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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-12-1, Page 5Prices for Pouitr Good until Dec. 2nd Live Dewed Ohickens oven 6 lbs Chickens over 5 lbs.,- .20 Chichens 41 to 5 lbs.18 Chick eus 4 to 4i lbs,18 Chickens 8 to 4 lbs.._ .15 Obit:kens 3 to Si lbs.14 Chickens under 3 Ins.13 Hens over 5 lbs ,15 /lens 44 to 5 the ,13 Hens 4 to 41 lbs .11 Hens 13i to 4 .09 „ .21 .20 liens 3 to lbs Live Orwell .07 .13 .25 Hens uncles 3 lba .05 .12 ,23 Roosters over 5 ths ,11 .15 .22 Hoosteis under 5 1118," .09 .13 .20 Young Ducks oval, 51be .12 .21 .20 Young Ducks under 5,10 .20 .10 Old Minks ,09 .15 .10 Young (hidings .12 .10 .18 Yellin; Turkeys over 10 ,28 F5 .17 Young Turkeys 8 -10 lb .25 ,33 .15 These prices are fop No, 1 Poultry, d vered at our house. Poor quality at market value, envoi:ding to our judgment, liliels must. he in iitarvoil eolidition or dechte. Lion made for esops, Average weight by number birds in Paell coop. R BT. TH uossamususamone. eammowsplanavaszizisamocommeesligrarameolturnalemeeemmeniMiamia, Schooli g y Freight 1 (By Gregory Clark) Mr. and Mrs. Sloman mentiotted in the following article, in a recent issue of the Toronto Star Wgekly, are former Clinton residents, and Mrs. Sloman is a niece of Mrs. Sper- ling, of Brussels, being formerly /MSS Celia Beacom:— .A train whistle rang wierdly across a. section of the black wilds of Nor- thern Ontario. Five moose, two deer, ten foxes, three hundred rabbits and two little boys cocked their PaYS sharply. The moose, deer, foxes and rabbits promptly went on eating. But the two small boys were galvanized into furious action. They charged into the door of a .sagging log shanty. They grabbed a couple of little books off the witidow sill. Speechless with excitement, they fought past their mother who tried to fuss, mother - like, with their clothes. Than they fied, not unlike rabbits, down a snew- deep tote -road towards Hi-, train whistle, The train whistle was the sehool bell. The -school on wheels had arrived. Education by freight was at hand. Into the black north, where men and women go with all their courage, and little children have to make the best of it, there had rolled, 011 the tail end of a freight train, a little cara- van containing the magic carpet of book learnin'. Beforc the freight had succeeded in shunting the lone car on to its special siding, children were arriv- ing out of the bleak spruce wilder- ness along the tracks. Some of the children were even waiting in the cold, since the coming of the car, at intervals of weeks, is rumored ahead boldly, unafraid. from section gang to section gam:. "When they first come to the car," And hardly is the school ear spotted said Mr. Sloman, "they .are complete - before the little children of the wil- ly speechless. Strangers are so rare derness .are swinging eagerly up the ; in their lives, exchanging words with steps. strangers is an unheard ot thing. To realize the part these two On - When they discover that they must - tario echool cars are playing across muffled them. One might expect . say good morning—it is inststeel upon them to be Tittle, alert creatures or THE BRUSSELS POST -- in, with a sort of hunger written all over them. What a job, when thpy LU( all seated and facing me silently and with all expectancy hard to de- scribe! Children of a Nomad Race "A nomad race, essentially. Some are the children of unmixed English and Ccuutdian parent:4, Their fathers came into this country in the boom dnye, with high dreams of °mane their hundred an sixty acres, They were happy and busy during the YPIII'S 'the spruce pulpwood was com- ing off. But underneath they were finding only rocks, rocks, rocke. The pulp wood went. And quite sudden- ly they were hopeless. The land was cleared, but there was •to land. Weary, dispirited after their years of clearing, they simply took soot. They 'work, at odd jobs, in the pulpwood camps, trapping, working on the sec- tion gangs and extra gangs of the railways. Their children have the rudiments—only the gudiments—of edueation, in the beet or cases, "The others aro children of Finns, Italians, Russians, Austrians, some of Pure race, others