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The Huron Expositor, 1921-12-23, Page 2Ii'I I �' II We Wish to Extend The Season's Greetings to All, Geo. A. Sills & Sons When your grocer sells you a package of Red Rose Tea (Crimson Label) at 30 cents he makes a little less profit than if he sold you a package of cheaper tea. The extra price is all in the quality. A Spring Day Up in Muskoka A Spring day in Muskoka, with sky and water vividly blue; the smell of pine, the sung of birds In the air. On a sunny slope a girl gathered trilliums with eager hands. She smil- ed at the questioning stranger. "I never picked wild flowers be - tore." she said wistfully. "We lived ha the city. Father died, and then— mother, of tuberculosis. 1 was all alone. I wasn't strong, --worked too hard,—and I got it. They brought me bare to the Sanitarium on a stretcher." 'But, look at me now " exultantly. The glow of health was 1., her cheeks. 'Tire the rest and care and good food and fresh air that saved me.' and her eyes shone joyously. Surely she was worth saving, this bonny, blue-eyed girl! Surely the Muskoka Hospital for Consumptives deserves her gratitude! Contributions may be sent to Hon. W. A. Charlton 223 College Street, Toronto. School Teacher's Life Is Saved "School teacher — parents dead. Brought he on a stretcher. Good progress; hope for full recovery." Such was the meagre record of a patient at the Muekoka Hospital for Consumptives! Meagre, but how full of deep significance. "I was so frightened." confessed the girl, her blue eyes reelecting the sky overhead, as she lay beneath the pinee up there In Muskoka. "I didn't know what to do. I had no money; and, oh, I was eo horribly alone." "Think of it," and ehe shivered. "1 would be dead—now—if it weren't for this hospital. But I'm not" and there was a ring of victory in her voice. • "I'm getting well. Oh! I can hardly believe it." • Just a lonely, motherlese girl, but how sweet that life given back to her! Contributions may be sent to Hon. W. A. Charlton 229 College Street. Toronto. Poult yam,-\ ti Q,��.J �� `,� *•..ii�fi;�-'t''�"t'.4.' �u Depend. on. the oncldiA,Nt ofYour Neva Wi ter laying 13 demos profiebb. To inure your p.f-t• and bird. laying dveogh due winter period mnisserne WODEHOUSE POULTRY INVIGORATOR NOW. Ire addition to ion e..ed ran Production it .cr zs a splendid tonic nod win make curdy. heathy bird.. Manufactured by WODEHOUSE INVIGORATOR Li.d1TED. HAMILTON, ONT. Sold and warant-c..' l e E. UMBACB, SEAFORTH, ONT. Wish them Merry Christmas by Long Distance "S° you're not going home for Christmas?" "Afraid I can't afford it this year. It's going to be very lonely here too! I'll get letters, of course, but how I do want to talk to them, be one of 'ern!" "Why that's simple. I can't go home either, but I'm going to call my Christmas greeting to every one of my folks personally —talk to them by Long Distance. I'll wager 171 almost he able to smell the good old turkey cooking." ''What a splendid idea! Pin so glad you made me think of it. Christmas won't be such a lonely day after all, Long Distance will give mother the feeling that I'm not so far away!' That's just what Long Distance is going to do for distant relatives, sons, daughters, sweethearts, this Christmas day. It's going to make the 'Merry Christmas rut--bririg the missing ane so'aos. that the loneliness and pain of separation wig be forgotten in the Jon of hearing the dear voice again. Station -to -Station emotes will! tow Iffreeniag and Night Rants La �tf Long Distance within ate s WAS FAKE MON -i1tu Almt>,et Iftwled Potentat sad 'Wurid Yowere. The maa'who would be king, and tailing, made a good living pretend - in;: to be one! . • Such es Louis Le Forge. self-styled • coli !'-In of the United Demental' Klee-Joie of TravisCaucasla, Maikop and b'ergbana, Prince of Vltanaval end Count Fe'ghans. and the strang- et ooiubllifltlon, of subtle-brelned crook uud iuenal defective In all the :retia of Frouch criminology, says Ea! New York World. For aliuost a year "King" Louis; teinpordr(ly exiled ---dor he explained front his realm beyond the Can- e -mull by Bolshevik invaders, held c art In the City of Nice, amid the splendors and gayeties of the French ti,,.leru. There, to a lawyer's office. lie established his Council of Min- t•.: a- -a body of credulous folk— . bakers and caudlestiek- ri e Ire. who though unable to locate Tr: es -t' :ucd sit on , the map, were reedy to accept poets 'in the ' • I Cebiuct for the sake of the hi:: ..,adding titles and decorations 111.; '!'r me -Caucasian Majesty deigned to te-s.