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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-12-26, Page 6,.0 , .r max-.. w�-,, :t . inn . - Isilmou W-.vee:aa'+cs;.a-cs.*raw. -^• "'�.raau;::a�'cm•'•=rr..tea.•^:.swr�x;wu:w:uu.az�cr;,c+rvcu:�t•.x:-Wernz:�amrµerom?P•npF. a � r The M a.rtch of thehite and By SIR GILLBERT PARKER. queeeIGeeeeSI:.' ^.WLL:Veare/Seeemf4.�lSLk• eteeenC.�' `-."ee eeeeeereneeeea19C'Y'a"-enee a ('+'� }LY,IS,L'9M.YdWtZU.1 1/0.4a'Cd•...F21hrattlX=2:00/3.7d:nT.�Fe�1.3..t:.k'.:JII'."M:F!'SL1fi rt.V.:2T1!9.'IP:t, vy*aVG4i'IGVI� '' his way, ile looks at the sun. He is not sure. He consults his.compass, but it quivers hesttat!ngly, and then points downward! Fora while wild' be- wilderment which seizes upon the m'ind's of the strongest, when lost, masters him, in spite of his struggles against it. He moves in a maze of half -blindness, half-deliritun, He is lost in it, is swayed by it. He begins to wander about; and there grow upon his „senses strange delights end reel- ing agonies. He hears church belle, he catches ut butterildes, he stumbles in new -mown hay, he wanders in a tropic garden. But in the hay a wasp •stings him, and the butterfly changes to a curling black snake that strikes at him' and glides to a dark -flowing river full of floating ice, and up from the river a white hand is tartest, and it beckons him—beckons him! He shuts his eyes and moves toward it, but a voice stops him, and it says, "Come away! come away:" and two arms fold 'him round, and as he goes back fromeehe shore he .tumbles and falls, and . . What is -this? A yielding mass at his feet! A mass that stirs! He clutches at it, he .tears away the snow, he calls aloud ---and his voice hots a far -away unnatural sound—"GaspeToujours! Gaspe Tour jours!"Yes, it is Carpe Toujours! And Lerida' inirri lig .7 e':I • fiyd'e, and alive! ay, 'alive! - Thank God! •• • Jaspar Iitune's mind is itself again. It had suffered but for , a noment what names to most men when' they recognize first that. they are being shadowed by: the awful ban of "Lost." Gaspe•Toujeurs and. Jeff Hyde had lain down in the tent the night of the great wind and had gone to sleep'at once. The stab had been blown -down, CH a. IV.—(Cont'cl,) I wronged That Other One. I have "You have come to save me—to' been"YoutTshalld got to Corshall t Providence. save hie. said the weak voice yene.; Do tht in payment of your debt to "Yes; I have cone andtsave you. me, \ acre Lepage. I demand that."' This voice wee strong clear and I In this sinning num, there was a true. Ilatent spark of honer, a sense of jus - "I seem to have heard your voice be-, lice that ling havebeen developed fore --somewhere before --1 seem to'. to great causes, to noble ends, if some have—" But he had fainted. ' strong nature., seeing his weaknesses, Jaspar Hume poured a little liquor had not condoned them, but had ap- down the sick man's throat, and Late, pealed to the natural chivalry of an Carscallen chaffed the delicate hand— imuressionable, yain, and weak char- delic.ate in health, ,it was like that of aster. He struggled to meet the eyes a little child now. When breath came of Jaspar Kline; and doing so he gain - again Jaspar Hume whispered to. his eel confidence and said; "I will try to helper, "Take ' Cloud -in -the -Sky and, live, I will do you justice—yet. But, get wood; bring fresh branches; clear, eh, my wafel" one of the sleds, and we will start back 1 "Your. first duty is to eat and drink. with him in the early morning. We start for. Fort Providence to -mor - Late Carscallen, looking at the skel-1 row morning." • eton-like figure said, "He will never r The sick man stretched out his get there. ..• I hand. "Food! Food!" he 'said. "Yes," -said Jaspar Hume; "he will In little hits, food and drink were get there." given to hint, and his strength sensib- "But he is dying." "He goes with me to Fort Provi- dence. to Providence he goes. but not' There was little speaking, for the sick with you,'' said Late Carcallen, sadly man soon fell asleep. Varre Lepage's y , Indian told Cloud-dn the -Sky' the tale but nger flan. 