ABBOTSFORD, AND MATSQUI NEWS The best buy in cigarette tobaccos Has Useful Gift - jn BELGIUM'S AMBASSADOR | | King Baward Always Able To Make| Appropriate Speech Gs Cc a | a When King Edward (as Prince of | } Wales) was in Canada and had to} make a speech at almost every rail-| way division point, people said his| speeches were written by a secretary. When, years later, he began appear- ing at important public functions at home and abroad, with his speeches} growing in maturity, it was con-| WORLD HAPPENINGS | BRIEFLY TOLD | Five buffalo for Prince Albert National park arrived by train from| Elk Island park, in Alberts. A pad-| dock has been prepared for the ani-| mals. | Institutions for the mentally de- fective controlled by the London| county council will no longer | called “mental hospitals”, but simply} “hospitals”. Half the labor of cutting a field of | grain will be done away with if the! automatic “‘stooker,” manufactured by Henry Smith, 82-year-old Toronto! inventor, comes up to expectations, Canadian exhibitors at the Poul- try Congress at Leipzig, Germany, have donated to the Leipzig Zoo- logical Gardens & number of excel- lent specimens of Canadian fowl, it} was announced. Fathers spend too much time in bunkers hitting at little white pills; with niblicks and not enough time with their children, says Judge John F. McKinley, of Ottawa, chairman of the Ontario parole board and author- ity on domestic relations. Canada may look forward to new trade agreements with New Zealand, Ww. J. Jordan, high commissioner for New Zealand, said. He was in Tor-| onto on his way to London to as-| sume his duties as successor to Sir James Parr, whose term of office ex-| pires shortly. A live anti-aircraft shell about 10 inches long was unearthed in a@ garden at Norbury, England. It is believed to have been fired when a Zeppelin bombed the district in 1915. After.35 years in the royal house- hold, H. Barratt, who weighs 240 pounds and is six feet, three inches in height, has retired on pension. He was known as “Jumbo.” A primitive Indian grave over 100) years old was uncovered on the east bank of the Red River by workmen digging an excavation for a house. The skeleton is of a young boy,! buried in the conventional position, | on his side with head and knees| touching. His knife and an iron for| striking flint were beside him. Were Seeing Things Actresses Report Strange Happen- Ings At Village In India | Charges made by two actresses have sent the police of Nowabshah,| India, on a “ghost” hunt. The| 000 pounds of bread a day which| made for 3 francs per person. Last actresses declared that when they) returned home after the evening per- formance an old fakir standing at the foot of the stairs beckoned them to follow him upstairs. reached the top he was gone, and in his place were two cats “with sparks shooting out of their eyes.” The women looked out of the window, and were horrtified to see a young man hanging from a roof and shout- ing that he was being murdered. They dashed down to help him—only to see him jump down, “and disap- pear into thin air.” This was enough for the two actresses. They called fn neighbors as protection, packed their things and left for quieter lodgings. Recovered Lost Purse B.C. Woman Was Happy To Find Contents Intact E. A. Cook, a janitor at the Bri- tish Columbia museum, picked up a purse and, without opening it, put it to one side until someone claimed it An hour later a woman appeared,| travel almost as fast as light— rushed about frantically, looked be-| which beats everything else by hind museum and eventually! whizzing along at 186,300 miles al approached Cook | second—powerful electric currents| “Is that what you are looking for,”| are required to brake them even| he asked? producing the purse slightly. “Yes,” she said, and opening the Thus the “traffic cop” is a 12-ton purse, magnet capable of producing an at- pulled out a roll of money and d be ” step,” says the newspaper. When they) houses.” | descendingly admitted that perhaps! he improved on the manuscript of a| “ghost.” To certain people, always} wise about what goes on in high places, no statesman or ruler ever {has a mind of his own. Empire Shipping Lines Sir Edward Beatty Is Organizing To Meet Competition In The Pacific Reports that empire shipping lines vee Boakiic aceuieeteiny 4 tae oe No ‘ghost’ could have written the under the lesdurship) Ge Sinmtwart|lece eeoree which King Edward Beatty, president of the Canadian| ™2ce to