o There is never any thought of Bing him off, howover, unless he BBmits the uplorgivable sin of re- pd My THE PGCE OVLDPILDIGDIO: Superstitions * Ye you got curly hair? If so, 2 are lucky to fishermen. The the coasts who set sail In the 8, seining boats, and trawlers Bin have the greatest respect ly, halr, insist that agcurly-headed lad the boat ensures a good catch. & newcomer Is seeking a chance be made one of a boat's crew, Ance jSsherally comes quicker if surly T® are queer customs along of the coast: For instance, or four men make up the boat, they share the profits Simple regkoning, time-honored olate. The owner, 'who is also Sably skipper, takes two shares, Ie Is a share for the y devoted to Its maluténance the purchase of new gear, and & share eath to the two or three of of Fisher-folk Tr ro 1a mang Jaan---the crew. ere is no - skipper and i any occasio That last alone con per"s right to refuse to stand by | f man, and to take another im his occasionally happens that al lazy, id contract between his arew, but no her qver dreams of turn- one of his crew, unless thei wishes to give up the job ) mes a young man will do to | the mavy, or unless he refuses 0 to go out with the stitutes the ber of a crew will grow Bg his mates trouble by prompt to shove off have been sighted, Ing his share of cleaning the and by being generally shift- of fish to go qu when the rest of the crew are . Then if pleadings and ex- tions are in vain, another man be given a change, but he must into the, . hesitate but 'at once. Up and down the East Coast! gland, those who know, never Jump right boat, which / { » 88} never when these boats to let the youngest boy on board open the trawl! when it ia brought on to deck. It is generally believed that that ensures good luck and bountiful catches to the trawler. Then the small boats, lower down the East Coast, which go out for her- ring, have rather a charming belief. | It is that when a boat goes away for several days' fishing, the last man to kiss his wife before leaving shall be foremost in stepping the mast. 'Tt leans good catehes and prosperity. Down on the South Coast it is unlucky ever to refuse help. The beachcomber who just lays a hand to a rope when a boat comes in is allowed to earn a few pence in this Perfunctory manner, for the fisher- men firmly believe that to refuse help will bring retribuation. In Cornwall, they believe that waste during gluts of fish bring bad luck, and that the mackers! or pil- chards will not return for years after needless waste during a glut. Down at St. Ives there are men always posted at a 'little hut on the Cliff, straining their eyes to sight the plichard, which ten or eleven years round about. After that they never came in very great numbers, though Still the tireless watchers have an enduring fsith in the return of the small prosperity bringing fish. Doubts less their ceaseless vigil will in the end be rewarded. It is interesting to know that the Newfoundland fishers generally carry 8 quaint safeguard from drowning. It is a tiny flat bone from the ear of & plaice. These beliefs and supersti- ation of wonderfully sturdy charac- ters, obey Wage Reductions in Britain, them whenever possible, ems etmerbai---------- ductions in the rates of wages affect- ing most industries, and a recorded took place In the weekly full-time against about £4,800,000 in the weekly wages of 7,700,000 workers. remeron i Accidents In Britain. rn bya . the number of 2,845 were the result Dood-bre i A thes 3 Dub 'of street accidents caused by vehicles " Phe Mardy sea folk believe during 1921, as compared with 2,837 ~ the utterance of the word ""Good- in 1920. Of these 2,328 occurred in ; England and 'Wales, 350 In Scotland, of Nib rod she wild 162 In Trond Soe sopootiand, "of fear will come into the eyes ber of fatal and non-fatal accidents » in the United Kingdom in 1921 was # fishers' wives if ever the word Iadvertently uttered by a visitor. §4.117, as compared with 57,757 in en the great trawlers which go into the North Sea and to the Bank, returning laden with! Irmous fhiches to Grimsby and' h Shields, have thelr little super- Ig) bons aboard. ------r--i------ Crime In England. Over 60,600 persons were tried for indictable offendes in England and It is the custom on Wales during 1920--7,000 more than iin 1919. The increase occurs mainly under the heading of Jarcenies and frauds. Thirteen of the thirty-five death sentences passed dnring 1920 were commuted to penal servitude for lite, Durin, sermon delivered by a }elergymal ere wire frequent ref- erences to sanctimonious, psalm- singing, professed Christians who have no real religion in their make- up." A lad of ten who had heard tho sermon remarked to his father when they returned home: "Dad, 1 