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The Seaforth News, 1924-12-04, Page 3FI Ulf EVAPORATION AND CANNING PLANTS CANADA MAKING ]PRO- 'GRESS"1IN THIS INDUSTRY. Exports to Va. laae of 5861,313 Were Shipped Ditririg 1923 to aline Countries. From - all .accounts' Canada is malt- ing considerable progress in the indus- try of fruit and vegetable evaporating and canning, and the .season of 1924 is witnessing a greater activity than ever In this direction..' In particular, plants in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia' -and the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, the two "great fruit dietricte at either end of the Dominion, are reported to be 'excep- tionally busy, with , substantial out- puts predicted, whilst there is at least a normal activity :elsewherein Can - Oa where condttione have justified I the erection of such plants. Tt is two years since a Government return was made upon the fruit and! vegetable packing' industry of Canada, I and much progress has -been made in the intervening period. At that time , there were in the Dominion 229 plants I of which 117 were devoted to eanaing,1 64 to evapo • tinig and 48 to presery ing. Ontario easily led in the industry with a total of 166 plants; 79 being can- ning, 64 evaporating and 23 presery-! British Oolurribia had jumped to 1 second place from the previous year with a total, of 26 plants, followed by Quebec with 22: Nova Scotts had 14, New Bsunswiek 9, and Alberta 2, Investment In Canning and Evaporating, There was a total exceeding $11,- 600,000 11;600,000 invested in canning plants which had a production of $12,000,000, of which Ontario accounted. for 68,- 260,000 and British Columbia $2,160,- 000. 2,160;000. The eapltalin evaporating plants aggregated $580,000. with a production value of $53.5,000, of which $362,900 was attributable to Ontario and $41,- 030 to Britieh Columbia. Pre.serving plants had a capital of $6,640,000 in- 1 vested in them and accounted for a production of nearly $6,000,000; On -t tarn) being responsible for $3,130,660, British Columbia. for $1,470;000, and Quebec $1,270,000, British Columbia's pamk of canned fruit and vegetables• last year amount• ed to 000,000 cases, the Jam pack alone accounting for 14,000,000 pounds, or; about 7,000 tons. Apart from jams the; principal products put up in the Pa-; odic Coast province are tomatoes,I pears, apricots, peaches, apples, rasp- berries, strawberries, and othersmall l fruits. One company alone in 1923: 'shipped out of the Okanagan Valley! 130 cars of canned goads. Canners' in i 1.024 contracted for larger suppliea of fruit and vegetables, that of tomatoes being outstanding, and a substantially larger tonnage is expected. Canadian Exports. The evaporators and canners in tire' Annapolis Valley have likewise pre- pared for a good volume of business and all plants are operating as a re-! suit of the larger quantity of fruit available. There have been many de- velopments In the industry'. in this area, new plants being erected, some enlarged, and one or two combinations effected. A combination of fruit coml. i Panics has built a large tipple evapor- ator.atKingston, N.S., which is the largest and most modern of its kind In the Valley. There is a gratifying Increase re- I corded over the past few years in the export from Canada of canned and preserved fruits and vegetables, a di- rection in which there le considerable room for expansion. Canned and pre lerved fruits were exported in the past year to the extent of $861,313'to, the United Kingdom, United Statee, j Belgium, Bermuda, Egypt, Prance, 1 Hong Kong, Newfoundland and other I countries. The development of the export trade in canned and preserved vegetables has, been remarkable. In 1922 these amounted to 4,746,887 pound's worth $321,626; in 1928 to 11,; 083,168 pounds worth $841,401; and in the fiscal year 1924, to 16,600,116 pounds worth $1,193;460. These went to the United Kingdom, United States, Bermuda, British South Africa, Cuba, France, ,,Newfoundland, New Zealand and other countries. ^ New to Her. Little Mary was malting her .first visit to her grandfather's farm. As she and her grandfather were walk- ing near -tire barnyard, she spied a Muted calf. Clapping her hands she cried ont gleefully; "Oh, grandpa, grandpa, look at the little cow with the false face! ''fie reports of the state