ee eee ‘i pay oe SacineA peli aay andl enevOrganising| RXete ne on penta eres Ck) to meet foreign competition are dis- impromptu as it was, made upon im- Stiseedl! Iitvaiv eOitorial ta thesondan| Poet wer model of its kind. Daily Mail. John Morley once said that a good “This would indeed be a welcome speech depended upon where it was “Sir Ed-! made, how it was made, and what ward Beatty is known the worla| ¥®% "lo adding the gay cynicism | that the least important was the over as president of the famous) Canadian Pacific Railway and is| ast. It was a poor thing for Morley probably the foremost business chief| ‘° ae Hae e “se a ae in the British empire. When he takes a i AS ‘e a ay ees ae ae iv gral iad MhenUlihe miever falls iEO| eres ce coe eee eon ty ~ carry it through. In this case there| speaker can feel and touch the mood Is a special need of initiative and| °°" occasion, if, in other words, he energy such as he possesses in so can have a sense of proportion, then high a degree he is speaking well. “Four years have elapsed since the Ni pues re ouee soir British government promised the to Vimy pilgrims a model was his peieiahiiinedauppore int the: racelen| meee oe appropriate. He was not the competition of American ves- speaking as & Monarch on a great sels,” it continues. “These latter State occasion. He was speaking as haye received large subsidies and a war comrade to old comrades on Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador to Great Bri- tain, arriving at No. Street for a conference of the Lo- carno Powers. German Ambassador To London Von Ribbentrop Appointed To World’s Prize Diplomatic Post Joachim von Ribbentrop, chancel- lor Hitler’s personal emissary on many important diplomatic missions, has been appointed German ambas- sador to London. Von Ribbentrop, appointed to what is considered the world’s prize diplo- matic post, is a former champagne salesman. Only last April his ap to Being Carelessly Confident In Actual the value of fear as a human safe- guard are testimonial offered by Dr. Charles Edward Monroe. Dr. Monroe who lives in Wash-| ington, D.C., is now 87 years old and is considered authorities on high explosives. has handled them throughout most of his adult life. ardous career, the Doctor credits his to the fact that he always was in 10 Downing| ™Y The Value Of Fear Coleman Hot Plate Cooles with Air! 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Ask your aS of the death lurking in his test] @geleegrouny® (°F ubes. “T always was afraid, and for that| %"™™ feronte, Ont. reason I always was careful,” he confessed a day or two ago. “I) respected the materials I worked| Noth ts ies a ae afraid of Even Queen Victorla Had Ideas eae 4 About Friday And Thirteen and always did as much of the work Queen era possibly picked up s | ee Ce myself in order to be sure) some of her strong superstitions 9 during her many visits to Scotland. sileaii ras ey et cee ne - ea This queen could not be persuaded to ens: ps 8 ovens ep j begin any journey on Friday, and sit- San ast suentice ava allowed” bla| Caiee ete ant eee eaten recat feeling to degenerate into panic his| pouree sis nob contemplate: or actual danger would have become) ‘ | Nearly all airmen are superstitious Bone ae ie Roe ae ae had) and invariably carry a lucky mascot * wit releasly confident. when starting on a dangerous flight. Bes ae ut ‘ a ae oe Les Colonel Lindbergh pinned his faith on, an uctive 5 $ on an elk’s tooth, and the Mollisons prudence. Such a fear is no bar to) take a rusty and well-worn horsesiol courage. Indeed, people who have it] wherever they go. gran Fee the pacae courageous); The French, although possessing of men and women; and if every-| many hard-headed traits, are in- Famous People Superstitious also have as an aid the coastal a festival occasion. Hence the open- reservation which closes to British ea eae ot" Reverence eens liners the trade between such points Meee araiare lke san ee mee ie it il s ae ae sua ae a aN day, the touch of humor, followed by therefore to grant a very handsome a simple welcome to Buckingham subsidy to the British lines to equal-| Ay ee anaes ae fori ‘happy ize the position. It is now or never] cee racayr eee eae if the British lines are to be saved| eee Se ete pen as their reserve funds are exhausted. Roe a artificiality, no spe “Tf Beatty can infuse ‘pep’ into cou! e happier. the governments concerned and se- Monarchs are not wont to speak | like this. Nor great rulers. Stalin cure an adequate British service in M Hit THREDERIAG TORUS runce Get Leee Ne Ree ee tcre dace Seer another immense contribution to the Jer is reminiscent of an illiterate Mussolini recalls Napol- iti " Nietzsche. welfare of the British empire.” ea eon. Yet, worse than these are the ordinary run of speakers who, every time they get upon their feet, think - they must imitate Burke. It is the Nazis Planning Colossal Playground) ...