Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Dec 1912, p. 13

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+ THE pATLY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1912. _-- - PAGE THIRTEEN. es tet PHOTOS. Present. i she | § very Come In now before | rush. The Cooke Studio { 14 Fieess i{ the doctor says 'you need a tonic," yon will ind strength and | vigor in Special Extra : Mild (linspes E. BEAUPRE, Local Distributor. 'Phone 3138. PRIVATE a oS, Cramming down fllchosen food, and rushing back to work, leads straight to dys- pepsia, with all it means a misery. OFFICE | Proper habits of eating, with a Na-Dru-Ce Dys- peosia Tablet after each meal, restore good es «on, health and happiness. A vox of Na-Dru-Co Dys- pepsia Tablets costs bat 50c, at yowr Druggist's. Nationa! Drug and Chem- ical Co. of Canada Limited. . ; 148 FOR THE WOMAN WHO CAN CROCHET. Thiistmas Gifs That May Be Fashioned by Her Needle. aa---- The gift who erochets has a great | Jpportunity to display ber skill, espe cially In this day of beautiful band work. A young girl will be delighted, to re. ceive a crochet party bag for Christ mas. The one illustrated is crocheted of rather lieavy cotton and finished at the corners with hand made balls of the cotton, The bag may be mounted over a ln ing of slik or satin in any color that is CROCHET PARTY BAG preferred. It is made to accommodate the fan, buttonhook and other dainty * trifles that a girl Is likely to require at | & party or at the dancing class. Charming For a Young Girl In erocheting a bag on this order it | 18 not necessary to adhere to this pat | tern, Any motif used in irish ero- | chet may be substituted for the rose | shown here. By the use of judicious | ly adjusted chains re-enforced with | rows of double or triple crochet made | to look tke scallops it may be worked | out to form an oblong plece' of crochet. This supplies one side of the bag. Rows of chains or scallops are run ! around the edge when the two sides pave been drawn together with the vy + hoimg but the ih, Martial, ww Brain 48 Body CTVvVesS Wilson's 'ine, a big lv brain and ful before wiurs know ! | SLIPPERS SEE 0 st50 ad | a VENING i ng St Yellow and Patent Colt, Dull Fid, pers $2.50, $3. HW. Gents' Dress Pumps | Gun Metal and Patent Gai igh 'or ey crocheting needle In a row of single crochet. Se a : To Keep Handkerchiefs Neat. This little handkerchief case may be made In a short time and will prove a most acceptable gift to any friend, man or woman. It is fashioned of coarse crochet silk. The pattern 1s a diamond achieved by crocheting a chain of seven and catching it in the center of the chain beneath it. A square is first crocheted of these chains, and then the sides of the bag are crocheted around and around that A plece of cardboard padded and cov ered with silk is tacked to the bottom of the bag. This square is scented and made the same size as a folded hand- kerchief. Ribbons are run through the top of the bag so that It may be drawn to blade werves in a new for a #ickls, som knife suid gronine i i i can i on the part of another village. | constable, | men from the other village for the { murder of the woman | them into the station, where they were | tried and discharged. | turn is told of J | "congoquo" SORCERY IN AUSTRALIA, The Natives of the Commeonwaalth Are ; Burdened Down With Superstition, T annual of the Lisuten: ant r of Territory of Pa- Parliament | of Austra.ia aformation sapersti- snd strate of the Cen. a the trial 16 came 8¢ 3 a curious 5 used to find oct if the lied by sorcery or not. i says, is placed an a plttiorm in the centre of the village and a lesf is. placed on the breast Tie feet are then pointed in the di- , he recticn of the village, snd the body is i asked if any man or woman in the village pointed at caused the death. 1f theses falls off the body the peo- ple nu » sure that the person who caus. ed the death was a native of the vil- lage pointed at. 11 the leaf does not fall off the body at the first atiempt the body is pointed to another village, and so on until the leaf falls--or is blowa off. 3 The inland people are eaten up with superstition, and any man who likes terrorize them into doing he wishes. In one case before me, he sayz. it appeared that a woman died in a village. and the people put the death down to sorcery Some time after tie death som of the dead woman's relatives were pear another | village just after dark. A dance was being held in the village, and the re- latigns of the dead woman, ®oking into the village, said that they saw the ghost of the woman among the dancers, and they promptly went back to their village and told the village ho then arrested three and brought ements e------ An Effective Instrument, with a grimly dramatic olin Bright while on The famous states- one day in the A story a visit to Ireland. man went walking County Tipperary. Seeing a man with his coat off working in the fields, he went up and talked to him. "Ate you the tenant of this farm?" Bright began. "Yous," replied the man. "You have a comfortable place?", "Yed; 'indeed, comfortable enough." "You have a good landlord?" "Yes, | have np complaint to make of kim "He has made the piace comfort able for you?" "Not at all; all that yon see 1 have done myself. 