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•11, E. Elliott, .Assuciate EGiitor
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Office In Chishoim. Block
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BARRISTER, Etc.
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Graduate Royce College of Dente
Sureaone
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry
FFECE OVER H. E. ISARD'S STORE
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Specialattention paid ,to, diseases of
Women and Chilcirenno baying taken
pd.atgreduate work in";'Burgery, Bao-
teriology' and Salentine Medicine,
Office ie the Kerr Residence, between'
the queen's Hotei and the Baptist
• Church. •
ail business given careful attentlof.
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ffYsICIAN AND .SURGEON
(Dr. Chisholm a old atand)'
DR.
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Graduate of Ualarereity of Toroalte.
F;aculty of Medicine; Licentiate of. ;the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office Entrance-
OtFI'ICE IN CHISHOLM BLOCK
"JOSEPHINE STREET PHONE 811
General. Practitioner
GraduateUni'i* f
ersity o Toronto.
Faculty of Medicine.
Cflice—Josephine St„ two_. doors south,
of Brunswick Hata
Telephones ----Office 281. Residence 151
Osteophatic Physician
PARKER
OSTEOPATHIC' PHYSICIAN
Ail Diseases Treated.
Office adjoihing tresidence next
Anglican Church On ;Centre Street
..:Open every day except Monday and
Wednesday afternoons. ,
Osteopathy Electricity
Phone '272.
DittGLES8' PHYSICIAN
CHIROPRACTIC -
DR. J. N FOX
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Fully Qualified Graduate.
Drugless Practice being in absolute
accord- with the Laws of Nature gives
the very best results that may be ob-
tained:in any. case.
Hears --10 - 12 aina 2 - 5 and 7 - 8 p.m.
'Phone 191:
D. Hs dNNES
!IIIROPRACTOIt
Qualified Craiduate' .
Adjustments givenfor diseases of
all kends, specialize •in, dealing with
e}zildreri. , Lady WlttandaaL Nigikt calls
a'espoinded to.
Ofilee on Scott St, 'ninghaura, Ont.
(i beeff hi tlteenate: Jas Walker).
Photo 150: ;
'homes, °Ince: 106,
ifeahienoe: 224.
A. J. WALKER
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1•k•A:T. I)/RECTOR
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WINcp'aifi,. i ADVik•;NC)±;»TX11IES
.AND TI -1
,U Oft PRECISE .LSV t]N.
Aia5in : perivig` Up Country and Establishing Industries
and Means of Com nun cs yon.
Fisheries, at such points as Vancouver
and Prince Rupert on the Pacific
coast, and Halifax, Yarmouth, and
Father Point on the Atlantic. Starting
in from the seacoast the levelling en
gineer, with his spirit level incorpor
ated in a modern instrument called a
precise level, proceeds inland ' by
means of a myriad of consecutive
sighting stations, . determining as .he
goes along just how far above sea
level each new station is.
To retain for all future use the re-
sult of his levelling, at points sufficient
in number for public service, he sets
in solid' rock or masonry, or in eon-
Crete piers erected for this purpose,
a series of copper poles or tablets to
bear a chisel 'mark, :the elevation of
which he has determined, and which
is included in published tables "of ele-
vation. , The records thus established;
are technically known as bench -marks.
Thus the precise levelling goes tor-
ward and the result is an ooean to
ocean net of accurate data, placed at
the convenient 'command of the pub -
Since the inauguration of ` precise
levelling by the Geodetic Survey some
eighteen years, ago good progress has
been made and approximately 17,000
miles of levelling has been run. In
the permanent' recording of this work
some 5,500 bench -marks have been es-
tablished, thereby bringing many iso-
lated :levelling :projects to an accurate
sea level datum and paving the way
for the inauguration of future pro
Survey Department of Marine andjects.
The -carrying of mean sea level
datum to the interior of a Country, that
is the determination of the exact
height above mean sea level by means
of a precise levelling instruaueet, Is a
work - of the utmost importance. Xn
Canada the precise control of the
Geodetic Survey is used as a basis for
nearly all the other eurveysahat are
carriedon in the Dominion, and bY,
this means a great saving to the peo-
ple of Canada is effected. By the pro-
jection of these accurate lines of levels
into new territory, important develop-
anegts such as the constiaretion of
railways, dams, water -power plants,
drainage and irrigation systems, and
the opening up of mines may be carried,
forward to-copipletion without the
Same necessity of running complete
individual surveys for each new -work
and at the same tinge without;` the pos-
sibilities of errors which' these inde-
pendent surveys would involve.- Thus
if the .state did not undertake this
work development would be greatly re-
tarded and the added expense when
works were completed would neces-
sarily
ecessarily mean a heavier burden to all
the people.
