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The Brussels Post, 1929-7-31, Page 6'WEDNESDAY, .ltiy 314, 19 a AU the Goodness of the Wheat In a Tasty, Digestible Form With all the bran of the whole wheat Crisp it in the oven—eat it crumbled up or in biscuit forret Cover it with cooling cream or milk. Rich in all the food ele- ments you need --vitamins and salts—delicious for any meal., PIONEERS OF THE GREAT WEST ( Toronto Star) Hon. Frank Oliver was not in the -original "cabinet of ail the talents" 'which Sir Wilfrid Laurier formed in 18.96 ---he was not a Minister until 1905—but it was in 11'J0 that he entered the Commons as an Inde- pendent Liberal from the old "Dis- trict of Alberta." Born in Peel County, Ontario, he had been West since 1873, when he went to Winni- peg. Three years let.er nee lnratr•d at Edmonton and published lite! DuI- letin there from 18SO to 1:'23, a record in journali=sm ee!dam :eurpa-s- ed in this new world. When the first Edmonton Exhibition wee held 50 years ago, he wrote the account of it which appeared in the Battle - ford Herald. And now fittngly in- deed, he has been speaking at the jubilee celebration of that fair. His reminiscences of the West as it was half a century ago are intensely in- teresting. He told his audience that when he lion. Frank Oliver. first first went to iSsheenfou fn 187e wheat flour was s ius rt , not a necessity. and goal at $15 to $25 per Jr, -pound eaele when there was auy for sate, wl' i _' was, only at in- tervals. Police hot • s at Fort Sas- katchewan were fed on nets grown at Sun River, Montana, freighted a- cross country ey et.rong teams of mules, boreal or oxen and Red river t -stir, ,.n Edmonton. The fir -t nf!:ht. T slept in a home, in this district." he rec il'-rl, "$1±e owner and his Wife sat down to a (inner of boiled inuek- rats and 'lady finger' email) pots. toes —and -were- specially fortunate in having the potatoes. The staple food of the country was buffalo meat and whitefish. The nearest railhead was in the state of Minnesota, far beyond Winnipeg.. Mail eame once in three: weeks and took three weeks an the way from Winnipeg." Mr. Oliver told of the bitter dis- appointment which came to Edmon- ton in 15+81, when the rote of a projected railway was so altered a= to Leave the Edmonton settlements 200 miles off the line. It was not, indeed, until 11e05 Oat the Canadian Northern reached Edmonton on the direct route from 1; : _. -MN. those years, 1 was a case of hope deferred with, as Mr. Oliver put it, "the rebellion of 1885 thrown in for good meta: ure", But in those years es pioneering, the West found itself. It was real ized that oat=, instead of having to be imported, could be grown in the Edmonton district "more bushels to the acre and more pounds to the buei:el than anywhere else in the 'ev;n',l. It was discovered not only taxa Edmonton was well within the wheat belt, but what wheat could be commercially grown hundreds of miles to the northwards and west- ward." Mr.Oliver was present, not in- deed, at the birth of a nation , but at the birth of a national granary. Looking back on the pioneer days he must see a wonderful vista of men and events. They are men and events which those who enjoy the comforts of an easier life cannot of ford to forget. Canadian Wins King's Prize The itirirest Honors for marksman- .ifiil 1.1 t;.• Et .i :; Empire went to Lteat.-('al. 11.:1.Iaair, of -Vancouver, oa Saturday, wiles he won the ii:ne"s prize at ha;ey after a tits r,ot ,th Lieut. ut, 11, --mond Burke, of Ottana. Col. Blair cotnmanding t;'.. el. r 1?la czea.ortil Highland, r:i and Lieut. Burk,-, of the Gov. -Gen feet ;} +i •., i ltd n+d the final stage with a total o 2.