's i of there march—how-the' other Indian Anger flashed in Jaspar Hume'e eye, but he saidrietl , "I shall take him and the dogs died; how his master be- ta his wife; get he wood, Carscallen." came 111 as they were starting toward And Jaspar Hume was left alone Fort yrovidenee from Manitou Moun- with the starving Indian, who sat be- tarn in the sunihner weather; how they side the fire eating voraciously, and turned back and took refuge in this the sufferer, who now mechanical) cave; how month by•month they had was taking a little biscuit sopped in lined :on what would hardly keep a brandy. For a few moments thus,' rabbit ante, and how at laet his mas- h' topress n with his lv increased. The cave. was soon aglow with the fire: that was kindled by Late Carscallen and Cloud -in -the -Sky. OO �TIES O AN ACRE OF SOIL ' RU1T GROWERS CON- VENTION ADDRESS. Fruit am) Vegetable Combina- tions hina- tions oai Small Areas Are, Profitable. Few native Canadians have any con- ception of the possibilities of an acre of soil. The principle of expansion is as old as the law of self-defence. In- dividuals as well, as nations have' grasped for more for all time, says. E. J. Atkin, Leamington, in an address at the Fruit Growers' Convention. In aur greed for gain we ignore the small and seemingly insignificant things nature, ,and rush Wildly oil , without chart 6r compass. Unless our eyseem of - agriculture is: radically changed within the next •fifty years, coming generations will have a food situation to solve, that is now perplexing India. This fair Ontario of ours, which ranks highest of all provinces in the Dominion, for the production of feed- stuffs, is,'being dispelled to satisfy this lust for ;expansion.. - With. our forests gone, and our marshes and low -lands drained, so that the tent had fallen over them, the the' water that' should remain', for drift had covered them, and for three months in land da rushed in a. few days they had. slept beneath the snow; weeks to the sea, we have nothing to never waking. expect but blights and.:diseases for Jeri Hyde's sight was come again to our orchards and crops; and drought, him. "You've come back for the book," hot winds and hard winters' for our and his sunken eyes opened and he papers; but he would net, and stayed he said, "you couldn't go on without farms, , looked dazedly at the man Leading until this day, when the last bit rf it. You ought to have taken it yester- The past few years, owing to the above him. Suddenly there came into day; and he drew it from his bosom' war and the extreme scarcity of thein. a look of terror. "You—you— food had been eaten, and they were "No, Jeff I've: not serine bacd..for great are James Hume," the voice said in found! that- and I'did not leave you yester;- farm labor, has taught our farmers . an awed whisper. CIIAPTER V. "Yes," and the hands of the Sub- The .=ext morning Varre Lepage factor chafed those of the other. i was placed upon a sled and they start - "But you said you were a --friend ed back, Jacques barking joyfully as and come to save me." I he led off, with Oloud-in-the-ay be - "I am come to save you."side ,him. There: was light in the There was a shiver of the sufferer's' faces of all, though the light could body. This discovery would either not be' seen by reason of their being make him stronger or kill him alto- muffled so. All d''y they traveled, gether.r Jaspar Hume knew this, and scarcely haltn, rarve nd marching In - said: "Varre acre Lepage, the past is past dian being strongagain and dead to me; let it be so to you." I well• Often the corpse -like bundle on There was a pause. a the sled was disturbed and biscuits "How—did you know—about me?", wet in brandy and bits of preserved "I was at Fort Providence; there! venison were given.. came letters from the Hudson Bay! That. night Jaspar Hume said to Company, and from your wife, saying • Late Carscallen: "I am going to start that you were making this journey, at the first light of the morning to and were six months behind—" get to Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde "My wife, my wife! Rose!" as soon as possible. Follow as fast ea ,Yes I have a letter for you from as you can. He will be sp.fe if you `"`eeee. She is on her way to Canada. give t food and otenshall We are to take you to hen." getthe Plardrink. we them "Teo take me—to her!" He shook about noon; you should reach there, hishead sadly,,but he pressed the let- at night er early the next morning." ter that Jaspar Hume had jest given "Hadn't you better take Jacques him'to his bps. "To take you- to her, Varre Lepage." "No, I shall never see her again." "I tell you, you shall. You can live if you will, You owe that to her—to me—to God!" "To her—to 'you to God. But I have been true—to none. To win her I wronged you'doubly—,and wronged her, too; and wronging—both of you, with you?" mild 'Late Carscallen. The Sub -factor thought a momentf and then said, "Nc, he is needed most where he ,is." - At noon the next day Jaspar Hume looks round upon a billowy plain of sun and ice, but he