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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-10-02, Page 68867 is most appreciated in the riche delicious iiav r. ry it today. bout e THE UNEXPECTED HOLIDAY. "You dears!" Flora cried. "Come right M. If this isn't the most per- fect ending to our wonderful day: You'll have to excuse the looks of things; Rob had an unexpected holi- day, and the whole family dropped everything and flew to celebrate. We've been over on Black Mountain. You see the fruits of Margie's day." She waved her hand gaily to various jars and bowls of flowers. "Stuart's addition to his personal property is a turtle and some pine cones; they're all out in the shed." "And I know about fireflies; father told me," Stuart volunteered. "I know about flrefllies, too," Margie added. "When I grow up I'm going to know all about bugs an' animals an' everything," Stuart declared. "With so much before you, you'll have to get a good start now," Flora admonished him. "Now say good- night and then to bed." They said good -night, and after making her guests comfortable Flora excused herself and followed the chil- dren upstairs. ",filet once in an age," she said when she returned, "there's a day that's clear blue from its first nno- mens to its last. I thought it was enough simply to leave the unexpected holiday, and then to come home to friends---" The evening passed swiftly—as evenings at Flora's always passed. To cue of her guests at least Flora seem- ed beyond ail other persons she knew to have the gift of living, But the other gnsst felt differently, "I've known Flora Bruce for five years," she said on the way home, "but I never dreamed she was like that." "Like what?" inquired the other. "Why, to go off and leave her rooms undustcd, . Did you see the floor? And the way the children had strewn the Powers about! Wouldn't you think she'd want them to feel the atmos- phere of order round them? It would have taken such a little while to straighten things up." Flora's friend drew a hard breath, "Things!" she cried. "Things! I get so sit k of the way we let ourselves he chained to them, There are throo hundred and sixty-five days in the year to dust the room and mop the fists, and perhaps not one other day for such a chance for joy, something to live in the memories of those chil- dren forever—a chance to znake them realize the wonder of the world they live in, You know how dainty Flora's Ju house usually is, but she never con- fuses values. Don't you see?" USING GREEN TOMATOES, Many housekeepers use chopped green tomatoes in plata of apples when preparing their winter supply of mincemeat and find them an ex- cellent substitute. The tomatoes should be used in the same proportion as apples, two parts to one of meat. To preserve the vegetable for use later in mincemeat, chop fine eight T pounds of green tomatoes, to which add six pounds of light brown sugar, one-half ounce each of ground cinna- mon and cloves and let stand eight or ten hours. Then simmer slowly until the tomatoes are clear and thick. Seal boiling hot in airtight jars. Use in Pies—The pie -eating mem- hers of the family will enjoy the p e which is filled with the following: To twelve pounds of sliced green toma- toes add half a gallon of molasses, one and one-half thinly sliced lemons (from which the seeds have been re- moved), ground spice to taste, and simmer gently for three hours. This will keep without sealing. Green Tomato Preserves — Few housewives realize that one of the very best preserves may be made from green tomatoes, and as they aro so much cheaper than any variety of fruit a number of jars should be add- ed to the storeroom shelves. If large tomatoes are used cut them in halves, then quarter the halves. Allow three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar to each pound of the vegetable and one thinly sliced lemon. Put the sugar with just enough cold water to dissolve it in the preserving kettle, add the tomatoes and lepton and simmer until the to- matoes are almost transparent and the syrup quite thick. Seal tight. Very small green tomatoes may be preserved whole by using the same formula, but it will take them longer to cook. • Sweet Pickle—A very delieiou sweet pickle may be made from gree tomatoes. Chop fine one peck of th vegetable, four white onions and si green peppers (with the seeds remov ed). Sprinkle over them a scant cu of salt and let them stand over nigh In the morning drain and add half cup of grated horseradish, two cup of brown sugar, two tablespoons o mixed spices (cloves, cinnamon an nutmeg), and enough cold water to rover the ingredients. Cook do until thick, stirring often, and se hot in air -tight jars. Sour Pickle—Place in a granite ket- tle two gallons of green tomatoes without peeling, but sliced; twelv large white onions, also sliced; two quarts of vinegar, one pint of sugar two tablespoons of salt, the sem quantity of black pepper and ground mustard, one tablespoon ground allspice and one tablespoon cloves. Mix well and cook slow, until tender, stirring frequently so i will not scorch. Put in small jars sealine WDD ALONG THE WASTE BY LYON MEARSON. PART I, There are those who say that the law has. no heart, and that those who enforce the law gradually 'begin to lose all sense of the ordinary human feelings and emotions. They have said that this last is especially true of the Mounted. That may be so, but there was one case— The sky hung gray and threatening over Blackhorse Peak, resting the eyes at last from, the fierce glare of the sun on the white, packed snow, the crystals of which had thrown back the light intensified a hundredfold, Sanderson, the trader, busied him- self in small talk with his friend, Ser- geant Waterman, of the Mounted, wh was preparing to make his round Tdoor opened and an Ojibwa squaw came in. Waterman sat quietl in his corner until the trader ha completed his business with the shape less hag, saying nothing, but notm everything. Like all Indian squaws in earl middle age, she was not an atti-acti. object to look at. Middle age is prob lematical—she might have been that So might she also have been a hun dred years old. There is no tellin with a squaw, for their old age come on as quickly as night in the tropics— in one instant it is light and in a other the heavy velvet black of tri equator has fallen and fullfledge night is upon you, dense and all enveloping. Thus it is with most In dian women—they are young, an then suddenly they are old, and tha is all there is to it. - She was dressed shapelessly in th odds and ends of bedraggled fur tha the female of that section are wont to wear. The skin of her tanned, yellow ed face was folded into innumerable seams which surrounded the heady sharp eyes which could, however, look at you unwinkingly. She was short and fat—rather more than fat, she was formless. Curiously, there was a tomahawk in s her. belt. Now this was peculiar foe et several reasons. The first reason is „that it is many generations since the Ojibways have used the tomahawk x Secondarily, ever since the coming of _ the white man, the Indian's toma- P hawk has always had a metal head. t. The head of this tomahawk was a l sharpened flint, bound to the haft si with a rawhide thong criss-crossed fiover the hard stone. Even when the d Indians used tomahawks, they were in evidence only in war time—only when needed. At the end of a war they were buried, whence arises the al old saw about burying the hatchet. Yet here was this squaw not onl Sort of medicine -man, or woman." smiled wryly. "Might not be such a bad plan for some of us," he commented in his dry fashion. "I've known some who could see things that we sane people con not see—and I would have liked to able to see those. same things. She h her own wigwam, and she's rather s 'apart from the rest of the band. Sh doesn't mind, I guess. Rather pr fers to be that way. Curious name sh has—Wind Along the Waste. How that for a name? Seems to me I rea something like that in old Omar one ,but I'rn not sure. Most of these In dian names mean something, but n body around here knows what hex o name meant when it was originally s. given to her. y• "She was young—sixteen or seven - y teen—about twenty years ago. d Wouldn't think it would you? But - you know how these Indians age. g Don't seem to have any middle age— i either they're young or they're old. y The story says that she was going to marry a youngbuck nice looking ve Y r c oo ng - young fellow with a bit more educe- , tion than most Indians have. You _ know, she was partly educated in a g convent—couple of years, anyway --I s guess that's the reason she and this 'young buck were so gone on each n_' other. e! "Things were going all right until d a white man came along—one of those _ independent traders there used to be around here. He wanted Wind Along d the Waste. You know, after a man is t here for quite ,a while, he sees no - I thing wrong in marrying an Indian— e his perspective sort of changes. A t woman is always a woman, and I understand that Wind Along the Waste was as good looking as they come. She didn't care