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mm 0' P. 1'. an"! Among the btest additions to the library of biography is a book that gives the story 0! P. T. Barnum, the circus man. “Barnum” is its title and M. It. Werner its author. As an instance of how a man can develop into a great entertainer of the pub- lie and still be very much of a humbug. there has probably been nothing for a long time that has been more enlightening than the life story of this famous American showman. A New York Herald review 0! the book sums up Barnum's character in p?- in but doubtless fair terms, am omen _ let April it as per monument. members all present, the Reevvin the chair; minutes of last meeting read and adopted. _ 0 Communications were read from: Messrs. C. MoArthur and Edgar Pat- terson re schools; W. Jones re road- work; Mrs. Trafiord, re assessment of dog in 1921; Municipal Wlorld, ac- count for Assessor’s supplies and stationery. Brodieâ€"M. Blackâ€"{Phat orders be issued on the Treasurer for payment of winter work accounts in difierent wards as follows: Ward 1, $104.60; admmm‘ ”‘3‘ h” “'33 a "““"'l“"“ Wax-«:12. $86.00; \\'ai°113,8’79.20;Ward {alm- whu blatantly hmvled mount-‘- .1. $36.70.â€"â€"â€"Carried. and It. ll. Werner-its author. As an instance of how a man can develop into a great entertainer of the pub- lie and still he very much of a humbug, there has probably been nothing for a long time‘that has been more enlightening than the life story? of this famous American showman. * A New York Herald review of the hook sums up Barnum’s character in lit-in but doubtless fair terms, admiuing that he was a champion faker who blatantly howled moral- ities. He was out for reform, bill it was other people‘s reform that he was .nterested in. His work was basin: on the combined mottoes "There's a sin-ker horn every min- ute" and ”honesty is the best policy." In reading the story of Barnum‘s amtamons and magnificent decepâ€" tions. one does not know whether to laugh or be shocked. The decep- tions themselves harmed no one, but in his astute Showmanship he “harnessed his caravan to the church by the straps of his personal pm}? iie‘advem‘esed his collection of freaks, real or faked, as "Barnum's Great Moral Show.” To give him his due, in one sense he lived up to his profession. Per- haps some of his curiosities were mostly paint and cardboard, and perhaps he was not quite the “force ,_A_-... for great moral good" that certain gullible ministers voted him. But to his credit be it remembered that never was one of his clowns allowed a broad joke or a suggestive gesture. Barnum himself would probably have softened the word “deception” as applied to his treaks to the word “exaggeration.” Hiaxvery first exhibit, the negress Joiee Het..h was advertised as 161 years old. In reality she was about -A_...I 80. When he found on the streets of Bridgeport the midget who after- wards became General Tom Thumb, the child, two feet, one inch in height. and weighing '15 pounds. was five years old. He was announced as “H years old, just arrived from Eng- land,” for Barnum realized early the American love for an importation. The general’s first contract with Barnum was for four weeks and called for $3 a week and board for himeelf and his mother. That was in 1842. Nineteen years later Bar- num acquired for exhibition purpos- es the. dwarf known as Commodore Nutt. l7 years old and 29 inches high. This time Barnum paid the we father $30,000 for three years’ service, in addition to all expenses of board. clothing. costumes and travel. In the early days of Barnum’s mu- seum at Brnadway and Ann street, New Yurk, the showman’s ingenuity enabled him to discover some way to deal with every unexpected situ- atiun. Holidays were great days for patrnnage. and on the first fourth of July of Barnum’s management so many people visited the museum that the sale of tickets was stopped. This Barnum described as "exceed- ingly harrowing to my feelings." By 3 n'eloek in the afternnon Barnum’s carpenters had built a new exit at the rear of the museum, but. much money had already been Inst. The next St. Patrick’s Day, anti- cipating a large attendance. Barnum saw to it that the rear exit, was again Opened. By noon the museum was crowded and the sale of tickets. had to be stopped. Most of the vis- itors had brought lunch baskets, de- termined to stay all day and throughout the mening. Hurriedly Barnum ordered a sign painted. “The Why to the Egress.“ It was nailed over the rear door. Most of the vis- itors. interpreting it as indicating a new attraction, rushed through the door to find themselVes on Ann street. with no way of getting back except by paying another admission at the front. SULLIVAN TWP. DIVISIONS WILL HAVE “DISTRIBUTION (Chesley Enterprise) 0n the 1922 municipal lists of Sui- livan Township there are 2o?) names of voters in Desboro polling Sllll-‘tll- vision. In the supplementary lists for Parliametnary elections there! are 126 names of widows and lllll- ried women who will be on the mu- nicipal lists for 1923 in this sub- division which are being prepared in the Clerk for the printer. This makes 331 names in Desboro dix ision or 131 over the maximum under the statutes. Sullivan Township will have at least six polling sub-divi- sions in 1924 and the present Coun- cil will have to make the redistribu- tion of same. to you, excep ing a hustler. iife is harder out in the great open spaces, no doubt, but you don’t, at least, step on chewing gum, ‘Adam’ Ind his faults, but you cin say one word for him. He was an lt you wait, all things will come“ » you, except the reputation of be- Aljoeâ€"-J. J. Blackâ€"That Wm. Edge [)0 appointed Sheep inspector . in Ward 1 instead of John Mofi‘at.