->:v upon them. l 'ru.n this biz:ure seat of govern - teen the king, through his minis - tee:, issued impressive proclauta- teem, addressed eolmun notes to the pee -ors, itud even made formal aPall- cation to Genova for membership in the League of Nations. His "palace" was 0 shabby little apartment in which, with nue servant to took after their wants, he and the Queen lived in almost plebian simplicity. For Louis, like all properly equipped monarchs, had a queen— in the person of a young motion picture actress whom he had promis- ed to marry when he regained his throne, and who with naive faith be- lieved implicitly in hie royal preten- sions. That was how the TransCaticasian kingdom looked a few weeke ago. To -day the "'king" alts in a cell awaiting trial for fraud, his comely consort is once more a queen In the movies only, his Ministers have re- turned to bourgeois normalcy— minus parts of their savings—and his soap -bubble monarchy has gone the way soap -bubbles usually do. But the doctors and criminologists who have examined him are still unde- cided whether Louts La Forge, scape- grace son of respectable French par- ents residing to Honfleur, near Havre, In a cunning malefactor de- serving of long-term imprisonment, or a hapless victim of exaggerated ego et only for the madhouse. He tried to buy jewels without funds and the police investigated. Sic transit gloria. Avery Ball a b Lear( Dhtense Statism Inventors Wlio Were Snubbed. There are many tragic stories of men who made great discoveries be- fore their time. Their inventions perished, only to be rediscovered and Used to later ages. Archimedes, who lived more than two thousand years ago, designed and made a steam engine which really worked. His idea did not catch on, and the world had to wait twenty. centuries until steam, raising the ltd of a kettle, led James Watt to re- discover an old invention. Both electricity and magnetism were known to the Greeks, who tail- ed to harness the one or i s the nth - e nor the mariner's cowpp&§§. The Uiiinese were using the compose be- fore the Christian era began, and ex- plorers brought It back with them from the East in quite early days. The old salts of the time condemned it as a useless toy, and 1t was net reinvented for hundreds Of years. The first subinaiihe on record made Several successful dives in the Thames in the reign of Charles II. No one realized its possibilities, and the invention languished until the French revived it only a few years ago. Breech -loading field gtlne were used at the Battle of Crecy in 1346! They fired brass cartridges almost -ex- actly like those used for the most up-to-date guns. They did not please the artillery experts of the time, how- ever, and clumsy muzzle -loaders werri the only guns used until sev- enty years ago, when, after a lapse of five hundred years, the breech- loader was re -invented. Most wonderful' of all, wireless telephony was discovered' and used more than half a century ago by a scientist who could get no one to rea- lize the value of his invention. :oe,a yy,n y ,I�kL �W.Xt1..0411 .".�iNlii THE HORRORS BF INWGEST1ON AWN p'SiYlaYm^ M Frull Medicine Indigestion, Weak Digestion or partial digestion of food, is one of the moat Serious' of present-day oomplaints-because it is responsible for many serious troubles. Those who suffer with Indigestion. almost invariably are troubkd with Rheumatism, P"lpitation of the Heart, Sleeplessness and excessive Nervousness. "Fruit-a-tives" will always relieve Indigestion because these tablets strength n. the stomach muscles /increase�the flow of the digestive juices and orrmctConstipation ,which usually accompanies Lgllgestionl 50o a box, 8 for $2.50, trial sire•25o. At dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit -a -tines Limited, Ottawa. CANADA'S FIRST WOMAN M. P. TELLS ROW SHE WONHER - ELECTION FIGHT. For the first time in Canada's his- tory we have a woman MP. --iris. Agnes C. McPhail, member for the [fused to be lost, or snowed under, electorial riding of South Grey, in the either then or at the end of the poll. Canadian House of Gammons. Her Many other interesting experiences story of how she won her election is this new woman member of Perlis, - one of exceptional interest. ment had during the campaign—a- "We have a niding," says Miss ,mong them being the waiting at a McPhail, which has nine townships farm house for two hours to thaw out and two towns, as well as five in- a frozen radiator, towards the end of corporated villages. There were great November. distances to cu ver during the cam- "We lost nothing by that experi- paign, as the riding is over fifty ence," Miss McPhail exultingly ob- ntiles in length at one point. We serves, "for when the votes in that had thirty-seven clubs within the locality were counted we had 202, the riding and one labor union, the last Liberals 7, and the Conservative oandi- named being in the prosperous menu- date 23." facturing town of Hanover, situated "To what do you ascribe the re - on the Wiarton branch of the Grand cult, Mies 'McPhail?" was asked of Trunk Railway. Each of the town- this indefatigable woman parliamen- ships had a supervisor" (no doubt