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Every Little Helps
Every bit of encouraging news
that reaches us from the "old land is
,amore than welcome. Every little
helps and for that reason the broad-
cast of Lord Beaverbrook on Sunday
last was very pleasant hearing.
The British Plane Production Min-
ister said that a count had shown
that the aircraft assembled "all
ready for action, ready for immed-
iate operation, is a record surpass-
ing anything, that has gone before,
anything in the history of aviation."
At the same time, the British Min-
istry announced "that huge, far -fly-
ing, four -motor bombers had landed
in Britain from the United States for
usein the Battle of the Atlantic.
Particularly heartening is this
news at this time because of the
heavy skiipping.losses in the past few
weeks.
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The Cost Of War
According to United States Gov-,
ernment information the existing
British war orders in that country
total $2,700,000,000, of which about
$1,682,000,0.00 has been paid.
And, according to the same auth-
ority, the monthly rate of war ex-
penditures for the United Kingdom,
Canada, New Zealand,. Australia,
South Africa and • India taken to-
. gether, is $1,750,000,000, of which
0,500,000 is the expenditure of the
United Kingdom alone.
During the fiscal year 1941-42 Can-
/ ada is expected to spend $1,400,000,-
000 on its direct war effort.
When that sum has been .divided
up among the eleven odd million
people in Canada and has been col-
lected by way of taxation, most Can-
adians will have a pretty fair idea
of the cost of war. And long before
that operation is completed, most
Canadians, too, will be able to tight-
en their belts a hole or two without
th„e slightest exertion-
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Hard To Get Them Together
,It seems a very-. hard matter to get
the directors of our agricultural so-
cieties and the weather man together
in order agree on the best days on
which to hold our county spring.
fairs at Seaforth, Clinton and Hen-
sall.
If the weather man would . only
name the days and guarantee the
weather, the directors would willing-
ly fall in line and willingly.. accept his
choice of dates. But then, the wea-
ther man has never done that and we
don't suppose he ever will.
Consequently, setting a fair date
is just a gamble, and gambling on
our spring weather is about as un-.
certain a proposition as there is in
this world. A week back of the day
this is being written we were in the
midst of the worst blizzard of the
last decade ; to -day is balmy and fine
and the snow has disappeared amaz-
ingly in the past three days.
But there is still four feet of snow
in many places along the sides of
Seaforth Main Street, where the
show is expected to be held next
Tuesday. Similar conditions we im-
agine prevail in Clinton and Hensall
where spring fairs will be held on
Thursday and Saturday oaf the same
week. '
If the weather continues balmy
and tireget some warm rains, what
is left of the snow can easily be cart-
ed off the streets, leaving the pave -
/nerds bareJor exhibition purposes.
t;Who is going to guarantee that?
nit the weather man.
1~ the. Minty my spring fairs
frioi e than two weeks lot- -
ey are billed for this year.
e Fair. Boards -had
e• dates tis 'as last year,
$i
f is iner`s will not be on the land by
Ow middle of April and not the j c►icl-,
die of May as, last Year?
_...However, . we have always been
able to hold our Spring Fairs; and.
very successful ones too, and' we
don't see why this year should be
any exception. And we will, if the
weather man will co-operate just a
little.
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Hitler's Protection
It costs real money to live under
Herr Hitler's protection as a great
many countries have already found
out.
Speaking in the British House of
Commons last week the Undersecre-
tary for Foreign Affairs told the
House that the five European coun-
tries occupied by 'Germany, had been
forced to pay $4,200,000,000 annual-
ly above their losses in industrial
supplies, foodstuffs and confiscated
property and possessions of all kinds.
The-; highest per capita cost, the
Undersecretary said, is levied against
Norway, which pays $100 per per-
son. Denmark's assessment. is $40
per person; Belgium's, $40; Hol-
land's, $30, and France's very close
to $100,
And all these assessment's have
been or are being paid in addition to
the cost of local government and liv-
ing costs. Nice tobe a ward of Hit-
ler's, isn't it? -
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A Safe Bet
Warden Jim Leiper, of Huron, has
bet Warden Donald McCallum, • of
Perth County, a lady's hat — or
should we have said bonnett — that
Huron County will raise more money
in connection with the War Services
Campaign than Perth County, even
though the City of Stratford is in -
'eluded in the latter county.
