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The next high point of the pic- ture contams the clim x of the 111c- ture. a blQQdY ambush of the Mounted bv the half-breeds led by Corbeau and his Gating R1111; for Corbeau has promised. Chief Big Bear that he will bring him the red coats of the Mounted before three suns have set, and Big Bear has promised to no on the war path if he clues.

Iucldcrltally". the second ambush onlv becomes possible because of Ronnles romantic interest in Lou- vette. a tempestuous, gorgeous In- dlnn girl. Sent out to prevent an ambush. Ronnie deserts his post to yield to Louvettes persuasion to marry 11e1". She has h1m captured and t1ed 1.11) by Indians. while Ron. 111e‘s co-watcher is killed. ~

No mere recitation of these thrills can consummatcly convev what, they are on the screen under the guin- nnce of Producer-Director DeMllle. There are many additional thrills before the picture comes to a close. and. before there is anv determin- ation as toiust who gets the affec- trcn of April.

With such a host of stars operat- inz under the DeMi1lc banner. it would require thousands of words to describe the work of all the Dfitm formers. Cooper does a nmknificent lob as the uuict Ranger. and Mus Carroll has never been more beau- 1.lf . And then there is Miss

oddard. who makes Louvette a wildcat of an Indian girl, the sort of a lrai who makes it look credibie when a Mountle leaves l1ls Dost,

Of the photography. the horse- n1".111s11ip, tho humor as dispensed mostlv bv Tnmlroff and Overman,

1 vnoueh cannot be said, "North Wegfi

Mounted Police" ranks as nothing short of a triumph for DeMille. his 110st of starring players and gvgry- bod.v concerned with the production

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(By IIECTOI- BTANNARD)

Christmas would not be Christ'- nlaa without its legends and its time-hallowed clutoms, and without the mtuic of its bells. All Over the world the great futivgl of the birth of Christ ls heralded y such music, and hu been, one may say, lincc me song of the angels was first: heard over the plains of Bct-hiciletll- from the earliest times it has been our custom to express our thank- fulness and joy at this, the lifest- est festival of the year, with the l0llnd of bells, and there is evid- ence that this was the method of rejoicing when Thor and 1 those pagan gods, were 8914111011? giving way before the gentler, ltronger pressure of the teaching of the Babe of Bethlehem.

Bu rstiticn early seized upon the bell’ on and attributed to them the great power of driving BWEY $118 sprites or evil s irlts that bent mankind, while a1 aylng the storms and tempests they were supposed to brew. The church, when a tempest was seen to arise, had its bells runs. so that the fiends, hearing the trumpets of the Eternal King, might flee away, and cease from raising the storm.

From this it was but a short step to the belief that the bells might still be heard ringing even though the town or village 1n which they hung had entirely passed away. It might, as in the case of Dunwich or the towns of Lyonesse, be swept away beneath the sea: it might. as m the case of Raleigh, in Notting- hamshire, be swallowed up in an earthquake, but the ghostly bells gould still ring out at Christmas-

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Lyonesse. off the coast of Com- 1 wall. was once a flourishing ln11d,| peopled by a prosperous fold who

1111111 dreamed of 1.1111 disaster 1111c‘ lay before them. On November ll,

1099, there occurred a great tide of

unusual destructlveness, and, if we

accept the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,

"tlte sea broke in upon the laud.

and swallowed up many towns and a

countless multitude of people.”

The fishermen to-day declare that

they can still make out the ruins

of old houses and churches, and

that they sometimes bring up in

their nets fragments of broken

doors and windows.

But strangest of all. throughout the centuries since the “judgment. of heaven” fell upon Lyoncsse, the bells from the 14D submerged churches have not ceased to ring at Christmastide, so they say, and the Cornish fishermen and peasantry still go out in their boats on Christ- mas morning to listen for the ghostly music from the depths of the sea.

Stories of such ghostly bells at Christmastlde are legion. Sometimes piracy has much to do with them. The fishermen of the Firth of Forth sometimes stay their quest for “cal- ler herrin’ ” to listen to the sunken bells which were looted from St. Giless and other churches in Edin- burgh and cast into the sen.

