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PAGE SEVEN THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 -- Pp LONELIEST VICAR HAS SERVICFS IN DESERTED CHURCH of Years Created Feud Against English Rector London,--""The loneliest priest In | England, an elderly man 'with a ' gentle manner and a soft, musics! | voles, read Matins this morning in { the parish church of Compton Ab- 4 dale to a congregation which con- { sited of his dog Skipper, a rather 4 seared looking little boy, snd my- soll," writes a special correspond. {| ent to & London poper, 'Generally I he is alone but for the dog, | "This vicar, the Rev. E, A, T. i Lowndes, is a shepherd without a '|| floek, and #t, Oswald's, which | stands on the top of a hill over- | 1 looking the mournful vilinge of Compton Abdale, is a church with- out a congregation, "At 10,65 a.m, the viear, with his dog at his heels, left the vicarage © and climbed the steep path to the | | church to ring the bell. The old . | door is green with moss, and the | | prayer books weattered about the Li pews are sodden with damp, i Hoverent Nervico The vicar showed me to a seat, and for five minutes there was no sound but the melancholy bell call Ling to prayer the unanswering peo- \ {ple in the village below. i The little church, its beauty fad- Led and its snclent glories tarnished {| by years of neglect, was ns old and i | gloomy as a vault. Skipper took L'{ his accustomed place near the pul. i. pit trom which a sermon is rarely L | preached, and as I looked at his iv shaggy red coat I wondered if there E { could be any more poignant lone- liness than that of a priest who { depends on his dog to form his ! congregation, 1 The bell ceased, but no one had responded to its plaintive appeal, The viear put on his surplice, mo- tioned to me to say the responses, I and began the service, ] It was then that a little hoy, per. haps attracted by the unfrequent sight of a worshipper, slipped in and knelt in the pew behind me, The service continued. No priest {in a cathedral where morning pray- or is said with every accompaniment | of beauty could have read the in- comparably lovely prayers of the Church with greater reverence for and appreciation of their glorious | English, | As we sald the Psalm together 1 wished passionately that I had the power to bring the village to ehurch so that this tragic priest should no || longer know his agony and desola- {| tion. There was no musle, no ser- {| mon, no collection, and the service | lasted a quarter of an hour, | After the service I asked Mr, Lowndes, who I8 a musician, If he | ould get one simple hymn tune out i of the organ, He sat down and played a £qw bars, but they ended in a dreadful discordant wall, The very woul of this unhappy church was expressed in these de- | spairing notes. Yet not so very many years ago the church was till ed for Divine worship, In the graveyard, where weeds flourished about the tombs, Mr, | Lowndes told me of the wretched misunderstanding which has wreck- | od the lite of the church in this vil Ke, "Years ago," ho said, "the Dighop of Glouester held an inquiry, the objoot of which was to examine cer- tain statements about myself and the manner in which I conducted { the service, "It was found that there was no | truth in the allegations, but village gossip dies hard, "IT am a very lonely man," he added, With surprise I learned that one of the allegations against this man was that he had conduot- ed the services in a slovenly fa- shion, 0 Ropph St ng 'And there was trouble about the village school," which helongs to the church," the vicar continued, "Wo could not agree, "I should like sometimes to help | in Northleach Church," the vicar sald an we parted, and remember- ing the romes that grow in North. leach graveyard, and the loving care which has kept the neighbouring church so fair and so fine a place for prayer. I understood the joy it must mean to England's lonell- est priest when he looks from the sanctuary, not to the wondering eyes of a dog hut to a goodly cone frost tion of men and women prais n fr say that there is a spell [upon Compton Abdale. It is a vile | without a smile, 6 people are almost all mem- bers of the church of Fugland, and i they told me that they desire with Shand be leasing that old wounds | BRANGWYN MATEST LIVES QUIETLY Noted British Artist Bars : All Curious Visitors § ------ don,~Frank B a, R.A ] no British pve ih artlat, | whose series of plotures for the re. da tion of the Royal Gallery in House of Lords were recently by a committee of the on the ground that they were suitable, spends moat of his 'at little house in Ditehling, 3 ing to a writer in the h BAYS! 