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si utije acton jtrte jlrrsb thuhsday skptbmbbr is 1926 tell him now it with pleasure you are viewing any work a mun is- doing it you llko lilm oryoulovo him tell him nowr- dont withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration and lio lies with snowy mies oer his brow for no matter how you shout it ho wont really care about it ho wont know how many teardrops you iiave shed it you think some praise 1b due him nows the time to slip it to him for ms cannot read his tombstone when hes dead more than fume ind more than money is the comment kind und sunny and the hearty warm approval of a friend for it gives to llfo a savor and it makes htm strongerrtoraver and it gives him heart and spirit to the end if he earns your praise bestow it jt you like him let him know it let the words of true encouragement be sold do not wait till life is over and hes underneath the clover for he cannot read his tombstone when hes dead george va- turner inconqrous pftlends a pretty story ot affection between a cat and a rat comes from uie shores of lake ontario a farmer who is also a shopkeeper found a nest of rats in pulling dawn an old ahed and one of the two baby rata stole into a pocket of bis coat it seemed so helpless and trustful that ho could not boar to kill it and kept it as a pet feeding- it with meat and cheese which it took from his hand its ufo was in constant danger tram tho cat and to save it he put it into a large wire cam by and by the cat grew acoustomed to its presence and finally the farmer one day put the oat into the cage also it made one or two halfhearted attempts to catch the rat and- then lay down and went to sleep the upshot of the matter was that the two animals became fast friends now they fairly live together by day they wander in company about the house and shop or lie side by side in tho shop window where the strange sight attracts much attention they ore very jealous ot each other it anyone pets the cat the rote runs about squeaking with anger if tho rat is the favored one the cat in its tuna bristles and complains it they get- separated for any great length of tlmo they are sure to be soon looking jfor each ot and s when they meet they fairly dance for joy motor cars in canada while tho united states comes first in the ratio of motor cars to popuuv tlon and hawaii second canada stands third in the list according to t the latest analysis of world car dis tribution according to an analysts recently published afghanistan stands lost on the list the united states has one car for every six inhabitants hawaii has one to each eleven and canada one to every thirteen afghanistan lias one cor to every 1110000 the total motor vehieles in jnse in th wu of which 208j714i are passenger cars of these more than lmooooo are in the united states greafbrltaln with 165t cars stands second in the act ual number of registrations france is third with 716000 and canada fourth with 716m germany australia ar gentina and italyare the only other countries with more than 100600 motor- vehicles in tue- some ot the most densely populated countries have very few cars the re port estates thus china with 426- 000000 inhabitants has only one auto mobile for every- 31871 persons while british india has only one oar for every ss7j of its population of more than 247000000 france has one car per w persons fulfilment twos a feathered bit of life halting in yon apple tree pouring forth his passionsong in n flood of ecstasy heart t dear heart of love i cried you shallryet be satlsfled later with his gentle mate- nesting lp contentment then learning learning how to wnlt busy glad expectant pair hearts dear thcorta of lovo said i twill bo better by and by cater come a hungry brood clamoring for constant food hardworked parents brave dis tressed with no time for needed rest patient heart- with love bubllmc twill be easier sometime blessed future ever fraught with the hope of better things when the joy our hearts have sought shall approach on shining wings sweet fulhlment far or nigh wo shall grasp it by and by mrs frank a breck born in acton 68 years ago i learned last week of the death of one of actons eoita wlfom i knew wejlwhen her was a lad here sixty years ago and whom i have kept rather closely in touch with ever slnoe this was william hume grant whom- we knew familiarly about town when ho was a boy yes and up to the time he left town in his young manhood as billy grant he was the elder son of our old friend and fellowcltlzcn squire al exander grant i can remember the family living in four different homes in acton tho nrst was the stone house on main street situated south of the entrance of education lane in those days that property on which kducatlon lone is situated belonged to the overtons and was across main street from thomas overtons house while sandy grants house was dl- rectiyacroas from the old california hotel conducted at various times by tom munroe john fielding william ward robert agnew robert storey and i think robert dickie was the proprietor the night it was burned down vflftythree years ago for a number of years it was no uncommon- thing to see the