of the ante- lope herd in the antelope reserve maintained by the Canadian National Parks Branch' at N,emiskaml Alberta, continue most satisfactory. ,there are now .180 of these animals in thisre- serve, their numbers having increas- ed by fifty in the,past year. The ex- pyer menu has-derlior strated that ante- Iope„c`an besuccessfully bred in semi - captivity, NEW HEALTH FOR SUFFERING WOMEN Obtained Throttgit Enriching the Blood Supply. Many women endure with silent pa- tience suffering that casts a shadow over half her life, But an aching back, tired limbs; sideacnes,attacks of faint- ness and 'splitting headaches need not be a part of a woman's life. Stich trials indicate plaialy that her blood .is thin and impure; that to drive away these troubles her system requires the uew, rich blood supplied by, Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. These pills are 'valued by suffering .women, who have used them, above all other medicines because they Drake the ,rich, red blood that makes women feel well and at their best - Proof of these statements is given. by. Mrs. Eugene Oeslauriers, Richet, Man., who -says:-"A few - years ago My health completely failed. I was subject to those troubles that afflict so many of my sex. Added .to these I suffered from constipation, loss of appetite, dizziness, a ringing in my head and nervous prostration. I consulted several' doctors, but their medicines failed to give me relief.' After mucli persuasion I began to take Dr„ Williams' Pink Pills, but without mua i hope as 1 believed that no medi- cine would help me: To my great joy, however, I..found these pills were just what I needed, and I can honestly say they have made me a well woman. I can now do with ease all my own house- work, and I strongly, urge other weak, ailing women to give this medicine a fair trial, feeling that what it has done, for me it will do for others." You can get these pills from your druggist, or by mail at 60 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,. Ont. i i Unlike common city gas, acetylene will explode merely upon being heated,' without any admixture of air. i Once every 60 years the earth is at its greatest distance from the sun at the same time Mers: is, Live in Deeds. Science has succeeded in lengthen- ing our "expectation of life" by twenty yearns. That is a comforting reflection,. To die young is no longer regarded as a pious act. But it is not years only which make tong life. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial There are long lives which, reckon- oned on this bast% would be tragically short; there are short lives; reckoned by their achievements, which are cen- turies long! Vire are told to revere grey hairs, but grey hairs are venerable only when they are the silver crown of ac- complislim.ent. There is many a man who is old only in year's.. His deeds will never grow old, but will renew themselves eternally like spring flow- ers and the eaves of the forest. The best way to live le to "give every flying • minute something to keep In store." Logan berries were produced by crossing blackberries' and raspberries, Besides his many other accomplishments, a sailor 'in the Bridals navy, must know how to sew,' That's what these boys are learning at a school in Greenwich, where they are being trained for the fleet. her and look steadfastly into the op- posite part of the room," Possibly the advice carries a sug- gestion of usgestionof finer manners on the 'part of our grandfathers than of our grand- mothers. The balance is soon re- stored.' A volume 'of etiquette for • young men brings a masculine error in behavior to 'book with appalling Shocking Manners! In the Fabulous Forties Mr. Meade Minaigerode admits feeling some dis- may when his reading of the manuals of etiquette then popularrevealedto him how elementary was the instruc- tion apparently needed by young per- sons even in the supposedly polite circles of the. day. Young ladies were solemnly warned, against "balancing themselves .upon their chairs; cross- ing their legs; extending their feet 'an- on the andirons;' admiring themselves' with 'complacency in a glass; folding their shawls instead of throwing them with graceful negligence npon a table; taking a person by the button or col- lar; whirling a chair around on one leg and shaking with their feet the chair of a neighbor." Undesirable awkwardness