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Mail and Empire's $9,000 Picture
Puzzle Wins Wide Attention
as Announcement is Made
Wise Ones Beery to Start — Delay
May Lose $2,000 to One Person
—B -Word Picture, Full An-
nouncement Appears Today
for First Time.
Wise men and women and children
were ready today.
Less -wise 'ones were not. Less
wise ones will wait.
And when the greatest puzzle con-
test in all the history of the Province
of Ontario is over, and The Toronto
Mail and Empire has given $9,000 in
cash prizes to 150 men and women
and children—and $2,000 to one in
the record-breaking vacatihn treasure
division—the less wise ones will wisb.
they had started.
It is no puzzle, this statement. ft
is sober fact.
The first starter, in a foot race or
any other contet, is the firsz finisher.
The man who its down tonight with
a copy of this paper in front of him,
and works the B -Word picture puz-
zle; then goes out without delay and
obtains three subscriptions to The
Mail and Empire at $5 each, so that
his entry is qualified, will be the man
most likely to win $2,000, when the
record-breaking contest is over.
The strange fact is that many will
not bother.
That strange fact increases the
chances of victory for the wide-
awake entrant. And put aown along-
side the first credit these further
assets which are the property of the
one who is awake to opportunity.
The B -Word picture puzzle is easy
to work. You may prove it by ask -
ing your son or daughter to start the
puzzle. The list of words resulting
will show you how easy it is . .
There are 150 prizes — 50 more
than ever before—which means that
even the 150 entry, if his entry is
prOpery and fully qualified, accom-
panied by three subscriptions of $5
each, will get back $15. •
The puzile is the siinplest and
easiest ever used by the Mail and
Empire.
The Mail and Empire is a morning
newspaper of 54 years' standing,
with a ..ounti and definite editorial
policy, with all the things that go to
make e:: iir,t-class newspaper—so
that obi suing three subscriptions is
easy.
With the publishing of the puzzle
picture ')day, accompanied by the
full list rules, the full list of prizes
---,all the way from $2,000, through
the second prize of $1,400, the third
of $1,000; the fourth of $600, and
so on clown to the 150th of $15 --
the full details of just what is to be
done, and how, start at once.
You have 150 opportunities to
share in $9,000. You may win
$2,000, simply by working the puz-
zle successfully and fully qualifying
• your :answer with three subscrip-
tions.
t Turn to The Mail and Empire's
puzzle announcement in this paper
today. Read it carefully. Begin
work. And your chances are great.
I And your reward may by $2,000—in
time for the happiest Summer of
your life.
So
e of the Bost tarieties ofUegotEhles
While a much longer list of varie-
ties might be given, the following in-
cludes those Which have been found
to be suitable over a wide area of
Canada.
Asparagus,—the Mary Washington
has been found very satisfaetory
from the standpoint of disease re-
sistance and is a very satisfactory
cropper.
Beans—Pencil Pod Black Wax,
Bound Pod Kidney Wax, Stringeesa
Green Pod, and Hodson Long Pod
Wax, with Kentucky Wonder Wax
and Golden Cluster Wax as pule
sorts,
13eeta—Flat Egyptian as an eerie,'
sort and Detroit Dark Red.
• Cabbage—Golden Acre as a round
headed first early, followed by Cop-
enhagen Market, Enkhuizen Glory as
midseason, with shortstem Danish
Ballhead for winter storage.
Cauliflower—Early Snowball and
•Early Dwarf Erfurt.
Carrots--Chantenay and Danvers.
Corn—Pickaniriny as first early,
followed by Early Malcolm and Gol-
den Bantam.
Cucumbers—Davie Perfect.
Celery—Golden Plume. This Var-
lety, it. is believed, take the place of
the old reliable Golden SeH Blanch-
ing on account of its vigour. of
growth and freedom from disease.