â€"Car. Aljoeâ€"J. J. Blackâ€"That the Reeve be appointed Town'ship Road Super- intendent fur 1923.â€";Carried. , Aljuoâ€"J. J. Blackâ€"That Wtard ap- propriation for 1923 be $500.00 for each ward and that the day’s pay be $4.00 for man and team, and $2.00 for mamâ€"Carried. Aljoeâ€"M. Blackâ€"What .the Clerk be and is hereby requested to pre- pare a By-law defining the boundarâ€" ies of the several school sections and have the same prepared for next meeting of Council.â€"Car1jied. Aljoeâ€"J. J. Blackâ€"That accounts of Dominion Express Company for 60 cents, express on Assessor’s sup- plies. be paidâ€"Carried. Aljoeâ€"J. J. Blackâ€"That following accounts for printing and supplies be paid: 0. Ramage Son. $83.30; Municipal Wbrld, Assessor’s sup- plies and stationery and office sup- plies. “Haâ€"Carried. Brodieâ€"M. Blackâ€"That Messrs. R. T. Edwards and H. Beaton be paid $1.50 each for half day at Council meeting, and that H. H. McDonald be paid $t .50 for trip to Durhamâ€"Car. M. Blackâ€"Aljoeâ€"Jl‘hat Ernie Mc- FOR GOOD HEALTH Try Chirogractic First Not Last Middaugh House CONSULTATION FREE Drs. C. G. and Bessie MacGillivray Chimpractic Specialists Chronic Nervous and Spinal Diseases a Specialty JERRY ON T. Crap. be paid $5.00 on account for right. of way through Lot 16, Con. 5, for 1923.â€"â€"â€"Carried. Brodinâ€"«M. Blackâ€"(Phat Mr. Cun- ningham Moore, assessor for 1923, be paid $2 0. 00 on salary .â€"â€"Ga1ried. - M. Blackâ€"Brodieâ€"That A.B. Cur- rc-y be paid $1.00 for securing affa- (lavits for Treasurmnâ€"Carried. M. Blackarodieâ€"flilmt the Clerk 1w paid $75.00 on galary.-â€"1()arriod. 3|. Blackâ€"A1j05â€"'l‘hat Lawrence Yin-Known be paid $12.50 for road to (Hon st.ati0n.â€"~Carried. .\l. Blackâ€"Brodieâ€"«That the Clerk I an: also convinced that 7 p. m. is the fork in the roads, one of which leads to character and the other to the lack of~it. "â€"vâ€" There are twenty-three other hours in the day but there is no hourso, potent as this 7 p. m. . Why? This is the answer : A man’s waking hours are divided Between industry and leisure. To a majority of mankind seven in the evening marks the end of work and the beginning of leisure. It is the hour when a man makes a choice ‘of the kind of leisure he is to have. If he turns to the leisure that means improvement to his mind, his body, his soul, he wins. If he turns to the pleasure-feeding frivolities, he loses. It is a cold-hloded proposition, but it is true. Genius is 99 per cent. hard work and the best of leisure is a shift from one kind of work to an- other kind of work. Ninety-nine out of every hundred men who win in this world use the time when they are not at work in activities which look like work to the loafer. Durham, Ont. BUM] Lllllla 'UUD U WIIUIII LIII-v nay.- bt' mstrmim to write the C.P.R. re- S 111 b . ’t 7 9" questing that they move‘ the Glen m1 0y, am 381‘- station East to Sideroad 30, as the “Weg’tlsai? “If? 3°°t°§a :ecrcttly Council refuses to pay for present avg,» 83 apxe YSO 98, 398- . , “‘ 1", . 108d any longer "(’3‘ "1d “Well, doc.. I ”Opes yer won‘t fer- Council adjourned to May 12 at 10 get, that my Willie threw the brick am. -â€"-H. H. McDonald, Clerk. that ’it ’im." VER before has there been such a widespread appreciation of the better type of home decoration. We cater to this demand with a range of Wall Papers which should satisfy the most critical. They represent the most authentic designs in fine wall decorations. Among the showing will be found a s lendid assortment of BOXER papers-â€" 2% inches wider than «the old type of Wall Paper, giving the pronounced (Louisville Courier-Journal.) . Screen your open-grate fires in winter, swnt the flies in summer. Eton, look nnd listen at grnde cross- ings, don‘t stnrt the kitchen range fire with the keronene p'nn, keep your nose out of other folks businesg and maybe you will live to be run over by a drunken joyrider. Love is the quality that persuud‘es a girl to quite. good job waiting on customers and take a life job await- mg on one man. True philosophy is the quality that makes a stout woman reach for another piece of cake. Thé honeymoon is over when he begins to remember that he has a number of delightful men friends. Ah, well, the modern girl may know less about. making broad. but she knows more about making dough. The fault of science is that it pays too much attention to our 0r- igination and not enough to our destination. , A garage is a place where the car is kept until the children gm hume from school for fire summer. The reason landlords are richer than renters is because they pay for a house one time and then quit. “Say, doctor,” said the? brawny scrub woman, “yer geitin’ a party good thing-out 0’ tendiu’ that rich Smith boy, ain’t yer?" wiil- result in a satisfactérv sofution of any decorating problem. advantage of fewer scams and costing less because of greater covering surface. A visit to our Wall Paper dqpu'tmcnt‘ suited i0 the rooms ydu purpose deem ating this Spring. BUY NOW WHILE STOCK IS COMPLETE You will fipd us painsmkigg in work hakingdays are gone. never to return. Then it wa< a matter of anxious eon- jrcture as to whether or not that batch of bread would rise properly. All of our baking is a scientific success. Our bread should be one of your standard family foods. l X nwst ivmos the old guess- PAGE m my." ‘ 11.....-