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ENGLISH YOUTHS BELVE IN HINDU SHRINE MYSTERY Group Investigates Strange Told of Indian Temples Bombay, April 11. --Investiga- tion by English educated youths into the traditional mysteries of Hindue temples in India are being carried on under the guidance of Dr, Arthur R. S. Roy, in order to find out what truth there was in the several traditional stories told of happenings in the Hindu temples. Some of these places have been visited by this group, and reports of the miracles that oecur there have been given. At Vakam, a place in South In- a". noted for the temple to Vak- an annual festival din- iy held when 1,000 people are fed. It has been said that every year after the dinner is over an odd leaf of plantain is found which sannot be accounted for. The In- dians dine on plaintain leaves on cereomnial occasions. Runs True to Tradition So this year a batch of volun- teers went to Vakam and stood uard at the dining hall, They ad two policemen with them, and they counted the leaves before they were taken into the temple yard, examined every attendant to see that extra leaves were not smug- gled, saw also that the guests did sven counted the leaves that were pot take any leaf with them, and spread for dinner, After the din- ner was over the leaves were sounted and it was found that they numbered 1000--and one over! the odd leat on which somebody Only 1000 people were let in, and had partaken of the food could not be accounted for in any way. At Mangalgirl, near Vizagapa- tam ip Madras presidency, there is a figure of the god Narasinga, or nu, huge and open-mouthed, This the man-lion incarnation of Vish- all stone image takes in offerings thrown out, An Oxonian, recently ly half of the portion offered is when thrown into the. gaping mouth, but as soon as the offering of the ceremony is finished exact- returned from» England, scoffed at this and threw in a pound can of strawberries. The can came out split in half and the pertion thrown out was exactly half a to be the motto of this diety, and pound in weight. Fifty-fifty seems it sticks to it metiiculously. At another time a railway guard wanted to test the truth of the statement and put his hand into the gaping mouth. He tould mot find anything there, but his hand refused to come out. It was held some hours of prayers it was leased. There is no storage inside by some invisible thing, and after the idol, and one does mot know where all theseofferings go. Every day the devotees pour into the mouth hundreds of pounds of food- stuffs and the half of it is return- ed, btu where the other half goes is a mystery. Mrs. Walter Runciman is Natural Politician -- London, April 11,--Mrs. Walter Runciman, M.P,, whose recent vie- tory in the by-election in the St. Ives division of Cornwall was a notable one and brought her into the House of Commons as the first married woman member sitting in the House at the same time as her husband, Rt. Hon, Walter Runci- man, M.P., has personal gifts that are likely to enable her to make her mark in politics, A daughter of a former member for South Shields, Mrs. Runciman entered on her career in a tradition of public ser- vice, and took a first class in the History Tripos at Cambridge when university education for women was still in its infancy. Keenly in- terested in education, she was the first woman member of the New- castle-on-Tyne School Board and became a member of the Northum- berland County Education Commit- tee, She was on the first list of women magistrates, and is Presi- dent of the Free Church Women's Council, having been for many years a bulwark of the temperance movement, She is past-President of the Women's National Liberal Fed- eration, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Liberal £1,000,000 Fund, and has devoted a large part of her capacity for hard work to politics and the Lib- eral cause. "ANALYZED (Toronto Mail and Empire) Imports from Great Britain in- creased by $19,000,000 during the wh Roe Tonle "dora pack er a pack~ Peli to-day. Use any portion Jour money year ending February last, while our exports to that coustry de- creased by $36,000,000, but Em» pire trade apparently had little to do with it. The greater of the increased imports consisted of | "alcoholic beverages," while the decrease in exports was chiefly in farm prodcts owing to a decline in prices, t, an ou are not en« kid umay return | -- mony "wh be Not one or in this one make of pen 1g hoose Your Wr, @ Genuine Duof at§7, No Need to P. fluid No Reason to Take Less, MAPE IF CANAPA™SAMR cAll the smartest colours Against All Defects two, but-- PRICE A» Rid EEE STAXES Rag. Toads Mack Can. Put. OR. {HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928 RE-FLOOR WITH SEAMAN-KENT HARDWOOD FLOORING W. J. TRICK CO. LTD. Oshawa BEST THAT S MADE IN EVERY GRADE LL] FAMILY MOURNS SUDDEN DEATH OF PET JAGUAR Pneumonia Takes Chaumeo- co, Brought From Ecua- dor by Youthful Explorer Baltimore, April 11,--Chaumo- co, Baltimore's only pet jaguar, is dead, His demise, before he had reached the prime of his life, re- sulted from pneumonia contracted while the furnace was out of order in the home of Mr, and Mrs, Gerald O. Holdridge, 6118 Nor- wood road, where he had spent five happy months, His passing was marked by great grief in the family of his adoption and many tears were shed, Chaumoco had become one of the most affectionate of animals, He would come when called, even frony remote parts of the house, would eat from a dish without spiil- ing his food, and loved to cuddle up with Mr. Holdridge's mother, who is elderly and an invalid, The end of Chaumoco's life, as well as his entry into the Holdridge menage, was marked by family disagreements as well as grief. On his arrival the family was divided upon the question of keeping him, especially after one member had produced printed evidence that no animal of the species--one of the most bloodthirsty--had ever been domesticated, Upon his death there was a marked difference of opinion re- garding the disposal of all that was earthly of Chaumoco, Mrs. Hold- ridge led the movement for stuff- ing the unusual pet, while her hus. band and a majority of the family asserted that the sight of a stuffed Chaumoco in the house would he as painful to them as the appearance of a stuffed relative, The majority won, Body Will Be Preserved However, Chaumoco's hody will be preserved. It has been turn- ed over to a taxidermist and is expected to be placed in 8 museum. Chaumoco came to Baltimore last October with Desmond X, Holdridge, Bon of Mr. and Mrs, Holdridge, an explorer of South America jungles and the Labrador coast. He was a gift to Mr. Hord- ridge Sr., in liea of a promised Panama hat. He had an eventful trip from Ecuador, where young Holdridge secured him, culminating in a party in a large New York cabaret and 8 march through the streets of that city to the Pennsylvania rail- road station at midnight with its owner and recent shipmates, It took but a short time for Chaumoco to win the affection of every member of his adopted fam- fly and he gave every sign of re- turning their Jove. Mrs. Holdridge who first held out against him, THE champion. She said she would now be willing to take any so-called wild animal into her home and be- lieved it could be domesticated. Reported Engagement of Former Canadian London, April 10.