Early Blanching Fordhook is a very
promising green variety which pro-
duces very thick meaty leafstalks of
exceedingly good quality:
Lettuce—Grand Rapids, Iseberg.
Muskmelons—Hearts of • .Gold ur
Hoodoo, Miller Cream or Osage,
Bender Surprise and Emerald Gem.
Onions—Yellow Globe Danvers,
Sweet Spanish, Red Wethersfield and
Red Globe.
Peas—Thomas Laxton Blue Ban-
tam, Lincoln, Stratagem.
Parsnip—Hollove Crown.
Radish—Scarlet Turnip White elp
French Breakfast.
Rhubarb—Ruby and IVIoponald.
Spinach—King of Denmark and
New Zealand which is a Perpetual
variety.
Squash—Golden and Green Hub-
bard and the Acorn Spuash, the
flesh of this small variety somewhat
resembles sweet potatoes in texture
and flavour. They are very pro-
ductive.
Tomatoes—Altterity as the first
early followed by Earliana, with
John BaOr and Bonny Best for the
main crop.
Cut Out That Tax
The Selma Rammer xeports that
Simerie baseball club was forced to
pa Y $50 last year towards the Pro-
vincial amusement tax, The Allielon
Herald states that Allistort has no
hockey team this year because this
same tax has put the team out of ex-
istence. The Barrie Examiner in-
• tones us that Barrie Woreen's Club
had to pay the tax on admission to
lectures givet for the benefit of the
town library,
Vacs the Provincial Governelent
must have. The deplorable financial
condition the Province has been al-
lowed to drift into has made neces-
sary a scale *X taxation which would
cause the Sanfield Macdontilds, Mow-
ats and other economies of a past
generation to gasp with horror if
they could learn of what is being
done. But surely some better source
of income can be found than in levy-
ing on the amateur hockey teams of
local teWns and on educational !taste.
THE BRUSSELS POST
FRENCH FAMILY ALLOWANCIA
Irndustrial Workers Employed 'Cader
Guae•antee of Family Allowances.
An experiment 111 FrfineO which Is
attracting attention both there and
abroad is the provision for family
allowances in iudustry, suye ihe To-
ronto Mall and Empire. ' 'er the
British wage system o rate
young journeymen are e'of
their fathers, b ro the rs evell
grandfathers in respect of income,
but if they incur family reeponsibill-
ties their standard of living falls pro-
portionately. A truly French char-
aeteristic is regard for the family
even in industry and from slow and
small beginnings the system of familY
allowances ha.s advanced rapidly in
recent years.
More than a generation ago some
of the French railways introduced
modest bonuses for the dependents
of their werkpeople. Since 1900
similar bonuses have been spreading
in the coal fields. The system which
was adopted by one . of the metal
works of Grenoble in 1916 soon found
imitators in others. After the war
the metal firms of Grenoble formed
themselves into a "co-operative
pool," each paying a levy into the
pool according to its magnitude and
each drawing from the pool on an
agreed scale for its family men.
Similar pools were formed all over
France, some on a trade basis, others
on a district basis, and last June their
number had reached 176. Their
federation, the Central Committee
for Family Allocations, says a London
Times correspondent, is one of the
most interesting sociological agencies
of France.
Three-quarters of all the industrial
workers in France are employed un-
der the guarantee of family allow-
ances, and the proportion is steadily
rising. In factories, mines, railways
and the Government servihes the sys-
tem is general or universal. It is
spreading rapidly in commerce and
It has begun to spread in agriculture.
Vast sums are distributed monthly in
bonuses, the amounts and conditions
of which vary from district to district
and, -where the pools are organized
on a trade basis, from trade to trade.
The pioneer city of Grenoble has nine
"eaisses" or pools, namely, engineer-
ing, building, paper, glove, wood-
working, mixed manufacturing,
wholesale, retail and co-operative.
The monthly. bonuses are 16 to 20
francs for one ehl1/2 up to 150 to 205
francs for six children. Certain trade
unions held aloof or were hostile at
the start but this attitude is now out
of date.