1 have built and drain ed and fenced and done everything with. my own hands and my little bit of money." "Then you hold under a long "Not at all; 1 never saw the like. I hold from year to year." "hut then you must have great con. fid y in your landlord?" "Yes. 1 have confidence enough. 1 think I am sure enough." "Put asturedly you must hold un. der some sort of instrument? You cannot be altogether at the mercy of your landlord, without some sort of security?" "Yes, 1 do hold under an instru- ment." Ah, '1 thought so. me see it?" "Certainly." : They then went into the house. The man walked straight to the fireplace and took down a blunderbuss that was hanging over it, "That," said he, 'is the instrument I hold under." Would you let ------------ Cooking Accounts. The word cook, used in the sense of "ook up accounts," is generally put in quotation marks, buy tife phrase has been almost long enough in use to give it indisputable: standing. Smoilett wrote of "cocking sccounts™ in 1751, and proofs were cooked" a century earlier, but somehow "eook' remains what the dictionaries sniff at as 'colloquial' in this sense, while "concoct," which means to. cook or boil together, bas the status of a fully accepted word. The Romans used apd the simple "coquo'" alike in the metaphorical sense of pondering. and devising tut the ob- vious metaphor of "cooking" accounts pever occurred to them. A Family of Fifty-Four, The King has sent a telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Savage, of Frogs Hall, Cavendish village, Buffolk, England, congratulating them on the 73rd anpiversary of their wedding. Within & few miles of their present residence both have lived during the whole of their lives, Mr. Savage is 94. and still spends a considerable portion of his time din the garden, while his wife is but two years young- er. Five of the ten children barn 10 Mr and Mrs. Savage are still alive, and they have 19 grandchildren and 80 ygreat-grandchildren--s family of 54 in all. Blind Vicar's Good-Bys. Bidding farewell to his ishioners, Rev. J. J, Chambers, who is about © resigrthe vicarage of St. Barnabas, Southampton, England, says that now the building debs is ly clear ed off he feels that it is best to make way for a vicar "who certainly will have Syesyin and probably will have youth." Mr. Chambers lost his sight eleven years ago, but, in spite of his affliction, he has preached 1,200 ser. mons and administered communion $2,000 peopic ainde thal time, ---------------- Watermen Retain Monopoly, Contending that it is imperative to maintain the present high standard of efficiency, te London County Coun. ¢il revently refused to acquistde ins proposal by the Port of Ans what . that came , "SCOTCH FISHER GIRLS, | Women Are "Help-meets" an thirg to Spare. i tland IME most 331 ve mast s the exter 1¢ women in their men-iolk have not, 1t 8 the ial d» sive participatior the industry in Wi are em They tr invaded main of of the boats and the hing of The arduou il of these operations, with all the accompanying rdships and dangers. is still leit to the predomin- ant partner--if the phrase is now pet- misaible in these femininist and fex. equality day: : but the women, nevertheless, ara emploved in many tasks incidental to the fishermen's occupation, whieh, thoush deemed subsidiary, are none the less essential, and they learn to take their share in the work at quite an early age. Young girls gather the dried herring which, owisig #3 their size and weight, require no litt'a skill and involves ¢ erable labor as well. The employment cf girls or women in this particular task is by no means universal, however. 