Constitution that was lying on the table. As he glanced idly through it, his eye fell upon this passage: "No Senator or represent- ative shall, during the time for which he was elected, he appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created or the emolument-' whereof shall have been increased during such, time.'' it occurred to him that two' years before, during Mr. Knox', sen- atorial term, the salaries of Cabinet Ministers had been raised . from $8,- • 000 to $12,000. The journalist trade is diseoverey known, and the Ad- ministration found itself in a pretty fix. The dilemma was finally solved by the enactment of a measuh'e, popu- larly called the Knox Relief Bill, which put back the salary of the Secretary of State to the old figure. CHRISTOPHER DRAKE (By Newton MacTavish, in The Canadian Magazine). practice of tJi�srrowing the loose earth i marrow fat• back into'the'itole. Having .thus com- mitted his ''better half to earth, he ,returned, let us write not joyfully, to his widowed fireside And what a fireside, compared with the box stove of every other house in the neighborhood! It was construct- ed of stone cut roughly and large enough to receive a stick of cordwood. The mantelpiece was decorated with an, old musket, a powder horn, a niug orcetwo, and several churchwarden pipes. For Christopher smoked in- ordinately, morning, noon and night. And he took great pains in the pre- pared( n of his tobacco, all of which he grew in his own garden, giving much time and consideration to every stage of its development, from seed- ling to drying rack. In holding his Christopher had taught to pronounce profane words for no ether reason than to amuse himself and harrow the tender feelings of his pious wife. In the midst of grace at table (in this respect Christopher had not departed from a ways of his fathers) the parrot oftentimes would exclaim, to Christopher's huge delight, "Oh, ell' damn 'er eyes, Polly wants a crack- er." To a woman of Mrs. Drake's natural piety and sensitiveness, the effect of these exclamations was re- lieved only by her attendance aji church and other forms of worship. Worship of an unseen deity did not appeal to Christopher. Perhaps for that reason he never was seen in church. Nor did he ever accompany bis wife anywhere in public. On the other hand, he never was known to enter the tavern or even to darken the doorway of a neighbor's house. He had keen, social tendencies, but he confined every social act to the village streets and his own fireside, where Mrs. Drake enacted the role of feminine inferiority. Inferior in Christopher's mind Mrs. Drake was, because she had come from Cornwall. Her genealogy also was the cause of his contemptuous attitude towards her. lie nicknamed her "Cornwall", and on all important occasions, such as threshings, logging bees or apple -picking time it was Cornwall this and Cornwall that, with as sardonic a flavor as anyone could produce. But she bore up under it all with marvellous resignation, thanking the Lard every Thursday night at prayer-nieeting for His great mercy and setting an example to any who en slighter provocation night groan or complain or appear to be ungrateful. Grat efuhlees was Mrs. Drake's conpieuous virtue. She was so grate- ful it was hard for her not to keep on talking about it. She had many things to be thankful for, even if she were ailing at times and had a con- stant pain in her side. For the Lord was geed. But the pain continued. "One of these days," Said the doctor to Christopher, "she will just topple over." He was right. Christopher followed her remains to the graveyard one cold winter's day. and the occasion was the nearest he had ever conte to appearing with her in public. At the graveside he joined with gusto in the singing of "come, Ye Disconsolate", and then he lowered himself into the grave, took a screw driver and screwed the lid of the rough -box tight into place, then took a spade and helped in the ghastly tut what he represented of Devonshire beside the fragment of Cornwall, yonder upon the hill. The spot over- looks what were his own acres, where we used to help ourselves to his Christopher Drake was a Devon- shireman who settled on a farm in Ontario fifty years ago. God had not thought of him as a farmer, but fate cast him there, and there he remain- ed. He is remembered now because of the paradoxical nature that per- mitted him to display the very es- sence of heartiness and goodwill 'to- e nrds everyone. outside his own home and the very essence of deviltry and illwill within. On one hand he had the spirit of geniality, on the other, of a tyrant and a despot. For he had primitive man's idea of the proper fitness of things. A wife, for in- stance, was an inferior member of the household, a creature convenient Whenever anything had to be fetched or carried; indeed, as one who catered to his comfort and well-being. And his comfort and well-being demanded certain things on certain occasions. For one thing, he demanded apple - butter for breakfast