*:1 out of a possible 3D'). Then they went out alone do- t.: nine tie. ,l::tloy of the prize of o 21,2:0 given by His Majesty, and the gr,id medal and Vold badge offer ed by the National Rifle A,=ociation. bull's eyes in 11,, :Loot -off, neither GRETNA. GREEN 4iU'PkI ". ilnildfng Long Goal of Eloping rine pies ordered Removed. The notch of progress ss nt ty mean the passin • „of the village smithy of Gretna Green, says the Pattihlitle•t'. This itnnt.irtal coal of elopl1 t; t'ort- ptes hits be1.q 0,1111 1'111 d by moilel•- itlee as a menses' to motieriele. Thr' present o uer of the eld boaek erui 11'fi building Lae been offered e d e la. a, sum by county authorities 11 11,, mill con- sent to retool,: r 1114 i u Ir lug. lint lb, stalwart owrie r proudly u. e e 0 ht, Would not take a gull inn r i and boasts :rat it is a "1u' Gretna (ireett In its Melte; w;,, a sort of entlthesie to the 111111. t 11 1, ,no Paris, • 1 i .. o and Cher i 0111 t li s. 1 e Couples were joined there in .1r what the same way that unn pl cc a ilea are pus asunder in Gee.- . s l ,clay The yid i 1 1111 ;mini ever the 1 nglisli border, A- th. nearest village ou the Se•ulti-h cid• it was long notorious es the iavoritt resort of eloping couploa, t'p until 1764 Fleet Prison In London was th. Leading place for cl•wci. r,tin. lnar- rla pee But Lord Hardwick's act ei that year abolished Fleet niurriatme. So the runaway couples, whose mar - :dam s were forbidden by Irate pa1'- e•nas or the stern laws of England, had to rind a more hospitable country. As a resul• Gretna Green, across the border, immune the goal of many thousan es desiring easy marriage. There they e.,ulti be joined in wedlock by merely declaring their wish to marry in the presence of witnesses. The e •evil, ny was usually performed by (he village blacksmith, but the tali-k'•.•p-"r, ferryman. or, In fact, 01- mo:t anyone could perform it. Thus from 'Teti to 1350 Gre:na Green wee tt= haven of distracted ley i nee 1t ,silage smithy became '1 met to:emote house in '111 the United Kin..lma, But Lord Broug- ham's act in 1856 rendered these hasty marriages illegal by making it necessary for one of the contracting parties to reside in Scotland Inc three weeks prior to the ceremony. D. spite this fact, however, r, Gretna C 1 e••e has endured. So has thea vnlage<. smithy. COLD STORAGE cATS. Temperature of a ('old Storage Cellar Produces Long-Iialred ('ars. One dey the local carpenter who had taken a job in he city came 1e see me, writes Mara Evans. He had under his arm one of the oddest lit- tle kittens I've ever seen. Apparent- ly a long -hatred white it didn't look like a Persian. More than anything else, it looked like a polar bear's tub. "What kind of a cat is this?" I asked him. "This 1s a cold storage cat. A year or so ago," he explained, "the roll storage warehouse I'm working for took in a lot of eats to kill rats. What with the damp and the dant and the cold, only a few of Dent lived, but :he ones that did grew imager and hewer hair, and this kitten ie, the fourth ge:net'a-ion. I've got seven er them." Well, if the cold of the Himaery+t:+ produe-d the let.,- !red Oriental cats. it seeing 1. . r.ii l)la 11. -re. Denture of a meld e n r,.lhc.:• ahnrlld prodace lone-i,.,It' alley' cats. w.,r,•r•e4 the various cent 41131,01., of diose Litton- arqutt$ the r•.:.i,1.,t- h.tad. and w.. 0n.0 -ed to 0-,• r to revert co eatnnt`yn short hatreds. I3itb;AI(IN(1 AN( IUN'r TITS. Lady SIi ob.irn 1111I Sell Ili.l:1t11.4 }him Thn171e, Tim hi; ,stir Ilrent:n:01a+l TLorpe at 'r mt. I Ufa ,+hit e+'nioti c' of 1.:1.,. gems. ts to p..as octt of the yth rl ire family's hands, in wise 0 1 has reel, ,1 fol matin centuries. Mate Sherburn, the present owtlea•,, leas de- leted to s,ll The She: berm-, leave. been meet'4• - 'd wt n the ISA.-' Renee of York. shir nine,.• 127R. ,.1.e1 hey, t1 acl.