The Times correspondent se3se that
solicitude for the family, good ideals
of employers and the business motive
of increasing good will in work are
the bases of the system. Employers
are satisfied that the allowances are
a valuable productive factor and a
leaven of reconcilement. Workmen
and especially workmen's wives are
satisfied with the results. The sys-
tem is entirely voluntary. What has
been done is the fruit of the enlight-
enment and. enterprise of employers
of every. sort and has been done at
their expense.
tutions like town libraries.
The anIusernent tax should be limit
ed to places of amusement that are
conducted primarily for the profit of
their °Wears.
13rave and Brainy Horses.
A few days ago a horse saved his
mistress from drowning.
Miss V. Musselwhite, the daughter
of a farmer living at Blackfield, drove
her horse to the edge of a lake to
drink. The animal slipped and fell
into the lake, dragging with him the
conveyance and the driver. Miss
Musselwhite could not swim and was
in dangevof drowning.
The animal broke away from the
trap and swam to his mistress. As
soon as he felt that she had gripped
the rein he dragged her to the shore
and remained beside her until she
had recovered from bier exhaustion,
when she mounted him and rode
home, a distance of two miles.
On one occasion when a Dutch ship
was wrecked off the Cape of Good
Hope, and a number of sailors were
clinging to the wreckage in a ter-
rible sea, a man rode up.with his
horse. After contemplating the scene
tor a few moments be dismounted,
blew some brandy into the nostrils of
the animal, and spoke encouraging
words to it., Then he mounted again
and drove the horse into the
breakers.
The pair reached the wreekage and
brought baek two sailors, who held
on to 'the rider's boots. The journey
was repeated seven times anti four-
teen sailors were brought ashore. On
the eighth journey the animal be-
came exbausted and wee turned over
by a wave. The Man was never seen
again, but the lone reached land.
Surely a wonderful record of aninaal
bravery and endurance.
A man, riding througb a wood at
night, collided with the bough of a
tree and fell from the saddle uncon-
scious. The horse continued his jour-
ney and, on reaching home, pawed
at the door until it was opened. Then,
turning, he led the occupanta back to
the spot where the unconscious rider
lay.
Burial Place of Tomah.
The Minor Prophet .Tonah who has
been the centre of much theological
discussion, is supposed to be buried
at Mosul and his traditional tomb
still stands on the opposite bank of
the Tigris. Mosul le an encient Arab
city, built not on the actual site, as
commonly stated, but on IMMO 011t -
lying suburb of Scriptural Hindveh.
It was once o very prosperoua Place,
famous for the manufacture of mus -
lists, which probably got their name
from this eity: but commercial ruin,
begun by the rise of Buahire, cul-
minated in the opening of the Suez
Canal. Mosul possesses a regulation
of euriously mixed religions, whoee
theological views seem broad enough
to satisfy any reeloderniet." Claria-
eerie and Mohammedans equally von -
elate the two 10961 saints, St. George
nod jonttli.
'Ms Wish..
Profeasor: "It is said that elergy-
men and soldiers appeal moot strange
ly to women."
Ardent Youth: "By Jove! I with I
were an &tine, eheelain I"
Poor Fellow I
"And what, prompted you to pro-
pose to me, dearl"
"YOU," said he, einply and Sadly.
BEET smut,
/Refineries Are Springing Up All Over
Britain.
Eight new sugar -beet factories are
to be built this year, and sites are
already being arquired fur others.
At pre:sent Britain is spending
more than Z33,000,e00 yearly on im-
ported sugar. There is no reason
why the British Islee should not grow
all their own sugar in their own
country. If they did so they could
not only nye till this huge bill for
imported sugar, but fin,: healthy;
well-paid work for thousands of men
who would roceiVo at least e15'000,-
000 yearly in wages.