¢ of thing that makes public Exclusively For Working Class A “colossal” seaside resort ex- clusively for the working class Is being conjured up by the Nazis from a lonely strip of beach between Binz and Sassnitz, on the island of Rue- gen, in the Baltic Sea. Twenty thousand factory girls, miners, work- men, kitchen maids, farm-hands, painters, cobblers, plumbers, engine| prove a drawing card — attracted drivers, train conductors and post-| 1,107 visitors in 1935, The under- men, with their wives and children, ground tour from the Place de la will live in 3,350 rooms all facing| Concorde to the Madeleine church is the sea. Each day about 3,000 works! taken in small boats in the under- ers will arrive and 3,000 depart, each| ground passages, made famous by group staying 10 days. Thus in five| Victor Hugo's “Les Miserables”. months 300,000 are to be accommo- The sewers are open to the public dated. only in summer months, one day a They will eat 80,000 rolls and 25,-| week, and the eerie boat trip can be a higher rank in the “S.S.”, or Black- Shirted Nazi guard troops by Chan- cellor Hitler was looked upon as a new indication of the Nazi leader's faith in him. The rank of ambassador-at-large with special duties subsequently was given to Von Ribbentrop and as such he has had much to do during nego- tiations for cementing of relations between the Reich and Great Brit: He endeavored unsuccessfully to ob- tain a sympathetic response from French war yeterans when he as- sured them of German war veterans’ friendship. Tall, with a thin face and wavy hair, Von Ribbentrop before the Great War, was popular in society in Ottawa. Seaside Resort For Workers | speaking a plague—Otawa Journal. h i Attracts Few Visitors EOE President Of Columbia University Has Warning For Nations Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, back from a European tour, warns that nations heaping debts at the rate of $10,- 000,000,000 a year by unemployment relief spending, may reach the end of their borrowing tether in another year. Restore the world’s buying power, he says, or we face a “calami- tous crisis’ in the not distant fu- ture. Dr. Butler has a prescription to prevent the world’s economic break- down: Restore confidence in the capital and credit markets and thus cause trade to expand normally. This would bring about an in- Not Many Tourists Make Trip Through Sewers Of Paris ‘The famous sewers of Paris, which are open to the public—but seldom will be baked in their own bakery. A} year’s traffic brought about $285 in- private laundry will wash 16,000) to the coffers of the French govern- pounds of laundry daily. Meals will| ment. bodyay it, there would be @ tensely superstitious and Napoleon big of dable| himself was no exception to the and useless tragedies—Detroit Free) ryje. It is considered very unlucky Press. in France to whistle indoors, and the great French conqueror once re- duced an aide-de-camp for daring to pipe a melody within the precincts Capt. John Irying Was Owner Of, of the Palace of Fontainebleau. First Steamship Service Between Boxers are superstitious people, Victoria And The Mainland Max Baer will not go anywhere with- Captain John Irving, 82, owner of out a small golliwog which he looks the first steamship service between upon as haying contributed to all his Victoria and the mainland, died re-| B00d luck in the past. Carpentler's cently at Vancouver, following & mascot was a small golden wishbone month's illness. which he carried on his watchchain. Captain Irving was born aboard a Actors have their own supersti- sailing ship operated between San tions which exist nowhere else but Francisco and Portland, Ore., by his) °° the stage. One is that no one father. When his father died John| ™USt mention the title of a play on took over operation of the Irving its first night until the curtain has Pioneer Line. risen. Martin Harvey became so In 1882 the Irving Line and the nervous at an infringement of this Hudson's Bay Company fleet joined custom on one occasion that he com- to form the Canadian Pacific Navi- pletely forgot his opening lines, and gation Co, and in 1901 the company] 5&4 to improvise paste ; Be teauaterned’ to the Canadian|_.