summer and win- ter, with pancakes and bacon. At dinner, the mid-day meal, be insisted on having with his meat a huge slice of cheese whose surface he *aye cov- ered with mustard. At this meal al- so be called for a pitcher of hard cider, drawn from the spring -house in sum- mer and heated with a red-hot iron in winter. And red-hot,'to be sure, was Christopher Drake whenever he revealed his real personality. But on those memorable occasions when two 'little boys came his way, he did not even try to conceal the fact that he possessed as well all the mirthful dualities of Santa Claus and Ring le combined. For he juet event on in his own assumed manner, shaking for all the world like a real bowlful of jelly, puffing out his whiskers, get- ting red in the face with merriment, coughing and hiccoughing with nerv- ous excitement, and twinkling his eyes like two stars on a winter's night. Winter, as one thinks of it, is his proper background. For he never appeared in the village except during the cold months, and he always wore a prink cap, with earlues flapping loose, a great shaggy coo`. of buffalo hide, gauntlets of brown calf skin and top boots of soft kip, with high heels and patent leather fronts. And although his farm adjoined the vil- lage and the stones of his house showed gray beyond the beaver nearlw, through the apple orchard, only half a mile distant. he never came afoot, but always drove a black blood stallion hitched to a red cutter and engirdlcd by a chime of bells that even with their warning notes gave out a measure of delight. Ana as he drew up at the post -office, threw the buffalo robe over the dashboard and steeped out with the reins still in ilia hands, he looked lit, k picture from a fairy book. And if he actually was not Santa Claus er King Cole or some wild rover of seas, he must have descended from his own illustri- ous namesake. For Christopher Drake, notwithstanding his pittance of opportunity, lived in a world of color and action and romance. He was net just the average old ere:ntryman de- termined to go afarnming. Not Christopher Drake. For he had an imagination that took him all over the world, serving him much better than 'his gouty feet, and making it possible for him to worn nut his own salvation even in the fare of an ar- rogant disposition, a slender educa- tion and a squeamish community. And although he proved amongst settlers from Scotland, Ireland and his own England, and listened t�, several dif- fering accents, he still retained bis broad Devonshire twang, uttering words which in strange ears sounded as if begotten of a foreign tongue. "Wa'ar be swine?" be Would ask if the village boys happened to wan- der into his orchard in harvest apple time. "Ah doan min' a view apples, but doan spin the bark off wi' they bare feet o' yourn." And whenever anynne inquired as to the health of Mrs. Drake be 'always answered, "'Er's a little bet- ter'n 'er 'nth abin, I Wank 'ee." Mrs. Drake was e woman of con- spicuous resignation. She was re- signed to everything, even to one of her husband's prondeat possessions -- a brilliant bird Peruvian parrot. PREMIUM LIST FOR 1921 Closes March 1st Members are Entitled to Three Choices. CHOICE 1—One Rose, selected from the following list: Hybrid Perpetual ---Emperor de Maroc, Fran earll Druschki, General Jack, Mrs. John Laing, de Bearn, Tom Wood. Climbing—Alberic Barbier, Crimson Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, Gold Finch, Tausendachon. Hybrid Tea—Columbia, General McArthur, George C. tud, His Majesty, Lady Hillingdon, Lieutenant Chaures, Mme. de Luze, Mrs. Charles Russell, Mrs. Aaron Ward, White Killarney. CHOICE 2—Hydrangea Paniculata. CHOICE 3—Dutchman's Pipe. CHOICE 4—Boston Ivy. CHOICE 5—One Peony. CHOICE 6—Three Unnamed Dahlias. CHOICE 7—Spirea, Von Hutte (white flowering shrub). CHOICE 8--Weigelia Rosea (pink flowering shrub), or Weigelia Eva Rathke, Red Flowering Shnib. CHOICE 9—Ten Gladiolus. CHOICE 10—Twenty-five Strawberry Plants. CHOICE 11—One Norway Spruce. CHOICE 12—The Canadian Horticulturist • CHOICE 13—One Package each of Asters, Petunias, Verbenas, Sweet Peas. CHOICE 14—One Package each of Lettuce, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips. CHOICE 15—Honeysuckle. CHOICE 16—Five Japanese Iris. CHOICE 17—Three Tuberous Begonias. CHOICE 18—Lilac. CHOICE 19 --Clematis Paniculata (sweet stented). CHOICE 20 --One Fern, Owing to the great shortage of all nursery stock, the Premia List will close on March 1st. The Society will supply Members with extra Trees, Plants, Shrubs, etc., at cost. Make out y order for extras on a separate sheet. Cut out this advertisement; mark X opposite any three choice - and ani or hanll d s it to the Bulbs Secretary the Van. NAME One Dollar. Do this to-do Me ers NAME P. 0. JOHN GRIEVE, Y.S. A. D. SUTHERLAND President. Secretary -Treasurer. turnips, and tha Astrlae red and ]nsciotte antler IDI58U tI Notes.—Mr, and Mrs, V. P. and their two children left on There- day here day last for a protracted' Vieit 'In. Lucan at, the' home of Mr. Bene* mother.