The necessity: for exact ;'surveys is
everywhere recognized and it
is the
aim of the different organizations en-
trusted with Canadian surveys to at-
tain as nearly as economically feasible
to absolute accuracy. Mean sea• level
is determined by means of gauges
maintained by the Tidal and Current
Guideposts and Milestones.
Travelers along the roads of Eng-
land, even as late . as the reign of
George I., had few guideposts and mile-
stones to direct Ahem to .their jour-
ney's end. In fact, they' -ere far less,
familiar objects than road -side crosses
or memorials.
Guideposts were scattered about the
roads before the . milestones made
'their appearance. The earliest type.
was ,a wayside cross bearing a direct
ing arm. Probably' one • of these old
guideposts gave its name to Hand
Cross, on the Brighton road, England..;
In Stuart times there were. very Pew
guideposts and no milestones. One'.
traveler, about this period, states that
in some parts of the -country, where
there are crossroads, there is some-
times found a post -with a hand to di-
rect ,people the right way, but no dis-
tances are shown.
An Act of Parliament was passed in
1698, ordering justices to erect guide-
posts at all crossroads, but in 1713
complaints were made that its provi-
sions
rovsions were disregarded.
Travelers complained of the lack of
guidance, one man stating that on one
occasion he arrived at a crossroad
which "fronted nine ways- at once with-
out a single directing post”
Many; of the early guide posts were
set up by private individuals. Oneof
these is at Teddington, and known asTeddington Hands, It is a five -armed
post and was first set up by Edmund
Attwood, of the Vine Farm, and repair-
ed by successive generations- 'of his
family, when it came to Alice Att-
wood, of the tenth generation, This
lady repaired the post in 1876,being
the last of the family. Another pri-
vate g
ri-vate.depost is near Bicton,in Dev-
onshire; on its sides are directions,
followed by Scriptural texts.
Milestones are still of . more recent
origin.'than guideposts,, although the
Romans; during their' occupations, set
up many distance stones on - their
roads; One of these Roman milestones
can be seen in Leicester Museum.
On the . Great North road, in Eng-
land, in the seventeenth century, many
milestones were set up. These were
not only milestones,' but mounting
blocks as well, designed for the con-
venience of horse riders.
Early in the eighteenth century a
number of milestones' were set up an
the high road at Cambridge. This was
done at the instance of Trinity Hall,
one of the oldest colleges comprising
Cambridge University,
The college. held £1600, which had.
been left in 1686 by two former mem-
bers, the interest to be used to repair
the road •between Cambridge and
Barkway. In 1725 part of this money
was expended in providing milestones
on this stretch of road.
The eighteenth century was well ad-
vanced before official milestones were.
placed on the highway. A standard
pattern was soon introduced: At first
they , were square, but after a few,,
years the now double-faced variety
was found to be more convenient and
was scan adopted all over the country.
Round the World in Seven-
teen Days.
People were vastiy entertained when
Jules Verne caused, his fictional there,
Phineas Pegg, to make eircttil of the
earth in eighty' days.
Now a commercial oonea,i'n an-
nounoes Bound the World Trips by
airship and aeroplane' in seventeen
daps, and causes no astonishment.
A companny has been formed in Lon-
don to conduet these tciuts according
to the 'i'ollowinn itinerary) London to
Paris and Constantinople by aeroplane,
to Australia by airship, to San Fran;
cisco by airship -to New York by aero-
lane, to Landoll by airship.
In the ctypt chapel under the lBrit-
a, llouso o;i Comnioiis is preserved
altar cloth rep'iited to have been
',de, by tltteeni Elizabeth.
WORST ITS YET^ CME •�w
Melancholy,- But the King
' Approves.
Though little is said or done when
the British sovereign opens Parlia-
ment In person, - the custom . is well
wortb retaining if only for the mag-
nificent spectacle that it offers. But
when it -comes to the simula,cre,—thaf
Is, the .opening of Parliament` by royal
commission,—the grand pageant is re-
placed by a pitiable mockery, and as
for the proroginine by royal commis -
siert, that .is -so we learn from • Sir
Henry Lucy in. Lords and'Co•mmoners
an even more melancholy; spectacle.
The .five commissioners, he writes,
are received with elaborate ceremony
that tapes up a deal of time that Might
e well be spared at the.end of a busy
Wifie-"Oh, how sweet it was of you
session, but it is nothing to what fol
What Do You Think of Him, Girls?
lows:' There is a mighty pile of bills
to tome that, having passed bot : %houses of
tuber my birthday with those
beautiful roses. But there were only Parliament, now await the royal as -
twenty -five of them when there should
have been thirty,"
Hubby—"My, my, did I make a mis-
take? There's -a mirror just opposite
you—can you blame me, dear?"
