f= > PAY ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS NN LN SUPP ERMInT THE YELLOW BRIAR A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside By PATRICK SLATER By arrangement with Thomas Allen, Publisher, Toronto. CHAPTER X.—Continued — A respectable old Englishman de- clared he was a British subject, did he? The indignant man thus chal- lenged was made take an oath on it. And the old man then said he was 21 years old and upward? Yes? Well, let him swear to it. How long did he say he had resided in the town he helped to found? He swore to that also. But was the local tight- wad possessed of property worth £7 10s. a year? In such hypercritical fashion doubts were raised as to the i ions of men p lly well known to every person present. after pledging his oath that he had not been bribed, the Liberal sup- porter would finally cast his vote for Atkins and emerge choking on a __ string of oaths as long as his arm. Such tactics proved very effective to- ward the close of a poll. Getting the votes out early was practical politics in those spacious days. And in the same election, men were pass- ing from poll to poll in the larger centres casting votes in whatever name came readily to their minds. Even the British royal family was not overlooked. Prince Consort cast four votes in that election against George Brown in Toronto. The vanquished in elections, in those days, always had corruption and sinister influences to explain the verdict. The candidate of the Mono reformers, in the riding of South Simcoe, had been defeated, and Mr. Carson was loud in his exclamatory discourse about tory boodle. Nancy Marshall turned the heel of a sock before she spoke. “Well, Mr. Carson,” she said at last, “how about poor Willie Ford?” “Oh! Ford was all right,” Carson assured her. “He voted for us.” “T thought the old man was a Con- servative,”’ she remarked. “He was speaking to me this morning in the village.” “And what did be tell you?” Mr. Carson demanded. “He was much bothered about being sworn at the polls,” she re- plied. “He reckoned perhaps it was all right because he had no money in his hand at the time, but he told me about your side putting the silver on the ledge over his stable door.” And Nancy went on with her knitting. The Clear Grits were claiming a majority of English-speaking mem- bers in the next parliament of Can- ada; and rumblings of what they would do were being heard in’ Mono. Bitter criticism of the French-Cana- dians was the principal stock-in- trade of many Ontario reformers. Mrs. Marshall would hear none of it. On first coming to America, John Trueman and his family had spent four years down at Riviere du Loup, and her mother had always spoken highly of the courtesy and good man- ners of the Canadian children, “The French were here before you, Mr. Carson,” she told him, “and they'll be here after you're gone. It is poor patriotism, Mr. Carson, to be forever criticizing the principal fea- ture on your country’s face. We have an eleventh commandment in ‘Thou shalt mind Canada; it says: And; | Nancy Marshall prodded the enemy | by reading aloud to them an editorial blast from The Leader, and a naive exhibit it makes of the sweet politi- cal temper of the times: “So is any advocate of good gov- ernment afraid of the untameable Clear Grit members? Why, there is nothing to fear. Silence a few of the boisterous ruffians with @ sop. Hold a petty office before the eyes of a screaming Grit member and he is down on his marrow bones in an instant He fawns like a spaniel. Their noisiest ones can be had cheap as dirt any day.’—The Leader (Tor- onto) Jan. 2, 1858. So you will kindly gather that Nancy Marshall was a strong Con- servative; yet, curiously enough, she was very friendly-minded to the peo- ple of the United States. Whatever may be said about George Brown and the clear grits, their loyalty to England could never honestly be questioned. The truth is they were muchly of the colonially-minded, and, at the time, part of the ritual of that cult consisted in finding fault with “American ways,” and sneering at the United States and its govern- ment. To Nancy Marshall's simple mind, the Republic was no abstract angel, or demon, either—it was merely millions of working people struggling to make homes and raise their families to better things. Now Nancy had two aunts living down Philadelphia way — and in houses with marble steps, as she proudly boasted. The strongest feeling in the heart of that woman was utter loyalty to her own kin folk. Any- thing said against the Republic seemed to hurt her as a personal affront against those Irish aunts and their families. And believe me she would not stand for it! “They could gobble us up, the Americans could, any day if they had a mind too,” she told the loyal schoolmaster. ‘We must be