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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-03-08, Page 3rw,•,o riler up, by regular savings from your current earnings, provision for the developments of the future. • Put iby a definite proportion of your salary every pay-day. I' egullaarr saving ]lea,.? s to financial independence. I.i :ON BANK SEAIF®IETIE J. M. Jones ii]R,.A.N0 IIl Mama er 230 A t:. Y'S OWN TASLETS WIN GREAT PRAISE Many Mothers Always Keep Them in the House. Thousands of mothers state that they know of aro other medicine for ?little ones to equal Baby's Own Tab- llets—that they always keep the Tab- IIets in the home as a preventive of childhood ailments,: or if sickness does suddenly grip their little ones they feel safe with such a remedy at hand. Concerning the use •of the Tablets Mors. Donat Ploudre, Tingwick, Que., writes:—"I have nothing but praise for Baby's Own Tablets. They are the only medicine I have ever given any two little ones and I am glad to state that the Tablets have always ?kept them in perfect health. I feel no safe with the Tablets that I al- ways keep a box in the house." Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative. They regulate the bowels, sweeten the stomach and thus banish constipation and indi-• gestion; break up colds and simple fever and make the cutting of teeth painless. The Tablets are absolutely safe, being guaranteed free from sell injurious drugs. They 'are sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' - `lfedicine Co., Brockville, Ont. 13OOK LOVERS' CORNER (By Jane Holtby) Joseph and His Brethren_ "It all depends on what you want. If you like that school of fiction—I will call it the cocktail school—which t.'ays variations upon such incidents as that of Lord Snooks shooting the llovely Miss Jones in the back as she is coming out of the,bathroom, you had better not read this book. Yon will not like it. After all, you had better read this book, whether you think you will like it or not. I have read it right through without stop- ping and shall do so again. We must have books of this sort written and read if our literature is to have its basis in reality and not in mere real- ism. Mr. Freeman pays no heed to the picturesqueness of Suffolk. His business is with Joseph and his bre- thren—or, more exactly, with their business, for they have no existence apart from Orakenhill Farm. That unromantic dwelling, its barns, out- houses, yard and hundred acres of pasture and arable land is the real `hero' of the book. Young Ben Glai*- er, we are told, tended the neglected fields as he would have tended a sick man. He and his brothers hardly leave the farm even to go as far as the village, except on business. When they do, it draws them back to it. The incidents of the book are plough- ing and mucking, sowing and weed- ing, lambing and haysel, harvest and threshing. It is not that the men be- eonle inhuman . . . Crakenhill does sant brutalize the Geaiters. They hu- manize it." Thus R. H. Bottram prefaces -"Joseph and His Brethren." The story of a Suffolk farm --it is a really extraordinary bow such a tale can hold one so enthralled. But it certainly does. Benjamin Geaiter comes to Bruisyard and rents Crak- erhtill Fara. No previous tenant has been able to achieve any stuccoes. But Ben was a wonderful farmer in spite any other failings the villagers attributed to him. "Some of the gos- sip and some of the scandal about himself must indirectly have reached enjamins ears; but he pursued his own course utterly regardless of them having learned in his rough life a certain contermpt for the greater part of his fellow beings—'he had mor® is respect for a piece of land, well tilled. This feeling he passes on to his five sons. The land means more to them than people. Two of the sons, lured by tales of ease in Canada, break a- way, butthe ties of the soil they loved and have starved for draw them back. Later, another tries, but he is over- whelmed by his love for the cows and pigs and he, too, returns. Harry, the youngest, falls in love, but when his brothers tell him there is no room for a woman and that the farm will suf- fer, he gives up Jessie for Crakenhill. Tragedy overtakes them , but they surmount it, and after a brief absence return to their beloved land. Joey. a little half-brother, whose coming was the cause of their tragedy, be- comes very dear and Crakenhill is re - bought and heldi and worked' for him. It is not only these brothers that become abserbed in the fortunes of Crakenhill Farm. Every reader will. "I can only vaguely