—Miss Crotty. left last Wee for her home In London. yP'isil she was the guest of Mucic;', Shea: -The dance and endive Opera Hall on Friday last was w patronized. Douglas. Bros, furn.% the music, The ladies catered a good' luncheon at 12 p.m. The winners in the progressive eucher were Mrs. Jack' McGrath, of Hibbert, and Mea. Joseph Nagle; of Dublin. Much mer- riment was evinced during the game attention tobacco almost divided hon- I as several of the ladies, owing to ith cider. the scarcity of gentlemen, played as Cider, however, was Christopher's pet lamb. Of it he was a connois- seur. And well so. For he had an ample orchard, and the cider mill was or. the corner of his farm, next to the village. From fresh cider Sfi autumn he had this cheering beverage in several degrees of potency up to five years in wood. And it was his delight to produce a jug of it every time anyone appeared at his door, and nothing gave him greater joy than the manoeuvres of the one who would . dare to imbibe freely of the five-year-old extract. It was his boast that he could drink a quart of his hardest cider and never feel it and that there wasn't another man in those parts who could drink even a pint and remain upright. Cider affected greatly the momen- tum. of Christopher's life. For with it he seemed to be perpetually satur- ated. He sat down to breakfast al- ways with a jug of it at his elbow. A stone jar accompanied him to the fields. At noon he drank freely of it before eating and again after eat- ing. He kept cider by him during the afternoon; and in the evening, when the chores were done, especially in winter, he loved to stretch his huge legs in front of the open fire, dream- ing or cajoling or cursing, according to his humor and the character of his audience. If his audience consist- ed of his wife and two sons and two daughters or any fraction or combina- tion of the five, -cursing was in order as an appropriate indulgence. And what opportunity he had on the rare occasions when his pipe and tobacco were not in place, when the cider was not nipping hot, when the log was not roaring behind the dogs! But, oh, whenever a stranger graced the. hearth, whenever two little boys, permitted to pass the night under that rouf, flund themselves with ever increasing interest to the tale of the Hairy Man or of the two bear cubs that found a nest of honey in an old hollow log. Hollow, indeed, are all the stories told by all the great writers of the world when they are compared with the stories hiccoughed by Christopher Drake ;is he sat before his fire, sip- ping betimes from an earthern jug and sending blinding whiffs of smoke. between the boys and the tall tallow candle that flickered wistfully in the brass stick upon the mantel. For you could see the Hairy Man in his den away down in the ground and hear him roar should anyone be so bold as to pass that way. And you watched with exquisite terror a little fellow who always carried with him on his adventures a shining tin dip- per, for he never knew when he might need a drink. or the protection of sunlight reflected dazzlingly front the tin into the bewildered eyes of some prowling beast. And as he drew nearer and nearer you held your breath and listened eagerly to every word, for you knew that the Hairy Man was crawling yearningly and cunningly up the sides of the well - like entrance to his den and that the moment the little boy, lured on by a determination to see what was in the hole, should conte near enough a great hairy hand, with long finger nails like claws, would dart out and snatch the boy, just as a spider might snatch a gnat that has wandered into the web. But the boy outwits the Hairy Mao, for by an adroit move- ment he flashes some sunlight into the Hairy Man's eyes, ani then dur- ing the second or two of blinking he strikes him full on the head with the dipper and sends him kerplump down, dawn, down to the very bottom f the den. Then was the time to laugh and gloat. And Christopher laughed too, after first. roaring and hicennghteg and .drawing with great gusto at the blackened stem of his old clay pipe. After everyone had settled down again, Christopher would begine to recite. in slow, even rhytlirii: .1.111.1111.111, gentlemen. Mrs. McGrath was the winner of the gentleman's prise_— A dance at St. Columban on Monday . night was well patronized by their own people and many from Dublin TUCKERSMITH - �Sehool Report. -The following is the report of School Section No. 8. Tuckersmith, for the months of Oc- tober, November and December:— Sr. IV Glass.—Carman Haugh 1871, William Fotheringham 1776, William Souter 1586, Jean Fotheringham 1550, Cordon Elliott 1360, Bessie Broadfoot 865. Jr. 11/., Class —Lyla Chapman 1066, Ina Scott 983, Mae Simpson 771. Wilson McCartney 894. Sr. III Class —George Munroe 948, Hazel Haugh 896, Fred Boyce .854, Leonard Mc- Knight 824, Kathleen Elliott 664, Clifford Broadfoot 604. Jr, III Class —Erma Broadfoot 878, Helen David- son 808, Clarence Armstrong 785, Ella Papple 715, Harold Armstrong 698, Alice Munroe 660, John Fother- ingham 575, Wilson Broadfoot, Willie Scott 580. Sr. I1 Class.