• their mark In the• hi -tor of the meaty, Thr :ua references to Jlrentin_t- hem n1 the Domesday survey. It was t elm time part t of the "altino' of 1'.y d t ," in p ,stir. elon of 11ie Mo, de, hau,p tl.!e Me.ueet'ry, the pica, nt Pet. t•herettun, but at the tinge of the Congest the tremor of Brantinuham was in the bands of the crown. �Yemon I., about 1075, eonvey:d the tiltaner to the Sen of Durham, unit velea1 the Dome:.day Book was man - piled 11 lt!t6 it was held by Durham Inc,the su , ort of f F11er Ldah• Abbey Tie. 3 eel- c+s of the in sent li an- Sion w is built in the fifteen 1. story. THE MAGIC METAL. { Ten Grammes of Radium Is Worth $500,000. Pity y thousand pounds to buy ra- j alum for ,the hospitals. That is the. I magnificent gift which Sir Otto Beit I made to King Edward's Hospital Final for London the other day, It Was rise announced recently that Westminster Hospital could now place 120,000 worth of radium at 1110 dlaposal of its patients. How much radium will £50,000 buy? The Australian Government recently bought ten grammes of ra- dium to start a radium service in the various states of the Commonwealth. These ten grammes are worth 1100,- 000, and half 511 a teaspoon, So £50,000 will purchase a quarter of a teaspoonful of radium. Most of Europe's supply of radium comee from Joachlmsthal, a tiny vil- lage among the mountains of Czechoslovakia. sIt was originally famous for Its silver mines, 000 yielding and edvaneage, Bttt Lieut. Burke on his .;synth .shot dropped to the inner and the prize went to Lieut. Cel, 'flair. Burke %tem the prize in 1:e 4. rt9 1 There are a great many ways to do a !ob of printing ; but quality printing is only done one way—THE BEST. We do printing of all kinds, and no matter what your needs may be, from name card to booklet, we do it the quality way. P. S.—We also do it in a way to save you money, 7 he Post Publishing Rouse a Vancouver Island. George Vancouver, in 1791, sailed from Falmouth to Australia via Cape of Good Hope, then to New Zealand, California (which was then known as New Albion), sad up the coast to the belated which now bears his name. Fifty -Five Thousand Students, Over 66,000 students enrolled to the universities of Canada for the term of 1928-29. TI'I<* /MU 5E13 POST SrrCATION TENSE L. M. Marakhan, Vice -Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow, Rus- sia, and former Ambassador to Chi- na, who wrote the note demanding China apologize or suffer the conse- quences for !ler act of seizing the Chinese Eastern Railway and ar- resting Soviet officials. 1 Mere and There I (354) The ancient art of goat -getting Is in full swing at Banff with 25 wild Rocky Mountain goats trapped in June and nearly the same num- ber in July. They are enticed into traps by salt licks of which they are inordinately fond. Some are to add to the wild life of Cali- fornia; others are for exhibition purposes and for zoos. Concrete work on the new Saint John elevator has commenced and will require about 25,000 cubic yards of concrete. Grain business through Maritime Provinces ports is growing largely every year, Statistics gathered by the New Brunswick Government Bureau of Information and Tourist Travel show an increase of 25 per cent. in the number of motor tourists from the United States entering Canada at border points of this Province for vacations. Word has been received by J. 11. Gibbon, general publicity agent, Canadian Pacific Railway, that His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada will extend his patronage to the Canadian Pacific series of six concert tours of British and Canadian music to be given across Canada, commencing in the fall of this year and continuing until the spring of 1030. Products of the fisheries of Can- ada in 1928 had a total value of 854.971.319, an increase of $5,474,- 281 contpareel with 1927. These figures comprise the value as mar- keted, whether sold for consump- tion fresh or canned, cured or oth- erwise prepared. The salmon fishery is the most important, with a total value in 1928 of 817,807,053 The Canadian Women's Press Club, consisting of 100 delegates came by Dominion Atlantic Rail- way special to - Digby recently, stopping at Annapolis Royal and Grand Pre en route. A number of outstanding writers were in the party and all expressed their ad- miration of the Evangeline Country and the Annapolis Valley. A notable beauty spot is being recalled to pnblie notiee this sum- mer by the Alpine club of Canada which is holding its annual camp from July 16 to July 31 on