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ring the evening and a ~ ',. Mr. Bilbeck started 1a b l s mfe and children M he short distance ”1M Lbout three-quarters d g pairs were being made idge over che Sauceen E was. no railing on the lights indicactiing t‘lsnt ~roeress an it NM {£12ch must have driven CI. of the bridge and into n. 50th «car and man were tom me: m about three 1m d 3.x rugdj.‘ was almost clegt C b1: h‘ £00! was caught, ‘3‘ lxzhf Yhat his inability to r... peli. I)? The fact that he r3) tm't“:n<ClOUS after the .1], lm '. (irtmn. as it has , .blzni'wd fhat death was due to r, 1' '00k some little time tq Fe bad? and get it up out of . The car was not damned . if! nursday. August 29, I” , _Vâ€"v v. and he was looked an the best known and success- r< of Brant. Besides his '11. rmldren. girls. 8 and 3 m raves two brothers and 1" lanover Post. ups were fixed on the m ctric chair. The kindly w- wer him. "Have you any M 001' mortal?" he asked. arson." the criminal repute. >mfort me a lot if you'll Jllt xandsf 'easod was the son of “ Joseph Bilbeckx wpo‘ m n Ventilated Bun In. no combustion. Wan, burn Produce. 00nd!» 1. Preston Ventihm ““00 Thur 9... ”d7â€" 0' blfldhnflnnho The only nail. to In. lwnlh memlroodn Tb end on tho ’0!- !octly coal. tho 0‘ hole Wnuwdh- Put it on vii: PRESTON LED-HEB NAILS LERS canola 1d into an were found ree feet of ost clear of aught. ma Dility to re; .at he mtg); ier thg In], widespread and the moat numerousâ€" !ar outnumberinc dandelion and but- tercup combinedâ€"is a flower that is unknown to the great majority of city and town dwellers. CANADA’S COMMONEST Or shoulders bear their load. In joy or sorrow. in mirth or woe. There's an end to every road. we know, And God's at the end of the road. Mrs. Norah M. Holland Claxton was born in Collingwood in 1876 and lived until 1925. She was a weaver of ex- quisite verse. a lover of children. a friend of animals and a stimulating comrade. Her books of verse are ‘Where Hal! Gods Go” and “Spunyarn and Spindrift.‘ These sketches of different lives and £99913 9’9 1" 9"! “0919“”! 3.138!" ”1d Their Songs" by Edward S. 'Caswell This book is in thg Durham Library. (by Norah M. Holland) There's many a. path your teet may take O'er hill or vale or plain. By noisy streamlet or lonely lake Where only the winds a murmur make And the silence falls like rain. Bu_t whereypr the too! o_1 {man may go. public sérvice. Mr. J. W. Bengough was born in To- ronto in 1851 and died in 1923. His “inimitable cartoons” made him known from one end of Canada to the other and far beyond. His was a genial. kindly spirit. whose works, alike with voice. pen and crayon, had always been. inspired by the highest ideals of With btllnding snow-Winn): on the 3 cap. And clouds an_d darkness; drug appoll, ounccp. But gather close and silence keep, And listen for the Shepherd’s call. And dumbiy seek to share the rod. We do not know what is to be. We cannot guess. we cannot see; We can but stand and wait for God. As when the winter tempest: fall With blinding snow-wreaths on t Beside the graves' even-rounded sod By some dear instinct close we come. Heart 51an to heart, though we are ama. Ducuau I” Will us UUWUI‘. Ontario. As well as writing ms, she has made a success in writing popular novels. which charm alike the youth- ful and mature reader. The precious and im perishable things Whose iov eiiness lives Oilâ€"and does not fade. Is woven fist 9! them; from dreams of gold, Beckon to sum Keep thou 'thy dreams through all the wingers cold;_ _ Keep thou thy dreams though faith should faint and fail, And time should loose thy angers from the creeds: The vision of the Christ will still avail To lead _the_e on to truth and tender Even while ”(563, Burns the love eternal 01 s Joyous God. in Winnipeg in 1890. Her first serious work was in verse. The “Viking Heart” ope of the best‘ of Common novels Sympathy «by John Wilson Bensough) ComeinChat Awhilo thy by Paul Mont; The End of the Road than 91_ raseé, with their hearts snaking plaéew among our (by Vlrne Shard) WILD FLOWER mm â€"- ‘uvuv-W.’ :mcu skirt is set 'gi-iéewfully on a scalloped line below the hips. Of course. the large-bummed hat fashioned of sheer straw would match the dress and have its own particular bow. Coquettish Bows for the Mani The bridesmaid frock goes “it-bow- ins". Black velvet bows on pastel frocks are absolutely ca tinting. This sleevless, low-boo ed frock is of m ‘l‘clh_a_§hq_ a! m Fashion Fancies “mm. 6.2“; mm% 325% TAB“ m JOY Chime squabs brought 60 to 75 cents a dozen end live old birds from $1 to $2 a dozen. One hunter of the local- ity is credited with having slsin 3,000,000 pigeons within a few yeers. Live plums, be it seid, were sold for trap- noting purposes. end at Coney Islsnd, New art, in 1881, no lees then 20.000birdswereslsininthismanner. Snail wonder thet the pigeon supply eve outinNorth Amerlee. Oneyesr thewlyw'mthepiteonnocksstill swsrmedin thelnnd. Next yeerthe hirdshsdalmostvonished.Despitethe I A A. n- -A ’forest and wild animals nightly took toll from the ground. Here, in the midst of the nesting season, hundreds of professional pig- eoners, hunting for the market, piles their calling with guns, poles. traps and axes. even cutting down the trees to get the squabs. Old birds were massa- cred in tens of thousands. In