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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-7-27, Page 3ING DeSRT&»o E ` ) Bird's Eye 14'iew of the Bassano Dam. (2) The Dam Under Construction. ' O en. (h) Distributing the:3The Sluice GateeWater. ®UT on the prairies of Western Canada and among the moun- tain valleys of British Colum- bia, deserts are being turned into gardens by the application of life- giving waters. Every desert Is a potential garden If this one chief necessity is met, though it Is not fair to use the word desert or even an arid region, for Al- berta is neither arid or desert. But nature may often be assisted in her great task of production, and this is what the irrigation systems of the Canadian West are doing. In Alberta the Canadian Pacific Railway is developing the largest in- dividual irrigation project on the Am- erican continent, with an area larger than the total irrigated area In either 'Colorado or California. Portions of a tract of three million acres will be included in this prosperous 'and fertile so-called "dry belt" region. ,The western section is already com- pleted, including sixteen hundred !miles of canals and ditches. The 'eastern section Is in process of de- jvelopment where twenty-five,bundred ,miles of canals and ditches will be required for the service. On April 25, 1914, the great irriga- tion dam at Bassani), Alberta, was opened. Built across the Bow River, eighty miles east of Calgary, the huge structure, 7,000 feet long, will con- serve the water of the Bow for the eastern section. Another great engin- eering work, which will serve the same tract, Is a giant aqueduct at Brooks, thirty miles east, two miles In length. which carries the waters of a branch canal over a wide valley. One has only to visit this great undertaking of the Canadian Pacific Railway to realize not. only Its mag- nitude but the results it will, indeed Is, producing. Here Is one of the smaller radiating ditches, filled with rippling water. On either bank na- ture has responded with a luxuriant growth, and a garden of productivity is the result She wheat fields ex- tend in another direction, showing a tine head of grain after imbibing the thirst -quenching waters, for nature thirsts as do humans, All kinds of growths prosper—fruits, cereals and garden truck, while dairying and live stock growing flourish wherever there is an irrigation canal. The country is filling up with what are called dry farmers for the waters ensure a prac- tical certainty of crop. A six-year yield of Marquis wheat on irrigated land ran forty-four bushels . to the acre, compared with only 29 on non -irriga- ble lands. Here the C.P.R. provide their Ready -Made Homes, where the settler is assisted generously in es., tablishing a foothold. Through southern Britisb Comm, bia the offset of irrigation systems iq shown in the flourishing orchards of, the Okanagan, Arrow and Kootenay' Lakes country, along the Cariboo road! and in many another section. Thuss,1 this most ancient of natural aids ash it is the most modern, dating from the Garden of Eden and continuing to the Alberta irrigation system is one that has contributed to the world's produc- tivity and to Canada's wealth. STEEL MONEY FOR BULGARS. Germany Also Supplies Iron and Lead Coinage. Gradually the monetary systems of the Central Powers are being radicolly changed, but their specie and paper now coming into circulation will be valueless, except among themselves, unless the conclusion of the war should be in their favor. There is no gold in circulation, and silver is beginning to disappear com- pletely in some countries, notably in Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey. Thus, to replace specie, iron, steel and lead are beim introduced instead of Copper. and silver. The Bulgarian Govern- ment has ordered $2,000,000 worth of 2 cent and 1 cent coins in steel and lead. Moreover, about $3,000,000 are to be shortly issued in small bank notes in the respective value of 20 cents and 40 cents each. These small bank notes are being printed in Ger- many. A first series of bank notes of the face value of 96 cents, $1.92 and $3.84 apiece, and amounting altogether to $5,000,000 nominally, are awaited by the Bulgarian Treasury from Ger- many almost immediately, as a first