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ehorGy after .3 .o!cleck ,on
'01?A robbery, Mr 0,14-17,eir
' men emerge- from the side..
oo Of the. bank with a bag, heavibr
deri'lle Was auspicieue becanse the
on were atrangers. • He watched.
he carry the beg to a• waiting
-aueoMobile three hundred- feet avEraY
••iind drive. off. • When they emerged
,freiri•Ilie." side door of the hank they
**ed. ereund, and faced, Witnees,
...fifty 'fiet aWaSe and it Was -then that
Ohver said he get -a geed leek
them." On NoVem1er1,1th ,at Wal.
,kerton jail; he said be picked the
.tnto ecensed out .Of a • row of eight
men. "They are the men," said .Mr.
Qlli!reiMinting to the MeNeilebroth-
'ers• in the prisoners' Aock"There is :
not ,the slightest_cloubtibut that they
• .-vare':the,inell I. :saw' C-iiiiiet-ent of the.
•
side door of the bank *Rh a beg."
.• •Crnes-eXaminici by Messrs. Holmes
and Grant, witness admitted that he.
,knew Manager Wilmot:had been talc,
.,en to, -Teeswater to identify accused,
but .said ;that .he had -not Conversed
With hint beforehe made +is 'own
•adinitted his, sight
was ,defective, but his eiridence .,was
not shaken n the main, . although
• :Justice McEvoy reinerited at one
pehit that he was '"somewhat loose
, statements"• • ,
there were, of course,, many
teresting 'bits" of information ,hrought
out. •Fpr example when the riibbers
failed to -open thecash' dra.wers,
Managers Wilinot • got this order
•from, one Of the• robbers: •''Get
,irnz aronnd •anil___Ireapyour head
Thitt was when he was order -
..ed to !unlock 'the cash. box. The rob-
ber who entered the office did net.
open the doorin the ordinary way,
but. kicked it in. The two young as -
were
instants in.."..the bank. were frequently,
ordered tO. keep their he -MIS do,i
: order which.they obeYed .and ;arhiCh
rendered, them napless as: witnesses
as, they could,net see the faces; 'of
the :robbers. Several Sines" the rob-
•bere 7; thieateeed: -• "One.:4alse_anove...
rob -
•laKk.oW SENTINEt ` • THURSDAY PPRIIARY h,19$1
time of coming tri Teahwater, of his
"aetielle *Prieellieff the, and
hi arrest. P.ald• te have aPctken
in a clear and ccinflilent. 'voice, • Ile
SOSkatCheWan 19: years
efg"-Ifie•efather Whin he; wok,
feet yeera' old, and . his mether. bad
married again. He had learned the
printing trade in Regina; -Com 'east:
in. 1.9.0, and worked as it printer in
Oshawa and ;Godericb and later ,ivent
td Retriiit. He Said 1i had been
orinfendant of a fleet 4in
Detroit, •but. when It closed clown be.
•ciend tp. Teeswater: October-
he had -elven- his" -.brother. liaivey,
$200 with Which to. buy A roadster
car in ,Petreit..The car was brought'
across the under the ilium of. W.
G; GrieVes,. He ininnitted" this wa§,11'
fictitiont •,nanie.„. . said liar:Vey-had'
been unable to get Work IP •-00roit,
on aeceunt Of Jiff)* bleeklisted by
the'
theft .of tiipriek• from :the 130.1c:. •7;t0f ,
lki-orit-faret- Galt -some years-hefore.
He was to .'d6.ifie his name to
Grieves, . go to New :York aia begin.
life' anew: .• , •
The car. referred to is the One al-
• leged to have figured in the ' bank
• robbery. , It. Was; found stored in 'a
•barn a few miles out of •Teeswater..
The witness said that this car bad
not been driven frim Oct- 23, until
after October 29, the day of the
•robber.y., He said that on October 29,
lie and bis brother had, SleUt until
nearly noon, and then prepared din-,
ther, Harvey going,-,, up ton. He .had
started' to write a :letter :when Her-.
Vey returned and suggested that they
.go to the aunt's far. (This is the
farm wherethe roadster, wee .stor-
'ed in thaharii).. They left for -the
far* at e:15: PAL .At the. firth they .
found that cattle had 'entered the
barn brolcen..throught the ;flOor:
They I:etiiined to get haninter and
•Osdirich -sand . •Gtant., a
walhextoo. s, ,
4 took an liMir tp aelect'a jury, 19
of• tliple veiled 'being "challenged,.
