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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
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MARCH 19, 1924
SUGAR'S NIGHER THE HURON E%POSITOIL
How about saving sugar by :using
the maple products. A larger num-
ber are inspired with this same idea
and the demand for sap pans, pails,
etc. is :a,lready. felt.. We will. clear our
stock at the following .prices for Spot
Cash:
Gaiv. Pans, 22 gunge, heavily ironed,
hand. made, 7ft. x 2 t. x 6 in. deep $10
Tin Sap Pails, large size, straight
pattern, each
Tin Sap Pails, small size, straight
pattern, each
25c
20c
Galv, Sap Pails, straight pattern 3 5 c
Full Stock of Warner, S.M.`P., and Eureka Spiles
BUY NOW
Charcoal in bulk for pigs and stock, bring in your
p
bag, elb ,.. .21-2c
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G. A. Sills, Seaforth
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COT.
HEAD OFFICE--SEAFORTH, ONT.
OFFICERS
J. Connolly, Goderich, President
Jas. Evans, Beechwood, Vice -President
T. E. Hays, Seaforth, Secy.-Treas.
AGENTS
Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed.
Hinchley, Seaforth; John Murray,
Brucefield, phone 6 on 137, Seaforth;
J. W. Yea, Goderich; R. G. Jar-
nanuth, Rrodkagen.
DIRECTORS
yp`Illiam Rinn, No. 2, Seaforth; John
Bennewies, Brodhagen; James Evans,
Beechwood;` M. McEwen, Clinton; Jas.
Connolly, Goderich; D. F. McGregor,
R. R. No. 3, Seaforth; J. G. Grieve,
No.. 4, Walton; Robert Ferris, Hariock;
George McCartney, No. 3, Seaforth.
G. T. R TIME. TABLE
Trains Leave Seaforth as follows:
1,0.,55 a, m. - For, Clinton, Goderich,
Wingham and Kincardine.
5.53 p. m. - For Clinton, Wingham
and Kincardine.
11.03 p. m. - For Clinton, Goderich.
6.36 a. nit -For Stratford, Guelph,
Toronto, Orillia, North Bay and
points west, Belleville and Peter-
boro and points east.
6.16 p. m. -For Stratford, Toronto.
Montreal and points east.
LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE
Going North a.m. pin.
London ............... 9.05 4.45
Centralia 10.04 5.50
Exeter 10.18 6.02
Hensall 10.33 6.14
Kippen............ 10.38 6.21
Brucefield10.47 6.29
Clinton 11.03 6.45
Londesboro . , 11.34 7.03
Blyth 11.43 7.10
Belgrave 11.56 ' 7.23
Wingharn 12.11 7.40
Going South a.m. p.ni.
Wingham: 7.30 3.20
Belgrave 7.44 3.36
Blyth 7.56 3.48
Londesboro 8.04 3.56
Clinton 8.23 4.15
Brucefield 8.40 4.32
Kippers ' ......... , , , 8.46 4.40
Hensall' 8.58 4.50
Exeter 9.13 5.05
Centralia .••.•.•9.27 5.15
London 10.40 ; 6.15
eniar
C. P. B. TLME TABLE'
GUELPH & GODERICK 'BRANCH.
TO TRORONTO
a.m. p.m.:
Goderich, leave 6 20 1.30,.
Blyth ' 6 b8 2.07
Walton 712 2.20
Guelph 948 4.58
FROM TORONTO
Toronto, leave 8 10
Guelph, arrives 9 80
Walton 12.03
Blyth 12.16
Auburn 12.28
Goderich 12.1'5
5410
6.10
0.04
9.80
9.55
Connections at Guelph Junction with
Main Line for Galt Woodstock, Lon-
don, Detroit, and Chicago, and all in
termediate points.
LIFT OFF CORNS!
Apply few drops then lift sore,
touchy corns off with
fingers
Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little
Freezone on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, then you lift
it Tight out. Yes, magic!
A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a
few cents at any drug store, but is suffi-
cient to remove every hard corn, Bolt
corn, 'or corn ,between the toes, and the
calluses, without soreness or irritation.
Freezone is the sensational discovery
of A Cincinnati genius, Jt is wonderful.
SEAFORTH, 'Friday, March 19, 1920.
GREATEST BOOK BUYER IN '
WORLD'S HISTORY
Only a short time after he 'had'
started the book collecting world*by
paying' $75,x4)0 for the fourth quarto
voluahe cf "Venus and
Adonis,,' bound,
with the 'Passionate Pilgrim," Mr.
