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A ht of hand , pe former, jgaho
h i div i • exhibitions 'both Eng-
land and Canada, teIls,a good'' Story
on himself, which London M,"A0'P'
cpea..s. I ihe, nnmy who deal in the
black ass is to occasionally makes
use of a confederate, Whose pari; in
tra feria ranee-Yr5 not hzioivn to thp
andieoce,
Once in Nashville, :1 cnneses, he.
engaged a youth whom he found
hanging about the' theatre:.
' I r 0t tb see the shod,' asked the
conjurel'. :
Yes'su '
"Well fl las
T i S you. in if you will
do a - little thing ' 1
e to"he p me. Take
this marked dollar, put it in your left
trouserp°clod when I ms f
` trona the Stage,conre upon the plat -
c fermi and hand 'it to mer
The -delighted ,,youth ` ,promised,fo
carry oiit his part, and was presently
installed in a seat near- the front.
It, was late in theT evening when,
the magician.' canto 't'i'the tnielc in
p'hieh the youth was to'bo ooadjust-
or. He saw thaat the boy' was in his
place,and proceeded to mystify the
people with a sillier dollar. He palm-
ed it, swallowed it, passed it through
tables and bottles, fired = it rfroeet s
pistol into an orange,. and performed
other, ntare-ellous< feats ' of 1eg'etde-
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Finally he casae to -the grand clim-
ax. Ile threw the eoin'into-.the air:
It vanished°
"There,'' he cried, "a, boy iia the au-
dience has it in hiL pocket! Come on
the stage, yonl"
Ile, pointed to 'the boy, who came
awkwardly upon the platform.
"Now,"said the triumphant con-
jurer, "give ate that dollar out of
your left trouser pocket."
In great distress the boy pulled- a
handful of small change hnd° blurted,
"I've only gat eighty cents left, I
have. been out and had some oranges
and ice'•cream°" °
- TEN TO ONE
The average- worker n industry'. in
Ontario has an ordinary chance of
working for ten years with one acci-
dent that is sufficiently serious to
warrant it being reported to the
Workmen's Compensation .: Board. In
normal tiines there are nearly 450,000
employees' under compensation in this
Pro'Vinee and in the past eleven years
there have been 502,014 accidents.re,
ported to the. Board, indicating- an
average slightly in excess of -one re-
port forevery ten workers per an-/'
num. In the same eleven years there
were 4,328 fatalities under compen-
sation which represents anaverage of
mole than one death per day in that
period.One very encouraging fen -
lure of the reports of the Workmen's
Compensation Board covering''the'
year'1.925 is that the death cases in
that year showed a decrease of fifty
seven from 1924, there having been
402 death cases in 1924 and 345 in
1925,
A Anther decrease in serious acci-
dents, including death, cases, ,is some-
thing for which every employer and
employee in industry in. Ontario can
conscientiously work with mutual sat-
isfaetio and benefit.
BRUSSELS: .Death came *with
startling suddeness Saturday morn-
ing to Miss 'Blanche Whitfield, only
daughter of Mrs. and the late Joseph
Whitfield, of this town.,,.. Just a few
minutes after she hnd_tolct her mother
she was about to get up to Light the
fire, the 'atterheard her breathing
heavily and called to her. Receiving -
no answer, Mrs. Whitfield went to
her daughters room, and found she
had been stricken with -an. attack of
heart trouble. Miss Whitfield died in
about 15 minutes. The- deceased was
3'b` years of age and • is survived by
her another and one brother, Orville,
at home. The funeral war,, head on
Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. A. W,
Barker, of the ;United church offic-
iating. Interment in 'Brussels Cem-
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The Late Peter McArthur Sets Down Some of. liis;Reason
Devotion to the Farm.
