The Daily Britich " BINGATON, ONTARIO FRIDAY JULY 10, 1914 WHAT WHIG CORESPONDENTS * HAVE TO TELL. News: From Villages and Farms Throughout the Adjoining Coun- ties --. Rural Events nd Move , ments, \ - X tna Donaldson Doings. Donaldson, July 8. -- School has closed again for the holidays. Thom- as Sargent, who had the misfortune of having his- shoulder dislocated while returning home from Canonto, is able to be out again. James Paul spent Sunday at R. Payl's, McDon- ald's Corners. Mr. apfl Mrs. Alex- ander Thompson, of "Elgin, spent Sunday at T. Sargeant's. R., J Sproule has purchased a valuable horse from W. J. Donaldson. Mr, and Mrs. games E. Miller, of McLar« en's Depdt, were the guests of Thomas Sargeant on Sunday. last. I 4 Fall River Locals. Fall River, July 8.--Rain is bad- ly needed here. Several huve com- meaiced haying, which is a good crop. Raspberries are plentiful here. A number of the people in- tend celebrating the twelfth of July in Perth on Monday. A great im- provement has been made on Fall River road here. Mr. Crowe has been appointed pastor for this cir cuit. Mrs. C. H. Nicholson, t: 'ch- er, has resigned her duties in schook here, and is new attending the Tea- cher"s Summer school at Sarbot Lake. Misses Lizzie and Verta Bu- chanan, Snow Road, are spending a few dayg at E. Conroy's, Mr. and Mrs. T. Bunker and family are . at F. Gordon's. ' At Yonge Mills. Yonge Mills, July 8.--~Miss Myrtle Gibson was visiting friends in Ottawa last week. Miss Clara Purvis, of Kingston, is Visiting relatives here Mrs. Dickey and Miss Arleita Dick ey, of Lyn, are spending a few days visiting friends here. Mrs. ilson and little son, of Vancouver, are spending the summer with her moeher, Mrs. 0 Gibson. Mrs. Edson Burnham spent the week-end at Mrs. U:. "A. Turking ton's. Miss Mary Purvis is spending a couple 'of weeks at her home here. Misses Kate and Grace Purvis veturn ed to Ian after a few days visit with their aunt, Miss Minnie Gib son. Mrs. Alexander Tennant, of Lyn, is the guest of Mrs, J. A Dickey. Mrs. Fred. Robertson and sons, Wilfred and George, of Brock. + ville, spent Saturday and Sunday ai N. LL. Gardinet's. --_-- : Reports From Salem. Salem, 'July 8.-Salem Sunday school held its annual picnic last =a turday at Twelve O'Clock point A very pleasant time was spent Miss Nellie Rosebush, Toronto, is home spending her holidays. Mr. and Mrs Charles Dolan attended the wedding of the latter's sister, Miss M. Me Donald. in Trenton recently. Mrs Arclen Blakely has been ill for some time. Mr, and Mrs. Stephen Van cott have returned after an extended visit in different parts of the states David Whitney lost a valuable. cow is spending her holidays at her home here... Carpenters' are working at D. H. Vancott's barn. Orvil Orser. of Ponoka. Alberta, is spending a few days with bis cousin, Arthur Parlia- ment. The monthly niedting of the W.M.S, will be held in Salem ehurch this aftergoon. At Sterms Corners. Storm's Corners, July 7---The re- cent rains were welcomed by the til- lers of the soil for they were very much needed. The monthly meeting of the Ladies' Aid was held at the home of Mrs.B. Shibley on Wednes- day afternoon. - M#s, T. Wallace and children. have returned home afier spending a week "at Rapange and Bath. Mr. and Mrs. 0. Asseistine, Owen Sound, have come to spend a couple of months with their parents. Last Monday Guy Simmons passe. nere with a ljedy load of eadets for the Barriefield camp. A. Brown has his barn nearly completed. W. Bush is doing the work. The remains of the late Jed Irish passed here to Wilken cemetery for interment to- day. Mr. and Mrs. R. Metzer and daugh- ter, Odessa, at R. Asselstine's. Mrs W. Parrot, Wilton, Mr. A. Endsor and children, Watertown, Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin, and #ittle son, Toron- to, Mr. J. Skinper, Camden East; Mrs. KE. Lucas and son, R. W. Maple at J. E. Storms. Late J. Campbell, Clarendon. Clarendon, July 7.--Mr. and Mrs. Leishman and Master "Jack" spent a few days in Kingston. last week. James Robinson, of Manitoba, after fourteen years of absence, is visiting old friends in this neighborhood. Mrs. A. Little, and two children, of Tamworth, are the guests of Mrs. R. Leishman. Lyon Appleby has gone to drill with. the cadets at Barrie- recently. Miss H. Hawley, Toronto, field. Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell returned to Kingston last week. "Jack" Campbell, of Kingston, is visiting his mother. Miss Margaret Bushell is visiting her sister. Mrs. "Jack" Barr. Mr. Hill of Godfrey spent the wek-end with friends here. Miss. Martha Leishman has returned from Lavant. The funeral of the late James CampbeH took place Tuesday, Junge 30th from his late residence to Highland Line cemetery. Campbell was sixty-four years age. He was born in North Ser: brooke, Lanark county, and lived in this village for the past twenty-five years. Besides his wife and family, he leaves one 'drother, John, of Kingston, and one: sister, Mrs. John Glenn, of this place. The funeral |' service was conducted by Rev. W. W. Bromwich, of Sharbot Lake. Mr. Campbell was always a kind friend and neighbour and will be much Wissed Yrom this community, Died at Elgin. > Elgin, July 7.--The death of Mrs. John Dwyre ocurred at her home on the 4th inst. After a painful illness of months duration, at the age of fifty-eight years. A 'husband and grown-up family gathered at her death-bed. The children are Wil- liam Chaffey's, Mrs. Rogers, Port- land; Edward, Herbert, Mrs. Mur- phy, on farms in this vicinity; Joseph and Kate at home. Mrs. | Dwyre was of a kind and loving na- | ture that endeared her to all with whom she came In contact. funeral services were conducted at the Roman Catholic church by Faih- | are holidaying at Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. are enjoying their cottages on the symptoms of to take charge of a patient. Pierce closed school and left for her honfe at Newboro for the seafon. J the Canadian west. H.K. Delong and son, Oshawa, are guests of his par- ents. Phillipsvilte, were guests in the vil- 1 on Monday for a trip British Columbia. G. Rrown and Gerald Coon the cadet corps camp in Kingston. Puring the Day They Sleep in Trees, writer in the Wide World Magazine, dish wings. tree selected there commotion, for each newcomer is vig- orously driven off from one place af- ter another until he eventually man- ages to secure a perch for an incessant wrangling, each -endea- voring to secure the highest and best place to rest on. hundreds tures may be seen hanging from the By branches of a large tree. often shot, and some of the natives consider though it peans. shears little the prettiest of her golden curls that?" to call soon afterward. The | off and explained mamma does. -- Exchange, er McKerien, and a large number of relatives, friends and neighbors gathered to express their sympathy and show their last mark of estéem. Misses Eva and Blanch Halladay MeNally, Westport, was In the vil- lage on Sunday. Mrs. Rev. G. S. White and daughter, Ottawa, were week-end guests of relatives. Mrs. W. Sheldon is mot reported as well the past week. Dr. D. A. Cevon, H. Coon and H. A. Brown's families Rideau, Mr. and Mrs. Salmon, To- ledo, were guests 'of relatives. Dr. Dwyre and sisters, Perth, attended the funerai of their sister-in-law, Mrs. J. Dwyre. W. H. Pearsoni*made | a business trip to Gananoque last week. - Miss Elsie Ripley, : Albany, N.Y. spent a few days with friends. Mrs. Gavin. Lansdowne, 1g the guest of her mother. The many friends of Mrs. Rev. McFarlane are sorry to learn she 1s confined to hed with appendicitis. Nurse selson left last week for Montreal. Miss holiday Pinkerton is home from Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nolan, Mrs, Frederick Atcheson left through to Coon, G attended age. FLYING FOXES OF INDIA. Hanging Head Downward. seen | These curious creatures, says brown fur and After their nocturnal depre- | during the day, hanging bats, clutching = the their feet As the fying foxes gather in the 3 | is a tremendous himself Those on the tree meanwhile keep up Sometimes many of these destructive erea- When opportunity offers they are their flesh a delicacy, hardly appeals to Euro The Infant Terrible. While playing with a pair Laura severed one of of "My dear child, why did you do asked Aunt Mary, who cafe "I wanted em so I could take 'en hang 'eni on the bureau." the little girl 'just tke > One Can Have | A Good Time without the usual cup of tea or coffee, and Teel a whole lot better between meals or feeling' heart . . + LO00--1)¢ flutter. The seeret is bilious ess, indigestion, nervousness and Try the change for a couple noticeable things® You'won't miss the old beve lieious snappy flavour. Further, there's the brisk, > POSTUM the logyness of a lazy liver and disturbed digestion. Thousands of people have made the change and know "There's a Reason" | Postum. comes in two form Regular Postum--must he packages. } Instant Postum---needs no boiling." A teaspoonful of the soluble powder stirred in a cup of hot water makes a delightful beverage instantly. taste. 