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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-12-2, Page 6Author of "face _ancOar- Io a floor" is Dead at 82 Years fiugh Antoine el'Arey of New York Spent Latter Years of Life Cor- recting Error in Title -.''Bar. room" Was Inserted by Another After He Had Published the Poem There, died in New York last week a man whe will be known to poster- ity as the author of one poem, -a poem he wrote 40 years ago. The man was Hugh Antoine d'Arcy and the poem was "The Face on the Barroom Floor," The poen* is herewith called "The The Face on the Barroom Floor" because Hew it will always be known. Only one man ever referred to it by the name with which it was christened and that was d'Arcy who had entitled it "The Face Upon the Floor," A few years ago d'Arcy said he would devote the rest of his life—he was so proud of his poem that it was for him the most precious thing he held —to correcting this error of title. "I a2n tormented by this incredibly silly error," he explained. But it was as a barroom ballad that "The Face" gained its fame and was translated into .several other languages. It is the one recitation which rum hounds have had dinned in their ears by other rum hounds sincepuppyhood; more than two rounds of drinks were never required at the outside to inspire someone present to rise amid an impressive silence to re -dramatize it in all its dramatic accents. In saloons, cafes, vaudeville houses and homes, walls have shaken over and over again by the bellowing of it. And as Iong as men drink, there probably will be men to recite it. Surely, everyone remembers it. ""Twos a balmy summer errnine• and a goodly crowd was there. Which well nigh filled Joe's barroom on the corner of the square; And as songs and witty stories came through the open door, A vagabond crept slowly in and posed upon the floor." That was how it started and Hugh d'Arcy himself used to love to re- cite it, almost up to the time when he died in a hospital at the age of 82, from heart disease and chronic bronchitis. D'Arcy wrote: other poems and songs and sketches and a few plays but none ever caught the popular fancy like "The Face." He spent many years as an advance me-, ear big shows, but in the latter part of his life he became a gentleman of leisure, bothered only by the fact that everyone in::ist,•d on culling it "The Face on the Barroom Floor." Of course, too, it used to make: d'Arcy very angry when you told him how the prohibitionists were - - ing his masterpiece ander 'We weer::: name, m . as their battle 0 x Watee they painted vivid p .t.r2e _ .r w•, .., horror of the saloon. "If I thought that cry Tach het done anything to help p2-o"hrr I would jump in the Hudson!" -_ would exclaim. "i have never ben intoxicated, but I believe z maxi M.s a right to drink like a gentleman." b'Arey really wrote the poerla so that barroom crowds would have sympathy for battered bunts and it was inspired by an incident at Joe Schmidt's place at Fourth avenue and 14th street, where an old dere- lict had begged a drink, been order- ed out, and collapsed on the sidewalk. D'Arcy learned that the fellow had orad been, an artist. The fellow in the poem was an artist, too, whose darling Madeline, had been stolen by a friend, driving him to drink. For the price of one more drink you remember: "I'I1 draw right here a picture of the fate that drove me mud, Give me that piece of chalk with which you mark the baseball se02'e, You shall set the lovely Madeline upon the barroom Itoor. Another drink and with the chalk in hand the vagabond began To sketch the face that well might buy the soul of .any man; Then as he placed another lock upon the shapely head, With a fearful shriek he leaped and fell across the picture— dead!" And what mighty emphasis, did d'Aroyr, like, both prohibitionists and rum hounds, always put upon that final monosyllable --"dead." • Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publiahtng House. We will do a job that will do credit to your bUsinees. Took over your stock of OiThie Stationery and if it requires replenishing roll us by telephone 3i. The Post Publishing house Preedo i Pram Pail' Neuvitis Neuralgia Thoaasade of Canadians have found that T,R e s dive qulckset end surest relief from Pain. '1'g,Ces act directly nn the/Poisons that Miteaothopafa. 