The fisher folk of Whitby. as they look at the beautiful ruined abbey of St. Hilda, which crowns the cliffs. recall how a Danish pirate once stole the abbey bells from her keeping, put them aboard ship and sailed, as he thought, for home But no. the vessel refused to bear avray its sacred burden, and al- though not a ruffle of wind broke the surface of the bay on that calm summer evening the ship quietly sank beneath the waves, and there,

within sight of the rifled abbey, the bells remain, and every Chris - mas morning, it is said, they can be heard ringing their old triumph- ant peals from far down under the

water. In many parts of England the belief still lingers that if one goes

to a certain valley in the early morning of Christmas Day and puts 111s ear to the ground he will hear the ringing of church bells deep down in the earth. Near Klrksanton, in Cumberland, there ls a hollow in the ground which is assigned as the place where once stood a church that was swallowed up bodily when the earth opened and 1t disappeared from sight. Buried the church may be, but it is be- lieved by many that. bells ring out. especially at Christmastlde, for the hearing of anyone who chooses to listen for them with ear to the ground.

An earthquake is said to have bqn responsible for the destruc- tion of the prosperous village of Raleigh, in Nottlnghamshire, where Christmas bells are supposed to be heflfd- T118 11811111! villagers ranked not: of their coming doom, but one day the earth opened wide, and in a few moments every trace of life and habitation had vanished, and the site of the prosperous village was represented only by a confused

mass of throbbing rocks and earth. Down, too. had gone the old

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Saxon church. the music of whose bells had long been the wonder of the countryside. That was long ages ago, but those bells are be- lieved to be still ringing on the special occasion when the birth of Christ fa beinl celebrated. The

pie roundabout have gnthondon m: site of the vanished village on Christmas morning, taking their children with them, and young and old have listened for the music o! the ghostly Christmas bells which the g of time has entirely

fail to subdue.

The custom a eats one that 151 peculiar to the leao peasants, who listen at the bake-ovens on Christmas Eve. If "they hear music

1t signifies an early wedding; but

lf the rin g~of bells ll heard it forbodel speedy death of the listener.

Such tradition of vanished

churches and ghostly halls is not confined to one country or the fol- lowers of one million. There is a belief among certain Arabs of the Blnaltlc peninsula. that a mon- astery once existed there, which suddenly disappeared and has never since been seen, though the bells are said to be heard ringing, cs- pecially when “the time draws near the birth of Christ.” ,

How did the belief originate? History falls to tell us, but 1t is worthy of note that in the district referred to there 1s the mountain of the bell, Jebel Narkous, so called from the sounds emitted from it. sometimes resembling musiclal glasses, and anon like two pieces of

1etal struck against one another The explanatoln suggested is a natural 011e- that there are caverns below which communicate with one another. or with the atmo- sphere above, by means of small orifices, so that any considerable differences of temperature causes currents of air to pass through and make the ghostly music travellers hear.

In Holland they tell the sad story of the ancient city of Been, re- nowned for its wealth and splend- our. and how the people there were givon to pleasure and evil living.

One Christmas Eve, when the the mad carnival was at its height, Christ Himself came there in the guise of a little child, knocking at the doors and seeking food and shelter. But. all that He received were cruel words and heartless laughter, and every door was shut in His face. And the Christ Child was given to anger, and stretching forth His hands, He spoke the word and the waters of the sea stole sil- ently upon the city of Been, driv- ing the revellers from the streets

into the houses, and even into the >7‘

urmer rooms.

Yet: that was not enough, for in‘ the morning the people of the neighbouring cities looked out to- wards-the site where Been had flourished and made merry, and nothing was seen but. the placid waters of the invading sea. 'I'ha.t was many years ago, but on Christ- mas Eve, the legend runs, the

church bells in the buried city ring

their ghostly music, in penance fcr the slight which the citizens .11 a bygone day nut cm the Christ Child when He asked food and shelter.

In Memo riam

MRS. LEMU-EL ll. CRASWELL

A large circle of friends learned wit11 regret of the passing 0i’ Mrs. Lemuel H. Crasweil. whose death occurred on Wednesday, Doc, 18th. after a. brief illness. _

The late Mrs. Ornswoll who was a woman of splendid Cluistian principles and loved for her many acts of charity had reached her 751111. year. She was a life-long resi- dent of this city and enjoy)“ the friendship of g largo num .r. She was a fa thful and omsistont mom- ber of Trinity United Church.

She leaves to mourn her hus- band, Mr. Lemuel H. Craswell, re- tired C. N. R. employee, two sons. 0. C. Craxwell, photographer, and Merrill Craswell of Sidney Green d: Co. and one daughter Mrs. Gordan Tomllns, all of this city, who have the deep sympathy of all in their bereavement.

