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The Huron Expositor, 1920-05-28, Page 1----MACTAVISH The Store that satisfies. ummer lath ROM •••••••••••••••••.., MOST OF THE HATS you admire on other women came from .the MacTavish Store ;14 ts and Coats them and hold your ing,of how good they how varied are the t-3 hey are priced—you C12 Coats up to $58.00 ;14, 111 Coats down to $1(100 111 price. c) 1-3 0:1 40, things in up-to-date n r q,n. We will be glad you want to buy, we ..71 R WAISTS MADE [STINCTIVE AND q0W. i find just exactly the waists here now. The styles are g and distinctive and they ay made and. perfect frtting. and dozens of waists that rent"—every one a model of beauty and rare attractive - why tell more? You must to fully realize that here ing more than an ordinary fine waists. tyles are Charmlng Workmanship is Excellent Prices are 'Very Moderatc,. Oldifi to $11.50 - *IND IT PSZA.L PLEAS- --)01: 'FHM OVER --COME El •Ir rfr2 CTAITISIL •. ••„ FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR WHOLE. NUMBER 2'737 SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1920. { McLean Dm., Publishers $1.50 a Year In Advance IMO 414 RT XRAFT is a name that sym- bolizes the -fine art of imparting distinc- tion 'to men's clothes. represents the distinction of correctness. The ART KRAFT line 4chieved its popularity not because it is an oddity, but because it bears the stamp of good taste. So long as it is the fashion to be gentlemen, ART KRAFT clothes will never lose their popularity. Greig • Clothing-. Co' SEAFORTH- • Seasonable Specialties. The Big Hardware. Use Martin Senour 100 per cent. Pure Paint Covers more surface, lasts longer and can be applied by anybody Try Campbell's Varnish,Stains and Neu -Tone flat finished paints for interior decoration, Poultry Netting, Etc. We carry a full line of garden tools Our Prices are right H. EDGE - TUE BIG HARDWARE, SRAFORTE L TO BE OR NOT TO BE Paraphrasing Robert Louis Steven- son just a little. Home is the sailor —home from the sea. The golfer is home from the links. In other words Premier Borden is on the job again and the surmises begin all over once more. Will the Premier stick to it. Will the Government carry on? Will the Cabinet be reorganized? Will the I,Tnionist party be perpetuated, with a policy to fit? And so forth and so on.—the questions are thicker than currants 'in a pound cake. Some of the questions can be answered ort the principle that one guess is as good as another. The chances are that the Premier will stick to it as long as he is able. How long he will be able is another story. Spite of the mask of tan he brings back, the Premier is not in first rate health, He has lost flesh and his legs are shaky. Two months work at top steed might put him back where he was before he went away. Sir Robert's war endeavors have seriously dermined his constitution and, for some time to come he will have to nurse himself carefully. Some good guessers are saying that the session will last two months long- er, in Which case Sir Robert will have to conserve his resources. Others— and their guess is the' more likely —count on poroguing by July ist which means six weeks hard labor for Sir Robert. In any case the re- cess will come as a welcome relief to a greatly harassed and over -bur- dened statesman. Although the House has accomplish- ed considerable work - in its slow dandling way a great deal remains to be done. The Franchise Act is al- most out of the way, but the budget is next up and the budget is good for a month at least. Thus Sir Robert finds himself in the thick of it. The Qpposition which has not shown much fight so far threatens the heavy artillery now that the big man' is back. They have been waiting for a foreman. worthy of their steel and if Sir Robert wants a fight, it is willing to take him on almost any day. In the Great War at Ottawa it's always the last thirty days that count. Twenty years in the Press Gallery have never yet shown me the reason- ableness of crowding all the fighting into the last month. It would interest the public and please the newspapers more if the battle were spread out more evenly through the session. Par- liament is capable of brisk movement when it likes and brisk movements is what the times demand, absentee Premiers notwithstanding. Brisk movement and courage—these are the two great requitites. The Wind and the Lather. To get just that combination it may be necessary to have a new breed bf M. P. whom we shall pay more or less as our judgment decides. If *e pay him five thousand dollars a ses- sion we may get the professional politician in worse guise that we have him now. If we pay him nothing except his board, lodging and rail- way fare—we might