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converse with his family and friends. He was an amateur farmer of no mean order, and in ruraj Ontario he established what more nearly ap proaches an old English estate than anything in this country. Newcastle, his birthplace, was a frequent reci- plent of his bounty. His sons, Hon. Vincent and Raymond Hart Massey, are following along the lines so hap- pily conceived by thelr father, and have already made their mark in many ways that have proved bhelp- ful to their native land. Venerated and revered the deceased philanthro- pist will be laid to rest amid an out~ pouring of sympathy and love dom- inion-wide in extent. i aes onneareomepnes-- FAIRNESS TO PRISONERS DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH: : BY W. L. GORDON § WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Don't say "I sewed the buttons onto the dress." Say "on the dress." OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: resume (noun). Pronounce ra-zu-ma, both a's as in "ray," u as in "unit," accent on last syl- lable, OFTEN MISSPELLED: attorneys; eys. SYNONYMS: ambiguous, indistinct, obscure, dubious, doubtful, indefinite, uncertain. WORD STUDY: "Use a word three time and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. To-day's word: DERISION; ridicule; scorn; contempt. Every statement he made was held in derision." Business Stationery Well printed, nicely designed Suationery is an asset to any business. The Britis Whig Commercial Printing Department is equipped to give you first-class print ing at the lowest price comparable with questionable, - rr ---- ll civsiiine wae wessngnensnnes 248 cresananes 2013 «+ 3W13 Department ,.. in their respective reports to Brig.-General W. 8. Hughes, DB8.0., superintendent of Canadian Peniten- tiaries, the wardens stress the bene- fits of the schools for the Inmates: A good example of what is being 'ac- complished is conveyed in & single sentence from the lafest report of the Saskatchewan penitentiary war- $2.50 | dent: Th Sri, anther STH Beil eet LONG LIVE THE KING. To-day fs the sixty-tirst birthday His Majesty's King George V., @ of strong character end and generosity found ex- in various ways. The stands for the noblest end of ideals and King George with perepleacity and distinctive cy has led in promoting the prosperity and spiritual well- of bis subjects, May His Ma- y reign continue unbeclouded iy years, the King living y in the affection of loyal women in all parts of the --------------------r. BISHOP OF ONTARIO. Synod of Ontario ta to be con- upon = electing a new "During the year 1925 we receiv- od seventeen men who could neither read nor write; nine of these are now in grade IL" Another point of importance is made by the warden of Portsmouth penitentiary who stresses the neces- sity of" work for the prisoners. This is a matter on which organized labor is apparently opposed to the view of those who would keep prisoners rea- sonably busy at useful occupations, says the Brantford Expositor. The objection is that prison goods may be more cheaply made, and thus un- fairly compete with free labor. Yet on the score of humanity alone labor men might try to help to solve this problem. No intelligent labor man can be ignorant of the demoraliza- tion of idleness, deliberate or en- forced. The whole trend of public thought today is toward a better under- standing of the problem of the | wrong doer and his restoration to good citizenship. SHE KNEW HER BOY. In the eyes of the world, and Posey country, Indiana, Coy Gilland was a murderer. In December, 1923, he was convicted for murder. But to Sarah @Gilland, his eighty-one- year-old mother, Coy Gilland was innocent. She knew her boy, she told them time and again, and her boy was guiltless. Before the trial Sarah Gilland had taken her boy to one side and asked him if he was guilty. He had assured her that he .| was innocent, She believed him, be- hed three bishops since in 1862--lewis, ---- 2 , in Toronto, of Chester removed an outstand- 'life of Canada, con- standpoints of In- tion, finance, art and . He was the honor- ; the Massey-Harris cause, she told the jury, she knew him. She knew he would tell her the truth. But the jury did not. believe Coy Gilland, and regarded his moth- er's plaint as the perfectly natural defense that a loving mother any- where in the world would put up for her son. The other day another man con- essed the murder, and absolved Gil- land f any connection with the deed. Ooy Gilland's immediate par- don was recommended to Governor Jackso® Posey Gounty is glad justice has been done, and rejoices in the home- coming of Coy Gilland. But there is no joy ¢cmparable to that of the mo- ther who "knew her boy." ---------------------- INSIGNIA OF TRADE. In the New York Times a corre- spondent laments the passing of the olgar store's wooden Indian. He might have extended his complaint to include a long list of trade devices which once made our streets so pic- turesque and which have long been extinct. There was, for example, the {ron horse, a noble beast with proud tail and flowing mane, which always marked the entrance to a livery stable. There was the great gilded watch which always hung in front of the shop of the jeweler and watoh- repairer. There was the big wrinkled Boot which announced the bench of {he cobhler. = And, eloquent invita- tion extended to all comers, there t swinging doors that EDITORIAL NOTES. ---- Wouldn't it be a terrible world if children were as bad as neighbors 4 think children