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PIONEER DAYS
THE WINGHAV TIMES
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by hand and although we someti
pine tar the good old days perhaps
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eaten ie of them we would not care
baVe preserved.
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pee:. r; away altogether was eand
Mae eg. As luug as I can remem
we heel <me oil lamp which we
bruegut to the bush with us but and
wee.- ,,.-red for the other parts of
hon, a and were always used in
lanterns. The candle moulds were
tin jt,u,td tweedier in sets, each mo
being Nrrtli<•r at the bottom than at
top, '1 tie email end had a hole in
threeeh which the candle wick, boug
maul, tai• nee, was strung and fasten
in a krul.'•eneath. Tee wicks w
double :.0 that they could be held tigh
by sticks thrust through them and I
across the top of the moulds. Wel
the hot tallow, melted in a pot or f
ing pat', had been poured into t
moulds it was allowed to harden a
then the knot on the wick was cut a
candle slipped nut.
I'Ver.t ye shall eat and chat ye sh
&bet and wherewithal ye shall
clothed have been the pressing p
blems of every household in ail ag
and it might be interesting to compa
what we had to eat and drink in pione
days with the modern diet. In so
respects there was not as much varie
on ;lie pioneer table, but hunger
good sauce and we were never lacki
in appetite. On the other band so
of our fond, owing to peculiareonditio
of growth, had a flavor that is lacei
today. For a long time very litt
beef was seen, but pork and mutt
were nearly always to be had. 0
great difference was in the consumpti
of eggs. Hens were not very w
provided for on the pioneer farms,
eggs were not the common article
diet they have since become and in th
respect our tables to -day are superio
We very early had good garden
with a considerable variety o
vegetable -onions, carrots. beets an
cabbage. Excellent potatoes could b
grown in the virgin soil. It was no
long before we had currant bushes
both black and red, getting the cutting
from neighbors and I can well re
member what heavy crops they pro
duced. We ate them with cream an
sugar at meals and I recall going ou
to get a dishful for supper and squat
ting beneath the bush with its lade
branches which seemed to fill my bow
without an effort. Salads were no
eaten then as they are now, in fact i
is only about twenty years since salad
began to be used in this district. Th
pioneer bread was famous for it
appetizing quality, and somehow i
seemed so much easier to make i
those days. Often I would come hom
late at night from a party to find th
house Iike'an iceberg and I would b
forced to set my bread for the nex
day with everything stone cold. But
in spite of all that it would rise beauti-
fully and next day I would have a prize
batch of bread, whereas, now -a -days,
the sponge has to be coddled and nursed
along if one expects to have any luck
at all. Undoubtedly the wonderful
soil produced a different chemical
quality in the flour. We used very
• little granulated sugar in cooking, pre-
serving it for special occasions, its
place being taken by maple sugar made
in large hundred pound cakes in the
spring. I just wish you could taste
the pies that were made with maple
sugar.
As beverages, we drank both tea
and coffee. Tea at the time of the
civil war in the United States reached
an almost prohibitive price. It is my
recollection that it was two dollars a
pound at that time though I may not
be quite accurate in this. At any rate
it was too expensive to use freely, but
there was a kind of coffee called
"Dandelion Coffee" probably made
from dandelion root that we drank a
good deal, especially for breakfast.
We had not the apple, the pear, the
plum and the cherry to diversify our
diet, but on the other hand there was
a great wealth of wild fruit, especially
raspberries and these instead of being
canned and preserved were spread out
on pans and papers and dried in the
sun, then stored away in sacks to be much as needed, uch as we make
apple sauce to -day. When my brothers
hauled their grain to Clinton in the fall
of the year it was my custom to go
with them on the load to bring home a
supply of dried apples, prunes and
other provisions for the winter. As in
all Scottish families, oatmeal, "Chief
•f Scotia's food," was a staple article
of diet, not the rolled oats of present
times but the fine-grained meal which
housewives still claim makes the best
oatcakes.