the site of the old railway village of Rhgers Pass near Glacier, B.C., at the west- ern opening of the Connaught Tun- nel nn the main line of the Cana- dian Pariflc Railway, The camp commands a magnificent view em- bracing Mount Sir Donald, Mounts Macdonald and Tupper, the Ille- • aillewari Glacier n manyother r .t d fine ranges and valleys. On the [fret anniversary of thetr wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, .1r., reeeniiy left the Banff Springs Hotel in the Cana- dian Rockies for a mater trip through western Canada. He was mull enttii mastic shout the roads, scenery and accommodation in the Rockies. SCHOOL: PAIR DATES Following are the dates of the val' rious school fairs to be held in Bur- = uron County this year: Sept. 11th—Hensall, Sept 12th—Zurich. Sept. 13th—Grand Bend. Sept, 16th --Colborne (Township. Sept, 17th Ashfield Township, Sept. 18th— St, Helens. Sept. 19th—Wroxeter. Sept, 20th—Howick Township. Sept. 23rd—Ethel. Sept, 24th—Belgrave. Sept. 25th--Goderich Township, Sept 27th—Blyth, Oct, 3rd—Clinton Rural. Oet, 4th—Clinton Town. It is estimated that if all the first class roods in Great Britain were placed end to end they would encir- cle the earth, • 1,13 1 1 e.. Del. 'Mere .see Only a hely, of hlanni lea- .' melte Vet.. • lemilo11 has 111110- a lot of 014101 and bronze Deus re:t:tr 1e 31 a1,, 1.. deer str-ot: 011(1 open spaces 2111(1 It (111 number of ltnrsee--bat very feta di es. How titan) ereyhe14nd r34" 11.- - i,- thusi-lr.ts could say wheys u statue of a greyhound Is to be sem? an ttld country paper, On the etasti.!rn side of the frieze of famous men ilial enrronndt the base of the Albert Memorial is it fig- ure c>f Yaul Veronese, lie le looking; down at a fine greyhound, atilt has his Band ma its head. A little to the• lei. Is another artist, and another dog. It is a'queer, nondescript sort of animal, but ltll r0 t ' p sees 'Trump " a favorite pug of llogai'th's, Each of these dogs appears in one of more of their mas- ters' pictures. By ihe side of Byron, sitting day- dreaming in his quiet nook near Flyde Park Corner, is his faithful col - 11e, gazing up at his master, Away down in Last India Doak road is another dog seated by the side of his muster — Richard Green, of shipbuilding fame. He is less absorb- ed in thought, and is eareasiug ,the dog, These four "statues" are me- morials of animals that really lived. There are a few ethers, representa tive of dogs in general. In King's road, Chelsea, near Church street, perched on high gate pillars, are two that seem tobe grey- hounds, In Conduit street are a cou- ple of sporting dogs of some 011 - fashioned breed; and attire entrance' to a private house 1n West Kensing- ton sit two canine guards, who look quite as formidable as the more us- ual lions, In the low wall enclosing "The Fountains," at the head of the Ser- pentine, are some panels carved in high relief, and in one of them is a retriever, with a bird at his feet. Although ft is hardly sculpture, the' famous sign of the "Dog and Pot" may be mentioned here. It pro- jects from an ironmonger's shop in Blackfriars road, and shows a terrier having a good "lick -out" from a three-legged pot, Probably the smallest representa- tion of a dog anywhere in London is that carved in wood upon a tiny frieze over the windows of the "George,"—not far from Temple Bar —where a couple of monks are seen busy in a cellar, one with a cat, the other a dog, by his side! VAST WHALING PROSPECT. Industry In Southern Seas Almost , Limitless In Its Possibilities. i The whaling industry in southern seas, according to Rear Admiral F.yaus, wird was the hero of the pis- ' covery, and Scott Antarctic expedi- tions, is almost limitless in its pos- sibilties. At a recent banquet Ile said: "The founders of the whaling in- dustry throughout the world were British seamen, There is every rea- son why we should attempt to tap this industry and share the enor- mous profits that are being made, "The Ross Sea is teeming with whales and the adjacent oceans are