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MEDICAL
DR. GEORGE H.1;ILEMANN.
Oiteophatic Physician of Goderich.
Specialistin Women's and Children's
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and throat. Consulation free. Office
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Tuesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m
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425 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
Specialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin-
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DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
,McGill Lisiversity, Montreal; Member
a Colter, of Physicians and Surgeons
bf Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coun-
eLl of Canada; Poet -Graduate Member
Resident Medical staff of General
'tat, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 66.
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Dr. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron. -
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin=
sty University, and gold medallist of
trinity Medical College; member of
tire' College of Physicians and Sur-
g eons of Ontarle.
DR. H. I•lTJGH ROSS.
Glaate of University of Toronto
Paco] ty of Medicine, member of Col-
Onfte of Physicians and Surgeons of
tario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital London,
England, University Hospital, London
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ank, l3esfnE11. Phone No. 5, Night
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Currants and Itaspberrirs Worth
While Raising — strawberrlee
Yield Genot•.rtely Whore Properly
t'ared-Free—syeteme of Planting
Described.
IContrtputed oy Jntnrto Department of
Agriculture. 'reroute.)
Aa the email ftivrts are to remain
in the garden for u longer period of
time than the vegetable crops 1t b
better, as a matter of convenience,
to place them on one side of the gar-
den
arden where they will be least inter-
fered
nterfered with and where they will not
hinder the ploughing for the other
crone. •
The beet time to set out nearly all
kinds of fruit, in this province, is
early in May, the date depending up-
on the soil and weather conditions.
Currants and gooseberries are excep-
tions to this rale, it being generally
best to plant thele in September, as
they begin growth very early I
spring.
Ourrtuits.
Red and black currants are native
and grow over a wide range of terri-
tory in Canada They are planted
four to six feet apart, as the bushes
take up considerable space after
three or four years. Plant in the
autumn. The currant roots are near
the surface, hence 11 the soil fe hot
and dry the crop will suffer. A rich,
well-dralned. clay loam is best, al-
though they do well In moat soils.
good dressing of manure before
planting, well worked into the soli,
will make conditions 'better. Then
is little danger of giving the currant
too much tertiliaer. Keep from six to
eight main branches each season and
a few others coming on to take their
places. A good rule is not to have
any branches more than three years
of age, as younger wood gives strong-
er growth and better fruit. In good
soil the bushes should bear from six
to ten crops before removal and be-
fore new ones take their place. In a
favorable season, when In full bear-
ing, they should yield from four 10
+en pounds per bush.
Raspberries.
!sled raspberries are generally
planted is rows six feet apart and
two feet in the row. The numerous
u kers which a
shoe'~ or s spring p g u P
fru m tee roots sown make the space
between the rows narrow, so with
rows a few feet apart a considerable
number of eases must be cut out to
permit of cuitivetiwn. These suckers
may be dug and set ort in new rows.
4 cool, loam) soil. well drained, yet
• apable of holding much moisture, ie
best. As molsture Is a very important
factor in producing a good erop, and
Is often lacking • luring the fruiting
period. frequent ,.hallow cultivations
should be given to keep the soil In
moist condition sold atsu keep down
the weede, Atter a cane bears fruit It
3. of no more use. and so may be rut
out Immediately. of the other canes,
take out the weak ones and leave
about six good canes to bear the fruit
ter the next season. Cut them back
late in the fall after growth ceases,
Or early in the spring, to two or tiro
and a half feet is height. The beit
varieties are Cuthbert and Herbert.
WING MALL FRUITS
ractiCal Nln!SS f r ooh Farmer$
and TOWuslOik.
Strawberries.
The strawberry is a very hardy
plant and will grow on a variety of
soils. A sandy loam produces the ear-
liest crot, while a clay loam produces
the largesscrop and a better quality
beny Probably the beet system of
planting in the garden Is to set the
plants 18 inches apart In the rows,
which should be from 3-4 feet apart,
and allow the runners to extend In all
directions to form a matted row.