about him, but he had money and kept promising her ' father all sorts of presents and things if he would consent. I "Well, this part of it seems kind of hazy, but I know he did get her after a while, whether she wanted to or not. 1 The young buck she wanted to marry was away somewheres, and when he 'come back all trace of them was lost, 1 He wound up by committing suicide. He—„ "Committing suicide!" ejaculated the sergeant. This was almost un- heard of among the Ojibways. "Yes—committed suicide. Just will- ed himself to die, and he died. He—" 1 "What do you mean?" "Why, don't you know? Guess there are more ways of shu£flmg off this mortal coil than you know of. Did you ever hear that a Chinaman could ommit suicide by just deciding that he wants to die? He goes and lies Starting at Four. So -the Southdown beauties were sineethed and bruslied, . And. the feathery 'geese and Jereey, cow; Then the clock was wound; the house was 'hushed; And you fell to your dreams you knew not how: For to -morrow opened the county fair, He I3ow you shivered and tlirilledd at joys in store— At the. hamper Backed and waiting there And the magical word, "We'll start Id at four." be etThere were silver maples along the e way, e_ And they caught at the moon and e held the moon; 'e. While a mocking bird took shine for d day ce, • And was ,trilling its morning song - too soon. o- • doing the trading at the post—which generally is done by the male—but ]so wearing a tomahawk while she id so. And a stone tomahawk per- aps two hundred years old. It was user, reflected Sergeant Waterman dly, as he watched her. Evidently she could not speak, be- anse she gave the trader a sheet of paper with her wants written there- upon, which he busied himself to satis- fy. Yet she did not have the vacuous, and at the same time sheep, appear- ance of the dumb, and she was not deaf, because the trader addressed her several times, and she answered with nods of her head. "I never saw her before," advanced the sergeant when she had gone. "No, she doesn't come in often— but she has been coming for fifteen years." "Something peculiar about that squaw, Sanderson," said Waterman, "I don't mean her carrying a toma- hawk—though that's queer enough, I'll say; I mean in her appearance. Did it ever occur to you that she looks as though she were waiting for some- body—or something. I mean, not the usual look of dumb—" "She's not dumb, sergeant," ans- wered Sanderson slowly, interrupting him, "She can speak when she wants to. She—." "Then why—" "She never speaks to a white man." He turned to rearrange some of his disordered stock, and remained silent for a moment or two. When he spoke again he did not look at Waterman; the was looking out of the window at the long stretch of snow and pine woods. A figure was coming—he could see it in the distance, though it would be fifteen minutes or more before it arrived. "I always have the impression that' she'll talk to a white man again only when that something that you spoke of has happened. She's a little crazy, you know., The youfnger man looked his interest, lighting a cigarette in silence. `Yes—at least, they say she is. II got some of her story from one of the Indians. He was afraid to speak of it, because they hold her in a sort of awe, but I got it out of him. You know, Indians treat their insane dif- ferently than we do. They make much, of them—the Ojibways do, anyway. i ea h ei of of e 0 whxie hot. USE YOUR VOTE. Do you want the world improved? Use you; vote. Want injustices removed? Use your vote. You've a power to command Governments will not withstand, st the ballot in your hand. Use your vote! You've as great a power there In your vote, As the proudest millionaire. Use your vote! Ballot boxes never heed Wealth or color, race or creed; Here's democracy, indeed. Use your vote! Merely talking will not do; Use your vote! here must be some action, too. Use your vote! Words won't change the world 'tis plain; Feelings without deeds are vain; If the right you would maintain Use your vote. If the whole world voted well— Use your vote! What we might do none can tell. Use your vote! To your principles be true; 'Tis a thing you ought to do; Every man and woman, too, %tt a , t,•. . to ,After 3" Q'(Jery meal/ Use your vote, —Louise Richardson Rorke. A pleasantI CLEANING WALLS. This is the way a professional housecleaner cleaned my blackened and smoky kitchen walls: Make a smooth cooked starch, a little thinner than for starching clothes, and put this allover the walls and ceiling in a thin coat. Either a clean cloth or a brush is suitable for putting it on. By the time you have finished, or in twenty or thirty minutes, you can wash this starch— and the smoke, grease and dirt—off with cleancloths wrung out of warm. soft water. It is really just like magic and beats any soap or scouring powder I have ever seen. An added advantage is that it is not so cruel to hands as the usual method of strong suds. SOAP ECONOMY. Save all theodds andends of toilet soap of every description. When enough has been accumulated, break and agreeable sweet and a 1-ln-s-R-i-n-g benefit as well. Good for teeth, breath and digestion. alkalies the next ellgas taste better. R24 A!