George D. Smith dropped dead in his
A1NAGE IS IMPORTANT !,est
bookYrk re. He was the Time and
est buyer in history. and
Some Benefits of a Well Devised
Drainage Plan.
Guesswork Is the Poorest Method to
Adopt -Get the Land Levels and
Then Arrange for Wiling - How
to Protect • Drainage Outlets.
(Contributed by Ontario Department of
Agriculture, Toronto.)-
HEN
oronto.)-
HEN a man is about to
erect a building, be it ever
so small, the first thing
he does is to make a plan.
That plan may be on paper or it may
exist only in. the mind of the builder;
yet it is a plan.1 Without a plan ,to
follow, a builder, cannot do good
work. The same is .true of tile drain-,
age. The man who places a "string"
or "line" 'of tile in a watercourse,
which traverses his fields, should not
do so without asking himself such
questions as: "Am I putting this tile
in the lowest part?" "Will 1 be able
to get, a satisfactory outlet? How
many acres will this tile drain, and
is it large enough to drain it satis-
factorily? Have I sufficient grade to
drain the holes in the rear fifty?"
If he does not ask himself these ques-
tions he is like -a builder without a
plan; he is working in the dark; his
work cannot be -efficient. All these
questions the drainage plan answers,
and more.
No matter how small the mean
for immediate construction of drains,
or how few the drains which one
is about to instal, he Should not do
so without having first laid out a
plan of which these drains will be
a part.. On rolling land such a plan
is not hard to decide upon, because
the differences in elevation are very
pronounced, and any one .who is
familiar • with such lands is able to
intelligently plan a system of drains
for them. But where the area le
large and the topography irregular,
or very flat, guesswork Is rout of
the question. It is then that we muat
resort to the tape and the levelling
instrument for reliable information.
A drainage plan shows first of all
the differences in height or elevation
between all parts of the farm over
which the survey extended. This al-
lows the owner of the land to plan
his own system of drainage. The pos-
session of the levels for all parts of
the farm, lays bare the most advan-
tageous routes for tile drains, from a
study of the levels and contours of
a plan 'it is possible to calculate the
acreage which each main tile must
drain. This information together
with the fall or grade procurable is
the only true guide to help us decide
upon the size of tile needed in any
given drain. It is only when the plan-
ner has a picture of the whole- pro-
ject before him that he can draft an
efficient yet economical plan of drains
for any piece of land.
Future Benefits. -The ben_ efits of
a plan do not end with the comple-.
tion of the drainage system. Only
those of us who have tried.long and
Chard to find a drain, the location of
which was nowhere recorded, know
the value of guidance such as is of-
fered by a plan. When a tile -drained
fa.rni is offered for sale the existence
of a plan of drains adds greatly to
the value of the farm. The plan is
of equal value to both,the seller and
buyer. With proper care well -con-
structed ° tile drains will givegood
service for several generations;
therefore for the convenience of our
children and grandchildren it is ne-
cessary to have a plan of our under-
ground drainage work.
There is another way in which a
drainage plan is very helpful to a
farm. owner; it is a splendid guide
toward ascertaining the acreage of
any field or part of the farm. Fences
are located on the plan, and the
whole plan drawn to scale, so that
with the aid of a rule it is possible
to measure the area of any part of
the land : surveyed. This is of great
assistance in planning a season's
crops as well as in calculating yields
per acre.
Tile drainage pays; but, before you
start even -a small system by alt
'means secure a plan -G. Helmpel,
O. A. College; Guelph. •
Protecting Drainage Outlets.
Tile, particularly clay tile, should
not run out .to the mouth of the
drain. If a piece of old gas pipe,
eight or ten feet long, can be secured,
this should be placed in the drain in
place of the last few tile. Failing
this a piece of corrugated steel, or
ee'en a plank trough is much better
than running the tile right to the end,
where they will be broken, washed int
to the outlet, or otherwise destroyed,
allowing the earth to roll in and stop
the flow of water.
Under any condition the bank is
liable to wear away. Animals pastur-
ing in the field may tramp it down,
and block the tile, so in the second
place, an abutment should be built
through which the outlet discharges
its water and the bank will be kept
in a state of preservation. This may
be made of concrete, stone or plank,
and should be a permanent structure.
la soanie capes where the flow is heavy
and the water would have a tendency
to u*dermine the • wail, it is well to
:build . an apron on which the furor
et the falling water is abroten.