Tita CeUrt was', anxious to have -the
case COMpleted • on Saterday, and sat
until about 12 o'clock Rriday. 'night
The evicleace'4was all: in earlY on
..Saturday. D. E. Holmes., counsel .fpr
Gilferd McNeil addyessed the 'eellrt-
for -tivo.bours;. •Camphell Grant -for
Harvey OP•41.ce:-fer 'One +our
and „five ,,Minetes° and My; McFadden
.for , the..eroWn artete. Par :one hour
and '10 minutes: Juetice, MeEtroy's
'•
adifieie- to the•juryt took 50 minutes.
•
other things '• he said that:
this country meet be Made, and kept
'a safe and tOmforiable place'. to -live
in, ando"this woad depend largely Up:,
on ..licrer., the, juries: RerfeTite.4 'their
duties. If juries are nig.ligent - in .
their, or even ellp. elje
leat'degteeOveeoen.-WoUld-liaVe..here
su4 conditione as exist in Chicago
tociay,•: H-aving-reviewed..;_the. evidence
• he, asked he Jury to deal With
fairly. and honeetly.
TI1E
eisT.1101(INTOW SENT/114,EL
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THE MAPLE SYRUP INDUSTR'Ir.
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Plebligled. every Thursday merniee
• at Lecknow, Ontario.
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D , yfacKenzie, Proielitter
and' Editor,
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A r,
TItURSiDAY: FEBRUARY' 26th: 1931'
, , .
."Stocke"! were, very Popular the past
'few YOArti.•.aad' the. pex.7gOn. with rnonSy.-
in a 'OaViiigaTiegaiint or in lAteAr,:
Mice • Watt regarded by . "smart. .fellt"..
as a • 0.104. L_Experlerice
hJ
. • . • • • ••
th.an.ged.: all that,. • • •
IS PER.MRY UNCOMMON?
At the Perjury trial in kincaidine,
hist week, -County—CrloWn Attomer-t;
Freeborh .reported to have said
that perjur7 (that is deliberately. and
IMOWingly Making .felse, statements
under path) is not E50 armAnok as is
'generally supposed -:-that. 04 net
think thainnany. "went court with
the intentiOn, Of making falseletate-
*exits in:the;'..yritneke..hOX.L;
Mr. -17)re0Ora was,..a-licosiikft 'Jack-
Mureajee case' at the time ink imprea-
sing 4P-0ii- the court tharit Was; a par::
ticularlY flagrant ease 'of perjury.
With due -regard for MI.' Ffeebern's
knowledge and •experience it *tat be
that his opinion does net repre-
sent that of the majority of :people.
Nor is it possible for one who reads
ctitirt proceeding& to think otherwise
•than•that there a great lot of de-
liberate lying in the Witness box. • In
feet there is a pretty general imPree4.
sion. that'll great many will not liesi-
eate to connote perjury- if they think
they can'get eivay with serious
• cases and in eases :Of •bootlegging,
few expect • the accused and
frieeds to tell the truth in the wit-
• ness boic. The'attitude ef the: thief
"-:aini-tire-llootlegger-andAheir-assi*
iates certainly, net going' to
• convict Myself." And, it ie. net at 11'
Uncommon for? a Magistrate, or. judge:
to say Olathe does not helieve•
Witness. Of course the percentage of
the people M any 'comniunity who
et into court either as "accused" Or
g, .
:as -witnesses' is not large; . • •
• Here it rhay' be, Worth stating that
in .the "underworld" Of. A city, per-
jury is the rule. The crime gangs'in
the ditlea have 1 he -putting -np--of
de-
fCce down fine: .It is said that mur-
Aerera and robbers in the cities, ber
fore getting out to commit crime, haye
_ _ •
:The clear; sunny days of March
bring the first crop of the new year
••-r-the hatiTest ; of inaple Sap and •its:
delectUble\ products.' In byegepe days
"niaple Sugar making" on the farms
•‘• .. •
was .a Joit of picturesqUe adventure:
"Supplyieg the domestic heeds.was the
main ingentiVe and the. question of •
catering tri an outside .market re -
Meted „little' consideration: The crude
open -kettle methods in vogue differed
little from 'tbs.:* of the Indian of 1
•qt'll e,ATII r 1:1947g and produced often
the' dark -colored ,and :strong -tasting
syrup that results from old-fashioned
ways. tut while it: is tree" thathapPy'
"sugaring off pardes still hold their
nails' 'with which to repair the floor.' merry revels, careless of petty dm-
GPiii-g:' tri- the 7'hifinbe they -fetind- their stimferts, yet in the •eonduct • of. the
induktry as a whple; itrilch* Changes
,.