'Mr, Brangwyn is guarded by a ' ful house-keeper wha will not it anvhady to cross the thres: 3 'He in too modest to want to nee him, and many have frequant thoush vain, pil o his London atudlo in LB n Al bh LA Cm Ear € jhe hope of catching a glimpse of im, "It they did perchance meet him they would probably not realize that It was he, Once an artist as sistant .who was called in to help asked when he was leaving who was the little man perched on the high Indders, "Brangwyn," he was told, "That little may," he exclaimed, "with the big pipe." COAST TO COAST TRAMP PLANNED Manitobs Man to Take Bottle of Atlantic Water to Pacific Montreal, ~The stigma of weak. ness which has fallen on this gen oration is presently to be lifted by Aime Joyal, of Boniface, Mani- tobs, He is going to take a bottle of water from the Atlantic Ocean near Halifax and empty it into the Pacific at Vancouver, walking the distance between theso cities, to prove that men of today can stand any hardships thelr fore fathers could bear, and perhaps also some they never had to meet, Ho expects to make the trip In ten months and he will Jeave Hali- floor 'was cleared and dancing was enjoyed for a few hours to the straing of Mr, J, Cooper's violin, The evening's proceeds will add considerably to the funds for the proposed Commupity Hall for which the kindly host and hostess gave the evening's entertainment. Mr, and Mrs, Ivan Rodd and fam- ily, Dorothy und Dick visited Mrs, Rodd's parents, Mr, and Mrs, 1. Smith of Oshawa on Sunday, Mr, Oscar H, Downey was on a business trip to Ottawa und Guelph last week, Mr, Frank Brown held his annual bee on Friday and had his season's wood worked up, 'Mr, und Mrs. Harey Hooke and baby of Toronto have moved' into their summer home here for the season, . Mr. and Mrs, Charlie Pilkey spent the week end with the former's par- cuts in Hamilton, Mr, and Mrs, George Houwton, of Toronto visited the latter's parents, Mr, and Mrs, J, E, Beacock on Sun- day, R. A, Hutchinson, 1.P.S., of Whit- by, psd his semi-annual visit at the school last week, and gave a splen~ did general report, of equipment, discipline, ete, Sorry to report that Mrs, Bateman who hus been confined to her bed es Wn since last fall has been dangerously ill for the past week, fax a month hence, Aime Joyal is the son of Jeun Thornton's - Corners, April 15, Mr, Thos. Shepherd is home, for Baptiste Joyal. son of a ploneer family, descendant of Mary Ann Gaboury, who was the first white woman to penetdate the wets be- yond the Great Lakes, Alme J 1 declared, The grandfather of the ambitious hiker was Jean Baptiste LajJimpdiere, a trapper on the Red River, who once walked from Re gina (then Fort Douglas) to Mons treal and back with papers from A privately charatered neroplane bound from Montrenl to New York with Rev. Avila Papineau, rector of Bt. Catherine Church, and Charles Moquin and Leonard Lehan, Mont. real business men, as passengers became lost in the fog, and had to make a forced landing on the estate of Dr, C, H, Dunn, at Katon- two weeks, from Sudbury, Little Miss Eileen Preston enters tained a few of her friends at a birth. day party on April 10th, A number of the veterans from this neighborhood attended the Vimy Ridge banquet on Thursday evening Mrs, G. H, Robinson spent a few days in Toronto, last week, Congratulations are extended to uh, N.Y. on Sunday night last, It | wits reported that the machine Wot nn wheel while making the landing. George Pigeon, n formar war aviator, was plloting the machine, The photograph = heve shows the nevoplang after the land ng, the wottlers of the district to Lord Selkirk, His equipment was a run a hatchet and a blanket; and he had to avoid all the posts along the way because the papers he car- ried wore detrimental to the in- torosts of the North Western Trad. ing Company, then at war with the Hudson's Bay Company in the Rea River Valley, and they wished to prevent him from executing his errand, Joyal says, EMIGRATION TO CANADA INCREASES England Sending 25 Per Cent More Than Four Years Ago "The soup--too hot---must have exploded," murmured Alex, when he recovered consciousness, It will be some time before neighbors can fully pérsunde him thut the explosion was caused by