That is a safe bet! Otherwise Jim
wouldn't have iiiade it. He is too old
a hand to jump off the deep endue in
a moment of excitement.
And, judging by the name of the
Perth County Warden, he is a pretty
Scotch too. • He didn't take the bet.
Which is just as well—for him..
As we say, we believe the result is
assured, but just in ease—get busy.
Huron can not afford to fall down on
the job, nor throw down its Warden
either. -
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One Dollar Per Dap
Down in the State of Missouri -the
members of the Legislature are paid
five dollars per day fol the first sev-
enty days of the session. y' After that
it is one dollar per 'day .as long as
they choose to keep the session go-
ing. ' •
'This- law was passed in order -to
make the Assembly get down to busi-
ness and stay there. But even that,
apparently, • does' not guarantee a
business session; for the Missouri
rnembers'have spent seventy days ov-
er a squabble of seating a Republi-
can Governor in a Democratic con-
trolled State.
But the dollar a day pay is now in
force and as the Legislature . meets
in a city where it costs at least five
dollars a day to live, we imagine
there -will not be a great deal of ma-
jor legislation brought before the
Missouri Legislature this term. Not
at one dollar a day, at any rate.
WHAT OTHERPAPERSSAY:
Hospitable Portugal
(Montreal Gazette) •.
Portugal's Government has offered to take
children from every wax -stricken: European coun-
try in order to save them from injuries, physical
and mental. caused by air bombardment and
scarcity of food. Portugal will co-operate with
Other governments concerned in providing sanc-
tuary for the little folks. Humtanitarianism is
said to be a mark of the Portuguese character,
and this generous offer of sanctuary lends proof
to this racial reputation.
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Kidding the Clock
(Chicago Daily News,)
A correspondent writes: "I fancy you noted
where Mr. Hitler changed the French over onto
German time." We 'did read something like that
in the newspapers, and it seemed proper enough.
A Mr. Fixit who is agoing to set up a new world
order naturally couldn't keep his/ bands off -the
clock. And the idea that one gains mere time by
monkeying with the clock is congenial to all
'charlatans.
fats, toe same sort of notion, th'at-i kea•some
men believe that a nation can get rich by iu'ulti-
plying its units of money, or that more ,power can
be given a ,motorea:r by monkeying with the gear-
box. • -
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The blu.ren Elcpoeltor of Fifty and
Twenty-five Years Ago.
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(Ai IWiry Lloy4sx •
From The Huron Expositor
Marsh 31, 1916
Mrs. Geo. Todd, of Hansa., had the
misfortune thig week to slip on the
floor of her home and fracture her leg
in two places. -
At the regular meeting of Edelweiss
Rebekah Lodge on Monday evening a
pleasant feature of the proceedings
was the presentation of a beautiful
identification locket embossed. with
the emblem of the Rebekah Order, to
Mr. Robt. Smith, who has enlisted
with the 161st Battalion.
Mr. A. C. Waugh, an old Seaforth
boys, who has been Dominion Express
agent at Ignane, Ont., for some time,
has joined the 94th Overseas Battal-
ion at Fort Frances.
The McKillop branch of the Huron,
County War Auxiliary was organized
at a most enthusiastic meeting held
in •Calder's Hall, Winthrop, when the
following officers were elected: Pres.,
J. M. Govenlock; vice-pres., James' S.
Smith; sec., A. G. Calder; treas., Rebt,
Scarlett. It was a McKillop boy, Har-
vey Dorrance, that was the first to
enlist in this section when the war
began, and although wounded twice
he is back on the firing line again.
The .girls of the congregation of
Cromarty church assembled at the
home of Mrs. Duncan McKellar re,
Gently and, completed two quilts fol -
the Labrador Miasione.
