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CANADA • 1:: :—
I GREATEST OF DAMS
Scientific Methode of Germans in
Work of Pillage Leaves Country
in State of 'Utter Destitetion..
With the excesition of Serbia, Rou-
mania certainly has suffered more
than any of the Allies. Only the in-
comparable natural resources .of the
ccuntry made it possible to ward off
famine, but • devastation and pillage
were as complete as Corman unscrup-
ulousness and seientific methods
could make them..
Everything has been taken, essen-
tials of life and labor, with even
greater malice than in Belgium, for
here the Germans had what they
thought was justification in punishing
a country which, although economi-
cally completely dependent on Ger-
many, had dared to take up arms on
the side of the Allies. They spent
two years systematically transport-
ing to Germany everything they fan-
cied—furniture, silverware, clothing,
machinery, food and livestock. They
sent 2,500,000 tons of cereals in rail-
way trucks, but they have sent an-
other 1,000,000 tons in paper . peek -
ages. Every soldier was allowed five
kilos of cereals for home ,every little
while. The .year of 1918 was .a bad
trop year in Wallachia, but the Ger-,
mans were careful to export at once
all the grain that was harVestethe
But of all they took out of the
country, nothing so seriously crip-
pled Roumania • as the means of
transport. There are in the where
kingdom only eighty-four engines in
fit condition. All the horses and
most of the oxen were taken. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are most -
]y down, and there is no material
available to repair them, which, to-
gethee with the lack of train service,
makes it difficult to obtain compre-
hensive information about the food
situation.
Seed Grain Badly Needed.
There is a difference of opinion as
the the quantity of foodstuffs now
in the country. After consulting
various people, including the Allies,
Who have had the matter under ex-
amination, it is safe to say there is
Sufficient food available if there were
any means of transporting it from
one paint to another.... The"Govern-
ment, however, is not of this opinion.
The Minister of Industry .and Com-
merce, M. Constantinesco, says the
present supplies will hold out until
the end of April, and unless the Al-
lies manage to get seed here this
month there will be virtually no har-
vest, as the Germans carried off all
seed grains. Four Allied trains so
far have arrived, carrying 20,000 tons
of flour, which is already distributed
in spite of the overwhelming diffi-
culties of broken bridges and lack of
transport. In the whole of Bessar-
abias-for instance, there are only nine
engines and, as the tracks there are
wider than those in Roumania, it is
impossible to send engines fr.= here.
Until. transport questions are set-
tled nothing can be done. Two hun-
dred locomotives would bring relief
at the present moment than any
amount of food, badly as this is
wanted.
Soldiers and the Battlefields.
Bettlefield tearing, curiously
enough, seems to be becoming popu-
lar among the troops in France as a
means of passing the time until gen-
eral demobilization is ordered. The
soldiers are invariably interested in
the sectors of the front other than
those which were the scenes of their
own exploits. A system of short
leaves has been authorized, and lor-
ries detailed for the tours. Ypres,
M.essines, Arra, and Albert, are eas-
ily 'first as sight-seeing centres, but
pieces of lesser fame, such as Bois-
inghe and Wood 15, Bois Grenier,
Combles and La Prie Farm, Epehy,
and Bousies, are all claiming their
crowds. •
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• Insects Have Distinctive Colors.
Naturalists for 'a long time were
at a loss. to understand how it was
that insects were enabled to so qaick-
ly recognize an intruder among their
;family or settlement. It has been de-
termined that ill most cases they
Irecognize each at by smell. Among
the bees each distinctive class of
ivorkers—tho guard, the fanner, the
loollen earrier, the .wassMakere the
arehitect, etc.—has its own distinctive
odorei And besides this, each bee has
Its own separate hive odor, which is
its passport into its own particular
home,
Wr.relo..4.4*
• .A.grieulture in Canada is in need
f a leader who can Tally around him
the eepresentatives of all hi-inchesof
the industry, and present a solid
freed; on all questions of agricultural
int srest.
A novel feature es the sash ar-
rangement which is a continuation
of the revers which pass under the
arms, and tie at the back. McCall
Pattern No, 8264, Misses' Dress. In
3 sizes, 16 to 20 years.
cents.
Peice, 25
ere-,
The Chineses blouse served as the
inspiration for this charming creation
whose straight pleated skirt is attach-
ed to lining. McCall Pattern No.
8760, Girl's Dress. In 5 sizes, 6 to
14 .years. Price, 20 cents.
These patterns , may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer or from
the McCall Co., 70 Bond $t., Toronto,
Dept. W. •
ALBERTA STRUCTURE LARGER
THAN FAMOUS NILE DAM
General Scheme. Provides for Irriga
tion of 1,250,000, Acres—An
. Engineering Marvel.
