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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1930-01-23, Page 200 iticoitf'(e Our increase in sales in 1929 ; over 1928: shows that there Were over seven hundred and ten thousand additional 'SAL D A users last year. `Fresh from the gardens' llO",l lllllll Unp,tpp,tt lll,i I„1,111 „10111,1 tl,i,, 1,IN„ Y S FAVORITEN lllllll 4,ll,,,ttllItl,lllp 111111 l ttl„IttttttIItIO"a 'Hark the voice of Jesus crying, Who will go and work today? Fields are white and harvest waiting, Who will bear the sheaves away? Loud and strong the Master calleth, Rich reward Be offers thee, Who will answer, gladly saying, ".Here am I, send me, send me!” If you cannot cross the ocean, And the heathen lands explore, You can find the heathen nearer, You can help them at your door. If you cannot give your thousands, You can give the widow's mite; And the least you do :for Jesus Will be precious in His sight. If you cannot speak like angels, into death without that knowledge, we may find it hard to account for our negligence when He conte in jud- gment; So this season of hopeful expect- ancy always has been a tiine of ex- amination of our attitude .. towards missions, and also a time for quick- ening our interest in that all-import- ant cause. Men and women workers as missionaries, both in oeir own land and in foreign countries, have never been in greater demand, nor has mon- ey, to support such laborers, ever been more urgently needed than at present, The very practical and somewhat affecting hymn here reproduced was written in 1878 by an earnest Con- gregational minister of the United States, who was born in July, 1816, and named Daniel March. His inter- est in active missionary work is evi- dent vi dent in every stanza of his' hymn, If you cannot preach like Paul, which was written rather late in his You can tell the love of Jesus, life, and .bears the marks of intense experiences. You' can.say He died for all. earnestness born of many i f you cannot rouse the wicked His was -a trained, literary worker's With the judgment's dread alarms, mind, for he wrote many devotional You can lead the little children To the Saviour's waiting arms. If you cannot be the watchman, Standing high on Zion's wall, Pointing out the path to Heaven, Offering, life and peace to all; With your prayers and with your { would appear to have warranted. Pos- bounties sibly it was too downright, too earn - You can do what Heaven demands; You can be like faithful Aaron, Holding up the prophet's hand. and theological books. His "Night Scenes in the Bible" had a very wide circulation, and is still a treasured book in many Christian homes though long ago out of print. His hymn was not received into the hymnals as speedily as its merits If among the older people You may not be apt to teach; "Feed my lambs," said Christ our shepherd, "Place the food within their reach." And it may be that the children, You have fed with trembling hand, Will be found among your jewels, • When you reach the better land. Let none hear you idly saying, "There is nothing I can dol" While the souls of amen are dying, And the Master calls. for you.. Take the task he gives you gladly, Let His work your pleasure be; Answer quickly when He calleth,— "Here alleth;"Here am I, send me, send me!' est to gain the approbation of com- pilers more concerned to turn out books that should command general popularity, than those which should best answer to the spiritual needs of their times. The United :States Methodist Epis- copal Hymnal of 1878 included just two stanzas of it. Ira D. Sankey eag- erly on the lookout for awakening hymns, found the remainder of the verses and published them in full in Sacred Songs and Solos, in his edition of that same year, and six years later the Scottish Hymnal gave five of its I six verses, 14Ir. March wrote the Ihymn in 1868. Possibly for general {use it would be improved by omitting I the fourth verse. It cannot, perhaps, be claimed that Mr. Sankey was as successful as us- ual in 'adopting music to the hymn, which may account for its not having won a wider