As a matter of fact, British Boil
produces mere beet and better beet
than either Germany or France. The
result of a number of trials which
have been officially recorded shows
that the average yield of roots is -
over fifteen tons to the acre, while.
in Germany the yield is only ten tons.
Another and even naore important
point is that our beetroot contains
inore sugar than that grownon the
continent of Europe. The value of
a crop of sugar beet depends not so
much on the weight of roots per acre
as upon the sugar content of these
roots. Fourteen tons of )3ritish-
grown beet will produce as much as
two tons of sugar.
To make a success of beet-groWing
t
iis essential to have the lose seed,
taken from those plants whose roots
are richest in auger. A. little instru-
ment is used, made like a small
cheese scoop, with ithich a tiny piece
is nicked out of the root, and this
piece is then tested for sugar content.
If the teat is satisfactory, the plant
is saved for seed.
Sugar beet is as easy to grow as
turnips, and the cost of producing a
crop is 27 to £9 per acre. Strong
clay land, such as is found in Essex,
is very suitable for beet -growing, and
one of the first sugar -beet factories
built in Britain was erected near
Malden, in Essex.
The land must be deeply culti-
vated, and good manuring is neces-
sary. Not only ordinary farmyard
manure, but dissolved bone and ni-
trate of soda must be used. With
good cultivation and fertilizing enor-
mous crops can be grown. In an ex-
periment made by the Earl of Den-
bigh, at Newnham Paddox, in War-
wickshire, the yield was no fewer
than 261/4 tons to the acre. And this
beet was worth between thirty and
forty shillings a ton.
On the face of it, sugar beet would
seem to be about the most paying
crop in existence; but it is no use
growing it unless there is a factory
near at hand to make it into sugar.
This is where the trouble comes.
The machinery necessary for turning
raw beetroot into sugar is enormous-
ly costly. Indeed, a factory cannot
be built and equipped for less than
2100,000, and it is, of course, use-
less to dream of forming a company
and erecting a factory at such cost
unless the promoters of the schem.e
can count upon an ample supply of
roots. The minimum required to
keep such a factory.busy is the pro-
duce of 2,000 acres.
Now, it is not easy to get two hun-
dred farmers in a neighborhood to
promise to grow ten acres of best
beetroot each, eveiy year. Yet with-
out such an undertaking the factory
cannot pay, and may become a dead
loss,
This is the reason why so little
beet has.been grown in Britain. Ger-
many and France got ahead of the
Old Country because in both coun-
triete the Governments took a hand
and . gave a bounty on each ton of
beet produced. Perhaps, however,
now that the Government has come
to the assistance of home-made sugar,
Britain may make up for lost time.
It is estimated that, if only 200,-
000 ecru of land were plan -ted with
sugar beet, the sugar produced would
be enough to give half a pound week-
ly to each inhabitant of Great Bri-
tain. As a matter of fact, Britain
has at least two million acres suit-
able for beet cultivation, and they
could easily grow enough sugar for
all their own purposes and have some
over for export
MOST NORTI/ERLY WIRELESS.
itklavik Is About Fifty Miles From
Arctic Ocean.
The most northerly wireless tele-
graph etation in Canada is at Aklavilt,
Aklavik is on the delta of the great
Mackenzie river, about fifty miles
from where the river empties into
the Arctic Ocean and 150 miles to
the southeast of • Herschel Island,
where for 1110113, years there has been
a post of the Royal Canadian Mount-
ed Police. AS its name shows, Ak-
lavik, is an Eskimo town.
The opening of this station to-
gether with that at Fort Smith, far
to the south on the Slave river, marks
tho completion of the system of wire -
lose stations designed to bring the
valley of the. Mackenzie river, the
Yukon Territory, and the Western
Arctic Coast into daily. toucei with
civilization. The order of the sta-
tions from north to south is Aklavik,
Dawson, Mayo, Simpson, Fort Smith,'
and Edmonton.