There has just been completed , in
the Province .of Alberta; Canada, ,a
monster dam. It can -claim; the dis
tinction of being the longest edifice contains about one million cubic.
of its kind in the' World. Whereas thel
yards of earth, rubble and stone,
famous Assren dane, ill Egypt, has a
Two Cahlwell Water Tube
Boilers, 225 H.P. each. 'Infor.
option 4)11 request; or may be
seen in operation at Firstbrook
Bros., Ltd., 283 King St, E„
Toronto,
demands such careful preliminary
investigations as dam -building, par-
tieularly when it comes to the stor-
age of .a large body of water. For
dams do burst with terrible conse-
quences.
• Accordingly, the earthen embank-
ment, which is some seven thousand
feet in lcngth is of a particularly
massive character, At its base it is
three hundred and fifty feet thick, and
total lengSli along the crest of six
thousand four hundred feet, the new
Canadian structure is no less than
seven thousand eight hundred anfi
twenty feet in length. •
But apart from its record, in the
matter of lene:th it has many notable
features. It has been erected in con-
nection with a Colossal irrigation
scheme, the largest individual project
of this character that has been car-
ried out on the American continent.
While most irrigation projects have
for their objects the obtaining of a
larger yield of cereals or fruit crops;
the Canadian enterprise is destined
solely to increase the dairying and
live stock output of the province. .•
The scene of this latest triumph on
the part of the irrigation engineer
is Bassano, on the Bow River, some
eighty-five mike to the east of Cal-
gary. Across this broad stream a
mighty dam has been thrown and
the river brought under subjugation
for watering a huge tract of country.
The waters held up by this dam alone
irrigate, by means of two thousand
eight hundred miles o1 canals and dit-
ches, four hundred and forty thous-
and acres of land.
Serious complaints are arriving,
from England as to the wasty and
generally bad condition of Canadian
apples shipped there.
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ISSUE No. 11—'19
To Irrigate 810,000 Acres.
But included in the general
scheme is the irrigating of •a further
tract of three hundred and seventy
thousand acres by diverting the wat-
ers of the river to another point;
making eight hiendred and ten thou-
sand acres in all. Shortly, too, these
acres will be increased to over one
million two hundred and fifty -thou-
sand acres, providing homesteads on
rich irrigated land for thousands of
setlers.
The undertaking owes its inception
to the enterprise of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, which owns some six
million acres of the finest virgin land
in the Prairie Province % of Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba, • which
it received as a grant for the con-
struction of its transcontinental line.
Some three million acres of this land
is in Southern Alberta, a great open
prairie plateau lying between .the
Bow River on the south and the Red
Deer River on the north. Its surface
is rolling, and, its soil, consisting of
heavy black loam and a clay subsoil,
is excellent.
In order to encourage settlement
on this land and, incidentally, provide
freight for its line, the Canadian
Pacific Railway determined to see
what could be done in harnessing the
waters so that a -regular and plentiful
supply could be guaranteed to the
farmer. First they ,carried out an
exhaustive survey of the whole re-
gion. • This occupied several years,
an irrigation project demanding sur-
veys and examination far more com-
plete than those for a railway line.
The engineers first traversed the re-
gion in all directions, taking mea-
surements and noting the rises and
fall of the land. They spent several
months upon the ground, virtually
dwelling in what was then a wilder-
ness so far as any life was concern-
ed.
They now gave their attention to
the rivers. First they made a
thorough examination of the Deer
River and then the Bow River. They
studied their banks, their beds, ascer-
tained their volume, and the discharge
at a given point in the dry season
and during flood.
Wonderful Engineering Feat.
' As a result of their surveys it was
shown that the block, as the region
was termed, naturally divided itself
into three sections—the western,
eastern, arid central—of about one
million acres each, arid the work of
developing them has been carried out
in the order named.
In the western section three Inme
dred and seventy thousand acres has
been brought under irrigation by di-
verting the waters of the Bow River
at a point just outside the city of
Calgary. Hero a canal, seventeen
miles in length, sixty feet wide at
the bottom and one hundred and
twenty feet wide on no water level,
carries the precious fluid to a great
lake three mike, long, half a mile
wide, and forty feet deep. It is vir-
tually a natural depression, but has
been strengthened by a large earthen
dam.i
Fons this reeervoir water is car-
ried to the hundreds of farms by one
thousand and six hmulred miles of
secondary canals and ditches. The
engineces' real difficulties, however,
began when they tackled the eastern
section, for it was hero -where the
great darn is situated. It was not a
question of merely diverting the wat-
ers of the river into allow= channel,
hut of fixet curbing the tream and
then raising the level of the liver
over forty feet, and controlling tha
flow. This was accomplished by the
erection of a great compredte dam
across what is known as Horseshoe
Bend eh' the Bow River. •
There is no engineening work that
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THE GOLDEN COW,
Lost Wedding Ring Recovered After
Five Years.
. A qpdstone, Surrey (England), lady
hairSast discOvered her wedding ring,
whiCh disappeared tie or six years
ago while she was feeding a calf.
It was thought the animal had
swallowed. the ring, and as it could
not be found the calf became known
as "the golden cow."
A few days ago the cow was pur-
chased and killed by an Oxford butch-
er, who, being informed of the lost
ring, made a search, and discovered
the ring embedded in au internal or-
gan. The ring has been restored to
the owner.
