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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-10-28, Page 5rr Live and Dressed Poultry No Live Poultry taken on Saturday Live Dressed Select milk feta (lhiekene, neer 3lbs, ,,,,,,,,, 18c 210 24» Uilickene, 5 to 0 the 17c Zen 39» Ohicken», 4 to 51be in» 18e 21» Chickens, under 4 lbs al»16». 18» Bens, rivet 6dbs 140 10c .ileus, 4 to 5 1b» 12e 104 Hens, i34- to 4 lite lei 38» Piens, under 33 lbs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 5c 111e itoosters Se• 1238» Young Dears 33» t, Old Ducks 110 10c 1OP-Nothing hue No. 1 Poultry accepted except at Reduced Pt ices. Poultry trust he in starved ntnulition. Black feathered fowl 2c a Ib less MiLK FED CHICKENS The flesh must be plump and eliow good white color, and be well finished showing back and pin bones well covered with white fat, No pin featbete allowed nor any deformity of taree of any kind en Milk Fed, Prices subject to change without notice, Robt. Thomson Phone 66 BRUSSELS • News of Local Interest The Fall Fairs are over. Saturday will end October. Hallowe'en comes on Saturday. Thanksgiving Day, Monday, Nov. '9th. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? Hen-pecking has sent many hus- bands to the chickens. Forgiveness is the surest antidote for the poison of bate. Another good thing for the plexion is to park in a good b fore midnight. Cobwebs are said to be conductors I .of electricity. But they seldom shock a domestic servant. The world's first family argument took place when Eve admitted she was in love with Ben Davis. The total amount of taxes for Elm. Township this year is $76,207.03, a decrease from 1924 of $6,!#69.50. The only difference between a girl .chewing gum and a cow chewing her .cud is that the cow generally looks thoughtful. Harken girls: 1f you received wedding presents and for any reason g '110 yoe u, according calledoff, theyCincinattl judge. A Detroit man has sent word from •Ontario that he is on his way home from a fishing tri with a 560 -pound bear. The .as the best wordoyet it for thews 4.4. this Apparently no one is excited about the coal strike; in fact the public does not seem to be aware of the fact that a strike exists. Wait until we have a cold snap or two; then you will hear a different tune. THE ONTARIO sed be- i GAME LAWS IHoney < 1 HAVING purchased the late Lawrence Wheeler's bees last Spring we wish to au - flounce to his former customers that we will be glad to look after wants In this line, Owing to cool weather during the fore part of the season, the crop has been reduced by at least 50 per cant. Customers should secure their supply now. First•class White Glover honey at 1 5c. lb. for Sale et Brussels Club Store MITCHELL APIARIES R, R 1, Listowel Moleeworth 'Phone PotatoeS 11 Wanted 1C Car of No. 1 White Potatoes wanted, to be loaded at Eth- el Station first of next week, For any further information phone 221.1, +a li "1' Leitch,& Zeigler-' ETHEL Licenses—Non-resident license fee (general shooting), 341. Special camp license (resident only), $3.50; issuing fee 60 cents. For further in- formation apply to the Deputy Minis- ter of Game and Fisheries, Parliament Buildings, Toronto. Special camp license may be ob- tained by organized resident hunting parties to kill one deer to be eaten in camp. One license to every six persons. Deer killed under authority of this permit will not affect limit under hunting license. - No person shall hunt, take, trap, shoot, kill or molest any fur -bearing animal without a special trapping lic- ense or permit. Moose, deer, reindeer or caribou— South of French and Mattawa rivers. November 5 to November 20, inclus- ive. North and west of French and Mattawa rivers, October 26 to Nov- ember 30, inclusive, Female moose protected. Moose, reindeer or cari- bou under age of one year protected. Limits: one deer, one bull .moose or one reindeer or caribou.". Bear—All year. Muskrat—March 1 to April 21 in that part of the province lyingsouth of the French and Mattawa rivers and April 1 to May 21 in that part of the province lying north of the French and Mattawa rivers. Fisher, marten, mink or raccoon— Novemberl to March 81. Squirrels (black or gray) -protect- ed. Game birds—Ruffled go s I(pridge), pheasant, q o tur- key, protected. Woodcock—September 16 to No- vember 80 inclusive. Plover, snipe and yellowlegs, September 1 to Dec- ember 16. Ducks, geese, grant and rails, September 1 to December 15. Duck limit 26 per day; 200 per sea- son. All other migratory birds not specified above, protected. Sale of wild ducks geese or other waterfowl, snipe, quail, woodcock, ruffied grouse ONTARIO Pulling Ontario's Feet out of the Mud That's what Good Roads are doing Look back ten years