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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th, 1921 ALL NEW STOCK 1922 Wall Papers 22 inches wide and Trimmed Make your selections while assortment is complete. Sample Books now ready to choose from. Phone Orders promptly attended to. C. A. MILLS & CO. Lakeport, Ont. -STATIONERY- To Lovers of Good Stationery: We have a full assortment always i on hand, in dainty colors and designs, which will surely please our customers who are looking for something new and up-to-date. GOULD'S DRUG STORE Notice to Fruit Growers and Dealers: The Ontario Government Demonstration Cold Storage Station, Brighton, Ontario, is now in operation. Fruit Growers and Dealers are urged to consider the opportunity now open to them in placing apples in Cold Storage. Charges :-- Barrels, 15c per month, 40c for season. Boxes, 5c per month, 15c for season. Prices on other packages and commodities on application. Inspection invited. Visitors always welcome. HON. MANNING DOUGHERTY Minister of Agriculture Apple Growers and Buyers, ATTENTION 1 Kindly see the good qualities of my packages, both in APPLE BOXES AND APPLE BARRELS We are prepared to supply you a first-class standard six- or eight-hoop barrel at a very reasonable figure. We have drum sawed staves only--known to make the best store barrel on the market. We manufacture in the late John Coyle's storage, near the G. T. R. My coopers are first-class mechanics. IRA EDWARDS Phone 83 Colborne Car Load New Fence Wire JUST IN TO BE SOLD AT OR BELOW SARNIA OR EATON PRICES -Place Orders at once- john reive King St. Colborne Grafton West End Garage We have Secured a First-Class Mechanic from the City for Repairing Cars Agents for Gray-Dort and Ford TIRES OILS We also handle Elictric Light Plant for Farmers SABINS & MIKEL Phone 49 Grafton, Ont Don't be foolish. Make your Iars go far by reading the advei meats. Wiser p*i;le than you Wiaiton Canadian:--'The. f health", writes a doctor ' atlug of onions." "Cut the HISTORY OF "O CANADA." Famous Melody*~>3 hat Came Out of Province of Quebec. The death of Hon. Judge A. B. Routhier may not oiake such a stir in, remote parts of Canada as that of Sir Wilfrid Laurer, but there are millions of people in this country who only need to be reminded that it was he who very nearly achieved fame by writing the original words to "O Canada." ■"O Canada," unlike most great songs, was composed backwards. The tune was made first. It was in 1881 at a great convention of St. Jean Baptiste in Quebec City when a cadi arose from the delegates for some sort of nation«i?«ing hymn that should express the aspirations of the French-Canadians as a. nation in Canada. A committee was struck, with Judge Routhier as chairman, for the purpose of getting a French-Canadian composer to do this on behajtf of the convention. The only French-Canadian compo?ti capable of such an inspirieg task was Calixte Laval-lee, a famous pianist then living in Quebec. So quicidy was it all done, so much after t':e manner of an inspiration that the very next day the composer sent word that he was ready. When the committee called upon him they found that he had composed not one, but four or five1 melodies, all of which he played on his piano. Unanimously they aecept- ous as the voice ■:.( the French-Canadian race. Catching up the inspirational mood of the co-r.iposer, Judge Routhier at once wrote his memorable verses to fit the tune, and befor. the convention broke up both words and music were enthusiastically acclaimed, adopted and sung. Within a few years thousands of French-Canadians had learned this majestic hymn, but it ws5 ul'nost twenty years before it got up as .far as Ontario, where it was used first at military tattoos in Niagara Camp, later as a march-past iti the reception accorded the present King, George V, in Toronto, when A. S. Vogt, then conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir, asked a bandmaster, "What is that wonderful thing'?" Cn being told, he made a note of it, and a few years later, much thanks to the anmirabi* choral and orchestral sett^ig am! English translation, all made by Dr. T. B. Richardson, of Toronto, who had become familiar with the piece when an officer at Niagara Camp, the Mendelssohn Choir gave the first choral performance of Canada." Since that time, scorei Anglo-Saxons have written English versions, one of which is now in us« in Ontario schools, and a dozen composers have written various arrangements for choirs, men's voices, quartettes, etc. Bat the original Lavallee-Routhier setting survives as the greatest of them all, and by long odds one of the greatest national hymns ever known under any flag. AUTO SERVICE E. E. PHiLP Licensed Chaffeur Charges Reasonable Phone 63 Church St. W. Colborne Theories Regarding the Moon. A great many curious ideas exist in various parts of the world regard-ing the dark spots on the moon'^Jjg^m^,525- disk. In Eastern Asia the spots are "' believed to be a rabbit or hare; the Chinese in particular look upon them a;; a hare sitting up*and pounding rice in a mortar. Most of the Siamese take the same view. Some few, however, see in the moon a man and woman working in a field. Curiously enough, the North American Indians have almost' the same superstition as the Chinese, and on old monuments in Central America the moon appears as a jug or vessel, out of which an animal like a rabbit is jumping. The South American Indians, on the other hand, believe that a girl who had