sees no staff, rio signal, no tent, no sign of human life: .ox Gaspe Toujours or of Jeff Hyde. His strong heart quails. Has he lost Care Needed then s* Electricity Electricity, like fire, is a valuable turn off the current servant, but a dangerous master. So them. long as it is kept in perfect control it (0) Never touch those interior live is the most convenient and cleanly metal parts of sockets, plugs, etc., source of energy that science has which are used to carry current. Use made available for use in the house- the insulating handles which are pro- hold. But it must be controlled. Hun- vided for that' purpose. While in deeds bf lives are lost every year and bath -rooms, toilet rooms, kitchens, march .property destroyed as a result laundries, basements or other re ems of defective wiring and the careless with damp flogs, stoves, heaters or handling of this remarkable unseen pipes, etc., which may be touched: force. avoid toucleing any metal part of lamp before leaving. Below is a brief summary of recom- mendations which, if followed, will go far toward eliminating accidents in the use of electricity: (1) Never touch a wire or any elec- trical device which has fallen on a street, alley or lawn, or which hangs within reach, if there is any possibili- ty that it limy be touching any over- head electric wire. This applies to in- sulated overhead wires as well as to from the wiring in buildings or on bare ones. streets nor induce others to tale such (2) Avoid touching guy wires which are used to anchor poles to the ground, or the ground wire run clown sockets fixteres, or other electrical r by devices, since they may accidentally;, •ground which will not grownfe so ••deing --we • are losing food :at` both be alive. While in a bathtub never ends of the season. In the spring touch any part of an electric cord or through -the seed, and in the •fall fixture even if it is a non-conductor. through the crop we should harvest, The use of electric vibrators in the and do not because of no stand; or a bath is dangerous. Avoid touching stoves or other metals when using the telephone, particularly during electri- cal storms. (7) Never try to take electric shocks clay; it is three days and more ,since we parted. The book has brut_ght us luck, and the best) . We Iii ve found him; and they'll be here:to-night with him: 'I•carne on ahead ''.o see how you fared." -'• In that frost-bitten world Jeff Hyde uncdvered his head for • a r iomexit. The farmers Of to -day an more par - "Gaspe Toujours is .a Papist,'' he said; ticularly the • fruit and • vegetable "Mit he 'read me some of. that book the day yeuleft, and one thing we growers, have learned several valuable -Went' to •sleep• on: it was that about I lessons within the past few years, The `Lightenin' ' the • darkness, and defend- first and foremost of these perhaps is, in'' ins from all the perils and dangers that intensive farming and rich soil is of this night:' " Here Gaspe Toujours the only line of horticulture that pays. made the sign of the cross, Jeff. Hyde Secondly that crop rotation must be ten -timed half apologetically for his followed to ,produce successfully, year comrade,- "It' comes -natural to Gaspe after year, a large, healthy and profit- Taujours—I guess it. always • does to able crop. ' Papists.' But I never had rely train - that way,' and-I•had to;turii the thiin Horticulture That -Pays. ocer'and"`ao'er, .and�1 fell asleep on it. ,.teas to the first point, it is not my in- htiid 'whenr -I •walce-up three days after, tention to mention it' but briefly. In 'here's my eyes as fresh as..daisies, the ,Leamington section, 'Where the and you h'-ck, Captain, .and•:the thing scarcity and high'' cost. of manure done 'that 'eve come'to' do." makes it almost prohibitiven we. must -'He put' the book .into. the hands. of Jasper Mime, and •Gaspe'Toujours_: at resort to other means. True,, we do that mofrient 'said, "See! : And fax use a small-. amount of farm -yard 'of against. the' 'eastern .horizon, ap- manure, particularly where we have to peitrcd 'a group of proving figures! follow "extrefni.'ely bitensige -forms of That night the broken segments of culture, as in the greenhouses and on the Whitd -Guard were .reunited, and our irrigation plots. In the latter we Varre Lepage slept .by' the side of give an _annual application of about Jaspar Hume: twenty tons per, acre, wIhich is stipple- ' (To be continued.) mento- with commercial fertilizers. __ '� Where possible a cover crop is also How -to Test Farm. Seeds sown in the fall which le' plowed' down 1FO1' Germination.