esouping gas, and not good, tiery hot woup, HISTORY OF GLASS FOR MANY CENTURIES TOLD BY PHYSICIAN Montreal,~Althongh the Chin. ose Emperor is sald to have used convex lenses to view the stars more than 2,000 years befoge the time of Christ, no record of thelr having been known to antiquity oxints, and at present they are assumed to date from the 13th century, when they came into use simultaneously in the Orient and in Europe, Dr, 8, H. McKeo told the Rotary Club at thelr weekly luncheon, He reviewed swiftly the history of glass, then of lenses, explaining that not until the 10th century were any other than cop- vox lensos made, The city of Bidon, in Phoonecia was founded on a glass Industry, the speaker sald, Its folk were pleased with the appearance of the pretty substance they had discov ored by accident, and they used it for trading with savages like the British. According to Pliny, they had learned the art of work ing glass from the Chinese, When convex lenses came Into use in the Orient they were of much the same structure as those used today, The lenses were mounted in tortoise shell frames that fastened behind the ears, Ini Europe the first to leave any re- cord of his knowledge of glasses was Doger Bacon, who seems to have understood refraction, Glass os came into use among the monks, who were busy reading and write ing, as a corrective measure for defective eyesight which oceurs between the ages of 40 and BHO years, The Church viewed their use with disapproval, but they be came popular in spite of censors ship. AMBERGRIS MAKES NIQUE DEPOSIT Maori Youth Places $10,000 Worth to His Credit at Bank Kawhia, Now Zealand,--A Maor! youth brought a large muss of am- bergris here recently and deposited it at the local branch of the Bans of New Zealand, The find was made at the Atoea Heads, on a block of land situated nearby, The amber rig Is believed to be worth about 10,000, although Its exact value bas not been determined, The boy refused an offer of $2000 in cash from a local trader. The lad was returning home from work when he was attracted by a large lump of marine flotsam lying on the beach, and on closer inspec. tion came to the conclusion that it was ambergriy, although he had never previously seen a specimen of this valuable commodity, When the substance was brought into Kawhia, it was at once in- dentitied by several who were nes qualnted with the charaoteristios of | Ambergris and its value was im-| mediately recognized, The whole | mass measured two feet long ana of varying thickness, welghing 28 pounds, By George Hambleton, Canadian Press Staff Correspondent London, April 17, = Emigration to Canada has increased more than 28 percent during the past four years, although emigration to the Domine. fons generally has shown a considers able falling off since 1926, it was dis- closed in the House of Commons yesterday. / + Hon. -W., R, Smith, parliamentary secretary of the Board'of Trade, In reply to questions said emigration to Canada had increased year by year, namely from 49,632 in 1926, to 65,558 in 1929, while Board of Trade figures showed the agmregate emigration to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand had decreased from about 119,000 in 1926 to about 94,000 in 1929, BLAMFS HAT SNIP FOR EXPLOSION But It Was Really Leaking Gas That Caused De- troit Blast Detroit, Mich,, April 10--Alex Sutherland's wife was away and he had his big chance to cook up a mess of fiery, hot soup, full ot pepper, the kind he always yearn- ed for but which his wife dented him, Heé used a lot of cayenne and other peppery Ingredients to put the desired warmth into the soup, and, full of plemsant anticipation, placed the raw material on the stove and struok a mateh, A few minutes later neighbors fished Mr, Sutherland out from beneath the kitchen table, amid a tangled mass of wreckage that was the Sutherland kitchen, Apparently, Gandhi's idea is to oatoh the bird of freedom by put« ting salt on its tall.--Toronto Tele. gram, ! Gandhi, as we understand ity he- lleves British government in India | Is not worth ita salt.