-canora, Duss Mince atc Pacific Railway Co a mongoose given to her in India, Capt. Irving also organized the and would not be consoled when it Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navi- died. She firmly believed that her gation Company in 1890, and in 1896 acting days were over! And it is Eatiiso(inie Morranizedk the) Yukon) Wena that her great con- Navigation Company which he turn- temporary, Sarah Bernhardt, slept in Dieeesevis the Wilts) Bake) Raltiay| Des scomm SVey ene Css ease a Company in 1900, the belief that it would postpone her eataet Cactiinhievine wasfelectedl(cee onset perhaps the to the British Columbia legislature greatest wig-maker in the world, left as member for Cassiar and was re- a dinner party attended by distin- elected in 1897. guished guests because he had spilled the salt. Kemal Pasha, who has done so much to modernize Turkey, is him- self a believer in superstitions. One of these is that it is unlucky to | Pioneer Of Pacific Coast A Lost Opportunity Nations May Soon Regret Failure of it Cr be served in 10 gigantic “food) Today Parisian sewers extend from | 600 to 700 miles in length, but only a is available to crease in national incomes; relief | needs would be lessened and budgets | The beach has a length of five| quarter of a mile could be balanced.—Detroit News. | miles of which more than three miles curious tourists. will be equipped with promenades, | cafes, resting places, etc. A ea | 2,250 feet long will be built. In Japanese feudal days, the Sa- murai, or soldiers constituting the lesser nobility, received their yearly salary in rice. A samurai of high rank earned as much as 250 tons of rice annually. Ethiopia was the last independent country in Africa. Birds have the highest body tem- | perature of any creature. Cosmic Rays | Huge Electrical Machine For Con- ——= eed = trolling Speeders Of The Sky A huge electric “traffic cop” for Summery Panel those mystery speeders of the EAE! be —<_ Sreties | verse—cosmic rays—neared comple- |tion in the University of Chicago {laboratory of Dr. Arthur Holly | Compton, noted physicist. | It was designed on the same gen-| eral principle as “speed traps" for| human motorists. The idea was to| pull them out of line as raced aaa slow them down, and take their finger-prints.”’ Because the rays are believed to} bring flowers into the house, and their absence is one of the first things noticed by his visitors. Whatever the outcome of the in- ternational situation, the taxpayers of all the nations involved are bound to feel the effect in enormously in- '. 5 creased financial burdens even if the|” Holding Celebration supreme calamity of war is averted.) Hosiers Of Troyes, France, Are The result will be that in the near Planning Colorful Festival future men may look back with ? bitter regret at the missed opportuni- In picturesque fashion, the hosiers ties of the disarmament conference) %f Troyes, France, will evoke history and repeat the old lament of the) °f stockings across the ages in & lack of reason and sound common colorful stocking festival to be held sense with which the world is gov- next September. It is not known erned.—Philadelphia Bulletin. when the first stocking was made, but historians of the industry there say that silk stockings were “in- A little girl sitting in church, vented” about 400 years ago. Con- 5 ’ ddenl: 3 ar a wedding, suddenly eX-| -ouently, the September festival ¢ ages hs the lady changed| 4 celebrate this anniversary. jes erates Until the 16th century all stock- F im ings were of ordinary cloth. King wi ; 2 her| alten do you mean?"; the mother) Fy VIII. was the first English monarch to wear silk stockings “why,” 4, ‘she went : Why," replied the child, “she went) (7144 in Spain), while Queen Eliza- up the aisle with one man and came i t back with another.” beth was probably the first Queen to do so. She is reported to have said, At one of a series of lectures al ba ear Seer < see er ssonianitwanted! ai acat-and/nGeneral\Cues tare Bloanene delicate, and Iwill wear no more Garfield brought one and seated her. “Oh, you're a jewel!” she said in appreciation. cloth stockings.” Troyes is famous for a variety of Feat viens Geanela cmigal aso the military oe eli" career of Joan of Arc; it possesses Jeweler; ZiveJush se thesienel \the only Gothic church made of