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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-3-24, Page 2WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24th, 1026 E BRUSSELS POST e • Ready for Service Nongsmanammmusamik HAVING installed a New Bat- tery Charging Plant we are now able to give our Customers the best of Service. McIntyre & Cudmore Ford Cars, Trucks and Tractors Used Cars a Specialty Phone 73x BRUSSELS e tee 1 The Car Owner's Scrap -Book (By the Left Hand Monkey Wrench) SIXTY-SEVEN PER CENT OF 'automobie passenger cars are in com- munities of less than, 25,000 popula- tion. • THERE ARE MORE THAN SIX times as many passenger cars in the world as there are trucks. In the I.Trtited States the ratio is 7.5 to 1. Use Distilled Water Use only distilled water in the battery, to avoid metallie impurities. Even spring water, which is consid- ered to be very pure, contains enough inineral and metallic salts to ruin a battery. Heat Expands and Cold Contracts Don't exert much strength in screwing a spark plug so tightly into a hot motor. When the engine cools the cylinder metal will contract, making it extremely difficult to re- move the plug when necessary. Driving Out of Ruts Attempting to drive out of a deep rut places a sever strain on the parts of the front axle assemilly. But if the car is brought to a complete stop the wheels are turned to one side as far as possible, and the ear backed, the wheels will easily mount the sides of the ruts without the least strain. MOTOR TRANSPORTATION employs one-tenth of the male popu- lation of the United States, recently estimated as 3,105,000 workers. Silent Shifting If a driver will depress the clutch, shift from low to neutral, then from this double maneuver almost Inver - neutral to second and release clutch, thi sdouble maneuver almost invar- iably assures silent shifting. Grease the Headlight Rims Quite often a headlight lens is broken, or a cold chisel and ham- mer become necessary to remove the rusted headlight rim, when necessary to replace a lamp or clean a reflec- tor. This can be avoided if a little grease is rubbed on rims the next time they are removed. Don't Knock A knocking motor makes us stop at once, Our engine must be free of any flaws. But when we turn and knock our fellow man, We never stop to analize the cause. If he does not appear just what you like, If you don't quite agree with wind he said, Dont knock, but turn within your- self And start to clean the carbon from your head. First Things First (By Rev. S. J. Allin) That is one of our mottoes, and it is a very fine one. We do not find it easy to live up to it. No one of us. however, is called to do easy things. Anyone can do what is easy to be done. It is easy for young , people especially a worthy ambition ' to fill a hard place and to perform difficult tasks. What are the first things? 1 They are the things that are high- est and best and most important. The choice we are most frequent- i ly called th make is not one between ! good and evil,. as it is a choice be- ! tween the better things and the best.1 Money and pleasure are some of the good things, but they are not best, nor highest. Our obligations to God and to each other; our consistent conduct as Christians; our duty to the Church; our reverence and regard for the Sabbath; these and many similar things must have the first place because they are supreme. Regarding things that we are often tempted to put in the first Place, Jesus said, "Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye iave need of these things"; then Jesus added, "But seek first the Kingdom of God." We are not asked to throw wealth and fame and pleasure to the Winds and call them evil or vanities. At the mid-eveek service in our Church a couple of weeks ago, the Pastor called our attention to the man who had many pearls, but mid them all to secure one of great price. Ts not , that the parable of life for all who waet to make the most of its opportunities? There is always some added joy, some added good, or gain, for those Who deny themeelves of a personal right, •or privelege, in order to ren- der a noble servicer to others, er Perform a great and preseing duty, Let U8 not. invert the order Of Wen "First things first." no not fele, • the first place to the things of smaller value. To love and to follow Christ, to imitate and serve Him, that is the chief end of life, Make me to. hear clearly one • thing, Thy voice; And hearing to follow, to res- pond And rejoice; Make me to see clearly one highest thing, Thy way; And seeing, to walk at Thy good hand Day by