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WING At ADVANCE—I14
175th, ACADIAN ANNIVERSARY
English-speaking people from
the • Maritime Provinces and
'the New England. States will join
with 3 reneh.•speaking inhabitants
sof Quebec and of Louisiana in cele
3arating the 175th anniversary of
'the dispersion of the• Acadian to
be held at Grand Pre, Nova Scotia,
August 20 next. Invitations have
been sent to the governments of
Great Britain, France, the United
States and Canada anrA also to the
governors of Louisiana and Mass-
achusetts to attend, 'while it is
expected that. the Lieutenant-
Governor and . Prime Minister of
Nova Scotia will be present and
will address the gathering.
Inauguration of the Acadian
Historic Museum established in
connection with the Grand • Pre
Memorial will be a feature of the
celebrations. Acadians from all
parts of the continent will be rep-
resented. Lay -out shows Church
at Grand Pre and statue of Evan-
geline "weeping for her lost coun-
try." Inset is Evangeline's Well
still supplying cold water as in
the days of the dispersed colony.
F
HYMNS
FAVORITE YORIT
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Face to face with Christ my Saviour,
Face to face how can it be;
When with rapture, I behold Him,
Jesus Christ, who died for nee?
Only faintly now 1 see Him,
With the darkling veil between;
But a blessed day is coming,
When His glory shall be seen.
What rejoicing in His presence,
When are banished grief and pain•!
When the crooked ways are straight-
ened,
And the dark things shall be plaint
Face to face—O blissful moment!
Face to face to see and know:
Face to face with my Redeemer,
Jesus Christ, who loves me so.
Chorus.
Face to face shall I behold Him,
Far beyond the starry sky;
Face to face in all His glory,
I shall see Him by and byl
In that well . known hymn on the
"Characters of Christ, borrowed from
inanimate things in Scripture," Dr,
Isaac Watts has the smoothly running
-verse:
"Nor earth, nor sea, nor sun, nor stars
• Nor heavens His full resemblance
bears;
His beauties we can never trace
Till we behold Him face to face."
It has been suggested that those
hires' inspired to. the writing.., of our
not well known hymn. Few of the
Church hymnals contain it, nor is it
commonly used in Sunday Schools,
although it is certainly not inferior
to many of the hymns sung. by con-
gregations or children on Sunday. Its
teaching is decidedly orthodox and
strictly Scriptural, and it is popular
for home use. It is well that there
should be , such hymns to be sting
by old and young on a Sunday, •or
Any other . evening when the fancily
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gathetrs around the organ or piano,
to spend a little time in singing the
songs of Zion: The holy ones at rest
in Paradise and the blessed in Heat-r-
en
eav
en spend, we are told, much of their
time in .singing praise- to God,and
well may we irritate' ° them while
strangers and pilgrims here upon
earth.
It is in the great poem to charity
or holy love (for poem it is though
not very clearly perhaps in our trans-
lation) in the thirteenth chapter of
St, Paul's first letter' to the Corinth-
ians that the words occur (verse 12)
"For now we see through a glass
darkly, but then face to face." St.
John has a similar thought (1 John
IV. -2) "We know that when He shall
appear, we shall be like Him; for we
shall see Him as He is." The Corin-
thian idea of the text in St. Paul's
letter would be "Now we see as in a
mirror dimly," the people of Corinth
being metal workers and accustomed
to metallic, though almost certainly
not to glass mirrors, nor probably to
glass at all.
Our translators did their best for
us in getting St. :l'aui's Greek words
into English and the lady writer of
this pretty little hymn very wisely
did not seek to go beyond the accept-
ed Biblical reading, No reflected
glory, but the real glory, not the mir-
rored face, but the blessed face itself,
that is her joy and hope for the fut-
ore:
i The writer of the words was Mrs.
Frank A. Brek, who also wrote the
lhymn "Nailed to the Cross," and the
less well known one
"Jesus conies with power to gladden
When love shines in."
Its music was written by Grant Cal-
fax Taller, whose music was of a
somewhat similar character ' to that
of M. H. Doane, M. B. Bradbury, Ira
D. Sankey, P.P. Bliss and others of
that United States school of the mid-
dle and later part of the last century.
Other verses have been added to the
original and another chorus added re-
ferring to the blessed departed, but
so far as is commonly known, the
hymn as Mrs. .8rek wrote it ran as
printed above.