shouldn't have thought Dr. Jones would have spoken that way about Christians this morning. There might have been some of them 'n church!" : We are now fully equipped to take #80 came In great shoals to the waters | tions play a large part in the form- | | i } | ! | The year 1921 was marked by an |it Was to protect the inhabftants dustrial depression without parallel | 888inst thelr lawless neighbors. Cen- In the history of the United Kingdom. | turies have passed; the woods have | While, during the year, there was a | 80ne; the names of the robbers are marked reduction in the cost of }iv- | forgotten; but the steward of the Ing there were also considerable re- | Chiltern Hundreds flourishes, though net reduction of about £6,000,000 | BO émolument. | i Wages of over 7,000,000 workers, as | "honor," if not profit, under the & met advance in 1920 of | ¢Town, and by accepting it a member | | Deaths in the United Kingdom to times been applied for and resigned | TRE CHILTERN HUNDREDS Strange Custom Still Exists In British Parllament. When the London Oazette an- nounced that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had appointed Sir Willlam Mount to be Steward and Batiff of the Three Hundreds of Chlltern, not one man in a thousand knew what it meant. When a day or two after- ward the Speaker issued a writ for the Newbury Division of Berkshire, which Sir William had represented in the House of Commons, the mat- ter became a little plainer. It ix one of the absurdities of the British Constitution that when so many men would give half their for- | tunes to get into Parliament, mem- bers are still supposed ' to serve against their will. The last trace of this may be seen in the fact that they | are not allowed to resign their seats. ! Onoe a & member must retain | the trust confided in him by his con- stituents till the dissolution of Par- llament, excepting certain eventuall- ties, such as if he become bankrupt or is expelled for an offence against | the law, or accepts an office of boost or profit under the crown. The last condition Is the means of happy escape for the member who wants to shake off his legislative re- sponsibilities. He applies to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be- stow on him the stewardship of one of the three Chiltern Hundreds, or | an office of a similar nature, such as | the stewardship of the Manor of | Northstead of East Hendred, or of | Hempholme. . f Centuries ago the Chiltern Hills, were covered | : { in Buckinghamshire, and it Is as well to know and | with woods, which afforded a conven- lent lurking place for robbers. The | crown therefore appointed a steward | of the Chiltern Hundreds, whose duty with this difference, that as his du- ties are merely nominal, he receives Nevertheless the office !s one of of Parliament automatically vacates his seat. The office Is resigned as soon as another member desires, to escape from Westminster, and it has some- by different persons three or four | times in one week. With regard to | the practice of bestowing it, Mr. Gladstone saiq the rule was "to con- sider whether the gentleman who asks for the office can by any possi- bility be esceping from any duty he Owes to Parliament; and, 'unless there is some ground or color of Positive objection of this nature, to | GANANOQUE | grant the office without making fur- ther inquiry." Eighty years ago the stewardship |. was refused, because the Chancellor of the Exchequer suspected that the applicant, Viscount Chelsea, was try- ing to avoid an investigation into political bribery. Over and over again certainly since 1775, when George Grenville took the matter in hand, a bill has been introduced to enable a member to vacate his seat on his own initia~ tive; but Gazette still solemnly announces that all in vain, and the London | the Chancellor of the Exchequer has appointed -- to be - "Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds ot Chiltern." Cr ---------- Wrecks Belong to the King, Some time ago a plumber's laborer was hurt by a falling water-trough when working aboard a liner in th Royal Albert Dock. He applied for compensation, and this was granted on the curious ground that a ship in dock is "part of the plant that is be- ing used from the quay to load n> There are all sorts of odd points in shipping law, and some of them need revision. Many of our passenger and DAILY BRITISH WHIG. The owner of this. beautiful estate, The Goldings, in Hertfordshire, needy children, and it has become the 154th of the great system of Barnardo Homes, o first became interested in hom en cared for in the institutions which he founde children at an expen since that time about 100,000 have be timately having become settlers in G has been carried on and expanded by of $10,000 a day. Dr. Barnard at Stepney Causeway, London. ¢ -e Sept. 18.