friendly neighbors to them or we will soon cease being neighbors at all.” Mr. Carson boasted of the British navy. “Now, Mr. Carson, I'll have you know,” the lady told him, “so far as England and the States are con- cerned, Canada is housekeeping on this continent by sufferance and dur- ing good conduct only. And if you think for a moment the people of the States will quietly let England build up a military power in America, you have another better thought coming to you. Hush up man! We are Quakers in Canada,” ‘ And as events have proved, Nancy was right. The folk living north of the Rio Grande have in fact made a covenant of peace that no govern- ment can destroy—which, to my mind, is another wonder of the world. Peace reigns in America, be- cause everywhere there its altars glow in the hearts of the humble. Modern history has not been made by politicians, nor by acts of state. It is made by the temper and turn of mind of ordinary people, like Nancy Marshall. Yes, Nancy Marshall was a strong conservative in her politics; but, go- ing further, she was @ very conserva- tively-minded woman. Free trade, the repeal of the corn laws, and the benevolence of unrestricted competi- tion in business were subjects fresh and novel enough in those days to awaken a lively interest about an Ontario farm kitchen. The economic principles that supported them were becoming common property among the reading public, and such was the convincing lucidity of “laissez faire —allez passer” that, on first grasp- ing them, the average person felt the rapture of an initiate who awakens to find in his hands a key that un- locks the mysteries. The cold, ab- Stract, economic formulae of the day thine own business’.” were accepted as pure gospel by Mr. Every [0c Packet of \ WILSON’S / FLY PADS | \ WILL KILL MORE FLIES THAN SEVERAL DOLLARS WORTH OF ANY OTHER FLY KILLER Best of all fly killers. quick, sare, leap. Ask your Drug- gist, Grocer or General Store. os THE WILSON _ MORE 5 Euitigy’ 2 10c WHY Marshall and his cronies. They seemed to solve any problem just like QE.D. So far as such abstractions Were concerned, Nancy remained an impenitent unbeliever to the day of her death. She would not listen to Mr. Carson preaching the benefits of unrestricted competition. “Indeed, Mr, Carson,” she once told him, “I think those creatures of yours, Lucy Fair and Allie Passer, are a pair of bad women. The very idea of it! Sit by, you say, letting things go to the devil, and everything will come out all right? Just try running a farm that way, William, and Sheriff Jarvis will be driving in to count us out our six knives and forks, and to put our bedding on the road.” She had the curious notion that the public has to pay in the long run for @ multiplicity of stores and such con- veniences; and that society foots the bill for the riot of waste and the losses that competition leaves in its wake. Indeed, Mrs. Marshall told the Mono reformers she did not believe free trade was a philanthropic at- tempt to give cheap food to the working people of England. In her self-seeki busi inter- ests over there were ruining the farmers in order that factory hands could subsist on lower wages. “And without sound, healthy farms,” she asked them, “where will any country drift—but to ruin?” The simple countrywoman was merely applying generally the social Fand economic principles that people practised on a pioneer farm in Can- ada. Industry, to her mind, was @ social service, and had a greater duty lives of the money-grabbers them- selves. Its first duty was to produce honest wares, and its second duty to give reasonable security of employ- ment to men who depend on it to support their families in comfort. In pioneer life, people knew little of competition, but they tasted the sweets of neighborly co-operation. The idea of gouging a neighbor with a high price because he finds himself short taken in his supplies would have been shocking to the mind and feelings of Nancy Marshall. To her way of thinking, men successful un- der modern business methods should face a grand jury. ‘If people had a chance to be hon- est, there is plenty to go round,” she told them, “and for every reasonable need, families could cut and come again!” Her husband was probably right. His wife Nancy belonged to the Middle Ages, with its guilds that controlled production and regulated prices. In these later days, the eco- nomic principles Mr. Carson accepted with such enthusiasm have lost some of their savour. The practical pre- cepts of shopkeepers, traders and gambling houses are not necessarily the laws of social life. However con- vincing they seemed to him, they were false and dangerous because their conclusions were built on premises that were only half truths, and had society applied them liter- aly, they would have led us