Mr. Harry Stewart, Cromarty, . is re-
covering, from his serious accident of
two weeks ago, when he was struck
and rendered unconscious when oper-
ating a. circular saw on his father's
premises, -
-- There are over 50 pupils absent
from the Seaforth Collegiate on ac-
count of measles.
Lieut. Rex Pearce, son of W. K.
Pearce, .former bank manager here, is
with the 45th Battalion and is now
at Shorncliffe.
The maids and matrons of town
and surroundifong countay thronged the
stores of J. MacTavish, Stewart Bros.
and Miss Johnston on Friday and Sat-
urday last to learn and -purchase what
was new iu hats for spring and: sum-
mer. -
Mr. John Manley, of Manley, had
the misfortune to fall on the ice while
going to the barn last 'Monday,.injur-
ingalsis right leg and, suffering severe-
ly from the shock.
•
From The Huron Expositor
March 27, 1891
:The annual social, in connection
with the Hullett Grange was held in
Bell's Hall, Londes'boro, . on Thursday
evening. The hall was packed -to tine
doors. and an excellent program was
given. " The' chair was occupied by
Mr. Humphrey Snell -
Mess•rs. Jas. Ballantyne, Thos, Cam-
eron, Thos. Brimacombe and Simon
Campbell, Usborne, 'held wood bees
last wee, Mr. Brimacombe rewarded'
thein by giving a dance at night.'
L. 'McDonald, 'Walton,' has purchas-
ed one •million -feet of Logs at their
mill this winter. • Besides thie they
have taken in nearly four hundred
thousand feet of custom sawing, -
Burglars have again visited the'vil-
lage of Kippen when they attempted
to rob Mr. Meths' sotre.
Mr. Geo. Sproat has sold his farms
in Tuckerstnith. to his.`sons,•George,
Jr., and John, and has- come to la.g-
mondwiile to reside.
Mr. J.. M. Best has removed his law
office to the rooms adjoining 'Mr. C.
L. Papsts' jewellery store in Seaforth.
Mr. Wm. Sleeth "has• the contract
for the erection of n brick addition -
to ..the rear of the corner store in
Campbell's block. '
Several' `of the farmers of thin vi-
cinity attended the extensive stock
sale ,of • Mr. Robt. Ballantyne, Downie,
near Stlratford, on. Wednesday of last
week, and the result is a considerable
addition to the thorough -bred stock of
the county, Mr. Jas. Cumming, of the
Kippen' Road, .Tuckersmith, bought a
superior 18 months- old bull; Roderick
Grey, McKillop, a fine 2=year-old heif-
er; Mr. Wm. Chapman, Tuckersmith,
a superior yearling heifer; Messrs.
John McKay & Sons, 10 Tuckersmith,
one of the best coivs, and, Mr. Andrew
McLellan, Hibbert, a very superior
bull.
Miss Jennie Johnston, of Zurich, is
starting a dressmaking' establishment
in the place where Miss Fee was:
A terrible 'drowning accident -hap-
pened to a littlee-year-old• daughter of
Mr. Jas. Gorvett, Usborne, on Thurs-
day. A creek runs through the farm
between the house and the barn and
while the two children were crossing
a log she slipped and fell into the
water and was drowned before assist-
ance coultb, be obtainedt -
Mr.. J. H. Lands, of Pennsylvania,
shipped a carload of splendid horses
from Exeter on Tuesday, last.
At the close Of the prayer meeting
held in Harlock school on Tuesday'ev'-
ening a very pleasant event'occurred:
This was the presentation of a cam.
pl,imentary address and purse to Mr.
John Jr Parish, of McKillop,' by the
members and friends of the Methodist
denomination of Harlotk. Por some
time he had been toting tts Itarienk
and conducting divine 'service.