That 1>inciiy ' philosopher, -eliq 1a
1 ate*' McArthur, whose_ writings i
various publications were.faimilaar
many, in Ontario speeially, ere be la
down his ben; a Year int a half ag
wrote onnrany "subjectsisa he wad
man capable of discussing" man
a_ibjeets, but'* or so are'y e"ars'beior6 h
died he wrote principally "on the hot
el thugs about his -' 'i
t farm, v t and hi
quaint humour and sir *plc, hornel
wisdom endeared hint to his readers i
a very peculiar way:- The followin
chapter from. the book,,pitblishedlsit
Itis death "Around Home," on -"Why
(.stick to the Farm,' •seems to' us to
contain such genis of trruth, gents s
hidden amonb••everyc3oy ,things tha
hot to be over looked, in th
everyday grind, that'rwe are
dicing it in the' hope that many pc
p1e wlao
might; otherwise miss it ma
share in the ,beauty': of its teaching,
It is well to remember' that t
Writer of tltis'aosfedsionrhad for tw-en
ty•,years o • more lived in great chic
and had made <se success of his proles
sial* and night have :remained :in th
great centres of population, enjoy:1
'what -would have' seemed to'most sef
us a; position to be envied. But lie,
left it all and came !back td the. old.
farin on which _ he• was born, there
to rear his, family, amid the fresh
surr'bgindmgs of natture, linstead of in.
cities of brick -and mortar, :He did
not leave his family a vast fortune
but a child) in ori .humble estintate
iota, is a "great ,deal' richer ' in the
things worth while in having a father
who -left behind him a book .like
"Alioued"Rosie,, than in havinghad
a father• Who .left him.a million, ,zlo1-
Tars,:and .nothing much else, (News -
Record Ed.) : t , •
"Why do' I stick to: the farm ?
Yeti. might 'as well •ask. the.�Wood-
chuck why: he sticks to his hole. This'
comparison has • more foundation in
feet than you ,perhaps imagine, fo
whenever I come home. from a little
visit to the outerworld'I always turn
into the lane with a joyous chuckle
that is much like the chuckle that the
woodchuck chucI when he dives
into his tunnel. The farm is a place
of peace, a -place of refuge, a horse.
This is a point, .on svhieh the wood-
chuck -and T, are entirely agreed.
The'farm means all these things to
me because I eves boon-on'it and have
learned to realize something of its
possibilities. All. nay memories of
childhood and boyhood rue -bound up
with it. To be born ou a farm is the
greatest good that can befall a hum-
an .being. To live on a farm and en-
joy all it has to offer is the greatest
good that -can be attained by a poet
or philosopher, •
To 'make it -clear why I harbour
there convictions it is necessarV'to
sweep away some mistaken notions
about farming. To 'do- :this perhaps
I cannot do better than. explain just
how this particular farm came to be
herrn from the wilderness.. The work
of clearing the land and bringing it
under- cultivation was done by men
and women who had only one purpose
n life to establish a home there
that thiey and their children might be
free. They made their home self-
sustaining=windingtheir food, cloth-
ing and shelter from-tlie-land and its
products by the labor of their Own
hands. The hone was their ideal. All
the farm work was undertaken to
provide for its needs and when the
home was supplied they rested. Their
ambition was satisfied.
(Brought tip in this home I missed
learning too young the lessons that
destroy so many homes. To begin with
had only the vaguest ideas of per
sonar ownership. Thehonie;belon'ged
o -all of us anti our work went to, keep
t sip and pay expenses. It is true
hat dontact :with the world -finally.
heated the children to ideas of- per•-
°nal property and roused,ont ambit,:
ons. Driven by trliese.generally ea -
opted ideas we went our way; but
omelow the farm that had been star-
ed right 'stayed in the baelcs'of our
r Inds: ars home. Although , r have
ived-in far d°uiitries and great cities
0 place ever was my -hope except
this farm,
0
e sprayed and looked after myself.
n
Of 'cert •e farming `
rs as uzig ineax}s work.
to -That side of it has been, harped on
d- until even a lot of farxnea's think it:
o, mom nythInjz else, That ale has`
t heeri.told until it has become eractiy
y what Tennyson ha-t-7ulled it;
re ."i ,talo f -little meaning,
o rte,
n
Althougli' the words are si,iroiig."