TUE PTARMIGAN
Lonely Bird et the Nigher Mountains
Naas Protective
Coloring;
One . ,of the most remar>'lable in-
stanees of protective coloring, is that
lonely bird of the higher uiountaiaa,
the ptarmigan. We and it on some of
the highest and most desolate moue-
tains of Scotiend, writes Oliver C.
Pike, ]3.Z.S., in Tit -Bits, I have weir
It sitting on its neat with snow a few.
'feet away;. on ono bleak mountain I
had just left a mass of snow soverai
feet thh k and was ,making my way
over thea sipping, rook -strewn silo,
%viler' I almost stepped on a sitting
ptarmigan.
I was just able to twist my foot
roue to land a few 'inches from her
back. If I had stopped in my stride
she would have flown away, but I
continued straight on, and when a
dozen yards away, made ready my
camera and returned slow*',
The secret of successful bird -stalk-
ing is to make no sudden movenaeut,.
to remain absolutely still the: instant
the bird shows any sign of moving,
and to `rernain motionless until it set-
tles down. By going forward in this
manner I was able to get near enough
to obtain' several good pictures.
The eggs of the ptarmigan have a
considerable resistance to cold, far
more than the eggs of birds which
nest in the lowlan118. There is an in-
stance on record of a clutch being
covered by a heavy fall of snow. A
week later, when the snow melted,
the owner returned and hatched
them.,
Wash Day
Is Easy
Now
alganagfaate
Particularly if you have
a modern Connor Elec-
tric' Washer in your
home. No tearing of
clothes, no back -break-
ing work. Just fill the
tub with hot water, drop
in the clothes, turn a
switch and the work is
done.
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Wingham Utilities Commission
Crawford Block. Phone 156.
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The ptarmigan lives in a district
where there are ,.easonal changes
with great contrasts. In the spring,
when she has to spend considerable'
time sitting on her eggs, she acquires
a plumage which matches the
ground, for her nest is made • in a
slight hollow on the mountain side..
This moult commences in March
and all the upper feathers are re-
newed. The general color is a light
buff, mocttled with grey and black,
which harmonizes cleverly with the
greyish ground. When summer comes
the ptarmigan chauges her dress to.
one of a bluish grey which makes it.
difficult for us to detect her as she
moves over : the moors.
If this bird were to retain either or
these plumagea for the winter when
the mountains are covered with
snow, it would be a prominent object,
and might now be extinct. But na-
ture has given the ptarmigan a won-
derful dress oP pure white to last un-
til the spring.
A ptarmigan in winter plumage is
a beautiful bird. It is preyed upon
by the golden eagle, but this winter
dress that makes the bird look like
part of the snowy, landscape crakes it
difficult for this great marauder to
pick it out, and if'a bird of prey
chows itself in the ,ptarmigans'
haunt, all the birds squat low on •the
snow, or under the side of a rock,
and remain there until the coast Is
clear.
Both ptarmigan and its near rela-
tion, the red grouse, have difficulty in
finding food on the higher ground
when snow covers the slopes. The
red grouse solves the food problem
by burrowing under the snow. One
well-known authority describes how
a thick fall of snow was festooned
with burrows, making it easy for the
birds to pass from place to place in
search of food.
1i101Ui3LLhi `CAi.eerie
t'orrw Tides in Twelve &lours 'Ike
Place iu Liver !North.
A singular natural phenomenon
connected with the tides is to be ob-
served in the neighborhood of Kin -
Cardillo and adjacent places in the
ul##er'reach of the River forth (Scot-
land) from Culross to Alloa: This is
the so-called lakies or double tides,
which have long been a subje.et oP
remark, but to account for which
hitherto no explana;thhn has been de-
vised.
W Lien the tide le deveing, and has
done so for three hours, it receaes
for the space of two feet, or, a little
more, and then returns on its regular
course an. it leas reached the limit of
high water. Similarly, in ebbing, it
begins to flow again, and then res
cedes to the limit of low water, thus
causing four tides in twelve hours,
or eight in twenty-four. The space
over which it thus flows and recedes
varies a little, and sometimes the
lakie only shows itself by the tide
coming to a standstill for about an
hour and a half.
The legendary account of the mat,
ter is, that on one occasion, when St.
Mungo, with some of his ecclesiastics,
was sailing up the Forth to Stirling,
the vessel went aground in ebb tide
and eould not he refloated.. The saint
exercised hie miraculous powers, and
the tide in consequence returned, so
as to enable him and his companions
to proceed on their journey; and
there has been a double tide in this
region of the. Forth ever since, It Is
believed that these lakie or leakie
tides are peculiar- to this locality,
though a somewhat similar phenom-
enon is said to occur at Southampton
and Portsmouth.