and you will remember that rarely did you drive beyond your own township. You could not know the people or the country forty or fifty miles away. For months each year impassable stretches of mud confronted you in almost every direction. Today, at all seasons of the year, you may travel almost anywhere. Good roads are pulling Ontario's feet out of the mud. To help keeppthe roads in repair, see that you use them sanely. ae law provides restrictions in the load- ing of trucks, and a speed limit of 25 miles an hour for passenger cars. When you fail to observe these pro- visions, you do unnecessary damage either by breaking clown the road foundation or tearing up its surface. As the cost of road building and maintenance is h ll- ing noore and more on the user of the roads, motorists should realize the necessity of obeying the law, and also, the advantage of securing the co-operation of others in doing so. To know more about the $ize and importance of the good roads problem, take a motor trip this fall, Note the development in farm and home improvements. Observe the well -kept lawns. You will at once realise the vital relationship that all these have to hood roads. An adverdsenwet tutted by of Ontario motobowman truck ofHi Auutamays mobile Clubs, secure t Roads o4. uoclatt0rw dud all ether public spldtod botilm, in abating the abate of the roads of the Snot:see. The HON. t38t . S,107MM Mtnbt S. L t(, UIRB, Deputy Mffibler or partridge is prohibited. Bunting on Sundays prohibited. Irrigation' - In Sudan One of the most remarkable engin nearing enterprises that has been brought to a succesetul conclusion in recent years is the Sennar Dam, the gigantic wall of masonry that holds back the flood waters of the Blue Nile, some 2,000 miles south' --of Cairo, in Egypt. Two miles long and ninety feet thicket Its broadest base, it is now completed. Writing of the country thereabouts some twenty-five years ago, G. W. Stevens, war correspondent, declared: "Northward of Khartum the Sudan le a wilderness; southward it is de- vastation." Right in the midst of this devastation to -day, is a modern city of some 25,000 persons.- Where, little more than two years ago, 'crocodiles nosed their way in and out of the swamps and rivers, baboons chattered in the trees and herds of elephants roamed through the underbush, there is to -day a well laid -out town. It has electric light, an excellent water supply and an ice plant; and if, occasionally, a lion, greatly curious, wanders down Main Street, it is no more than a reminder to the inhabitants' of the hole of the pit whence they were digged. Actual work on the Sennar Dam was begun as far back as 1913, when a party of convicts in chains was sent up there by Lord Kitchener, but operations were suspended during the war, and when, in 1919, the project was reopened, ,it was quickly seen that the original estimate of 37,500,- 000 for the whole enterprise was hopelessly inadequate. As the dam stands completed to- day, with its sixty miles of canal and branches down which the water is to flow to the cotton fields, the total sum advanced by the British Treas- ury is found to be more than 360,- 000,000. That in spite of this high initial cost, the work will prove enor- mously profitable cannot be doubted. More than 800,000 acres of wilder- ness will be under rotative cultiva- tion next year, and already new irri- gation schemes are being discussed to take in another 3,000,000 acres. How to conserve the waters of the Nile as it sweeps down to the Medi- terranean, with the overflow of the great lakes of Abyssinia and Uganda swelled by the rains of the moun- `ains and the swamp waters of the :meets of equatorial Africa, has been one of the problems of the ages. It was a problem with the Pharaohs, as it was with the Romans, and as it Is to -day. The Sennar Dam is another great step toward solution. - From September to April the river sinks by'as much as twenty-five feet, uncovering on either bank large tracts of the most fertile soil in the world, Beyond this, large areas have for centuries been irrigated with In- finite toil by that contrivance of the Stone Age called the shadoof. The peasant sets up rough posts and a bar the size of a football goal on the river bank. In the middle of the bar pivots a long beam, of which one end is weighted by a huge blob of clay. From the other hangs a primitive dipper. "Hour after hour," as one writer puts it, "the patient farmer pulls his dipper down to fill itself in the river, then lets the clay counter- weight hoist it to the level of the irrigation ditch, along' which it trickles to the sun -scorched crop." The only improvement on this con- trivance in 10,000 years is the ox- driven waterwheel called the eagle.. The