s t, Working ' ut
,B event -1m hardes
farzar-
y ort can afford to devote an occsional.
n
few.. -minutes to enjayment-When the
S warm' winds and the rails begin to.
site , sweep away the snow and to unbind,
the shackles . of frost just"ctratit a
deep breath and realize that you are
o nitre alive , than , anything .'+else- on
at earths. The ti'mer's' work is with'the
p„. de-ry' elemetiis oi,- 1%:fe and die` s'ligtild
'repro enjoy rile :.to 'the �;tull-You do not
o need iso step yotu Wier 1 to hi c� the
y fir t nptos pf the song sparrow oar the
heti[ ing of the wild geese passing
he °warhead. .Thai uric is'1•busieS than year
a 'e, bringing warmth -land `grtowth,.
s to. every seed; bud and root -..-46 wild-
- flowers and weeds as well as to your'
e _precious wheat -and see how- serene
he 'can be about it all, Ile cart even
take time on liis•yiisiest`'• day fa ,joc-
ularly burn .a buster: on the' back of
your neck, -
The tuiipg_and the daffodils' in the:
garden need, only a glance to give
You their message of beauty, and if
yon' happen t'a be hurrying through-
the woodiot you can surely pause long'
enough to `'see spring. beauties "at
your feet.,,.. Spring, summer and 'au-
'au-
tumn are alt linked together with
-beauties and, luxuries and delights.
Cf coufse fif you estimate every-
thing in .terms. of dollars you can not
understand why I stick, to the farm.
Dollars enter very little into the ques-
tion. if you wish you may quote me
a price" on the basket of nets'potatoes
I -bring'in from the'gar'den, 'hut what
priee can you put on the satisfaction
r S • get. from digging . potatoes of
my own 'planting and tending.? .Can
you put aprice on the joy hof turning
up a hill'bf big ones that might have
the prize at the fall fair and knelling
that ail this is due to my practical
partnership with Nature in producing
them? The potatoes rnay',satisfy bod-
ily hunger, but the joy of producing
then* satisfies the sloul'5' hunger: for
creation, and it is priceless.
1 When meditating on this aspect of
farm life I went for a ramble in the
pasture fields. to hunt mushrooms.
For half an hour, while picking up
beauties, I canvassed my memory to
see if I could Tenteni'ber the priee I
got for anything 1 had sold off the
farm. Although I have lived -on this
farm most of nay, life and have sold
.all kinds of farm, stock'` and. produce
I could' not remember the exact priee
I jaad got.for Ione -. item, • But- I. re-
membered how beautiful the -
apples
were the first year
the pruned and sprayed the old ores-
ars. I could remember how fine •the"
-oats looped the .;yea'we had them in
the field back of the root house. I
remember .litters of little ..pigs as
plump as sausages and as cunning as
kittens. I remembered calves that I
had fed to admired sleekness, hogs
that I had stuffed to fatness, but
'the prices they fetched I could not
remember. .•
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I stick to the farm because it is the
most satisfactory thing in the world
to.stiek to. It is solid right 'down to
the centre of the. earth, ' It stays
right where it is through depressions,
panics, wars and every,ltind !of human
foolishness. Even Ln earthquake
could not joggle it, and this is' not an,
earthgeake'r'egime
:Moreover, you cannot' speed up' on
a farm; 'It' 15 tinted to the Sun and
the Seasons. Airshipsneay pass over
it at the, rate of;ene hwndred and fifty
miles en hour•, but the thistledowns
that,rise from my fields go at .the
rate of 'the' wind
I stick to the farm because rt. is the
only thing I have found that is 'entir-
ely' dependable. The s:eedtlmo ,and
harvest come to it every year with
easygoing, "ianworriecl certainty. They
never.' come twice ..at.' ,exactly .the
same:tune 1101 bvnig the same boun-
ties, but they never fall :to come. They
may fail to;�briiig wheat,. but .if .they
do they bring ,abundant ,corn.