mixed with Cana- dian, half-breed or Italian. Faced with the starker problem of the grim bush, of difficulties of even sneech and understanding between mixed races, they are as wild and untutored as the creatures of the 49 bash." Lor three to five days at eath plizee, Mr, Montan, who was overseas, and anywhere from five to a dozen spent a rather odd few minutes in missionaries of an enlightened type little children cofne astonishingly out his school car not long before Armis- they spelled it out, too. who -would go with packeack from -of the black bush, shy, wild, mySter- ii(fe Bay, entertaining SOM3 of the "One boy was being shown phon- cabin to cabin through the wilds car- ious, to be -given the first aints or ['ethers of his class at one point alone ics. It was -pointed out that the let- eying not so much the gospel alone the marvel of letters, and to be left the line. There was an Italian with ter D Sounds like 'duh', 13 sounds like but the good chees and liocial warmth `bah' and so forth. The boy grasp- of a visitor, who could also teach the ed it at once and summed it up: 'Oh, children to read and write, and roil - the thing you say first when you see, der, in two or three day visits, a ser - the thing is the thing you say, ain't vice of good that a church can never / / do in this isolated land. "They have nothing creative to The school ears are the first steps play with in their homes, nothing to towards the realization of a life long divert or employ the mind. Even dream of Dr. J. 13. McDougall who these little boxes of colored stieles might he called the chief nrospeetcr• such as every kindergarten has and of the Ontario Department of Ede - which we give to them to take home cation. to make designs with, are pi -teed be- , Dr. McDougall is the man win yond measure. A little Toronto girl, followed the gangs of prospectors Betty Robinson, sent a gift to these rushing into the new gold fields and children. It WaS a box filled with staked a claim for a little log school bits of silk and samples of powder , house while they were staking for and soap and odds and ends from gold. And somehow he persuaded the the last five eithibitions. Her offer- "boys" to lay off long enough to ing brought more joy to these little help him build his log school house. folk than ten bales of clothing and. There are few trails in the back bread would. Betty understood north unknown to him. He has per - things that are hidden from the wise. suaded the north country in spite of "Our phonograph is a gift from their great trials and tribulations on the frontier of the Dominion to re - the Brown School and Home Club, but we need records. We receive member the needs of the children. certain presents, addressed to the / Now this school car idea seems to school car at Capreol, but the things reach a new vast field. And c. most curious aspect of the idea is the tre- mendous disproportion between in- struction and homework. What will be the result?' Already there have been some startling instances or what children will do when given something to develop and left alone to develop it. They are given three to five days instruction and three to five weeks to profit by the instruc- tion. One of the complex questions of modern education in cittes is: is it really education or is it schooling? WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1926. Christmas Greeting Cards of Individuality The sending of Christmas Greeting Cards is an inexpensive but effective way ofscattering sun- shine and remembering your friends. Early orders will have the advantage of a selec- tion from our complete assortments and will avoid disappointments be- cause of cards being sold out. Largest assortment ever carried. Place your order now and avoid rush at Christmas. 