all; but Mr. Minnigerode's astonishment real- ly begins when he finds whatthe men- tors regard as necessary to say in res- pect to table manners. "Ladies should never dine with their gloves on un- less their hands are not fit to be seen," aroused in hint a painful suspicion that ladies with hands "not fit to be seen" werewilling, instead of taking pains to make them fit, to cover all de- ficiencies with gloves; nor, it is to be noted, has their instructress in man- ners any reprehensions to bestow on their doing so. It also appears that ladies at table—and that in the very years when female delicacy, fragility and ethereally anaemic charm were most-admired—were frequently apt to stuff their mouths:. toofull, or reckless- ly take bites of bone or gristle, which could not be masticated. At any rate, the duty- of a gentleman present on Such an unfortunate occasion is made clear: "If at dinner a lady should raise an unmanageable portion to her mouth,. you should cease. ail conversation with, COUNTING TUE STARS When the discovery of a new star is announced the layman is apt to infer that an almost exhaustive list of stars, to wbich the latest recruit is trium- phantly added, has been compiled. Yet astronomers' estimates of the total number . of stars in existence vary to the extent of several millions; 1200 millions being a rough approxi- mation. Among others, Sir John Herchel, Otto Struve and Professor E. O. Pick- ering have attempted to estimate the number of stars. Herchel'sr computa- tion gave five and a. half million stars from the first to the fourteenth magni- tude, but Struve improved on this figure with 'twenty millions, While Pickering, with the added advantage of including stars of the .fifteenth magnitude, fell short of Struve by two millions. But densely and sparsely star-span- gled areas occur, clusters being fre- quent„ with the Galaxy, or Milky Way, m the main concentration- And as the astronomers struck an average from. counts in various sections, one is not Isurprised at the divergent results. Stars are brought to count by the i use of a powerful telescape, combined' with a camera, and exposure of three or four hours. The Lick refractor, one of the worlds most famous telescopes, makes visible stars of the seventeenth I.magnitude, and the 100 -inch reflector recently erected on Mount WiLson, shows stars of the twen- tieth magnitude.' T I lealifornia, o the na ted e e at an one time Y y only about 2000 stars are *visible But if the observer goes to different parts of the earth at the most propitious seasons of the year 6000 stars may be brought within range of the human eye unaided. ' Before the stars are definitely num- bered the stellar system must have its borders explored by giant. telescopes. And this appears to be nearing com- pletion, as the Most modern instru- ments are not disclosing the number of new stars anticipated. Meanwhile, "the skies are painted with unnumber- ed sparks." The Aristocrat of Radio. This Super -heterodyne set is the highest development of radio Be em.° to -day --a product od the "People who ate your Phone." It is the set which was installed on R.R.H. the Prince a Wades' ranch at Eligh River. A highly eensitive circuit, wonderful .tone and volume. with six' peanut tubes, it The refinement of mechanism works with an indoor loop and appearance make it an merle), tae illustrated) or with instrument It is a distinction an outdoor aerial, and brings to possess, ' in distant stations with Write for information describing this set to David A McCown, n Distributor ` 83-85 MAIN ST. -. TORONTO, ONT. De/Mere-We solicit your enquiries for catalogue and discounts. frankness; "The rising generation of . elegant's I in America are particularly requested .to observe that in polished society it is not quite comme it taut for gentle- men to blow their noses with their fin- gers, especially when in the street— a practice infinitely more common than refined." In the family; both as a matter. of Christian duty and correct deport- ment, the husband woe expected to exert an authority tempered by be- nevolent consideration, and the wife to be always docile, mild and submis- sive. "Sometimes yield your wishes to hers," Mrs. Emery, a popular writer of the day, ,persuasively euggests to married men. "Do not find it hard to yield sometimes! Think you it ie not difficult for her to give up always?" And