This method will give the greatest
quantity of berries; while, if they
were planted closer and all the run-
ne'rs cut off, a larger plant and larger
berries could be produced, but would
take considerable time and cant
Pg planting rim lantin in May gives the beat
results. Strawberries will not thrive
where water st.anda on the surface
in either summer or winter- It may
be possible to obtain plants from a
plantation near -by; if not, order early
from is reliable nurseryman. When
digging take the healthlest runner
plants and see that all largo leaves
and flower buds are removed before
planting. More than one -variety
should be planted, because many var-
ieties are imperfect, that is, contain
pistil parts only, while some, when
the• pistil and stamens are in one
flower, are perfect. The Imperfect
varieties must have pollen from the
perfect flower in order to set fruit,-,
Generally the best results are obtain-
ed where Just one crop is taken; that
is, at the end of the second season
from planting, plough them under,
and reset a new lot each year. Most
plantations are allowed to run longer
—three or four seasons. In the fall,
after the plants have frozen, they
should be covered with straw, hay,
or, what is still better, spruce or fir
boughs. This prevents alternate freez-
ing and thawing. In the spring, after
the danger from frost is past, the hay
or straw 1s drawn off the planta and
placed between the rows to serve as
a mulch to eonycrve moisture, keep
the berries clean and make picking
easier. In small gardens plants may
be set twelve Inches apart in the
row. No runners are allowed to Perm
on the plans. -This Is what Is called
the "Hill" system and given very ane
quality berries. Only varieties with
perfect flowers should be used. The
only objection to this method of
strawberry growing le the amount of
labor required to p oft the runup's.
—A. Ii:. MacLen an, Vegetable Spe-
cialist, Toronto,
SCREW
roots**,
Strolling -one evening long a geuii-
a r toad in Bolton Eng d, a young
engineer notice(_ that the. eeede fall-
ing.from a sycamore tree 'acquired a
rotary motion before reaching the
round:
Taking one up, he found that the
two wings were turned in' opposite
directions, which caused them to re-•
volve in falling. This gave" him the
idea of making a screw propeller on
the same principle.
But the first, man to apply the
principle to the propulsion of vessels
was a Kentish farmer named Francis
P. Smith. The son of a H,ythe poet -
master, he had always been fond of
making models oL boats, and had in-
vented various methods of propelling
them.
It was not, however, anti! '1834
that he constructed a model of a
boat Propelled by a screw driven by
a spring, which answered so well
that he determined tat this would
be a much better means of propulsion
for steamboats than the paddle-
wheel.
Mr. Smith was at this time a
cattle grazier at Hendon, and on a
horse -pond in one of his fields he
tried a number of experiments with
a model screw steamboat of his own
design. So enthusiastic was he that
he continued his experiments at the
Adelaide Gallery, near Charing Cross,
Loddon, and finally, in 1836, took out
a patent for his invention. ,
A few months later he decided to
put his .craw propeller to the test.
To do this he built a small vessel
of about ted tons, which, when com-
pleted, was tried on the Paddington
Canal and on the Thames with sat-
isfactory results.
In 1837 this tiny vessel visited
Folkestone, Dover, and other porta,
encountering at times very severe
weather, which proved—In spite of
the warnings of professional critics—
that the screw would work equally
well in rough seas.
The following year a visit was paid
to the boat by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, who were so impressed that
that they undertook to give the ex-
etrient a trial with a view to the
adoption of the principle by the
British navy. Before doing so, how-
ever, they desired to have the test
applied to a larger ship.
To meet this request, the Arch-
imedes, a vessel of 232 tons, was
built of Millwall. The Admiraity
agreed that if the vessel realized a
speed of five miles an hour, the in-
vention was to be considered satis-
factory. When the trial took place
the Archimedes surprised the en-
gineering world by steaming at a
of nearly t
sari
sP
• ten miles s an hour,
Betw'ceri 18:39 and 1840 the vessel
visited most of Great Britain's chief
ports and crossed the Bay of Bis-
cay to Oporto. By this time a num-
ber of vessels had been laid down'on
the screw principle, and ten . years
later nearly a hundred screw steam-
ships had been built or ordered to be
built.