popularity. "Everton," It is but natural at this time of year the tune suggested above for it, fits -when •Christian people have rejoiced :the words. fairly ~yell, but is not so their hearts in greeting Our Lord and distinctively its own as to carry the Saviour Jesus Christ, come as a little words into universal favor. Everton. Babe in Bethlehem, to bring salve- was composed byHenrymart a p tion to us, and also are turning their -thoughts towards the new round of 'months upon which they have enter - ,ed, to do His most holy will, that they should give greater attention 'to missionary work. To those who follow Hiin and call themselves Christians, Jesus has com- mitted the task. He began while on 'earth, of bringing the knowledge of 5aivation through ,Him to all man - :kind We are responsible now for the carrying on of His work, and if we allow heathen soul's to go down BABY LYONS. Lions In ll oodoo Zoo Bectiene Parente of Three teiAbe," The very young pair of lions trent: Abyssluia,' ,presented to the Laudon Zoo in. April, 1928, by the king„ have produced a litter of three cubs, all of whiolt, so far ...as can be ascertain- ed, are, healthy. On account of space the animals have been housed for serue time in the internal corridor a,t 'he east end of the lion house, with access to a small outdoor; cage teeing ale> ;waders' aviary, The quarters are t c ty, but dark, the only advantage beiug that the anirrrals cannot be ells- tnrbed by the public, and that even the keepers are at some distance from the sleeping -box. The cubs have been put by their mother in a dark, corner on the floor outside the sleep ing-box, where she has made a bed for them. Both . the king's lions are fairly tame and readily conteto the grating when a. keeper approaches. On Fri- day, when one of the officials went to inspect the arrangements, both ilon and: lioness at once came forward to greet him, but almost at once the gon, evidently thinking that the cubs should not be deserted, went back and stood over them, licking them. Presently, however, one of the cube gave a, little squeal and the mother at once got, up, ran back to the cubs, pushed the father away, and lay town beside them. The lion' took his lesson quite meekly, and stood just in front of the lioness as if he were on guard. Although there appears to be every prospect ofsuccess in rearing the cubs visitors will not be allowed ac- cess to the enclosure for some time. MAHARAJAH STTTDIED STAB$. Seventeenth Century Ruler Reenb Interested In Astronomy. There lived in India, in the seven- teenth century, a ruler known as Maharajah Jai Singh II., and being :eenly interested in astronomy h r . evolved .a series of structures which.. though not now used for practieie purposes, constitute the most unique astronomical instruments to exist- i lm,. He appears to have collected all kinds of astronomical books, and sent some workers to foreign countries to gather information. Having determined the kind of 1•- struments required on which to malt the necessary recording of the nio' - ments of the heavenly bodies, he sa- lected flve places in India as the .centres in which the observations Should be taken. The first he built. at. Delhi, and then others in Jaipur, Ujain, Benares; and Mathura. The observatories in Delhi and ,Jaipur have been carefully restored. Itt ad- dition to a number of metal instru- ments, some of them as high as 90 -,feet. Very careful records were made of the observations of his staff of work- ers, and modern astronomers have expressed surprise at the valuable information thus collected. The ruler responsible. for these interesting in- struments died in 1743 and his wives, concubines and science expired with. him on his funeral Lyre. Ing a Quandary. Before her marriage a Miss Lloyd George, Lady Carey Evans, recently told an amusing story• of how her father in his lawyer days, when driv- ing home in his dogcart on one oyes cion, came across a little Welsh girl trudging along so wearily that he of- fers her a lift. She accepted silently. All the way along Mr. Lloyd George tried hard to engage her in conversation, but could not get her to say