'rheyoantaiaaodsngoroasor them. drugs, Yonr tsenti at resom. mends Dhgm, Bond 100. for sentient* atiaL Tomptetona, Toronto. $LOQ nhyu,nntis,t SOC. llaa,iacha. Lumbago Pains :r 9 TElwtPLETON's !t +. RYit~UMA rlc CAPste -ES T70 Here and There Lumber industries of British Columbia are sending spruce to Elle- tonandNewFlorida York, fir r to I - and Cuba, new markets created with- in the last few months. Demands from regular fir mnrkete in Great Britain, Asia, Australia and South Africa are reported better than normal, The demand for Canadian flour is increasing rapidly in the Orient. This year, 347,760 barrels of flour were exported from Medicine flat mostly for the East. Great Britain is Canada's best customer for wheat flour, having taken 130,000 barrels of the total of 684,698 barrels ex- ported during the month of August. The Canadian Pacific Rockies are not "shot up" yet. Following a 30 - day hunting trip, Mr, and Mrs. Kol- loek, of Los Angeles, told of deer that walked right up to camp; bears that prowled ail around in numbers; rains and mountain cheep in abund- ance; lakes • dl of tr%ut caught with every throve : f t?: line. Despite 81', gest • ••rode depression and "blue :a" talk, during the week endo . tober 31, 1925, 67 new companies r •e formed with author- ized capital ` $151,658,000, as com- pared with •ompanies with $112,- 614,875 cap:.::I the previors week and with 37 companies with $7,568,- 000 7,568;000 capital, the corresponding week of last year. During the 96 hours from Monday, November 9, to Thursday, Novem- ber 12, the Canadian Pacific Rail- way loaded a car of grain every 56 seconds, the total being 6,150 ears. On Wednesday 1,805 ears were load- ed and on Thursday 1,+;18, while the record for the year and for many years past was reached on Friday, November 13, when 1,994 ears were loaded. Involving the use of 31e million tons of crushed rock, or about 70,- 000 carloads, approximately 1,000 miles along the Canadian Pacific Railway, Eastern Lines, have been ballasted with rock to date. Rock baja is dustless a, d there is a very great - mease inw.. C...`,rt fGr tat. ;a:,. - alta etarteteese. tete zee -male J _e txa xt ere_ Hent staff tir.e Yds ac. e."2. 21 year of age. a -p of empla=•ees. Tit , ...'.4 . ee ;_. cover four ;ears t•:ib, , lure, chemical. atteiew electrical engrneetana• tet '+i,•;, .1wet. versity and are Subject to come-at:- tine ot,, ...tive examination. Taking steps in the United States toward a greater ret•.,gnitio:l of elev.» sportsmanship and the need of wen - servation of fish, game and forest resources, Ozark Ripley, of Tennes- see, editor of Field and Stream, Out- door Life, Outing, aneounced at Montreal recently that catching game fish with worms had been banned in practically all states of the re- public. Worm fishing is considered. destructive as small fish returned to the water are too badly wounded to live. Sugar beet production in Canada is increasing on a phenomenal scale while the value of refined beet sugar has increased about 100 per cent, in 1924. In 1$24, 31,111 acres were planted to sugar beets yielding 295,- 177 tons of beets, from which 85,- 770,709 pounds of sugar was refined With a Value of $6,192,645. In 1923 there was a yield of 159,200 toils of beets from 17,941 acres. The value of. the 39,423,160 'pounds of sugar refined was $3,745,200. A NAytvls is one who feel; prlelleg• ell to bu cher his awn language. Ai.o'rnna waytn keep frotn grow- ing old is to be indifferent ab nit your btakee, Too Much Hockey Ruined Donald's Health It is often said that tears are just 5. stop removed from soy.. Poor Donn id knows that. At. the ago of If he was attending high school playing m, n hockey team going to parties and ,to. fng.a t the things that n red-blood::d youth will do, When jay was at its hotght gloom made Ile appearance in rho shape of consumption. 