—Ruth Carte wright 503, Gordon Papple 483. Flora Souter 431, Beth Cartwright 419. Class I.—Mary Papple 352, Dorothy Broadfoot 349, Marion Chapman 315, Mildred Taylor 804. Each week the marks of each class were totalled and a Star given to the pupil of each • class obtaining the highest marks, and a cross to the pupil obtaining the second highest marks. For a star 50 marks were given, and for a cross 40. At the end of the term prigs, were given to the pupils. The fal- lowing is a list of the prize winners: Sr. IV.—Carman Haugh, 8 stars and 2 crosses, 380; William Fothering- ham, 2 stars and 6 crosses, 340. Jr. IV.—Lyla Chapman, 8 stars, 400; Due Scott 1 star and 6 crosses 260. Sr. roe, 5 stars and 2 crosses, Hazel Haugh, 3 stars and d -crosses, 310. Jr. III:-eErnele- Broadfoot, 6 stars, 2 crosses, 880; Helen Davidson, 2 stars and 4 cross- es, 260. Sr. II.—Gordon Papple, 2 stars and 5 crosses, 300; Ruth Cart- wright, 4 stars, 1 cross, 240. Cleave I. Sr.—Dorothy Broadfoot, 5 stars, 1 cross, 290; Mary Papple, 3 stars, 5 crosses, 350. Number on roll for January, 41; average daily attend- ance, 35.09.—M. Millis, Teacher. The Sunshine Mission Band will present The Attractive Children's Playlet A Modern Mother Goose Monday, Feb. 14th 7.45 1'.M., in the FIRST PRESHBl C)E UAN CHURCH SCOOM ADMISSION: 6c Adults - - - - - - 2 25e Children Don't Miss It VALLEY FARM A Two Hour and a Half Play in the i'ONSTANCF, CHURCH on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18th at 8 o'clock. Under Admission: i ces of hLadies'e Aid 35 and25cetite. mosni HULLETT School Report. --The following is the report of School Section No. 1, Hullctt, for January: -•'Sr. IV.—Kath- leen Livingston, Don Dale, Wilfred Glazier, George Glazier, Ernie Dale, • Mary Mann. Jr. IV.—Frank Fowler, Pearl Mero. Sr. III.—Walter Dale, Willie Wright, Gordon McMichael. Jr, III -Flossie Mero; Reggie Mc- Michael, Hazel Freeman and Alynn Dale (equal), Emma Mann, Agnes Adams, Gladys Freeman, Fergus Wright, Myrtle Dale. Sr. II—Agnes Wright, Douglas Freeman, Iva Nott. Elmer Dale, Wilfrid Freeman, Harry Freeman. Jr. Il.—Melvin Dale. Beatrice Adams, Stewart Dale, Ethel Ross. Primer.—Mabel Wright, Jas. Adams, Isabel McMichael, Jessie Dale, Evelyn McMichael. --Agnes Farnham, Teacher. The Council. . The council met in the Township Ball, Londesboro, on February 4th, with members all pres- ent. The minutes of the last meeting W4.1'0 read and confirmed. A com- nniniratioi from inkerman asking the council to co-operate in petitioning the Ontario Legislature for the pur- pose of securing a more uniform price and a more equitable distribution of hydro -electric power was read and the Reeve and Clerk were instructed to sign a resnlution,`and that same be forwarded to the Legislature. A. communication was read from the On- tario Gond Roads Association, asking for the appointing of delegates to attend the annual convention in To- ronto. No action was taken e clerk was instructed to proctor 400 dog tags from H. C. Vance & Co., Toronto. A petition signed by a number of ratepayers, was presented asking that the County Road as designated from Constance to Blytk he changed so as to come along side roads 5 and 6 to concessions 10 and 11, thence along said concessions to side roads 20 and 21, thence north to Blyth. The matter was laid over un- til the next meeting. Moved b} John Barr, seconded by Alex. Mc g, that the Clerk advertise for tenders for the erection of a Community Hall in Londesboro, according to plans and specifications; said tenders to be open- ed at the 'Iownshipp Hall, Londes- boro, on Friday, tine 18th inat., at 2,30 p.m. The following vocouats were passed and payment ordered, on motion of Alex. McEwing, eeeoadad , by C. A, Howene: County of )?Orrgn for' use of tractor grader and er, $225 lees ,9110.x6 paid bbi�tt Ode municipality for repairs to SOhq !- hill bridge; S. MMVittie, collector for 1920, $100. There was an old woman all skin and bone, Who went one day to church alone. As she looked up, as she looked down, She saw a corpse upon the green'; And going up to it she said, "Shall I be like thee when 1 am dead?" "Ob, yes, oh, yes," the corpse it said, "Thou shalt be like me when thou art dead." And with that she gave a yell and died. The yell, which was half shriek, that Christopher would emit always made the hoys ehrtnk under the aldn, and kept ringing in their ears until they would fall asleep, hours hours afterwards, to dream of goblins and graveyards yawning• Christopher was born a story -teller. But how often he lacked an audience. Think of all the hundreds of nights that he sat there alone, doing not but drinking and smoking and settling down into his thoughts Perhaps that explains how the cider at as under- then adjourned to meet Qin mined him. But with or without evi- (Februaey 18th, at.? ;».