instalment. Further daily deliveries are to be sent to Sofia, representing sirs wie ati sgi^i,dt r-uaaaya 'WEAR EA Lair w' OEs Cheaper filen Leather- and ���~`'�•++a o ester fft16111beP SOLD BY ALL GOOD SilOE DEALERS • Worn by Every Member of •� • :zga sc� • $4,000,000 each time in these new notes, until the total order for $100,- 000,000 in bank. notes has been sup- plied. All this new Bulgarian money is made in Germany. This is to certify that fourteen years ago I got the cords of 'my left wrist nearly severed, and was for about nine months that I had no use of my hand, and tried other Lini- ments, also doctors, and was receiv- ing no benefit. By a persuasion from a friend I got MINARD'S LINIMENT and used one bottle which completely cured me, and have been using MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT in my family aver since and find it the same as when 'first used it, and would never be without it. ISAAC E. MANN, Aug. 31st, 1908. Metapeclia, P. Q. Willie—"I mot the new boy who lives next door on my way to school this morning, and it 'made me late." Mother—"I'm may for that, Willie." Willie—"It's all right. The new boy wasn't able to get there at all!" Ask for Miaard's and take no other His Last Words. The following passage took place between counsel and witness in a dis- puted will case: "Did your father give you no part.. ing admonition?i' "He never gave much away at any time." "I inean; what were his last words?" "'they don't concern you." "They not only concern me, sir," remarked the barrister, severely, 'hut they con0ern the whole court.' "0, all right," was the reply. "Father said: 'Don't have no trouble when I'm gone, Jim, 'cos lawyers i s the biggest thieves unhung," 2,000,00(1 Stamps Cover Walls. Within easy walking distance of the old cathedral town of Chichester, Eng -- land, is the Rising Sun, in North Ber- ated, a house of interest to all who collect stamps. This smallinn con- tains a room every inch of which is covered with postage stamps, Ceil- ing, walls, deers, chairs, tables, pis- ture frames, every part of the room, except the floor, is thickly covered while from the ceiling hang long fes- toons and ropes, made of bundles of stamps for which there is no other place. Fully 2,000,000 stmps are pasted up, aand 1,000,000 mora hang in the festoons. LSiaard's Liniment Lnmberman's Friend Human Sacrifice in India. A despatch to London from Calcutta says that a case of human sacrifice is reported from a Hindu temple at Jaffna. It appears that certain Hin- dus of Vannarponnai were strongly tempted by a dream regarding treas- ure trove. Believing that by the sac- rifice of an innocent youth to the god- dess they could obtain the desired money, they led a youth of 20 at dead of night to the temple of the goddess where he was drugged and his throat was cut. Holding it Up. "I don't think that women have al- ways been vain; you know that wo- men were made before mirrors," ",Yes, 'and they have been before them ever since." Plain "Wages." "Does your employer give you any kind of a stipend for your week's wont?" "Not much, he don't. He pays me reg'lar wages." worked his way up through all de- partments. The departments, of which these men know least, in their business, is the bar, It is not only the big hotels that have been marvelously suceessful when managed by men of capacity, who learnt the business from the ground up, and who have developed executive ability, but some of the small hotels have been remarkably profitable. We know of one Kobel, in a town of only 17,000, managed by a man who began, when a boy, cutting meat in the kitchen of a big city hotel. As a result of good food and clean, perfectly appointed rooms and effi- cient management, the profits of this house have steadily crept up, until,fin 1015, they reached $00,000. To -day the building is being nearly doubled in size to meet the demand of good service. So little does this manager think of his bar that in his new build- ing, he is putting it in the basement, as he is satisfied that, in a very short time, liquor selling- will be eliminated. chase one another and play what look - Investors in hotel properties should ed like games of tag. When they were tired they would sib, down in the shade or stand as close together as possible with their noses resting