/NTGEdQF FJrettt eCre,• �/ a ISSUE No. 40—'24. in very small pieces and put through. the food chopper, using the medium cutter first, and then the fine cutter, To one cupful of this .granulated soap add one and a half cupfuls of cornmeal and put through the food chopper again until it is reduced to a cswrse meal. When all will pass readily through a meal sieve add one ounce of olive oil to each two and a half cupfuls of the soap and cornmeal mixture. Blend thoroughly. An ordi- nary fruit jar with the rubber ring in place makes a good container, A quantity of this soap powder kept on the kitchen sink or in the bathroom' will be found invaluable for cleansing' very soiled hands and keeping them soft and smooth. Inard's Liniment tri teil ars Outs. down in his bunk and in a day or two he is dead—and that's all there is to it. Well, some of the Ojibways can do this. That's what this man did. 'He decided it was time to die, and he just lay down and died. That's about all there is to it, except that here's ,the girl—suppose she left the white man, or he left her—and she's a little touclTed." He made a significant mo- tion toward his forehead with his righj; hand. "Well, it seems to me that that's hardly alt," commented the sergeant and—""There's that tomahawk "Yes," interrupted the trader. "That tomahawk is a couple of hun- dred years old—handed down from her ancestors. I think she has some sort of an idea that it's her instru- ment of vengeance --divine vengeance —anyway, she never is without it." "If she ever comes across the man—" began the sergeant. "She'll kill him. And she'll hang for it, I suppose,,; "'Yes, she'll hang. Don't imagine that'll make much difference to her. Beastly shame, though. Dare say the beggar deserves to be killed," drawled the policeman, but his eyes were sober and his lips were stretched in a thoughtful line. I say, there's some one coming," he said, glancing out of the window. "Yes, I saw him ten or fifteen min- utes ago." Ser There had been a fog like a rain that night; 'With the wheels of the spiders' mist -gray lace; And the road led under boughs drench= ed white, While they icily sprayed each up- turned face. With a tinkle-tink on a shadowed ridge There wero cattle a -grazing down the dawn; And wheels • rang out on a ghostly bridge, Anel a whispering creek was past and gono, Oh, the sun came °tip on an unknown land, From a tapering hill you did not know; There were small neat farms on either hand; And a shimmering haze hung far and low. There were drowsy oroonings like broken rimes; And the wheels as they turned Made by seemed drowsy too— Then you woke from dreams of fairy chimes; Lo! a merry-go-round was calling you. —Gertrude West, in Youths Compan- ion. URSEP The Toronto Hospital for Innurahl,e, I0 affiliation with Bollatie and Allied Hospitals, Ncw Yolk. City, offers a throe years' Course et Tralnlhy to 101,0 enema, having tha ronalrod, adl)oation, one desirous of becoming nurses, This Hoenital hat iteoptini tho eight- hour system. Tho pupils ruoelvo uOltnrm, of Um School,a monthly ollownnoo end travelling expanses to and from Now York. 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Usually the well bred lamb weighing from 60 to 80 pounds is the best stocker lamb to put into winter quarters. The most profitable time to purchase such Iambs is between August and November. l Heavy lambs weighing from 80 to 110 pounds should be avoided aa they make small gains at a high cost per pound, although, if thin and not ex- ceeding 100 pounds in weight, they may with profit be given a short finish in feed lot and pasture. Useful in- formation on the subject will be found in Pamphlet No. 16, "Finishing Lambs for the Block," issued by the Domin- ion Dept. of Agriculture at Ottawa. For Sore Feet—Mtnard's Liniment. Growing Bulbs in Water. "This is the time to plant Chinese Sacred Lily and Paper White Narcis- sus bulbs, They may