1t is pretty general in Shetlan |} and in the villages that fringe the western sea. board and dot the izlands alo~z that const. the men entertaining the n»- tion, it is said, that their labor on the sea absolve them from labor on lard. or, at least justifies them in de- volving all the work as! ore on theie wcmen, Elsewhere the pets are spiead by the men themselves; but plenty of work is done by the wome~, i who, as a result, develop great physi. eal strength and endurance, and prove as hardy as the men. It is in the prosecution of the or dir.ary "line" fishing that the women render the greatest aid; in some of the smaller villages the fishing is very much a family affair, all the grown- J up members of the family co-operat. ing in some way cr other. The women hie bait and then fix it to the s--and neither of these tasks 13 ight as it I , while the two combined make serious inroads on the time that otherwise would be de- voted to household duties. Wi the return of the boats another branch of the women's work begins. They as- sist in the cleaning and packing of the "frash." and they also help in the splitting, gutting, salting and general preparation of the fish destined to be "eured.""' Modern developments of the fishing industry so far from curtailing the employment of women as sellers have extended it, apd very large numbers of women are mow employed by the wholesale fish merchants and fish curers in the big towns in the var jous processes of cleaning, packing and curing. In Aberdeen, for exam ple, that city having become a very important fishing centre, over 1.3200 women are so engaged, the detailed report of the last census enumerating among them 117 married women and 129 widows and more than 900 girls. Not all the women thus employed belong to the "fisher" class, of course --the business has swollen to such di- mensions that workers have to F2 drawn _ from other sections cf the community. But "fisher laseies" lil form a large proportion ef the women employed in the special work of cleaning and packing herrings. mediate dispatch" is the Keynote of the herring trade, and, accordingly. the herrings have to be prepared with great rapidity. Expert operators are required, and - the fisher Sith who have learned the art can find ready employment at the leading "stations ' of the industry. \ nets, i le One Man's Patent Medicine Capacity. People were greatly addicted to pa- tent medicines one hundred years ago and a case that was tried in 1817 mn England gives some idea of the pill taking proclivities of the time. An apothecary sued one Samuel Jessup for payment of a Jong standing ae- count. The bill extended to 55 close- ly-written. columns and showed that in twenty years he took 226,934 piils, beginning with the modest nuniber of 29 a day and advancing by easy stages to a daily consumption ef 7%. During the zame period he consumed 40.000 bottles of mixtures, besides juleps, electuaries and other infallible specifics. The apothecary won the day, but. Jessop died soon afterward at the age of 65, no doubt from stop. ping the medicine. -------------- Fed Them on Stale News. In the British arctic expedition of 1875 one of the chaplains had a tile of Th: London Times twenty years old, containing the Crimean war reports. One copy was given out to each ship daily. The «officers had 1b first, then it went to the forecastle, and svn every ong was as keen about the pews as if the war had been proceeding. The clergyman in control of the press was besought to issue an evening edi } tion. and when Sebastopol was about Yto be taken excitement ran so high that the newspaper ofice--a jocker-- was almost stormed. The editor, how- ever was firm and continued with bis daily issue, the interest being kept up to the end of the expedition. -------- Sweetheart of "Robin Adair." "Robin Adair" was written b, Lady Caroline Keppel, the daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, Robin was. a rial character, a young Irish doctor wh hal been forced by a scandalous ad- venture to leave Ireland and seek his fortune in Englpnd. Chance threw & rich patient in bis way, » lady of quality, and at her house hs met Lady Caroline, and be result was A case of love st first sight on Doth sides. - Her parents objected and sev her away, and during ber a sence produced the song. ---------------- English Philatelists. Tn England there are at least hall a million stamp collectors, Within & few years there have boen printed early 3.000 books, each. about some i of stamp collecting. Two firme thority {0 bresk up the a.oncpely of the Themes watcrmen and Pe men, ve between $1,250,000 invested instamps. : est Sulphur is mined in Louisisoa hy it is being glesd is the aim of a ample clamp invented Ty x New Tor. doy man To Bold a miter joint firmly while "je | * tically inaccessible material relating | general public ¥ | Sir Richard McBride, President Fal. | coner, and CO. W. Colby. {A CG BARR AND LODORE. The Celebrated Falls Were Scarcely What He Expected. adod stories hav: been toid about the late | nlert Barr ene of ghe mest prolific writers ever born in Canada; more e than Rir Gilbert Parker, whe, e Barr also left Canada ns soon as be became famons. to live in England. Barr was a famous character in tbe West. ern Ontario Peninsula. 