You are all as familiar as I am with
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9® KIDNEY TROUBLE
For SEVERAL MORTIS
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Mr. Fred. Stevens Raymond, Alta.,
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When you ask for Doan's Kidney Pills
see that you get "Doan's." The wrapper
is grey and our trade mark "The Maple
Leaf" appears on every box.
Doan's Kidney Pills are 50 cents per
box, or 3 boxes for $1.25; at all dealers, or
mailed -direct on receipt of price by The
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When ordering direct specify "Doan's."
church with its precentor instead of the
choir and organ, the school with its long
benches instead of desks and its young
men and women for scholars whose
numbers and boisterous spirits required
a schoolmaster:of physical as well as
intellectual powers. As I have already
stated out first steeds were oxen and
our first carriage a wagon but our
family were among the first in the
district to produce horses which added
considerably to our social pleaures.
Our first light vehicle was an old mail
cart with a seat built for two which my
brothers bought from an old mail
carrier on the road between Galt and
Ayr who was well known as "Billy, the
mail boy." Many a time as a little
girl when we lived in that district, I
had run behind that same mail cart,
holding on for dear life and deluding
myself with the idea thatI was getting
a ride, - and little thinking that in
later years I was to have the pleasure
and right of riding inside. With the
advent of horses we were enabled to
take part in the social life of a wide
district, going to parties as far away
as Blyth. It was no uncommon thing
to start off to church at Wroxeter,
going through Bluevale and picking up
a load of our friends as we passed. It
has often been said that people were
like one big family in pioneer days and
it is really true, No event was consid-
ered complete unless all our friends
were there, 1 can recall many happy
social occasions and perhaps one c f
special interest was the first Dominion
Day celebration signalizing the birth of
our great Confederation. It was held
on Jackson's flats in Lower Wingham
and I wonder if we realized that day
what a great country Canada in 1916
would have come?
Operation for Appendicitis
Mrs. J. A. Ballantyne, Sturgeon Falls
writes. ---"My husband was treated for
appendicitis and the doctors orderer an
operation. But he would not consent
to an operation and began the use of
Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. Since
doing so he has had no need of an oper-
ation or even of a doctor as the trouble
has completely left him. I cannot find
words to speak our gratitude for his
cure."
THE OTHER FFEELOW'S JOB
The man behind the barrow with his
jersey full of dirt
Looks with ever-growing envy at the
merchant's laundered shirt;
But the man behind the counter feels
the nagging of the trade
And would swap his polished scissors
for the farmer's rusty spade.
In the night the sleepy doctor hears
the clanging of the phone,
And, "I wish I were a lawyer," is his
aggravated moan,
But the lawyer in his nighties hears the,
doctor's car go past'
And he says. "That lucky doctor must
be making money fast."
The man upon the vessel sees the
cost -line slowly dwarf.
And he longs for terra firma with the
man upon the wharf;
While the other marks the vessel,
moving out alone and free.
And he long for boundless freedom
with the man upon the sea.
The little boy in rompers thinks his
daddy first in grace'
And he wishes he were grown up
with some whiskers on his face;
But his daddy feels tbe burden of the
mortgage and the debts.
And wishes he were Willie in his baby
pantalets,
The young man sees his sister and her
money spending beau,
And he says, "If I were sister I could
save a lot of dough."
But the young girl sees her brother
with his volatile finance,
And she longs to be the owner of the
ballot and the pants.
Says the peasant in his cottage,
"What a grand and happy thing
To have the mighty sceptre, and the
station of a king."
Yet I have heard it whispered that
the man upon the throne
Would rather be the peasant with a
spirit of his own.
So if your lot is irksome, you can set
your pulse athrob
Just by musing en the virtue of the
other fellow's job.
.August Giilck, a farmer in Fullerton
township, was fatally injured through a
circular saw breaking loose from its
boxing,
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CURIOUS MEALS.
Elephants Are gormandisers, and Gi-
raffes Have Queer Tastes.