be planted in soil, moss, sawdust, or water alone. Tho cleanest and simplest method of growing or 'forcing' them is by plac- ing them in shallow bowls, arranging pebbles around them to hold them in place, and then adding water until from one-third of the bulb is covered. By using the flower larger size bulbs, more ..al cs and better flowers can be obtained. The howls should be placed in a cool, airy cellar, garret, or store- room in a dim light. The temperature should be from forty to fifty degrees geant Waterman instinctively These bulbs are not hardy, so any disliked and mistrusted the stranger chance of freezing should be avoided. from the moment of his appearance. The water level should be maintained The leen of the Mounted sometimes and they should be kept in the store - acquire a sixth sense of that kind; and it is said that this sense is more room from four to six woks, r u.itir to be relied upon than all their other there is a thick amass of roots in the senses rolled into one. Waterman water and the shoot has started to could hardly say what it was about grow. Then bring them into the light l,o n he had disliked, but from the first instant, when he had stamped into the room on his snow -shoes, ten- tatively opening and closing his fin- gers to restorethe circulation, c atnon Water- man felt that he was i r v simply kind P Y not his The stranger was burly and strong, bearded, about middle age—forty-five to fifty, with that in his small, black, piggish eyesthat was not good to see in any one up North, where a man has to be, to a large extent, iris own censor of the moralities and the con- ventions. It seemed that his name was Lan- don—Wilmot Landon—and he had been away in the. States for the ten or fifteen years, though he ltay, been an independent fur trapper in this very section previously. He was on his way to Silver Cross, a settle-, went that he conk1 reach by nightfall,' if he started within the hour, and he had stopped at Blackhorse Peak to get warm and to rest for a few min -I Utes. That, in short, was his storyI as he told it, but there was a story. told in his face, in the sensual, gross lips, and in the lines under thepaisteu-! and living -room temperature and in a short time they will bloom. A French scientist says there are 1000 -ase oisonous p gases that are avail- able for war, which makes a thousand more reasons why there should be no more war. "DIAMOND DYES" COLOR THINGS NEW 13eautiteI toms dye- • ing anti tinting is guaranteed - .W l 1 i, Diamond Dyes. Just dip In colt wafer to tint soft, delicate shades, or boli to dye rich, permanent colors. Each 15 -cent package contains di- ing eyes—a story that he who rur:s, roc tens so simple any wornaw can dye could read, if he was so minded. 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It Stays on the tiiiob You.calshank on a'444" Day after day month offer month Sr•nrSt;'z144tAace Will stand the 4o1rgwhere the going' is hardest Oetyoysr hardware /non $.o show You a444, Note the pant, a1,d the 'feel" of it- A real axe with a, fireblued finish that resists r1t't' CANADA FOUNDRIES 61t'OROINGS III1IIEp /rte` JANES SMART PLANT t r fr' i3ROCKVILLE ONT. re "o and how to 6tJi rhen1 The publications of the Dominion. Department of Agri- culture are obtainable free of charge on request, with excel). tion Noted, £Tharmineyg, contain helpful informa- tion on all subjects relating to They number some four hun- dred in all,ar_d the following are cxampleti: List of Publleatlons. Seasonable Flints.. Preparing Poulb,y Produco for Market. Winter Ogar Production. _Wintering Boca in Odium a Canada. Boot and Storage Coiore- PC, Safe Handling of Commorcinl live Stock. PC, Boeou amt and 15og Grading. PinSelecting Lamps. - Soleetlon of Jamb Cute, Preservation of Fruits and Vegetnbloa for limo 'Ube. Yedecle- Atreeting Live Stock. ).`arms-,', Account Book—Price 10 rents. Cut out this advertisement, nark on it the bulletins desired, including the full hist of Pub- lications, 111 in your name and address, and mail to: Publications Branch, Deparmient of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, (No -postage required) Name Po_ei O.dicce R. R, No Provincp ) WATER POWER IN INING INDUSTRY HYDRAULIC INSTALLA•. - ;o TION, -OVER 277,600 HORSE POWER. Ontario and Quebec, Lacking Native Coal Deposttst Lead in Water Power. The recent revival of activity in the Mining industry of Canada has stress- ed' the necessity of ample supplies of power available at a cost that will, I permit of the production and treat- ment of large quantities of raw