uncle, Mr; Prank More there and
talked •Witli• him mita 130 o'clock „...
have been effected during' the past
P,M. or a little per. They then .te. uu or 40 Years: • _.
tinned to the :farm to repair' the ' During the .lires91(itT century the
harn,1:getting hack te • TeeSwater 'he- buzinees, of making maple products
_systematizedan '
one I'll blow your d brains out °,tereen. .5.30 ad' six .------'- -- has fa, general been ' d
o'clock, and had
We :mein "beihiess." supper. He 'ernphasized that it ewould organize . e ehenge - as . been
' d Th " • :h
3! e Pale' studied well have been impossible for -him ycf be marked by the use of labor-saving
•
Evidently the " had " '
: the "bleed and, -thunder" Stories of at • Brussels on the _afternoon at the 'inachinerY, the greater. elimination of
fact iird-fi-etien .: . : .e‘ k - . ' .
: . • , robbery. : . , . •., . was the expansion of•,merkets, the
their alabis_all- arranged That is be -
When ,the money had been gather- dress"' examination. failed' to shake emphasis of :quaity goods,, diellitro-- '
RUSSIA OFFEAS TO • TAEE
:IMPLEMENTS FOR COAL
recent 'report tiOat. Otte -Vett was
te the: effect that representatives of
the governMeUt Rasa's. had offeree
to Odle eight. million Olars_ivorth of
'fern *elements from Canadian hen-.
ufacturers- Provided if , 'country!'
will accept •Pitinment, "in.:„Itutieiiin an-,
tbraeite,coal. •
It aboUld be noted •tiutt is
gonad": not the iriPienient hianUfric.,
turers that is to take the "coat The
irepejeat, 'n'q• deuht,• is ,that the 'goV-
oenfe.aii;aft. 7.45ri o'apufactarers is4 to dat'ottia170..te
the
itusalan
getting
-the implements.. •.
•
'• We don't think that theteis any
liklihood of such deal, being-I:MO;
but it may be contended thatit Would
.givieovork t� a lot of Mee, making
the iinplements- and many. .more in
•handling the eight dollars.
worth, of 'eoal. '
, ,
• :Of Course, :the' coal producers of
,3'anadian Coal, and 'importers of 101-
•:?...ricaii- anthracite Oa! will object on
the ground 'tii.Or can supillf the
market; .and that they would have to
discharge a' lot: of men if done •out
of . so mach business. In fact they
Are ehjectiiie t� 'the iinportatitia Of
C't
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WEST • WAWANDSH 4:01114.0.14
The West Wawaaagh 1 -
Couneff, held its reflidar Meethig. on
February 9th, With 'all- the membere •
present • The kninutes of heft Meet,
Mg were reed apii adepted.
ual grants to the kialvatiOn Arm)! and
the Libraries were 'ordered , paid. .
The reve and •e:lerk were sutboriked
to sign° the application- -for -grant -on- •
highway expenditure. Mope, W. 1.
tied Thee 4.„TaY,19r iietr*Od
the auditers repeal: which, Was ac-:
ceptiel. :The clerk was 'instructed t�
• get Information, on the cost "' of a
szspeIsipfl feetehridge: with a spite
,040 -•feet. COunciliok Webster , was .,, . • .
"given autheritf,as to the diaposay of
• ,Artain trees on the road alloirence.• ..