There is still another precaution
vOileh should be given due consider-
ation. Frequently small animals,
mitekrata. coons, ground hogs and
esters, seek refuge in the tile. Here
-they ire ,entrapped, loud form a dam
is the Bowing water. To overcome
such. the outlet ,should have .bars
estate the end. 'These may be quite
own, and close together so ° that
oothlas can get through. L scree*
.,nay be ,ltttrd over the end, -wtt au-
flow•the mesh is quite large the water
1* retarded In '1t8 bow. Boaletlies the
;#est file is threaded with wire. This
forms a good pr'!atestion,
Wbea all : these devisee are given
emotion, the outlet -should remade&
is
a. state o4 ...New for Fears, •sad
lite system, it property lnetaUed,
*sum dd give M gators.--F. L. -Fe
$Isis. 0. A. Uiillege, Guelph.
again he broke records " at euct><on
sales, and as frequently paid record
.prices for private libraries and col-
lections.. The amount paid for the
"Venus and Adoins" was the ,great-
est ever paid for a single book, and
the fact that it was only two inches,.
by three inches in size and weighedI only a couple of "ounces appears to•
have contributed , to . the popular
amazement. Most people seemed to
suppose that when one paid $75,000
for a book he would at least get
something as large as a Toronto
Directory, Mi. Smith bought this
book not for • himself, but for Mr.
Henry Huntington, of. New York,
who has probably the greatest col-
lection of books' in the possession of
any individual. It is surpassed only'
by the British Museum's collection.:
If the truth were known, Mr. Hunt- '
ington probably broke another record
when he bought the book from
Smith, unless the book buyer was
acting as his agent. Sometimes he
bought as Huntington's agent, anti
sometimes he bought for himself,
but for some years past the chief
treasures he had picked up have
found their way into the Hrinting-
ton'library. In belated answer to a
+correspondent it .may be said in-
cidentally that this library is No. 2,
East Fifty-seventh Street, New York.
Whether Mr. Smith amassed a
fortune at the book buying and sell-
ing .business is not known to the
writer, nor is the matter of import-
ance, save than it is .much easier to
get people to take an interest in a
man who died a millionaire, than a
man -who died in moderate means.
It is safe to hazard the guess,
though, that Mr. Smith made more
money ` by selling books than any
man in the history of the world
ever made by writing them. Smith
.started with _nothing. His career
was included in twenty years. Some
thirty-five years ago he was running
messages for Dodd, Mead and Co.,
the publishers. When a former
salesman of the firm, William E,•
Benjamin, started in the publishing
business on his own account, he
took with him the bright office boy.
By 1900 he had saved up, enough
money to set up for himself, and he
opened a book store in Fortysec-
ond Street.
What led him to the book busi-
ness isnot known, but it is' likely
that since chance had made him an
errand boy for a publishing house,
it happened to be of booksthat he
picked up the most knowledge. Had
he been apprenticed to a builder
• it is the opinion of his admirers that
eventually he would have become ai
famous architect. Once being in
the book business his keen brain
naturally 'grasped the truth that
there was a fortune to° be made in
buying rare books cheap and sell-
ing them dear. It has never been
clai_ned for iihii that he was a read-
er of books, nor even a lover of
them, as collectors are lovers. His
'real love was for race horses and
some years ago he owned a good
stable of thoroughbreds. But he
knew books. In twenty years he had
attained a mastery of them that
FARMS FOR SALE
F9RMS FOR SALE. - I HAVE SOME
choice farms for sale in the Townships
of Usborne and Hibbert, all vie11 built and
improved, on easy terms of payment. THOMAS
CAMERON, Woodham, Ont. 2658-tf
PROPERTY FOR SALE. -FOR SALE 8
acres of land, clay loans, good seven-
roomed house with furnace, phone and rural
mail, good buildings, stable, poultry house
and drive shed; also small orchard. Close to
school, 2 miles from Seaforth. Apply to
JOHN McMILLAN, R. R. No. 1, Seaforth,
or phone 20 on 286, Seaforth Central.