a word. Some days afterwards the little girl's mother happened to meet him. "Do you remember that my little girl drove home with you the other day?" she said smiling. "Well, when sbe got indoors she said: 'Mother, I drove from school with Mr. Lloyd George, the lawyer, and he kept talk- ing to me. and I didn't know what to du, for you said that Mr. Lloyd George charges you whenever you tail with him,. and I' hadn't any money!' " well-known English musician, who- died in 1879 after endowing the church with a large number of well- known hymn tulles as well as Many 3 anthems and mud'. other sacred mus- ic, Kno4fs Pop Teacher—"Johnny, our father y, if y earned $40.00 a week and gave your mother h'a'lf, what would she have?" Johnny—"Heart failure,"- Wash- ington Dirge. /IMaitland ■ Cream ery 1 Cream, Eggs and Poultry '■ iii WANTED 1♦ a CALL U SF FOR PRICES. 1/ a / TN( E UNITE» FARMERS'; CO»OPERATIVE COMPANY LIMITED. 1/ VII'inghaxn, Ontario.. a Phone 271 ■ 1101101111011• Wilainitatammusiii•unin Centuries Old- Custom. The annual banquet of the ancient Cutlers' Company is always attended by the Lord Mayor of London. This custom has been maintained practi- cally continuously for 500 years: Beforethe dinner an oration known as the Boar's Head oration is delivered; then a boar's head is ear- ried in on a monster salver, preceded by the beadle of the company earry- ing his wand of. office, Behind wanks an official bearing a great ivory -han- dled knife and fork of the finest Brit- ish ritish steel. The :members stand :while the choir front "Christ Church, Grey- friars, sings the old carol: "The Boar's. Head, as I understand, Is the finest dish in all the laud." The origins of the customs are said to date from Viking days. New N. S. Scallop Beds. WING AM ADV,A,p(:B- `IM1 S LOSING ITS ROMAKB Scene of diiray's Elegy Is Now a .Town of `i iruber and iflulilditg Operations. It is a good thing for English lit- erature and for ennobling, spiritual meditation that tate Poet Gray lived when he did, in the middle of the eighteenth century. Ile would have found it difficult to write his -immor- tal elegy now, says a writer in 'the Loudon Daily Express .from Stoke Popes. The speculative builder is closing in on Stoke Popes and the church- yard. Like a ` beleaguering army, Whole battalions of red -roofed villas, bungalowsand bungaloids are en- compassing this rural jewel of imag- efy and solitary meditation. I came to the "country church - trd" to -day. . The "rugged elms," o tho'usaud-year-old yew tree, be- neath whose shade still "heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap" are still there. The "ivy -mantled tower," denuded of its ivy,- however, nowa- days, still struggles valiantly to top the tall trees. Across "the lea" -(pre- served by private generosity) in glor- ious autumn sunshine "the lowing. herds" were even to -day "winding slowly." The tomb of Gray, where he is bur- ied with his mother, whose loss he used to mourn .distressingly at her Shrine, stands where :it did. The Penna pew and the old window in a wing of the church—the window with the figure of a man on a bicycle (date 1642)—is still shown to visi- tors. The rude forefathers slept on beneath tumultuous waves of earth mounds, Somehow I felt, too, that had. I come at night "a mopping owl," the last of the Stoke Popes tribes would "to the man complain "Of such as wand'ring near her sacred bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign." There were worshippers wandering across the footpaths of the fields. The vicar, the Rev, Mervyn Clear, .came through the lych-gate. He talkad with his parishioners, now one, now another, as he came. Little girls were bringing flowers. It was an idyllic Sunday morning scene. True, the old churchyard has spread its borders. Neat new tomb stones and • standard -roses made .a modern bodyguard atthe approach. It seemed to me like decorating Ri vaul$ Abbey with geraniums. Two Americans with cameras stood watch- ing these modern embellishments: "Isn't it pretty," said one. "I must have a snap." Then they went further and found tiro soul of England amid the "inbui- d°ring