The 'CRuncil adjourned- to meet *Air. •
-9th at 1.30 - e • • , ,
fere -setting .out, they arrange with
Oil.np and put into a canvass bag i the. evidence in any way Asked whY (*Mien of Co-operative methods, and
friends, or rather. associates, that, in
:and. the hank stuff 'wee about to be he had told the police, ;fter his ar- the 'encouragement by . government
the event of their coining under sus -
put intOthe, vault,. one Of 'the robbers rest,: that he hall gone to' the *farm ,ageneiei and legislation. This 'indus-
- - -- — --court as WititeSses and declare under
vinCes,and more particularly Jo Qiie---
- - pieion;-they (the _friends) _will gn into
came to Lamont who had been left on Oct 29th _for the gar, he said, "I try -is confined to ur eastern pro -
seated' Su the pfficte and saki: "I am had reason for telling the officer
sorry to trouble you. Get your crut- that, I told him that purposely to
dies and aim with me." He was then fool him.'
• escorted to the Vault and Put in with ..
- : : Harvey • IVIeNeil's • evideuce Was
:•the . others, but *steed - of .being ankh the same as Gilford's. Among
. beim& as the otliers Were, he was giy- other . things 'he admitted that
en a: Chair to sit on. ',:, in 1926 while employed. in the Bank
A Mrs. Beacom who lives across of Mopireal' at Gait,, he had stolen-
• the street from the house occupied $30000; \ He had confessed to this
by the McNeil brothers, in Teeswater robbery and returned the Money, ini
• gave evidence' that on the forming the police 'Wberelie had Iiid-
• day of the robbery she ea* the two den it. For this he had served 'two
young men get into their car . about montlia: . • ,
,one o'clock in the afternoon, 'and Tbe 'evidene of Mr, Frank Moore,
drive away, arid she did not see the uncle Of the accused was of the ut-
car back ,,at, their place until the fel- most importance The Mclieili said
lowing day', ,• O • M
• : ,, that on returnierfr m the far the
, R. ..I. Mann, ererk in a liardware first time on the day of the robbery,
•' Afore at Teeswater, told a hiving they had found: their. uncle in the
' sold a, forty -dollar stove to Gilford house and that they Wad chatted with
McNeil on -Novemlier 2nd -3 days him -until about 130 oicleck, PM. or
after the robbery. Percy Vitsky, a
- a little later. In the witness box MT.
:Jewish merchant said tbat he, had Moore said that be bad gone to the
• sold each of the acetified a suit of :
, house of his siStO -Whet* his neph-
' ' clothes between eight and ten o'clock ews had been staying: He entered
• on the night of the robbery at Prue- the hoese. They were net in, but see -
se s, rece ying $43,00. He, 'however; ing a written letter en the table he .
, ...., :
noticed - 'Milling unusual about their :"
Woe it up• -and Ives- reading it when
• demeanor. • .•e o
.•
i • IP •
new-tha
Llyoil Weisher, a Teeswater sales- Was' on October pin because he re -
man, told of giving the MeNeil's a membered that was the -date on the
$200.; radio Set the day after • the letter he had taken 'trip to read. Ile
robbery. -This set was given only for
T knew that it was 2.30 o'clock be -
demonstration to be percbase'd if_ ;:atise he had ,heard the C. P.R. trail
• satisfactory. The arrest --;on Npy_eml,„ "'
whistle' as it was pulling out .fror
ber 7th, put an end to negotiations the station. H -e had worked about tie
. , C. P. R: Station for 40 yea -is and .wal
and Mr. Welsher had taken the in -
' Stinment back. 4, ' "• familiar with train tines.He though
•• Provineial Constable Whiteside, he and his nephews had talked miti,
Old of how he with Inspector Rae,
, 2.45 ' o'clock. ---• • •
' Constables McClevis and Gundry, and• This vacs 15 lninutesk before .the
Mr. Wilmot hail gone to the house robbers entered the banid at Brussels
of Miss Mienie Moore, aunt of the judge • McEvoy here remarked upor
McNeille,. at Teeswater on the night the great im.portance of •• this evi-
of NovembirThi. 7t . They found Harvey', dence to the aceused and asked Mr.