4thildrm enjoy, they would be as easual about appreciating them. The limited time they havi to be in- tdrueted and the long time '11..y have between to think ,,,,,bout it a curt of edusation to wonder itbout. ete we stood beside sehoni. gar, 'watching some older 1;oys chesing F41l0! boy like a rabbit up the traeks half a mile :may, a shy, frightened little hoy who had 10:4 his nory,., whkqi he had vld, within a few y.,rdm of tile ear owl tlit•ri had rite w,• eledied with the pupile "What ate• you going to le vshoei you learn to read?" "I'll read books," said a boy ot The Post .Publishing Rouse said books as a city boy , w0,141Alirlhsan q am going to be a good will that :to you?" "I will know about owerything." "And what good will zhat le-?" "Well," said the little follow, • blo•• itt whose last name ends with the let - while the result was • excellent, the illa bottle full of whiskey. as - method WaS most peculiar. It vsas a Aired the teacher that this would sort of sign -writing, hieroglyphic, ere the a ;% s *'old an, .20 ip r,; sezk, n _aria . Ile. might have writtee it backwards, sleep at night. The teaehers were gotta know things." "We get surprises. Two children, very thankful.. The kindly mothor nine and eleven years old. nan nev- who brought the whiskey had leet er seen or heard of Seeding and writ- only two of her babies, so no doubt the remedy is a safe one. . Mr. Sloman, who • is only in the process of collecting facts and exper- iences to be able to' work out a for- mula for this sort of educational work, has arrived at one conviction, and that is that the churches should send into this country sernit young ing. I had them three days. They caught on amazingly, and cou•d fum- ble their way through these simple little elementary reading books. Then we left them for four weeke, On our return, thy could read- the whole of the book, had read it, and to show that they had already mastbeed the secret I gave them a new book and with a month's homewerk to be taken a remarkable war lecor back into their lonely cabins.. alien army, all Austrian, a Russian, 'The, Caravan Schoolmaster a Pole—all with service in the war in "The whole problem," says Fred their different armies, enemy awl al- Sloman, the caravan schoolmaseer of and all section men and Canadians the Canadian National car, "lies in for ever and a day, now. the fact that the people in these reg- -We spoke of the war. Ws asked ions are a nomad people of Twiny dif- what it was all about. Some shrug- ferent races and of mixed race. A., ged. their shoulders and looked :about one point where our first survey tak_ this schoolroom. Well, we were 'all en last winter showed eighteen chit- Cari4thans now 1" dren to be within reach, we find only When the car first came up the two, one of whom is too young for line, as they approached one of their school. So we have to pass that point stopping places, Mr. and Mrs. Slow - by. Where have they gone? On to an from the beck platform, saw two other camps, following jobs from. • little children standing on the edge lumber camp to lumber camp, or ' of the right of way, hand in hand, trappers' families, making homes dressed in what goes for tho Sunday In abandoned camps, shifting, mo"- best in the Noeth country, and star- ing, restlessly, all the time. Can you ing with wide, pitiful eyes at the car imagine teying to plant fertile seeds passing. The teachers waved to the of education in three days in a ten_ ' children. They shrank in the shy, year-old boy you may never see black north country way. again? There is a peculiar urgency When they were spotted on the about this kind of teaching. Eseee- siding, Mr. Simian asked the other ially when the boy is the child of a • children assembled why the two ail - Finn father and an Indian mother, ; dren standing afar off did not come or one of the other combinatione pec- !on. altar to this strange and ronely land." 1 "They are not railroad children," Seven little children, from four , said one ehild, -bolder than the rest. years to twelve, were sitting in the"' The idea at first was that only the schoolroom when we boaeded the car.. eailroad employees' children could As the door opened, they all turned Prime to school. When the two eagerly in their desks. and cried: I etanding afar off were sent for, thsy "Good morning!" 