-ib dent cause, he slipped away, and *el lande a • Grocery �IutchisOri s c y Offers this week A")mer Corn at tine. This is oue of the very hiiiit bra .1.1s and every cwu absolutely guaranteed. Selt-1•..i,illg Pancake 1'1(1111', 12e per package, which is le•,s than cost. For Pius We have Currants, Vig• .a• Dates at 20c per 'ib. Many other lines ;,i money saving price>;. At Klein's Butcher Shop Fish for Lent, 1,1110s, Salmon,Ct te., also fresh water Herrings in .1e..s audio pails, from the cold waters of 1. tkt+ ;3uperior. Prices right • 000 to $12,000. The journalist trade is diseoverey known, and the Ad- ministration found itself in a pretty fix. The dilemma was finally solved by the enactment of a measuh'e, popu- larly called the Knox Relief Bill, which put back the salary of the Secretary of State to the old figure. CHRISTOPHER DRAKE (By Newton MacTavish, in The Canadian Magazine). practice of tJi�srrowing the loose earth i marrow fat• back into'the'itole. Having .thus com- mitted his ''better half to earth, he ,returned, let us write not joyfully, to his widowed fireside And what a fireside, compared with the box stove of every other house in the neighborhood! It was construct- ed of stone cut roughly and large enough to receive a stick of cordwood. The mantelpiece was decorated with an, old musket, a powder horn, a niug orcetwo, and several churchwarden pipes. For Christopher smoked in- ordinately, morning, noon and night. And he took great pains in the pre- pared( n of his tobacco, all of which he grew in his own garden, giving much time and consideration to every stage of its development, from seed- ling to drying rack. In holding his Christopher had taught to pronounce profane words for no ether reason than to amuse himself and harrow the tender feelings of his pious wife. In the midst of grace at table (in this respect Christopher had not departed from a ways of his fathers) the parrot oftentimes would exclaim, to Christopher's huge delight, "Oh, ell' damn 'er eyes, Polly wants a crack- er." To a woman of Mrs. Drake's natural piety and sensitiveness, the effect of these exclamations was re- lieved only by her attendance aji church and other forms of worship. Worship of an unseen deity did not appeal to Christopher. Perhaps for that reason he never was seen in church. Nor did he ever accompany bis wife anywhere in public. On the other hand, he never was known to enter the tavern or even to darken the doorway of a neighbor's house. He had keen, social tendencies, but he confined every social act to the village streets and his own fireside, where Mrs. Drake enacted the role of feminine inferiority. Inferior in Christopher's mind Mrs. Drake was, because she had come from Cornwall. Her genealogy also was the cause of his contemptuous attitude towards her. lie nicknamed her "Cornwall", and on all important occasions, such as threshings, logging bees or apple -picking time it was Cornwall this and Cornwall that, with as sardonic a flavor as anyone could produce. But she bore up under it all with marvellous resignation, thanking the Lard every Thursday night at prayer-nieeting for His great mercy and setting an example to any who en slighter provocation night groan or complain or appear to be ungrateful. Grat efuhlees was Mrs. Drake's conpieuous virtue. She was so grate- ful it was hard for her not to keep on talking about it. She had many things to be thankful for, even if she were ailing at times and had a con- stant pain in her side. For the Lord was geed. But the pain continued. "One of these days," Said the doctor to Christopher, "she will just topple over." He was right. Christopher followed her remains to the graveyard one cold winter's day. and the occasion was the nearest he had ever conte to appearing with her in public. At the graveside he joined with gusto in the singing of "come, Ye Disconsolate", and then he lowered himself into the grave, took a screw driver and screwed the lid of the rough -box tight into place, then took a spade and helped in the ghastly tut what he represented of Devonshire beside the fragment of Cornwall, yonder upon the hill. The spot over- looks what were his own acres, where we used to help ourselves to his Christopher Drake was a Devon- shireman who settled on a farm in Ontario fifty years ago. God had not thought of him as a farmer, but fate cast him there, and there he remain- ed. He is remembered now because of the paradoxical nature that per- mitted him to display the very es- sence of heartiness and goodwill 'to- e nrds everyone. outside his own home and the very essence of deviltry and illwill within. On one hand he had the spirit of geniality, on the other, of a tyrant and a despot. For he had primitive man's idea of the proper fitness of things. A wife, for in- stance, was an inferior member of the household, a creature convenient Whenever anything had to be fetched or carried; indeed, as one who catered to his comfort and well-being. And his comfort and well-being demanded certain things on certain occasions. For one thing, he demanded