in the Token of Friendship, or Home, the Centre of the Affections, by the iter. J. N. Danforth, published In Boston In 1844, ,occurs the perfect pic- ture of the model family of the forties: The father gives his kind command,. The mother joins, approves And children all attentive stand, Then .each, .obedient, moves.. NOTHING TO EQUAL BABY'S OWN TABLETS Mrs, Georges Lefebvre, St. Zenon, Que., writes: "I do not think there is any other medicine to equal Baby's Own Tablets for little .ones. I have used 'them for my baby and would use nothing else," What Mrs. Lefebvre says thousands of other mothers say. They have found by trial that the Tab- lets always do just what is claimed for them, The Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach and thus banish indigestion, constipation, colds, colic, etc. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Many -Eyed Insects: Some insects are liberally provided with eyes. in general they have two kinds—simple and compound. Simple eyes are like our own, though less efficient, while compound eyes are composed ` of numerous facets and lenses. Most people know show difficult it is to catch the common house -fly.. This is not surprising when one realizes that fly's eye has 12,000 facets, and the Mor- sequently there is not much that is out of its line of vision. The dragon- y's eye has 12,000 .facets, and the Mor - della beetle's eye 1a made up of no fewer than 26,000- While, the compound eyes never ex- ceed xceed two, the single eyes vary in num- ber" froin eighteen to twenty. 'They are situated in groups on each side of the head. Spiders and scorpions haveboth single and compound eyes, though they appear to, derive little benefit from them. • Waiting Both, A star loobs, down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand, each In. our degree:' What do you mean to do -- Mean to do?" I say: "For all I know, Wait, and let Time go by, Till my change come."—"Just ao," The star 'says: "So mean I— So mean I." -Thomas Hardy. The Tree Planting Division of the Forestry Branch of the Dept. of the Interior in 1923 distributed some five and aquarter million trees to farmers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and A1- berta, and since this work Elegant has supplied, free, some seventy-five: mil- lion trees for shelter belts about prairie homesteads. Minard'e Liniment Fieirieves Pain. Surnames and Their Origin POTTs. Variationa—Phapott, Phillpot, Phil- lips. Racial Origin—Norman. French, Source --A given name. You'd never imagine, from th.e mere comparison ot the family names of Potts and Phillips that "there was any connection between them. But the fact is that they are virtually the same name, that they have come from the same source, the .gi•.,en name of Philip. As a given name, you must go back to the ancient Greek for the source of Philip. In its original form it was Phillipos, from the Greek root "phil," for "love,'; and "hippos," for "horse." The name means `lover of horses." It was taken over by the old Romans from, the Greeks, and became with them Phillipus, and first with the spread of the Roman conquest through what is now France and Normandy, and later through the spread of Chris- tianity (for it had become a popular Christian name) over. the same course, it became quite common in the north- western section of the European main- land. It was taken over to .England by William and his Norman conquer- ors, and throughout the Middle Agee became quite common there also, though to -day its popularity as a given name has fallen off somewhat in Eng- land. The naive was often' shortened to Phil, though this shortened form has not survived in any form of sur- name. With the diminutive ending it. became Philipot (Utile Philip), Strangely :enough, ,in numerous oases practically all of the given name was dropped, leaving only the final "p" with the diminutive _ending for the modern family name of Potts. Phillips is a contraction of Phtldpson, a form now seldom met with. WEBSTER. Varlations—Weber, Webber, Weaver. Racial Origin—English; Mao German. Source—An occupation. Here is another familyname which in one of its forms shows the influence of the medieval Engliah method of forming the feminine from a mascu- line noun, but which is now obsolete. It is most interesting, too, as showing in certain of its variations an abso- lutely parallel development in English and German. 