Elephants, at least unitive elephants,
have queer tastes, say a Peursoli s
Weekly in an entertaining article
about the, peculiarities of four legged
gourmets. One memorable day itt 1913
Suffa Culli, the mighty and popular
Indian elephant at the zoo, ate his
bed. A. thirty-six pound truss of straw
had been put down on the floor for
his comfort, and when the keeper went
round in the morning not even the
bands of the truss remained.
Sulfa Culli followed it up during the
day by eating three trusses of hay,
weighing 150 pounds. Finally some
one brought a number of Christmas
puddings into the elephant house. Suf-
fa Colli swallowed his pudding with-
out even opening the cardboard box
that contained it.
A zoo keeper once kept a tally of the
number of hot cross buns an elephant
took down. For six hours on end one
fine Good Friday it swallowed buns at
the rate of 400 an hour!
The average giraffe loves nothing
better in the world than a good square
meal of Sowers. It has not the slight-
est idea, however, of the difference be-
tween artificial and real flowers.
Some years ago when "garden hats"
were all the rage the giraffe at the zoo
made a day of it. In that glorious
twelve hours it accounted for no few-
er than seventeen hats, the majority
of which were chewed beyond recog-
nition before they could be rescued.
One of the funniest mistakes a gi-
raffe ever made -funny for lookers-on,
that is to say -was when a peacock
strolled int? its paddock. The pea-
cock's tail caught the giraffe's eye, and
evidently the animal mistook it for a
gigantic and luxuriant species of flow-
er. At any rate, before any one could
interfere down came the giraffe's long
neck, and, seizing the peacock by the
tail, he hoisted it in midair. It was
not long before bird and tail said good -
by to each other, and the peacock flut-
tered away, screaming with indigna-
tion. Although a trifle astonished at
the proceedings of the newly discov-
ered flower, the giraffe chewed the tail
with great gusto.
Made a Social Outcast.
In court circles !u Eugland it is a
serious matter to iucur royal displeas-
ure. The man or woman who does so
intentionally ceases to be recognized
by his majesty, which means social
extinction. The off'ender's name is
struck out of the visiting list of every
person who is anybody in society. and
should the offender be a man he is po-
litely informed that his resignation
from his club or clubs would not be
out of place. No man or woman of
social repute will in future know him,
and If lie be in the artily or navy he
has no option but to resign, for he will
find himself cut (lead by every one of
his brother udivers.-Londuu M. A. P.
Shakespearean.
Father, in the hall, had been stand-
ing for half an hour while Millicent
and Harold bade each other good night
in the doorway.
"Parting," quothes Harold, "is such
sweet sorrow that I could say good
night till" -
At this speech father gets a Shake-
spearean inspiration of his own and
tramps down the stairs.
"Seems to me," he asserts. "that
there is too much adieu about nothing
here."
Liberal Translations.
At a certain foreign university the
students, who had been studying Shake-
speare in their native tongue, were re-
quested by an examiner to translate
into English the opening lines of Ham-
let's soliloquy, "To be or not to be."
The following was the result:
The first Frenchman declaimed, "To
was or not to am;" the second ren-
dered it, "To were or is to not," while
the third gave a still more liberal read-
ing, "To should or not to will."
An Odd Turkish Superstition.
An odd Turkish superstition is as fol-
lows: If one finds a piece of bread
lying upon the ground he must pick it
up. kiss it and carry it until he finds a
hole into which the bread can be in-
serted. To step upon a piece of bread
or to leave it lying upon tbe ground
is one of the unpardonable sins and
dooms the ofi'ender to the third bell,
where he is perpetually gored by an
ox that has but a single horn that is
in the center of his forehead.
The Smile.
We talk of a smile of defiance. There
is really no such thing. Such a so call-
ed smile is nothing more nor less than
a snarl, a survival of the way our sav-
age ancestors had of showing tf eir
teeth in order to strike fear into the
hearts of their enemies. The real smile
of pleasure begins with slightly open-
ing the mouth, and is, of course, trace-
able to the joy of those same savage
forefathers of ours at the prospect of
food.
Something New,
jabbers --I tell you, old magi, it's a
terrible tiling when your wife quarrels
with her mother and the old lady lives
with you. Which side do you take?