day. VISITS LEGISLATURE Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, Spet , of the Canadian Parliament, who was extended o notable welcenee by the members of the Ontario Legislae tive Assembly laet week, IVA miller hard, complains the Betder Piece Star, to tetzei the pages Of t seed eistalegne With your it tb on. "Fit As a Fiddle" By GEORGE ELMER COBl3 "Beady to go -and able?" questioned Isaac Downing. as a fiddle, yes!" answered Silas Green well vim, and drawing himself up straight as a poker. "At midnight. That's the program." "Good! Secret as the grnve, you know. Blum's the word," tied Silas pressed a significant finger to Ids lips, while Isaac looked mysteriously tragic and impressive. Then the latter winked significantly and Silas blineed with a knowing air and the remeek: "Now don't oversleep yourself, Isaac." "Not likely,' was the prompt retort, "as Tin now too stirred up to sleep at all. Be sure to he at the rendezvous et midnight, sharp." "Trust me," vaunted old Silas. "Don't forget the drum." "Oh, I planted that In an old 'my - stack before daylight this morning. And how about the born, Silas?" "Up an a shelf in the woodshed. Dunne, but it may take me a few days to get the run of the born." The two old men parted. Isaac lived with an old maid cousin in an humble way' on his pension and interest from an investment left him by a brother. Silas lived with his son-in-law. He had once n home of his own, had bor- rowed two thousand dollars on it, had paid it ofe, had given the receipt for the money to his wife and bad thought no more about It. Before Silas had got the notes and a release from him, the mortgagee died, and soon thereaf- ter the wife of Silas. The mortgagee's lawyer found the uncanceled notes and demanded payment. Silas searched for his receipt, could not find it, and lest his home. And now, a month after the entrance of their country into the European war, Isaac and Silas, veterans of the sixties, had their patriotic fervor aroused to fever heat. "It's true, we're old and crippled, but we want to fight again!" was their ar- dent sentiment, and they mourned that the army could find no use for men over seventy. "There must be some place for will- ing patriots like us," insisted ISAAC. "I'll wager down at Prescott, where the cantonment is, they'd find some odd war corner to fit us into," And out of the thought came a grand echeme that the veterans were about to put into execution. Plainly, they decided to run away from home. Like two truant boys they discussed their wonderful plan. While the cousin of Isaac and the daughter of Silas and the family slept serenely, the two old fellows were silently trudging down the road leading to Prescott. They had one man in mind -Colonel Davenal. It was at his ofTIce at head- quarters that they applied about noon the next day. The adjutant who ques- tioned them as to their mission smiled quietly as they proffered their request. He reported to his superior officer. "Both of them say they fought un- der your father in the Civil war," he stated. Never was there such a welcome re- ception as that with which the colonel received his honored guests. He in- vited them to dinner, he showed them all over the camp, he started them back home, pleased and satisfied. "Gentlemen," he told them on part- ing, "you want to do your bit, and you can do It best at home. I am going to obtatn for you a regular commis- sion to do duty in the line of eneourag- ing enlistment. I want you to get up a home guard company at Aoton. With your noble example, and drum and horn, and mass meetings, you sure will shame slackers and encourage many a wavering young man to enlist." Be sent them home In his own auto- inobile. The story got about, and two evenings later twenty Of the' older men of the town inaugurated the home guard movement. Isaac and Silas, as "chiefs," began to feel that they were quite in military service again. It was in the parades that were to be a feature of the campaign that the two veterans expeeted to shine. Se far, Silas had not bad opportunity or occasion to display his skill on the cor- net "I'm coining over to your house to- morrow afternoon to practice," ob- served Isaac. "I'll be reedy for yet," peondeed Silas, told Mrs. leinme ditughtet 011t1 her two children were hi the mirden when isatte nrri \eel welt his druin, Sties bad produced the time -were veer containing the comet. 