Mr. J. rr . Yale, a, is'itppilar CheirYuas-
ter of p`lrst Presbyt+eri+an Cbttrtalt, "Sea -
forth, an& IOW of O'1+9'erl Siitifitt, Vag
.res
p e"tvted 'vtiltlt a isurtle 04 014 ,1>ilnr
to blis1ea.'t ng• that city` to Willett in
"THE STORM"
For some time now . perhags
longer than it is •posnible for any of
my readers to recall, a pleasant Sun-
dayevening pastime has been that of
"courting'.' Of course the- courting of
today is not nearly as -serious a busi-
ness that it was back thirty yeara ago,
but nevertheless romances emerge as
a result of the present .Sunday' even-
ing "sitting -up exercises" Just as they
did back, in the days when Father and
Mother sat in the next room and
strained -their ears to hear the -con-
versetion that filtered through the
glass -beaded red drapes which separ-
ated the parlor from the "sittin'-
room."
Other changes have taken place as
well. For instance, the favorite tor-
ture seat wa,s a horseshair sofa. At
first it did not bother you, but gradu-
ally as the -evening wore on you be -
,game aware that you were sitting on
something not so far unlike the fam-
ous spikes that Indian prayer -men
choose as a form of mortification. To-
day it's a comfortable chesterfield or
a so-called studio couch, and Father
and Mother have become tactful en-
ough to retire to another part of the
house. , 6
The competition between the coma
try boy and the town boy still re-
mains. • It has grown, due to the fact
that the majority of country roads
are plowed .out during the winter
months. The country boy usually,
sticks to his horse and cutter, ,while
the dashing young blade from town
comes out arrayed in his toggery and
driving -an automobile. Cars travel
faster and farther than horses, and so,
many a young lady tilts ,her freckled
nose at the country suitor and is lur-
ed away by• the car.
They say all things are equal in
A Fact a W e i
About ' Canada
From the Do1loindou Bureau
of statiatles
this world and that soonor or later
the advantages are removed!
Ota , a recent Sunday evening it
started to snow. Blizzard$ winds
swirled snow down in a barrage that
defies description. The country boys.
with their hearts akin to Nature iiia -
mediately harnessed 'Dobbin. to the
cutter and plodded home through the
snow. • The town boys, not being so
familiar with the stortay ways of
wind and weather_ dallied, When it
came time to go home, there was
simply no way in which a car could
be made to travel a road by itself..
A car has none of the instincts of a
horse, to go back to its warm stable.
The car drivers couldn't see.
And so, for three or four days,
young men from all parts of the coun-
tryside were quartered in our town-
ship. You could see the tops of the
cars in different lanewaye as you
went drown the concessions.
Perhaps some of the fascinatign of
the town boy will have waned by now.
Imagine what it must seem like to see
the young man who always appeared
freshly shaven at your home, with a
clean shirt and well marvelled hair
appear with whiskers of two
days' standing . . . his, shirt crump-
led . . . his hair lotion but a vague
memory on a snarl of unruly hair.
Sometimes when people are closely
confined, tempers 'flare up and we
have just a trifle of a suspicion that
tempers flared on many occasions
during;,those two or three days.
Oa theother hand, the town ,boys.
must! have been surprised' to see their
pretty friends without make-up. How
shocked they must have been to find
that a wind-blown country Must-
comes
lushcomes from a box!
' A horse and meter may not be as.
swift . . . but .it's certainly more
dependable in the winter time.`
:JUST A SMILE OR TWO:
"Did he take 'his misfortune like a
man?"
"Precisely. He laid the blame on•
his wife."
Nephew: "Uncle, will you sing,
please?"
Uncle: "Certainly, Tommy. But
why?"
Nephew: "Well, Fred and I are.
playing at ships and we want a fog-
horn.'
•
"Now, Tommy," said the geography.
teacher, "how do you know the world
is rourid and hangs on nothing in the
air? How do' you prove it?"
"I .don't have to prove 'it," 'replied
Tommy; "I never said it wars."
The irate parent Stormed Up and
down the room before the nervous
looking young man.
"What!" he shouted. "You have
the nerve to come to any office to ask
for my daughter's hand? I might as
well tell you that you could have sav-
ed yourself the journey."
The suitor sighed wearily.
"Well, that's all right," he said.
"You see, I had. another message to
deliver in the same building."
i
"I wish I was the gas, Daddy."
