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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-10-29, Page 64:** ••:25, ;„•!* EUROPEAN FA.RMERS . ' NOW EATING DUCKS In Ontario, we have a Government and a Legislature in which a Farmers' party is in the ascen- dant, more numerous than represen- tatives of urban Labor, to say noth- ing of the old political parties. The Farmers' Party is also making sheadway in Federal politico. • Does political power among the agriculturists mirror a ' dominance also in economic force? In Central and Eastern Europe, all observers seem to be agreed that the dwellers, in the country are exercis- ing a power greater than people ie "The most important man in Eurl- the eities. •ope," was recently deened by an Am- erican writer as "the Russian peas- ant." - An English publicist, H. N. Braila - ford, who has been travelhng through Central Europe, writes in "The New -city received much more in any one Republic" that rural Europe "comes season than it gave out. It received, to power." , firstly, the food equivalent in barter Mr. Brailsford contrasts the pre- of the clothing, furniture, and tools In' dilapidated Vienna, the children in . tually consumed, and, secondly, the frogs and goldfish, and -makes light able Russian . Who swallows petrol, sent conditions of city and country. which the farmers and peasants ac - the playgrounds are silent, listless, food which covered rent, interest on of drinking forty or fifty glasses of immobile, too weak or spiritless to • loans, taxes, lawyers' - fees higher play or shout. 1 a • 1 ' • , education an many slim ar services water on the stage, writes Arthur Mrs to The Daily Mail from • Brus- Deaths are now, regularly, month ' performed by the town and the cen- , se s. leytmonth, double the births. I tral State machinery." . , _ I ' There is some hesitation among 1--- It was the \war and the blockade the good people of Brussels to corn- , In contrast, "the fields look well I tilled,' and the young men in the vilt , that began to -alter this balance. Food ply with his request True, they have lages are as lusty as ever." 1 became scarce and dear, and even the seen the frogs return from _M. • Rog -- Townspeople, under the "knapsack I sharp control and the fixing of maxi- niski's mouth, alive and kicking; system," are going out into the coun- ' mum prices could not prevent the true, the goldfish have reappeared try and Carrying' back meat and ' farmers and peasants from "profit none the worse for their temporary vegetables, which they obtain largely teering." They grew rich out of scar- entombment; but a 1,000 franc note by bartering their own accumulated city and accumulated money. At the is a 1,000 fratic note, and what if M. superfluities for these necessities. A 1 same time rents, taxation, interest Rogniski's marvelous powers of re - glance at the advertisemene columns- 1 on mortgages and even the cost of covering what he has swallowed of an Austrian newspaper will show ' the town's professional services re- should suddenly fail him? evidence that the town is exporting mained nominally at or near the old However, the three bank notes are its jewels, furs, laces linen, even its figure. There was in Central Europe forthcoming, and M. Rogniski pro. superfluous boots and underclothes, no attempt to pay for the war - by ceeds with his performance. to pay for food obtaing4 directly taxation, and the pre-war loans and He carefully wraps each note in- a from the peasants or fro'Wi the smug- rents remained at the old level. In little rubber jacket; then he drinks glen who deal with them. I reality as, the currency depreciated, a couple of glasses of water. One, the, fell to -a merely nominal figure. two, three—theenotes are gone. Nf. it d th bl kad " ,ed in a tributary relation to the town. "Farmers and peasants," explains Mr. Brailsford, "paid rent, interest on Mortgages and ;national taxes, and, however, the payments was dis- guised, the concrete fact is that they Paid these obligations ultimately in kind. Rent, interest and taxes really .went through one channel or another, in the fdrm of grain, *eat and vege- tables, to the town. The relationship closely resembled that between an industrial co -entry (say England) and an agrarian county (say Argentina). Argentina pays in grain and meat not merely the equivalent for the manu- factured goods Which we send out in any one season, but also a rent for the capital which our finance haei sunk here. So in the case of •fown and country. . e "An analysis of the values ex- chenged between a city and its rural districts would show, if statistical measurement were possible, that the 1 a fietetibie of their forrner yalue. The crY out for the 5-ftane note fire. 