heaps." Thus far, despite its decorative ex- tension andthe further fact that the lower branches of the famous yew have been stripped of leafage by sou- venir hunters. Stoke Popes church- yard still breathes the spirit of the immortal Elegy and its poet. Get someone to blindfold you and lead youthroughthe outer burial ground, and open your eyes only when you `Have reached the old churchyard itself. Sit beneath the yew tree's shade in silence; let the poem and its searching thought per- meate your consciousness, and the beauty, the wonder, the story of Gray's thought will still permeate the spiritual 'consciousness more search- ingly than any ;sermon or, music- or art. Generations have : coarse . to Stoke Poges and worshipped thus. It is yet not too late to company, with the spirits of the "mute inglorious 1Viil- „"village Hamp- den," to the dauntless "villa H p n, den," the "guiltless Cromwell," the "heart once pregnant with celestial re. But soon; I spoke to the vicar. "Half a mile along the road," he said, "they ,are proposing to build 2,000 houses. Over there"—he point- ed 'beyond the "rugged elms "is 'Timber Town.' We are doing what we can, yet 'with hope, to buy that patch of groind there.inBut every- where. they are closing on us. Go and see." I drove along the lanes right round Stoke Popes church. Here, there and everywhere boards pro- claiming land for building purposes placarded the hedge -rows. Away across the meadows inmass form- ation a garden city -a mass of burn- ing red brick and tile—had reared its flaring bulk against the laudseape. A vast area of: meadow.laud hadbeen pegged out in plots. Early -comers ,had fastened on the seclusion of Stoke Popes and built artistic home amid the greenwood, but mangy of them, fearful of the advancing hosts, were showing boards of sale. The speculators on every hand were enveloping the sa- cred resting -place of the inglorious dead, Soon Stoke Popes and the rude forefathers .will no longer be "far from the madding crowd's ignoble Strife." Their ruder descendants are seeing to that. ;ltu Old College Custom. At. Queen's College, -Oxford, Eng- land, an ancient New Year's custom is perbetuated, The college was founded by Robert of Eglesfleld, Queen to, Ed- ward Phillipa, u chaplain Q t . ward III., who became patron f the college. Robert had not much money, but was keen on thrift, and through that his memory Is Wen preserved. On New Year's Day those who dine in Hall receive from the bursar a needle threaded with silk ("aiguille et frl"--•-Eglesfield), and with the "Take this ad .monition: " e and be thrifty.", Uses for Volcano Ashes. { ;fishes and pumice spouted by Las- sen Peak in ,Cailfornla have been us- ed successfully in making paints, inks, and dyes after being soaked With 'natural cherrilcals. As a result, an Industry based on This discovery has sprung up, and gttantities of pow- der, which forms the material of the three prodricter are beteg sent to San lr'ranciseo to be nkad.e Into paint used primarily tor'automobiles. New scallop areas discovered on the western coast of Nova Scotia last, simmer aro belirved to promise con- siderable enlargement of the mallet) production of the province, Scallop landings in Canada 1928in totalled 26,304 barrels, with a,, ntar save • � • 1h0 83 8• alla value of I va u , . .d � kt tc 1771 barrels were taken by Nova Scotia fishermen: Most of the seal - :ape landed in Canada are marketed f.•csh, but a few are canned: It is be- lieved, e-tievgid, howeVer, that the rapid -freez- ing processwill be itncreasingly. used in the future in marketing these sheilfa lt. ;el Grass Insulation. utilisation of large quantities of eel grays In the manufacture of in- ,iulating material is in prospect in the A. 1 t;idie -:oast provinces, anti new r.ar ttir.i;• . pportutitles for the people ht halt; fishing districts are likely to t tr.rty this development The Oat t, eeei aro se long In matttring that th fetiti'g of them le not regarded as a ewer/eon:leipropositleh. Thursday, January 23rd, 1930 News and Information For the Busy Farmer Furnished by the Ontario Depart, merit of Agrletilture Damp