--Woodstock Sentinel-Review, The man who won a big pool In & horse race had his name in the papers. The papers aren't big en. ough to publish the names of all the lonprs,~-Meatord Mirror, 3g the meeting that She Wester 0 loagues wou carry on and remarked that "next year was another Walter Buss for passing his Junior Plumber's examination with first class honours Mr, McClure was a recent visitor to Toronto, Mr, and COLUMBUS NEWS Columbus, April 1 Mr. A and family have moved into the lage to Mr, Fred Colling' house, Mr, and Mra Vice and Mr, Hobbs have moved to Brooklin where they have bought a. place north of the villuge Mi few days Blair vil Mrs, George. Webster spent the week end in Guelph, the guests of Mrs, Webster's parents, Mr, and Mrs, George Southwell, Ted Robinson spent the week end in Oshawa with Leonard Brosh, Mr, and Mrs, Norman Gilbert were in Ashburn on Sunday, Messrs, Erie Dean and Jim Lew- ington were in Toronto on Friday, Mr. and -Mrs, Frank LeRoy and Mr, and Mrs, Arthur Pierson mo- tored to Toronto, last week, Mrs, H. 8, Swiith, Mrs, I, Brosh and Mrs, Harold Smith were Friday guests of Mrs, G. H, Robinson, Miss Spencer, of Ashburn, visited lust week with her sister, Mrs. Nor man Gilbert, The Ladies' Aid will hold their re- gular monthly meeting in the Sun- and Mrs, PG, Purves spent a in Chatham this week with Mr, and Mrs, A. Gregor Mr, and Mra, Geo, Blight called on friends on Sunday. Mr, Gregory from Sunday with Mr, and Pury Mr, and Mrs. H, Slecp from To ronto called on friends in the village on Sunday Mr. and Mrs, L. 1 Tuesday in Toront Mr Mrs, Alex returned to their ho nrter sy the win Toronto Mrs, spent I Lv} Cook spent Gregory have in Chatham ter with their Purves and wend Mt THORNTON'S CORNERS | ls m day school room, Wednesday after- noon, April 80th, On. Thursday ev. ening last the ladies gathered at the home of one of thelr members, Mrs, Roy Tamplin, Louisa streets who is moving away to Tisdale, and pre- sented her with a beautiful bedspread us a token of appreciation for her faithful work and help in the past. The ladies expressed great sorrow thut Mrs. Tamplin was leaving them and wished her every success in her new home, A very pleasant social evening was enjoyed by all present, The many friends of Mrs. Peter Lofthouse ill be Lorry to hear that she was taken seriously ill on Thurs. day morning with appendicitis, She wus taken to the Oshawa General Hospital where she underwent an operation and is doing well, though still seriously ill, Mr, and Mrs, Robert Sully enters tained guests from 'l'oronto on Sun- day, Miss Jatharine Lowe, of Oshawa, was a week end guest of Miss Mar- guret Pierson, Messrs, Orton and Harding, © Toronto, were week-end guests o Mr, and Mrs, Frank Le Roy, Me, and Mrs, Matthews, ronto, were Sunday guests of and Mrs, Arthur Plerson G, H, Robinson was in recently. ol 23, Hamilton, who disappeared a week ago, He had been married only two weeks and left his home for work ns uspal, giving no intimation he intended going away, Police and friends have lu. stituted a search, Toronto | tend on mecount of illness in her Messrs, Vdgar Pascoe and Merton Walters motored to Guelph this week, Harold Pascoe of the O.A( family, was to have sang a wolo, Miss Dearborn gave a splendid | paper on the "Doukabors In Cun-| ada" and also rend un story to the | children, Collection thus far, $20.14, The church service was in charge of Rev, J, I, Bick, who preuch- | od a very helpful sermon on the | John 12-12, The cholr rendered the | old favorite selection "I'he O14 | Rugged Cross," Mrs, John Baker | taking the solo part with the cholr | taking the chorus, This number 4s especially good and was well glven We extend our sympathy to Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Balsom and family on the death of thelr infant daught- | or Helen Mr, und Mrs. Ernest Larmer | visited at Mr, and Mre, A. J, Bal-| son's on Saturday, { Mra. W. T. Taylor is quite 11! with Miss Lena Taylor In atten~ dance, Clipping sheep and horses seems {to be the popular chore for the | men these spring days. Some near Oshawn were seen plowing on Sat- urday but the land at Solina Is not in shape yet, Mry, John Baker spent Saturday | in Bowmanville with her mother, | Mrs, W. J. Bragg, who was quite | il again, { Miss Helen and Mr, John Baker | entertained a few friends on Sat-| urday night, Mr, and Mrs. Chas, Howsam en- tertalned some of thelr neighbors also on Saturday night, Mrs. A, Millson is In Toronto con- sulting a spocinlist and staying with here sister, Mrs, Steele, will return with them for the Easter vacation, Harold has taken a school the Muskoka district and com® mences teaching after Laster, In the account of the Boy Scout Troop's Banquet, Chester Robinson's name was omitted as Secretary trea- surer, Chester has filled this office for the past