1Vebster and Weaver are exclusively English forms of the naive. Weber and Webber are both English and Ger- man,- and apparently about as wide- spread in one language as the other. All of these naives, descriptive of the occupations, of the first bearers of them; come; from the same root in the old Teutonic tongue, which is parent both to modern German and : to medie- val English through the Anglo-Saxon. It is the same root from which we de- rive the modern English words "weft" and "web" as well as weave. Indeed the church. and *court records of medieval England show that the peo- ple of those days spoke of "Roger le Weber" rather than "the Weaver." The softening of the "b" into an "f" or a "v" has occurred only in com- paratively: modern times in English,, and not at all in German. "Webster" is simply the medieval English feminine for "weber," .Tinder Norman-French influence its ending often was spelled "etre" instead of "sten," and It is from this spelling, with the addition of a "ss" that the modern' feminine ending "ess" or "trees" has been developed. The Lucky Sons. Lucky the one who can look at Fate With a laugh, and say-- "Block ay—"Block the highway and bar the gate; Send me down where the been wait. But I won't stay.. I'm on my way and I'll take the load Through hell or what to the end of the road." Lucky the one who can understand That it's all a fright; 1 Driving on through a broken land Where it's hilt to hilt and it's hand to hand, With its share of night; Who knows in advance that the old dream's gone And it's mainly a matter of slogging Fate finds a joy in breaking men Who shrink :from the flame; But out of the struggle now and then The valiant rise from the shadowed glen To play out the game; 'Taking the breaks as they come—or go-- But o—But slogging on to the end of the shows —Brantland Rice. His Hearing Restored. The invisible ear drum invented. by A. O. Leonard, which is a miniature megaphone, fitting inside the ear en- tirely out of sight,is restoring the hearing of hundreds of people in New I York city. Mr. Leonard invented this i drum to relieve himself of deafness and head noises, and it does this so successfully that no one could tell he' is a deaf, man. It is effective' when deafness is caused by catarrh or byl perforated or wholly destroyed natural drums. A request Por information to A. O. Leonard, Suite 487, 70 Fifth avenue, New York elty, will be given a prompt reply. edvt Fans for Fighters. An Italian newspaper correspondent in China gives some amusing impres- sions of the civil war now "raging" in that country. He points out that blood is rarely drawn in battles. When General Tschan-Hiun had been thirteen days in Pekin, the Republican generals, Taso-Kun and Tuan; marched against him. Each side was equipped with machine guns and areoplanes; and a "battle" ensued. A bomb struck a house and killed a civilian and Tschan- Hiun's army thereupon scattered. The Chinese . soldier of to -day- Is splendidly drilled in. the European way, but if it begins to rain he stops fighting and opens his paper umbrella, which, with a fan, formspart of his equipment. There is rarely any fight- ing in China when the weather is bad. In the Province of Alberta theta are eight foreat reserves, the total area of which is about 18,620 square miles. These have heen set aside with the idea_ of maintaining a timber supply and conserving the flow of the rivers. Sing a Song of Sixpence. "Sixpenny worth of miracle," is a striking n g expression from George Gis- sing, the novelist. Mr. Kennedy Wil- liamson writes a summary of a story that Gissing himself told. In a lonely spot by a woodland: the novelist found a small boy leaning Against a tree; his head was buried in his hands, and he was sobbing our: his heart. The lad had been sent to pay a debt with six- pence and had lost the money. He was not so much afraid of facing his parents as he was sorrowful at the loss they sustained. "Sixpence (twelve cents) dropped by the wayside and a whole family made wretched! I put my hand in my pocket and wrought sixpenny worth of miracle," said Gissing, How little it sometimes takes to make a heart happy! The significance of the story be- comes more apparent as Ur. William- son takes a look behind the scenes of Gissing's private life as related in the Private Papers of Henry Ryem•oft. Once In his days of struggle