-"Cold annd dry Tor wheat and- 'rye,
- Wet..urd• war•ta.- fay'"Indian CO11121
Ale ; :farad means "safety first with
the safety -,guaranteed by .-the all -
embracing Nature -and' the labmi' of
your' own hands. It, is well not to
forget the labor of your own hands.
Togetthe fnblest enjoyment ;out of
the farm you • must do things for it
with your own hands. A farm is like
a friend, The more .you do for a
friend the better you like him. and the
Moreyou t dofor f or • a farm the dearer it
hecoriies to you, .
Although 1 aan friends with all the
tree's ' on .the farm the ones I like best
,are those I planted' myself. •_ The
shade trees that, I , planted myself
soern to thzzow: a , more generous
shade than any other and No apple
tastes as good < as one from, a tree
that I planted, fertiliz,ed, pruned,
And that was not because I did no'i'
need the money-I.have always
needed the • money and : sometimes
needed it bitterly but the cash crop
was not the crop than satisfied. As
I let nay memory wander over --the,
past, hunting for prices that had,
failed So' make sr record, I remembered
climbing a pear tree to get a big pear
that bed lodged in a• fork and ripened
lusciously he .the sun, 1 remembered
tramping through a wet pasture
gathering mushrooms and how a lit-
tle moist hand crept into mine be-
cause a little maiden was afraid of a
cow we were passing. I remembered
coasting Ion a little dome -,Made sled
on a little bank beside the creek, and.
also remembered seeing my, children
coasting on the same bank on sleds of
their own inaloing; I could see in the
perspective of memory great piles of
apples under the trees shining fields
of.ocrn,,colts.acam,pering in the Pas-
tures, lambs, .playing king af.tle
castle en alit,hills-sz''crowding,.:joy.
,oris ;Film of homely pictures -,that
"brought lisp. ey tears to my :eyes -and
there was not a dollar mark on one
oil them. The dollars are, necessa-i',
of -course-very necessary -but you
can earn dollars`diggmg in the sewer,
os get theist by sharp practice in bus-
iness. But.; where else - but on the
farm can. you get the needful dollars
and forget them in the joy of your
surroundings. -
.These are a few of the•reasohs why
I stick to the farm and I feel that the
woodchuck:. would endorse every word
I have written.
ETHEL: Miss" .Ethel' Dunbar, dau-
ghtei• of the,lato John and T,Crs, Dun-
bar, died 'Saturday ' in the I istowel'
Hospital, ' where she underwent an
operation a few days ago.'prior to
her illness she had been employed as
a clerk id the Leitch & Zeigler store
at' Ethel and was widely popular.
She is survived -by two brothers, and
fou', sister's. 'The ; -remains - were
brought from Listowel to the home
of. her brother -in -lbw, Peter Lainont
on the 8th concession of Grey Town-
shil. The funeral 'was , held from
there ors' Tuesday afternoon within-
terment in 'Brusseis Cemetery-
EXETER:
emetery-EX TER: W. G. Medd, local
creamery n
has received
a ship-
ment
i,-meit of small cream cans. ' Anew re-
gulation demands thata separate can
be used for :each patron, instead of
the output of several farms being col
lected in one large container:
ILENISALLt Theremains
of Mrs.
William Hildebrandt were taken on
Friday to St. Boldface Church Cem-
etery,'Zurich, ' for burial. The body
was accompanied by a large number
of relatives and friends,
EXETER: Mr, Cheeter Lee of the
Central.- Hotel, ,liars taken, over the
biock'containing 'Itil ton s optisai par-
lor and )S Taylor's jewelry store, with
rosicienge at. tile, back, and 1ts`i1 OMIT
ect the upper awry with_ is hotel to
give hist more bodi'borbspace. bus
has ,also 'taken. overthe i11oDonelI
,blocl ,- It is his i'n'tention to install' a
heating plant wlsiclt will heat .all these
buildings.
ST, COLUMBAN': ,A pretty wed-
hirg' ways soleni lived 'iii St. Cnluin-
ban's church' at nin . o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning 'of nasi,week when
Miss Margaret ,1. IvlcQuaid ' daughter.