privato car of 8lr william mackenzie stand ing on the elding of the grand trunk railway while sir william and lady macrkenslo wero here visiting their daughter or the privato car of sir donald munn who was here npenillti a duy or so with ills futher on m farm on soveral occasions both the private cars of these mugnutea wen- hero in town at the same time vi8itino his birthpiace a observed in lust weeks lssuoot the firs plums that fred narpstry and his wife or gloveravllesmty vcre in town that week visiting i would like to have- seen fred and hh yankee wife they tell mo shij nije mate for this sprightly buaiii mun i believe- fred found yhutli was looking for hero during his lac if hed asked me i could have take him to the mot- which was thehuasi- where mrs peter buyers now -resides- kredsfather and mother were win 11am ramsay and agrte hematrcet they were married about fiftyfour years ugo when mrs ilamsays moth er and father lived in rockwoo1 i havent told you their names yet but they were ar and mrs william homstreec mr hebistreet wasltho- auctioneer here for many years the knmsjays lived in acton until about thirty- live years ago when they removed to qloverstiille j y they were good cltlaens both were workers in the disciples- church after they went to oloveraville i be lieve they continued their church work mr ramsay was supenntendtit of the sunday school of the dlsyples churclr time flnaiiy he got too old aad retired he died a few months agja well mr and mrs fred ramsay had the gratification of seeing his birthplace and meeting a number of his friends and the friends were i dm sure glad to see them i meanfred and his wife t v acton excelling in cedar excc uch m mzs-r- flower wisdom f a garden cannot live entirely by itself even the finest stock needs fresh blood from the garden of an other i a few little purple petunias can spoil a whole bed of mammoth fringed beauties some flowers must not be massed they are so depressing when past their prime before your roses blossom sow their beds with forgetmenots all panalea are gadabqutsjand talcs lite from change of cent- it chrysanthemums two years to recover from one movev the scarlet runner is worth while it grows well looks well and eats well poxgloves are all on the surface they ore a toy if constantly renewed when your oriental popples begin -to-euuc- in tho early fall let them alone fertilise deep if you want strong rolts for endurance toiat- 1s easily grown and free flowering la never appreciated by the gardener if -the- neighbors are suc cessful with it down its value goes another peg if flowers dont nil a bit of bare ground weeds will just whitewash c in the good old days the whitewash brush was in constant use on every farm a liberal application of white wash brightened up the buildings xsbe coating of iii lives of fences and buildings that otherwise would soon have rotted away how an orchard loomed up and how clean and fresh the tree- appeared after a liberal coating e4 whitewash there was no spraying in thoso days for it wasnt so neces- sary where the whitewash brush was applied frequently white fences brightened up the lane and seemed to beckon to the traveler j and invite a closer inspection of the premises for a mile along the road in either direction the line of white washed posts attracted attention and suggested tha here was a farm where cleanliness abounded and where no one need heslate to buy food many persons object to whitewash on the ground that is soon becomes flaky and scales off that objection u is easily overcome by mixing a little glue with the whitewash it will then tick almost as well as paint in the days when merchants placed their ad- vertlsements od tward fences along the roads the painters used a mixture billy grants mother was a daugh ter of the late duncan kennedy sr who lived at kennedys crossing where thomas p watklns now uvea on the first line alexander kennedy duncan kennedy robert and lachlan kennedy wore brothers of his mr grant dlsrposed ot this home and went to live in a small house where john dunns fine brick bouse now stands fifteen or twenty years later he purcbasod tho kelso home where bliss ferrymans residence and the offices of h7 ii farmer ma bar rister and town clerk are now situ ated his lost residence was in the west side of the duplex house of john cameron wblcnhe had converted out of the old temperance hall on church street- here he passed away llke scores of others of his day william hume grant was a puplj of the laterobert uttle also likemany of the pupllb of this teacher he was inspired to qualify himself for the teaching profession during his school days he spent the summer time in working in one of the shlnsle mills in town and for soveral summers he was a faithful employee with mooro brothers 1n their factory above the railway track on the j property now owned by mr d h young after concluding his school course my friend llly qrant spent a term at the model school at milton and then engaged as teacher for a year or two in the scotch block he came from a family of teachers- his sis ters annie mnggie jennie and nellie were teachers and i am not sure but that his brother robert did not also belome