say that it does for the life of EastSuffolk what Hardy is said to have done for that of Wessex." "Joseph and His Brethren," by H. W. Freeman, is published by the Mus- son Book 'Co., Ltd., Toronto. A Vagabond lying. "On Down the Road." by M. Ben- son Walker, published by the Graphic Publishers, Ottawa, is a modern ver- sion of thea story of the traveller who is not quite what he seems on the surface, journeying "on down the road" and finding adventures and --o- mance. It is an Arcadian romance with a distinct tinge of Jeffrey Earn- o: „ The Stranger, a ,glorifi•e_d tramp, rescues a little dog from amongst the city traffic. He, too, is struck by that traffic, but after a few days in hospital resumes his wanderings with his now devoted companion, Skipper. A country girl offering him a lift is addressed as Fair Lady, an appel- lation that fitted in well with her pre- conceivecl ideas Of her knight—but he was surely not to appear as a tramp! Chance leads him to Molly -O's grandfather's ,farm. The old man has disowned Molly -O, but takes a tre- mendous fancy to "John Jones." The Stranger, to his own surprise, re- mains and works. "Odd thing, work! Perhaps after all, the ants are the happiest creatures on this crazily tumbling old world." The old man is shot by a demented housekeeper and John Jones is the sole heir. But his joy is turned to ashes by the disappearance of Molly - O, who through a misunderstarding decides the Stranger's love is not for her. At length, this misunderstanding ex- plained, she returns, having been to the city and scored a success in a play written by an Englishman—John, the Stranger, of course! It is an absorbing story, well told, and full of incident and interest. DUAL PURPOSE SHOiRTE110RNS The direct crossing of modern Scotch bred beef cattle in this coun- try with 'Milking Shorthorns of Clay and Bates breeding does not assure a type of animal that can be called the ideal dual purpose kind. In a prev- ious article, the writer stated that, as a general principle, direct crossing of Scotch with "Clay" or with Bates and Clay blood does not work, though he tried to make clear that all Short- horns are good material if used judiciously. The problem of getting a uniform herd of dual puirpose type is not so easily solved. Breeds are developed by selecting for definite factors and neglecting others. This has been done within the ,Shorthorn breed in this country whether we like to admit it or not. Economic conditions cabled for neg • iec't of milk in one part of the coun- try and selection for ability to lay on flesh. In another part of the country high prices for milk and in- ability to compete in growing feed called for neglect of beef and selec- tion for milk because a pound of grail makes more rmllk than beef. It is true that where the' first was happening Scotch bred -cattle nred'om- inated because tlhey were of a type which for beeif production were mast profitable and where milk was vain able the Foundation was Clay and .Baten blood because they responded best to selection for milk. Interest to -day in dual purpose cat- tle is confined to no eves election of the country. Changing 'randitlot In aviculture and growth of pai'uTa•tion I, nee/to them the more profitable type i'✓ F' �l4Ck i4 .1„'Ili' ru (t �71G311 :14 CM 100AGIse t• 1 i re"lM & �, e 7 allonnt •'419 0.. , 4Y .49P19:20 . *b (1014tr coMttl'a P004vul•'1 CO. tags ,ham ca o hoot's ct >v ' mat dual ,purpose tattle eherpkt be. Sooner or later duel purpose cattle moot com- pete with dairy wattle in all •parts of the country and the Sltortborn ip e aa: shows ?tears it eau be done. To tike a, bull from a strain s of cattle, en eart�'eane ' beef type, . and crass Idu. on caws of extreme milk type and! breading, is no more likely to produce 'a. m'ediiu i of type with a ma'asattpnaan Of both finnctions than it is to get either type with neither function. . The tveriter'S reason for not wanting to cross Seoteh and Clay breeding is because you will get all types and no assurance of milking ability. To be sure we can do it and then select the best dual purpose cat- tle from 'among them and in a fere generations get some uniformity and mfilluing ability fixed. It is not necessary. The man with Scotch cattle can do it quicker' by us- ing a bull of good known milking in- heritance with a good proportion of the tame kind of blood that will nick well in his herd. The man with Clay and Bates breeding can thicken his cattle, get them closer to the ground and keep his milk by selecting a 'bull with a good proportion of that blood. That is what Knowsley