ma- ±erials in the districts in which the iniites occur. The orient which this heed rips been met by the develop- tomen± of Canada's advantageously lo- cated water powers has been trade the subject of special study by the Do- minion Water Power Branch, lire theory is often advanced that Canada is likely to become the lead- ing mineral -producing country -of the world, and considerable ground for this assumption is found in the fact that the Dominion contains 1.6 per cent, of the world's known coal re• sources, has greater asbestos, nickel, and cobalt deposits than any other country, and tanks third in the pro duction of gold, whilst the diversity of her mineral endowment is indicated by the fact that the three main diva slons, metallic, non-metallic, and structural and clay products, include cone 60 principal items, 17 of which hard, in 1923, a prochtetion value of $1,000,000 or over. Average; Annual Five -Year Value, ]!Figures• of total production fail to convey the proper impression of the magnitude of the industry on account of the diversity of product and units involved, whilst the Varying prices at- tendant upon actuating market condi- tions make computations of value diffi- cult. Probably the fairest conception of the value of the output may be ar- rived at by stating that the lowest value since 1910 was that for. 1911„ viz., 0103,221,000, the highest that for 1920 when a value of 0227,860,000 was reached, wbile the average amnia] value during the last live -year period amounted to 8194,957.000. As Com- modity prices reached a peak in 1920, and have since receded, production computed in terms of value Is sot a fair basis for comparison. A, weighted index showing the volume of predate - troll would undoubtedly ma,'k 1928 as the banner year in. Canada's mineral industry, new output records being es- tablished in that year for coal, lead, zinc, asbestos, and for the valine of cobalt. The principal uses of power in min- ing are for compressing air for drill- ing; driving motors or engines for hoisting; haulage of ore above and be- low ground; driving ore crushers and conveyors; pumping for water supply acid for the removal of ground water; lighting; heating; ventilating; signal- ling; machine; blacksmith and fram- ing shops; and for various electrical metallurgical processes. riven in the comparatively simple mining process- es involvedin the recovery of coal, as much as 10 per cont. or the product may be consumed In generating the power regal red. Total installation for Mining Purposes. From estimates made by the Do- minion Water Power Branch it is com- puted that at January 1st, 1024, the hydraulic installation for mining pur- poses in Canada had reached a total of 277,600 h.p., of which 283,000 h.p. is purchased from central electric sta- tions. An conservative estimate of the capital investment necessary to de- velop this power is 074,000.000. From the point of view of minerals and the development of mining, Cana- da may he divided Into .five main areas, the Maritime Provinces, Que- • bec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, . i' and British Columbia and the Yukon, I Each of these areas possesses large resources of water power developed or available for development for mining. With the exception of some of the coal fields of the Central Plain there is no mineralized area for which ample power cannot be made available. This is particularly the case in Ontario and Quebec, which, being situated in the acute fuel area of Canada, would be almost entirely dependent upon coal imported from the United States were it not for hydraulic power: Available and Developed Power, The department'e latest table of available and developed water power in Canada, corrected to Febraury ist, shows a total available 24-hour power, at 80 per cent, efficiency, of 18,225,316 h.p, at ordinary minimum flow, and 32,076,998 hap. at ordinary six menthe' flaw,and a tote] turbine installation in Canada of 3,226,414 h.p, Reference to the table shows the fortunate distri- bution of water power throughout Can - ado. . The two provinces without na.7 tive o•oa.l, Ontario and Quebec, lead in the possession and utilization of water I power, followed closely by glanitoba, where only ]ignite coal is found. So far as informationis available, - there is no prospective mineral area in the Dominion, ,with the exception of some of the rioal fields of the middle plains, ahem hydraulic energy cannot be made available. Nature repairs her ravages, repairs them. with her 'sunshine and with hu. 1 man labor, --George Elliot