McNeil in the kitchen, whettle con, Moore why he had• nett before this
•iaining whiskey was foundin the -Corrie forwerd with Sikh important
-kitchen-Cabinet Gilford McNeil Was informatien. , . - • 1. )
asleep upstairs. They went upstairs. Constable 'Whiteside as put into
' outilde the bedrooin doer they' 1 ound the witness* box and swore that Mr,
a r4eating rifle, 'arid in the bedroom Moore en being asked on the day of
two boxes of atninur4tion., On being the arrest Where the McNeil ,bciys•
• asked /for the revorveira in Which the hod been on Oa. 29," said that he
ammunitioe might be lised Gifford'
did, not. Itriotv.: Mr. Moore, however,
-. produced 'a loaded atitoleatie revolver denied having • Made such a state-
nder thMattress. The rifle me_
nt to the police.froiUn
sod tevOlver were produced in court'. Such wa--------------- n winch
•"'Such is, the gist of the evidence
agairiat the McNeil brothers is pres-
ented by the 'crown. •
The. Pefente ' h
' The defence ibfi'glit to prove an
t. is- to Convinee the •court
that the accused were elieWhere than
lirtissela tit the time the bank WaS
...yobbed. Both Gilford • and *they
• evidence—Gilford beirig.
the jury was asked to pass, and the
twelve men failed„to agree' as to
whether the 11/IeNeil' brotherswere
or *ere not the 'robbers --some telt%
ng
ithe On -e view tincrsenie the other..
•'Evidently both .croWli and defence.
regarded -the ease as a the utmost
itfiportance:,_, The crown engaged as
special prosecutor, Mr. Ulla McPsticif-
den, X. C. an eniiiient lawyer of, Sault
bee mid Ontario. , The • last •censiis
showed a total of about 50,000 Caned_
ian :farmers or other maple -grove
owners the business, with some
8,000,000 trees being tapped annually.
Of this total,. 85 Per cent. . Were in
Quebec, 14 per •cent. in Ontario and
1 per gent. in the Maritime Provinces.
Quebec accounts:, for , nine -tenths of
the maple sugar and 'three-quartere
of the syrup produced ,in Gariada.
ctr.ici There I
•
NigeKay 4sen:loOdairy
gra ter for Wes,ern Canada,
'.1:tt es that NI nitoba s creamery
iter prnfluntinn in 1020 showed
tl I tl ccaise of 84.6 per cent. over
•
About 10.000.00'0 peunds Of fish:
• .ire raught annually hi the :large
and small lakes of theprovin,ce of
,Saskatchewan and approiennately .
1.400 men •are employed * the in-
dustry. .
oath that the suspeet, was els,ewhere
at the thine:the crime was _committed.
The court, may sespeet this, but fees
boend to i:egard, the evidence of one
man as being as • geed as that a
another, and giving the accused' the
benefit of the doubt, acquits him.
That, is, in part, tile explanation of
how the large 'cities :on this contin-
ent are infested with criminals whom
the police well imew to be thieves and
murderers. .
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PEOPLE BECOME MORE SAVING
• An unexpected accompaniment oi
the prevailing business depression and
hard time& is that money is accumu-
• lating In the Saving banks, ". This
seems curious—that when less mOney
is being earned, and man are not
earning at all—more money is being
•
•
'estv• Tehdere is ho getting away from the
fact; however.: Whatever the condition
may be locally, or in some towns and
villages, stiOngs in the hanks of thk
country arid the United States are
inereaeing. The bank records 'prove
is.et-simpl-rtliet-hut-bankers-ree-
-port "a remarkable..incresiee in tlic
number of small saving accounts,
• It is said[that banks in the United
States ;where conditions are said to
be Worse thadthey are here, are
barrassed!' be the number ef small
Savings accounts- Which they are call_
ed upon to loek rafter.
There ars those who, say that this
is one cause the depression—people
:saving their 'money. instead of spend-
ing it and, by so. tieing promoting
business. . • •
But h was 'while people werespend,
irig their earning in sorts of trifles
and investing in tins& securities,
that business went bad Perhaps,whet.
money is saved; therd will be. a turn -
'for the better. .
This accumulation • of •savings is
the besrsign yet 4• return to pros_
perity. When. the'banks become"Ool..