fallen in love with the moon sprang upward toward it, was caught and kept by it, and that it is her figure which is seen on the moon's The Samoa Islanders look on the spots as representing a woman carrying a child, and many other southern people have similar beliefs, the woman and child sometimes being altered into an old woman bearing a burden on her back. The Eskimos have an original superstition. They say that one day Aniga, the moon, chased his sister, the Sun, in wrath. Just as he was about to catch her, however, she suddenly turned around and threw a great handful of soot in his face and thus escaped him, and of that soot he bears the traces to this day. The people of Northwestern India, ho account for the moon's monthly sappearance by declaring that she burnt up regularly and replaced fresh moon, explain the dark an This Will Put Us in Right With the Boys! With every suit of Men's and Boys' Suits, we are giving DURING NEXT TEN DAYS a good serviceable Waggon. Three waggons may be seen on display in our Furnishings Department Our new stock of Men's and Bays' Clothing is now complete. .The prices are not only lower, but the quality of the cloths are better. Boys' Suits in all shades and newest styles. Prices $5 and $10. Men's Suits--Ready made or Tailor made. Newest in Men's Fall Hats, Caps and Furnishings Lowest Prices in Working Men's Togs. Work Shirts 50c. Overalls $1.50: . .Sox 4 pairs for $1.00. Big Specials in Men's and Boys' Odd Trousers. Lowest Prices on Work Shoes and Fine Boots. 1 Progress Brand Gothes FENTON & SMITH Wednesday Afternoon Half Holiday. Store Open Tuesday Eve Colborne, Ont. 30 5000 bbls Apples!' Wanted-- Spies, Baldwins, Russets, ! Greenings, Wealthy, Mcintosh Reds Will buy Good Oreeards-- Ones, Twos, Domestics • and Number Tim . -State quantities with full Particulars. A. B. APPLEBY COBOURG, C-NT. 01 he > fori they ; the -ashes its The Dakota Indians have it that the moon is eaten up by mice; the Polynesian f;uperstition'is that the souls of the dead feed on it; according to the Hottentots, the moon suffers from headache, and when it gets very bad the moon hides its head with a hand and covers up the face from the gaze of the world; the Eskimos maintain that after shining for three weeks the moon gels tired and hungry and , and •xedly the railrc "Can you tell me where this railroad goes?" he asked. "Yoii'd better come along quietly back inside with us," answered one of the patients soothingly. "That doesn't go anywhere. They just keep there Winnipeg's Twins. Seventy-seven pairs of twins were born in Winnipeg in the past twelve months, according to department reports. The number of births recorded was 5,460. Seventy paiis of twins were born in 1918. Historical Inn Signs. There doesn't seem any connection between the "Bag o' Nails" and "Bacchanals," but there is! This is how it came about: An innkeeper put the sign of the "Bacchanals" over his door, but his customers, not understanding it, pronounced it like "Bag o' Nails," so it means practically the same thing as the "Jolly Topers," says Answers. "The Goat and Compasses," was once "The God Encompasseth." Another of a similar nature is the "Pig and Whistle." It is very old, being derived from the Anglo-Saxon phrase, "Pigs Wassail," or "Hail, Virgin!" The "Lamb and Flag" is also religious in origin, but it retains its form unaltered. The "Swan With Two Nicks," for its beak was marked with two cuts, or nicks, to show who owned it. Some inn signs are historic. The "Bull and Mouth/' for example, is the "Boulogne Mouth," from a sea fight which occurred outside the mouth of the harbor. So is the "Cat and Fiddle." It should be the "Catou Fidelo," or "Faithful Caton." after a governor of Calais. Others are distinctly humorous. The "Good Woman" has no head, while trying to wash a black boy white is ths "Labor j in Vain." Signboards have often been paint- \ ed by famous artists, including Hoi- j bein, Hogarth and Millais, some of whose are still extant. In the six- j teenth and seventeenth centuries the signs of taverns were often very elaborate, that of the "White Hart," at Scole, in Norfolk, costing $5,000. Another in London was so heavy that it brought down the side of the house, killing four people. The result was an act of Parliament prohibiting dangerous signboards. ___ Jcrry-Built Religion? Dean Inge, at Dulwich College lhapel, London, England, dedicated tie memorial erected there to the boys who fell in the war. Referring to the war in his sermon, the dean said that the day came for the testing of our religious architecture during the last hundred years. Had we been building for eternity, or even posterity, or was the modern jerry-built villa a type of our religion? He afraid that we had been presum-on our fancied security, and that had become self-indulgent and enreless, like the rich fool in the. j Bible. OPERA HOUSE COLBORNE Saturday, Oct. 1st The Feature will-be EDITH ROBERTS --IN-- "The Fire Cat" THE SERIAL EDDIE POLO -IN- 'DO OR DIE" Episode, No. 6 The Victim TWO REELS OF CENTURY COMEDY FULL OF FUN 35c. Children 20c. To Begin at 8 p.m. No War Tax NOTICE! Owirg to the close margin upon which we are compelled to sell our goods and the heavy overhead expense in connection with our business, we find it necessary to adopt the CASH SYSTEM On &nd after Mondav, July 18th; 1921, our Terms will bo Strictly Cash . Soliciting a continuance of the liberal patronage of the p';'t. Yours respectfully, CLARKE & DUDLEY CHEVROLET GARAGE -- COLBORNE