'gratulated by the prosecuttng coulee Russian peasarit might still pay the I M. Rogniski eignifies that it shall se', • • * fit con - old tax meaeured in roubles, but e be e 5- re, c note. , no longer paid the same.measure of itorts; a struggle appears to take wheat or rye, or even an aPPreciable, place Within him; then. a little rube percentage of it. That is it univer- ber jacket Appears between his lips. sal phenomen in term*, and RS a 1Hei cellsito the witnesses who Bit be - consequence , half-starved towns side, him on the stage; they ..unwrap everywhere Confront an opulent the jacket. A 5 -franc note it is!, So paid the old tribute to the town, and a period of breathless suspense, with countryside. The country no longer I with the 100 -franc note, and so, after the town went short by the mount the note for 1,000 francs. of this surplus which it had. merly A trick, people will say. The notes exacted. are never really swallowed' but kept. The change is illustrated by a re- in the pbrf mark of a Hungarian peasant; "Once ' niski declar I Used to eat my potatoes -and send really swal mer's cheeks. M. Rog - s not; he says that he ws the notes; recovers my ducks to market; now I eat the !them th order required -by a pro - ducks and sell the potatoes." I cess of mental concentration, and is willing to submit 'tto the closest examination. - The swallowing of the petrol is really a remarkable display. A quart jug of the petrol is handed round etmong the audience. Whentthey are satisfied that it is genuine petrol the jug is then given to one of the wit- nesses on the stage, who fills tum- bler after tumbler with. the spirit. These M. Rogniski swallows. Now -comes the final, convincing and dramatic Proof. The stage is partially darkened, though it is not made so dark that any movement of M. Rogniski Cannot be seen. gas jet on a pedestal is put in front of him. M. Rogniski stands it little way from the jet and emits the petrol in a thin stream from his mouth. The gas sets it alight, and for a few terrifying seconds it seems as though M. Rogniski is belching forth flames. I chatted to this marvelous Rus- sian after the performance. He told me that the petrol trick does some- times cause him anxiety. Twice his hair and eyebrows have been singed and he has nearly caught fire; his safety depends on his being able to stand a sufficient way from the gas jet. , FLAMING . GASOLINE FROM MAN'S' MOUTH "Now" gentlemeia I will ask some of you to be good enough to lend me a 1,000 franc note, a 1'00 -franc note, and 5efranc note." Thus, to his audience M. Rogniski, the remark - The war an e oc e,says Brailsford, "began a transfiguration Iverywhere farmers and peiteants Rogniski drinks two more glasses of water. "Now, gentlemen, which, note shall I bring back first—the note for -1 ON francs, for 100 or for 5 fran "The 1,000 -franc note," says owner anxiously. But the at in the relation of town and country all over Central and Eastern Europe, which has deeply affected its politi- cal history already, and rnay be the determining factor in its future." Before the war, the country exist- . Alt \ \ 1 1 \ began to pay off mortgages, or to buy their land. The result wile that the regular tribute paid by the coun- try to the town nearly disappeared. In part it was wiped out. In part it was still exacted, but in marks or kronen or roubles which had sunk to stile I ence, who are not so personally inte ested, Ate The National Service Star Legion has elected Mrs. M. A. Toy, of Hous- ton-, Tex., as president of the organ- ization for the coming, year. Women jurers who have just serv- ed at the Bristol, Eng., sessions for the first time in Englartii, were con- i i' WtS \1. atIVAL By R. L. Wood live stock were glad and content to stay on the farm. But the young folks were not content to stay. There were four sons and two daugh- ters. A pie= of furniture had been - added to the house from time to time, generally the second-hand furniture store' supplied the need.. For years the family managed with just as little and as cheap furniture as could be made serve their turn. The stable and barn were com- fortable, but inside the old farmstead there was neither comfort nor beauty. CENTLY afarmer