HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-02-19, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936
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. ■Tlje valley, was as dry as powder4
arid as hot as the top of A stove. It
lay between barren hills, the naked
summits of which were blackened,
.cLoubtless by volcanic fires, although
one could easily imagine that t-he
ceaseless fays of ’the vertical sun
had burned them brittle. The sandy
plain separating the t;wo ranges was
covered with desert vegetation—
queer, misshapen growths, most of
.which were blunt and limbless,
gome of the trees were mere shrubs
fathers were shaped like gallows,
still others bore clumsy limbs qf a
port and a sparse covering of tiny
leaves -out of all proportion to the
‘ ‘ ’ I whichsize of the trunks against !
they clung.
There were cacti of many
ties, of course, huge ribbed
forty feet tall that resembled
inendous candelabra, others
vari-
ones
tre-
that
were smaller and more grotesque in
felidpe wtih hundreds of fleshy up
right ears or with melon-like knobs
rind protuberances upon their ex-
trdmeties. An occasional shrub or
clump of bushes upthrust itself be-
• tfaeen the larger trees, but every > growing t-hingi was somehow distort
ed; all were twisted by the heat, or
feent by discouragement, perhaps;
• likewise every growing thing, from
the tiny cucumber cactus, half bur
ied in the sand, up to the tallest gal
lows tree, was covered with spikes
and spines, with dagger points and.
talons. All these thorns were poi-
. bohous, all made festering, wounds
vvhen flesh came in
them.
»town itself.
Where the ro^d came ipto view
over a low knoll, there appeared a
rolling cloud created by the wheels
of an approaching car. Road3 around
El Oentro (were so rough that seld
om could a, ear beat the dust unless
favored by a breeze; it must per
force rock and jolt slowly through a
suffocating smother that coated a
driver’s lungs as thickly as his skin,
some invisible hand, this dust,
streamer wound closer until Gloria
made out her husband at the wheel
of his ratle-trap flivver,
AU cars were rattle-traps six weeks
after they were put over these roads
this one complained loudly, its lim
ber fenders clashed, a jet of vapor
rose from its radiator .cap. Its ton
neau was piled full of rope and
tackle. All automobiles at El Centro
carried similiar cargoes. Veering
drunkenly around the corner of the
house, it coughed once or twice as
if clearing its one lun,
long-drawn sigh of
it came to rest.
“Hello, honey!”
•smeared the sweat
from iris face and kissed his wife.
He was a robust young giant, but
the desert had fried the, fat out of
.then with a
steam
Sf
escaping
Donald
and the
shady .side of the ship!”
“I made sure of that. What's more
those fruiters pump cool air into
the cabins. Oh, it wont’t take you
long to pick up! I want you to have
your old pep and your old color
badk when we land. You’ve got to
have it or —well, the family will
make it deuced unpleasant for me.”
A furrow appeared between Fisk’s;
dusty brows. He stared about the:
sparsely furnished room, then he
said, earnestly: “You’ve been a
game kid to ppt up with this, It;
was worse than I expected; yes,
worse than your people said it would
be. If I’d realized just what it was
like here, I’d never have brought
you. But say”—his face lighted
again—“won’t it be great to put it;
over them?”
Gloria nodded, Her brief enthus
iasm had left her limp, so she sat;
down on the edge of the bed. She
managed to summon enough ani
mation to agree. “Yes. They were,so
smart — they knew it all, didn’t
they? ft will be nice to crow.”
“Mighty nice for me, anyhow.
You just go ahead playing at pack
ing and unpacking your -clothes, but
when we leave we”ll throw ’em all
away. I’ll buy you new ones—the
AND OLD JXICTOR IS FRANK
ABOUT HIS PATIENTS
It strikes me as peculiar that my
patients are all guilty of the sami
old hygienis delinqiieneies. I wish
they-would think of some new crime
against health—it would make lift
much more interesting to me. Every
day and all day it js- the unchanging
round of stale old illnesses. You al
eat too much, and- eat to fast; you
all have rotten teeth, and are not in
telligent enough to grasp that they
are the source of your stomach
aches; you all smoke .too inuch and
drink too much tea; ypu breathe
through your mouth, and you go to
bed too late; you neglect all your
lumps, bumps and. tumours until it
is too late to help; you go on dosing
your children with patent medicines
for which you pay fabulous sums;
you believe in “something .out of g
bottle” just as ardently as you did
when I first began to make ,the fool
ish attempt to educate mV patients;
you have no faith in fresli air, and
show very little interest in your
health until you lose it. Round and,
round the same silly old, circle runs,
poor stiffering humanity. Do give
up the old crime^ .this. year. Be orig-'
inal; think of some new way’s of!