build a parlia- mentary hostel for him—we may get patriots or we may not. What we want is a Member of Parliament who will tell the truth and stand up for the right let his head fall where it may. We have too many members of Parliament talking for the next election instead of talking for the good of Canada. Even when. he' is talking for the. good of Canada he should not be allowed to utter more than fifteen hundred words of highly condensed wisdom on any one subject and to insure that these words shall be as brave as they are true it should be the law of the land that no Member of. Parliament shall be elegible for re-election. One term to do his best or his worst in—only so shall we secure the ideal Member of Parlia- ment, also the ideal Parliament which will do its work in two months and go home. Will the -Government carry on? There can be little doubt that it will. Whatever it unpopularity in. the country there seems to be no one in the House—with the possible excep- tion of the Farmers' Party, which is very much subdued since it reached Ottawa—that -wants it to do other- wise. It exists on tolerance, it is true, but it exists and will probably continue to exist until calmer days are in sight. It seems a great pity that the Government does not take advantage of this truce of opinion to do certain things which their successors will be so happy to find done that they will never think of undoing them. The three brave and necessary things are: (1) To tax resolutely; (2) To cut down ,expenses; (3) To deflate the currency. Something has been done along the line of taxation—we have both kinds now, direct and in- direct—it might be advisable to do a little more in the way of direct taxation as the fermers profess to be very fond of this kind of medicine. The Inside Civil Service clamors for reform and retrenchment, but before that is done it would be well to tackle the war establishments which are scandalously overstaffed at the present time. No compunction should be frit in reducing these establishments at once to a peace footing and relieving the pay roll of a host of spongers, who have no work to do, and who set the treasury back millions of dollars !every month. Deflating the currency is another matter which demands im- mediate attention. This paper money jag of ours is a prime cause of high prices and will remain so as lorig as a paper dollar represents only about twelve cents in gold. The Moulting Season. Win the Cabinet be reorganized? It certainly win—time and circum- stance will do the trick. The Cabinet will reorganize itself by shedding Cabinet Ministers, one at a time, until there are not enough Cabinet Ministers left to carry on. Suppose Sir Robert drops out and the would -be -premiers get a chance—Mr. Meighen or Sir George Foster or ihlr. Ballanterne, or the latest candidate, Mr. Guthrie, who has won golden opinions by his digni- fied conduct of the, Franchise Act. That's one portfolio to fill, unless the Premier doubles up or Sir Edward Kemp does his duty 'as a spare part. Cabinet Ministers, who don't need a by-election are becoriiing fewer and fewer—nearly all the shifts and doublings have been- made. Then there's Sir George Foeter, who would like to go to. London is. High Com- missioner and Mr. Rowell, who would like to go to Washington as Minister Plenipotentiary and Dr. Reed, who would like to go to the Senate, and. • Mr. Sifton, who _ wotild like to go somewhere else, and Mr. Burrill, who would like to go into the Parlia- mentary library and—but why string it out! There is hardly one Cabinet Minister who isn't willing to do his part toward reorganizing the Cabinet by dropping out himself into a safer job. It is worth noting that Mr. Calder and Mr. Rowell are no longer mentioned as - possible premiers. They have suddenly remembered that they are lawyers and, failing softer spots, a place on the judge's bench, would suit them, as it would Mr. Meighen, very well indeed. Will the Unionist party be perpet- uated and what will be its policy? The inquest has not been held yet. That is to say the caucus which is to decide whether the Unionist party is to be or not to be has not had the nerve to meet. It is doubtful whether Sir Robert has either the strength or the inclination to breathe the breath of life into a newiparty 'weighed down With old sins. Time was when he could swing a party by the tail but that time is past. To galvanize the Unionist party into life is a harder job than King Canute had waving back the almighty ocean: Human nature is much too strong even for Sir Robert Borden. It looks as if the Honorable Robert Rogers had the right sow by the ear when he calls. on the grand old. Liberal -Conservative party to rise up on ite hind legs and declare itself. The Honorable Robert's Round •Table conference,. etih Toronto, which brought Premier 'Ai eirden scur- rying home, is a sign of the times, as are also the Tory newspapers which gave it a fidendly pat on the back and the Members of ParliamenT, who gave it God speed secretly, though not wish- ing to expose their hands as yet. The general opinion in and out 'of Parlia- ment seems to be that the Liberal - Conservative party may be a little shiny at the elbows and baggy at the knees but with a little cleaning and pressing there is a lot of wear in the old clothes yet. The last thing it wants is a new Union suit.