on one another's backs. They were as good friends as if they had been real children instead of just a colt and two calves. When they grew old enough to eat grass they had become so fond of one another that they refused to be sepa- rated, and nibbled the grass side by side all day long. No season of the year is so danger- As Dan was a colt, ho knew more ous to the life of little ones as is the than the calves, and took care of them summer. The excessive heat throws and seemed to feel the responsible for the little stomach out of order so their safety. In the course of time quickly that unless prompt aid is at Blackie and White Face were turned hand the baby may be beyond all out with the other calves of their own human help before the mother realizes age, and Dan was not happy. He he is ill. Summer is the season when watched for a chance to get back diarrhoea, cholera infantum, dysen- with his old friends. One day he try and colic are most prevalent. Any found the bars dawn, and ran out of one of these troubles may prove dead- the corral toward the cattle, range as ly if not promptly treated. During fast as his feur legs could carry hint. the summer the mothers best friend He soon found Blackie and rubbed his is Baby's Own Tablets. They'regu- nose over her cheeks, and then hunted ]ate the bowels, sweeten the stomach out White Face and greeted ber in the and keep baby healthy. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. YOUNG FOLKS Dan and His Friends. Dan never knew any mother except the big bottle that the lltble, girl at the ranch house held fer him wbenever he was hungry. That was beeaube Dan was apony colt whose real moth- er was needed for work in the fields, And he knew no brothers or sisters, except two calves that were also motherless. The colt and the calves fed togeth- er ogether from the battle at first, and when they got old enough to feed them- selves they drank their milk from the same pail. Dan and the calves, Blackie ane} White Face used to run over the fields together in the summer atm and deal with them as a manufacturing and retailing proposition, Manage or have them managed, by experienced business men. Give a quality service, advertise it, and build a reputation just as a manufacturer does for his name or trade mark. The traveling and local public will flock to them. SUMMER HEAT HARD ON BABY "BLENDED SAUSAGE." same way. Then be began to feed on the grass. The sante thing hap perbed two or three times before the little girl who had fed him heard of it. Then she said to her father: "I think he is homesick for White Face and Blackie Please lab him He Was Teo Busy. 1 "Mamma,'" asked three-yeareeld 1 Freddie, "are we going to heaven' some day?" "Yee dear, 1 hope so, "•, was the reply, "i wish papa could go"continuer) the little fellow, "Weil, " and don't you think he will?" asks ed the another. "Ob, no!" replied Freddie; "he could not leave his bus!.' nom" Uralnulaied Eyelids: Eyes inflamed by cape - to Sun/ Oust and Wind r quickly relieved byeltalne ta<d9y Eye Remedy. No Smarting, • just Eye Comfort. At ' Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye SslveinTubes 20c. Forllopk oftheleyerreessk Druggists ormurioeEyeaemedyee.,ChicsIa Up Against it Now. "Jiggs has just had an increase hi salary." "That so? I'm sorry." "Sorry. I should think you'd be ashamed to say that. You ought to' rejoice inyour neighbor's successr" "I do, but Jiggs lives next door to me, and it was all I could do to keep up with him on his former income. Beep ild'inard's Liniment In the house Getting into Society. "Guess I'll have to rig up a mid- dle name," declared Fludbub. "I never had one, but I gotta have one now." "Why so?" "My wife demands one to print on her visiting cards.' i_inard's Liniment used by Physicians. Worry gives the undertaker more business than work does. SEED POTATOES EED POTATOES, IliIBH 0011- 1) biers, Delaware, Carman. Order at once, Supply limited. Write for quo- tations, R. W. Dawson, Brampton. stay with them!" RFLP WANTED "Succulent Source f Huns' Joy" D • pace 0 ins oy ss- „ , �g�'j ANTED—b1ACHINISTS, MOULD- appcars. All right," he replied. We'll try r Y ERS and Pattern Makers, steady it." work, state age, experience and wages. The German's faith in the idol of So Dan was allowed to stay with the . Benieea, Lind aye s` Engineering Co., his soul, the pivot of his beinig, the calves. As they grew up together symbol of allhe holds dear—in short, he came little by little to like all of ��ANTED—HELP arWeavers.WFnlie s the sausage—has been rudely and the cows newly as museb as he liked and NaNfp er Tenders. Goon wages pale ruthlessly shattered. The Munich in au departments, =sale work as his two special friends. When it sures. We have several openings for - Post says: was time to drink he led them all to inexperienced hellgp, where enel•g�•� and "To -day more than ever before he the pond, area if they did not go fast paj t owillgppientices t while IearninR Who eats sausage must be gifted with enough to suit him he would trot weaving. special inducements to an unquestioning trust. Heaven only � Family workers, write stating full knows what it is that is being sold the to the rear and nip the flanks experlence if any, age, etc to The 01 the stragglers, to hurry them. Slingsby Mfg.. Ce., Ltd , Brantford, Ont under that name at present. The sub- But those who watched him careful - stance which is passing for sausage ly could see that he never nipped at the officially fixed maximum price ROFIT-MAKING NEWS AND JOB in no way corresponds to the moneyWhite Face or Blackie. He liked Offices for sale in good Ontario that is spent on it. The intention of a little better than he liked the of all busiinesses. t Full il nformationtion the city authorities was to produce other calves, and he still liked the lit- application to Wilson Publishing Com - cheap sausage. Their goodwill was tle girl who fed him when he was lit- pang, 73 West Adelaide Street, Toronto. most praiseworthy, but unfortunately t,le. Whenever he heard her calling, their efforts met with no success. `Come, Donnie, Dalinle, Dapple, come {{yy ,1NCER, TUMORS, LUMPS, 111C.. Large quantities Of "blended saus- to me!" he would trot up to her and '- internal and external, cured with - age" were placed on the market. put his soft nose into her hand and setbe once too ate o Dr flea in o,e McMdtea1 Why "blended sausage"? Simply be- let her pet him. I Co.. Limited, telling cod. Ant. NEWSPAPERS POR slam A ISOELLANEOUS cause profits, of the very expensive blood grows big enough she is going to and fat hardly a trace enters into have him to ride.—Youth's Companion its composition. The latest mater - GENERAL SMUTS. Was an Honorable Foe, and Now a that variety yields the biggest The little girl says that when she sats to be employed in sausage manu- A PROFITABLE BUSINESS �facture are beetroot and parsnips, the succulent source of our joy, has disappeared. What else takes its Big Profits; in Hotel Investments place it were better not to enquire Without a Bar. 1 too closely. Suffice it to say that Hotel investments in most parts of the sale of "-blended sausage" yields the butchers a magnificent return Canada, and particularly in Ontario, have depreciated very much in value owing to the spread of prohibition, and many owners are in despair. But there is no need for this. On the other hand a new and much better era should now open. Hotel -keeping nothing but infamy. has proved to be, and may, in Canada, while the sausage -making art, as it is carried out at present, ahnply de- frauds the consumer of his hard- earned money. Many a man who seeks fame finds be made, one of the most profitable and reputable of businesses. Ib is the most promising field for business de- i velopment, we know of to -day for am- bitious capable young 'nen. The trouble is that our hotels have been conducted on the wrong lines. I The bar has been regarded as the chief object. Most hotel -keepers have not been business Hien but liquor hand- lers. Lodgings and food have been merely an incident. Some of them e:t- pected to lost money on their tables. The wastefulness was appalling yet the supplying of good food and good accommodation is one of the most pro, fltable businesses, in the world to -day. In Canada it has been more or less of a disgrade to be associated with, or even seen in, an hotel. In Europe and the United States some of the richest and most prominent families socially are investing and naming hotels after themselves and the hotel is becoming a social centre. Tho mosb successful hotel -keepers are men who began in