11 hail 1.4,071 811111 so long that he bed to allsarettege the look to get it open. "Here we nre," be annettneed, biking out the tarnished thing of liriise end lvery-hended valves. "You get the mu- sic ready while I shine bei' up. Wreighl there's dust for you 1" Ile blew through the mouthpiece and a cloud of (lest from the hell end of the instrument and a yellow, cob- webbed paper 011010 002. "Wonder ft nest et mice don't come next!" Inuglied Sens. "W try ! Hey! See here 1" The old man hnd unfolded the paper with n gond deal of excitement, Re paesed it to Vila The latter stared. Then lie yelled out to his •doughter. "Nellie, the mortgage receipt! AIM where your ene hid It le tbe 010 horn yenrs egoi the old house back agatri!" "Olt, we're rich! We're 01011." "Anil ell Ile nee ce• . „IA 11,110." e edit tile nrine UNDERWENT OPERATION Wil iam Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph, underwent an op- eration for an internal complaint and is reported doing as well as ex. 'meted. His friends say the trouble was brought on by overwork and nervousness. 11hat fintario ill Expend and Receive Ordinary estimated payments of the Ontario Government, excluding public debt, for the fiscal year end- ing October 31s5, 1926 aggregate $32,859,300, as follows: - Lieutenant -Governor's office, $5,- 400; Prime Minister, $600,000; leg- islation, $365,000. Attorney -General's Dept. - Law enforcement, etc., $2,125,000; insur- ance department, $50,000. Education Dept., $8,930,000. Lands and Forests Dept. -Lands and forests, 4,455,000; northern development, $1,000,000. Mines Dept. - Mines, $350,000; game and fisheries, $415,000. Public Works and Highways Dept. -Public works, $1,042,500; high- ways, $3,090,000. Health and Labor Dept. -Health $600,000; labor (including mother's allowances), $2,254,300; provincial treasury, $2,184,600; provincial aud- itor, $89,000; provincial secretary. $5,900,000; agriculture, $2,363,500; general miscellaneous, $90,000. To this is added interest, ex- change, bank commission, etc. on ac- count of public debt, $18,000,000. Capital expenditures aggregate $33,366,800, as follows; Prime Min- ister Dept., $16,685,000; Education Dept., $100,000; Lands and Forests $945,000; Northern development, $2,800,000; Game and Fisheries, $45,000; Public works, $2,606,800; Highways, 87,500,000; Provincial Treasury, $3,085,000. To this is ad- ded purchase of bonds for general sinking fund inscribed stock, $22,- 000., Estimated Revenue Ordinary estimated receipts total $49,360,500, as follows: • Prime 1V1inister - Hydro -Electric refunds, $150,000. Legislation -$85,000. Attorney -General's Department. - Law Enforcement Branch, $1,400,- 600; miscellaneous, $401,400; In- surance Department, $150,000. Edithation Department - $650,- 000. Lands and Forests --Lands and for ests, $3,550,000; northern develop- ment, $30,000. Total, $3,580,000. Mines Department -Mines, $700,- 000; game and fisheries, $750,000. Total, $1,450,000, Public Works and Highways De- partment-Publie Works, $25,000; public highways, $600,000; motor vehicles, $6,100,000; gasoline tax, $3,400,000: Total, $10,125,000. Labor and Health Department -- Labor Department, $90,000; Moth- ers' Allowances Commission, $900,- 000; Health Department, $150,000. Total, $1,140,000. Provincial Treasurer's Depat•t- ment-Subsidy from Dominion of Canada, $2,648,000; amusement branches, $1,575,000; casual $300,- 000; law stamps, $350,000; succes- sion duty, $6,250,000; corporations tax, $6,000,000; land transfer tax, $500,000; Fire Marshal's to; $80,- 000; beverage tax, $500,000. Total $18,198,000. Provincial Secretary's Department -$1,450,500. A gricultu ee Department, $480,- 000. Interest - Hydro -Electric Power Commission, $8,100,000; T. tz N. 0. Railway Commission, $750,000; mis- cellaneous, $1,300,006. Total, $10,- 150,000. Capital receipts are estimated at 84,588,000, as follows:-Ptiblic ser- vice euperannttation fund, $500,000; lands and forests, $1,062,000; north- ern development, $120,000; mines, $42,000; `nubile highWays, $1,900,- 000; drainage debentures (Minitel. pal), $35,000; drainage debentetaft, (tile), $95,000; Municipal deb -A- ttires, $10,000; Municipal sinkine Lund, $125,000; genetel • striking funds, interest, $250,000; Queen Victoria Niagara Palle Paris sinking fund, $9,000; farm loan repayments, $50,000; highway loan repayments, $15,000; Ontario Housing C011111th- 5100, $875,000. Varieties of Corn Most Suitable for Silage The best varieties of corn Inc sil- age purposes are those verieties, the ears of which reach the "glazing" 00 "hard dough" stage by the thne de- sired for cutting. It is at this stage that the corn plant contains the op- timum amount of moisture necessary to produce good quality silage and in addition the highest yield and feed- ing value are obtained. Varieties that are too late to reach the glazed stage contain too much water and produce a poorer quality of silage. This excessive water con- tent also makes such varieties un- suitable for the following reasons : - 1. Storage in silo is to expensive to store water. 