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph -MeQu aide
n
Melkislop, became the (bride of
Vincent -
t J. La tic son o f • IVfi;
.- d
an Mrs,
John .Lane of Mclbillop. I, The mar-
riage ceremony and nuptial Mass was
celebrated by Rev. Father Dantzer,
P.P., of St.'Columbap...`
STI PI -{EN: A movement is„pn foot
to set aside one thousand acres in this
town"ship as a game preserve.
WINGIfAi'i: Annie Edaia Robert-
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G, T.
Re etton, was married on Goad -Fri-
day to 1VIr, Thomas ,Poston, son- •of'
the -late William Paxton and Mks.
i'oxtoh of Culross. The Rev. W. 0. -
N eImtosh, • assisted by the Rev,. M..i11. ,
Bonnett, performed the ceronZoriy.'
EXETER:; Mrs. C. B. Snell fell
down .the library steps the other day
and injured herself J e f raffle, seriously,
No bones were , br olteh but she was
•,endo ' i -"
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mIcamisaastwas.
Carelessness Destroys
3,000,000 acres annually
of Canadian Forest
Loss of standing timber by fire'continues Id be appal-
On the' rivegage, over 3,500 million ,board feet `are
destroyed annually, :.The forests of Canada are being de-
pleted
pleted at a rate they cannot possibly withstand more a than,
half of this depletion is due to fire, insects and decay
The future, of the forest; industry is just es dependent on
tie seedling trees and yo0ng• growth as the pulp and paper
and lumber . mills, and industry geueraliy; su'e dependent
i
on mature tinober•.-•beth must bo saved from the ravages
of fire.
Tar addition to the shelter afforded by the forests to
the .farmer and his -stock, settlers in forested regions are
vitally dependent on• the 'woods for winter employment.
Core with fire in land -clearing operations is all -essential --
burned timber pays no wages,
, Canada has the finest inland fishing in the world, but
those splendid food and game fish require clean, cold water
in the streams to enspreprolific reproduction, Forest
fires are inimical to fish life,
Game animals attract foreign tourists and induce :Can-
adaaiis to seely pleasure, health and adventure in the great
outdoors. These animals are distinctly a forest. resource
utterly dependent on, it for protection and food. Forest
tires are most clestruepiva>of such wild life, •
Ninety per cent, of .the forest' fires are caused by care-
lessniess, Are you doing your part to prevent this wanton'"`
waste rind•destruction11
CHARLES STEWART
MINISTBR, OL THE INTERIOR
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A Column Prepared Especially for Women ---
But Not F,rbidden to Men
It is scarcely to be wondered at
that men should find the increasing'
independence of, worsen el times ex-
tremely aggrivatIng, so long have
they had 'things,, well, things- outside
the home, anyway, their own way.
In, London next week the 38
bachelor members of Parliament are
holding a dinner. This is an annual
affair, participated in by the bach-
elors in the House of Conssnons, and
no married man has•ever been allow-
ed in. Now, however, there is a bach-
elor girl member, Miss Ellen Wiilk-
inon, Labor M.P.; and the question
is she eligible as a member of this ex:
elusive gathering? It is a new per-'
lexit ast the present t to ae e t th wo-
meny,p p e
men members have been married and
the question did not arise. It iS-really
very annoying. ` Wlhyeasuot women'
"keep their place" instead of mus-
sing things up this way? „ ,-
Another thing which has happened
in England recently, (by -the -way, did
it ever strike you that for a country
which is so often described as "slow"`
England lead's the world in a great
many things?) In Landon last week
20,000 women paraded the streets in
protest against Strikes. This was n
"strike to end strikes," as it were, Of
course it made a sensation and if ib
continues probably some of the lead-
arswillbotlnn
rn aail an a great
fuss made. But, consider it a minute.
When a strike- occurs who suffers.
most? ; , The worsen and children,
undoubtedly. Why should' not worsen
insist upon, having a say as to when
strikes are called? And in England
it seems to be necessary to make a big
demnonstration before you are noticed-
-
at all, so something may come of thin
astoni-shing parade.
=REB);,RAII