•bartqised" be the 'amount of saying'
deposits they'. can, arid will, , More
readily aceoleoctate with loans safe
and enterprising leisiness Melt
While businede was boomirig, those,
earning good wages and salaries reek..
lessly invested.* all sorts of Wild tat
etteepriset, with the result that fraud
of every desetiptiOn flotnished." Every;
body has Seen to Much, money bit in
'this Way, that they are. rioW Prepared
tiecelit-enteller but surer Profits._
The money which goes into Ale
barilcs will go into only ,sound builneds
enterprises. The high pressure.sales-
'man &eget go tb iht bans
waltblens Dori, •
.
t.eeealue-of—fleid—ereee--
growle Canadain 1930 is offe,
cially estiniated at $63102,000 au4.
total area Bowe to crops was 62:-
214,670 acres, an 'increase over 1929
of about 1,000,000 acres., •
• In a final estimate of the wheat
production of Canada in 1930, the
Canadian tioyerument l'iiureeu of
Statistics places the total yield at
• 397,872,000' bushels, an Increase of
over 2,000,000 bushels compared
tle
wi•the Previous estimate.
° • •
From end �f September 193,0 to
January 15, 1911, • over 26,000,000
pounde of Sugar wag produced it
. the beet sugar' factory at Rayeaond,
!Alberta. The industrY has grown
to substantial eriipOrtms in that
Prey/knee' of late years. • ,
•
','• Fr
writesll
GrO
.-In -Welpeg .though. he 'were a
real C- tan Padifie,official." The
• 'referen lit• to the *Canedian Peel -
fie null offering, oh Mondee'nights
iierose Doininion:
4:erIn"
npeg a .radio . fad
-7:"'Mtiliady Mike' Is talked
the Offices and ',Warehouses
"ifa er will have a teain' of.
fine g g calibre.on the fairways
of the ali" ,pay course where' the
Mind meal' , Emprese,
golf t ament for the W.
Beatty t ophy will be. staged Feb-
ruary 2 tie Entries are in • froin
eattle,' Portland, Tacoma
and oma
()Vile provincs,
Grain anketed arong the wast.'.
etif *, the W CAillrr
:f A ti gust1 to --.1ao ultty
liramounted to 165,793000 buShe:i
tit which 140 ,928.,000 httlb•-.ds wirf
' wheat. The total Mark -t g..s nf
grain silting Paattclien PaeifiC
Ifctpejl represent 64 Der cent.- of tile tqt•
lL.
iMit.,$11.#0 tit) Witileat IleSte; ' Maria. The' defence wan coming- ul marketed Wosterlt
.054 Oki toot 0, Uti uP. ffp by. Mossrif- Ei gisaiiot ory, ot
.
• .
Russian coal :on airy condition.,
The--publice-tiould-Lnot have_such
itfong ground for objeeting to the
exchange or implements.for coal pro-
vided the implement nianufacturers
took thecoill, bUt that does 'not:ap-
pear to be the proposal. It Canada
that to take the epee It weuld be
a very nice thing forRussiaand for
the •iniPlement manufacterera but bad
for the Canadian coal Producere and
the Canadian, people, other than the
imPlement manufacturers and their
-ImPlosre0.
• ,Thirnin Cleele
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*ELLIF.Iit---F.A.-ItlikElit4
• .....T.oGET -ALONG_ , _ .
• "The fainter , hat( rhad----e •
tendency to c.onsicler hiinself the most
abused individeel on the fami. el the- -
globe and t he only. One to whoin cen-
eideratiOni- is due. : He has . persisted
in turning a deaf ear to those an-
thorities who have, time and again,
Urged hint to: go in ter mixed farm-: •
ing histead Of clinging to his single
crop busiitess."---,-Extract from Toron.,
tO° Saturday Night . •t.
ttouble h�
• Wv4Thhweointh7taehdevaif ;_ar:fier.g,jadis it,rio
should listen to his friends, •
•
'That if like
mg dtooebes.3ngoat;ry, we
_Thoseiingiiihwpi)rricidert,:e coats are
When the price grain keeps failing .
•
till you 'fear tliet you are gunk,
7flt an ch. az,ice that you
:RADIO 'RECEPTION,
. •
..Eireeeone-who has had a radio :w
geiving the -pest -two -or -three-
year% have observed that •the
..struirients are .mucli.- more effective
:eow than they, Were 'even: a year ago.
tional..B.ro.adeasting. -Company, states.
that his • observers the :field report
condition from: ewo to .five 'Stites. a: .
good as they Were one and titre years
• New we ate Old that this •
remit is dee to . the , conditiokof . the
_leas 011 the Sun: •
,
• These dark spots ,mi the Sun are
due. t.o. inimense eruptions, sonietheig
:After the 'fashion of a. volcanic erup-
tion on •tli Earth Only on scale lar.