—H. F. G. EDUCATING BOYS TO BE FARMERS Hon. Duncan Marshall, Minister of Agriculture for Alberta, in Farm and 'Dairy, says: I believe there is going to be a greater demand for argricultural education than ever. You know the position that agricultural education occupied only a few years ago. I am not very old, and yet I have -a very, ambition a every man and woman keen recollection of a discussion that look place in the locality in which I :lived as a boy when the firth lad from our settlement decided to go to ahi agricultural college. I remember how the old men shook their heads and said it was too bad. They said he might have made a good farmer if he had just stopped at home; that it was a shame to spoil a boy that had as many opportunities as he had, and he was rather a smart fellow, but for his people to send him to an institution where he said he was going to learn to farm out of a book, they were certain he would come back home ruined. They were certain before he went at all, and that kind of pre- pudice existed in the minds of hun- dreds of thousands of farmers all over this continent with respect to agricultural education. They thought and girls who are going to engage we have to revolutionize our methods and systems of farming and give these boys and girls a chance. There is no business more manly than the breeding of livestock by boys that agricultural knowledge was some- thing that you inherited; that farm- ing was 'only done by guess and by - gosh anyhow, and what you couldn't learn by experience wasn't worth learning at all. In: this business, and we should make it our business to see that they learn and know it. I took my boys a year ago down to the International Show at Chicago. They were busy at their lessons, one Now, you can learn to farm well at the University and the other at by experience. It takes sixty or , the public school this year, or I should seventy years, and that is a good : have taken them again, but I am go - while, but if you have decided that ing to take them to the next one you are going to live long enough because they are going to breed to spend that length of time in get- Shorthorn cattle -when they get ting your education, why then it is through with their education. That up to you. But I want to tell you is the business they are engaged in that the next decade is going to now in the summer months and I wake up the men and the women to want them to have a personal know - the fact all over this country, that ledge of every Shorthorn. bull on the if you have a boy and he is going continent of America so that when to farm, that nothing short of the they pick up a pedigree every name best possible education that you can will have their personal knowledge give him will fit him for the business. and will bear direct relation to the They are waking up to the fact that animal that they own in their own it takes more brains and intelligence barn. and more education to manage a I want them to learn the history a good farm that it does to make a as only boys and girls can of great man fitted for Any other IcInd of cattle breeding by seeing the animals occupation there is. I can remember themselves. And we have got to the time when if a boy was considered have our boys and girls- learn some - kind of bright it was decided that thing of the breeding of livestock; to they should make a doctor or a lawyer learn its history, and to get some - or a preacher or a professional man thing of the inspiration and the spirit of him, and if he was kind of dull that spurred the men on to lay the and never got past the third book in foundations that have to -day made his school he would have to stay livestock breeding what tit is in the home and work. I know there are United States of America and in the people to -day who don't believe that Dominion of Canada, and get these any man ever chose farming for an boys and 'girls to have the ambition occupation and deliberately decided he to do something worth while in build - should farm. It was thought you ing up the livestock business of the were condemned by accident or