died, leaving an estate valued a $25,000. Of that sum, $500 repre- sented "household effects." Before his death he frequently deplored the fact that his grown- up children had left home and gone to the city. ills disappoint- ment was not that he had lost money by their desertion, which had compelled him to leave part of his farm unworked for want of help. Ile was an affectionate father,- evUo liked to have his children near him. Be could not under- stand why they should want to drift away one by one. Str an g er s in ay Good -Bye Dad have wondered also - until they read that item in the inventory of estate--"Ileuse- hold. effect z, $500." Waiting for Better Days For a generation that family bad lived in a house with an irreducible minimum of furniture. When as a yoting fellow the fanner had taken his blushing bride home, he did not have a great deal of money to put into' furniture. Both were content to wait for better days. But when better days came, and there was a modest sum available, it was spent -on better accommodations and furnishings for the live stock. That was fine. 'That 'was humane. It was.also good business. One of the Best in Several Counties In time the farm came to be one of the best equipped in several counties. The machinery was of the very latest - and best 'description. The $6,000 at 6 11,er Cent ?kn item in the in- - ventory showed $0,000 invested in securitio pitying 0 per cent. Part of that money invested in comfortable, artistic furniture would have transformed the farna- house into a real home and would have paid the farmer infinitely better, both in cash and moral dividends. The house furnished with suitable and moderately priced furniture, instead of its scattering of cheap odds and ends, would have attracted the children. Children naturally love the beautiful, and their natures crave for its presence. Some of the boys might have been in- clined to remain on the farm and the, mother naight not ,have been left alone to carry on the dairying and other duties. . A Hard Chest Against the_ Wall ,I3are walls - and scantily covered floors, a hard chest against the _wall in lieu of a couch, offer feeble counter -attractions to the lure oi the luxurious cit.y. The children who deserted the farm probably did not blame the lack of home comforts for their desertion. They were not jealous of the cbws aria horses be- cause of their more comfortable quarters. They carried away with /them many happy memories of the old h.omestead. I3ut they went, and can you wonder viten you read that illuminating item? ----11ouscluild effects, $11QL)." Beautiful furniture. transforms an ordinary, uninteresting house Into a real home, in *Aida it is a pleasure to live.. It brings an atmos- phere of cheerfulness and brightness into every room. It delights the eye. It -gives rest and corn - fort to the body. It bring contentment to the mind. It gladdens the heart. It makes home life more attractive. It makes people take more pride in their homes. Nothing that you can buy will eve your family more years of happiness and solid satisfaction than modern furnithre. And beautiful, .w1l- made, Canadian furni- ture is ob„tainable in moderately - priced sets and individual pieces, as • well as in the more elabor- ate and expensive suites. THE HOME FURNISHINGS BUREAU Bank of Hamilton Bldg. Toronto, Canada N'4.,„ —The Home Furnishing vuu Bureau does not sett furnitu.re or goods of any kind. Its objett is to promote a greater interest in the furnishing of Can - wham homes. Your loeal dealer will bo pleased to give you any information you desire about suitable furniture for your home. _ *•.**•-••.14,44•44..., Ain" ,,,,, • - 416,‘4,7 AMIN ORIGIN OF OLD CUSTOMS., ••••••••••••••••••• Why Flags Are Flown at Halt , Mast. When some illustrious person dies, flags are lowered to half-mast. 11 the average man in the street waE interrogateil for an explanation he, Would probably say it was Just the usual custom. However, there is a distinct meaning in this, for the space above is left for the flag of the Angel of Death, says the Edin.burgb Scotsman. Again, a ship is In variably spoken of as of the feminine gender; this is traced to the ancient G -reeks, who called all ship feininin; names out of. respect to Athene, Goddess of the Sea. . Friday is believed to be an un- lucky day .1)3T those who are supersti- tious. It is derived from the fact it was the day of Our Lord's Crucifixion, as well as the one on which Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Few, perhaps, are