weather and a leaky roof is bad for the healthiest of flocks, Bree- ding 'ewes require exercise and will live; in the open even in zero weather, but they need a dry, well -ventilated pen free from'draughts for shelter in bad, weather, Should Produce. More Cheese In an address, before the Eastern Ontario•Dairyman's Association, Prof, H. H. Dean of O,A.C, urged the adop- tion of,slpgans based on research to help production in the various lines of dairying, such as "Chew cheese and save your teeth" or "Eat cheese for supper and sleep well." Healso pointed out that if the Canadian fam- ily could be induced to eat one pound of cheese per week, it would mean a market of 100 million. pounds of this product right here in Canada, inr. stead of the present 30 or 35 millions. He urged the smaller cheese factories either to merge with their fellows to lower the cost of manufacture or else turn to specialties, such as small chee- se or some different kinds. • Produc- ers were urged to keep better cows and adopt better methods of feeding and general care. The Work of Scientists Gradually we are corning to appre- ciate the valuable contributions made` to agriculture and allied industry by the scientific experts who have made it their lifework to seek out methods of improving crops and of carrying on war against pests. Recently an- other of these distinguished men, W. T. Macoun, , Dominion Horticulturist, was honored by the American Pomo- logical Society in the award of the 'Wilder silver medal for his work in developing a new variety of apples and for his contribution to horticul- ture generally.. Canadians should not forget the contribution made by Dr. Saunders, who evolved a hard wheat which has done much to make Wes- tern .Canada the greatest grain -grow- ing country in the world. The work of these scientists has become an ab solutely indispensable counterpart of agricultural activity. New T.B. Area Negotiations' have been in progress, for some time towards the cleaning up of the herds in the easterly coun- ties of Ontario from bovine tuber culosis. The consent of the farmers has, now been .obtained and the work, of testing is underway. The area comprises the Counties of Russell, :Prescott, Glengary, Stormont, Dun- dee, Grenville, and parts of the Coun- ties of Carleton, Leeds 'and Fronten- ac. It includes Kingston in the.Srouth- west angle and Ottawa at the most northerly point, reaching eastwards t h- u ar at the sort the Quebec c bon d to „t e Y cast angle. It also includes the is- lands of the St. Lawrence belonging to Canada and in the Ottawa, Riiter belonging to Ontario. narYrcn�::.. New Wheat King The story of the career of Joseph H. B. Smith, of Wolf Creek, Alberta, who was recently crowned "Wheat v King of the World" at the Internat- ional Hay and Grain Show in Chi cage, is one that is typical of Canada, Smith left Leicester, England, im- mediately after graduating from col- lege twenty-two years ago, and carne direct to the Canadian West. Pick- ing a location removed even from the. fringe of settlements, he took up 'a quarter section ;of land and commen- ced the production of registered seed grain. For the past twelve years he has been taking prizes in oats and wheat at various provincial fairs and in 1924 won second prize at Chicago in the International competition. To - clay he farms a square mile of land In the centre of a very prosperous ag,•icul tucal district. Joins O.A.C. Staff AnnomiCelnent has recently been, made of the appointment to the 0. A. C, staff of Harry G. Bell, B,S.A., who will assume a position with the Department of Chemistry in connec- tion tion with the extension or c w 1 on soils and fertilizers. Mr, Bell is a native of Dufferin County and graduated from O.A.C.'in 1905. Until 1907 he was assistant experimentalist iti W 1 Dr, Zavitz but from 1907 to 1910 was a member of the Iowa State College of Agridulture, leaving there to be- come Professor of Agronomy at the University of Maine. Froin. 