Gift did for the Flintstone herd. He was 12% per cent. Scotch blood being 25 per cent. Beau Sabreur who was by a Scotch bull out of a cow of different breeding. His best daughter, Butter- cup, the only Milking Shorthorn cow that has 'bee.n .Grand' Champion at both the Eastern'States and the In- ternational, was out of Flintsoue Lula, Clay topped out of a Bates Waterloo dam. Beau Sabreur, as an example of crossing of 'Scotch and Bates, is far removedreoved from crossing our best Scotch cattle on our Bates or Clay cattle. Taylor was nearer the foun- tain head of Cruickshank blood where cows were good milkers in addition to being good fleshers and milk had not been neglected as it has in this eon- try. There are many good herds of dual purpose Shorthorns. in this country built on a Scotch foundation and the results were not always pleasing when they sought to improve their herd with a straight Clay bull. We can not produce what we want in one generation by any means, but I sub- mit that a man who wants to found a herd of real dual purpose Short- horns will make money faster and get a uniform herd quicker by starting with a foundation of a good type of fem'al'es of real known milking inheri- tance. If he has Scotch bred Short- horns he should keep them and go for his milk gradually. If he has Clay or Bates let him improve their beef qualities carefully by selection and be sure to keep his milk. The milking quality in Shorthorns is the harder to get and keep and the easier quality to lose. In all breeds development of milking ability is the harder. The market for dual purpose Short- horn bulls is best where the cows have been milked and records kept no matter the lines of breeding. We can keep up the standard of ou: herds, whatever its foundation, by follow- ing the reasonable 'method of breed- ing to fix characteristics in our cat- tle. A new line of blood can be brought in every generation and still preserve uniformity. Outcrossing and line breeding are terms loosely used and are entirely relative. It is' the extreme of each that causes trouble for the average breeder and the wise use df either method which brings re- sults. By all means let us travel the mid- dle of the road. If a Sihortborn is not dual purpose unless she is Short- horn as to type, it is just as true that she is'not dual purpose unless she will give a good flow of milk over a good long lactation period. Let's ad- mit that some of us are always go- ing to be satisfied with less of one function and want more of the other according to where we live and what our business is. We've got to have both kinds to furnish stock for im- provement. We can't all travel on the same road: but we can travel on our own road in the right direction. 12lSv UNOWUX— ANGIUF.I' S lEMULSIION greatly increases the body's power to overcome and resist the danger- ous after effects of pneumonia, ippe or influenza. ANGIEIER'S EMULSION and healing to the mucous membrane of the whole ali- mentary canal. It relieves the catarrhal condition of the throat, of the stomach, and of the in- testines. As a result, any linger- ing cough quickly disappears; there is an improvement in the digestion and the appetite, and a pronounced tonic, invigorating influence is exerted upon the eneral health. GRIER'SIEMUJLSIION arrees per- fectly with the most delicate, sensitive stomach—and is equally effective for adults and children. ANGRIER'S EMULSION has been re- commended and prescribed by the Medical of Great Britain and Canada for over 35 years. A D21.101011/2 Doctor cord?oa: "E oonoiator your praparalfon auporfor toharty Whoa. omnlaion tut:Telma ovfnd o 0gto .>- oimDr. kra +i't#, 1S4 gyp' what ha hew ” gat day wcie•4fa' alaaierie. Ti47y0 i,&obi f:.if' roue Tars , the one th a 14t o2 tbi ssl ti> l Cor.M will to fewer bq� nd a little of other.' d TO mama 'rpg BIIAtt TO (CIEIIII111? 8Ea '.D1111DON To the coma ages af:'General Gordon now scatterer in all parts of the 'world, an appeal has been sent forth by Sir John Maffey, .governor gen- eral of the British .Stkilan, for funds to provide a m+ennoria1 in his honor. The sum asked for is $300,000. 