tarian. much dike the captain in the older "To the number of Farmers' Clubs, parties' organizations of the polling the character of the people, the edue subdivisions), •'and an organization cation of the elector*, the freedom of was established in every polling sub- the campaign from personalities, on division in the different townships. our behalf, the clean campaign, and This done," says Miss McPhail, "the clean campaign funds," was her tri - name and address of each chairman umphant answer. or chairwoman of this committee was "1 mounted a map of the riding on sent to me, and then we organized the lid of a box," Miss McPhail said, the villages and the towns." "and put in a targe black -headed pin Miss ,MoPhai1 evidently kept in at each place where I held a meeting, and the putting of these pine, and covering a large part of the map was the joy of any life."( "The roads," she concluded, "were good for this •bine of the year, the She wore during the entire cam- paign, a tight doth Boat, except due - Mg the cold .poll about the beginning of November, wben abe1wore a .same /grained dvercoat, a tam-o'•ehanteron her head, and heavy woollen gloves, rubbers and spots:. "1 distributed thine hundred *Penial numbers of the Farmers' Sun, and there were no Mille that 'were large enough to told the crowds which came to attend the meetings," Mise McPhail said, relative to her method of advertising the cause, and she odds "we advertised only by blank bide, which were filled in about a week or eo in advance." 'Miss MoNtail's religious beliefs were called into question by some of those who spoke against her, and there were letters in some of the newspapers on that subject. She is et Latter Day Saint, or a member of that denomination, and efforts were made to: prove by reference to en- cyclopaediao that she was therefore a Mormon. It is interesting to note that Ibis method of campaigning met with no succeas against her, and it is possibly do allusion to this that she says: "We had hard things .tri bear, but it's over, and we have forgiven and forgotten it." One night, Mies McPhail recalls, the motor conveying her back from a meeting became obstinate, and re- fused to proceed and farther. She and her companion got out and walked in the- blackness of a starless night, and at nearly four o'clock in the .morning, a diabance of over four miles and a half to their destination. A search party had been organized when she had failed to appear at the expected time, but Miss McPhail re - The Human Heart. The pulse of the great Napoleon is said to have made only fifty beats a minute. Eighty is not an unusual number. But, supposing the case of a heart that beats seventy-five times a minute, expelling ten cubic inches of blood at each "stroke," 1'; Is ap- parent that the little pump delivers forty-five cubic inches in one hour, over a million cubic inches In a da or (as may easily he reckoned) about 7,000 tons of vital fluid in a tweiv'e- month. In figuring this out, a scien- tific writer recently called attention to the fact that a human heart has four compartments -- two auricles and two ventricles. The auricles are merely reservoirs. The energy de- veloped by the pump is furnished by the right and left ventricles — the right one sending impure blood to the lungs and the left one forcing the pure blood into circulation. The left ventricle alone uses in a day enough energy to raise one ton nine- ty feet. All the blond pumped by one heart engine in one year would suf- fice to fill a tank sixty-one feet long, sixty-one feet wide, and sixty-one feet. high. Or, If :he tank were cylin- drical and fifty feet In diameter, it would have to he 115 feet high in terrier to hold the 1.700.000 gallons pumped by a single heart in the course of a twelvemonth. close touch with all the proceedings, for she also possessed herself at the very earliest moment of the names end addresses of the leading work- ers of the mew Progressive party, whose candidate she was. Right Hon. Mr. Meighen misjudged "All this information," Miss Mc- the weacher." Phail continues, "was kept indexed In view of the fact that one of her under the proper initial of the town- opponents, Mr, Ball, ex-M.P., was a ship to which it related. For ex- veteralt parliamentarian with a re - ample, the township of Artemisia cord of over ten years' service in the was indexed under the letter 'A' and House of Commons, an able speaker, Benbinek under 'B,' etc. All through and a manufacturer in Hanover, with the campaign I kept actively in a wide and honorable business rola- touch with every ehrelen an and the tionship extending over a long period secretary of Yeyery club. I also had a meet capable stenographer, who of years, stakes Miss Agnes C. Mc - was a very groat help. f Overs vide r,,�yyt with a majority of "Each week" y�tS ,McPhail con- over t tailba five hundred votes, a tingles, "I put some