The Earliest Pen. '
Among the recent discoveries at
Kish is a great treasure in the shape
of the oldest known pen. Professor
sent. The clerk on the right-hand side.
-of the table, 'taking: up the bills 'one
Teacup p Foriunes.
The custom ,of telling fortunes from
tea -leaves left in the cup is by no
means on the wane, It to a simple
matter to memorize most of - the signs, -
and a good imagination is also -of great
assistance!
Leaves in the form of a train are
said to mean either a journey or the
arrival or departureof some one in
whom- you:. are interested. A snake in-
dicates enemies. :Doves are supposed
to be lucky, and so are stars, the cr.es
cent moonand horseshoes.
News from abroad 'is' often fore
shadowed by a tent. Shoes mean a
joifrney. If the cup is -clear all round
it is said to be a good sign. Gloves
indicate a meeting with strangers;
while ` stockings usually foreshadow
presents.
Chairs mean visitors; keys new un-
dertakings.:'Initials are usually deem-
ed •, to be lucky. Black 'cIusters of
trees mean gatherings., but may also
be taken to mean 'a cluster of worries.
by one, first bows low to the cloaked
figures of the. commissioners; ducking —iys
as if a sustaining bolt had been cud-
denly withdrawn from the region of Words That work Hard.
the small.; of the back.He reads out I
the title of the bill.Thereupon com
mences the task of the clerk on the
left. If it be .a money bill,, the clerk,'
first bowing low to the commission
Langdon, diaector of the Weld-Blun- ers, turns his head slightly to the- lett
dell anti' Field Museum Archaeological and over his` shouider`;throws at the
Expedition, who was delighted at find- Speaker and the assembled Commons
the
ing this bone stylus; for'writing cunei- phrase: "Le' roi remereie ses
dorm, says that many scholars had bons sujets, accepts.'leur benevolence,
vainly tried to reconstruct the instru et ainsi le veult." '(The king thanks.
meat. a his good subjects, accepts their bounty
This stylus is a triumph of sim plici 1. I it be an ordinary
1 p and proves i) f
ty.It is a bone, six inches long, with measure; he says with the same n e a
n-
a
-triangular cross-section and pared choly geetore: "Le roi le venit (The
ends. After: a little practice Professor king. approves).
Langdon was' able to -'mape cuneiformo
ng' Whether there are ten- bills or two
inscriptions on clay with fair rapidity.. hundred, the process- is the ,same.
Professor Langdon considers that First the clerk on the right-hand side
theyniound twenty miles south-east of bows to the commissioners~ second,
Nippur, may be identified as thesite he recites the name of the bill; third,
ofthe city of Isin. Isin was the:capi-, he bows again; fourth, the . clerk on
tal of a dynasty which ruled over a
great part of Babylonia after that of
Ur from about 2280 B.C. to about 2050
B.C.
Solving the Problem.
Ten -year-old Jinuny finally reached
what threatened to be his limit of ex-
pansion, when dessert was served.
Timmy stared but found the solution.
the left-hand side bows to the commis-
sioners; fifth, with scornful gesture of
disregard -he throws over his shoulder
to the awed Commons the 'assurance
of the rroyal assent; sixth, he heaves a
'little sigh of sympathy with the ,com-
missioners for having to meet the
Q,ommans; seventh, he bows again,
and his colleague takes up the next,
and the whole process:4 iS gone
He reached for ,his belt buckle ,and an over again, the phrase "Le ref le veult"
the tide of a long -drawn sigh exclaim-
ed "Guess I'll have to move the deci-
mal point two places."
Needn't Wait. -
The tenor, with wide-open mouth
had just emitted his first Dote, when
the sweet young thing who had volun-
teered` to act as accompanist suddenly
discovered that her back hair needed
patting.
,'Just go right on," she . directed,
"I'll play fast and catch iva with you." daytimee
rising and falling over the deserted.
House like 'the.cry of the curfew on a
distant desolate rock.
There arewords 'it is almost impos-
sible to avoid using, however careful-
ly.do so.
we maY . try to
It is saidthat a quarter of the task
of expressing oneself in'the English
language is borne by nine words—and,
be; have, it, of, the, to will, and - you.
Itis also asserted that these nine -With
thirty-four other words, form half the
words the average talker uses in or-
dinary conversation.