1 was there, | while school-teaching in Windsor, that he wot his entree jigio public print in "A Rough Ridé Round the Lakes," a series of sketches in The Detroit Free Press, depicting Barr's rollicking experiences on a summer vacation on the northern lakes, For years afterwards Barr was a regular contributor to The Free Press. He was a close friend of Dr. James Sam- son. now of Windsor, who has often told the story which Barr told him and which Barr told about himself at the dinner given to Premier McBride in London in 1907. R. E. Gosnell, an- other old Kent County boy, now pro- prietor of The Vietoria Times, tells the story in a recent issue of his pa- per, and it runs as follows "He had read in his school books about the cataract of Lodore, and readers will remember the description in Southey's well-known poem, a por tion of which reads: 'An dashing and flashing and splash- ing and clashing And so never ending, but always descending, ' Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending, All at once and all o'er, with a mighty ' uproar: - And this way the water comes down at Lodore'"" Then and there he made up his mind that when he was old enough and had money enough he would go to England and see the waters that hid so excited the poet's admiration. "Them are falls," Po mentally cogi- tated. "Well," added the humorist, "1 did grow old enough and did get money and I took the first opportun- ity thereafter to gratify my ambition Upon arriving in London I took the next train for Cumberland and a tie- ' ket for the nearest station, and as I handed my bag to a clerk at the inn to whieh I had been directed, I asked breathlessly, 'Where are the falls ol Lodor:, 'If vou take the road, sir, | and follow that stream' for a bit, five | or six miles. sir. you will come t0 them, sir,' he replied. It was a warm, muggy afternoon in August and 1 started out to walk. After walking for what appeared to be an interminable ! distance, 1 was hot, sweaty, tired and fostsore. Taking off my boots and socks, and rolling up my trousers, as | 1 used to-do long ago, 1 decided to wade into the stream and ease my | aching feet. Just ahead of me was aj rock in midstream with & swirl of water about it, and 1 went forward j to rest myself and wait for passer-by who could give me definite and quieting information on the sub- ject of my quest. Presently a des | trian, one of the farm laborer class, | hove in sight, and when near enough | 1 megaphoned to him: 'Can you tell § me where are the falls of Lodore?' In biank, stupid amazement, he gazed at me and finally recovering his wits, he shouted back, 'You fool: vou are sitting on them'." i ---------------- The Champlain Society. The Champlain Society, organized in 1905. is the most exclusive cult devot- ed to book-publishing in Canada Its aim is to publish "valuable and prac- Many by apd versal some | to the history of Canada." Its presi dent is that indispensable head to financial and art associations, Sir Edmund Walker. The volumes pub- lished by the society are not sold to the public. Tho actual number sold is 500, which go to subscribers only- men of means as it may be surmised, who can afford the luxury of high- class works om Canadian history. There are two secretaries--Erol. G M. Wrong and Erie Armour. "The latter | is a lawyer with considerable wn | cal aptitude, and a strong interest in financial affairs. The former is weil known as seuior professor of history | in* Toronto University. The treasurer | is 'A. H. U. Colquhoun, Deputy Min- ister of Education, for many years & most able jourpaligh, a man, of ripe scholarship in a general way, and much interested in the needs of the Vice-presidents are Sir Louis Jetty, Sir D:D. McMibian, Councillors: Dominion archivist; Adam Shortt, chairman of Civil Ser vies Commission; James H of the Elgin Historical Society; Langton, University Librarian, Walter C. Mutray. Seven volumes have already been published at the rate of one a year. Doughty, How to Cook Carp. While in Orillia recently Rev Canon Greene told The Packet a re- cipe for cooking the carp which were so plentiful in the lakes this seasoy It was given to him by Mr Housey, of Housey's Rapids, who now lives at Toronto. anyone fond of fish can be assured of a most delicious repast if the instructions are followed closely Take a carp, clean and wash it well, then cover freely with batter. Becure a piece of oak plank large enough to hold the fish, and place them in the oven. : Cook weil with steady, hot fire for two hours, then take out of the oven, throw the fish away, and cas the plank --Orillia Packet. THE TEA OF Left In the Banks. "A blue book?tabled in the Commons | gives 4 list of unclaimed balances in . Canadian banks. thonsands of depositors throughout joft with the banks a total of $676,147, i to which no one has laid ciaim for years. 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