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Ready at a moment's notice, it adds to the pleasure of your trip, and is just the thing for the summer cottage. Ydu will be surprised at its compactness, .c6nvenience and excellence. _ ,- -- -- vv7fn&QWJI i But the Sessional Clerk recalls something of an cidd tilt between memberscnow and then. `He 'was speaking` of Nicholas Flood Davin from the West the other day when he recalled to '.mind Davin s clash with McMullen of Wellington on the oor 'of~tl_1e -House. -` Davin` was dis- cussing the farm situation when Mc- Mullen` intei`ru`pted" to 'sarcastica1ly to recuperate, returning. in the fall. It was that autumn that he was ap- pointed as chief messenger for the Ontario Legislature under the Mowat administration. He stayed there about four years, or till the end of the administration. It was then he received the VOttaw'a appointment. first as a permanent session clerk and later as chief clerk`; Sir John A. Mac- donald had just been elected at that time. Sir John Thompson followed, ~ then Sir,John Abbott, Sir M. Bowell, Sir Chas. Tupper, Sir Wilfred` Laur- .ier, Mr. Borden and Mr. Meighen. One can well imagine the political at- mosphere through all those different regimes was often turgid, not to say gaseous, at times,` and in sufficient volume to make any but the brave doubtthe host of members could solve the country's problems. But Mr. Rogers was solving his own, at any rate. He must be given `credit forthat, and he returned from the battle without -a scar of acerbity. 'n--;. .n.- n ___s__,v `In, L -- ] In Rogers went to England` it As Deputy Bailiff Mr. Rogers had [business at the scene of a murder at Ivy_.. It was in 1872 that Jas. Car- rutlrers murdered his wife at Ivy. Carruthers was hanged, and that was the only hanging that ever `occurred in Simcoe County. The deputyhaili . attended the inquest. The woman had been killed with a whipstock.- . While Dr. Madill of Barrie andthe baili held the `woman's head, Dr`. Morton, also of Barrie, sawed away ltheskull to get information for a re- port. A piece of the skull punctured one hand of Mr. Rogers and one hand of Dr. Madill. V Both were infected. _The doctor died and Mr. Rogers lay on his back for eight months with blood poisoning. I 1- 0-; up His Maste_r s Voice 1 A demonstration will gladly be given at any ` , Francis Rogers was born in Leeds, England, Jan. 13, 1846. He joined his brother, Major Jos_eph Rogers. in Barrie in 1867. The Major, who had been here sixteen `years. was High Baili and High" Constable for the county. Francis became his deputy. The ;High Division,Court in Barrie was the .only division court at that `time in the county. -. _ ary tempests of eight administrations J . from Sir John A. to Mr. Meighen, _- one might easily imagine Mr. Rogers I -__---_ ---.. unnvusaavon Having weathered the parliament- ) had gbeenguided by a particular pro- 7 `vidence to still retain his health in _ good preservation. But on a little. ` observation one easily. gains the keys to the secret, which was the very sim- ness. It requires a fixed policy to handle twoscoreof temperamental parliamentary clerks. especially those who revel at night in the vanity of pple medium of minding his own busi-} superiority their dignied position entitles them to. ~ Berliner Gram-o-phone Co.. Montreal that many years of tiltingimatchesi were but a tonic for him.` He has handled many" serious state despatch- es and heard their grave authors grow jocular over reams of their own ` conceit, or wax to mortification over an opponent's railery, and still others he has observed who placed all their hopes on a good press agent, while he, obedient to duty, never for once let slip thepquip ridicule that must oftemhave colored his thoughts. I `I'_`l'n...'...).. --.--L`L- ` I` 1 l ...\.un2a\,u.Lv.,;uv way an IJGIIJITIJ. _ Mr. Rogers is seventy-six years of age, and, although he does not main- -tain that 4 ljfe in'the halls of chival- nric dehatebestows immortality. his own gay airuahgiglastic step indicate, M Dealers 'o.. Limited .