making yourselves ill. I dread'
breaking out one day arid forgetting
my professional decorums I am keep
ing a record* of men and women I.
see who are ill on account of the
crimes
fcXPOhTING CANADIAN POULTRY
A cold is sn intc
sense tlic
.There is noth
‘than Grove’s
Joes the f
the bow
nfection
.014 treat it ps such,
etter you can take
mo Quinine. Grove's
... hecepsary things; Opens
conih9ts,j;pld..gecms and
ves headache and “grippy”
tones up the system. Buy
a - i^t ,-yop r
st druggist.
y’re in a white
« A determined effort Ip being made
by the Dominion Department <o£ Ag;
riculture to have the jmuRry raiders
produce the type .of market bird that
will, command a place in the British 1
above enumerated.
The Cigarette Habit
those everlasting cigarettes
young man! Oh, the anaemic
man of to-day! I really must
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contact with
Virus tipped their points.
It was in truth a place of many
‘poisons, a valley of pain, for what
UisComfort the cat-claws and the
• digger points failed to inflict, the
blistering sun and t-he irritating dust
■ accomplished.
At night when the weedless,
grriksless surface of the earth had
flun^ off most of the heat stored up
during the day, it was possible to
breathe without .gapping and to
move without streaming sweat; but
■this relief was short and it merely
served to intensify the suffering
that came with the ardent rays of
the morning sun. The days were
hideously ldng.
It was not a fit dweling place
for man, and w-hy nature had gone
<to such lengths of devilish ingenuity
in devising means to disicourage him
fans hard to understand. Gloria Fisk
often asked herse.f that question.
Brobably it was because of the Oil,
'she decided. Oil was precious; the
getting Of it always entailed hard
ships and suffering, it beemed to
■her, however, that Nature had out
done herself here; that she had been
more cruel than necessary. She
could- -have economized, and still
;hAVe left the place a Gehenna. The ‘feeit and the ki&i'e alone were In
tolerable; why. add the dust and the Srdught and the poisbns and1 the
’maddening isolation Why pour out
■ alt her hatred upon this place?
Sther oil fields were- riot Utterly
impossible to live in—the coastal
fields, for instance, were bad enough
but they were infinitely more liv-
fbfe than this. /One could endure
dam<p heat or tropic fevers and
stinging, insects—even the depreda
tions of bandits—more easily than
this eternal, dry, blood-thinning
heat-. Bandits, however blood-thirsty
were better than dust dg-y and night .
dust borne on every breeze, dust
kicked up by -hoo-fb' and wagon
wheels and truck; tires, .dust that got
into one’s food, one’s -clothing; one’s
e’jAs and ears and lungs; Over-pres-
eht dust from which there was no
e$capb. Insects,- fevers——almost any
thing was¥ better thAfi. the maddening
jaonotpny; of these rainless .days dur-
bag, which' nothing, abspiutei^ noth-,
fher happened to divert one’s
“Now I’m going home—-I’m going home—home.”
^pg happened to. 4 divert
thoughts from orie*s misery.
There were still other,, oil
of course, w,here ppp .
tivd in actual comfort,/ where
could meet white people, and. speak
English and hearwunning water and
green gras3—
GTeen grass! Cool faaterSi
Mrs. Fisk with a lanqtuid- Sigh went
to the Open iwindoW’, parted the
dusty cwrtains, arid pberdd orit. The
glare was hlindiiig, hehl* waves caus-
M the distant derricks ,t(M:ddaee and'
to waver. There was ,a • dryness ia
the air that Caused het throat to
fenbract so that it se&ihed to rustle
faifien She swallowed. . It* whs a
$rt>tcihed street—rind it rah thrdugh
ri spyrifaling village flimsy, un
tainted houses all haritlliy Slapped
together out df boards hnd corrugat
ed broil hauled 1ft freiri- the Cdast by
ffallfL ifiiih like thiri deriianded thick
♦<fbbe Walls, of course’; Hut there was
Mmbher clay here at $4 Centro nor
faster with which to mfa£ it. No, the
too caitio by iralr.iK hot steel
tank cars, most of (which'-Were foul.
frot a' yrird, not ferictfa riot a
vfrfe, riot a bush, not ft jibtch of
green met Mrs. Fisik/s v/oa/y eyes —nothing'hut the melanc-lio V hn’’d-
irfgii, the ? g? 4 unkie-deo”!'
iftg' grem p'-.’dftr that n.
ahd walls and. even, the
desert vegetation round about
coun-
could
one
■his -frame and life it spare. His skin
was burned almost blaciki, and when
he grinned his teeth gleamed forth
as white as diamonds. Like the
other men of ST Centro, he smelled
always of .perspiration.