.6,er 'thin • anything possible . on .'.our
little ;ball Ofsa • Plant:, These sen-er;
iptions have an eleven -year Cycle.
•
during Which they range from. et. mire.
• imein tee a maiiiiimm4 Of activity,
. and .observers Say • that , • the
maXinium Ifit a cycle having passed,
we •may expect iiitproving radio con-
litions• for some time. This, of course,
'sill be 'followed .byea .petied of grow.,'
:ng.,•diaturbancei reaching . its maxi-
mum .When the Sen is again tern b•
,?;regt • eruptions... •
These' Sim septa. have been 'blamed,
'or
many things,' ranging from: the.;
tad: tempers of Men to unfavorable
',--veather--econditionsmen--the--earthe.
• Arratever. influence it may have on
he s.einipna appear a to be 'pretty
Nefl' established that the. sun apots
Jo . influence,. radio reception.: •
double
ean see; If you Oink- yoer..,plight idarmieg,
• why not save it hy Mixed farming?
There is motley in the honey of the.
When the, oats are pot worth thresh-
- leg, and yoi canng4 sell: your rye,
,Aiid there's not it•gleain of hope • '
m your keno It- ••• .
Get a hatch or two of chickens, _ send
• your worry to the dickens,'
-Thet-ei-kreomfoet in 'the -eacIde. of the .
1"
• isiAly:3AUCTION SALES .•
With the approach of sprihg there
le the increase in the nutriber,
Of farmer's auction sales. Soineotake
to be a bad indication, asking
.vhy so Many farmers areesellirer out.
But it may be ittgoed as well as a
:lad sign,/ for there are 'buyers as well:
at, sellers. •LThe 'peices obtained • is a
oetter evidence, and the prices at
'which cattle and hogs have been sell-
ng
halA lielcrup-Well: The abundance
of feed in• , the country . and, the lOw
Mice of Mita *and 'barley have a good
lent fo: de with Ade, • Mid explainsthe
good prices,paid for cOws) Young Sat.
is and hogs. Implenienti *deo sell
well, but that is because the price of
aew implements _a still regarded as
- '
There are a le* cases �f fated
sates, a thing to be expected,
?Ander is that there Are not ,more.
, lite reason 'may Be that parties hold_
• 'ng .Mortgages en farps are Willing
to- let paYmerit intelFest stand over
•litheit :then tnidertOtti to realize- by
e sale' of the4atriar
The` farm merigage has lest #S
till:ding as an irieestrnent,and buyers
Who pannot pay down a' pUbstafitia
itmount 4{1 .411144 liniothis,
*II4 400
•
Though the slovni are dry as powder,
---and--your elohghituts_aye _the same,
Thetis the tune to ch,ange your plena
and 'turn a' leaf: • -
When the country comes to grief, why
should farmers need relief?
• they'll not need it if they concentrate
on beef- • •
When the cloveir crops a failure, and
Your pasturesbleak and bare,
And .you cannot manage forage any- .
'That's the time to turn to deirYing,
Your wiCRfl he the 'dairymaid,
there's magic he the mooing of the
eow.
•
•
rho' 'wool's hardly 'worth. the shear-
ing and lambs not worth their salt
kedithe price You get' for mutton
mikes you weep;
L'here is sentethihg so ronaantiOn..
a Shepherd with his crook,
knd a blessing in the bleating lithe
sheep!
When you have to *sell your barley
• at a bushel fOr a cent,
It is wicked for the pessimist • to,
•'whine; •,
Buy .soine ,sows and glop your hogs,
e--though-ey.euregoing-Lta-tlia-tlege,--
Mere is glamor in the clinnor of the
swine_
!sir. ,Farmer, you'll be "happy if you
. Tkdo as you are told,
I you do not you will surely come
to harm; •• • -
With the chores to •keep .you busy,
' no brain work to Make you dizzy,
• rou may- live to pay . the mortgage
on the farm
•City Friend.
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ilonumental Works
Lucknow, Oat -
Has thef largest :161 most complete
stock in the most beautiful designs
to' choose from,
MARBLE, SCOTCH, SWEDISH
AND CANADIAN GRANITES. •
W E„inalte a Specialty of
Family monuments and invite
your Inspection.
Irisitiptions NeatlY, Carefully and
Promptly Done:
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