advertising mat- Girder fortye �f which a woman, well daugh- ter in the local newspapers—there under years,aa schoolfarmis ery Were nine of :these in the riding— ter esby birth, and a teacher and by which kept rine quite busy. Then ..profession may well beproud, anit I ,used the telephones a ood deal. marks aa iantpoliticalevelien the history '& of Canadian life. But as the rifling was very largely a rural one, Miss McPhail's total telephone bill' for the two principal months of the,eampaign, October and November, was only twelve dollars. BANK BRANCH COMPETITION IS Then a progl'amnme of meetings was e -ranged, with dates fixed to the 18th of November, and meetings were kept one week apart in each township at thee very least. This, C. A. Bogert referred to the activity says Miss McPhail, M.P., "increased in recent years of the Canadian banks the driving, but also gave the leaven in extending their branch systems( a chance to work before we came and urged some plan of supervision, back." curtailment or geographical control. "What help in the way of speakers Mr. Bogert was entirely right and it did you have?" was asked of Miss is to be' hoped that the new executives McPhail, M,P. of the Association will give the mat - "Almost no outside help," was the ter serious attention. answer. "We had local men and Since the signing of the armistice women—Mr, A. A. Powers, a well the records of The Financial Post known farmer,'.' advocate, spoke at indicate that 1742 new bank branches three of the meetings; J. J. Powers, have been opened by the Canadian another sympathizer with the Pro. banks and that during that period gressive cause spoke once; J. C. only 214 offices have been closed, a Ross, of the; Farmers' Sun, spoke net gain of 1628 branches since 1918. twice; and R. W. Woods, secretary of This is obviously over -doing it. Dur - the United Farmers of Manitoba, ing the war period few offices were spoke once. ',The rest we did our- opened but there was little, if any, selves. Our smneeeetitigs were made in hardship from the standpoint of ser teresting. Pliople'- in that riding vice so far as the public was con - looked for !mdfsical entertainment at cerned. The activity since has been the meetings,, and we gave them one of business competition rather than of extending necessary service. Canadian banks now have over 4e. 700 branches in this country, and over 4,900 in ail, Probably no other country has anylhing like such facili- ties in relation to population. The argument that the reduction of the number of banks has had the effect of curtailing competition collapses in the face of these figures. With the curtailment of trade and commerce many of these branches are now showing deficits. In many districts one or more branches could be closed without reducing service to the pub- lic. This is not a natter of combin- ing to. reduce public service; it is a matter of organizing to prevent un- necessary loe,sos. Already some of the banks have -co-operated intelli- gently in this direction but the move- ment should be carried further. It is not fair to investors in bank Stocks to ,give service at a loss and we do net believe that the public is looking for it. First Wonsan President. Lady Surma Mar Simeon, who hes been chosen as the leader of the As- syrian nation, and the first women President in the world. is a nnte,e Assyrian who received her educ.tiou In France and England. Whims Mehl@MeLI@ lereade@lf waits are wobbling (feat tsatias'fa Hmastey. 4. BEING OVERDONE IN CANADA At the annual meeting of the Can- adian Bankers' Association, President aIeMI■■■r■111srr'• y.. Ili•' I1 music at each meeting, and some- times we had recitations. We in- dulged in no personalities, and asked no one for a; vote. We rested the oanse on its merits absolutely" "Did you speak often?" was asked of the new member of parliament - elect. "I spoke," said the new member for South Grey, "forty- seven times in the riding and eight times out of it, since the campaign began. I always spoke one hour or an hour and a quarter." Mayor Church, of Toronto, said toe wards the close of his campaign that expense would amount to about $3,000 for .his campaign in North Toronto. It Ur interesting to note the expenses of Mies McPhail, in the same connection. . "Our total ex- penses," «he laid; "will be about $660, or at least not more than $800. Of these expenses, I became liable for one-third, and the United Farmers of Ontario for two-thirds. We got our funds in one dollar bill subscrip- tions, which made the subscriber a member of the United Parmera Organization.*It will thud be seen tkat Mia. Me+Phaii wine her seat in Parliament by a personal outlay of not over 5200. Miss McPhail did not drive a motor car herself during the cam- paig'n She 'Hired cars sometimes, watt. at other times friends drove her about. 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