a pedagogueand tauflrht for a number of yeans about this time bffly grants friend and schoolmate dan- mann began to come into his own as a railway man itwas very natural that billy grant shppldbe attracted to the busmess which in a very brief pertodjjlaa brought dan into promlnenceand laid the foundations for his future prestige and fortune i dont know howlt came about- but billy soon found him self in an executive position with macgensle a manii in the ofllces of the canadian northern railway for between thirty and forty years he continued with tills- wonderful aggre gation which for years was closely allied io acton and when the do that much misunderstood but most herolo of the prophets jeremiah stalked into the palfloe oq king jeuolklm it wasa new palace lined with cedar and decorated in vermin- ion neither jostah the kings 11- lustrous father nor david bis first ancestor diad lived in- such a house i to auud it an overtaxed people had beeni burdened but what was to be done about it jeremiah walked in and confronted the king and said in substance ton are a sneatklog an exeeuont judge of cedar a potentate of paint and varnish and while your brother is a hostage in egypt ajd your people are trembling underthe fear of inva sion from assyria you live here in luxury you do not deserve the throne you do not deserve to be burled in the same soil with your father his excellence was in the very simple qualities of justice and piety you deserve wjaeh you die to be haul ed out and thrown on the dump llko a dead ass stinging words brave words we wonder how jeremiah was able to speak them and get away alive and this is the hero who is often remem bered only as the weeping prophet wje of this generation are excellent judges of cedar and vermillion our houses have electric light and steam heat if these thin make a peo great we are great but that which really made tne generations whose children we are was moral earnest ness devotion o duty reverenoe for god and the authority ot conscience we can never afford to think lightly of these quajltlesv cedar will give place to black walnut and black wal nut to quartercut oak and oak to mahogany as fashions change but there is just one kind of honesty and righteousness- did hot thy father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness simple were- his tastes but ho did not die a pauper be had enough and left an honored name that was real success sept 2 1 st and a useful start william il- evarts seldom met his match but harpers weekly tells how he once found it in benator david davis mr kvarts was a mere skele ton of a man while mr davis who weighed upwards of three hundred pounds was blessed with a circum ference quite as great as his length the two senators were perpetually twitting each other in fan and one night at dinner mr davis said if you will let me ohoose the course t will guarantee that with a threeyards start i can beat you in a race of one hundred feet everyone at- the table laughed and said take him up mr bvarts the challenge was accepted and mr davis was asked when be would race to which he replied that he was ready at once the whole party then ad journed to the course chosen by sena tor davis this proved to be an alley between two houses just throe feet in width and one hundred feet deep he step ped into the mouth three yards said x3ol and walked through quite leis urely mr evarts could neither get past mrs or under bum and ho called mr evarts back to the street and acknow- ledged that the joke was on him where shakespeare stood canadian northern and affiliated it with the grand trunk railway system farming the canadian na tional railway jir boyhoods friend went over with many others of the staff and had his official place trans ferred from toronto to montreal a few weeks ago he rotlred from his position and returned to torbnto but he seems to have had sorbs con nection with the road when his sud- den death ooourred last week billy grant was an intelligent boy snd was always anxious to inform himself by gaining information from reliable and experienced sources often it was remarked in his boy hood days thatj31ily was more often found in the company and listening to the conversation of groups of men than of boys through this he became well informed on many toploa usually unknown to the average boy- so billy grant in gone ho had reached his slxtyelghth year and although some- of us are older and continue to reside- in- the old home i were going to have a fair boys were going to have a fair boys were going to have a fair and all the fplks that love to meet their neighbors will be there its going to be biggerbigger far than all the rest of all the fairs weve ever had its going to be the best its going to be your fair its going to be mine and everyone for miles around is falling into line fathers mothers babies boys and girls will be there were going to have a fair boys a riptailsnorter fair i were going to have a fair boys a riptailsnorter fair get oat the oldtop buggy and hitch up the sorrel mare or get your new sixcylinder invite the hired man com in your glitte ney coupe or in lastyears sedsni or use a threedeck wagon youll get here just the same