--Miss Joan Dunn, daughter of Sir James Dunn, the wealthy Canadian financier who has resided im London for some years and in 1926 married the Marchioness of Queensbury, is reported to be engaged to Hubert Duggan, son of the Marchioness Curzon's first husband, Alfred Duggan, of Buenos Aires, Argen- tina. Miss Dunn is very attrac- tive and fis the twin sister of Miss Kathleen Dunn, who also is an at- tractive girl. The twins have fair hair. dress almost identically and even wear similar jewelry. Mr. Duggan will be 24 years of age mext July. tinguished-looking with dark curly hair and a remarkably self-possess- ed manner. He has frequently act- ed as host for his mother in the course of the last few years. He is about to embark on a political ca- became, perhaps, his most ardent | He is tall and dis- | MANY ICCUPTON | ol Fol Fare (From The Star Weekly) Among the gentlemen of Premier King's cabinet is a former profes- sional football player, an er-mar- ine diver, a locomotive engineer, And the whole three of them are --the Honorable Peter Heenan. That may sound Irish, but then so is Peter. He is known as the friendliest man in Ottawa, this Minister of Labor, who used to labor fathoms deep in the warm seas of the tro- pies' while sharks glided some- times within sight of him, He has no "side." Long, strong, grave and moustached, this man gets along with everybody. He isn't stiff-backed. He doesn't slap backs, He just seems to like everybody effortlessly, Certainly he is one of the most striking figures that Canada's poli- tics has ever produced, It shows no disrespect of this able one of his majesty"s ministers to say that he is an adventurer. A true adven- turer, because he 1s at home in so many places, He ia one of those rare individuals, superior, in a measure, to their environment. One who talks to Peter Heenan feels that if the country turned topsy-turvy overnight he could shrug his shoulders and go back to driving locomotives, He'd be the same Heenun. Re was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1874, but was taken to Workington, England. At Work- ington the lad grew up in a dis- trict of coal mines and blast fur- naces. He wasn't horn with a sil- ver spoon in his mouth and no one ever placed one in his hand. He was husky and quick, played games, 'was very fond of foothall and for a while drifted into pro- fessional soccer, He became a lo- comotive engineer and got mixed up in Lahor polities, He went to Costa Rica, South America, to drive engines. He stayed four years, and then came, for him, the parting of the ways, Peter got sick, There was an epidemic of vellow fever. People were dying like flies, According to the Heenan tradition Peter was about to start out with his engine one fine morning, when he saw a dead Chinaman lying open-eyed, face up toward the sky, near the track. He covered the corpse's face with part of its clothing. That act of simple kindness nearly did for him. He took the fever and almost died of it. The doctor told him he would have to leave the tropics and arrangements were made to go to South Africa. Then came a message from a Cana- dian friend inviting the Heenans to go to Alberta, They went, and he got a job driving for the C.P.R. For the last 20 years they have lived in Kenora, whence muniei- pal politics lifted Peter into the provincial legislature before fed- eral duties got him, experience as a marine diver. He never really worked at it, It was his hobby, just as some men take golf for their hobby and some big game hunting, He learned it in Costa Rica, where he loved to go down in the clear waters about the piers that were being built. This alone is enough to give him away as an essentially romantic fellow. But there is a practical side to it. Years later and hundreds of miles from the sea, Heenan"s hob- by came in very handy. A heavy engine had gone down through a bridge near Kenora. The engin- eer and fireman were drowned. A diver was needed. From the mines of Kenora a leaky diving-suit was borrowed, Peter patched it and down he went. It was risky, but he came up all right. And when at another time an engine crashed through another bridge Peter bor- rowed another diving suit and did the same trick again. Onee, years ago, Heenan started out with a train on a run that was never to be finished. It was so wet that the track fairly squished in the mud as the train ran over it. Despite howls of protest from conductor and passengers Heenan insisted on stopping to examine every bridge before running over it. There was no headlight on the engine. Finally he came to the last bridge to be crossed. The under- pinning at his end seenred all right, but Peter set out with a lantern to cross it on foot first. If it held him he'd trust his train to it. Just about the middle he found that the bridge ended in mid-air. And so a Minister of Labor was saved for Canada. er de------------ NEW ARTIST GAINING FAME London. April 9.--George Will- fam Bissill, who has been exhibit- ing his paintings at Claridge's Gal- lery, has had a varied career. At the age of 15 he was a working miner, then a sapper in the Army; then a student at Nottingham Art college; them a village postman; then a pavement artist in the Strand outside Bush House, and then an art student in Paris. In connection with his exhibi- tion Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., General secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, wrote a let- ter to say that he hoped Mr. Bissell would be the first of a long line of workmen artists who would ex- press the working man's view of it is fn the expression of the miners' point of view that the chief t t of Mr. Bissill"s work lies. reer, for which he to be particularly well suited by nature. He talks fluently on most subjeets, and has the gift of repartee. Mr. Duggan is a conservative in poli- tics. His studies of miners at work show that the subject so to speak, has entered into hie soul. 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