30e¢ and S0¢ tins. THe cost per eup of both kinds is about the same, - Canadian Postum Cereal Co, Ltd., Windsor, Ont. Grocers -everywhere sell POSTUM. \ At Table se from that old "oil col- L --instead of tea or-coffee. of weeks and observe two rage, for Postum has a de- alert feeling,--free from 8 well boiled. 13¢ and 25¢ Add cream and sugar to ¥ Powers SLEEPS IN HIS OWN HIS COUSINS, "What's the matter, Alec?" I've "Matter enough! ticing for twirler chum, William Aniversity and were day nesday afternoon, "Well," said Billy, studying done and 'I 'wouldn't showing a couple of pretty girls the Since they have never seen you I don't see why I shouldn't im- sights, personate you." "It's a gO my exam.' Monday was at the station and asked: "Are you my cousins?" replied the elder of the two "But you don't correspond | description we've had of you. . People who have lived in India are | supposed we were going to meet an familiar with the long st¥ings of fly- Ajax." ing foxes which can iéften be "Yes, ' "You can't tell about us athletes. wending their way in single file from | We cover our muscles with loose togs their sleeping places in remote trees and it's very deceptive." to the fruit gardens upon which they prey | Leaving the young ladies at thel {boarding place till after luncheon, A 'he réturned to his room, where ifound a friend, Tom Oglethorpe. He sometimes measure as much ag four let Tom into the secret and invited feet across the wings and have red- {him to turn a party of three into one mole colored {of four Tom was nothing loth Never was a pleasanter vi dations they fly away with the dawn |by two young ladies or enjoyed more to a tree in some isolated place and Mere rest . {iedad downward from the boughs in or'jthe manner of branch with by two young men. Now, it so happened that the real ) preparing himself for an examination in conic sections, got a brand new practical Alec Pomeroy, who was idea. "Wouldn't he mused, "for me and Perhaps an ball would not only principles involved. Throwing, down his books, he be- golf. to a. shed erected fol practice in, twirling. While practic: a voice behind him: "This fs the place where our base- ball pitchers learn to do the 'drop,' 'incurve' and other stunts that go to make a baseball twirler." Looking around, Pomeroy saw his representative, Billy Chandler, Tom Oglethrope and his two cousins, the tgirls, staring at him [ zhtseers. Billy continued his re- took him ing he heard the marks "This gentleman now practicing is Twirlers selected for having their brains You see before you of whom our principal twirler. shoulders. William their Mr coming baseball way, Mr. Chandler, ent you to my cousins,™ Alec shoulders nor his legs; man in college." "Why, Alec," said exam 'coming of on Wednesday on a sub- ject 1 know nothing about. I'm prac- for the 'varsity teain and have left preparation for this exam for the last three days be- fore it takes place, now, read that." Alexxander Pomeroy handed Chandler, a letter from his mother stating that his two cousins, Belle and Lucy Winchester, the daughters of her favorite sister, had come on. from Colorado, where they had always lived, to make her a visit, They had never seen a large specially anx- iovs to visit ome, She had proposed to them to go to H. to inspect the college. They would come down Man- morning and remain his till Wed- my mind 1 shall be free to do a three-days' grind and get through Chandler to meet, the in- coming train, and, seeing a couple of very pretty girls, aged respectively v9 and LJ, alight and look around for some one, ue stepped up to them afternoon Mr, ith the We he it made it be a good scheme." to apply these principles of the eclipse, the parabola the hyperbole to my twirling? hour's practice with rest would help me to catch on alket a but to the with the eyes in | grave Chandler, great (hings-ave expected-during-the Step, this I wish to pres- season. Pomeroy ceased his practice and lumbéred to the party. "Your cousin Alee¢," he said to the girls, "is one of the first men in his His intellect is neither in his |! it is all in his head. Though he leads his class an: is a pig in the matter of prizes, he is as modest as a little child soul of honor, and