birth, future. that you had the misfortune to have I have had a little experience in had a father who was a farmer, and my Shorthorn business, I etartecl in that you made a bad choice f a in a very modest way, largely front father, and the result was you had lack of capital, in order to build up to stay there because you never had a little Shorthorn- herd, and a few a good opportunity to get away from years ago when bulls were bred cheap it. in Canada went some 2,500 Miles Now I want to tell you that - that from home. A man had a Shorthorn story is being all exploded to -day. bull and aske hint if he would price Men and women have awakened ta him. He said he might, but he would the fact that if they happened to have want an awful lot` of money for him, a dull boy they can get him through and it took me about half an hour 'college and he can get into one of to get him to say how much it was, these professions, and he can learn and when he mentioned it he thought and live there, and he will be good it would very likely drive me ,clean enough for some kind_ of a job. But out of the barnyard. Filially he said if you want somebody to be a better he wouldn't sell him unless be got farmer than his father was and bring $1,000 for him. And it eounded like honor and credit to his home, then a lot of money to me, but he didn't he wants to select his brightest and have the thousand dollars out of his best on the farm to live on the farm mouth until I said, "You have sold and to till the soil, to breed good the bull," and I -shipped him home livestock and to engage in the most to my farm, and he lived long enough. intelligent business on the face of to sire twelve calvestand he iay down. well. thing for a bull to do than that. and I don't know a worse the earth to -day, that of farming and diel, You can go over the whole line of But the first calf he steed I took men who made a success of livestock to the bull sale in Calgary when it breeding and you will find that they was twelve months old and put it in were men whose minds were tuned the auction sale and it brought $1,005, to the highest intelligence; whose and it was the first bull calf that I wits were sharpened to grasp every had ever sold for that much money. opportunity for education they could I went down to the state of Iowa and secure, and they went at their busi- screwed my courage up to the point ness with the kind of intelligence of paying $1,800 for a bull calf five and ability that made it a success, months old, and then my friends did and I want to tell you that the men tell me I was crazy and wanted to arid 'women who have boys and girls know what I could see in a little calf that they want to • farm are going that small to put $1,800 into his hide. to see to it in the next few years I brought him borne and he lived a that these boys and girls start out geed deal longer, and the first calf without any of the handicaps that he sired on my farm I sold in the you and I had; without having to stable, without any auction sale, and blaze their own trail; without having got a cheque for $5,000 for him when to find their own information for he was nine and a half months- old. themselves, and they are going to My bull was paid back and wouldn't get the best training and the best have taken three times that money scientific education along agricultural for the sire of my calf. and livestock lines that it is possible And that is the simple history of to give them, nearly every man who 'has bad the That, I think, is the hope and buy a bull and breed better cattle courage to borrow a little money to than he had been doing before in the history of my country and your coun- try in the last ten years, and it is this kind of thing we want our girls and boys to know and understand; and it has been the raising of this kind of calves on my farm that has convinced my boys that there isn't any other business in the world worth talking about compared with living on a farm and breeding good cattle. That is the ambition they have, and they. have the ambition to do this thing a little better than their father did, and I hope they will, and I want to give them an opportunity to begin where I left off, and I hope that the in the land—that hope and. that ambi- tion is going to make this continent the 'greatest farming district in the world, and nothing else will, and I am glad to see every agricultural college and every school of agriculture crowded to the doors this year. I doubt if there is one institution on this continent that has not doubled its attendance. The boys being home from the war partially accounts for it, but it is also accounted for by the fact that men and women have awakened and realize that if we want the town men out