aware, why a weathercock is frequently attached to a church steeple. This is believed to remind people of Peter's denial of -Our Saviour. Journalists are spoken of al "members of the Fourth Estate." Burke Is generally Credited as being the originator of the phrase, for ,while addressing Parliament one daY he aid there were three branches- of 'Government, the King, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, the Three Estates; but, turning round to the reporters' gallery, he added, "There sits the Fourth Es- tate, far more important than the others." -e The barber's pole has also a'curi- outs history. In other times barbers were also surgeons, and practiced the art of phlebotomy, and a pole was given to the patient to hold in his hand ii order to let the blood run more freely. The pole should have a: Tine of blue paint, one of red and one of white, winding round sits length, blue representing the blood In the veins, red the blood in the arteries, and white the bandages. "Uncle" adopts his familiar sign of three balls over his shop. because the balls form part of 'the old Arms of Lombardy, the people there being the first pawnbrokers in existence. It is a common belief that pea- cocks' feathers are unlucky. This is due to the tradition that the bird opened the Gate of Paradise to the serpent. The nick in a coat has been a puz- zler to many. It is said to date baek to the time of Napoleon. A general n arn ed Moreau had many followers, but they were afraid to openly ex- press sympathy with him. It was therefore agreed to put a nick on their coats as a secret sign. The letter M can be seen in the lapel, representing the initial letter of the general's name. The word "tip" finds its mien in the fact that restaurant keepers nsed to place a box with a slit in it, with the words, "To insure prompt- ness," the initials of which spell the now familiar term for gratuity. A Wedding In Galilee. Marriage in the ancient cities of Galilee has an element ot surprise for both bride and britlegroom; they are not permitted to see each other until after the ceremony. In the Galilean wedding that Mime Genevieve Cowles describes in Asia the bride was less than fifteen years old. "The Meats assembled with gra- slops and reserved Hebrew saluta- tions, leaving their shoes at the door and entering softly. , A girl would pause and make a little reverence, then she would kiss lightly the tips of her fingers and extend the palm of the hand to give the softest touch to one guest and then to another and another, with particular deference to the old women. The men and boys gathered in the large room of the rabbi, the women and girls in the ernall r "A golden -silence prevailed for long intervals while the kuests smok- ed thenarghlle, or Turkish pipe, three or four of which sufficed for the orepanyi since nunterous mouth- pieces enabled as many as five people to smoke at the same time from one inarghile. The men wore brighter cos- tumes than the women. "The silence melted into sonorous Hebrew, spoken or half chanted, with rising and falling infiexions—until at last, like a rest in music, came the solemn pause and the great moment. Before the future bridegroom stood a tall rabbi holding by one end a kerchief. The boy held the other end, according to the form of -the civil contract, and promised to be a faith- ful husband to the girl he had never seen. "The rabbi then entered the room of the women, shere Esther, the bride, stood waiting bashfully, he face covered with a long veil, anO. gave her one end of the kerchiet. She, as the boy had done, now held one end while the rabbi held the other. By accepting the kerchief, she silently gave her consent to the civil contract that bound her to the man whom she had never seen. "There was no eign of love be- tween the two betrothed, as between lovers in the West,' but in order to annul the marriage it would be ne- cessary to obtain the consent of a' tribunal of rabbis." A Stamp Collection. The postagia stamp collection, ot the late Baron Ferrary, confiscated during the war, as alien property" will be sold at auction by the French Government. The collection was ac- cumulated at an expense of $2,000,- 000, says Popular Mechanics Mag- azine. Cotton. Theearliest mention of cotton was by Herodotus, who spoke of it as tree -wool, the name it still bears in German and other continental lan- guages. No Entertaining. Householders in Great Britain are barred from