It Works! Try It
Tells how to loosen a sore,
• tender corn so it lifts
Good news spreads rapidly and drug-
gists here are kept busy dispensing
freezone, the ether discovery of a Cin-
cinnati man, which is said to loosen
any corn so it lifts out with the
fingers.
Ask at any pharmacy Lor a quarter
ounce of freezone, which will cost very
little, but is said to be sufficient to rid
one's feet of every hard or soft corn
or callus.
You apply just a few drops on the
tender, aching corn and instantly the
soreness is relieved, and soon the corn
is so shriveled that it lifts out with-
out pain. It is a sticky substance
which dries when applied and never
inflames or even irritates the adjoin-
ing tissue.
This discovery will prevent thou.*
sands :of deaths annually from lock-
jaw and infection heretofore resulting
from the suicidal habit of cutting
corns. '
out without pain.
Most city people are country peo-
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We have been using MINARD'S
LINIMENT in our hothe for a number
of years and use no other Liniment
but MINARD'S, and we can recom-
mend it highly for sprains, bruises,
pains or -tightness or the cheet, sore -
of the throat, headache or any-
thing of that sort. \Are will not bo
without it onn single day, for we get
a new bottle before the other is all
nsed. 1 can recommend it highly to
anyone.
JOHN WALRFIELD.
LaHave Islands, Lunenburg Co., N.B.
In 1017. the 400 co-operative asso-
ciations Of SaslettiAtetvan had e: turn-
over of over $1,000,000. Iteleyi‘ts so
far received indicate that thie record
has been exceeded for 1918.
Zialmeat foe oats everywhere.
'NTS OF
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FROM NEREEIMERE
An Up -to -Date Pupil,
Teacher—Name the five zones.
Pupil — Temperate, intemperate,
war, postal, and o,
13Ig Banking Crisis.
Neighbor—"Got much money in
your bank, Bobby?"
Bobby—"Gee, no! ,The depositors
have fallen off somethin' fierce since
sister got engaged."
Disposing of "Poem,"
Teacher—"In parsing the sentence,
'The poem was long,' what do you do
with 'poem?' "
" Johnny (editor's son)—"Put it in
the waste basket."
Not a New Idea to Hint
"Now, Lieutenant Tompkins," said
the general, "you have the battalion
in quarter column, facing south—how
would you get it into line in the quick-
est possible way, facing north-east?"
"Well, sir," said the lieutenant,
after a moment's fruitless considera-
tion, "do you know, that's what I've
often wondered."
Doing His Bit.
The old Scot—Ay, my boys, they've
a' done their bit tae help tae win the
war. There's Wullie, he was in Mes-
pitamia, an' Jimmie, he was in Salon-
iky, an' Tam, he was mine-sweepin';
an' wee Jock, he's fist seven past.
Lady visitor—But jock can't have
joined yet?
The old Scot—Nol but he earned
yin and saxpence a week for sleepin'
wi' an auld wife that was frichted o'
Zeppelins.
Couldn't Stump Him.
The sergeant major had the repu-
tation of never being at a loss for an
answer.. A young officer made a bet
with a brother officer that he would
in less than twenty-four hours ask
the sergeant major a question that
would baffle him.
The sergeant major accompanied
the young officer on his rounds, in
the course of which the cookhouse
was inspected. Pointing to a large
kettle of water just commencing to
boil, the officer said:
"Why does that water only boil
round the edge of the topper and not
in the centre?"
"The water around the edges, sir,"
replied the veteran, "As for the men
on guard; they have their breakfast
half an hour before the remainder .of
the company."
Ininard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.
FIGHTING LONDON FOGS
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New Invention Will Aid in Discovery
of Adequate Means.
Efforts to find a means of clearing;
the air of fogs have been advanced
considerably by the production of an]
apparatus which, it is claimed, mea-
sures exactly the constituents of fog.
The device is the invention of Dr,
John S. Owens, of the Atmospheric
Pollution Research Department of
the Meteorological Office. It draws
in a volume of fog, retains and mea-
sures all the impurities, and dis
charges the pure air. Soot and tar
have been found predominant.
"Hitherto the difficulty in devising
a means of fighting London fogs has
been the absence of data concerning
the proportions of impurities in the
air," said an authority.
MONEY ORDERS.
A Dominion. Express Money Order
for five dollars costs three cents.
To make a paint brush as soft and
clean as new, no matter how hard it
has become, simply boil it in water
in which a little lye has been put.
A little washing; powder or soap will
do, but it will take longer. The boiling
water should be no deeper than the
length of the bristles, as the boiling
suds will injure the handle.
=nerd's Liniment Cures Eandruff.
Every job better than the last one
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"We had to stop our little girl
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"Why?"
"The other day when Ensign Jonee
came to call on our eldest daughter
he was dressed in his white uniform,
and when the little one opened the
door and saw him she immediately
called upstairs: 'Ma, how much bread
do you want to -day?' "
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Two carloads of flaxseed have been
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