on the land, and if they are going to stay there, then ambition that you have for your boys and girls is that they shall get the kind of training and education that will enable them to begin where you quit; to start where you had to lay down the lines, think that any man Who owns a farm on this continent of America, and who has got it fixed up to make a good home on it—a decent home— should have the ambition to keep that home and that -farm in his family and to always see that he raises a boy that will stay there on that land and that will make it- a better farm than he made it; that will improve the live stock conditions and make them better than he had them, because I know no greater satisfaction that a man can have in his old days than to see his home out in the country handled by one of his lads and have it done just a little better than he did it. —What might have been a more serious accident occurred at Merkley's garage in Wingham on Saturday night when the owner of a car which had been in for repairs, stopped outside the door and lit a match to look in the tank. In a moment the gas took fire, flying over E. Merkley, who was standing near, ankl also setting the 1 car ablaze. Mr. Merldey quickly stripped off his clothes, saving himself ! from serious burns, and men from i nearby beat out the fire in the car, which was not 'greatly damaged. The firemen were called out, but fortun- ately their services were not reuired. 1 —Another of the pioneer residents of Wingham aection was called by death on Sunday last in the person of Mr. Simon VanNorinat, who pass- ed away at the home of his &tighter, Mrs. John Hopper, 3rd line of Morris, aged 85 years. The deceased gentle. man had for many years resided in. Belgrave, and was well known. and highly esteemed. His wife predeceas- ed him a number of years -age. THE FIRE MENACE OF GASOLINE ENGINES IN BARNS The "Public Service Bulletin," is- sued by the Ontario Government, in: the March number, contained an ar- ticle dealing with fires caused by gasoline engines. The writer says: The remarkable increase in the use' of gasoline for light and power is presenting constant evidence of it being a contributing cause to our fire waste. It is not a new hazard, but it is a rapid development of an old hazard which is materially adding to the number and extent of our fires. The automobile and the garage are not the only elements creating or add- ing to this condition, and while the garage hazard requires- drastic treat- ment, we have particularly in mind the menace of the gasoline engine on the farm, and in rural localities. Gas engines should be kept in isolated buildings as far from the barn as possible. The following ease aptly illustrates and. enforces this conclus- ion. A fire occurred in Peel County February 29th, 1920, whereby an ex-- ceptionally good barn and other out- buildings were destroyed. The value of buildings anti contents was in the neighborhood of 418,000, the insurance was $6,500, and the farmer's net less over and above his insurance was thus about $11,500. Investigation of this fire was made. by an officer of the -Fire Marshal's department, who reported -as follows': "The fire originated from a three horse power portable gasoline engine, It was set on blocks about fifteen or eighteen inches high on the barn floor ini a recess in the straw mow, just off the threshing floor. This recess was about 12 feet square and 8 feet high, and was enclosed on three sides with one inch lumber walls, and had a lumber roof with the eracks be- tween the boards covered to Prevent, straw and chaff from falling through to the floor surrounding the engine. The recess was open on the side net to the threshing floor. The floor of this recess is said by several to have been kept well swept and 'clear of any untidiness. 'Mr. Me-- stated that he had al- ways kept the engine well cleaned,. and in good working order. He used coal oil foe fuel and primed it with gasoline. The exhaust pipe did not extend outside the building. When the engine was first installed the ex- haust pipe had passed through a ffoor underneath the engine about two. or three feet into an open shed under- neath. Mr, M— did not like hav- ing the exhaust pipe going down into this open shed, and had noticed some sparks corning from it when it was so located. He had the exhaust pipe cut off so that it did not pass through the floor but terminated, -within a few inches of the floor, and he had a rnuxer placed on it. "He himself had started the engine on the day of the fire, for the purpose of pumping water, and stated that it appeared to be running smoothly. He had been working close to the engine for about ten minutes after starting it, and noticed that the oil was