MARY AGNES MCKENNA

On Thursday evening December 5th, 1940, the Angel of Death en- tered the home of Albert McKcnna. Newton and claimed for its victim his beloved wife Mary Agnes at the early age of forty-eight years,

Deceased had been in failing health for some time but it was only a week ago that her condition became serious, 11nd her untimely dearth has cast a gloom "of sorrow over the community in which she had lived. ‘

To know Mary Agnes was to love h"- Charity. Peace and Patience, were virtues she possessrd and Prttctinrd and it is truly said of her that she never spoke an un- kind word to anyone. A kind and

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loving wife, an affectionate find home loving mother; a charitable lmd everready neighbour are epi- taph: surely applicable to the late Mrs. McKcnna.

She was a devoted and 11111111111 member of the Holy Catholic C1111rcl1 and died fortified by its final sac- rament, Extreme Unctlon.

Besides hcr sorrowing husband. she leaves to mourn, one daughter, Bister Albert Marie of St. Joseph's Convent. Vancouver. £11180 Sims. James and Emmet at home, and George, student nt St. Dunstarfs University, also thrcc brothers, namely George and Joseph of Shamrock and John Harold tylth the C.A.S.F. in England.

H81‘ funeral took 1911161‘ l0 Si» Malachyfs Church. Kinkorn, on Sat- urday morning whcn a Requiem Hi-gh Haas wu- celebrnted by the pastor Rev. Father Smith, who al- so conducted the services 11* the grave. The pallbearcrsnxere Messrs. Jim Groenrln John Grcenan. ‘Frank Grecnau, John Kelley, Georgi‘ Sherry and Fred Murray.

May her soul rest in peace.

GEORGE l-‘REDERFWE IWELLISH

The death occurred at 111s homo at. Union Road. Kiflllfi Cmllllv 0" Tlvcnmbor 91h, n‘ Georttc Frederick Mclllsh 1n his 01st veal".

He was the son of the late John and Arm ‘Melllsb.

Hi: narcntg mnvcrl 1n Union Road 1n 1848 “there h“ was born 0n W» comb!"- Mth, 11149 the first clllld b'""1 1"" that district.

Keenlv inlercwud in farming (‘"4 ‘it'"s'r>"k Mr. Mnvuot tl1r0111r“ h‘ 1nd||5fry and cntcrnrls» built 1'“ one of the finest nroncrtlcs 1n "P section of the province. A slur" Christian gentleman he was 11 1"

When It conic: to hitting the bottle, lll-thy-old Carl Done Thun- gn 1|, .Ir., can take It or lone it alone. Ills father Carl Thusgnard, of Jamnlcn, L. I.. rigged up this gadget so that (l) Plpa Thusgonrfl

wouldn't get n backache bending

over to feed Junior. (it) Junior

could tutu a nlp now and than and know when to find the bottle

when h; unto illhflll’ not?

As the Christmas season with its Joy draws near, our thoughts turn once more

have helped to make our

SEASONS GREETINGS

and Happinerlt to all thdse who

business a successful 0118- We

tyould thank them most heartily and with them the

~ - her have never farmers, who, 111 StOIITIY aild $111111)’ “feat _ failed to supply us daily with fresh milk and cream t0 ac

complish our purpose. Our

Staff joins with us in wishing

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

The Staff and Management of

THE PURE MILK c0. LTD.

C. M. COX, Manager.

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vout church worker and gave free- ly of his time and talents to the Union Road Methodist Church which he helped to build. Honor- able and upright in his dealing! 11c was held in the highest esteem by all who know him. I-lo has been an invalid for the past thirteen years but during that time ho bore his illness with true Christian rel- ignatlon and was never known to complain about being suddenly cut off from a life of activity.

He was a lifa long supporter of the Liberal party.

His wife, formerly Alexlna Mac- Donald of Eldon, passed away 1n June last. <

He leaves to mourn the loss of a kind and generous father. the following sons and daughters: John II, Cuntoocook, N. 1.1.: James, 5a- vannah, 8a.; George A., on the old homestead; Edna (Mrs. Victor Bridges) and Jessie. (Mn. J. D. smith) both in Somorville, Mass One sister, Mrs. Ge Dower 0f Winfield, Alberta, n survives. One scm Sheldon and a. daughter Linda. predeceased 111m a number

of years ago.

The funeral services were con- ducted at tlhe home gnd grave by Rev. S. E. Hayward of Montague United Church who took as the text. of his funeral address, “(lllrlst hath brought life and immortality to light."

The familiar hymns "O God Our 801p in Ages Past," "What 11 Friend We Have in Jesus" and "Some D111" the Silver Cord Will Break" \\"01"e sung.

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