. The extension of this wireless sys-
tem to as to Meade the stations at
Aklavilt and Fort Smith will be a
great convenience to the people of
the country and of immense assist -
:thee in adminietration and develon-
Meet. 11 ie the Intention to estab-
lish a sub -station at Herschel Island
to operate during the period of open
navigation. Herschel is a pert de
entry for fillips coming by way of
Bering Strait and Alaska, and wire-
less eommunication will be of great
assistance to the tattletale in the col-
lection of customs duties and in oth-
er administrative work.
Stoyee.
The enelente used stoVett which
coheettled the fire, as the German
stoves yet do. Rooms were also
*armed by portable braziers. In
England heetitig Was scoured by fire
in an open grate end this method is
still in cemnion nee, although it re -
sidle in e great *ante of etiel.
Fox Hunting,
Fog Minting as an organized tipett
In the Old Country dotes back to the
gn Of Charles
Why Not Make
Your Will ?
Whether you have much or little 1:o
leave you should make your will. No
one can know as well as you do to
whom it should go or what conditions
or who you would like to see that it
was paid Or transformed as you *101
it to Mt.
Of course, if you die without a
Nvill the law will have to underteke
the division of what remains of what
you leave, after the legal expense;
are paid. There are rules for deal-
ing your next of kin, who are your ;
legal heirs and the distribution will
be made according to lave, but it may !
entail considerable expense and may
be quite unfair to soine one or more, !
who deserve special consideretien ;
from You.
Your hesitation may be on accoent
of difficulty in deciding just what you I
should do. It will likely never be
easier than it is now. When you!
are in good health and of sound mind '
is a very, much better time to make i
such decisions as have to be medal
than ender t he strain of serious P1-1
ness or the shadow it may be, of the!
inevitable end. Often death -bed wills!
are very hurriedly and unwIeely
made.
A will should always be made in '
view of present or probably prospect-
ive circumstances. If circumstances
should change, another wile can and
should be made. The latest made
supercedes all previous ones. The
first consideratien, in a will, is that
it should be absolutely just to all con-
cerned. 'Injustice that one may be
inadvertedly guilty of may be cor-
rected dulling life, but if embodied in
a will there is no possibility of cor-
recting it unless it can be proved
that the maker of the will was not
of sound mind when it was made ,or :
that it was made under undue in-
fluence by some designing person or
persons taken advantage of the
weakened judgment or will power
of the person making it.
If a will is made and wise and
trustworthy executors appointed,
they may be given certain discretion-
ary powers under specifid conditions.
and one may feel sure that the terms
of the will will be carried out honest-
ly and to the best of their judgment.
If a trust company is appointed as
executor, not only will it pay Itself
well for its service, but it comae not
very well be entrusted with any dis-
cretionary pewees as chosen and
trusted friends could be.
There are a great many other 1M^
portant considerations, but first and
most important of all is that a will
shou/d be made, and that it should
be as wise and fair as it is possiele to,
make it.
To be sure that it is in proper form
it should be written by your legal
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A Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen is
a useful gift that always makes the
boy happy.
We'd like to meet your youngster in our
store and fit his little hand with a Water -
mall's. Yes, the clip fastener will hold the
pen tight; he just can't lose it.
May we tell you all about the spoon-feed and
Watenna2es no -time -limit guarantee?
J. R. WEND T 111
adviser, who would make sure that
it was properly drawn up, according
to your directioes. It is worth more
than the small fee usually charged
to be sure that it le valid, and will
stand any legal test to which It might
be put.
Improvements Sought I
at Hayfield Harbor
Deputation at Ottawa is Promised
Consideration by the Minister of 1
Public Works
•
Ottawa Feb. 5—On behalf of Bay-
field fishermen a delegation consit-
ing1 of A. W. Mustard, Bayfield, and
Capt. N. S. Cornell, Reeve of Port
Stanley, interviewed the Minister of
Public Works yesterday urging in-
clusion in the estimates of a grant
for deopenieg the channel at Bay-
field harbor.