No sooner was the invention as-
sured of success than Mr. Smith had
to fight a number of persons who laid
claims to it. Continued litigation
was ncessary to support his right,
and law costs made enormous holes
in the inventor's profits.
Such a boon was the invention that
only ten years after its adoption it
e as calculateti that if the old paddle-
wheel had continued to be in exclus-
ive use engines of nearly 100:p,00
horse -power would have been requir-
ed, the cost of which would have been
five or six million pounds sterling
(normally $20,000,000 to $30,000,000).
Carefully store Sleighs and cutters.
As the weather becomes warmer,
variety and succulency is important
to the ration of- the cattle, as their
appetite Is not 90 -1rOCL
.la.
�rr licit lBtamthe
more
than 25 fold since 1880:
' dial
feontrsgtp , te,,.•o?t:
tele of !tali with
that prevai, upon the
mentions the .. ea5e o ,
inhere' phl7li'. "Captai
ch made in its time eerie -
thing !Ilse:; :: a million dollars. The
young anther beset and pestered Sir
Herbert Tree to read his play. Tree
declined, • One night he went to a
Turkish•"bpth, and settling himself
in a coal!' told the attendant.• that he
didn't want him for a couple
hours. The man under the tetral
on the net lounge looked up and
said: "I could read you the first two
sets of 'Captain Swift' in that time,
Mr, Tree. ;n desperation Tree per-
mitted him to read. When he fin-
ished the first act the actor -manager
said: "I'll buy it. You can have an
advance royalty to -morrow." •
"Could you let me Rave ten shil-
lings to -night to get myself out of an individual, a family, or a coin -
this bath?" asked Chambers anx- munity could be brought to starve
iously. As Mr. Broun says:. "Had tion. The spies are well paid and
Chambers been a heavy hitting out- their families are well supplied with
fielder instead of a light comedy food. It was as much due to the
playwright, the managers would work of these spies as.to the efforts
have come ti him, not merely met of the Red armies that preceding re -
him by luck. • volts !rove been crushed, and Sir Paul
The General Electric Company thinks it trill be hardly short of a
does a little scouting. Each year it miracle if the present rebellion is
takes •approximately three hundred not quelled. He believes, however.
young men into its test schools and that Bolshevism cannot last, and
at the end of the course retains that sooner . or later the Russian
more than 90', of them. But it is people will overthrow it. its end
an exception. Most businesses are will be hastened when Russia re -
content to depend upon promoting
WHERE BASEBALL BEATS
BUSINESS' AND ART
in an article called "Out of the
Sticks" in Col'lier's, Heywood Broun
says that in no business, or occupa-
tion, or art are the chances for early
success so greattnas in baseball. No
business has such an organization for
discovering new talent. He mentions
the case of four young teen living in
a Texas town. One was Rube, a
baseball pitcher, another was Harry
with stent toward engineering; Don-
Don-
ald with literary tastes,
born executive. Whenhe was nine-
teen
andom a
bo
teen Rube pitched a fine game for a
local team, and was picked up by the
Sacramento club, and by the time he
was twenty-one had reached New
York and his name was known to
millions. The other three remain in
the little town. One is chief mechan-
ic in a garage; another is night clerk
in a hotel. Donald is a newspaper
reporter, and has written a play call-
ed `Hearts Adrift" which he is en-
deavoring, so far without success,
to induce somebody to read and pro-
duce- Each of them had as much
talent in his ,Own special sphere as
Rube. Yet pone of them was given
the brilliant opportunity to make
good, Nobody is scouting for play-
wrights, for business executives, or
for engineering geniuses. In time
any or all of them may succeed, and
if so the success is likely to be more
permanent than that of a baseball
player.
But whereas fame and success
came to Rube when he was a youth,
and with hardly a struggle on his
part, they are not likely to overtake
the others on the - sunny side of mid-
dle age, and then only after a long
hard struggle and plenty of luck, If
a man is a superlative baseball play-
er he does not have to struggle for
recognition. The professional base-
ball teams are always on the look-
out for talent. They keep scouts
to hunt out likely prospects. -One
New York team has four scoots. The
result is that promising players do
not have to beg for opportunities
to show their abilities like promis-
ing young playwrights, for inttande.