'there was nc hithe t n to n(levier grt ,nd go / l r thbutusk drop everything or ante o to the Ivtuskolta it{sspttal for a thorough l V Timely Farm Topics CORN COWS FOR THE SETTLER CO FIELD MOISTURE ��____ E'CiQIRSIS IN Folli, Is WHY' OH (1 IO1K8 k'AU, WHEN 8!X'4,'0 is TW1.1iVP \V11133 $ 9L0, slay Post Morteiu /tpllettragces I,aTiip- f of toitiS, Oanse 1) 1, 5Yreittntetlt"- utse Prevention --. Ontario Boar Policy soot• Neots Approval—Mar.I for Soil rt of AcJdlty, (<Ceatrlbuted by Ontario Department of Agriculture, Who Toronto.] rh- t S m n t0 ig Y P . *bat In young chicks the symptoms are of as follows: The chinks sit or stand ane to the same position, appetite dimin- me 1shed, they are drowsy, listless, rut- ing lied and droopy. Iq some eases the Ce. droppings may be Stained with blood. Sys Blydp under two months seldom sur - to rive a severe attack and, if they re - are coyer, are usually stunted, Older m -chickens have Stronger resistance, ut more recover, but still the mortality MAY I313 PItIISPRI'F"+.I nInoN TIII; DRY SEASON'. ('nitivation or Inteetilinge the Thin —How Moisture *evaporates—Ca tivate ls'requentl3' lint Not Deeply' —Parasites All. THE ONTARIO (iOVRRNM41N`!1' 111';LPING NORTHERN 8'338M13 The Northland 1'ru(uces Much —It Is Best bold on *he Heo in Mttk- - Settle2's May Puree Cattle Cheaply--.WIrett ortn Poi f 1 (Contributed ny Ontario Departane Agriculture, Toronto,) g i - (Contributed by Ontarlo 1)eparttrtent o Ag1•leuJturs, 'Tomato.) Cultivating, or intertlflage, is s e neral 1 !e generally practiced with ogrowth y P dvl t corn that we assume, it la necessary fo growth and do not atop to ask th reason. But there are several res sons, the most important of which are to conserve moisture and to de stroy the competing weeds that the corn may have the • best poaslble chance to develop, Intertiilage IlenedcIel. Intertillage also assists the freeing of plant food and an open or loose surface soil will, in case of heavy Fewpeoplei n Old Ontario of a have of tr v 1 n a e dt r u b b la ho the 0 g or part of the v r � h province maize e l there Is a territory lying north New Liskeard and west of Ceche that will in the near future been ne of the attest Important produc agricultural areas of the prole The country adjacent to the railw is now cleared or' being cleared such an extent that the settlors no longer dependent upon their ti ber or pulp wood. for revenue, b rain, take up and hold morenioisture than a hard or uncultivated surface. As fast as moisture evaporates from the surface more water troves up from below. This is as nature in- tended it should be, and was quite the right thing when the soil surface is covered with decaying leaves and growing vegetation. But under our crop growing syatents oP to -day where we reduce the soil to an abso- lutely bare condition, and then plant corn with the object of growing corn and nothing else an the land, we must save the moisture, prevent Its escape from the soil until the corn plant develops a root system Cxtenslvo enough that no moisture may Pass from the soil surface. We knew that. moisture is lost from the tallow field if there Is no cultivation during the warm dry weather, and we know that tillage practiced on the hare fa))ow field will retain the soil in a mellow condition. Row Moisture. Evaporates, If we set a pall of water on the unprotected surface soli it will loose one-half inch of water daily during the dry weather. A similar pan of water set in the eoro livid or wbeal field where it is protected by the growing crop will not lose as much in a week. Fr0n1 the foregoing it wilt be noted that the most import- ant tillage to save the moisture for the corn plant is done previous to the time that the plant hes attained a height of 12 or 1 inches WI:=•n the corn is that high it has developed a root system large enteueh to prevent loss of soli stat tur,.. Tillage done after the corn Is 15 inehe.e bite has its main btne3t in rcmovii.g i1' th-; ..