7[t is proposed to dedicate the Khartum cathedral to him -:s well as a church at Port 'Sudan and wither edifices at Aitbara and other points throughout the Nile valley where he has beehive almost a deity. We. cannot suppose that the amount asked for is suffici- ent to complete this grandiose scheme nor can we suppose that there survive a. great many of Gordon's old com- rades in arms. But there can be lit- tle question of the enthusiasm of those survivors, for perhaps since Napoleon there never was a general who so cap- tivated the imaginations and loyalty of the men who served under him as "Chinese" Gordon. Even in the ex- traordinary portrait of him that Lyt- ton Strachey has given, the essential heroism of the man was not challeng- ed. He remains a kind of military Don Quixote who strayed down into the nineteenth century. Gordon died 44 years ago, after be- ing shut up in Khartum for ten months. The relieving army was but two days' march away 'when the fan- atical Dervishes broke in upon Gor- don and he fell on their spears just as he was leaving his office in the early morning. It was 13 years lat- er before he was avenged by Kitch- ener at Omdurman. • While Gordon'G death was tragic and thrilled and shocked the British nation as have few military disasters, it was not un- fitting. It secured him in a fame that might have passed from him had he lived to return to England. In the end he might have been as .mall a figure' as Admiral Dewey who for some frantic months was the idol of the American nation. The time for heroes to die is at the moment of their greatest triumph. Nelson know the trick. So did Wolfe and Mont - calm. We'llington's great military re- putatioh was, no doubt, impaired by his political carer which followed the overthrow of Napoleon. Gordon might have degenerated into a mountebank. He was a military genius, but he had also something akin to genius in quarreling with his superiors and de- fying their orders. This military in- stinct nstinct may have been inherited, for his father, Lieutenant -General Henry William' Gordon was commander of the Royal Military Academy at Wool- wich, and here the boy Charles George was born. From babyhood he was surrounded by a militant atmosphere and the trappings of war. That he should enter the army was inevitable, and he passed through Woolwich, af- terwards seeing service in the Crim- ea. Later he joined the Anglo-French army in its war against China. Gor- don Dame first, into general notice as commander of the "Ever victorious Army," whicJh suppressed the ralping rebellion in 1874, and it was here that he earned the title "Chinese." Gordon, which clung to him through life. Here, too,' he displayed that intrepidity which never was to for- sake him, for Gordon was as fearless a man as ever lived. He was, per- haps, the first 'commanding officer to walk into action swinging a sane instead off a sword, a fashion that became widespread in the World War. To inspire confidence in his own troops and perhaps to dismay the ef:- emy, he used frequently to parade under fire before his own men, smok- ing a cigarette. It seems probable that Gordon was sustained by some such faith as that which inspired the Dervishes who were to kill him. Pe felt that he was in God's hands and that he would not die until his time came. He next saw service under Ismail Pasha, khedive of Egypt, and sup- pressed the slave tribe. For this achievement he was made governor- general of the Sudan. The slavers were cleaned out arks] the fanatical Dervishes driven from all the oases. Home on vacation he accepted a posi- tion as private secretary to the Mar- quis of Ripon, newly appointed Vice- roy of India. An opportunity for the exercise of 'his unique talents spring- ing up in China, hc' was fent to the Chinese government as military ad- viser. In 1883, 'however, he was back in Egypt to rescue the Sudanese `rom the Dervishes who were returning. The British government ,had ordered the khedive to abandon the Sudan and Gordon was told not to fight but to arrange for the return of as many Sudanese as possible. He sent wh'o'le villages to safety and might easily have escaped himself. Instead he de- layed too long and foul}edl himself hemmed up in Khartum with a hand- ful of Sudanese. Gordon really wanted to `fight, and same have supposed that he delayed purposely knowing that the British government would he foree'd to send an army to rescue him. But Gladstone procrastinated for nine months, evi- dently expecting Gnrd'on to rescue himself or something. Such 'a .storm of public opinion arese in England that at Bast an expedition under Sir Garnet Wfolseley set forth for Khartum. When he was two days' march away he learned that Gordon had been betrayed and butchered. Sir Jolla Ma,t"ey does not unduly praise General Gordon when he writes of him as a rifer "who at all times and everyvdhere ^ ; ve his strength to the weak, hie sulbstance to the poor, his .syrnpathies to the suffering, his heart to God." 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