2712-tf
FOR SALE. -THE _ UNDERSIGNED HAS
for sale three Chatham incubators, 2 two
hundred capacity and one, one hundred and
twenty, in good repair. Also one coal range
with hot water front in good condition, 1
hand power feed grinder, 1 garden cultivator
and seeder and other garden tools. The
above will be sold' on reasonable terms. Apply
to JOHN McMILLAN, R. R. No. 1, Seaforth,
Ont., phone 286, R 20. 2715-tf
FARM FOR SALE. -LOT 33, CONCESSION
6. McKillop, 100 acres of the best clay
land in McKillop, 6 acres of bush, the rest
in a high state of cultivation; 6 miles from
Seaforth, 2 miles from Constance, 14' miles
from school. There are on the premises a
good seven roomed house, Large bank barn
64x'76, all Page wire fences and well under -
'drained. Possession given March 1st. •Apply
to MRS. SAMUEL DORRANCE, Seaforth.
2710-tf
FARM FOR SALE. -CHOICE GRASS FAM
for sale in the Township of McKillop,
north half Lot 24, Concession 13, containing
'75 acres.` It is well fenced with wire fence,
never failing water, 40 acres are well tile
drained. It is all seeded to grass and in
Al shape for pasture. It is situated 11 miles
from Walton Station. For further particulars
apply to GEORGE DfCKSON, Box 243, Blyth,
Ont.•
2721-tf
FARM FOR SALE. -LOT 14, CONCESSION
4. Stanley Township, containing 100 acres
more or less, of good farm land. This is
• No. 1 crop or grass land, having never
j failing running water at either ends of the
farm. Their is considerable cedar and hard
wood timber and fair buildings on the premi-
ses, partly under cultivation. Parties want-
ing a good grass farm would do well to see
this place. For further particulars apply to
J. T. REID, Clinton. 2718-tf
FARM AND IMPLEMENTS FOR SALE. -
For Bale Lot 4, Conoession 4, H.R.S.,
Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres, 8 miles
+ from Seaforth, % mile from school, good
buildings, 10 acres bush, all good land, well
drained and well supplied with water.
Furnace and phone in house. If farm is
not sold it will be rented. Also the follow-
ing implements are for sale: Massey Harris
13 hoe seeder almost new, mower, wagon,
cultivator, weigh scale, 2,000 noun% capa4ity,
fanning .mill and other articles. For fur-
ther particulars apply to JAMES SPROAT,
Egmondville, or phone 18 on 160.
FOR 3AIfE.--HOUSE AND HALF' ACRE
of land in the village of Egmondville, The
property is situated on Centre Street, close
to the Presbyterian church and 13. known : as
the Purcell .pr+operty. Good, comfortable
house, good abed, -good well and cement
cistern. All kinds of fruit trees, etrawberrlea,
raspberries, and currant bushes. This is a
corner. property with no breaks on front, . and
the land is in a .good state .f cultivation.
This is a nice preOer for n retired farmer
and the taxes are light. For particulars
apply on the premises er to 3OHN RANKIN,
ii661-tf •
many other men less richly endow-
ed have spent a lifetime without.
acquiring. He had also a great
men_iiiry- When he went to an auc-
tion to make a purchase he did not
need a note hook to tell him of the
peculiar .attractions of any valuable
work that was put up. He ,dews its°
history, how often it had been sold,
whet were the prices, how many
copies were .in existence, and how
many were likely to come Auto the
market, • and also who would buy it
from him.
The stroke of luck or genius that
made certain the success' of Sink*
was when he opened an a lice m
Wall Street. Here his customers
would certainly not bemen who
could not afford to buy a book if
it took their fancy, and it was here
that Smith , became aequainfed with
'Huntington. He was able to con-
vince :this connoisseur- that- he knew,
the values of books and received
many, commissions to act for him.
Similar orders came to him from
other millionaires in seaech of a
hobby, who were giving the book -
collecting business a whirl after hav-
ing got past the mol$ obvious and
perhaps exciting diversions; The,
first great sale with which his
name was connected was that of the
Hoe library in 1911-12. £ It was then
that he bought the 'Guttenberg Bible
for $50,000, a, record price at the
time. The purchase was • for Mr.
Huntington. In 1911 he bought the
library of E. Dwight Church for
$1,300,000; and shortly afterward
paid half million dollars for the
library of Beverley Chew, contain-
ing some unique copies of early
English authors. This collection is
now the property of Mr. Huntington.
His next sensational coup was
made in London. . Mr. Smith said
on his return that there existed an
English clique of 'book buyers ,com-
`mitted to the task of keeping . prices
down, aid agreeing among them-
selves not to bid extravagantly a-
gainst each other. He declared
that the only independent buyer in.