•s with the corn for moisture and nourishment. AII taken by weeds directly roles the earn r•rop. In experiments that were conducted to determine the inttu;'nce of weeds on corn yield it was found that shal- low cultivation nave an increase of 63 bushels of earn per acre over where weeds were allowed to grow, Deep Cultivation Not Necessary. are now engaged In'farming. proper. Many farms, especially in the New Liskeard section, are entirely cleared of bush and the while acreage is either under cultivation or in hay and pasture. Northland Prorieces Much Hay'. With the wonderful produci power of this sew land 'here is exceptionally rapid growth of veg tation and hay Is now being produe In such quantities that it is eel difficulty that a market can be fours for the entire production. So lou is this so that even this year In Juno, stacks of 1324 hay may be seen as one travels along the railway, Set- tlers have not been producing hay alone, but have been getttug into live stook raising as rapidly ns 1rcum- stances and conditions would perms This is evidenced by the tact the between New Lisk and and Cochran there are creameries at the 4ollovein points: New Liskeard, Ramore, Ear ton, Matheson, Val Gagne an Cochrane. Ready l%ioney Scarce i'ith Settlers. PS an cavy. Droopiness, diarrhoea, de Jection, wattles and comb pale, thre weeks of misery, a short period o coma and then death are the mor • noticeable symptoms to older birds The Post Morten* Appearances, In young chicks the cera are filled with a bloody, semi-solid mass, . in older birds the eeea are distended e- and contain a solid mass of a greyish ed color and cheesy consistency, The 18 Intestine may he inflamed and tile liver enlarged, eh Cause. WANTED Highest nllu'ket prices paid. Ste' Me or Phone No. 2x, 13ens- sele,and 1 will east told get your Bides, M. Yollick "JUST GOING TO" Have se you ever ver heard of thefellow OW who was "just going to"? You don't have to go far to find hint. The truth of the matter }s— FIo was just going to insure his automobile—when it was stolen, He was just going to insure his garage—when it burned to the ground. He was just going to take out hold - Alf) insurance—when his paymaster lnet with a persuasive gentleman, He was just going to take out - boiler insurance—when the blame ething blew through the roof. He was just going to sign up for accident insurance—when he broke his leg. He was just going to have his life insured --when he laid down and died! PP11ME MINISTERS OF WEST ARE ALL FOUR FARMERS The farm is the to poli- tical eminence in the Canadian west, if the careers of all lour prvvInefal premiere may be token as examples, Flow John Bracken, o1 Manitoba, lee. an Ontario farm boy, graduate of. the 0, A, C., who went west years ago. Holt, C. A. Dunning of Sask- atchewan, was born on a tenant farm hoar Leicester, England, .came to Canada at 17, and worked as a hired man near Yoi'kton, Sask., until old onought to file on a homestead for himself. He still files the original homestead, with three other quarter sections added, Hon. Herbert Gro field, of Alberta, is'another English, lad who started on the prairies as a. hired man and is still a farmer,while , „ , "Honest John" Oliverof B" O J .raft { sh Columbia, is an active farmer and has farmed all his life. jf The presence'of a protozoan Vara - site in the intestinal tract "I9imerla avium," The disease. is transmitted by means of feed, water and soil. It is especially present where chicks are brooding on the same ground ye t, after year, and where a second or t third lot of chicks are reared on the 1. e same ground the salve year. Chicks The EnutliilGllltl Cast g brooded In moderate numbers on new lilt ►t f 11I1I11t7 U 1- ground for each brood and frequently d changed to Olean soil, or soil covered The fellow who was "just going to" BUTCHER'S CORNER leads a sad life. He probably be- (By D. R.) Heves that what can be done to-moreWhyis 'h ani - row .should not be done to -day. the hog a remarkable however, he should not forget mAl, yesterday is gone, to -day is here, deed, it can be "curet[" after it to -morrow Maynevercome. That's is dead. an important thing when insurance '' is concerned. A wag who thought to have a joke that As was Uta 0510 with settlers 1 Old Ontario so it is In most eases vele settlers in Norther1a Ontario--tli have very little ready cast, as thel earnings have been used in ciearht the laud consequently the Miter! Government is assisting the settler llnanclally in the budding of cream cries and in the purchase of conte Such assistance is being given on business principles only, that is, the money for the building of ereareries and the purchase of cons Is being loaned to the settlers at a moderate rate of interest and midst• certain es:minim,a. Purchase of Cows. wits a good -sod, will rarely be affected with eoceidiosis: Infection maybe brought in by purchase of new n birds, or it may be carried b h cons front infected y pig r yards. 