the most popular with whom he had paired from the first HOME-MADE COFFIN Former Chief of Police of Lincoln, Nebraska, Plans to Cheat the Uudertakers, Every night in the year E. T. Hun- ger, formerly chief of police of Lin- cola, Neb., sleeps in his coffin. The home-made box stands on the front porch of the Hunger residence, at No. 23174 Randolph street, and at night, after the neighbors have gone to bed, 'Old Man'- Hunger goes out and climbs into the box. If the wea- ther is cold, or if a shower comes up, he pulls the top of the coffin over the opening, leaves a crack -through/ which he can get a little fresh air, and calmly goes to sleep. Mr. Hun- ger is now 76 years old, and - for many years he has been sleeping 'in his coffin. i "And I made that coffin myself, 100," he says proudly, "Costs" too mn th to die in these days, So I just jught I'd play a joke on the under- takers and make my own coffin while I was well enough to do it. So I got Me: some inch plank about a foot wide and several pieces of 2 x 4. put the latter at each corner to make the box stable, and then I nailed it together with eightpenny nails. Whole thing cost me less than $5, but it's strong enough to hold a man about my size without any trouble. And won't those undertakers be mad when I die and they can't get any of my money!" The Hunger home sits back from the streety and there are trees all around it. In the summer these trees shade the porch, and the grues- ome object cannot be seen plainly. But when winter strips the limbs and branches Mr. Hunger's home- made coffin can be seen by all pas- serby. For more than twenty years Mr. Hunger was a constable in Lincoln, and is one of the best-known men in the city ".But the fact that he sleeps in his coffin every night is a fact known to few others than his neighbors and close friends. "Hope I'll die some night right in that coffin," says the ex-chief of po- lice. "My family knows just what I want done. I want them to nail that lid on just as quickly as they know I'm dead, and then haul me out to the cemetery; don't want any of those undertakers holding me up for a big bill for funeral expenses, No sir; what's good enough for. me to sleep in is good enough for me to be buried in." The ~6Td man has his sleeping box nicely arranged. He built the cas- little bit deeper than 'usual, and then he fitted a set of springs in the bottom. On these he placed a small mattress, and them come his blankets and quilts. «Heard of lots of people who've built their own coffins, I suppose?!' says. Hunger, "But you don't very often hear of a fellow whe turns round and sleeps in it after he's made it, do you.? "I don't like this thing of putting jewelry and expensive clothes in the ground. They are needed here on the surface. Thousands of dollars are wasted that way every day Now, I'm going to die simply, and I want to be put away just as simply. I'te got things fixed so that all the ex- pense will be that of digging the I'll fyrnish the coffin, and my son has a wagon. We are not going to-have a preacher. And there won't be any funeral exercises-of any kind, These here undertakers charge afel- low more than a hundred dollars. It's outrageous." "But, then, 1 m only 76 years o.d, and I dont expect to die yet for ahout twenty years. My grandmother fived to be 103, and in twenty years will be seven years younger than she was when she died. But If I live a hundred years more I'm going to sleep in that coffin every night. I like He is the | it "Do you know that's the most comfortable bed | ever got into in my life, "Well, it is. That's one rea- son why I sleep in it right along." "1 didn't know you were such a pro- mirent young man." All pleasant as well as disagree- able affairs must have an end, and while Alec Pomeroy was scraping] bottom on his examination his cou sins were bidding Billy and goodby 2 Billy found himself very euxious to see Belle again, but he could not go to vi€it her without giving away the, deception that had been practi ced She wrote her cousin frequently her letters being turned over to Billy and being answered by him in his chum's name, every letter of Billy's? growing more and more affectionate. som ft t k opportunity eight years wired from removed from Carson Once a Liberal. Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster lea- ler is so averse to publicity that no for giving the public a of his admittedly ruthful account remarkable' career is permitted, and all 'sorts of erroneous statements are allowed to creep intd the press was once a liberal and a membér of He he National liberal club for twenty- But on the days the first bill was introduced he Dublin to have his name the roll' of members. Though pressed to remain on the home rule At last Belle wrote her sin" her home. This was her He expected to meet Mrg, Pomeroy Belle and Lucy on arrival and had prepared some jocular remarks when Alec's mother should see a stranger instead of her son, But Mrs. Pomer- oy and Lucy were out when he arriv- with the young lady, during which, instead of beginning with a confession of his fdentity, he began with a confession od. He spent two of his feelings. Suddenly the door of the library, persons opened, and Mrs. Pomeroy discover- ed her niece in close proximity to. a in. which the young stranger. "Aunty," "beloved cou- that she was about to return to much for Billy, and he started at once to see too hours sat, said Belle, jumping up, ground that the club would in the fu- ture be equally available for liberals who were Unionists and liberals who were separatists he was unyielding. The stofies that could be told of Sir Edward's experiences at the bar add to one's regret that he will not give the biographer any help. When at the time of the prosecutions under the crimes act in Ireland he was go; ing up and down the country prose- cuting moonlighters at the rish of hig life he had remarkable adven- tures. On one occasion & menacing crowd outside the courthouse await- ed his departure, and the public thought it advisable for him fo leave by the front entrance, but he ingist- ed and calmly walked in their midst Though they were brandish- ing-sticks and openly declaring what they would do to Carson when they got hold of him, yet the moment they with a blush en her face, "Alee's come." 2 Mr¥. Pomeroy stood mute with as- tonishment. "Where is he?" she asked coldly. - "Why, here, of course. What do you mean?" 2 "I owe you all an explanation," stammered Billy, with a face as red ports have as yet reached the saw the fearless lawyer they made a way for him and he escaped without injury. : Great Russian Aeroplane. . The Springfield Republican. It is curious that only vague re- wes- {college as a cock's comb, and, beginning at the wrong end of his story, he got inextricably confused. However, the day after the next commencement, Billy took homors, he went to Color- ado to claim his bride--F. A. Mit- chejl in the Cattaraugus Times. ii------ The only bi make comes In -- hich "noise some people ever n their exploded the- ories. a a 'The upstart doesn's always rise to'[to the tern world in regard to the gigantic aeroplane of the Russian inventor, Sikorsky, who, not content with one to «carry fifteen passengers, is now building one fo carry sixty people. His earlier machine has flown, much seems certain. Some descrip. tion has 'been given of its accomo- dations, which include & cabin and berths. ~~ ~ A init few troubles are just as necessary development of aun as a few | CHEEK | When I began business at 18 years of age I entered the counting room of Stoughton Brothers on a salary of $4 a week. I had assurance enough for 10 men of my age, and it is as- surance that tells. I. have often wondered why this is so largelythe elon that it is based on the principle of war. that the assailant has the ad- vantage of force over inertia. It is a principle of mechanics that a body started through space in which there-is no resisting medium will go on at the same rate forever. A body that is not started will not move, and when struck will be knocked into *'pl."" to browbeat me, when I jumped on them with both beet. This 1 kept INOTHING LIKE, | case afid have come to the conmclu- | 1 had no reverence for my superi- | ors, but treated them with eminent | respect except when they undertook Cool 8 Comfortable many tood oinle Pere tha two % you see on up as long as 1 was paid little or nothing for my services; when I felt it essential to retain my position I didn't take so many chances. by the name of Ogden. He did an enormous business and was very rich. To us clerks he was like thé mogul of Tartary to a washee- washee Chinaman. Not that he pul on any airs, but because his position was #0 lofty, I used to hear stories about how he got his start and learned that he went into debt and in. a few months was $300,000 to the good At the time I entered business he was worth