"Whatever for?" •
"Well, whenever ingoes out it gets
a penny!"
.Fate Joins The Flu •
•
Fighters (Condensed from Hygeia in Reader's •
Digest) •
Nalloulilimmogiummor
In the spring of 1919, when the
third wave of the world-wide influ-
enza, epidemic subsided, nations tried
•to computeth•e casualties. 'World
War had 'taken some 8,000,00.0 lives;
but in less time influenza had killed
an !estimated 21,000,000 people -550,-
000 in the United states alone. Flu
had become a Pale Horseman capable
of outriding even war.
Scientists mobilized their resources
for a new attack on • the problem.
They searched for the cause of influ-
enza. Undeas they succeeded they
feared another holocaust was inevit-
able. For nhistorical resaroh showed
that for centurieso'the disease had re-
curred according to a baffling cycle..
Every year influenza or something
closely resembling it, strikes some-
where in the world on an epidemic
scale. At intervals it explodes in
pandemic form, more virulent and
widespread, leaping from continent to
continent. Several times in each of
the preceding centuries it had engulf-,
ed most of the civilized world. Con-
temporary chronicles reveal the dis-
ease striking concurrently in widely
separated places, and tell of London
with "not a family missed and scarce
a person," Saxony with one-fifth of
the population felled, and Italy -With.
seven out of eight • persons stricken.
The last pandemic prior to 1918-19
has occurred in 1889-90. Studies of
the known cycles led scientists to
prophesy that the next one mli.ght
strike early in the 1940's, Back in
1920 it sounded encouraging that re-
searchers still had. 20 years --- a whole
generation — in SValiell to solve the
mysteries of influenza. Far centuries
the disease had been clauded/ with
superstition. Italian had believed
it cable from some mysti'e influence
of the stars—hence the name "influ-
enza." Londoners thought it was fog
borne. Until 1919 scientists suspect-
ed a germ known as Pfeiffer's bacillus
or B.' influenzae. Then investigators
found whole epidemics of flu in which
this germ was entirely absent.
Research became more and More
foci -Used on a possible virus. 'Viruses,
tiny in Comparison With eve's file
smallest bacteria, were invisible Ma-
der tlhe most po.We`rful mdgcrositipeb..
i ntll. thb new electroliic iniserosc pe
*Ought tbebi late' view rede ltiy, thee 1
oiily wayto .
deter
tthe Prime/4544e
o't
vOukes *at, to j'c,se a, dCtfit 4 sou b i •
filter dg unglaze'di ri or lot
moving all the miscroscopically vis-
ible bacteria—and -then test the -bac-
teria-free fluid on-,a.nimals• to ,see
whether it would still cause the dis-
ease.
Gradually bacteriologists accepted
the theory that a virus caused influ-
enza. Bust no one was able to prove
it. • Investigators sped to epidemics
in all parts of the world and return-
ed with fluids obtained from influenza
victims'. ,They tried to reproduce the -
disease in laboratory animals by us-
ing cultures from these fluid's, but
time and again they failed.
And soon the 20 •years• which, in
1920, had seemed such a comfortably
long respite were more than half
gone!
But in 1933 three British investiga-
tors, . using throat • wasHinge `which
had been obtained from influenza vie-
-tires and filteredbacteria-free, isolat-
ed a virus which would induce a simi-
lar disease in ferrets. Then healthy
ferrets, placed in the cage with the
little flu victims, contracted the disc
ease.
This was a great step forward, and
others followed which carried the vir-
us theory deeper into the demonstra-
tion 'stage. At the National Institute
for Medical Research in London, Dr.
C. H. Stuart -Harris picked up' a flu -
infected ferret' and the animal sneez-
ed in his face. Dr. Stuart -Harris de-
veloped a 'typical ease of flue. B'ac-
teriologfsts of the Pasteur Institute in
Leningrad went a step farther by us-
ing the virus to induce experimental
influenza in human volunteers. The
virus lied been captured', and the
theory. proved.