1; Treatment. g For young birds, transfer to clean 0 colony house located on fresh ground, s t'se air -slaked lime on floor of house and also clean litter. Dose with. EP- , 50111 salts at the rate of 000 p0nn4 to 400 pounds of chick_ Briefly speaking, the now policy of the Department of Lands and Forests, through the Northern Development Branch, in co-operation with the De- partment of Agriculture through the Live Stock Branch, is as follows: --- Cattle are to be purchased in thr- ead lots only. Settlers are to appoint a Itepresen- alive to select the animals, and are oauthorize him to set on their e be- all in such selection and in declaim: as to price. Settlers are required to sign an pplicatlon loi'nt to this effect agree - no to give promissory notes and ions against their farms for unpaid glances. Government Will appoint a repre- entative of the Department of Agri- ulture to arc0nlpany settlers' repre- sentative and assist hila In selection f cattle. Government will advance full amount of money to pay for cattle at )me of purchase and to prepay thane - ortolan charges and to pay expenses f settlers' representative. Settlers will be charged ;12 per ow to defray the transportation harges and the east of their own epresentative. This flat rate wilt can a saving of several dollars per There is no real nerasrtte- of cul- t orating deep, unless It is to rover t Large weds. If the work ie done In h ProPer '~e ."� r t1, weede p ,.. t.." we d.. ref !t not get `o a g .r_ and .. "r 'ars of them, en, at t:,- (541119 time a ette curt era's willsot. be injured i flroad 0(1'- 1 a"'le sly '. ;t 11 .. .8 two ireh,..1 S s ..,nditt,ao )cast favorable s tee o fed d •velopment of the cord c p• ee. wap, wept. rd euitieeting usual - y ops ie" a h:' as • Itip herr up deep," o L4't .{a= dun'rr d' T p= tnereaee•: the 'at.-ranti r'ruc s Ial;geld. Frequent Cultivations a Benefit. t 3 y: ' l *r•' titre that the O'1rn .'hadei p a c itiwato frequently. and 0 r 10Cht-s deep; after that, continue •o e:iltivate shallow priori- c pally with the objoet of destroying c weeds —Department of Extension, r 0. A. Cone:ge, Guelph, m • ewe to the settlers, and 35111 give them the advantage of knowing exactly When the; dog flea finds the dog, w it Is happy, so much so that It be- b comes very active and Oeas become Parastie': All, hat these costs will amount to. The total cost to the settler will e the amount paid for the stock per - hazed for him plus $12 per head for those other charges, Upon delivery the settlers will be required to pay at least 25 per cent. of this total cost and as much more as he is able, i Interest at 5 per cent. will be charged on uepaid bnlancee and re- ' payments ate tequlred at the rate of $3 per cow per month, and the settler shall give a promissory note to thin , effect and a lien against lits farm. Repayments may he made to the creamery or to such other local office as tray be designtated In the cont- munity.--l.. E. O'Neill, Live Stock Branch, Ontario Department 0t gr•)cu)ture. numerous. The flea found its hoot. And so it le with plants, they all have their bacteria. Generations of llvJne together have developed kinds and types, with their likes and dislikes. Each particular plant has its asso- ciated bacteria which become active r' .t they come in contact with the root. We have long known the close aesocletlon between the roots of the clover plant and certain bacteria, to the general advantage of both. This discovery was made, largely through the hacterta carrying on the work in a way that lett large visible nodules on the clover root. It hag long been suspected that plants belonging to saoctat d i them bacteria that carried on a work similar to the clover or legume bac- teria. And it. ban now been demon- strated that. the corn plant has associated with it bacteria that do for the corn roots what the legume bacteria do tor the legume. It has been a mystery to many agrieultUrlsts how the corn belt land could go on growing corn year after year and still 'lave an adequate supply of availablo nitrogen for the next crop. The secret ie now out, the corn plant Ilan its parasite, a nitrogen gathering