The urging will come from the other
side. Babe Ruth, the beet drawing
card in baseball, was dug out of an
'industrial school where he had been
committed, by Jack Dunn, manager
of the Baltimore team. Dunn had
to legally adopt him before he could
be secured. It would seem that
even in the depths of a pencil. in-
atltntiim if a youth shorofed baseball
promise he would be sca &ht for,
probably released .and presented
r 470 ere ' whieh p
r 10 hatred 0
is that y have d`a egp
partunity of putt' their views be-
fore the public. The only news
papers _ that are peen iltted to • op -
Pear are controlled by the Bolahe-
yiate Public meetings of pretest
are forbidden. Open discussion is
therefore impossible.
Secret organization ki beset with
as many difficulties' as -surrounded the
Nihilists in the days of Czardom.
Spies swarm everywhere. One of.
the reasons why the Bolshevist re-
volution succeeded and has been
able to perpetuate itself is that Lenine
all Trotsky took over the Extra-
ordinary Commission, the highly
organized secret service of the Czar..
These spies serve their new masters
faithfully because they must. The
Reds have control of the meape of
distributing food, and at their will
susses trade with the rest of the
employes. They develop their exe- world.
cutives instead of discovering them. Sir Paul Dukes adventprea in Rus -
Charles M. Schwab is given as a re- sia were of the sensational order.
markable case of development, and Wihen war broke out, Dukes was a
of discovery as well, but after all young man, assistant manager of
he did grow up with the industry. the Imperial Opera in Petrograd, he
The theatre is quite as much in need .had spent moat of his youth in the
of new talent as baa*�eeball, but the, country, spoke Russian like a native
theatre will nut secirch for it, and and had many Russian friends. At
usually refuses to give new talent the time he was writing for English
a hearing, Now and then there newspapers and magazines and was
happens an intpressario with a talent a regular correspondent of the Times.
and passion for discovery. Oscar He became a member of the Anglo -
Hammerstein was such a one, but he Russian commission,' and in 1917
created no system and the scouting took an active part in the revolution
died with him, Hammerstein would that established Kerenakya8for a brief
go to Europe- and come back with period. When the Reda triumphed
a juggler, a contralto, a family of he attached himself to the American
performing seals and a bearded lady. Y. M. C. A. until this organization
Once he took a night off and wan- was expelled from Russia. Then
dared down to Coney Island for a Dukes returned to England and be
little recreation. Ile returned with came a member of the British Se-
a contract for a vauderville tour cret Service: In 1918 he proceeded
by a female baritone he had discov- to Stockholm to await an opportun-
ered in a little restaurant.
ity of slipping into Russia, and
Mr. Broun says that newspapers neatly avoided a trap set for him
have no wid.spread and adequate by' Litvinoff, who tried to lure him
system of scouting. No newspaper to Petrograd, evidently for the pur-
has ever gano to the trouble to get pose of making away with him.
the heads of the English department In September, Captain Crombie,
in the large universities. to recom- the British Naval Intelligene Officer,
mend one er two men each year. was murdered at Petrograd and
He says the: 1:. C. Beaton, whom he Dukes determined to go there to
describes
as a "free.