millions. Belonging 10 an excellent family and not being:troubléd with back- wardness, I was a butterfly of fash- fon My capital was one dress suit, which, notwithstanding my youth, was too smail for me, but for 50 cents I got a tailor to enlarge it. At functions I.uced to meet men who were the heads of large business con cerns, as well as of families. Some of them 1 occasionally went to dur- ing business hours on business, with my hat in my hand. But, meeting them socially, I considered that while we were on a different basis it be- hooved me to keep up an outward show or deference Time passed, and my though slightly eunlarged, was far too small for my requirements. The elbows of my dress coat were getting ragged, and it was impossible for my tailor to hide their nakedness. I did fairly good 'work myself in that respect with ink. Some of my fel- low clerks got small raises by being obsequious to those above them, but I kept on in the even tenor of my way--~that is being ordinarily re-| spectful and standing up for my rights. It didn't ocour to me that it would pay me to toady to a man for the purpose of getting an addi- tional two or three dollars a' week One spring we had a heavy snow- storm, followed by a freeze and then a deluge of rain. There's no words nieteoroligical combination for trans- portation than this, and the city was well nigh: impassable. There were large pools of water everywhere, and the devices for getting over them were not the work of educated en- gineers. There was nearly a block near .the house where I was - €m- ployed. that was so flooded that the whole distance was only passable by means of a string .of boards. Just before bank closing I was direc- ted to make a deposit and started on this narrow plank walks, I had just entered a lagoon of con- siderable length when I saw (he oth- er side of it. It was my part as an undestrapper to make way for the great man. But my dislike for making way | for those above me deterred me. I | would have been willing to do so for an equal and would have been pleased to do #o for an inferior, but to 'get out of a wealthy man's path by. going back or stepping into two feet of water did no please me. Mr. Ogden was thinking of some great business problem, T suppose, for he didn't look up till we very near the middle of the street On seeing me he stopped. One of us must give way. Which should it be? . General Grant said that when he was marching to meet his first enemy during the civil war he felt the responsibility until remembered that quite likely the other general felt as uncomfortable as he. That decided him, and he pushed on. It occurred to me that Mr. Ogden was as much loath to have me give way to him as I" was to do so. Moveover, 1 knew that he was a natural gamb- ler. Taking a quarter from my salary, met | There was a banker in the street | NEW YORK FRUIT STORE ¥Fresy, strawberries and cher~ ries daily. Sweet. Oranges, 20¢, 23c, 80c, 40c and 060¢ a dozen. St. Phone1405 314 Princess For Sale .9 room house, new; all' improvements, $3,000.00 Easy terms. Apply W. H. Godwin & Son 89 Brock Bt. Phone 434 SER As White pocket 1 said: "Heads or tails for the right of way." "Heads," he twinkle in his eye. replied, with a have it come down ws I wanted it, so I threw the quarter with my thumb and called, '"Heads!""| and stepped off into the water. 1 had saved my face--that is-I had given rights. ¢ That action 'made me a million- aire, I met Mr. Ogden some time after that at a social function, and he asked me where I was employ- ed. I told him, and he told if I should leave my position to let him known. A few weeks later I left Stoughton Bros., voluntarily and called on Mr. Ogden. e took me 7to his service and promoted me 80 fast that 1 grew dizzy. He is now retired, and 1 am the manager I bélieve Mr. Og- den when I flipped for the right of way, saw in the act indication of a lof his business. Ao |. Lots oi people marry for love don't succeed in carrying out the or- iginal dcheme." * Life is full of paradoxes, Those who are most accomplished don't always | accomplish the most. Some year's I knew how to flip a coin and! way, but had not surrendered my | quality he wanted in his business. i who | SHow..... wa a0 Ladies' White Canvas Buf- ton Boots, $2.00, $3, $3.58 nd | Ladies' White Nu-buek Bi m Tos ton Boots, $3.50, $4, White Ladies' ( "Pumps. Colonial Pumps. Girls' White Canvas Childs White Canvas Pump Y'All the newest shapes. %