through a bloody welter. In politics and social life, the man who has the bet= ter argument usually has the poorer cause. Arguments emanate from the fevers of the brain, but the truth pierces a man in the pit of his stom- ach. Down there somewhere close to fhe heart, according to the ancients, lies the seat of wisdom. Yes, William Marshall was probably right. And, again, Old Hickory Mick described a conservative as a person a hundred years ahead of the times. But then, again, that drunkard would have also told you that any thought worth- while on social matters is already several thousand years old. (To Be Continued) Punishment For Spies Military Authorities Publicly Behead Any Traitors To China Swift beheading was publicly pre- scribed—and demonstrated—by Chin- ese military authorities for China’s enemies among her own people. These include traitors, spies, loot- ers, incendiarists, rumor mongers and those who harbor traitors, poison water sources, secrete munitions or signal the Japanese enemy. The public executioner, armed with a yard-long sword, put the order into effect recently in the Nantao quarter, lopping off the heads of two women and seven men. The heads were promptly placed on picket fences as a warning to others. A 250-pound hog will yield from 12 to 15 per cent. of its weight in cuts suitable for bacon. than piling up wealth to ruin the} Kept Plant Going Edison Answtrs Problem Six Years After His Death Thomas A. Edison, five years after his death, outdid the spirits and made a decision which kept one of his largest manufacturing plants from shutting down. The plant was the battery division of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Nckel had been discovered in $40,000 worth of Swedish iron, used to make the nega- tive “active materials” for alkaline batteries, This is an unusually pure form of iron and no more was avail- able at the time in this country. A staff conference was called to consider whether the nickel impurity ruined the iron for battery manu- facture. “How would you like to have Thomas A. Edison make the deci- sion?” asked one of the conferees, George E. Stringfellow, vice-presi- dent and general manager of the bat- tery division. The staff look inquiring. ‘I'm not sure,” Stringfellow add- ed, “but I think it can be done.” Then he told this story. In 1926, while Edison was the active consult- ant for the battery company, Spring- fellow proposed: “Mr. Edison, would “you be willing to arrange to continue as consultant after you passed on?” “You are crazy,” said Edison. “Tt might work,” Stringfellow re- plied. “You invented this battery. In your mind there ‘Is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the staff give you written questions about the battery, every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could bring the answers in writing to work on Monday morn- ing. Edison agreed. Over week-ends he pencilled answers to lists of typewrit- ten questions. They were filed away in a black looseleaf book. The book remained in the files after Edison’s death in October, 1931. No one knew whether it would con- tain the nickel question; but it did. “Tf there is nickel in iron,” String- fellow had written, “does it adversely affect the life of the cell?” “No harm,” Edison wrote. The conference accepted this de- cision. It turned out to be the cor- rect one. Edison spent 10 years per- fecting this battery. A Puzzle To Doctors Woman Keeps Healthy By Living On Milk And Tea For the past 11 years no solid food has passed the lips of Mrs. Mabel Ashworth, of Corby, near Ket- tering, Northamptonshire, a mother of three children. : She drinks one quart of milk and a@ cup of tea each day. Her health iy perfect, and her strength and en- ergy as great as that of any normal housewife, British specialists are amazed that she is alive. Doctors have tried every kind of diet to tempt her back to food, but she refuses to eat. She says she cannot. Mrs. Ashworth, who is small, dark, weight 84 pounds, is the wife of a steelworker. She began her milk diet as the result of an accident which injured her throat and prevent- ed her from eating. She became so used to it that she never wanted to eat again. ‘TI would not go back to an ordi- nary diet if I were paid to,” Mabel Ashworth sald, ‘My health is quite as good as it was before my acci- dent. I retire each night at eleven, sleep soundly, and rise regularly at five to get my husband off to work. ‘T have a cup of tea first thing in the morning and for lunch, tea and supper a glass of milk I do not mind watching other people eat.” English clover would grow in Aus- tralia, but produced no seed until bees from Great Britain were brought there for cross fertilization purposes. GULLY YL, Gy Yh S oe x « ale E) “You see the idea? 