“My, bnt you’re dirty!” Gloria
told him. “You look too funny—”
She laughed outright at the expres
sion lent by the muddy streaks of
sweat. ;t,f ,“You’re- feeling better, aren't
you?” he demanded, quickly. ‘Jove,
Gloria! That’s the first time you’ve
laughed in ages.”
“I’m feeling wonderful! I’m well!”
“■Seem®
since you
“Come!
ly Gloria took the thumb
right hand in her fingers and led him
across the floor. She fairly danced'
ahead of him to the- door of the bed
room, w-here she hade him look.
“There! I’ve been bubbling ever
since I heard about our reservation.’-
Donald peered into the chamber
'what he- saw was an open steamer
trunk and a half-filled suitcase up
on the bed. The room itself was
strawn with articles of clothing.
“W-hy, kid!” You’ve begun to pack!”;
Gloria nodded-, “Qoo.d Lord’,And IT
is ten days yet before we go!”
“I know—but I couldn’t wait. Oh,
Don. you don’t know how I hate this
place; You just haven’t, the faintest
conception how I absolutely hate it.’
Mrs. Fisk was still laughing, but
there was, an hysterical catc-h in her
voice. “That’a all that ails me—
this desert* Now I’m going home.
I’m going home—Urn going home!”
She sang the words and her eyes
sparkled.
“Well, you’re not going to take all t-hat trasli wfaeh 'yotf go. * Not if
I can help it,” her husband declared:
but site interrupted' tier vigorous
protest by. saying:
“Maybe nolJ, btit it’s such fun to
get ready— -and I haven’t anything
e’se to pack. I can sit still and
merely wait! I’ve packed and un
packed a half dozen times. When
I get it rill in, I pretend I’ve forgot
. sortiething important and there’s
I barley* time to throw it out and re
pack, Oh, Con, little shivers and
I tickles run over me every time I'
think of it! Horiie! I’m gbing, to I
pack every day. That telegram about the state robm has done more to '
cure me than—thari anything. I am
wol’
ia’s
wa$
like a month as least
lauigihed. What is it?”
I’ll show you.” Playful-
of his
most expensive ones on Fifth Ave
nue. I’ll buy you more than you ever
had— twice .as many as your dad
gave you! Yes and we”ll drive out
to the island in our own limousine.
I”ll get you a couple of ’em.”
“It will be too late for the peon
ies when we get there,” Gloria said,
musingly,■ “but the roses 'will b'e
coming in. The . ramblers on our
place are won.derful. Tliihkz<o'i it,
'Don, roses, green grass, tunnipg
water! That brook, and the trout
pond! Won’t it seem, heavenly to be
cool and clean again? I’m going to I
roll in the grass and bury my face
in it.”
“Same here! And the first time it
rains I’m going to stand out and
take every drop of it. It seems tb
me that very last pore in my body
is thirsty.”
“How is the new driller getting
along?” M-rs. Fick asked.
“McKay? Oh, fine ! AH'I’m afraid
of is that he may work too fast.
These hustlers are apt to be care
less, you know. He’s at twenty-six
hundred and fifty—right on top of
the structure. We’ll be ready to
shoot day after tomorrow. I’ve or
dered .the nitro and it will be out
go-
dered .the nitro and it twill be
tomorrow. Believe me, I
ing to lose a minute.”
“If it comes in big—”
gan.
“It will.That well is
f Don’t you t-hink I am?” Glor-
voico quavered, broke; her face
briefly contorted and tears ap
ed upon her la^he?.
Sure- yru'ro well Jnqf ’dev^d
m not
Gloria be-
to
JJoj
PO’
.going
live up to its.name, 'Homgstake
1 Fisk made' the assertion ...
sitively. “It’s bound to be a five-
thousand-barrel well — or better,
Can’t help it, in that location.”
“I- wish I had your' confidence,
his wife said doubtfully. “I guess I
am too tired to be enthusiastic any
more. I meant to ask if it will
mean de’ay. Will yo’u have to stay
and see to it?”
“No.