take over his duties. In Fin -
verse
cerroneously
land he let his hair and beard grow,
verse columnist" did his stunt -t K ,
years in Seattle, before being dis- acquired the clothes of a Russian
covered by W. R. Hearal and given peasant, and bribed some Finns to
e. national • udience. Mr. Beaton is row him across a river into Russian
a former Canadian and it is un- territory. In landing he splashed
congenial to disparage him, but into the water, thus arousing some
truth compels the verdict that the Red guards who contented thern-
mentality he brings to bear on his ! sel &es by firing a volley in the gen-
work is of the same kind that has eral direction of the noise, and doing
populated the lunatic asylums. A no damage. Dukes -made his 'way
better example of unnoticed genius is to the capital and was taken in by
that of Jay Darling ("Ding"), of the some former friends who were sec -
New York Tribune, who toiled as a retly hostile to Bolshevism. A friend
cartoonist for years in a small city. he trusted betrayed him and he had
He is 'p3•nlSably. the most brilliant to flee again. He found refuge
person tiring "'work for any news- , with a doctor and posed as an ep-
paper in the United States. Mr. Broun ileptic when examined ley the Reds
himself was a baseball reporter be-
fore in. began to write about, books
and plays and now is recognized as
perhaps the best man in this dual
capacity on the American press.
BRITISH SECRET SERVICE MAN
IN RUSSIA.
V6hat are the prospects of succese
for the present Russian uprising
against Trotzky and Lenine? Not
very favorable, accieseihg to Sir Paul
Dukes who left that country a short
time ago and is now in New Yolk.
He. calls attention to the fact that
there have been perhaps a dozen ef-
forts made by the anti -Bolshevists in
the past three years, and that only
four months ago one of them was
bloodily suppressed. His opinion is
that ir. fnur,months it would be im-
possible for the Russians opposed to
the
present autocrats
to organizeantze
and
provide de themsel
res with arms.
To
P
secure the necessary titilitaryequip-
ment- wi.uld be a platter of extreme
difficulty, for nobody not a member
of the Red Committee is permitted to
possess a rifle, and even the army
itself is not supplied with arms until
a battle is about to begin. Of course,
there is the prospect of this army.
having been served with weapons,
turning agdinst the present rulers.
This the soldiers would only do•
when failure of the revolution
seemed impossible. Otherwise the
penalties for revolt are so serious
as to discharge mutiny.
Sir Paul coridrms the opinion of
practically every competent observer
who has reported upon Russian af-
fairs that the Bolshevists are really
a small minority of the Russian
population, and that the sentiment
against them is growing steadily.
The peasants now feel that they -
have been cheated. It veil all very
well to confiscate the land of the
rich proprietors, but the workers do
not approve of the land being na-
tionalized. What they demand is
that the land shall be parcelled out
and privately owned among those
who work upon it. This is the
platform, of the Social Revolution-
ists. an anti -Bolshevist organiza-
tion, which in a fair election would
certainly sweep the Bolshevists from.
power. The trouble with this party
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etet4. 142 Rids W., Toronto.
Local Agent, E. UMBACH.
who desired to enroll him in the
army. Eventually he did become a
Red soldier in a regiment whose
commander was a strong anti -Bol-
shevist. The colonel gave him fre-
quent opportunities of visiting Mos-
cow to get information and he help-
ed him send his letters to England.
For two years he was able to keep
up his correspondence without being
detected. Then feeling that he had
done all that he could do and that
further sojourn in Russia would be
both useless and dangerous -he es-
caped into Latvia and thence made
his way home to receive among other
emoluments a knighthood for his
valuable services. "
If YOM'S"
BIRCI
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Mad ua$ Ore'i. ott'tullle
Re ig�i �adl�foiro' iaO
with him, and in this quarrel
will adventure his life against him
on what day soever shall be rip,
pointed." This challenge was pro-
claimed 'at the door of. the hall,
again half way up the floor and for
the third time at the foot ole the
steps of the throne, and each time
the champion threw down his gaunt-
let. It is conceivable that he per-
spired with anxiety when waiting
t9 see if anyone accepted the chal-
lenge. So far as history records
this never happened, and all having
held their peace, the champion was
allowed •to have a drink with the
King, and what was of more im-
portance, carried off the gold wine
cup (not forgetting the cover) as a
really royal tip.