___o..... ..u Francis Rogers has many friends]: in Barrie and vicinity and, judged" by] his lively appearance of health and? goodhumor, Fate has marked him for I ' many more years of rollicking about; |this=old earth. ` |\ In `addition to his brother, Majorg Rogers, the former Parliamentary` clerk, Francis. has another brother, `Edwin, who resides at their oldhome I in Leeds, Englnd. I `:1, - - - vvuxucu um. L0 attempt; to go back, ut they did, and when th`e remen. got` to them they were both suffocat- ed. - ' ' `In the `recent destruction of the Parliament` buildings by re, Mr. Ro- gers lost alloffice effects and some clothes and `other personal effects. But he "was afterward given credit for saving a clerk's life. The clerk, named Bellanger, a Frenchman, who was deaf, was in his office when the building was- burning, shortly before nine o'clock. Rogers had escaped, but, thinking of the deafclerk, went` back just in time to arouse him to his J peril and both got out none too soon. Premier Borden was rushing out at} the same time without overcoat or hat. As they emerged a loud crash - gave warning that a wall had fallen} I They `quickly learned the wall had killed two policeman and a messen- ger. Meanwhile remen were trying` to get two women out of a window` with a ladder- The women had gone back to get their furs. Mrs. Sevigny',` the Speake_r s` wife, had urged the women not to attempt to back, but fhnv on;-3 nvlnnn J.L\ _.--N, ` On another occasion Mr. Rogers re- called that-going to the library one day the Honorable Israel Ta'rte,,then Minister of Public Works, and the Honorable Mr. Girard of Montreal met. Girard had offered the counter- check quarrelsome, the lie direct, on _the oor. Tarte had` followed him out and cbaillenged him, demanding that he withdraw his remark. Girard I refused to retract and _the ght start- ' ed. Tarte struck Girard and a very` dignied battle was quickly inter- rupted by members who came to de- clare peace. ` ' remind him that where Davin owned one farm he owned ten. To this Da- vin said: Where did you get them?" Then, answering his own question, Davin went on: P11 tell you where. You're a money lender.` You charged high rates on money to farmers and then foreclosed on their mortgages. McMullen retorted that Davin had roomWto let in hisupper storey. To which Davin snapped that hewanted fthe honorable gentleman to under- stand that the . rooms in -his , upper storey were furnished and McMull- en s were not. - HE same careful selection'_' of ma- A terials` and experienced workman- ship are employed, that have given .other Brantford Roong` products their high reputation. - ` _Francis Rogers, for more than fforty years Chief Sessional Clerk in `the seductive splendor of the `Ottawa Parliament, has been retired on pen- sion, and will henceforth hang his shield on the benecent breezes of Kempenfeldt; Bay at Barrie. `IM -... D........... L. .....-.-..L_- M -r- " W mT]h)T]p Tap med` J Asphalt Slates vvruus tor DUI Udllldl page is a photograph of c of the wrld. It will "531 - I I - I I? First bricks in America were made by the,` There are I -1Virginia colonists in 1611. - Iton, ' `V Write for`our valuable Itlletot-y of fooling Shelter. '9 photograph a diereht Hm! -4 .. ......: .7. - 1:1 have obtained avspecial license to manufacture these slates under the brand a W.A. LOWE & SON Dill Izlttory foon SlIeltet." On every vgraph diereht kind of a roof, in a dicrgnt part `be -mailed fret to rapontiblq partiu._ ` 1 ---av ju---QC! DISTRIBUTORS Foli EKERIE DISTRICT _ t1lt1ngA r?I:1;c1l:::`I but him. P 'many's"erious grave ~ 206 bones in the human skcle Higher a person mounts, the less In Vweighs. . _ _ . . -.v. \Jl LLLLCLIUI woodwork, furniture, oors, e'tc. Dries hard in twenty-four hours. Stains and varnishes in one operation. Renews ' the original elegance of exterior or interior I I` - ....-....J---- - Thurday, April 27, 1922 SUN VA RNISH STAIN I-IUIJIC HUI Co Mr. Rutton of ( Tuck homestead owned by Mr. Hm Ray Slessor lost Ban. Miss Isabel M(=(`. have been visiting: Heuaig of Vespr: home here. II- 1'I..:.A_.. .3 I Francis Rogers, Who Saw Eight Premiers Come and Go-, Retires. ` I ll I41-JC UIIUIUII ll)I Mrs. Nixon of last week with her sail. 112-- `L,L I II I` Apr. 24.--A ho Church, West On the roof. The 5:: an: by the ladies in the church for `I ... \13-._, \J\lI:l\'|l|JI ll En Mrs. Angus Pl: sister, Miss EH:-n oompanied by In- Norquay, and tw "LE uuuc Ill HHS Y The Ladior-" .\ Church met this of the church. The weekly pr: ed again. nu-etin Oock~burn s. II... A `l\I Apr. 24.-- The- making it plt-:I.~'.'I The recqnt stz) the telephone sy.~1 was done in this ""|__ Y _ I` ` A >X<>X<>X<>X<>X< >x< NEWS %$$%% Thursdaj Sui?` Lug: idunrioalled [of washirigna articles is sold` only in sealed pacleag_es-du.u-proof ! LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED , ' Toronto 335 Take this Victrola with A you wherever you go HIS MASTERS VOICE WIBIIHIIER no mnal ;'tBa`VOlCl