--The lady members and shareholders of the Gananoque Golf and Country Club held a meeting in council chamber and elected the following officers and committees: President, Mrs, 8. C. Taylor; vice- president, Mrs. A. W. White; seers- tary-treasurer, Miss M. Stunden; captain, Mrs. F. W. Bell; executive committee, Mrs. W. Edwards, Mrs. A. C. Hudspeth, Mrs. C. F, Byers, Mrs, James Cowan and Mis Edith Rees. R. B. Oser, government judge of horses, returned from /, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Yesterday, where he has been for the past three days attend- ing the fair, Miss Olive Bryant, ' John street, left yesterday for Brooklyn, N.Y, 0 enter the Methodist Episcopal hospi- tal as a nurse-in-training. i Walter Lynch, Buffalo, N. Y., one of the popular Buffalo Prospect ball team, is spending a few days in town with friends. Miss Tissie Stay- ens, New York, is the guest of her parents, Mr. ,and Mrs. W. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. "Arthur Jackson have returned home after spending the summer at their cottage on Tremont Park. : Mrs. Fred Ives and daughter, Mar- fan, returned to their hdme In Brooklyn, N.Y. after spending the past two months with the f6rmer's mother, Mrs. Alfred , Green, John street. ! Mrs. Ira R, Kip 3rd, and little daughter, who have been visiting at Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rees', have re- turned to their home at South Or- ange, N.J. . An' informal reception is to be held at the home of Mrs. Harriet Lee, Wellington street, from eight to ten In hodor of her daughter, Miss anada, 98 1-2 per cent. having done well. Dr. B others. To the Goldings acquisition 300 boy England, wished it to be used for the benefit of which aow care for nearly 18,000 eless children sixty years ago and d, about a third of the children ul- arnardo died in 1905, but his work 's have been sent from the headquarters Stella Mae O'Brien, whose marriage takes place Tuesday morning at eight o'clock, in St. John's church: Miss Winnie Round," a graduate ndrse of the M.E. hospital, Brooklyn, N.¥., has returned to take a situa. tion in Brooklyn, Raving spent the summer here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'W. Round, Princess street. John Willis has returned to St. Michael's College, Toronto. Ross Meggs, who has been in the Tim- mins ¥fanch of the Bank of Com- merce, is spending his vacation with his parents," Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Meggs, King street east. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lloyd and children and Mrs. Jack Lloyd spent the week-end viisting friends in Winchester. -------- G.T.R. Installs New Device. . Belleville, Sept. 19... The Grand Trunk railway is installing at Belle- ville shops a ratl-sawing device which will employ n0 less than $0 men. This saw will cut out the damaged --~ Portions of rails here, and in that way there will be a big saving to the railway in eliminating the need of shipping the rails away. The plant will soon be in operation. eet. ' Town Bought Bush Lot. On Tuesday Perth purchased a hardwood bush containing between fifteen and twenty acres in Bathurst township from James McLean. It 1s situated between six and seven miles from town. ---------- Bought Town a Mrs. W. J. Connors, Tr , has bought a house and lot om Gore Street east, Perth, from Louis Darou. It is a splendid property and will be a comfortable home. ---------- Before he was married it looked plenty big encugh, but when a man has a family trying to live on his Salary it is about the smallest thing ia the world, hat Nm care of your Auto Repair needs--First Clasy Mechanics to do your work, and all work guaranteed. Car Washing, any type Nea $1.00 Gasoline and Oils for Sale Distilled water always on hand. emigration regulations date back to acts made sixty or seventy years ago, and are quite out of date to-day. For Instance, there is still a regu- lation in force that passenger v 1s mAy not carry passengers on Te than two decks. Of course, the law is a dead letter, and there would be serious trouble if any aitempt were made to enforce it. Another absurd regulation which has never been re- . o TANDARD AUTO SERVICE pealed dates back to the days before ONE 545, QUEEN STREET (Behind Standard Office) steam, and is to the effect that any . - vessel carrying emigrants must carry Sc - . six months' provisions. All British ships are examined period 10 see that they carry proper lifeboats and lifebelts, and that these are in goad Sondition The trouble is that foreign Ps using British ports ean set these regula- Wash Shemp i tions a naught. of an 0 A ship wrecked upon the British . 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