2. Makes handling too costly. 3. Results in heavy leakage of water from silo which carries off soluble food material, 4. Reduces feeding value of sil- age. Varieties that are too early and reach too great a degree of matur- ity give a low yield and contain too little water to make the best silage. Locality and season must govern the final choice of varieties, and it is obvious that the same varieties cannot be grown for silage in East- ern Ontario and Quebec as can be grown in Southwestern Ontario, where the season is longer. Suitable varieties for silage pur- poses in the longer seasoned districts of Eastern Ontario and Quebec are found among those that mature in Southwestern Ontario. These in- clude Learning, Wisconsin No. 7, Bailey, Golden Glow and White Cap Yellow Dent. In sections of this dis- trict where the season is somewhat shorter the following varieties can be used; North Western Dent, Minnes- ota No. 13, Falconer, North Dakota, Compton's Early, Longfellow and King Philip. For Southwestern Ontario suitable varieties for silage purposes are: -- late strains of Learning., Wisconsin, No. 7, Golden Glow' and Bailey; also Giant Prolific Sweet Ensilage, Lan- caster, Pride of the North and Mam- moth Southern Sweet. STORIES WITH A SMILE. An Old Country Sportsman's Amuse • Mg Musings. "He (Jim Snowden, the noted Jockey) once went to Chester to ride for the Duke of Westminster, and wheneue arrived at the hotel at which he always stayed, he remarked to the landlord: 'Things are very quiet for the races to -morrow. Has no one turned up yet?' Races!' replied the landiord. 'They were last week, and everyone was asking where's Jim Snowden?' Last week, were they?' reiterated Snowden. 'Then where the deuce have I been for the last seek?' " In "Sporting Days and Stories," Mr. J. Pairfax-Blakeborough, • the well-known writer on sporting topics, records numerous anecdotes that he has beard in the course of his ca- reer, as well as many Interesting per- sonal experiences. Once Mr. Blakeborough visited a provincial theatre, and an acquaint- ance of his asked an actress friend and her husband to come and see them after the show. The whole cast turned up, and expected to be taken to the paddock the next morning. Mr. Blakeborough and his friends had to conduct "an army of ladies in huge hats, much -powdered faces, and Painted lips. W, Bullock, who had ridden Signorinetta, the winner ot the Derby, was saddled with two hefty females, and tile remainder were apportioned out 'eke a pack of playing cards. Of course, brie gate- man knew us all -at least the males of the party -and it was easier in those days to 'get in' with a friend than is the case to -day. So the Derby winner went first and broke the ice. " 'This is my wife and my daegh- ter,' he said to the gateman, " 'Your daughter!' releerated 'Mosey' Williamson, who was at the barrier. " mean my sister-er her sister,' hastily correctee the iecleey, looking at the huge damsel he hart described as his dam ghter. ('011050, '1110SeY' SOM th/'011g11 it very eneeetly, a.nd seed: Are there any mere to follow?' and then, 'Or is it only di- vorces diet will eolloev?' " "Remit.," the great cricketer, was net so iteeful with the gun MS with the bet "One day he would tence really Well, and the next ;hut ee badly, His colored servants lotteled for hem, and attended him at 1117101 07111 It always gemmed me to 11010 them, They were quite couvinend 1 het then stealthy Indians had dee:Imre and other dondly weapons seereted a,bout them ready to tem at the lens' provoeation." The author reealls seeing eack Johnson, the giant Negro boxeo, ejeet- ed ?Min the club enelosure 0,t, P. nOrt11.001.1.7030 l0.00 meeting. "Tie wee at a meeting at Hexlitint Mgt el, wife, his gold teeth, and menv ringe. Ho wen treated very hospitably, intl when be walked Into the Ma, en. clemire, Col. (now Brig. -Oat! lir LoPtii0 'soon had bite milked nit g4141441';11g mit 0, 0" DO "0."" 