Once I
charge,
“I’d
The Well should have ’been -.in
month ago, but”—^Gloria sighed
“something always seems to go
wrong In this business. Just at the
last moment. Disappointment, herirt-
break*—*oh, I hate it! Hhte it! I’m
so nervous I could scream”
She’s just a tired, sick little
kid.” Fisk spoke comfortingly and
stroked his wife’s hair with a mo-
ther'y touch,
'•rt has wn
to make her
r!eh.’ We’ve
li'-r/v, T u' ”
no. Everything’s arranged,
bring it In, Nolan can take
die if we missed ’that bdat.'
a
“This horrid old des-
or art but it's
t’1 and happy
n .y-ar-l
going
and.
fight
Arid our stateroom is on tno (UontinuGu next weoiij
And
of the
young
crawl out of my corner to have my
say. They look half baked—and they
say. to each other that what they
want to put new life into themselves
is a jolly good packet of fags. Their
lungs are filled with cigarette smoke
their so-called brains are fuddled
with smoke. I cannot agree that
these young people have a better
time than they used to. The modern
young people are bored to death be
fore they are out of their teens. Oh,
dear! And yet I love . the young
people. I do .not believe they will
make such tough middle-aged folk
as we did; they will crumple up at
about forty. But I do want them to
be happy. -I do not want to inter
fere with their pleasure, I pnly
want theum to realize that' health
should come first—not only for their
own sakes, but because they have to
hand on the golden gift of health
to the coming generation. Please do
not look so anaemic, y-oungi people.
You could raise the standard of
your health.if you tried. Late nights
sap your energy.. Your brains need
more sleep. Do not rob them of their
just due.
The Glasgow Weekly Herald
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Corks
The family corkscrew is not so
much in -evidence in the last few
years arid the pop, as it does its
wprk, is less frequently heard. The
bottles we buy are being closed
more and more with caps that screw
on or are otherwise attached to
close the mouth. However, a large
proportion of the slim^necked glass
containers are still corked in the old
fashioned way.
Corks- are made from the bark of
a species of oak tree which is a na
tive of southern Europe. .The best
qualities are supplied ,by Spain. The
Bark is a great thickness and in
creases by annual layers. The exter
nal layers are removed every eight
to ten years, the average yield of .one
tree being. 45 pounds. The slabs
are placed in barley water ,,or steam
ed for an hour, /which reduces the
bulk and the cork is ready for mar
keting. Refuse pieces are ground
and mixed with rubber for floor
cloth.
During the last four or five years
the importation of cork bark has
dropped from $260,000, to $15,000,
and manufactured cork*-wood from
$415,000 to $74,000. The cork for
bottles, etc., have declined from
4>l^,000 pounds to 230,'00’(J' pounds.
The cork we. get conies mainly from
Spain and Portugal.
■market. ,t .. . .
To date, only 5appr cent. ,qf Caha-
diian poultry lias been, exported, part
ly due to the fact that a 2i lb. to 4
lb. bird is required for the British
mai’Jcet.
There is stilL a good demand on
the -Canadian, market for a 6 lb. bird
that iis well finished and will .grade
in the Milk fed class. If every pro
ducer would finish ihis chickens pre-
perly before they are marketed it
would increase consuriiption of poul
try meats iri Canada, and increase
trie price, abroad.
This can be simply done by crate
feeding the bird's for from . two to
four weeks. Since the introduction of
grading, and the higher prices paid
•for. Milk/ed A grade, much more in
terest has been shown by the pro-
d.ucerg who are anxious to get the
greatest returns. Chickens taken di
rect i-Yom the range in the fall, will
not garde higher than, probably R
otiC, but giving them a period of
fattening these saihe birds would
in most cases grade Milk-fed A, with
very economical gains for the feed
consumed, and an increase in price
to the grower of from 3c. to 6c. per
pound.
CARLING & M.0RLEY
BARRISTERS, S£«$CITORS, Ao
LOAN;
ESTMENTS,
URANCE
Office; Carling Block, Main Streep
EXETER. ONT.
J. E. JACKSON, M.B., L,MX^C.
(Tor.)>4?^
Physicia/ and Sui^Kbn
^hone
Office: At his' res
Chevrolet Garage
nee on Main St.
just South
General -PWctice—Night or Day
calls given prompt attention.
Successor to Dr. Browning
Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S^D.D.S.
»DENTISX^F
Office; CarlBj^Block
EXE'^EKr ONT.
dosed Wednesday Afternoons
HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Goderich—Miss Louvain Bloom
field, housekeeper at the home of
William Mitchell, with Mr. Mitch
ell’s little son, narrowly escaped
death by suffocation when she aw
akened,, to find the small house fill
ed with soot from an oil burner that
she had in her- bedroom. T.he> burner
Was turned on too high and the
sticky soot was choking her when
she awakened. She took the
boy tQ. safety. The soot was eo
the electric lights were but
shadows in t'he house.
Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D,D^
DENTAL SURGEON
Successor to the late Dr.
Office opposite tire PoJiF'Office,
Main Streep
Office 36w Telephones Res. 36J
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
little
thick-
dim
&•
MRS. ROB'T. REID, OF
PARKHILL DIES
. M1’8' ‘Robt., Reid, . an . oldri— -------- - . — . resi
dent of Parkhill, .passed away in her
^3.r.d year f .at the Jhpm,e of her
daughter Mrs. tJ. .Eagleson on the
20th concession of McGillivray, Twp.
with whom she had been residing
for some months., Mrs. Reid’s maid
en name was Ellen Steeper. She was
born on the 18th concession of Mc
Gillivray. She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Joseph Eagleson, of
McGillivray; Mrs. John Stokes, of
Sarnia; one brother and one sister,
Alex Steeper, 18th concession of Mc
Gillivray and Mrs. John Appleton,
of Rochester, N. Y.
“In the olden daystbefore automo
biles you never had any trouble when
you .wanted to go^omewhere.”
. “Is,, that ,so? They ,.had. :h,or$es
thieves thep„ and you would have a
plug missing.”
JOHN WARD
CHIROPRACTIC, osteopathy,
ELECTRO-THERAPY & ufzrRA-
VIOLET.<REATMJK^TS
r....r ■■■’ PHpNE 7^F
MAIN ST. J- EXETER
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LICENSED AUCTIONEER /
For Huron and Middlesex ;/
FARM SALES ,.AC SPECIALTY
. . PRICES REASONABLE.
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Phone 57-13 ;Da8mvood
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EXETER P. O; W RING 138
RABBIT HIDES MAKE' QUILT
( Qne of the harttes/t problems' to
solye thege days is the w|y to find
p^oteciiou frqm’ cpld stormy weather
but, John Rullock, a resident of
parklilll .’formerly of McGillivray
has solved the problem by the ex
tensive use of the common jack rab
bit furs. H’e -lias made a -full size
quilt, a fine warm vest and several
fur caps complete with peaks and
lining, all from the hide's of jack
rabbits.
Mr. Bullock did not hunt the rab
bits himself but after the numerous
, jack rabbit drives in this district he.
, was ab’e to secure the hides from the
hunters who as a rule used the rab-
i bits only for the meat.
This season and last’-lie has tan
ned 43 hides. Curing and drying the
hides requires a period Of about 18
! days he said, and they are stretched
i on boards and tacked there to dry,
. Eour skins were required to make
the vest’ and two to make the cap
j he wears, the other caps were made
for boys in town. The full s’ze qu it
is constructed of 27 skins each about
12 inches by jrt Inches and s* cd
tonetber perfectly, the quilt is pad
ded a ad i’t ’■'Bh or ’biarv
Cedar Chests
AND NEW FURNUfURE
Also furniture^ remod d to order.
,T kinds of ca-
(London Free Press)
We take ordg/s for
binet work ens, etc at the
dashwqBd^laning mill
USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COxMPANY
Head Office, Farquhar, Ont,
:W,.,H.i,QOATJSS , Rr^i^nt
,SAMUEL NQRRI^, ,^ ^Ice-President
;/f . DIR^CTOI|S 4/
F. McfSQNNEiL^jbHN T. ALLISON^
ANGUS SINCLAIR, JOHN I^CKNEY
.. -Agents ..
JOHN ESSERY, CentralWAgent
; >■ ,for usbqfne and BMHuiph v i ALVIN L. HARRIS, jjjffhroH Agent
for Fullarton apu Logan
THOMAS SpOTT,Ji|m>marty, Agent
/forjphberL .
B. w-sie; beavers
Secretary-Treasurer
- Exeter, Ontario
GLADMAN & STANBURY
Solicitors, Exeter
b
The Desperate Straits
01 The Poor Dyspeptic
There rirri few people .who escape
trouble with their stomach in so
form or other,
4 The impafament^of
is of eerious eohjjequen
organs Af^tha hot
properly;ffigo6ted 4
systqmjitnfltained nourished.
15
«
only by
rin -the Ontiire
fancy in recxrth-,
k reliablo remedy
and disorders of ths
SB. It helps to stimu-
4 'secretion of gastric juice,
in factor in. digestion, neu-
acidity, trine up tho lining
membrane rif tho stomach, and ro
the. natural, .healthy, pairildM
process of digestion.
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