untouched, "I do not imagine 'hare is any -fiance of the industry In the South- ern Seas failing for the next twenty Petrie "Whaling offers a fine opportunity for the employmont of Ilricisb capital and work in they shipbuilding yards. Aiso there is a very line clan-,• for the employm, nt of ex -naval officers mat m, 11 in the industry, "We lav:- at still while the Nor- wegians have virtually wrested Froin us tile wha:irt;. industry, widen Is bringinig the111 11111111,lts Of pounds," AIt('1ST WAS ivt'IIPRISE , English Artist Tells Amusing Story Regard/lig His Pictures. W. P. Frith, the Celebrated English artist, triis an amusing stony renar•d- inr an experience he had when 00 a sketching toter in the rural districts. He was boarding in a -Chase owned by a nice old woman who often used to watch flim paint. There was "a rush -bottomed chair which he used Inc hie work 1111(1 to which he became gale, attached. It wasn't worth more than fifty rents—a but of money In those days --and when he wan leaving Frith offered the dear old woman five shillings for it, "But she said 'No,' " chnekled Frith, relating the incident to Julian Hawthorne, "she couldn't chink of robbing me, but she'd be perfectly content if I'd take the chair in ex- change for one of my little 'plotters'!" Which took Frith's breath away Inc a minute --tiro little 'Meters' would easily sell for a thousand dol- lars or more ---hut he got out of It somehow, and Carried off the chair, too, SCOTS HAViE 131(01109 HEADS. Englishnten Do Not Wear ne Large a Hat as Men of the North. Engliehnnen's heads call for hats from 6% to 7. The most common stye is 611/8• Oecaaienally (tats as large as 814 are asked for. More hats of the larger sizes are gold In the north and In Scotland than in the south. Though we may" say there is a fair range in the sizes of men's hats, the short -haired fashions which are at present in favor with most women have done a great deal towards stan- dardizing tha sizes in their hats, The commonest size for women is slightly smaller than that for the men, being 6 4, and an' order fora woman's hat larger than size 7 is very rare. Again, as In the case of the men, there is a demand for larger women's oleos In the north, and we may say that all Scots hale longer heads than southerners, A. New Excuse. "Why are you late for breakfast?" demanded father as Johnny stole in- to the room, "Well, Dad," replied 7ohnnyt "when you called mo I was having a very funny dream and I just ilept a few minutes longer to finish it." i Cream Wanted We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb, Butter Fat extra ` paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed , Brussels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited 0 MINMEEMINIMEMEMORMINESEMMIEr BON. R. LEMIEUX Turns From the Smoke of ,Podia mental.), Rattles to Become Historian. "Mr, Speaker Lemieux, the histor- ian, is lecturing before the Sorbonne in Paris." Perhaps in no other way could be summed up the gradual transformation whichhas removed from active political life in Canada one of the greatest of parliamentary orators and platform speakers and left in'his stead a man of restrained enthusiasms, a devout student .of history, an impartial, judicial -minded speaker or the House of Commons, says the Toronto Star Weekly, • There was a time When Hoa. Ro- dolphe Lemieux would have laughed at the mere suggestion that he might one day be the Speaker of the House of Commons. That was when he was in the foremost rank of Idberal swordsmen, The Lemieux of that day glorified in the battle. In season and out he bore aloft the fiery torch of Liberalism, encountering all foe - men, great or humble, with.the glad zest of one born to the rough and tumble of election campaigns and parliamentary warfare. He won his spurs when the glante of Toryism were on the public stage. He crossed swords with Tupper and Borden; he humbled the great Bou- rassa when that Liberal orator was at the height of his power. In the long years from 1896 till 1919, his