entertaining their mothers-in-law, or other guests, long- er than four weeks by an order from the Ministry of Food. , ACTIMLES OF WOMEN , Princess Helen Cantacuzelia' , daugh- ter of 'Prince Leon, of Roumania, is being considered to rule one of the 1 Balkan States. The Swedish -American Republican club of Massachusetts has latinched a drive to bring at least 10,000 women into memberehip. The National Wennan's party is urg- ing that a womatittte appointed either secretary of war or secretary of the navy in the next cabinet, as a means of assuring peace. Of the thirty Serbian girls brought to America by-Dr:Rosalie S. Morton, of New York, all are to, take up dental and medical eourses schools and colleges in the United States. Eac1. student is required to eign a contract that they will not rnarry an Ameri- can, and if they do, the money spent on their education must be repaid. MO FUEL TANKS FOR EVERY CAR OCTOtER 29, 1920. several of the direttors came nortli in a hurry. letting go; the woods twitch roadie The "southern sky" was brooding' over the snow -fields; the frost was were slumPen days, and the X. IC teamsters worked by night e unden the moon, when the cold had stiffennf the snow on the slopes. A rainfitorm with its few days of thaw gave Kenneth an opportunity to observe how his cribwork ;would handle thee rushing water. The tore rent roared down the gorge for sev- eral days and the log lanes did not overflew. The test showed to hint the weak places and, after frost had sealed the gorge once more, he made the weak places stronger. It would have been better for all concerned if Colonel Marthorn had postponed meeting his son until the Temiscouata's president had forgotten some of the tortures of his &ender- ing sledge journey along slushy tote roads. In his -rage the eolonel piled all responsibility for Mulkern onto Kenneth and called the young man "a confounded guerilla." 'Young Mr: Every six months the United States Marthonn after all his wearying days the and his worrying nights, was in prime Bureau of Mines makae tests of condition to tell the president of the gasoline thit is furnished to the the Temiscouata what sort of a gang of market. It asserts that each year g cheating, nefarious scoundrels stuff is. getting poorer in quality. bane, the syndicate eondoned and harbored. d . Its character has wholly changed Withia a week Kenneth had been shot in the last dozen years. We did not at three times,_ provided the crack appreciate the wonderful "gas" we of a rifle tnd the shriek of a bullet used to have, or (from our present vieWpoint) its marvelous cheapness . were to be accepted as evidence. Though the colonel looked alarmed Never shall we see its like again. There are nearly ten million auto- for an instant, he was frankly skepti- motive, vehicles in America. The total cal the next moment when Donaldson consumption of gasoline is in the neighborhood. of three million barrels a day, To obtain from petroleum the quantity needed, the refiners must "dig deeper" into the- crude product —which means that they take out with the gasoline some of the less volatile constituents of the oil. Hence it is that nowadays commer- cial gasoline is liable to contain more or less kerosene. It has an this ac- count less Matility; and o it hap- pens that the motorist find t difficulty .in starting his machine, especially in cold weather. The chief ° gasoline expert of the bureau of mines thinks that before long 'every ..eotor car will be provided with two tanks—a small. one to con- tain high grade gas for starting -the engine and a good-sized one for fluid fnel yolatile enough to keep it going. 'Zs The Rider of the King Log Continued frora Page 7 sume to make suggestions even when he asked for them. It was evident that she had come to distrust her own qualifications. Her trust in efforts to extricate the X. K. had be- come so supreme that the relation- ship between them assumed a rather sacred quality, not to be inspected with too much analyes or alarmed by awkward explanation. Therefore, in his love for her he was ill at ease! To presume upon her gratitude at that time was not to be thought of; furthermore, there was :the unex- plained secret of his marriage. lae was not sure. of her sentiments. Her devotion to the soul of the X. K. had undoubtealy aroused her grat,eful in- terest in the man who was on the job for her sake—and, so he reflected that might be her only interest in him. After he had arrived in the upper Toban he had