feed- ing properly, and that the engine ap- peared to be running smoothly. He then went down to the stables, and after a few minutes heard his Wed' man call 'firel' The hired man was working at the other end of the thresh- ing floor, and when be first saw the fire, it was immediately around the the engine. Before they were able extinguish it the blaze had caught on the straw in the mow and was be- yond their control. The buildings were completely consumed by fire, "There is no doubt that the fire originated from the gasoline engine, 'and this is undeniable evidence of the necessity of exercising the very great- est precautions in the metalling and use of these engines, and the neces- sity of having the exhaust pipe ex- tend outside of the buildings." In the same county a similar oc- currence took place on &minty al, 1920, on another farm and our in- vestigator reported as follow= "Mr. H— has a portable tine. horse power gasoline engine. This engine had been operated on the - threshing floor of the barn, and also - in other outbuildings, and had not been cleaned with the exception that the spark plugs had occasionally been cleaned out. On some occasiontby had had difficulty in starting the en- gine, but had not had any previous fires with it. "About 10 a.m., on January alp Mr. H— filled the two -gallon tank of the engine with gasoline, and itt doing so spilled some of the liquid - over the machine. He then atteMpt- ed to start the machine but could riot throw- the wheel over. The engine back -fired, causing the gasoline to ignite. The resulting fire lasted fpr about:fifteen minutes, scorching Ue walls and low ceiling of the small frame outbuilding in which it was located, Mr. H.—, first attempted' toextinguithnfin e fire\pgd y that throwing water on o tbis only helped the fire to spread, he threw it, and sucequantities extinof snowonsosucceeded in The moral of both these Instances now recorded for the information of those interested is so clear that Ite, who runs, may read. 1111111 1 111 1111111 Ill , IIIIIII 111111 1111111ate 1111111representing 111111 IIIIII Victory Loan Bonds 1 can be purchased at the following rates: Dec., 1922 99 and int . 5.86% 1 Nov., 1923 99 and int. 5.820 , Dec., 1947_ 991/2 and int. . . ..... . 5.58 1 Nov., 1933 991/2 and int. 5.55% m 1 Dee., 1937 101 and int. 5.42° 1 Nov., 1924... . . .... 98 and int. 6.010 Qi 1 Nov., 1934 96 and int. 5.92 With the exception of the 1924 and 1934 maturities these bonds are free from Dominion Income Tai We shall welcome an opportunity to serve in your - investment matters, irrespective of the amount of your funds. —• By reference to the above, investors will appreci- the high return on moneys invested. 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B ililli „ ll, — — .. 111111 ambition that you have for your boys and girls is that they shall get the kind of training and education that will enable them to begin where you quit; to start where you had to lay down the lines, think that any man Who owns a farm on this continent of America, and who has got it fixed up to make a good home on it—a decent home— should have the ambition to keep that home and that -farm in his family and to always see that he raises a boy that will stay there on that land and that will make it- a better farm than he made it; that will improve the live stock conditions and make them better than he had them, because I know no greater satisfaction that a man can have in his old days than to see his home out in the country handled by one of his lads and have it done just a little better than he did it. —What might have been a more serious accident occurred at Merkley's garage in Wingham on Saturday night when the owner of a car which had been in for repairs, stopped outside the door and lit a match to look in the tank. In a moment the gas took fire, flying over E. Merkley, who was standing near, ankl also setting the 1 car ablaze. Mr. Merldey quickly stripped off his clothes, saving himself ! from serious burns, and men from i nearby beat out the fire in the car, which was not 'greatly damaged. The firemen were called out, but fortun- ately their services were not reuired. 