sagia, which is to be seen every- where along the banks of the Nile, Is the same in every detail as those in the far-off days before even Tut - Ankh -Amen was a king in Egypt. The age -weary, plaintive creaking of the angle Is the oldest, mechanical sound iu the world, Within the next few months thou- sands of these old waterwheels and the more primitive ahadoof will be rendered idle, From the great new reservoir behind the Sennar Dam, containing water enough to supply the whole of Canada for more than a year, cabals will carry water to thou- sands of irrigation ditches spreading out like the meshes of a net over as ever -larger tract of country. The great work was completed in less thau three years by an army of Egyptian and Sudanese laborers, the descendants of the men who built the pyramids and set up the Sphinx In the sands of Giza. Both become more understandable to any one who watched these thousand» of black and brown men at work 00 the Benner caro, In their white robes like noth- Sheldon Bricker, a well known Piro• gressive of Howick Township, who addressed a political meeting here last Friday evening in the interest of J. W, King. mg so much as tong white nlgnt- shirts, and realized that they live and grow strong on parched corn and cold water and that they are well paid and more than happy on 50 cents a day. Causes of Winds. Winds are produced by a disturb- aucr; of the equilibrium in some part disturbance al- tmsls o of Ulea atmosphere; vat's resulting from t difference in .emperature between adjacent sec- • ions, Thus if the ttnlperat0re of a :ertain extent of ground becomes atelier, the air to et -nutlet with if `eoomes heated, it expands and goes owards the colder or etcher reglells 11 tile attuoilllere; wb.nee it flow», ,reducing wields whl.•li blues from let o egad couutrres, But at the same itne the equilibrium is destroyed at :110 surface of the earth, for tate erre- int'e on the col'l'ar aej„cent bar,,.; is ,motor thl,.0 on that which hes been ::tested, and hence a current will be 'tr.dac»tl with a velocity depeneent n the Rift » le tu,u these pres- »ures; 1'1 u. - o ('10(11101 winds will he pt:ducrt...1(1 ipper one setting outwards 2,"..0 tit 1.,. a.cd region, and Ilow., tun• a�•c'..in5 inwards towards it. �i FLour Cir o � • TO ARRIVE; Purity and Five Roses $4.25 off car 1l rati $1.45'1 Shorts $1.50 ' WI your order atodelivery o11 MP A.7,Ce BAUER. GIBRALTAR HELPLESS? EXPERTS THINK ROCK CANNOT RESIST AIR ATTACKS. Will Britain Exchange It for Ceuta, on the Other Side of the Straits— ' This Famous Rock Was Captured From the Spaniards In 1704. Gibraltar's strength and solidity were long ago eoined In a figure of speech, and the phrase is known wherever the English language L spoken. Now it appears that a mili- tary expert instead of saying as "strong as Gibraltar" would say as ,"weak as Gibraltar" or as helpless. For a British military commission is said to have come to the conclusion that the famous rock is useless from a military point of view, and that the most sensible thing to do is to get rid of it. A still more sensible thing to do is to' get something valu- able for it, and it may be that nego- tiations will be begun with Spain, which has hungered for Gibraltar since it first -became a British posses- sion. The proposal will be that Gib- raltar shall be traded for Ceuta SN I Danger9gals illa r with to 4etIva eyes t i l may see L well k is these as with t1ol4AlWl Nytib but the nt 1.11ue oil`!! t necemecinnal3' pet forth, hinge on we,u Loess, p 110 in tetek of newt, twitching eye- lids and hoad,lehes. Uurreclty fitted illasees relieve above troubles, J ,mVMaude a0, Brytns' p.Sy ;w �x,,togtomohlai: ' pt's venlellt. meet ,' 33' ',,(11111 L1133 Mel a4 shall be scrapped. 1'11e .13ri1#sit peo- ple would hardly ehrink from the ex- penditure of any sunt rather than part with Gibraltar. They could eas- ily be led to the purchase of Ceuta, even if Ceuta had no bettor recom- mendation than that it was needed to defend Gibraltar, though it would be'la bitter pill to admit that such defence was necessary. But the point is that Spain owns Ceuta and would not likely part with it for a money consideration alone. Gibraltar is almost as precious in the eyes of Spain. as in the eyes of Britain Gibraltar weak is still desirable by Spain because it was once Spanish property, and in any event Spain is not in need of any great fortress to. command one of the entrances to the Mediterranean, Spain would think It folly to spend the money on Ceuta that Britain would be ready to spend. Gibraltar was captured from the Spaniards in 1704 by Admiral Sir George Rooke, with the aid of the Dutch fleet, and this feat was re- garded and is still held to be one of the greatest of all