name was a talisman in Quebec and bore a lustre of lesser brilliance hionlymself. to that oY the great Laurier Lemieux of 1929 is different.' One never hears now of his dailycon- quests in the Common, nor is he a central figure in the election cam- paigns in Quebec. To -day he Is Mr. Speaker, the First Commoner, far re- moved from the political lists in which he bore himself so gallantly. To those who know him, this trans- formation is not difficult to under- stand, For him the great stage of politics—tete ebb and flow of battle, speech and counter speech, amend- ment and sub-amendment—was dim- med and darkened by the eclipse and death of Laurier. Fur of all those who followed Laurier's "White Plume" Lemieux was the truest ane the staunchest. Yet while Laurier was a Liberal of the left — of the school of Fox and Gladstone—Lem- ieux was molter a deem:Intrnt of the Whigs, with all the ingrained eonser- vatlsm of his race. And so with the passing of Laurier the inspiration seemed to go out of his life. Later day polities held interest for him, but not the passionate interest of the political warrior, Ile could not become enthused either In the battle or the issues. The horn of the old huntsmen was in other and younger naafis. . And enmeh,w Lem- ieux was deaf to its clarion call, lie heard only the faint echoes of by- gono days. It is well known that Premier King endeavored to lure him Into the Cab- inet of 1922. He could have named his own portfolio, But Lemieux had become a spectator, not a pastictp,tn., He viewed the parliamentary lists with the eye of detaetuneut; the polt- tirian WAS dead and the journalist and hietnrtan lead emerged. This change was not tint noteri by 1 his collea eves sold so he was t -11tH to the port for Whtrlt h[ 1ong vet er- lence and n. w outlook beFt. 1,1 3,41 hltn —d.hc Sw•altor ti 1111 one. 1 c uti,•nx lice i be,•it an extra rd nary 8110a s nr Speaker. Ile has ruled 111,• ee eel. l.,:1• 1 re with an impartial Mimi cure' rine„ 1 ,rte 1 (1;altam powed e o fo the :lett !deliwell lie. the ewer v, red and leAov ed mon in ihe a bay. Iie: 11,0.•na to the (Jebel, 1, hefte l/1g attention' ite wei,,; i, , 1 effec s of spear he • he 1,e r k ua, 1 ..• No,t p nmisitl. .'!lent--LIhern". i';- t41 wive or Tory and gives enrnur- age men' and colt nsel, Perhaps this later Lemieux world-' have desired no honor more than that of lecturer on history at Laval Cut- vcrsity and at the Sorbonne. Jac has studied diligently in recent years and written much. To his intimates he often speaks of a late tribute to hie immortal leader and Some day he hopes to publish a monumental lite of Laurier, It la even said that he desiresrho to, retire from polities in order that he may have leisure to complete task, ( sateei ' In Moscow, if a person chops a piece of +paper on the street aa small da a train ticket, a policeman has the power to fine him on the spot. ••• The average talker speaks et about 90 words a minute ; a fast talker will often hit a pace of 150 words a minute. BEADS ONTARIO MASONS R. D. DARGAVEL, who was un- animously elected Grand Master by the Grand Lodge of Canada in On- tario at its 74th annual communica- tion at Ottawa this week, v FALL FAIR DATES Atwood Sept. 20-21 Bayfield Sept. 25-26 Blyth Sept. 20-27 Brussels Oct. 3-4 Dungannon Oct. 3-4 Exeter • Sept. 17-18 Goderich Sept 30, Oct, 1, 2 Gorrie Oct, 5 1-larriston Sept. 26-27 1(incardine Sept. 18-19 Kirkton Oct, 1-2 London (Western) Sept, 7-14 Lucknow Sept. 26-27 Mildmay Sept. 24-25 Milverton - , , ..... . Sept. 26-27 itlitehell Sept, 24-25 Pain eretan Oct. 3-4 Ripley Sept 24-25 St. Marys Oct, 8-9 Seaforth .,,,.,.,.. Sept. 19-20 'Stratford Sept. 16-18 Teeswater Oct. 1-2 Tiverton Oct, 1 Toronto (C N.E.) , Aug 23, Sept 7 Zurich Sept. 23-24 Wingham Oct. 9-10 Great B;titain is the world's larg- est exporter of foot leather. Last year British exports bad a value of more than $25,000,000 double that of American boot and shoe exports during the same period. 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