explained to her the nature of the favor he intended to ask of her if certain associations became too hateful; it was to be al- lowed to do just what he was then doing. She had accepted him on a business plane as an expert; he felt in honor bound to content hiinself with that status. Old Noel daily searched the 'hills, hunting for trails. For the most part the camps at the ,Sickle -hook had been abandoned. The principal activities of the X, K. were at the upper outlet while the work on the sluices progressed. As it drew near the time for the rains, the torrents, and the drive, Kilbeck moved up there with the stores and Noel was still his guest. The 'old chief was assiduous in his starch, out 1 • • temp ;the identity of the operator. One day Mulkern appeared soddenly be- fore the four men who were guarding the dam at Patch Heath, a Teens- couata property. They did not ,dare to shoot him; it would -mean the "trip- ping" of the contents of that grisly pack upon hie shoulders.. When he made motions as if to ling a stick of dynamite at them they threw down their rifles and, ran. He blew up the dam -at his leisure. Ater that Colonel Marthorn and wiTnkheed wathholiell. 'iaffair was instead of a meeting. There appeared to be no prospect that the itensiscouata and the X K. could get together. As a president, the colonel wrath- fully walked out of the X. K. wangan camp where the meeting had taken place. He returned in a few minutes as ea father, only slightly placated. The two -were alone. "That Apple- ton ape and his gabble -tongued wife are making free with that marridge folly of yours. Seeing that you haven't done me the honor of ac- quainting me with the details, give them to you; it will refresh your memory and afford you an op- :Appleton methods are very exhatts- jovretlounity to check errors of state - A rnent It appgars that the Mister Kenneth bowed when his father had finished the recital offthe discoveries. "1 have°4anothing to add or substract, sir. As you say, Mater Appjeton is exhaustive.",H,eand his wife are making a bus- iness of telling anybody and every - bay, saying it's out of their friend- ship for you. They came to me and told me. I'm informed they made a special trip to Sainte Agathe to tell that Kavanagh girl. But I can under- stand well enough that it was no news to her," declared the colonel, seeing the queer light that flamed in Kenneth's eyes. "I suppose you have put her ahead of your family in giving her your secrets, just as you have given her your service." . "Sir. I have not been made aware - that Miss Kavanagh knows." "Of course she knows! 'The Apple - tons have been up here! They'll be maging a lecture -tour next! You waist stop their foot tongues!" "No, I'd rather finance the lecture - tour. I never realized before what a prince of good fellows Bob Appleton is," he cried, smiling radiantly. 111 not stultify myself enough to ask whether you are going to put the dinuix on you undetifulness by marrying this girl." - Kenneth did not reply immediate- ly. He turned and gazed out of the window, unwiiling to expose his joy to the choleric contempt his tether was exhibiting. He could see Clare in front of Kilbeck's door, playing with the kittens. She had begged Kenneth to takt all the responsibility of the confer- ence. She had appealed to him with the anxious apprehension of a child who was asked to perform an impos- sible task.- She did not want to hear what -those men of business from the city had to say. She had not been able ie. win back -her confidence herself. "You have all the author- ity; I give it to you. I hope I dent appear too. selfi,sh or altogether help- less ox useless. But you know best what should be done." That was not the head of the X. K. in front of Tom's door; it was a girl playing -with kittens- she had confided to her accepted champion glI her affairs. "I warn, you, sir, that' such a mar- riage will be preposterous!" "Jut a moment, dadi you and 1 have dropped the business talk. We'll be simply father and son and I want to show due consideradon. I floret want you to waste a lot of breath and temper if there's to It no marriage? Then this young man, whom impulse frequently made incomprehensible according to usual standards. went to the camp door and called to Clare. She came slowly. When she was near him she shook her head in, pro- test and made moue of reproach. He put out his hand to her and bowel her through the door. 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