bateeria that nitlltIplles In the pree- enee of the corn root, just as the flea 10111 thrive only when it finds a stilt. able host. It 15 to be hoped that nitrogen gatherers will be fount( for all agricultural plants. --Depart Inc 11 of Extr'ntinn 0.A College Guelph. Wmsns Among Reepherries, If you see any evidence of the or, rival of worms among your rasp- berri,e use a pound of dry load arsenate; 10 a b01001 of water and rover the 'zipper prier and irnvt'r surfaces f lite leaves. That is, neo lead e.r- anate up to the time the fruit Bette other' orders had a e w t A test and altllfnr, constant treatment, f s Atter the fruit sets use white bolls• :Donald haps now forgotten hid resent* mens at fate !n his happleicee over the ttowlt that lits is soon to be sent b are.. borne -•-heft ri Centributions may he tient to holt. 1i 1 Cut -Worm l'01s011. in four days. Reduce the grain :titian and feed buttermilk. Bran should be substituted for grain. The use of a disinfectant lu the drinking water is recominended, as one ounce of copper sulphate to five gallons of watef, Prevention. Houses should be thoroughly soak- ed with fi'l'e per cant, compound solu- tion of cresol. Yards should be dressed with Iime and ploughed, used for crop every second year. The use of healthy th • bre 1 ed n � g stock, keeping moderate numbers, clean yards and houses, and eternal vigilance against outside stock and birds bringing the organism g sot fads good insurance against coccidiosis, Ontario Boar Polley Meets Approval. Evidence of the ever-increasing interest being taken by hog proctheors in the type of breeding stock being used Is manifest in the tormation of Bacon Flog Clubs under the policy of the Ontario Department of Agricul- ture. AIready one hundred and ninety Such clubs have been supplied with boars, an increase of almost one hun- dred within the past year. A number of other clubs have been formed and posstheseible, aro Leine supplied with the best animate available as quickly as Coincident with this increased in- terest In the type of boar being used is a culling as It were of the sows kept, In many sections producers are rnpiau ng undesirable type sows with young sows, from litters that are well bredand which are grading a high , Percentage of selects. In some sec- tions peaking hooses and drovers are I co-operating in this exchange of sows and splendid results aro being ob- tained. Now 1s the thio for the hog Producer who has not a good sow to select iron, good young breodfitg stock that may be In the district, Good flacon type sows with plenty of ruggedness and quality mated with high elites baso, boars assures the producers of a fair 01011Ce to Make the progeny of desirable market type. --I. 13, Martin, Live Stock Ili•asich, Ontario Department ot Agriculture. Marl , tor Senn Acidity, ts Mari uderdotuncommon the rfameinaoOatarlo, While dhcuesing sollprob- lama with many vlaftore to the 0. A, College exhibit at the County Pairs many farmers mentioned that they knew of deposits of marl in their own (»elects that were lying unused. Many do dot realize that marl is quite equal to the hest grades ot crushed limestone or hydrated Dine as it cor- rective for soil acidity. The use of marl front a local deposit 1t nob is Brats, 26 lbs. Petrie Green or White A11011 IV, 11b. j Molasses, lie gal, i Water, 2 gals, Iilx the bran and polson together d1•y in a large vessel, Add the oto - lasses to teeter. Stir welland then q Overt e polson bran and mix until every part.itl lnolst sod w111 fall through the lingers, Apply half a.toaspoonfui near ennh plant at dusk and see that ehlekens knee away --Dept, 01 Extension, 0. A, Col- lege, Guelph. M Sweet Clover Hey, A reet•nt press bulletin from the Federal Department or Agriculture states that where any outer suitable trip rail be grown f1 Is beet not to tree sweet clover for hay. As it 1e a h011ow stefttmltl, course growing niant, it is rather 1,ard to cure sweet Mover properly. It Intuit he cut at the rieht moment, which le unnally durinit the 1'514 p T11111 of early Pain- er. Aa e. 1111151" orpaspasturecrop, ' Pain - mer., however s woe* ( liver le x100 et n111' m00t valuahlt, 115 1121, while Itw }e1umee exceed It 04 a Sbilbulld.