The additional thirty-four are , as
follows: about, ail, as, at, but, can,
come, day; dear, for, get, go; hear, if,
in, me, " :much, not, on, say, she,
so, that, these, they, this, though, i
timerawe,, with, write, your, her, and,
•won e an in eies ing and in-}
structive occupation ` for readers to
underline on, any' one page of this
paper the words included in this listl,
of forty-three, and see how near the
total number comes to being half of
the whole. ,
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(3,31trictVE tL
Nobody knows -the age of tine world,
but v✓e all a tee that it's .-c'lot encu h
Ja g
to 'know better.,
A specialist in nervous diseases
says that women should sleep nine
hours at night and one hour in, the
Awful Stuff.
—
Bing Goodness, Mr. Skeet, you're'
intoxicated!"'
Skeet-Yesh. Never bite a follow
(hie)` again that's' been drinking home'
brew!'.'
IRRIGATION
•• The Eighteenth; annual Ceeveiitioa
of the Western Canada irrigation ' As-
suulation were held In Calgary, Alberta,
on the last three days of ;July, 11. is a
remarkable thing that whenever an
irrigation meeting :is held in ono of Al-
berta's cities, rain invariably comes.
Following' a period of drought, two
1 inches of rain fell the day preceding
the convention,' while a heavy ,?bower
on the last day prevented the dele-
gates from participation In an automo-
bile tour of the irrigated land West of
tha;•city.
In the period of thirteen years, since
the, last. convention took place in Cal-
gary, great strides have been made In
irrigation .development in 'Western
Canada, One large area, the Western
Section of the Canadian' Pacific: Rail-
way's Irrigation adjacbistnto•: the
city, • has been p'eapied by` in'du'strious
settlers who nave prospered and have
attractive homes, surrounded by trees,
on what was, at the time of the last
convention, bare prairie. In no part
` of, the West hap there been any; de-
velopment comparable to it in a Simi,
lar period. Further east of Calgary,
arou;id Brooks, thousands of acres are
producing crops of, high value where
formerly nothing at all was produced
at,,,the tinge the 1911 convention was
helil'in Calgary.
In other parts ;of the province and
in South-western Saskatchewan, ;irri-
gation is bringing about wonderful
transformations leading to pr'odperity
i and:better living conditions, and while
only the• fringe of possibilities have.
been realized, the developwent of`irni.
gation had niry reached a -stage worthy
of the attention of business men and
others not directly engaged is farm-
ing' under irrigation. Comparing the
STERN
resailt'st o'b'tained'dnuider iantdnr�al
fail with' ieslaith'anouied-tinder irr
tion, the. Dominion Government,
porimental harnn at Lethbridge issueli'
the followings figures, the percentages
of increase being (Al. op.Iiosito each;
Potatoes, 260%; turnips, 200%; sugar
beets, 1,34%a; ,carrots, 141%; corn,
.28%o; : marigolds, 10'2%Q:; Mad,
%a"
:74; barley (two -rowed), 69%u;. (one
ro`itired)„45•%; sting wheat, 33%.
The Lieut: Governor, Senator Sit,
James Lougheed;- the Mayor and the
Minister of Alberta all showed they,
were appreciative of the immense pa
tenbtialitiee of the Irrigated _ areas,
while other speakers brought out facia
and figuree to show what the proper
farming of the irrigated lands would'
mean in the establishment of coin.
munities of"'satisfied and prosperoi
settlers, in the making of attractive
homes, In niakin.g possible the "-estab-
lishment of sugar factories .and can-
ning factories as well as in the finish-
ing kinds of all' of livestock, etc. They
demonstrated that the areas are cap.
able of supporting hundreds of thous
ands of people'in prosperity and cam;
fort, which, in turn, would add materi-
ally to'the
ateri-ally'to'the welfare of the people in the
cities.
Considerable interest Was taken by
the public in the proceedings, the
Rotany, Kiwani and Gyro Clubs ex-
tending ;invitations to several. of the
speakers to address their members.
Undoubtedly, the public Wile; from now
on, take a greater interest in image -
tion development;' the better they be-`
come acquainted with its; possibilities
and with the obstacles that have been
and yet are impending it, the sooner
' will irrigation come to be realized ins,
one of the greatest assets the West
possesses..•
J
"Klttie is . a_iready showing lines in
her fa'
"Yes, but her other lines,offset
Unsolved Problems of the
Sky. -
Scientts'ts' have weighed. the planets,
the.sun, the mann; we know the dis-
tance p1 stars whose lighttapes cern
tunes 'to reach, us, and we even mea-
sure
easure theaccuratelyy .minute amount of
heat given by:diistant stars. For alI•
that, the sky` ie still full of puzzles
which t
astronoters are attempting to
solve.