ten yeurs, and the Troop expressed théir appreciation his raithful work, by round of cheers, SOLINA NEWS Solina, April 14--Mossrs, 8, © Werry and Alan McKessock have bullt new hrooder and hen houses. Mr, and Mrs, George White spent Sunday in Toronto, Mr, J, R. Kivell ig Improving the roads by split log dragging them these fine sunny days, Owing to the splendid Interest shown in Sunday Schoel work and helped out by a splendid day, dos pite the bad condition of the roads there were 06 at Sunday School at Eldad on Bunday, Opening services wore ag usual with Mr, Shortridge's class giving the special musle "The Way of the Cross Leads Home," when some 25 young men and wo- men took pa® this Is very Inspire ing to the Superintendent and of- ficors, Tho classes took thelr places for a shortened lesson period as the missionary program in churge of Mrs, Roy Langmnid was put in, Miss Lena Taylor, who could not at- of a hear Yellowlees, | Bolina, Miss Lens Taylor gave a talk on "I'ne Bedroom in Health and Bick- ness," when she gave many good suggestions on home nursing, She uno gave a demonstration in band. aging at Hampton Women's Instls tute on Apr. 3. he was voted a hearty vote of thanks by Hampton ladies, Mins Vern Baker visited at Mrs, Elmer Millson's, on Saturday, Mr, and Mrs. H, A. Pascoe spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Brin Pearce; of Claremont, Several young people went to the woods and picked hepaticas on Sunday, April 15th, Solinn school report, noZ20 Dare Hington: VaeMisg Muo Westlake, IVeAudrey Ayre, Percy Wests lake, Hazel McEwen, Tom Baker, Roscoe Baker, Ruby Parker?, Jim Parker,* Russell Balson," 11T=Eya Johns, (hons,), Wesley Werry, Ralph Taylor, Harold Bal won, Blllle Parker, t gr, Tl--DBobhle Seott," Donnie Parker and Alan Wilbur (equal), Harold Potter, Il-~Kathleen Baker, J-=Jean Johus, sr, Pr, --Phoehe Shortridge, IPrancly Wotten, Margaret Perkins, Bruce Potter, Mike Ellzuk. Jr, Pr.--John Baker, Parker, Louise Baker, t--nbsent for one or more exams, ¥eefullod In one or more subjects, Mr, ahd Mrs, Clarence Tink, Salem, visited at Mr, George White's on Sunday, Don't forget the play by the Columbus people "Kentucky Belle" on April doth, at Eldad chureh, under the auspices of Women's In- stitute, The young people's league opened with Mr, W., Westlake in the chair. After winging hymn 188, A, P, Me~ Kessock Jed In prayer. Miss Helen Baker, Missionary vice-president, then took the chair and called in the following program. Devotional tople was taken hy Mrs, 8B, E. Werry, Mrs, John Baker then took Carrie [up the topic "Our Task with the Itallang in Canada." Plano duet, Mrs. Hugh Anuls and Mrs, J, W, Hymn 97 was then pung and the meeting closed by the | Mizpah Benediction, Football meeting on Thursday night at school, Mr, Clarence Tink, formerly of Solina, Is moving from Bowman« ville to Miss Marjorie Collacott's farm where he will be manager for Miss Collacott, Mr. Clifford Taylor was at home from Toronto for the week-end, The Brooklyn Baker had to go to Hampton to got to Solina on Sate urday, Lots of enrs are getting stuck up at Rows Lee's corner these days. Mr. and Mrs, Hilton Tink have moved on Mr. Collacott's farm at We wish them success, a -------- daughter, PG MYRTLE BRIEFS Myrtle, April 16, = Miss Pearl Vance spent the week end with Osh awn friends Mr. Jack Kuhlam, section foreman on the C.IVR, started his extra gang | Of fourteen men putting im new ties | und fixing up the Arack generally on | Saturday Mr. Kuhlam stated that | he found no difficulty in receiving extra men this spring Miss Maxwell, 4 returned mission ary from India gave a splendid talk on her work in foreign fields here on Sunday afternoon, She was dressed in native Indian costume, and hw» with her a number of Indian curic which the tribe she labored among had a great deal of superstition about, She spoke under the aus pices of the W. M.S, and this society made dp the cholr, while the presi dent, Mrs, R, Merriam, presided, Mr. Norman Scott is moving to Campbellford this week where he has A position as toreman on a secured farm, Mr, Ben, Davidson and his men| of Brouklin have been busy the past few days taking the snow! fences and burning the grass along the highway. Mrs, Cook HE old Gillitte was a good servant. The New Gillette Blade and Razor is a better one -- Jery much better, You never need waste your time wiping this razor dry. 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