Haver -neither. I preserve as altprm-
ed qty. --London Tit -Bits.
The Family Jar.
liftroAASfepone-ell man allesil s vsaitta
Ms *BM Hobby -So wouldyam if you
1it+eses't afraid to get on the seek a.--
tdkhmond Times -Dispatc• h.
7n t -se �1rtIl IJ L'IU J..
Their Aim Is Always to Represent Na
turo in Miniature.
Every Japanese house of any preten
signs must have a garden. The cos
of one is invariably reckoned with tb
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estimates for house building, being
usually estimated at one-tenth the cost
of the house. The .japan Magazine
tells of the procedure:
Wheu the niwashl (landscape gar.
dener) gets the contract for a garden
he first makes a model -that is, a min-
iature garden embodying every feature
that the final product will have. The
first thing to be done in laying out the
garden is to select the place fer the
lake or pond and excavate it The
earth thus obtained is utilized for the
construction of an artificial hill and
also for a small island, both of these
features being considered necessities.
Next in importance is the placing of
the stone lantern; then comes an artis-
tic bridge to the island. Next comes
the placing of trees, rocks and stones
with due consideration for the appear•
unee of the garden as a whole.
Japanese do not place much value
on a new garden, age being of far
greater importance. It is not until a
few years have passed that the garden
is considered at its best, for the stones
and tree trunks must be moss covered
and the whole must give the appear-
ance of nature's rather than man's
work.
The garden is not laid out according
to any scientific plan. It is rather a
matter of instinct and experience, the
aim of the artist being to represent
nature in miniature.
Splendor of Venus.
Venus is the most brilliant of all the
planets. When east of the sun she ap-
pears in the west after sunset, but
when near the western elongation she
gives only matinee performances be-
fore sunrise. Through the telescope
she presents much the appearance of
burnished silver without spot or blem-
ish. So dazzling is she that astrono-
mers have been able to discover little
concerning our neighbor, except that
she is surrounded by an atmosphere
filled with clouds, making it doubtful
whether any view of the solid body of
the planet can ever be obtained. Even
through that veil she is sometimes so
-bright as to cast a distinct shadow. -
London Telegraph.
Italian Staff of Life.
To those who know the Italian stare
of life only in one or two forms it will
come as a surprise that there are some
forty-four varieties, all carefully dif-
ferentiated. Neapolitan macaroni is
usually made simply of household
flour, well mixed, rolled fiat and then
shaped by various machines, but the
paste may be mixed with other in-
gredients. Thus tagliatelli is produc-
ed by the addition of eggs, and into
the composition of gnocchi potatoes,
butter and cheese enter. Italian chil-
dren may learn their letters and nu-
merals from edible copies, and leaves
and shells are some of the many forms
which macaroni takes as biscuits 410
with us. -London Chronicle.
Delicate Instruments.
Though the man in the street might
easily mistake a slight seismic dis-
turbance for the rumbling of a trac-
tion engine or an explosion, the mar-
velonsly delicate instruments which
record earthquake shocks are immune
from such deceptions. Sunk in the
earth on solid foundations, the record-
ing pen of the seismometer lgaores
any local tremblings which have not a
seismic origin, but the faintest real
earth quakings, though they have trav-
eled thousands of •pules through the
earth, set the pen tracing the telltale
graph by means of which the seis-
mologist calculates the place, time and
magnitude of the happetingr-Bandon
Chronicle.
Too Much of a Target.
Brown- How did you fell,, Jones,
when the burglar had you coved with
his revolver -pretty -small, eh? s -
Small! Great Scott, nor I felt,,as.big
as the side of a house,
C--pet?tion.
"When I was finest married nay wife
used to talk, talk, all the time."
"Has she given it up?"
"She had. to. We've got two grown-
up daughters now, you know."
Highly Excitable.
"Brown is rather an excitable chap,
isn't he?"
"I should say he is! Why, he almost
got a stroke of apoplexy the other
night while watching a chess tou na•
anent.".
A Mean Hint.