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This recipe was discovered by Dr. Pavle Viskup, Czech doctor, who has studied more than 90 Jugoslavian Methuselahs who have reached the age of 100 years and more. _ Beans are the main crop in some parts of South Serbia. The country being poor, people live on beans -as their principal food: One man in the small village of Debar, who is 129 years old, maintained that he had eaten beans, bread and vegetables, mostly onions, and’ very little meat, for more than a century. If any meat is consumed at all, it is lamb, Wine, brandy and tobacco do not play much of a part in the life of the century-men and women. Of the 90 old people who were ex- amined, only 11 were smokers, and of these six were women. “Robber Was Frustrated Young Girl Bookkeeper Saves Pay roll For Toronto Firm A 23-year-old bookkeeper frustrat- ed three would-be robbers in Toronto as she was returning to her office from the bank with a $2,000 payroll Miss Afleen Green was carrying the money in a large envelope held under her arm when a car contain- ing three men drew up beside her, One jumped out and grabbed at the envelopes. She squeezed it tight be- tween her arm and body and began shouting. The man pulled desperately at the envelope, which burst. He reeled with part of it in his hand, leaving the money still under the girl’s arm, He then jumped into the car which sped away. Space Growing Small Fast Trips Across Atlantic Bring Countries Very Close Space, which the astronomers are forever expanding into the infinite, seems to grow suddenly small as we contemplate the 12-hour passage of the Caledonia across the Atlantic, The voyage that in the Mayflower filled more than three months be- comes a thing to be contemplated within the sunlit hours of a single day. New York is brought nearer to London in point of time to the traveller than was our own York in the days of the stagecoach.—London Sunday Times. Got Bargain By Waiting Reservoir Sold For Small Sum After 25 Years Because of the price of a reservoir on a new stove, which was ten dol- lars extra 25 years ago, the pur- chaser did not take the attachment. No one else since had seemed to want it, 90 a few days ago the son of the stove purchaser walked into the same hardware store, and bought the same reservoir for the original stove sold 25 years ago, for the sum of two dol- lars, 2219 Little Helps For This Week O turn unto me and have mercy upon me; give Thy strength unto Thy servant and save the son of Thy handmaid. Psalm 86:16. Thou art my King henceforth alone; And I Thy servant Lord am all Thine own Give me Thy strength, and let Thy di weling be In this poor heart that longs my Lord for Thee. When it is the one ruling, never~ ceasing desire of our hearts that God may be the beginning and the end, the reason and motive of our doing or not doing from morning to night, then everywhere whether speaking oF silent, whether inwardly or outward- ly employed, we have our life in the Eternal Spirit and are united by prayer which is the security of the soul that is travelling through time into the riches of eternity. Let us have no thought or care but how te be in everything His thankful sex vants. Visitors To London Tourist Business Has Kept Up Well During Summer London seemed so full of overseas visitors at the time of the Corona- tion, that most of us probably over estimated their numbers. Statistics gust published for the first six months of this year show that we had 116,000 visitors from abroad, or rather over 19,000 more than in the same period last year. None the less, these figures constitute a recordg and they do not include the nume~m ous British visitors from overseas, estimated at 200,000, who travel with British passports and are therefore not recorded at the ports. No doubt, the fall of the frano has reduced the number of French visitors this sum- mer; yet August found London as full of tourists as ever, and it seems unlikely that the influx for the Cor onation has resulted in any diminu- tion of the annual late summer in- cursion.—Country Life, London. Great Banana Eaters The Overseas Daily Matl thinks ‘Yes, we have some bananas” should be the theme song of Britain’s fruit importers. For last year the demand for the banana in the country broke all records, and 20,673,000 bunches were imported, 73 per cent, coming from Empire countries. Will Not Need Hay General prospects for a large ex- port of Canadian hay to the United Kingdom, so far as southern Britain fs concerned, during the coming fall and winter have diminished as a re- sult of abundant yields of hay throughout England. The heavens are divided into 89 constellations, 48 of which were known to the ancients. The re mainder were discovered mostly dur ing the 16th and 17th centuries, Avocados contain more fat than any other fruit except olives.