^r; V, A. Charlton, President, Mt Telt• r i. ego Street, Toronto 2, Ontario.. *available, will save the purchase erica and the t ensportatIon rnete on other forme of lime. October and Novem- ber are usually good months in which to excavate and team marl to the fields where soli acids prevent the luxuriant erowth of clovers. Ail Male calve/4 I)o Not Make Good ]lulls, No breeder should expect eVey calf dropped to develop Into an an!. alai suitable for the breeding herd, bet Gro ninny tweet nil selling *'very male esti for a )lull. Tile breeder Who will 11)111nalely produce the best rattle, entnluand the hIghee1price;*, and eaglet), rilstoteers w 111 keep only high -erode belie. ''` t'allivallr•t »0l only kitle the Worrtla but It - inter st:Pe the 9113+515511 condition ot the sail. of the Government It Took Over Eight Hundred Millions~ ' To Run Canada Last Year For high cost Government, Can- ada undoubtedly excels the world, Either Canadians are prodigally proud of their Governments or the task of governing them is a tre- mendous one. Last year they paid for:— Federal or:Federal Government, •$424 6411,217 Provincial Gov't , . , 180,887,303 Municipal Gov't .... 247,255,3.15 To govern this courtly, the aver- age family of five persons contributes $445 n year. At that price Canada ought to be enjoying superfine Gov- ernment. All the wheat crop of Canada last year, at $2,00 per bushel, would not have covered the expenses of Gov- ernment, All the salaries and wages 01' all the employees of all the manu- f ,furtrgindustries of Canada would only pity a little over half of the cost of governing the country.. The money spent on Government would give 800,000 persons an av- erage wage in the manufacturing in- dustries of Canada just under 31,. 000 a yew. And all the farm owners and farm tenants of Canada do not number 800,000. All the persons engaged in the manufacturing, mining, forest and fishing industries, and on the n steam and electric railways, only a number a little over 800,000, 1 Government is a leading business. 1 Its operations have ,been expanding e 'while most other businesses have 31 at the expense of an Trish provision dealer said, "Can you supply nee with a yard of pork?" "Pat" said the dealer to his assist- ant, "give this gentleman three pig's I feet." • " can strongly recommend this ham," said the shopkeeper. "You'll find et mild and well cured." "I dare say you know best," said the young wife, "but I think 3'd al- most rather have a perfectly healthy one that hadn't needed eui ing," A man who went to hie grocer's to order something for dinner was asked if he would like to have n saddle of mutton. "Why." said he; "wouldn't it he better to have a bridle? Then I'd stand a better chance of getting a bit 'in my mouth." 1• ei "What's the price of sausage?"" "Dwenty cents a bound." "You asked twenty-five this morn- ing," - "Yah, dat vas s v . en T had some. Now I ain't got none I sells him for dwenty cents, Dot makes me a re- butrtion for selling chtab, und 1 don't lo',- noddings " •..3 In a sulall English village there were two butchers living in the stupe street. One placarded his sausage at 1 shilling per pound, and the rival promptly placed 8 pence on his card. No. 1 then placed a notice in his window, saying that sausages under 1 shilling could not be guaranteed. No, 2's response to this was the an- ouneament, "I have 503311ed sates- ges to the king." In the opposite window, the follow- ing morning appeared an extra large ard bearing the words, "God Save le King." been marking time. At its recent rate of expansion it should soon Ar..ts, nnly rr tlt0sn wh0ntt "6')"1 to Swallow the country. krr11 nnmfnrtahle in a cold eeeeicin can afford to dodge it. Customers, r Cash Registers and Profits It takes a steady flow of customers to your store to keep the cash register tingling with profit-making regularity. Advertising in THE BRUSSELS POST would help to keep old customers interested in your store and bring new ones, It spreads the news about your store and its merchandise far and wide to the women of this community. Adver- tising is the Most efficient, economical business building force at your command. Why not investigate the possibilities ? PHO GE l�ssu lE MERCHANTS !ST s ADVERTISE Issued b (lanaelian Weekly Newspapers Association