'came running and when they came aboard just staved in speechless grat- Mr. Sloman smiled significantly. The first amazing thing "about this nude at the schoolmaster. "It takes a little while," said Mr. school, from the children's point of view, is that they must speak first, Sloman to size them up. Many of them are very backward. Few of them, perhaps none of them, ere nor- mal children of their age. Their vocabulary, in the first place, is ex- traordinarily limited, Their idees are repressed. The loneliness of this vast bush seems to have enfolded and the broad, lone lads o. . e , , --it seems to open a flood -gate. 11 one on the Canadian National and ; open,s a door upon astounding possi- one on the C. P. IL, you must realize that even the smallest villages of biliLies'" lumbermen, trappers and railroaders ! The school car is a converte4 bus!- ' 11088 car of the sort used by officials scattered across that conntry have ' h I tl ' wn little "white" I of the railroads. One half of it is a tiny schoolroom, complete oven to the school 'Muses, with resident tertchere. 13ut the gaps between these settle. ; kindergeuten cut-outs along the win- signs and counting. We have teom • A d • dows. The other half is the living three to five days to plant in each of the wild, filled with woodlore and simple wiedom. But it is not so, They know very little about the world around them, and much of what they know is superstition. The smallest we set to ssork play- ing with colored blocks, malting de- ments ale o g 011(1 WIICI. those gaps, scattered ndles in from / quarters of IVIr. and Mrs. Sloman and little joan, their baby. Mts. the railway tracks, are little hidden ' shanties and log cabins where a ' Sloinan was, before her marirage, a strange nomad race of people of all Icinderearten teacher, which ,tivee her the nationalities of the world dwell. It is for these the school cars cru4c their hundred -mile long circuits, and a special interest in the cartvan. Their home is like a ship's cabin, compact with an air of permanence pullman sleeper never hes. them. enough seed to grow into some- thing during the seveeal wattke we are away up the line. I explain in the ordinary school fashion the mys- tery of reading and writing and give them the phonetic method. A few have had some slight teaching at for them in the unlikeliest bits of The schoolroom—it was on sihow limm." Outside World a Mystery have little sidin.gs especially built abandoned wilderness where the at the Canadian National Exhibition Mr, Sloinan asked one boy to copy transcontinental trains whizz through --has been most cleverly conceived. the word "sat" on the blae.kboard. and even the freights go hurriedly The two rew•s of school desks &Ong This bov, ten years old, lied been the aisle grade from big to the small - by. It was the Canadian National est size made. A blackboited (-avers school car we visited, on 0110 o•f its one whole side. Pictures and kinder - %stopping Places south of Voleyet. gtuien figuees in bright colors fill has ,seven stopping places on its two all available spaces. Book cases con- hundeed-mile school district. it halts taining schoolbooks to be 91.4011 away, not sold. A lending library for the, pareets end a portable gramophone. -.4.40eSeeeese-i-essee+4•4,444,++++4•4,4i a large terrestrial globe and acts of + kindergarten blocks and counting de- vices are the equipment, "I wire ahead to the lection gang nearest my next stopping place," said Mr, Siemer, ',and he 0118800 the word to the nearest children. The children carry the .news of our im- pending arrival often a long way in- to the bush- When we afrive, they are usually waiting at the siding. • "Of all ages, from five to fifteen, of mixed nationalities, some Who have been taught to read ei little by their mother or father, others who do not knOW the first simple fact about reading or writing, 111,11.SWaren + 4- 4, ++ 1 — 3.' Highest market prices paid + Wanted Phone 85-12 Percy Stephenson I ts-ekei. 511,1014•144•4,4,4,4,4,4•44444-4,44+444,4 taught the barest rediments by his mother, in eome lone cabin in the wilds. M: copied the tv.ord very neatly, but he staeted at the wrong plain, to make the letter "8", each letter was written differenSiy, and 4-t-es4-44-Oie.44.+44444,4,444-.4.4+4,4, • I 'H 1 E . . . . WANTED i .....