the novel- ist lived in a back bedroom on the top floor, but he changed to the front cel- lar of the same building; the cellar had a stone floor and contained a bed, a. table, a chair and a washstand. He made the change because It saved him sixpence a week; with sixpence he could buy two meals i Once he, bought at an old bookshop' a greatly coveted book and, then lived on bread and butter for twenty-four hours in order that he might save the price—sixpence. j Writing his book, New Grub Street,' in six weeks by toiling ten hours a day, he sometimes had to sell some of his own books to obtain the simp- lest food. One day, however, he found sixpense in, the street.. Long after.; Classified Advertisements AGENTS WANTED AGENTS TO MAKE�$6.00 TO $26,00 a week "handling' snappy Xmas Quick Sellers for women and children. Don't delay, Write to -day.' Buckley's, Box 767„London, IG CHRISTMAS CATALOG- Household Goods, Christmas Goods, Saves Dollars. Free upon re- quest. Martin Company, Station E8, Toronto. MALE HELP 'WAISTED. omimors WIDE ORGANIZA- tion wants reliablemen to dis- tribute samples in "small cities and towns. Splendid pay. Canadian Dis- tributors' Association, Sevenoaks, Vic- toria, B.C. ; A Camera Pioneer. The Royal Photographic Society has erected a tablet to the memory of Henry Fox Talbot, ",the father of mod- ern photography.” Before this tablet came as a remind- er; it is to be feared that few knights of the camera had over heard of Henry . Fox` Talbot, though his experiments in photography are not yet a century old. in 1336 Fox Talbot,' a`Cambr•idge mathematician of distinction, made a- Oreille box camera, with which lee took views of his house on sensitized paper. Then, after the invention of the daguerreotype, he patented his calotype process. This was in 1841. He brushed a solution of silver al- trate over selected paper, which was then dried at the fire and dipped into a solution of potassium. iodide. "Gallo nitrate of silver" was next brushed 'over .the paper; then it was exposed. in the camera, and developed. Wax was uow applied, and the result was a "negative" --first called by this name by Fox Talbot. How many amateur photographers of to -day world be willing to go to all this trouble before they could even start. to take pictures? A whim of the Empress Eugenie( saved the roadside trees of France rrom destruction when they were be- ing cut to make room for telegraph poles. l wards he wrote concerning it, "r had an exaltation which is vivid to me at thie moment," 1lissing was able to sympathize with the impoverished boy because of hist own grim knowledge of poverty. The safe way to send money by mail is by Dominion Express Money Order. Poultry manure is a valuable aid to the gardener. • Before using, it should be broken.- up quite: fine, It must be used carefully and never in large quantity at one time. Mlnard's Liniment- for Rheumatism. Edison, with all his inventions, was a piker compared to the ambitious young photographer who advertised, "Your baby, if you have one, can be enlarged, tinted, and framed for $8.79." Keeps EYES Clear, Bright and Beautiful WrItcMurInc Co ChI ag forEyeCoreBook l rid. ~..3i111M;;•:ER. R17LUMA 5 It1101 torture from rheumatism, 'sciatica or lumbago? MEM of mon phos parmanont relief. Baby to um.-ahborhed through tho feet --ours to 1t1 cabalist Fall particularo tree, CHAS._ W. TEETZEL CO., Dont. r, 1200 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont. Be Prepared for colds. Check them at the start with BOTHERED WITH SCALP TROUBLE Itched All the Time, Caused. Blisters, Cuticura Healed "I Was -bothered with scalp trouble for a year. My scalp itchedallthe time causing me to scratch. 'This caused-blisters,.and my head .was so sore char could hardly comb any hair. N!y hair fell out in handfuls and I was nearly bald. , "I read an advertisement for Cutl- curs Soap and Ointment and -pur- chased Como. I Was completely healed after tieing :three cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment." (Signed) Miss Bertha Holderby, Mold, Waeh„ lune 9, 1923. Cuticura Soap to'clesnae and pu-,;' rily Ctiticunt Ointment to soothe) - and heal and Cuticura Talcum to powder and sweeten are ideal for daily toilet putposesi 9awe {tach. Free br Atte acid alis Canaalen Ant oatlrar r o a -aµra htoutrat•" rrieb scopp 76e O t 2.9uU tea fialcumY,c. i�- Trrour naw„YM1riOsnp�Stirlc.”