Very little has been spent at this
port in recent years and the fishing
fleet is so seriously handicapped by
haeboe conditions that some boats
cannot operate. Hon. Dr. King, Wil0
was accompanied by J. 13. Hunter, de
puty minister, promised sympathetic
consideration.
The delegation was introduced by
Thomas McMillan, M. P., South
Huron.
"One-half of the world does not
know how the othee half lives!"
shouted the lecturer.
"Good. That means half the peo-
ple attend to their own business!"
said a voice in the back row.
Change in Numbers
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Plea:Se Remember These
Lady
yng
spired by R
ckies
Ilis Excelly,:e4ggs iituntfiflittninorning
let me tell you, •it ls a ell worth et.
I do so regret that people will go to
the South of France or some seaside
reeortt rather than view the beauties
of their own Canadiaa Rockies and of
Vancouver Island."
Lady Byng described her first view
f the Rockies. "It was so great all
nspirationi I cannot convey the
beauty and wonder of that undulating
line rising out of the mist; that end -
lees, unending chain of marvellous
mountains and the valleys below 111
colours of acquamarlhe and emer-
alds."
The opinion of Her Excellency
regarding Western Canada le not that
of a mere passerby. With the Gov-
ernor-General she has been all over
the country, going by motor where
the rail and river do not penetrate.
"There are those," said Lady Byng,
"who visit Canada landing at Quebec,
coming on to Montreal, proceeding to
Ottawa, and Toronto, who have gone
away giving their view on Canada.
Such views are always defective even
if sometimes they are not wholly
unfair and unjust. Canada's bigness
is evideht on the map, but its Aetual
size is only realized through direct
cohtact tend, accntaintanceallip."
The idea of interchanging visits
east arid West le developihg the
attitude eo admirably taken by the
wife tef the Governor-General ehould
speed the Movement and give it
wider impetus.
In our Doininion differenieleettlitiee
have different ititeeetite and pte blond,
Lord TtynggilffilIgzsre fariious
"I fedi I have seine plea to come to
epeak to you on Canada",said Her
Excellency, "I come as a sort of ad-
vertising agent to beg of you that
you go west and visit there. I khow
the terrible question of expeese but
"Mo one hag any right to speak with
J.1 authority of Canada who lute
seen only the East or the West."
It was Her Excellency the Lady
Byng of Vimy who made this etate-
ment recently at a luncheon of the
Ottawa Women's Canadian Club
shortly after her return from a trip
across and through Canada over a
matter of 'some eighty thousaed
miles. Accompanying His Excellency
the Governor General, Lady Byng
had visited practically all parts Of
Canticla rheetieg at every stopeing
place the warm welcome Canadians
everywhere reserve for "Byng of
Vimy" and his charming Lady and,
not less important, becoming ac-
quainted with Canada's unveiled
and never-ending eucceasioh of malt
glories.
Her Excellency,Lady Byng
pathetic study of came end died Will
solve the difficulties which confront
the. country as a whole. Books and
newspapers assiet somewhat hi bring-
ing into closer touch the eastern,.
central and westeen regions of. the
Domihion. But not until the people
living east visit the west ahd the
people in the *wit visit the older
provinces — visit them with the
intention of beeoming acquainted
with the life ahd ideals of the native.
torn, will any degree of intheacy or
underetanding be reached,
The leeson of Lady Byhg's speech,
then, is for Canadiansowhen they go
travelling on holiday, to extehd them
knewledge of the structure and
economic life of the people in other
parts of the country than their own
and to se for themeelves the beauty
Of Canadian scenery which ;travellers
from other len& say is unexcelled the
world over an of which every
province has its full share — Nee.
Canticla first, lied see it from Halifax
and nothing but it close am symtp Victoria,
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