the 'kitchen and dining -room; who learnt the business from that end. The Ritz Hotel in Paris is probably the finest in the world to -day. Mr. Ritz, when the writer first knew him, had just been promoted bo assist lin the management of the Savoy Hotel, Londen. The pre- sent general manager of the Ritz, Mr. Ellis, was lits head waiter. Like so many successful caterers they are both of Swiss birth, George C. Boldt, of the V1aldorf-Astoria, and other big hotels in the Statics, is the largest hotel owner in the world, with a net income of well over a million; per- haps a couple of millions, a year. Fie 'workecl, his way up from the kitchen. bred 'terry, manager of Tho Plazas And other big American hotels, also Adds a Healthful Zest to any Meal Most everyone likes a hot table drink, but it must have a snappy taste and at the same time be healthful. Probably no beverage an- swers every requirement so completely as does POST U This famous pure food - drink, made of roasted wheat and a bit of whole- some molasses, affords a rich, delicious flavour, yet contains no harmful ele- ment. The original Postum Cer- eal mast be boqiled ; ill• staid Poietum 3h made in the cup " quick as wink," by adding hat water, t r 'n stirring. , and Both forms of Postum have a delightful aroma and flavour; are healthful and good for children and grown-ups. "There's a Reason" Sold by t."sroeers everywhere. Canadian Postlim Cereal Co., Ltd-, windeor, oat. Staunch Loyalist. When you met General Smuts for , the first time nothing impressed you more than his remarkably piercing 1 eyes. They are penetrating points of steel. Gen. Smuts is fair, as fair as a Vi -1 king. He has a thin, pointed, golden ' beard, the forehead is high, the nose is somewhat large, but the whole ea-' pression of the face is open and pleasing. Yet the eyes dart fire. No man has entered the field to "do his bit" for King and country with more enthusiasm than this one- time enemy of ours. His gratitude to Great Britain is deep and strong. He does not care to be thanked for his loyalty. "What else could we do than what we have done?" he asked. "Only one course was possible after England's treatment of us when we were con- quered." Gen. Shuts mental powers are phenomenal. He is only 46, but he has been "doing things" for years. From his frther's farm at the Cape he went to Cape University, At Cam- bridge, later, he took a double first in the law tripes. In the Transvaal President Kruger made him State Attorney when he was but 28 years old, When the Boer war broke out Jou- bert made biro a commandant as soon as he stepped into the field. Hist quick brain saw that raiding tactics were likely to cause the British the most trouble. His mobile column - darted hither and thither, and his lightning -like g itnin g -like movements were as aig- gravating as they were mystifying, r He was soon made a general. He Was not 80 then. Through it all he was an honorable foe. When the Peace Treaty was signed he became a staunch loyalist. When the ,grant of self-government was made to the conquered States be stepped into the front rank of South African politicians. Side by side with his intimate friend and colleague Louis Botha, he worked for the good of his country. Seventh Ammar ®� Toronto Fat Stook Show will be held at Vales 'Stook I ardo, Toronto DECEMBER 8th and 9th, 1916 For further particulars write 0, F, TOPPING, Secretary, Union Stock Yards, Toronto 'Coo many men pray for things they ISSUE, 80 '. For Freezing ice Cream you get best results with CRUSHED ROCK SALT A more even freeze. Smoother Ice ()ream. Takes one-third Less salt and. keeps Cream hard twice as long, Write TORONTO SALT WORKS, 60-62 Sarvis St, Toronto, Ont. m Torepresent well known Fertilizer Manufactuuer. At- tractive proposition to energetle and responsible parts., , Apply with fall particulars to FERTILIZER, o/o Wilson Publishing 0o., Ltd, 70 Adelaide St, West, Toronto or Solo Wheelock Engine, 150 11,P., 18x42, with double main driving belt 24 ins. wicte, and Dynamo 301 ,W. - b W it driven. All infirst class condition, Would be sold together or separate- ly eptrate-ly ; also a lot of shafting at a very great bargain as room is required irnmedi. ately, 8. Frank Wilson 81 Sons 78 Adelaide Street West, Tor entt5. aro too lazy to work for. liD. 2