Talte, for instance, the problem of
dark stars. Possibly it has never oc-
curred to you that there are such
,
bodies, yet for every bright star you
can see on a clear night' there must
be thousands which: have gone cold
and are therefore. invisible. Yet, -;dead
as they are,they are still plunging
through space at appalling speech
On February 2n4,1901, there blazed
out in the constellation of .Perseus a
star of amazing brilliance.It was not,
on -course, a new, star. What hal really
happened was that one„of these dark
stars- had'• either bit another, oil,per-
haps, ,struck one ot the big gas clouds
which ilang in space.. The result was
an explosion On -a scale we cannot even
hue gino.
Those dark stars and, gas cloude."are
among the greatest of sky puzzles. -It
is only three year ago' that. a, Dutch
scientist discovered ti mystery •cloud
140000,000;000,000 miles in leniytlr an
twice that dis•tanee from the solar sys
-tem, It may be gas ,it may he •dust.
We do not know and'robably never
During excavations at Christ's XIospitc 1, F el1scsto
the background is one of the faunoas.Mar tsilo towers.
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nnoan occuP atiori and settlennent, or the island wore uncovered.
A Poem You Ought to Know.
"What the Chirhney. Sang."
Bret, Harte wrote of the pathos and
'<humor of the ggoid-diggiaigs of Cali-
fornia in•'"The Luck of Roaring Camp,
He made has name knownthe world
over by -a. humorous .poem ,,~entitled
"The Heathen Chinee," but thathe
was a poet of pathos as well as - humor
1,s shown by the following verses:
Over the chimney the night -wind _ sang
And chanted a melody no, -one. knew;
And the. woman' stopped, as her babe
she tossed,_
And thought pf'the one she had, long
since lost,
And said, as her te<ar;drops back she
'forced,
"I hate the wind: in the chimney.
Over the chimney the night -wind sang
And chanted a melody no one .knew;
And the children said, as they; closer
drew,
"'n
is some witch that is cleaving the
black night through—
'Tis a fairy trumpet that just then
blew,
And we tear the wind in the chimney.'”
Over the, chimney the night -winch sang,
And chanted a melody no one knev
,
And the man, as hesat on his hearth
below,
rsnow,
Said to hinilself "It w111 surdS ,
And fuel is dear and wages low,
And l'll stop the leak in the chimney.'
Over the. chimney the night -wind sang
And chanted a Malaita no one knew;
But the poet listened anti smiled for
h
e
Was mail, and woman, and child, all
three,
Alan. said,• "In is dod'sown harmony,
This wind we blear in the chimney,"
Winds of 'Romance.
What romantic' names: are given to
some winds, which are:, anything but
i romantic in character.
There; is the Mistral, .for example,
r
he dry, cold wind that blows witb. con-.
.:csiderabie strength on the Mediterran-.
nen..coast"of France: Another violent,
I mild: wend' is the Bola, which :those
' who' have ;been match on the northern
shores eof ath•e .Adriatic have exper!-
enced greatly to their discomfort;.
;Then there is the Simoon, which is,
as
's o'a h'ia 1. h t thee. istralr and
s c e n gy o��'I
i Bora are ,cold. I'he Cimon, in fact,
like a violent su•cceasio'ir of gust's Uwe:
a hot 'oven, It has preyed a terrific
enemy, to travellers in the Sahara.
The Sirocco is much the same kind'
of scorching wind. A naval officer,
describing an .experience • with tli:le:
wind in the Mediterranean, says;
"We soon felt a sultry breeze, which:
conveyed' innumerablel insects. into
every -crevice, and became so trouble-
some on deck that we were glad to .re-
treat below, but,in vain, for wherever
the 'air reached, there they teenned in;
countless numbers a ii our dinner;w3s'
presentlycovered with them,"
Roman tic -sounding••• enough 'Is the •
name RRhamsin, but those ,who have
eneoinitered (his hot, dry wind in the •
I?gypdien plain do not have very pleas,
ant nnemoriee of it.
Tho Iiarmattan is slnaiiaxly nupopua
lar among the inhabitants of Western'
Africa and those travellers taut have
been unfortunate enough to encounter
this desert, dust".laden wind:.,
Fchn is the name of another dry, hot
wind,•which has, an ener•aating effect
upon the valley dwellers on the north
ern side of the Alps. Tho name of the
Patnpero baa s glamour about it whlolr
belies it in reality. Tina featiall conn-' '.
bination bC violent wince, rain, :faun;
dot and lightning is only too falsnilildk
in the residoiits of the A.ffentlxe antl
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