No doubt he heaved another pro-
found sight of relief when he man-
aged to get hie steed out of the hall
since, in ordet shut to violate royal
etiquette by turning his back upon
the sovereign he had to back the
charger the whole way out. In those
times the King's champion was a
great personage and conducted him-
self with a dignity befitting his lofty
state. But times have changed, and
not for the better.. For what hap-
pened to Frank Seaman Dymoke,;
D.L., J.P., the present King's cham-
pion and royal standard-bearer of
England, the other day? Himself a
magistrate, as his title oB Justice of
the Peace indicates, he was fined
$100 at Horncastle Police Court
(where he usually presides over
Petty Sessions) "for being found on
the licensed premises of the Red
Lion Hotel, Horncastle, during pro-
hibited hours" one day in January.
In other words for indulging in a
glass and perhaps several glasses
of beer at a tifrle when the law of
the land ordains that none of his
Majesty's lieges shall be served with
intoxicating beverages in any hotel
or "public house" throughout the
land.
A nice thing to happen, to a per-
sonage of such illustrious degree, and
a magistrate to boot! We are not
told if the champion appeared in
person to be fined, but Edward N.
Ashton, "licensed victualler" and
proprietor of the Red Lion Hotel,
did, and was likewise "soaked" 3100
for allowing beer to be consumed
in his hostelry during _prohibited
hours. Mr. Dymoke never has art -
peered in his function as King'$
champion, this part of the corona-
tion ceremony having been done away
with at the enthronement of Wil-
liam IV., Victoria, Edward VII. and
the present sovereign. After the
reign of George IV. the champion's
function at coronations was altered
to that of Royal Standard -Bearer,
and the present head of the historic
family duly bore the royal standard
aloft at the crowning of Edward VII.
and George V. It is regrettable to
have to state that this is not the first
time that the pretrent King's Cham-
pion and Standard -Bearer has been
haled into court owing to an in-
fraction of the law on his part
was fined six years ago for a
ing his cook, so evidently
gressive spirit of his ancee
KING'S CHALLENGER LOSES sista.
HIS POSITION
This is a degenerate age, sure
enough. If you contest that state-
ment, consider the deplorable case of
the King's Champion and Standard
Bearer of England. He is Frank
Seaman Dymoke, D.L., J.P., of Scriv-
elsby Court, Horncastle, Devon, and
the office of King's- Champion, which
he bolds by heredity right, is one
that dates back to the brave,and far
off days of William the Conqueror. ,
Inthose and later times, when the
right of kingship was not "broad-
based upon the people's will," but
had to be obtained and held at the
point of the sword, the King's
Champion was the.knit ht whose .
duty it was to attend the corona-
tion of every king and queen, and
to challenge to mortal combat anY
who dared contest the monarch's
right to the throne, says the New
YoSun.
Thisrk challenge was staged as they
knew how to stage such acta ia the
days when knighthood was in flower.
The scene of it was the cornation
banquet which, up to the time of
King- George IV., was held at West-
minster Hall immediately after the
impresaive religious ceremony of
king making in the historic Abbey.
The champion astride of a goodly
white charger, richly caparisoned,
used to ride into the banqueting hall,
arriving "before the second course"
—his appearance, no doubt, being
thuimed in order that all con-
cer would be cognizant of what
was going on. The champion was
arrayed in a complete suit of bright '
armor, accompanied by esquires and
pages, and also by the Lord High
Constable and the Earl Ma -cabal --
all in their very beat. Trumpets
sounded and then the herald pelo-
claimed the champion's challenge as
follows:
"If any person of what degree
soever, high or low, shall deny or
gainsay our Sovereign Lord the Ring
to be the rightfnl heir to the imper-
ial - crown .of this United Kingdom,
or that he ought to enjoy the eame,
here is his campion who salth that
that man lieth, and is a false trait-
or, being ready in person to combat
t
He
ault-
sie ag-
rs per -
HOW TO DRIVE A SCREW INTO
A STONEWALL
Housekeepers who live in houses
with concrete. brick or stone walls
usually find it very difficult to hang
pictures or brackets in their rooms
even when they have succeeded in
drilling or chiselling a hole in the
concrete or brick, writes E. J. Holmes
in the Popular Science Monthly.
Neither nails nor screws will hold
in these holes, which necessarily
must be made quite large.