1 —Another of the pioneer residents of Wingham aection was called by death on Sunday last in the person of Mr. Simon VanNorinat, who pass- ed away at the home of his &tighter, Mrs. John Hopper, 3rd line of Morris, aged 85 years. The deceased gentle. man had for many years resided in. Belgrave, and was well known. and highly esteemed. His wife predeceas- ed him a number of years -age. THE FIRE MENACE OF GASOLINE ENGINES IN BARNS The "Public Service Bulletin," is- sued by the Ontario Government, in: the March number, contained an ar- ticle dealing with fires caused by gasoline engines. The writer says: The remarkable increase in the use' of gasoline for light and power is presenting constant evidence of it being a contributing cause to our fire waste. It is not a new hazard, but it is a rapid development of an old hazard which is materially adding to the number and extent of our fires. The automobile and the garage are not the only elements creating or add- ing to this condition, and while the garage hazard requires- drastic treat- ment, we have particularly in mind the menace of the gasoline engine on the farm, and in rural localities. Gas engines should be kept in isolated buildings as far from the barn as possible. The following ease aptly illustrates and. enforces this conclus- ion. A fire occurred in Peel County February 29th, 1920, whereby an ex-- ceptionally good barn and other out- buildings were destroyed. The value of buildings anti contents was in the neighborhood of 418,000, the insurance was $6,500, and the farmer's net less over and above his insurance was thus about $11,500. Investigation of this fire was made. by an officer of the -Fire Marshal's department, who reported -as follows': "The fire originated from a three horse power portable gasoline engine, It was set on blocks about fifteen or eighteen inches high on the barn floor ini a recess in the straw mow, just off the threshing floor. This recess was about 12 feet square and 8 feet high, and was enclosed on three sides with one inch lumber walls, and had a lumber roof with the eracks be- tween the boards covered to Prevent, straw and chaff from falling through to the floor surrounding the engine. The recess was open on the side net to the threshing floor. The floor of this recess is said by several to have been kept well swept and 'clear of any untidiness. 'Mr. Me-- stated that he had al- ways kept the engine well cleaned,. and in good working order. He used coal oil foe fuel and primed it with gasoline. The exhaust pipe did not extend outside the building. When the engine was first installed the ex- haust pipe had passed through a ffoor underneath the engine about two. or three feet into an open shed under- neath. Mr, M— did not like hav- ing the exhaust pipe going down into this open shed, and had noticed some sparks corning from it when it was so located. He had the exhaust pipe cut off so that it did not pass through the floor but terminated, -within a few inches of the floor, and he had a rnuxer placed on it. "He himself had started the engine on the day of the fire, for the purpose of pumping water, and stated that it appeared to be running smoothly. He had been working close to the engine for about ten minutes after starting it, and noticed that the oil was feed- ing properly, and that the engine ap- peared to be running smoothly. He then went down to the stables, and after a few minutes heard his Wed' man call 'firel' The hired man was working at the other end of the thresh- ing floor, and when be first saw the fire, it was immediately around the the engine. Before they were able extinguish it the blaze had caught on the straw in the mow and was be- yond their control. The buildings were completely consumed by fire, "There is no doubt that the fire originated from the gasoline engine, 'and this is undeniable evidence of the necessity of exercising the very great- est precautions in the metalling and use of these engines, and the neces- sity of having the exhaust pipe ex- tend outside of the buildings." In the same county a similar oc- currence took place on &minty al, 1920, on another farm and our in- vestigator reported as follow= "Mr. H— has a portable tine. horse power gasoline engine. This engine had been operated on the - threshing floor of the barn, and also - in other outbuildings, and had not been cleaned with the exception that the spark plugs had occasionally been cleaned out. On some occasiontby had had difficulty in starting the en- gine, but had not had any previous fires with it. "About 10 a.m., on January alp Mr. H— filled the two -gallon tank of the engine with gasoline, and itt doing so spilled some of the liquid - over the machine. He then atteMpt- ed to start the machine but could riot throw- the wheel over. The engine back -fired, causing the gasoline to ignite. The resulting fire lasted fpr about:fifteen minutes, scorching Ue walls and low ceiling of the small frame outbuilding in which it was located, Mr. H.—, first attempted' toextinguithnfin e fire\pgd y that throwing water on o tbis only helped the fire to spread, he threw it, and sucequantities extinof snowonsosucceeded in The moral of both these Instances now recorded for the information of those interested is so clear that Ite, who runs, may read.