apple - butter for breakfast summer and win- ter, with pancakes and bacon. At dinner, the mid-day meal, be insisted on having with his meat a huge slice of cheese whose surface he *aye cov- ered with mustard. At this meal al- so be called for a pitcher of hard cider, drawn from the spring -house in sum- mer and heated with a red-hot iron in winter. And red-hot,'to be sure, was Christopher Drake whenever he revealed his real personality. But on those memorable occasions when two 'little boys came his way, he did not even try to conceal the fact that he possessed as well all the mirthful dualities of Santa Claus and Ring le combined. For he juet event on in his own assumed manner, shaking for all the world like a real bowlful of jelly, puffing out his whiskers, get- ting red in the face with merriment, coughing and hiccoughing with nerv- ous excitement, and twinkling his eyes like two stars on a winter's night. Winter, as one thinks of it, is his proper background. For he never appeared in the village except during the cold months, and he always wore a prink cap, with earlues flapping loose, a great shaggy coo`. of buffalo hide, gauntlets of brown calf skin and top boots of soft kip, with high heels and patent leather fronts. And although his farm adjoined the vil- lage and the stones of his house showed gray beyond the beaver nearlw, through the apple orchard, only half a mile distant. he never came afoot, but always drove a black blood stallion hitched to a red cutter and engirdlcd by a chime of bells that even with their warning notes gave out a measure of delight. Ana as he drew up at the post -office, threw the buffalo robe over the dashboard and steeped out with the reins still in ilia hands, he looked lit, k picture from a fairy book. And if he actually was not Santa Claus er King Cole or some wild rover of seas, he must have descended from his own illustri- ous namesake. For Christopher Drake, notwithstanding his pittance of opportunity, lived in a world of color and action and romance. He was net just the average old ere:ntryman de- termined to go afarnming. Not Christopher Drake. For he had an imagination that took him all over the world, serving him much better than 'his gouty feet, and making it possible for him to worn nut his own salvation even in the fare of an ar- rogant disposition, a slender educa- tion and a squeamish community. And although he proved amongst settlers from Scotland, Ireland and his own England, and listened t�, several dif- fering accents, he still retained bis broad Devonshire twang, uttering words which in strange ears sounded as if begotten of a foreign tongue. "Wa'ar be swine?" be Would ask if the village boys happened to wan- der into his orchard in harvest apple time. "Ah doan min' a view apples, but doan spin the bark off wi' they bare feet o' yourn." And whenever anynne inquired as to the health of Mrs. Drake be 'always answered, "'Er's a little bet- ter'n 'er 'nth abin, I Wank 'ee." Mrs. Drake was e woman of con- spicuous resignation. She was re- signed to everything, even to one of her husband's prondeat possessions -- a brilliant bird Peruvian parrot. PREMIUM LIST FOR 1921 Closes March 1st Members are Entitled to Three Choices. CHOICE 1—One Rose, selected from the following list: Hybrid Perpetual ---Emperor de Maroc, Fran earll Druschki, General Jack, Mrs. John Laing, de Bearn, Tom Wood. Climbing—Alberic Barbier, Crimson Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, Gold Finch, Tausendachon. Hybrid Tea—Columbia, General McArthur, George C. tud, His Majesty, Lady Hillingdon, Lieutenant Chaures, Mme. de Luze, Mrs. Charles Russell, Mrs. Aaron Ward, White Killarney. CHOICE 2—Hydrangea Paniculata. CHOICE 3—Dutchman's Pipe. CHOICE 4—Boston Ivy. CHOICE 5—One Peony. CHOICE 6—Three Unnamed Dahlias. CHOICE 7—Spirea, Von Hutte (white flowering shrub). CHOICE 8--Weigelia Rosea (pink flowering shrub), or Weigelia Eva Rathke, Red Flowering Shnib. CHOICE 9—Ten Gladiolus. CHOICE 10—Twenty-five Strawberry Plants. CHOICE 11—One Norway Spruce. CHOICE 12—The Canadian Horticulturist • CHOICE 13—One Package each of Asters, Petunias, Verbenas, Sweet Peas. CHOICE 14—One Package each of Lettuce, Beets, Carrots, Parsnips. CHOICE 15—Honeysuckle. CHOICE 16—Five Japanese Iris. CHOICE 17—Three Tuberous Begonias. CHOICE 18—Lilac. CHOICE 19 --Clematis Paniculata (sweet stented). CHOICE 20 --One Fern, Owing to the great shortage of all nursery stock, the Premia List will close on March 1st. The Society will supply Members with extra Trees, Plants, Shrubs, etc., at cost. Make out y order for extras on a separate sheet. Cut out this advertisement; mark X opposite any three choice - and ani or hanll d s it to the Bulbs Secretary the Van. NAME One Dollar. Do this to-do Me ers NAME P. 0. JOHN GRIEVE, Y.S. A. D. SUTHERLAND President. Secretary -Treasurer. turnips, and tha Astrlae red and ]nsciotte antler IDI58U tI Notes.—Mr, and Mrs, V. P. and their two children left on There- day here day last for a protracted' Vieit 'In. Lucan at, the' home of Mr. Bene* mother.