1911 to 1918 he was agronomist for :the Nat- ional Fertilizer , Association, Chicago, and from 1918 to 1928, directorof the Soil and Crop Improvement Cotn- rnittee;_ Toronto. Since 1928' he has been western representative of a conn- mercial firm. Mr..Bell, by virtue of his 'wide training and experience, slrottld render valuable service at "The College," SPECIALS WORTH. WHILE F A N C A .,R A T E N S R E G. T 0 85c L 1 N E S 38c Y A R D i 4 Yard ' Wide LINOLEUM 2.95 Yard Men's FLEECE UNDERWEAR 58c Each MEN'S HEAVY SHIRTS' 78C. Each Boys' ALL WOOL SWEATERS - 88`r Q /. Each CHILDREN'S WOOL MITTS 19c Pair Children's CHAMO. GLOVES 38c Pair "WOODS WINTER U'WEAR All Clearing LADIES' AND GIRLS' HATS' 1.00 Each LADIES' AND GIRLS' COATS 1/2 Price LADIES' SILK DRESSES Specially Priced. COATING - FLANNELS 98c Yard HEAVY SILK FUGI 53c Yard BUSHMAN'S FLANNEL 28c Yard WIDE FLANNELETTE 18c Yard i D., D .. W. I N D 0 W B L I D R E G. T 0 $1.60 I' N E S N 0 W 59c E A c H WALKER STORES, 1=20 01 0r"--10 ir:101=2 0= 0 0i I0 111.1=IN.M.E1. New Union Officers U: Z, Gibson of Caledonia was el- ' ected president of the Ontario Agri- { cultural Experimental Union at its annual meeting recently. J. Gale of Guelph, vice-president; W J. Squir- rel, sedretary; and A. W. Mason, of O.A.C., the treasurer. The meeting was featured by addresses by Prof J. E. Howitt, of O.A.C., J. Tucker, potato inspector for Canada, and J, A. Carroll of the Department of Ag- riculture, Toronto: Essay Contest Winners An essay contest open to the mem- bers of the 1929 "Royal Party" was conducted. in every 'comity by the dis- trictof the province by „the Ageicul- tural Representative Branch as a fol- low-up to the Royal Winter Fair Trip, last November. Each of the wr•itees of the ten best essays in the province receive free transportation, board aper lodging for two ' consectitive weeks while attending one ` of the srbtij h courses at O,A.C, or Kentptville Ag ricultural School. ,The essays •s'ubtnitL ted were of a very high calibre and young un . demonstrate that the o men 'fiad their "eyes open" for the 'dducatioi i lessons both at the fair acid ato1:lie' commercial plants visited'...: Th:e ytxin riche and the counties they i epresent• are as followsf Tose p1?l h ariiiirfl , Fair , hain;;.I el. onai•d HartMe,n, "•S7ak,Archie• Reici,•Wel l't'ngtott; Cid rge'tBtire Noath ' Sintcoe • .:Gordon 3etk yi'' entwonth; Raymond ?ollardr,.Assex;, °'$oU. Mc Donald, Grey; lr,ddie',:Mbwc,,, Bruce; Harold Poole, Leeds; Wilkie, Seeley,• Lennox and Addington. Scholarships Awarded. Anrtouneclnent has been ..lade' of the winners of 15 scholarships of $100 each offered by the T. Eaton Co. to members of the 1929 "Royal Party," The awards were made following city arninati•ons held in each county based. on the trip 'and general agriculture. The scholarships are to applied on a course at O.A.C. In addition, •the Hon, J, S, Martin, Minister of Agri- culture, is recommending .to the Gov- ernment that all tuition fees be re- mitted for the first two years of the winners' respective courses. The for- tunate young men and counties they represent are as follows: Herbert Markle, Waterloo; Doug- las Reid, Wellington; Frederick Stock. Oxford; W. J. 'Turnbull, Huron; Al- vin S. Wideman, York Jack See, Peel; Arthur E. Harvey, : Haldimand; W. McKague, Northumberland Gor- don B. Henry, Carleton; Maxwell Thom, Dundas; Donard J. McPhail, Glengarry; Carl P. Reid, Prince Ed- ,w,ard;., Lewis Tttcllett, Aigolnal Ever- ett Pitrk,'Pari-y Sound; James 'Maley, F s meds. Bay, ST. ANDREW'S W. 'Vi, S. " At: the January meeting of the W. :of St. Andrew's presbyterial . Church: on Tuesday, the following 'of- f icers':were elected: for the ensping ear, Pres.—Mrs,.J W. J. Henderson, ist Vice -Pres -Mrs. A. E T.loyai r 2nd •Vide>Pres:Yvt —Mrs. eGte, Secreta. —MissR LeWis. c Y ,. 'Treasurer—Mrs,B el •s. A. H. Fells. Glad — Mr nder Cx d Tidings , M s, J, on. A a Press Sec'y.—Mee, W, Mitchell, Welcome and Wel#ate Secred irie Mrs. J.• Currie. and Miss M. Graffiti,. 'Home Helpers' Sec'ys, — MiHS , C. Me$urney and Mrs. Tucker 'Literature and LibrarY.,Seerctar ,�, „ Y Miss Clow. . Supply Sec'y,-1Vi.rs, Nicholson. Pianist—Mrs. Craig. Senior Mission Banal- lvfrs. A. E. Lloyd. Mission Band Pres.—Mrs, Par- ker and Miss M. Itoliertsan, 9