He -Women ought to be so removed
from ordinary outside life that men
can still look on them as angels.
She -How would the men Mee them
to be recorting angels?
Coffee In Java.
It Is said that nowhere In the world
is coffee, the drink, worse than in Java,
where coffee, the bean, is supposed tri
be at its very best. Javanese distill
coffee essence of extreme strength, bot-
tle it and pour a few drops Into a cup
of hot water schen they wish refresh-
uielat.-Argonaut.
The Other Way.
"Then you don't want to leave foot.
prints upon the sands of tlme7"
"Nix," answered the politician gtaartl.
edly. "All I want In to sow no m7
track3." Z"
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Septenlber,21 19 16
3I GHT • SEEING 1n THE / ' CK!E$
THE enormous height of the
mountains through which the
Canadian Pacific passes is
such that passengers are apt to
miss the majesty of the scenery \ \a�
unless they are able to look up and 4
Bee these snow -clad peaks. Mount
Sir Donald, for instance, is a mile
higher than 'he railway track over
which it towers. A Those who sit
on the platform of the observation
car of course see everything, but
the space here is limited. A great
hit has therefore been made with
the new type of open observation
or sightseeing car which was plac-
ed on all through trains this sum-
mer on certain of the most piotur-
osque districts in the Canadian Pa-
;cific Rockier, and on the local
strains between Banff and Lake
/Louise.
!(1) C.P.R. Open Observation Car.
;(2) Mount Sir Donald.
GOOD ROADS AND THE FARMER
The question of transportation in the
Provinnce of Ontario at the present
time is a very live issue. Good roads
as an essential to the further develop-
ment of the province, seem to occupy
a position of at least parallel ime
portance to the extension of Hydro
Radials and Stearn Railways, In both
New and Old Ontario the subject of
good roads represents an ever-growing
theme of popular discussion. Ruals
communities in the older portion of the
province are agitating for better roads
not only for the main highways, but for
the concession roads and side lines.
which give the farmers access to the
highways,
In New Ontario more roads and still
more roads is the cry, and money will
have to be provided for this purpose;
but the urgent need in older Ontario
is the improvement of existing roads.
The old complaint that roads are kept
in repair, or provided, as the case may
be, merely to suit the caprices of motor
fiends is losing weight, because the
farmer has gradually come to consider
an automobile part of his farm equip-
ment, and now looks upon the roads
question in a new light.
Macadam roads are said to be unsuit-
able to the new conditions of motor
transportation oni the main highway.
If this be the case, it is a matter for
the provincial government to take in
hand at once, with a view to finding a
olution of this difficulty. Concrete
oads are favored by many experts.
They are more expensive than mace -
am, but:it is believed the initial ex-
ense more than adjusts itself in the
onger period of wear.
In connection with the improvement
f by -ways, the policy of the Liberal
apresentatives in the Ontario Legisla-
ure has been drafted to meet the
emends of the farmer; and radical
easures to ameliorate conditions may
e expected when the Conservative
`sleepers" are removed from office,
hich is practically certain at the next
eneral election. The Liberal policy is
'to secure the building up of a Good
oads system throughout the province
hereby facilitating traffic and ensuring
uhck delivery of farm and garden pro-
uce.
The Ontario Liberal party today is
eriously studying all questions relating
the agriculture welfare of the prov-
ce, in the confident expection of an
arly return to power. Since 1911 its
presefitatives in the House have
ged and pleaded the cause of the
rmer; and their success in alleviating
ffensive conditions, although in Oppos-
ion, and the soundness of their public
oposals for the advancement of agric-
ture, are fast finding recognition
mong the farming community,
It was a Liberal Government which
1896 initiated the Good Roads Move-
ent, realizing the importance of coun-
y roads as a factor in transportation,
d recognizing their value to the farm-
in making agricuitnre more profitable,
rm life more agreeable, and in in -
easing the value of farm property.
ith this in view the government ap-
inted a Highways Commissioner to
ect the expenditure on the construc-
n and maintenance of roads, and
seed legislation under which approp-
tions might be made in connection
th the development of the Good
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