Elecyriciane who are called upon
to attach electric -light fixtures to
such walls usually drill holes, fill
them with lead and fasten the screws
in the lead. Sometimes they use
what is called expansion sleeves,
which are so designed that the screw,
as it is screwed into the sleeve, caus-
es the part of the sleeve furthiest
away from the surface to expand,
thus ta)ling,.-ttrtlr hold of the sur-
rounding concrete or brick.
All houekseepers who are not ex-
pert electrical workers should try
steel wool, such as is used for scour-
ing metal surfaces. This furnishes
an excellent substitute for lead filling
or expansion sleeves. The hole should
be drilled to the depth of at least
one inch and wide enough to hold a
sufficiently large screw. Then place e
a .rad of steel wool to the hole and
drive your screw through the wool
into the hole. You will find it im-
possible to pull a screw fastened in
this rammer out of the hole with
your hands.
Milk will soften the polish that
has hardened and improve its lustre.
Shafts sunk into a coal field in
Germany which has been burning
several years revealed eighteen veins
of blazing coal.
"HYDRO" RESTS
ON PAST PER-
FORMANCE,
Ply J. E. Middleton
TIla ytnra ago t►epublic men wfha
•dvooatedd the a j� insert of a'
perative mu al --power system.
O 10 wan roues~ opposed.
2y- were not coo,
t wit! the process as o alone of
eaeodorsing the projcet nor,
ceased by th a parlance
:roar
ey ltrrtf��ag�neya
:sat ttI rite tar sirbwitid In
s mat cense iney
mare ore tbu era rag and
cetp a 1
lest e
not pees rdPS I Ow
p P'Ubftc net's�p
Time has tlMt In eve�
respect the or were wrong. Te -
day Niagara energy is delivered to
Windsor, 200 mlfrom e y, at
330 per horse-ppoowwer per arcthusPal. Itt a,
metropolitan Hann -plant of the roost
modern and efficient type, generating
eminimum of 100,000 h.p. six tone of
coal areuq!red to produce one horse.
electricof energy per annum.
tth coal at 12 a ton, the 1
posibie cost o generating
double a R'indaor p of
ydro- sclero power. +
•)ver the VV tern On to pontn-
eula is a great net- of trans-.
emission lines, servie��gn c ties, towns. •
villages and townehips with uaiforen,!
reliable, and constadt electrical eur-
rent et rater far below the tient
nuetations, of private Comppanies in,
pre -Hydro days. In practically every'
instance the actual service is costing
the people less than the estimate fur'
uie.lied by the engineers to the meal-
palities before they were included 1,1
the power'sunion. Cleat; , no Paull
ran he found either with a nature of
the engineering and construction wort,
or with the size of the coneurner'x
utonWly hills for light and for in-
dustrial power. 0
Yet the revenue has been ample :e•
provide for all operating expenses.
with the fined chines oa the co-,,
operative outlay for generating, trans-
forming and transmitting and on the
illy sat trent for distributing In ea.119
iiwi g ipality, It hag covered annuell
char ee for meweia and Ds reds-'
lion; and, so far a9 tui sugar
System ie aoneer aeli h.e ea Ie•a there!
musics it
hila up a eu'� y; At
t ro-
he d t
e o! ,
Flee I.
:id
as malt
on thi Niagara i .o wee..., _,, -1
526, the balance of Inability was
17,1 063, 'end, the reserves weed
ash mty1}tr'
e
ABOLISH -
FINANCIAL WORRY FRoLONG
YOUR LIFE
A CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANNUITY WILL DO IT
Gives a larger return for life than is obtainable
from any other form of investment with absolute
security.
Free from Dominion Intiome Tax.
Any person resident or domiciled in Canada over
the age of 5 may purchase, toheight-at mkt, or at tiny
later date desired, an Annuity of from $50 to $5,000,
to be paid in monthly or quarterly inatairgenta.
Any two persons may purchase jointly.
Employers may purchase for their employees.
Apply to
Superintendent Otte**. your
pAnnuities, or for stew bee&$ t end other•
information required. Mention age lest'birtlid y.