4." w d you hold y ur pen? Of course there's a right and a wrong way to hold your pen for easy writing -but why take the trouble to correct early formed habits? Don't fear writer's cramp -prevent it. No matter how you write there's a Waterman's holder and pen -point that will exactly suit you. Drop in td -day and make us prove it. J. R. WENDT JEWELER WROXETER ji vane Is contrary to tne etiquette and rules of many hunts. The Mar- quess of Londonderry told the author that. he had once had occasion to write to a certain hunting celebrity, one Nicholas Spink, asking for an apology tor a breach of this un- written law. The reply was terse and to the point. It ran: "My Lord, - We sties have dug and we allus will dig. -Yours, etc., Nicholas Spiel." A friend of the author, Captain Henderson, ran a wayside hotel more by way of a joke than with any ser- ious intentions. A certain peer turn- ed up one day in a somewhat intoxi- cated state and, pulling out a revolv- er, took pot shots at the rows of bottles.behind he bar. ,When he had broken the lot, Henderson put up two o'r three others, and then added £20 'to the peer's bill for the little escapade. The peer promptly paid up. But the bottle were all empty ones! A HUNTER'S PARADISE. Canada Has Reserved Its Resources In the Interests of the Aunter. Probably few who go into the woods in search of recreation realize to -what extent Canada has reserved Ito resources in the interests of the hunter, says the Toronto Globe, They know that game laws protect against unnecessary- destruction, and they know that in some seasons the hunt- ing is better than in others, but they do not appreciate how the efforts of Federal and Provincial Governments have been co-ordinated for an equit- able supply of game birds and animals. Canada le particularly fortunate in having innumerable lakes and vast foreets as natural retreats for the denizens of the wild, but even these would not avail to retain the life belonging to them were it not for watchful Governmental care. As It, Is, the hunter can find anything nat- ural to the climate, front a pigeon to a mountain lion. Natural Resources, published by the Department of the Interior, points ant that in Nova Sootia and New Brunswick ducks and geese are among game birds tound close to town and village, while in more re- mote districts reached by wagon road, trail.or canoe are bear, moose, deer, wildcat, wolf, as -well as eheaa- ant/partridge, plover, quail and other birdie Northern Ontario and Quebec contain seine of the finest hunting territory in America. The Prairie Provinces, likewise, have large game In abundance in the more protected districts, such as moose, deer, cari- bou, bear and Wolf, with game birds in the more open sections. Between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific the hunter can And mountain shetile mountain goat, mountain non 7...na grizzly bear, as well as the more common game of other provinces. Canada, in reality, Is a hunter's paradise, and by the eetablishment of reservations as civilization pushes the frontier back it is hoped to re- tain wild life in its natural state for future generations. In the meantime it is an asset which tempts the tour- ist and brings renewed vigor to the tired business man. The Cleaning of Seed Grain The objects of cleaning seed grain are (1) to remove other kinds of grain, weed seeds, dirt, chaff, pieces of straw and other foreign matters and, (2) to remove all shrunken and broken seed, leaving only the very best of the kind of seed cleaned. It has been observed at the Dom- inion Experiment station, Khpuskas- ing, Ontario, that large, plump, well matured seed germinates evenly and gives a more uniform and high- er yielding crop than seed of infer- ior quality. This is particularly true if early sowing is practised which practice is very essential in this section of the province. A good fanning mill if properly equipped with riddles and screens, and with a suitable control over the air blast, may give very good ser- vice in the cleaning of seed grain. It is rather difficult to give defin- ite instructions for equipping and operating a mill which would be ap- plicable in all cases, as both the grain and the mills may vary con- siclerably. It may be pointed out, however, that each part of the mill should have a share in the cleaning ptocess if best results are to be ob- tained. The air blast should remove all light material; the riddle or top sieve should remove the larger im- purities, as well as the smaller seeds of the kind being cleaned. Rapid cleaning should be avoided as this is very liable to prevent the sieves from functioning as they should. Old »tills often may be properly equipped With new screens by sub- mitting samples of the seed to be cleaned to the manufacturer, and asking him t� furnish suitable sieves. 4NEEne, There are a great many ways to do a job 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. The Post Publishing House 11