—Miss Crotty. left last Wee for her home In London. yP'isil she was the guest of Mucic;', Shea: -The dance and endive Opera Hall on Friday last was w patronized. Douglas. Bros, furn.% the music, The ladies catered a good' luncheon at 12 p.m. The winners in the progressive eucher were Mrs. Jack' McGrath, of Hibbert, and Mea. Joseph Nagle; of Dublin. Much mer- riment was evinced during the game attention tobacco almost divided hon- I as several of the ladies, owing to ith cider. the scarcity of gentlemen, played as Cider, however, was Christopher's pet lamb. Of it he was a connois- seur. And well so. For he had an ample orchard, and the cider mill was or. the corner of his farm, next to the village. From fresh cider Sfi autumn he had this cheering beverage in several degrees of potency up to five years in wood. And it was his delight to produce a jug of it every time anyone appeared at his door, and nothing gave him greater joy than the manoeuvres of the one who would . dare to imbibe freely of the five-year-old extract. It was his boast that he could drink a quart of his hardest cider and never feel it and that there wasn't another man in those parts who could drink even a pint and remain upright. Cider affected greatly the momen- tum. of Christopher's life. For with it he seemed to be perpetually satur- ated. He sat down to breakfast al- ways with a jug of it at his elbow. A stone jar accompanied him to the fields. At noon he drank freely of it before eating and again after eat- ing. He kept cider by him during the afternoon; and in the evening, when the chores were done, especially in winter, he loved to stretch his huge legs in front of the open fire, dream- ing or cajoling or cursing, according to his humor and the character of his audience. If his audience consist- ed of his wife and two sons and two daughters or any fraction or combina- tion of the five, -cursing was in order as an appropriate indulgence. And what opportunity he had on the rare occasions when his pipe and tobacco were not in place, when the cider was not nipping hot, when the log was not roaring behind the dogs! But, oh, whenever a stranger graced the. hearth, whenever two little boys, permitted to pass the night under that rouf, flund themselves with ever increasing interest to the tale of the Hairy Man or of the two bear cubs that found a nest of honey in an old hollow log. Hollow, indeed, are all the stories told by all the great writers of the world when they are compared with the stories hiccoughed by Christopher Drake ;is he sat before his fire, sip- ping betimes from an earthern jug and sending blinding whiffs of smoke. between the boys and the tall tallow candle that flickered wistfully in the brass stick upon the mantel. For you could see the Hairy Man in his den away down in the ground and hear him roar should anyone be so bold as to pass that way. And you watched with exquisite terror a little fellow who always carried with him on his adventures a shining tin dip- per, for he never knew when he might need a drink. or the protection of sunlight reflected dazzlingly front the tin into the bewildered eyes of some prowling beast. And as he drew nearer and nearer you held your breath and listened eagerly to every word, for you knew that the Hairy Man was crawling yearningly and cunningly up the sides of the well - like entrance to his den and that the moment the little boy, lured on by a determination to see what was in the hole, should conte near enough a great hairy hand, with long finger nails like claws, would dart out and snatch the boy, just as a spider might snatch a gnat that has wandered into the web. But the boy outwits the Hairy Mao, for by an adroit move- ment he flashes some sunlight into the Hairy Man's eyes, ani then dur- ing the second or two of blinking he strikes him full on the head with the dipper and sends him kerplump down, dawn, down to the very bottom f the den. Then was the time to laugh and gloat. And Christopher laughed too, after first. roaring and hicennghteg and .drawing with great gusto at the blackened stem of his old clay pipe. After everyone had settled down again, Christopher would begine to recite. in slow, even rhytlirii: .1.111.1111.111, gentlemen. Mrs. McGrath was the winner of the gentleman's prise_— A dance at St. Columban on Monday . night was well patronized by their own people and many from Dublin TUCKERSMITH - �Sehool Report. -The following is the report of School Section No. 8. Tuckersmith, for the months of Oc- tober, November and December:— Sr. IV Glass.—Carman Haugh 1871, William Fotheringham 1776, William Souter 1586, Jean Fotheringham 1550, Cordon Elliott 1360, Bessie Broadfoot 865. Jr. 11/., Class —Lyla Chapman 1066, Ina Scott 983, Mae Simpson 771. Wilson McCartney 894. Sr. III Class —George Munroe 948, Hazel Haugh 896, Fred Boyce .854, Leonard Mc- Knight 824, Kathleen Elliott 664, Clifford Broadfoot 604. Jr, III Class —Erma Broadfoot 878, Helen David- son 808, Clarence Armstrong 785, Ella Papple 715, Harold Armstrong 698, Alice Munroe 660, John Fother- ingham 575, Wilson Broadfoot, Willie Scott 580. Sr. I1 Class.