Interesting Figures.
Interesting statistics issued at Ot-
tawa recently show that Canadians
drink a pint of -milk a day on an
average, melting an increase of ap-
proximately 10.0' per,' cent `since: r:9 21.
Canadians are also said to eat
more butter per capita than any other
people in the world as indicated by a
figure of 29.31 pounds per man, wo-
man and child annually. The per
capita consumptionof milk is 470.8
pounds a year, which is compared
wttlr- 44ff: pound:.:per capita ..tor the
United States.
Ice-cream, likewise, has shown an
increase, the 1928 figure being 7.04
pints per capita as compared with
5.26 pints for 1921.
The consumption ofcheese in the
past seven years has .alsb risen. from
2.51 pounds to 3.54 lbs. per capita
per year.
Where "Charlie" Landed.
Inthe Outer Hebrides, where soli-
tude niay be had in wholesale quan-
tities lies bhe tiny island of Eriskay,
about three miles long and two miles
wide. It war in July, 1745, that
Charles Stuart handed on this rocky
spot, and, feeling the ground of his
family's ancient kingdom under his
feet for the first time, exelaiiued, "I
am come homey"
Charles took with him from France
some seeds of the pink convolvulus
and sowed them in commemoration of
Ms landing and of the sanctuary he
had received' in France.. This plant
still grows on Eriskay, and it is, be-
lieved not to exist 'anywhere else in
the British Isles.
Too Birch Fuss.
During the hearing of a case,
Judge Darling was disturbed by a
youth who kept moving about in the
rear of the court,
"Young maze," exclaimed the
judge, "you are making a good deal
of unnecessary Boise. What are you
doing?"
"I have lost my 'overcoat and am
trying to findit," replied the
offender.
"Well," said Darling, "people often
hose whole suits in here without all
that fuss." --Philadelphia Ledger,
"Pistole,"
The current 'French-Caiadian word
for a dollar is still a "pistole," an
ancient French coin, formerly worth
10 francs, to -day still uoininally used
le some parts of France in buying
and Belling horses,
Beat the World.
In shipbuilding, Great Britain beat
the world In 1929, Of the total ton-
nage launched, well over half Caine
frcitn British yards.
A HNOCK-OJT.
A Real Fight. Occurred Between a.
Nilghai and a Gnu.
9 light between two of the queer-
est
ueerest beasts imaginable took place at
the London Zoo recently. One was a
brindled -gnu and the other a nilghai
—a large Indian antelope known as
"the blue buck." The head of the
former and the legs of the latter
seem so out of proportion to the body
as to suggest that the animals had
been wrongly "dished out" with
theatrical properties.
Several niighai and black buck
have for some time past been living
peaceably together in the antelope
paddock; but recently some gnus
were introduced. One of the nilghai
—a young bull—took exception to a
rival in eccentricity, for, lowering his
head, he charged with his short, dag-
ger -like horns. The gnu sank on its
knees and countered the onslaught
by an upward and sidewards bhrust
of its curved horns, following this up
so viciously that the young bull is
now in the sanatorium with severe
injuries.
AU -Empire Shops.
An all -Empire shop, the first of
Its kind in Britain, was opened in
Glasgow not long ago.
This is one oP the ventures of the
Empire Marketing Board, which has
done so much to encourage the sale
of Empire products. The stock is be-
ing changed fortnightly, so that the
produce of various ` dominions and
colonies will be displayed In turn.
Cooking demonstrations and the dis-
tribution of Empire recipes are part
of the ahop:s program.
Another feature is the giving away
of free samples of various Empire
products, further supplies of which'
can be obtained from local traders.
If the Glasgow shop is a success,
other all.: Enipira shopsmay be opera.
ed elsewhere, one possibly in Loudoir,
but at the moment of writing nothing
definite has been arranged,
News and Information
For the Busy Farmer
;(Furnished by the Ontario Depart-
trent of Agriculture)
The statement was made during the
World's Poultry Congress in London,
England", fhat British consumers pay
sixty thousand pounds sterling ($800,-
000) daily for eggs end poultry at
this season of the year. Surely there
is a great opportunity for Canadian
poultrymen in this great British mar-
ket.
Fair Dates
Central Canada E.hibition, Ottawa,
August 18 to 23,
Canadian National Exhibition, Tor-
onto, August 22 to Sept,. 6.