the summer of me more than 1,000,000 p ns and squabs were sent “ market r9m_ this_ plaoe - alone. In "v "-v '- {Jroaching pigeon nats‘fiiae a noiie ike a hurricane and the and was covered thick with branc es broken off by the weight of birds, with broken egg; 9nd _squaba An Awful Slaughter The last great pigeon butchery of modern times, preceding their utter extinction, seems to have occurred at the vast roost near Petosky, Michigan, in the summer of 1878. Here countless millions of birds nested over a territory 100.000 acres in extent. Tree after tree contained as many as 100 nests and the birds in the branches made an in- describable din. The firings of the ap- __._-- -L __ __ __â€" w- v "3" “PW“. In 1830 he brought 250 live pigeo in New York at our cents and sent most of them to English noblemen. who bred them. Audubon told unbelievable tales oi the slaughter of pigeons in America, but opined that nothing but the destruction oi the forests in which they lived and fed would exterminate the birds, which laid but one egg but nested several times in a season. ed a billion and a nutter birds and consumed 8,250,000 ushels oi beech nuts in one day. He tells. in 1005, of schooners loaded with pigeons in bulk sailing down the Hudson to sell their wares in New ‘York.a_t one cent apiece. '- ‘0‘“ L_ A --A -. ; Passenger pigeons in small flocks ;existed in Michigan as late as 1888 and werereported occasionally in the 1890's and 1900’s from various parts of Can- ada and the United States. Then they seemd to vanish completely. The standing ofler of 31,000 made some fifteen or twenty years ago by an American magazine for one pair of liv- ing wild pigeons, has never been won. Audubon. the tamour naturalist oi the early 19th century, stated that an average__large flock oi pigeons contain- species of wild pigeons in the world today. notable among which is the wood pigeon of Europe, a large bird fr uen y observed in the London par . Apparently the sole wild pigeon now in Canada is the band-tailed pig- eon, aforesaid. of the Pacific coast. It is a bluish slate-colored bird. Years at o the writer saw a few band-tailed p geons on Vncouver Island, where they knew how to elude sgomimen by flying. on alarm, to t e topmost branches of giant dead cedars far out of gunshot. umbia coast'. Slot even oneâ€"oi the num- erous passenger pigeons once in cap- tm seems to have left pure-bred of:- s pigeon of the countless millions which once inhabited this continent died at Lthe Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. It was ap- parently one of the progeny of several wildpairspurchasedbytheZOo in 1877. This last known survivor of its race was a hen bird, twenty years old at the time of its death, and which had never mated with another pigeon. Even stufled specimens of the pas- senger pigeon are rare and most valu- able. 01 such the Royal Ontario Mu- seum has been able to obtain some twenty-ave, mostly from collections in Toronto. _The_re are, it seems. some 300 poulbly'ono of the rumor scarce und- tfllesl wild Pigeons at the British 001- of flochuuteulm bray swarmed above the wild angmals nightly took 0P urn IN “BIG” m P163088 THE DURHAM CHRONICLE 8t- _- . evc “Will; the spring and summer months. This publication, Bulletin No. 112 of the De- partment of Agriculture at Ottawa descr ibes fully the habits of these and many other household insects. or less. They are simila- in general appeal-shoe and habits but differ slight- ly in color, the webbing species being entirely pale butt. and the case-making species grayish-yellow with inconspic- ggus dfrk “spots on Lthe . foreyihgs. --L Clothes moths cause much demege to materials of snimnl origin, such as woollens. furs. heir. feathers. etc.. and their ravages to articles of clothing. upholstered furniture, pieno felts. carpets. etc., are fsmilisr to most house-wives. Dcmsge by clothes moths is caused by the feeding activities oi the caterpillsrs of this insect, which are the young of the smell mothsthetmaybeseenattimesfl g about the house. In a treatise on “Household Insects and Their Control" by the Dominion Entomologist end s; “The price of bread went up shout twoweeksuovhenthenourbegnto Jumpirom thelowotebout . to 3”“:m”"'.:£f:”“:‘ mm“ “De 1' on 3'. Ltd. discussing the situntion. "The strong bullish influence simply forced the betel-s to jump their rates. But the present drop can hordly justify I decreuetrom llctolOc oropound- uncle-half ion! of bread." he aid. cents per barrel recently. the nut- est ling}: drop since 1924. The end- den co go followed o alight down- wordten ncydm'i'igtneluttwoor mdg‘y‘; and flour price demo-es - e ranged from 45c. to 55¢ everywhere. Montreel closed at $8.70 for beet-credo spring wheat. Toronto st 38.“, e de- creoseoi$4c.perbemloitlour. This decrease. however. will not of- iect_the price of Abrengi in Toronto. FLOUR "ICE DROP CLOTHES M01118 w v vâ€"- wva u y w 13qu o_f_ oneghalr mcfi WE OFFER youPurina 1 c hows on just one :3 Nth we. (0 “CW (1112 STANDARD BANK or CANADA THE CANADIAN BANK y OF COMMERCE E fsbled yesrs of sncient Egypt's fullness snd fsmineâ€"the striking lessons found in other historic fscts snd nstnrsl life processes estsblish ssvinc smonc the fundsmentsl lsws upon which Nstnre mskes her sure indictments. 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