• in the spring. On the remainder of - During the remaining months of the land a fall cover crop is generally Winter is a good time to test for ger- spring this is plowed down in the minati.on seeds which are, to be used spring and 'supplemented with coin - for spring planting. For nothing is mercial fertilizers. re - more discouraging to a farmer than Crop rotation is the one that to spear-.. lot of time and do a lot of quires, perhaps, the greater considera- hard work getting a field ready far a time, and the proper rotation, to a crop, and then -learn 'when it is too great extent, controls the toss from ilne I,aJ e, that, the seed he he's used is of sect pests and plant diseases. While laii- g'e' iniriatine.polder.' • the majority of those before me, I pre- sume, are fruit growers, a large num- Never before ryas food •so acace as at the present time, therefore we can- ber engage in vegetable growing as not atloid to put any seed in the well. These two work well together in a good many localities and on pro- per soil, especially one that is sandy in nature; they give us a combination that: is both profitable and easily handled. While vegetable growing is the principle one in our district, a poor stand of plants On account of large number of the growers have found that a combination of the two more in regard, to intensive agricul- ture, smelled 'acreage, and larger yields than the whole previous cen- tury. The successful farmer of to -day will no longer spread ttaflve-acre crop over a twenty -acre field, as the net in: cone will not warrant the. expense. risks. (3) Avoid touching bare or abraded spots on flexible electric cords. Do wood poles. Never try to jar arc not -hang such cords an nails and lamps, nor touch the chains or ropes when damaged have them repaired or replaced by a competent electrician. (9) Never touch a person r'vho has been shocked while he is still in con- tact with the electric circuit, unless you know haw to remove hint without danger to yourself. Call a doctor and the nearest lighting company. Use a lorg dry board or wooden -handled rake or broom to draw the person away from the wire, or the wire away from him. Never use any metal or any moist object. (10) To resuscitate a person suf- fering from electric shook draw his tongue out of his throat and apply ar- tificial respiration for two or three hours if necessary. - (11) Watch for and report any fall- en wires, defective wiring, etc. (12) Never employ anyone but com- petent eleotricians to repair or change wiring and do not attempt it your- self unless qualified to do so. supporting them. During and after storms do not touch even the poles, if wet. (3) Never climb a pole or tree on or near which electric wires pass. Never touch such wires from windows nor while on roofs. Warn children against climbing poles or standing on pole steps. (4) Never throw string, sticks, or pieces of wire over the electric wires carried overhead, Also, never fly kites near overhead wires, nor throw stielrs or stones at insulators. (5) Tao not touch or disturb any electric wiring or appliances in build- $.ngs except such as are intended to be handled. Keep furniture and other materials away from interior wires, or see that the wiring is in conduit, or ;otherwise adequately protected again- st' neeohanical injury. After using bitable beating appliances, irons, ate., poor seed. • ' -It is a very simple matter to, test any of the following seed: Oats, bar- ley, peas, beans, garden seeds, clover, alfalfa and grass. Take common tea saucers and 'seeming blotting paper or outing flannel cut a piece large enough to cover bottom of same, count out a given number of seeds of the kind to be tested (100 is a good num- ber to use) put upon the paper or cloth and fill saucer about one-third full of warm water. Put over the seed~'. piece of Iiaper or flannel simi- lar to the one they are on, and turn a common saucer over the cloth and seeds to check evaporation. Put the saucer in a waren place and look at same at least twiee each day to see that the seeds are supplied with the proper anio},mt of rtiaisture. Some seeds germinate slower than others but at the end of :iliout ten 'days for most kinds and much sooner for others, it will be possible to tell the percentage of germination. Tho United Grain 'Growers have. taken over the Burret Elevator on False Creek, British C'olunbia, Papa - city of 100,000 bushels. tit rel'e E lYD,'liuout Cnrei 06104 sea call about Aril ed in the spring, usually I lst to 10th. These will all be harvest- ed by the first week in July. The ground is