-....., • * 4' * Highest market prices * + • • paid. + .1. * 4° See ine et' Phone No, 2x, Betts- .1° + se . eels, and I will cell and get + : 0 i 4, yells HideS, I Mei Yollick 014444 4:44+9,1441,444:4441s444,414 most needed atm such shurde things as children can be interested in, pie - tare books, trinkets of the kinde.r. garten sort, rather than valuabla things. Postcards, pictures and views of the great world. I showed one lit- tle fellow Mr. Eaton's catalogue. Me. Eaton is a mysterious and pow- erful figure all through these parts. The catalogue filled with wonders of the world is the reason. He examin- ed the picture of the big store on the f • t "What's them?" ha asked, MAY RETIRE Most Rey. Randall Thomas David- son, Archbishop of Canterbury, Pri- mate of Church of England. SHERIFF ALLAN IS 33 Sheriff Reynolds, of Huron Senior Sheriff in Ontario Your Eyes Need Attention If your eyes bothcr- you in any way; If they tire rmichly or be- calm, inflamed; If you do not sea easily and well; beadach.:•s invair your t4lIcieney or intoi fere with your plew4ure; If you cannot- enjoy every niinute of your so-ading'? — SEE Maude 0. Bryans optometrist Phone 26x Brussels WELLINGTON IS TROPHY WINNER Huron Sixteenth in Inter -County Lile Stock Judging Competition Guelph, Nov. 30.—Wellington Co. captured premier honors anot the John -S. Martin trophy in the inter- • county livestock judging competitton with 2,412 points out of a possible score of 3,000 at the Provincial Win- - ter Fair yesterday. Peel County's team was second with will, 2,362 points, and York County third with 2,204. Oxford county, last year's winners, were fifth, with 2,274 points. The winning team was nom - posed of Earl Howse, Ariss; Howard Barbour, Hillsburg; Irwin Kopas, El; ora; Coach R. H. Clemens, agricul- tual representative, Arthur. The Glen Osmond Trophy awarded the intercounty team making the high- est score In judging horses, was won by Peel county with a score of 47 2 out of a possible 600. Fourth O. A. C. won the students' ° judging competition with 5.550 points. Third year scored 5,165 points, second year 5,061 and first year 5,051. The county standing was as fol- lows: Wellington, 2,412 points; Peel, 2,362; York, 2,294; Oxford 2.274; Wentworth, 2,270; Dufferin, 2,231; rialdimand, 2,229. Durham, 2,217; Middlesex, 2,216; Grey, 2,215; Vic- toria, 2,196; Halton, 2,184; Bruce, 2,185; Perth, 2,184; Waterloo,. 2.- 179; Huron, 2,178; Simc:oe North, County, Lambton, 2,115; Norfolk, 2,082; Sim 2,157; Kent, 2,130; Ontarie, 2,116; coo South, 2,069; Lincoln, 1,994; El- gin, 1,800. Individual ranking centestants in- cluded: sixth, Alex. Crago, St. Marys, Perth, 797; seventh, Wm. IVIcIlwaine, Forwich, Huron, 768; feoigrIt,h,7H85e..nry Bent, Thamestoid, Ox - Guelph, Ont., Nov. 29.—Absalem Shade Allan, sheriff of Wellington County for over quarter of a cen- tury, who proudly boasts of being the second oldest sheriff in point of service in Ontario, his only senior holding similar office being Sheriff Reynolds of Goderich, who nas just celebrated his 83rd birthday. Still hale an dhearty, despite having pass- ed the fourscore -year tratrts, the , • popular county official continues to Sandy's Smile display remarkable energy and car -1 Handicaps Have e No Effect on ries out his daily routine at the comt house with as much vigor as 0 man twenty years his junior. In all the 25 years of his service he has sel- dom been absent from his desk for a ' day. PERTH COUNTY Thomas Nelson Jarvis, termer vice diffidently, pointing to the tOWS and Can there be such a thing as too president of the Lehigh Valley Rail - rows of windows. much machine schooling? I road, died at St. Vincent's Hospital, "They are dimly aware of the New York, Mr. Jarvis, stho was a great world. From the railway banks they can watch the mighty tsains thundering through, the lords and ladies sitting at ease, the gleaming dining ear." The day sve visited the ear, a par• ty of a dozen Indian squaws had visited the car. They were more in- terested in Mrs. Sloman's apartment on wheels than in the school. The brass bed, the figured curtains, baby Joan's quaint little kiddy -coon, home- made, with its baby curtains. The ice box filled them with wonder. An Indescribably Lonely World "A feature of the school car not looked for in the begtnning," said Mss. Sloman, "is the social side. Some of these lonely women have not spoken to another \vomit in months. For example, up the line is an Ital- ian woman who, before she came out to Canada to marry her husband, Wag a school inistvess, 0 cultured, educated woman..She has oven thrust into the loneliness, and hardship of this remote land, -keeping honse for her husband, a pulpwood worker, To visit this car, with such amenities of life as we have been tilde to get aboard it, le to her an adventure piti- able 10 look at. How they study the arrangement of things, the hemming of Baby Soart's curtains, the way the littlo kiddycoop is put together. "One W0111811 from over the sea we asked if the people of Canada bad been kind to her since she had come. She thought for 11InDraerlt. Then Said: 'Yes, I think so.' But immediately she started to cry. "It is an indeseribably lonely world those pionothks live M. They are helpless in the face of the prob- lem of giving their children a start in rudimentary au -cation. Tha 6ehbei ear comes asa sort of gift aroong,st theM," The teachewe baby had a: bad cold. A kindly .Mother arrived With a Van, Children Like Frightened Deer Education means leading out. Leading out of darkness to light, leading out of themselves to self-ex- pression. The school car presents the perfect experiment in the matter of leading out. There hi no othee way for education to be got int e the nom- ad children -of the spree. e: 'rs, At two points within th districts are schools bur te twenty children that ar andoned. The children have gone. A nomad race. Trappnrs tell Mr. Sloman of cabins they stumble on bt el, in the remote wilds where chil- dr* n run like frightened dser frem their approach. "At the close of his first ecstatic week at schaol," relates Mr. Sloman, "a British son of British parents re- marked: 'Gee, I bet if Dr. McDoug- all knew that only us Dagoes and things was going to be in this car they wouldn't have painted it op so nice and smooth!' " 415 is well known there 's a Bol- shevik or what.' is called e Bolshevik spirit amongst many of the Finns end Russians who are settling the north country. At least, it is a spirit of suspicion of strangers. They eome from a land where the gentry ruled. One Finn father (gime in to see the schoolmaster about his boys. The Srboolmnster offered to shake hands. The Marl was. astounded and snatch. ed off his hat Mr. Simian promptly removed his hat. The Finn's face was a study. He went away from the car somewhat educated himself, and his children are the first, on tho track when the school car 's coming. Two boys returned to the ear, on its second visit to thoW part of the country, with money enoegh to buy the .little school books that had boon given them "We Went to be sure" said the eld er, "ste kin keep them." Probably if thes chlidren had o the advantages ef 01*110058 that city native of Stratford, Ont., was 72 years old. Mn Jarvis boon his rail- road career as a clerk on the G. T. It. He became vice-president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1905- and retired in 1919. fliMET"-LOOK AT THE LABEL Sandy is a cheerful sort of Scot with a ready joke and a winning 501118 although when vou bear hie story you will wonder what it is that hone hint gay,. He was a soldier in the Great .Wey, where he lost an arm. Then overwork knocked him out. aitt at- tempts to secure 0 pension have fail- ed, last but not least, the only trade he knows is carriage -making, and who wants carriages now -a -days FOr all that, Sandy is making good progress at the Muskoka Hospital for Consumptives, where everything is being done to make him well again. For atith health Sandy says he can face the world with courage—and he will, too! Wouldn't you like to help the Mus- koka Hospital in such work as 0,180 Your gift will be gratefully received. Contributions may be sent to Hon. W. A. Charlton, President, 223 College. Street, TorontO 2, Ontario. TOO MUCH SALT When you have added too much salt cc a stew or any soup, add .:, saw potato. As it cooks, it will absorb the salt, remsays•sollaelmalmessaventwavanis .0.0201.MeWri*MMEN•ft 7 he Season of Christmas Cheer Spas for One Beginning Diamond Rings We are putting on sale out en- tire stock. 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