Western Fair, London, September 8
to 18, •
,Interprovincial Plowing Match, at
Stratford, October 14 to '17.
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, at.
Toronto, November 19 to 27.
Lincoln Juniors Compete
The Household Science Judging
Competition conducted on July 25th
at Beamsville, Lincoln County, was
very largely attended. A total. 'of 78
girls from. thirteen different districts
in the county were on hand to com-
pete for the $200 in prizes which was
offered. These prizes, consisting of
$125.00 worth of silverware and $90.00,
cash prizes, the .latter being compris-
ed as follows: $50 ter the high girl.
in the county competition donated by
Major Burgoyne, manager of the St.
Catharines Standard, offered to de-
fray the expeuses of the winner to
the Boys' and Girls' Congress at Chi-
cago, at the time of the International
Live Stock -Exposition; $40 donated
by the County Women's Institute, to
be divided equally and be given to
the coaches of the two highest teams
of three junior. girls in the county.
competition.
Better Bulls in North
In connection with the better bull
campaign in the District of Temis-
kaming, it is of inteeest to note that
since June, 1928, between fifty and
sixty inspected bulls have been plac-
ed in the district. This is evidence of
the interest Temiskaming farmers are
taking in better live stock. The sheep
population has trebled in the last
three years.
Coals to Newcastle.
Believing her to be almost desti-
tute, kindly neighbors of Mise Mary
Pannell, aged. 79, who occupied,. a
small house in Regent street, Ports-
mouth, England, had often helped
her, but a revelation awaited them,
When Miss Pannell fell i11, and was
taken to the infirmary, officials of
the local guardians searched the
house, and found about $11,500 in
many odd corners. A trinket -box was
packed with $1,260 worth of sove-
reigns, and in a locked room was $5,
-
000 in notes and gold. Three large
wooden chests were crammed with
silver and copper, and other coins
were found in shopping bags, boxes
and purses. The hoard was removed
in a motor -ear under a police guard.
Canada's Coal Fields.
Canada will not have a fuel prob-
lem for neatly generations. 'Mader the
broad acres of Alberta alone, there is
a coal reserve which is adequate to
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meet the needs of theneon for
Dominion
hundreds of years, for aceeording to
reliable estimates there is a store of
no less than 1,059,000,000,000 tons.
The quantity makes the imagination
reel. Last year the province's 247
mines produced 7,384,179 tons of
coal, 2,422,729 tons of which were
shipped to other provinces in
Canada,
John 1Vlorley's Answer.
The humor of English pol.itieal
campaign speeohes, at its beat, is un -
Surpassed. When the late John Mor-
ley had finished an oration by re-
questing his hearers to vote for him,
one man jumped up and shouted
angrily, "I'd rather vote for the
devil."
Quite so," returned the unruffled
statesman, "but in case your friend
declines to run, may I not then count
upon your support?"
British Chartered Accountants.
British Chartered accountants are.
to be found all ever the world. There
are 70 in New York, 29 in Chicago,.
36 in Buenos Ayres, as well as 29
In Singatioro.
Baby Girls Preferred.
Baby boys ate not so popular: as
girls among those who wish to adopt
a child,
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4311110
Excellent Pea Yields
Every year a greater acreage is de -
voted in Ontario to growing such
craps as peas, beans, tomatoes, corn
and cucumbers for the canning trade,
Most of the growers find the returns
satisfactory, this year promising to lze
better than :usual. While the w.eatlzer
has not been favorable to all chops,
it has been suitable for peas. In
Lanabton County farmers received $52
a ton for peas and procured a yield
as high as two tons per acro. In Dur-
ham one farmer had a yield of 4600
pounds for which he zeceived $126.50
and cleared $10$.50 after paying for
the seed. One grower in Essex re-
ported a clean profit of $726 from
this crop alone. Hears will soon be
ready for canning and growers are
being paid $55 per ton delivered at
the factory.
Lack of Rain Costly
Continued dry weather over a per-
iod of seven or eight weeks resulted
in serious crop losses in Southwest-
ern and Central Ontario. D. E. Car-
roll of Elgin County states that the
corn and bean yield in that district
will be considerably iedueed. A wat-
er shortage has been experienced in
spine districts, althangh riot so ser-
ious as last year. Harvesting is tak-
ing place two weeks earlier than us-
ual, Threshing reports from Western
Ontario indicate a good yieldof bar-
ley. H. Graham of the Kemptviile
Agricultural school reports conditions
in .Eastern Ontario very satisfactory.