then given a light top 'dress - lug of manure and about August let to 16th, is planted to strawberries. These produce a very good crop the next year, After cropping they are cultivated, cleaned out, and later on mulched and left for a full crop th.a coming year. When picking it over they are plowed down and the ground planted to late potatoes, The follow- ing year the ground is planted ' onions, egg-inl lit or peppers. In this rotation five prof table crops are grown hi the fear years, while under .ordinary means of culture only three would be produced. If we had needed proof that it rota- tion of crops wes necessary we had an ample one this last season. A half - acre plot was planted to egg -plant, half of this area had been an old strawber- ry patch the previous year and -had also grown a crop. of late potatoes, or In other words, was the fourth year of the rotation mentioned above. The plants were large and healthy and pro- duced over one-half bushed per plant, of first-class fruit. "The other quarter acre had been planted with egg -plant the previous year. This croon had been healthy and showed, no signs of diseases, but the crop this year de- veloped practically every disease com- mon to`egg-plant and I think some that were not. The crop was almost a total failure. These two plots were side by side and throughout the sea- son it was easy to tell, eveix from a distance, just where the division came. We find that if a crop is not planted oftener than every four years, the diseases common to it and -the family to which it belongs give .very little trouble, a probable exception to this is the mosiac disease and I very much doubt if this is carried over in the -soil, but rather with the seed. To sum up, rick soil, good cultiva- tion and proper rotation, will give large, healthy, profitable crops with the minimum expense and labor. work well together, especially • the smaller fruits, such as strawberries, currants and even peaches, to a very great extent. As a sandy soil is not so well adapted to cherries, plums and pears, these are very little grown and are not nearly as profitable as the aforementioned. The peach trees are planted out early in the spring on a soil that has been previously well pre- pared. Early tomatoes are then plant- ed in the orchard; the cultivation necessary for them gives the trees a good start at no extra expense. In "the fall, the vines are pulled up and piled about the roots. These give pro- tection and also serve as a catch to the snow. Tlie second year the or- chard is planted with melons. These grow well and the only preparation necessary is digging some well rotted manure in the hills. The third year often .no crop is planted if the trees have made a normal growth, but If the space is limited and the trees 'per- mit it, two rows of tomatoes are often planted the wide way, the third year. Try the fourth year the trees will com- mence to bear and further intercrop- ping would be unwise. Rotation Under Irrigation. - Under the irrigation a different ro- tation is followed. Cabbage are plant - S UIIai ci'ii Liniinant Cares Iiitiiitherj . • Who Invented What? The rivalry of candidates for the honor of having invented the Tank is by no means a new thing in•the world. We `talk very glibly of Stephenson in- venting the locomotive engine, but dozens of attempts in the same direc- tion preceded the evolution of the "Rocket." The cotton industry owes its looms and frames not only to Ark- wright and Crompton and Cartwright, but to numberless: other wonderful in- ventions which have made .these men's work a hundred times more effective. Thus, rival and independent deaths have been Made for the discovery of the theory of evolution, the interpre- tation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the invention of the steam-engine, the method of spectrum analysis by which the composition of the sun and the stars can be determined, the telegraph and telephone, as well as many other epoch-making discoveries and inven- tions which have done so much for mankind. Many women are being employed to help repair roads ,in Great Britain. h"d$"•tai:>�' You want him good and healthy, You want him big and strong. Then give him a pure wool Jersey, Made by his friend, Bob Long. Let him romp with all his vigor He's the best boy In the land, - And he'll always be bright. and smiling, If he wears a Bob Long Brand, ---l3ob Long, aQ' �i. sgss c<t P. v 64 BOYS' PURE WOOL. WORSTED. JERSEYS Known from s'c`bni a' to ioaat " POR HARD WEAR, COMFORT AND SMART APPEARANCE R. G. LONG e. CO. LIMITitI1 TORONTO' a CANADA 144 ,Looe, foe the Label egg del, : .2:"'i:µ, Plu .AFFER t. ODIE YEAR OF PEACE SWILL AFFECTED BY RE- STRICTIONS 0i WAR. Many Foods J-l(ave Remained Uniider Ration System and Prices Continued High. The end of one year of peace finds the United Kingdom still working un- der many of the war -time restrictions affecting ordinary living conditions, although large numbers of the orders have been rescinded and others have been modified% says a London corres-: pendent 0n November 24. So far as food is concerned, only sugar -and butter are now rationed. The regulations regarding the amount of cleat which might be purchased were removed only a few days ago, .bunt one year after the close of the war. •The consumption of liquor, how- ever, is being held dowu rigidly under the old rules. Net eseities still ration -r ed, which vitally concern the home, include coal, gas and electricity. The shortage of fuel has been t-s.using con- siderable hardship, both to the indtvidea u,i) and to industry. The ministry of food has found it ad- visable to continue the maximum prices, beth Wholesale and retail, which it Ii;;ed for a considerable num- ber of neceslsit.ies. Apart from the matter of food and fuel, the board of trade is maintaining control of the exportation and impor- tation of a long list of articles. The ban has been removed from some goods, but this has been mainly in the case of things, impartation of which had been forbidden, and which the country found itself short of. Removal of restrictions ou most of the food necessities has not solved the living problem of the amasses, however. There is still a great shortage of many things, aud, moreover, prices, which went down last summer, hue now mounted to about where they were at the signing of the armistice: Scarcity Raises Prices. The increase is attributed partly to time world scarcity of necessities, part - 1y to the augmented demand from the recently belligerent countries, and partly to inflated currency and adverse foreign exchanges. The last named have had a pronounced influence ou prices, and it is the belief of economic experts that food cannot become .much.. cheaper until these are adjusted, even though there is an increase in produc- tion. - The butter ration is placed at one and one-half ounces for each person per week. This refers to the imported product only, there being no restric- tions on the use of hone -made butter. As a matter .of fact, virtually no but- ter is being made in the United King- dom these days, so that the consumer has to depend upon margarine and foreign butter, The reason there is so little home - produced butter on the market is that the retail price, approximately sixty cents a pound, bears no relation to the actual cost of butter to the farmer. This month farmers can sell milk at sixty-four cents a gallon,. and it takes two and a half gallons, of -milk to pro- duce a'.pound of butter. :If English butter were' selling at its true econo- mic value it would b,e about•$1.24 per pound. • . Until recently the sugar ration was twelve ounces for each person per week, but owing to ille sh'hrt.age thio allowance has been decreased to eight remit niihat n is este- to• ounces, and expected' I that mark for many months. The amount allowed to the confectionery and sweet trades has been. reduced by 25 per cent, .aiu a further .reduction is expected with the new year. , , ' Australian Meat Welcomed. Butchers' meat Wan rationed until a few days ago,- each -parson being al- lowed forty cents' worth per week. In consequence of the receipt reoently of a large supply, of mutt -Nn and lamb from Australia and Nero Zealand it was found possihie to remove all ra- tioning restrictions, and the food ministry has expressed• the hope that people will relieve the food situation by eating more meat, which is wel- come advice for England. e, Despite the small ration, only about so per cent, of •the meat allowance was, being demanded by ticket -holders each week. This was clue either to a change of .habits since the beginning of the war or to the high host.' Whenever a buteher had a .-balance of meat left over at the week -end he was permit- ted -to sell it to any of his customers irrespective of whether tiro had ale readY had their. ration or not. In this way some people were able to exceed the amount provided for by their per- mits. T Ml grades. Wilt;. i!or prtoer. TORONTO MILT WORKS 06. .16 TORONTO When it is absolutely necr.$sary to have a bottle containing poison in the house be sure to stick a pin through the emit. This -will give definite n.'ai'u Mg, even in the dark.