England was Quaritch, who fought
on commission for the British Mu-
seum. The clique sought to have
Smith become a member, but he de-
clined and proceeded to bid what-
ever he felt like. In three weeks'
buying he spent half a million' dol-
lars and was rarely if ever outbid-
den. Indeed, to .be outbid was no
common experience of George D.,
'Smith's. a It was always assumed
that he had millions . behind him.
and that if he wanted a thing he
would get it. He made a notable
stroke in England when he bought
for $1,000,000 the library belonging
-to the Duke of Devonshire. - Later
he sold it to Mr. Huntington at a
profit of $500x000. 'This bears out
our theory that Smith made more
money out of books than any author,
with perhaps the. exception of Harold
Bell Wright,_ who eves probably not
his equal as a writer. The gem of
the Devonshire collection 'was the
"Hatnlet" quarto of 1603, and in
the judgment of Mr. Smith this was
and is the most valuable book in
the world. There are, so pit as
known, but two copies in existence.
We believe that Messrs. Shakes-
peare, Chaucer, et al have been vastly
entertained by the antics of Messrs.
Huntington and Smith.
NEWEST NOTES' OF SCIENCE
Small enough to be carried in a
vest pocket is a new safety razor,
while a strop for blades is circular
and not much larger than a' watch.
To enable railroad men to escape
should their feet be caught in tracks
a Frenchman, has invented shoes with
quickly detachable soles and heels.
A new reflector for incandescent
lamps is made of two hollow quarter
spheres, so hinged together that the
light can be thrown in any direction.
With a two seated, foot propelled
bicycle of German invention the
riders sit beside one another add
each has a pair of handle bars to
steer it. - -
Its inventor has patented an almost
completed automatic motor, driven
wrench, 'a switch cutting off the elec-
tric current when a nut is tightened.
Fishermen in Siam use boats with
low, sloping sides, painted white,
-which frighten fish so that they leap
over the sides of the craft into the.
nets. '-
For babies only a few months old
a portable crib has been invented that
can be folded and carried, 'with an
occupant inside of it, like a suit case.
An inventor' has designed a peri-
scope for locomotives to enable an
engineer to watch his train for sig-
nals and the track for some distance
to the rear.
In 12,000 flights covering about
303,000 mites by Britis h eiviliatn
aviators last year there were but 13
accidents, in which only two persons
were killed.
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Queen Mary's army auxiliary corps
known as the Waacs, which served in
various capacities at the front, ceas-
ed ,as a military organization with the
ending of the year,
Mrs. Edward C. .Griffith, of New
York, has the distinction of being
the first woman to obtain from the
Cuban government- a license to drive
an automobile on. that island.
While blacksmithing is generally
conceded to be a man's job it is estim-
1 ated that there are in the United
States no lee's than 50 women earning
l a livelihood in this line of endeavour.
• Dr. Esther Lovejoy, president of the
Medical women's International asso-
ciation, was at one time head of the
• Portland, (Ore.) ' health bureau and
' still retains the honour of being the
first women -to hold that position. At
the age of fif teen she was a shop girt.
Miss Volera R. • Nelson of Boise,
Idaho, is the first women f tier to obtain
t a pilot's_ certificate from the Aero Club
} of America. She worked in an air-
plane factory during the war and
since •the armistice has studied flying.
She can do the loops, the tail spin,
and the inmelmann with themost ex-
pert birdman.
Miss Margaret Bondfield secretary
of the National Federation of Wonien
Workers; who was a member of the
'British delegation to the labor c(m-
-gress at Washington, has been, adopt -
am
edpaston.
the •-pariamentary candidate of
the Laborites for the seat for North-
-" i Seaforth.
Have You Ever Thought of
This? Thaw
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Sba1
properly infused, is one of Nature's greatest
blessings as a harmless stimulating beverage.,
i
After a hearty
meal, you'll
avoid that
stuffy -feeling
if you chew
a stick of
Other benefits: to teeth.
breath, a appetites nerves.
That'sa good deal to
net for 5 Cents!
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Telephone Service
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Necessary curtailment of new 'con-
struction during the f.var, followed by
the unprecedented development since
the armistice, have resulted in a uni-
versal shortage of telephone ma.
terial.
In order to utilize our supply of
equipment -to the best advantage, to
reduce delay in installations to amin-
imum, and to avoid, refusing servaes
to anyone, we ask those intending t€
order telephones to consider the ad-
vantages of two-party line service.
The cost to the user is substantially
lower than for individual line, and
the service of a high standard.
mow. ,'1.
We will be glad to furnish full
formation to anyone interested.
"Every Bell Telephone is a Lout
Distance Station."
J. J. GRIFFIN, Manager..
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