or if you would rather step on board the puffpuff train and if all else should fail you get a plane and ride the air were going to have a fair boys a riptailsnorter fair were going to have a fairhoys a baiignp sizzler fair corne and see the biggest cows that ever switched a tail- come an leaye your worries fprget all dirking care cow that give the richest milk thu ever filled a pail come and see the fattest hogs that ever gave a grunt purebred hogs of roynl birth not a single ruijt the wooly sheep the ftorseg with sleek and polished hair were going to have a fair boya riptailsnorter fair were going to have a fair boys a rare old jolly fair- bring the kids to see the fun and ride up in the air try your luck at winning things forget youre growing old taste the weiners roasting hot or pop thats icy cold climb into the grandstand hear the music see the fun watch the classy racers as around the track they run put on your gotomeeting suit and grease your ctirly hair-r- were going to have a fair boys a riptailsnorter fair the town council of stratford-on- avon proves itself worthy of its sacred trust in deciding that clopton bridge over which shakespeare walked shall hot be pulled down the old bridge with us fourteen small but bsautirul arches was built intuicy by that f sir hugh clopton who also built the houste in which shakespeare after wards lived and which another mem ber of his boose destroyed later there must have been another bridge long before it ana before that a ford for if certainly represents a very an- clefit highway indeed the r may have used it tor they are known by their coins to have lived not far away by shakespeares time it must have been well weathered and wo can im agine him lingering on it with anne hathaway gaging on one of englands fairest scenes endid prize list scottish and oldtime fiddlers contest acton citizens band races and everything ig midvdty dndm ia of whitewash and glue as a back- jj wehavetender memories for ground for their signs and most ot the sighs lasted as long as the fences cooking under difficulties b0l1 m x by way of illustrating the roughness or some railway roadbeds in the united statu jhe boston transcript tells the following story a traveller- eating his breakfast lit the diningcar hnd ordered among other things two sottfrled eggs thejrestof the order- came immediate ly bu he waited in vain for the eggs finally when the travellers patience was almost exhausted the waiter ap peared smming and apologetic but without the eggs sorry bout dam- fried sggs boss toe cook anysde roads so rough dat ueardrnore and they resided flrst in the boy who always appeared to en joy the companionship of the older nien ebery time he- tries to fry do eggs day scrambles t remarked above that messrs mann and mackensla with whom w h grant was associated with for so many years were both olosely allied with acton and so tliey wero sir don aldmann was born hero lived his boyhood days hero commonced the activities of life here nnd while his father tho late hugh mann lived was- a -frequent- visitor to his native town and sir wiimarn mackenzies relationships were close too for- a number of years bis eldest daugh ter married mr billy beardnore tho eldest son of the late walter li he couldnt take the medicine or mcklnnon was a physician who hqd the greatest opinion of the good effect of cheerfulness oh sick persons you must drive away this depres sion he remarked to on particularly discouraged patient practice cheer fulness sing at your work you know and that sort of tiling sing at my work doctorf irrumbl- od the patient how do you think i cant im a glass blower the robert utile residence and later in beverley house piles go quick plies- are caused by contention of blood in fne lower bowel only an internal remedy nan remove theoause thats why salvs and cutting fan dr leonbardts hemhold a harmless tablets succeeds because if seheves this congestion and strengthens the affected parts homrold has atven quick safe and lasting relief to thous ands ofvpii bofberera it will do the same tor ypu or money bank b j rasaard and drastglsta everywhere sell bemkold with this guarantee the new park entrance the contractors are busy at the nevv park entrance endeavoring to have the work as near conir pleted as possible for the fairayg a visit to the fair will provide an excellent opportunity for all to view the extensive improvements being carried out at prospect park this year the ffne ornamental wire fence will be completed the granite pillars at tlie vehicle entrance ivill be finished and the combin ed ticket office secretarys office and band stand ill be well under way to give you a fine idea of what will be accomplished the jmtrovements will agreeably surprise you and add to your convenience in attending functions in the park you may enter by either park avenue or knox avenue but the knox avenue entrance will be the most convenient for the vehicles to enter its just another one of thje reasons that will make your i visit to the fair more attractive this year th secretary will have an office at the town hall on saturday and monday it will he well worth your while tc visit acton firthis year li r j si i