are? -- Sugar, pineapples, ocean com~ merce and the American tourist! These are the mighty factors which have caused the one-time Hawaiian town of Honolulu to burgeon into the modern metropolis of today. Hon. Charles Dunning, minister of rauways, is not a coming man. He has come. The Montreal Gazette, a political opponent, Days him this remarkable tribute: "He ranks to- day as, perhaps, the most dominat- ing and certainly the most interest- ing figure in the House of Com- mons." ' What remains of the "Boxer" in- demnity due to Great Britain, is to be given back to China. Great Britain seems to have been awarded more than compensation for the los~ ses of her people during the distur- bances, and is to return the remaind- er, The idea is a novel one in diplo- macy. Investigation shows that Chicago prisoners have been released from Joliet on pardon or parole faster than the courfs could make up the defi- cieney. In other words, it is harder to get in than to get out; a condition which may have some bearing upon Chicago's justly celebrated crime re- cord. ------ A writer says that education can be advanced just as much by good music as by good arithmetic or good spelling or good manual training. When parents object to music appre« elation being taught in public schools because it isn't important for a child to know anything about great musie it he kdows the three R's, they are simply showing thelr own ignorance. a-- Sod as largo as New York state was burned over by for- est tires in 190234, in 'the United States. It would cost $300,000,000 to reforest this land and at the rate men are proceeding it would take 300 years. The worst feature of this great loss is that the fires in nearly all these cases were caused by care lessness. An area Toronto is praised by American visitors for its '"'unbroken miles of perfectly paved and immaculately kept streets, and particularly the very good paving between and along car tracks." One writer adds: "Can- ada is deriving large revenue from touring Americans drawn there as much by the quiet, orderly charm of her cities as by the lure of her lakes and forests." \ Analyzing the causes of 300,000 accidents, Charles L. Close, manager ot.the U. E. Bureau of Safety, Sani- tation and Welfare, says that almost one-half of the total number were due to hand labor, the majority of which could not be controlled by me- chanical safety devices or appliances. Only 4.9 per cent of the accidents were due to machinery. Hot metal, flue dust, or flame--hazards that are distinctive in the steel industry were responsible also for less than five per cent of the total number of accidents, News and Views. | Science Outwits Mule. Memphis Commercial - Appeal: Army mules aré now being groomed with the vaccum cleaner. Some safety first advocate has discovered that the handle of a vaccum cleaner is much longer than that of a curry- comb. A Triumph. Guelph Mercury: Canadian singers captured Cincinnati. The home of the Sangerfest had to acknowledge that the Canadians had something equal- ly as good, if not better, than their own when it came to real singing without accompaniment. Too Much Teaching, London Universe: We have too much teaching and too little learn- ing. There's the rub. Let the boy grow up and find his own line in life. Then we should see our handicrafts do well, our farmers flourish, for- eign trade * and shipping prosper, and the waste .places of the world fllled out with merchant adven- tures of our race. As Proven This Week. Ottawa Citigen: Canadian house- wives are poor judges of beef, a Toronto speaker says. And many of their husbands, on the other hand, are poor judges of horseflesh, as the bookies have good reason to know. Vandals of Shoe Box. Vancouver Sun: Nature is beauti- ful. It is admirable for the family to take a day out under the trees and admire her beauty. But leaving shoe boxes, tin cans, banana peels and other trash doesn't help the fair face of Mother Earth one bit. It is a curious thing how inconsistent some "lovers of the great out- doors" are. ties of nature, then go away leaving that spoils a5. 1e] picnic spot for any others . might - choose to have an outing there. : # -- { 'onumon on awesee | (St. Thomas Times-Journal) A knotty point arises at Kingston and Brockville, where with the farmers. in the habit of taking milk into the local cheese factory either on Sat- urday night or Sunday morning to be made into cheese on Sunday be- cause the milk will not keep until Monday. The Lord's Day Alliance in- effect says: "Thou shalt not make cheese on Sundkys."" If the alliance has its way the farmers are going to lose money. The question is: Is it a greater sin to waste food than to do the necessary work on Sundays to keep it from wasting ? ° Piven if a farmer felt like milking the cows and then throwing the milk away, he would probably be- gin to feel irritated when the pas- appeals to "give as generously as you can." 'The farmer would have a pretty good *'come-back'™ there. bath is becoming serious. Golf, for instance, which the alliance swallows without hurting its epiglottis. On the whole, might not. this be considered pecessary work, to be feasted with gas workers and other public services? In any case, waste iis surely un-Christiam. . i the Lord's i Day Alliance has come into conflict Ji It seems that the latter have be.n TAGS LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES BILL HEADS The British Wiking Commercial Printing Bepartuent . quality. 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