—Ruth Carte wright 503, Gordon Papple 483. Flora Souter 431, Beth Cartwright 419. Class I.—Mary Papple 352, Dorothy Broadfoot 349, Marion Chapman 315, Mildred Taylor 804. Each week the marks of each class were totalled and a Star given to the pupil of each • class obtaining the highest marks, and a cross to the pupil obtaining the second highest marks. For a star 50 marks were given, and for a cross 40. At the end of the term prigs, were given to the pupils. The fal- lowing is a list of the prize winners: Sr. IV.—Carman Haugh, 8 stars and 2 crosses, 380; William Fothering- ham, 2 stars and 6 crosses, 340. Jr. IV.—Lyla Chapman, 8 stars, 400; Due Scott 1 star and 6 crosses 260. Sr. roe, 5 stars and 2 crosses, Hazel Haugh, 3 stars and d -crosses, 310. Jr. III:-eErnele- Broadfoot, 6 stars, 2 crosses, 880; Helen Davidson, 2 stars and 4 cross- es, 260. Sr. II.—Gordon Papple, 2 stars and 5 crosses, 300; Ruth Cart- wright, 4 stars, 1 cross, 240. Cleave I. Sr.—Dorothy Broadfoot, 5 stars, 1 cross, 290; Mary Papple, 3 stars, 5 crosses, 350. Number on roll for January, 41; average daily attend- ance, 35.09.—M. Millis, Teacher. The Sunshine Mission Band will present The Attractive Children's Playlet A Modern Mother Goose Monday, Feb. 14th 7.45 1'.M., in the FIRST PRESHBl C)E UAN CHURCH SCOOM ADMISSION: 6c Adults - - - - - - 2 25e Children Don't Miss It VALLEY FARM A Two Hour and a Half Play in the i'ONSTANCF, CHURCH on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18th at 8 o'clock. Under Admission: i ces of hLadies'e Aid 35 and25cetite. mosni HULLETT School Report. --The following is the report of School Section No. 1, Hullctt, for January: -•'Sr. IV.—Kath- leen Livingston, Don Dale, Wilfred Glazier, George Glazier, Ernie Dale, • Mary Mann. Jr. IV.—Frank Fowler, Pearl Mero. Sr. III.—Walter Dale, Willie Wright, Gordon McMichael. Jr, III -Flossie Mero; Reggie Mc- Michael, Hazel Freeman and Alynn Dale (equal), Emma Mann, Agnes Adams, Gladys Freeman, Fergus Wright, Myrtle Dale. Sr. II—Agnes Wright, Douglas Freeman, Iva Nott. Elmer Dale, Wilfrid Freeman, Harry Freeman. Jr. Il.—Melvin Dale. Beatrice Adams, Stewart Dale, Ethel Ross. Primer.—Mabel Wright, Jas. Adams, Isabel McMichael, Jessie Dale, Evelyn McMichael. --Agnes Farnham, Teacher. The Council. . The council met in the Township Ball, Londesboro, on February 4th, with members all pres- ent. The minutes of the last meeting W4.1'0 read and confirmed. A com- nniniratioi from inkerman asking the council to co-operate in petitioning the Ontario Legislature for the pur- pose of securing a more uniform price and a more equitable distribution of hydro -electric power was read and the Reeve and Clerk were instructed to sign a resnlution,`and that same be forwarded to the Legislature. A. communication was read from the On- tario Gond Roads Association, asking for the appointing of delegates to attend the annual convention in To- ronto. No action was taken e clerk was instructed to proctor 400 dog tags from H. C. Vance & Co., Toronto. A petition signed by a number of ratepayers, was presented asking that the County Road as designated from Constance to Blytk he changed so as to come along side roads 5 and 6 to concessions 10 and 11, thence along said concessions to side roads 20 and 21, thence north to Blyth. The matter was laid over un- til the next meeting. Moved b} John Barr, seconded by Alex. Mc g, that the Clerk advertise for tenders for the erection of a Community Hall in Londesboro, according to plans and specifications; said tenders to be open- ed at the 'Iownshipp Hall, Londes- boro, on Friday, tine 18th inat., at 2,30 p.m. The following vocouats were passed and payment ordered, on motion of Alex. McEwing, eeeoadad , by C. A, Howene: County of )?Orrgn for' use of tractor grader and er, $225 lees ,9110.x6 paid bbi�tt Ode municipality for repairs to SOhq !- hill bridge; S. MMVittie, collector for 1920, $100. There was an old woman all skin and bone, Who went one day to church alone. As she looked up, as she looked down, She saw a corpse upon the green'; And going up to it she said, "Shall I be like thee when 1 am dead?" "Ob, yes, oh, yes," the corpse it said, "Thou shalt be like me when thou art dead." And with that she gave a yell and died. The yell, which was half shriek, that Christopher would emit always made the hoys ehrtnk under the aldn, and kept ringing in their ears until they would fall asleep, hours hours afterwards, to dream of goblins and graveyards yawning• Christopher was born a story -teller. But how often he lacked an audience. Think of all the hundreds of nights that he sat there alone, doing not but drinking and smoking and settling down into his thoughts Perhaps that explains how the cider at as under- then adjourned to meet Qin mined him. But with or without evi- (Februaey 18th, at.? ;».-ib dent cause, he slipped away, and *el lande a •