Britain's many tremendous naval victories. From 1779 to 1783 it was a prize constant- ly sought by the French, being, in- deed, the object of a single siege which lasted virtually four years and which it succesefully withstood, de- spite the fact that experts of this day declare that it could not withstand a four-day siege with aircraft. If the propusitien to give back the Rock were made now, Spanish politi- cians scarcely could refuse to accept it, even if they were convinced that they would be getting the worst of a bargain which gave Ceuta for it. The main advantage of Ceuta is that it is not a gloomy rock. Although the promontory consists of seven peaks, the highest of which is one of the "Pillars of Hercules,” it is provifled with landing fields. It is protected from air attack in the rear by the rough nature of the country, and any plane to attack It would have to fly for three hundred miles. There is also plenty of ground for the main- tenance and manoeuvring of a large army, and the place could not. be Starved out:. on the opposite side of the straits, says the Toronto Mail and Empire. Ceuta has hardiy been mentioned as a military base, and it would require a considerable amount of money to make it what the British experts are looking tor, namely, a base near Gib- raltar which could stand off an air. attack or defy the most powerful of modern howitzers. It is said that Gibraltar would be helpless in an attack from the air, and that even she might be cut off from her base. by a steadily directed fire of heavy howitzers, and her garrison forced to surrender. So Gibraltar is to be listed as one -of the casualties of the war. She has been reduced to impotence with- out the firing of a shot, but simply as the 'result of certain experiments made recently by Major -Gen. E. B. Ashmore and Sir J. M. Steele. 'their task was to find out if Gibraltar could be defended' against an air at- tack and whether the fortress could continue to give pI'otectlon to ships anchored there if attacked from the air, The answer is that Gibraltar would be impotent in bout cases. The very compactness and shape of the rock make it a difficult if not im- possible place from which to launch air craft or provide for their safe landing, and while the wonderful tunnels out in the living rock by gen- erations of British soldiers would no doubt provide adequate shelter for the garrison in the event of an at- tack from the air, the garrison could not strike back, It would have to stay in the galleries far underground until the attackers had departed, and it is estimated that it could stand a. seise of only thirty days. Of what use then is a place that can at the best enable a garrison to stand out for a month and in that time be un- able to fire a telling shot at dlrig- able or an airplane? No Ii9b at all r of the melancholyfanaRe is ho t extterts, But the experts are not likely to have 1t their own way, according to Davis Edwards, the London corre- spondent of a chain of American, newspapers. Gibraltar is a good deal more than a fortress, It is a tradi- tion, an article of faith, a supersti- tion of the most powerful character, To destroy it en the my -so of an ex- pert or of an army of experts le hardly in the British character, When the debate about tibraltar reaches Parliament we shan't e f many ingenious iivhetees Per ltei A Laugh a Day meg tieout an0 nee 1I wirers eattoterf corpse in the sherds" There isn't space to give all the stories. However, this report would not be complete without Jackie Coe - gon, s contribution.His letterOr 15118 Written in a bold open scrawl and wished Dts MacMillan success. Fie also stated the letter being written during a hot spell: '7131s weather mattes me wish I were sitting at the foot of the North Pole eating an ice cream cone," Ther: he Included throe dellglltful stories and a conundrum. The 'first story wale about a woman who knew the manager of alto Zieg' feld Follies, Site was passing the theatre with her little boy on a very hot day and dropped 1n to the mati- nee to cool off a moment. As they sat down la one of the back seats the little fellow naked 111 a loud voice, "Mamma, do they Have Indians in the Follies?" "Hush, my child, 00, be quiet," whispered the mother. But the little chap did not mind and asked so that every 0110 In the theatre could hear, "Then who scalped all those men in the front row?" Tho conundrum width pleased Jackie so much ls: "A man and a goose went up in a balloon, The bal- loon broke and the man' and the goose fell on a church steeple, How did the man get down?" The answer which Jackie grasped so readily etas stuck many an adult. "Ile plucked the goose," And if that 15 not laugh provoking, stop and think what plh lows are stuffed