Prospects are bright for a bountiful
grain harvest and lace crops are not
suffering for lack of moisture as they.
have in Western counties. Northern
Ontario is suffering from another ex-
treme ofweather-far too much rain.
In Temiskaming particularly' crop
prospects are very poor, 'owing to
excessive rainfall in July. , Farther
north the situation is more satisfac-
tory and crop prospects in the Coch-
rane area are about normal.
Keep Them Clean
Elaborate barns and expensive
equipment are not necessary in the
production of clean milk although
they do help. More important is the
keeping of the stable clean and wash-
ing and sterilizing of the equipment
in use. Following this there must be
proper cooling of the cream or milk,
and if selling cream, frequent deliv-
eries must be made, especially during
the hot weather. No creaineryman.is
in a position to snake the highest
grade of butter from cream that is
not clean and of good flavor. A dairy-
man can greatly assist in raising the
score • of our Canadian butte,.
course there must he proper
in{ nt and cane in the creamery.
often cream is held too long at, the
farm to make first-class butter.
Seek Increase in Yield
A. 1). Runions, agrioulteral res?res-
entative for Lennox arid Addington,;
in co-operation with the Department,•
of Chemistry, O.A.C., i.s conductitn;e
fertilizer experiments with some of
the county's most prominent gro 'ere
in an effort to learn some method of
hastening .she ripening of tomatoes a
a sufficiently early date and .'hence
miss the possibility of danger through:
an early frost. The acreage of -}tom-
atoes has been considerably increased
this year and in spite of a Heavy los
in June from an early frost, the Plante,
give promise of a heavy crop. A solo-,
tion of the above problem would,
mean the difference between profit-
and
profitand lass for growers there. rour
additional vining and weighing sta-
tions have been built this year in Len-
nox and Addington er.d yet they are.
enable to adequately handle the pea;
crop which is the heaviest, ever lra> -
vested there.
Isolation Essential in Abortion.
Abortion takes a large toll of the,
dairy industry and it is regretable that
so little is known about control Wren
,sures. Vaccines of one kind or the
I other havebeen sold and some of
{ them seem to be fairly successful itt
some herds, but have little effect .its
others. One or two facts are sure;
,the spread of the disease is largely
through the germs expelled in the
droppings and carried to the feedgiv-
en
to healthy cows or heifers. Prob-
ably the contagion is carried on the
feet of the herdsman. This should
be prevented if, possible and infected,
cows kept away from the rest of the
herd at calving time and for a short
time after the cow has cleaned.
Decrease in Alsike
In 1929 over 2,000,000 pounds of
alsike seed were sown n HaldimancL
County, but this year scarcely a field
of alsike is" -to be seen. It was too -
dry to get a catch crop last year. Red
clover has also suffered. The growing.
1 of small seeds is important and there
are no less than 11 seed cleaning
plants within the county. Bluegrass,
of cvliich 1,000,000 pounds were pro-
duced last year, is mostly exported.
It comes with the alsike or the year
following and may yield around 200
lbs. to the acre.
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For Wingham Merchants Only
Being one of a series of chats with Wingham businessmen
in which it is suggested how they may increase their
volume of sales.
Turning W Sales
iQuick-to Turnover
N this, the last of a series of six advertisements, the
precedingI five is empha-
sized.
idea advanced in the�
baS1C
sized. That idea, simply; is this
You've got to put forth every effort to keep Wing -
ham's folks coning to your stores and buying in your
stores. i 046.. , t !r -- • 4,0
Adiertising in your local home newspaper can help
accomplish that aim. Not only your own advertising,
but the advertising of the manufacturers ,N -hose goods
you stock as well.
You cannot get the advertising support of these
manufacturers merely by wishing for it. You've got to
make the manufacturers realize how necessary it is to
you, if you are to sell their goods successfully.
And you can make the manufacturers realize it by
selling their salesmen who call on you on Wingham—
by interesting thein in Wingham as an outlet for your
merchandise—by interesting thein in your local, home
newspaper as the means to more sales of your inerchan'
dise i11 Wingham.
This is an opportunity, you merchants of \\Ingham,
that you should make the most of, one that may mean
all the difference between slow, infrequent sales and
quick, profitable turnover.
You need the advertising aid of the manufacturers whose goods
you stock * urge their salemen to recommend your local, home
newspaper,
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