with. MacMillan will probably have to, The other Coogan story was about the little boy who had a pet dog.named Paddy. The dog was killed one day and when home mthe little chap came 1 r his mother told him, But the?e Was no com- ment and no tears. Later, that night the mother heard het' boy crying and screaming in the nursery. Site CAR ori 1925 Screenings 1 cent per lb, Chopped. John Logan BRUSSELS went up to see '1v teat wart me Martell: "Nurse lust told me that Paddy is - dead," cried the little fellow. "Why, I told you this afternoon," his mother tried to quiet him. He continued, cry- ing; "But I thought you said Daddy." In F'rieedly Mood. A train 1n which J. I„ Toole, the actor, was travelling arrived at e. little station near Glasgow. Hearinir the porter call out the name, Mother- well, Toole solemnly put his head out -. of the window and, beckoning to the man, said confidentially, "Veiny glad to hear it. And , how's your father?" Machine -Made Watches. Not until 1840 were watohes suc- cessfully manufaetured by machinery. The new Canada Official Postal Guide discloses considerable increases in the parcel post rates, particularly for small packages. The rate for parcels mailed in Ontario within a: twenty -mile radius has been increas- ed from 6 cents to 10 cents per IB, while provincial parcel mail beyond the twenty -mile radius le increased from 10 to 20 cents. Because Dr. Donald B. MacMillan-, declares that the most necessary thing on a polar trip Is to keep his men in good humor, ninety men and women of prominence have written a "Log of Laughter" for him, in which' each one tells one story to be told to the exploring party each day of their voyage, After the mall have lived together for several weeks they get tired of each other and talked out, and the absolute solitude of the frozen Arctic begins to tell on their nerves, so Dr. MacMillan's friends came to his rescue, says the New York World. Among them are the Governors of Maine and Massachu- setts, the Mayors of Boston and New York, stage and screen stars and oth- er celebrities, The Log consists of ninety sheets of paper, each bearing a funny story, and thereis a frontis- piece which reads: A LOG OF LAUGHTER, One Laugh a Bay. Presented to Lieut. Commander Donald B. Mac Milian with the love and well wishes of his friends on its Seventh Expedition to the Arctic. Mike Hennessey was catholic 111 h1' contribution, giving several laughs lo different dialects. One 111s about a little Jewish boy in school. The teacher asked all the children who wanted to go to heaven to stand up. Every pupil arose except Ikey. "Why, Ikey, don't you want to go to heaven?" asked the astonished teach- er. "No," was the answer. "Papa says that business is going to hell." Wellington Cross wrote: "A man motoring across the country had a great deal of trouble with his car, one blowout after another, When Ile finally got fixed up he broke speed records and was arrested. The judge fined him 315. The man laid down a $20 billand-walkedout. The judge called alter him, 'Come beak, I fined you 310 and you have left $20I' 'Tha's all right,' answered the speeder. 'I an, going away from here a hell of a lot faster than I tante in'." Spike MacCormick wrote a 11011100 - ons monologue which had to 0o with explorers and adventures and told about what 11e had discovered on a winter expedition to Buffalo, The ramble of nonsense ended with: "The scourge of the North (Buffalo) is the wandering rune ]round whose wild howls may be heard throughout the long twitter night," Ernest Thompson Seton wrote about en Irishman who dropped a t he seat - can of green.pairt from t folding, Pat canto by and called np, "Mike, have you had 11 hemorrhage?" Mayor Iivlan sent a delightful Irish story, It seems that Pat WAS a very bad provider and a very hard drinker. His family suffered and were a:leveys in want, The day came when Pat went to sleep for the last time. The 'funeral services were held h1 the cathedral and the priest eulog- ized the departed husband. "A good provider, a kindly husband, a gentle father," the priest want on. Mary did not lutderstand, She trudged her sen and whisperer': "Feist, Tommy, H tPy Thought as Range is beautiful. Cononacal, efficient. lj .t Better baking with less fuel Happy Thought Bursate saes labor and fuel. Happy Thought Quebbrec lfeater. Also with oven. .bums. anyluel, gins great heal. It is not remarkable that more than 300,000 Canadian women praise the Happy Thought for its exceptional ability to heat, cook and bake. The firebox is adequate to the size of the oven and the scientifically constructed flue car- ries a steady, uniform heat to all parts of the oven and cooking sur- face. 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