Surely now the white -coated, lab-
oratory workers would h<tive smooth
going. The next step was to develop
a preventive vaccine,. So the scien-
tists proceeded along classic lines, in-
fecting ferrets with doses of virus, in-
ducing influenza, " then preparing vac-
cinating healtbry animals. Vaccines
eines from. the flu victims, and vac-`
stimulate the system to create disease
killing antibodies in the blood stream.
These antibodies attack the invadiiilg
bacteria or vfr(tses° before they can..
do the 1fYhtiy liitrtii. SbinefIni thess
pattol the %OEM. iftream .loti'g after the.
n'vadtr hdi *eenries€roved, and so' '
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WATERPROOFING IN CANADA
Contrary to popular opinion, the
idea of waterproofing is not new. As
far back as the early 1600's a patent
Was' app pied for, covering an invert:
tion that wpuld render fabrics water
resistant. Our modern mackintosh
carne into being in. 1823 when Geo.
Mackintosh was granted a patent and
set up a plant in Glasgow for the
manufacture of ' waterproofs. Since
that time, the industry has grown in-
to sizeable proportions, a.n,d great
strides have been made in the last
few d.ecadee, until today the water-
proofing business gives promise of be-
coming one of Canada's majar manu-
facturing industries-. •
Volumes could be written conoern-
irug this interesting field of endeavor,-
without- exhausting the wealth of in-
formation obtainable, but much of it
is 'o technic l and complicated that
only those skilled in research and.
chemistry know what it is all about.
In other words, there• is mpre to a.
waterproof than meets the eye, or the
vain either, for tb,at matter.
Nature has -endowed most textile'
fibres with a curious water-resistant
quality that is, of necessity, destroy-
ed during the process of manufacture
in order that an even and stable dye.
may be produced. As a rule, in order
to'-rd-ies•tate this water-repellent gnat,
ity, one of two methods is used.
First, a protective film' may be -
spread over the whole of the fabric,
which renders it impervious to air, a,
quality condemned as unhygienic..
Saaondly, eacia individual fibre may
be covered with some soluble mater-
ial such as war or soap or metallic
oxide, in which case the fabric re-
mains porous and aif can: circulate.
freely. . But if the air can get in so,
can water, should the pressure be
great enough. Therefore, fabrics
treated in this manner cannot be said
to be entirely waterproof. '
Materials- such. as rubber, tars, as-..
phalt and other,bituminous materials•
have been used' to a great extent in,
waterproofing cottons, such as rain-
coat fabrics and tarpaulins. Synthe-
tic rosin's are also used in- Waterproof-
ing various m'aferials. Oiled silks
were known in the Orient long •before
they made their appearance on the
Canadian ••market, and probably re-
ceived their name. from the tung •oils
used in their production. Wax has
been in use for many'' years- and as
applied' either, as a solution, rubbed,
in as a •solid or powder, or applied
in the form of an emulsion. In, each
case, while rendering the fabric water
repellent, the process does not make -
it resistant to washing or dry clean-
ing.`
A short tinge ago a product for giv-
ing fabrics a waterproof finish was
brought to light. It is called . Velars
and is, • a complex . organic ''chemical.
This substance eliminates,' all damage
previously wrought by, wasping and
dry cleaning and gives the fabric a
soft finish. In treating fabrics with
Velars, each individual fibre is cover-
ed with a protective coating and by .a•
ba)c.ing process the -material is made•
entirely -,water-resistant. l:n this way
the finest velvets; sailks and even hos-
isrY can be made- impereious.to mois
tune and stains. .
There Is little doubt but that' the
waterproofing industry has 'come to
stay. Its great advancement in the
last few decades has opened up new
fields for •the chemical and textile in
dustries. Those' engaged in research --
along this line may have thought 'the
general, public was ungrateful and in-
considerate • their efforts,, While
the man -o the street was loudly, and:
enthusia tally acclaiming the pro-
gress made Lir the more spectacular
fields' of automobiles and aeroplanes,
he didn't notice the improvements in -
common every -day things like rain-
coats; umbrellas, shower-canairis and
washable wallpaper. He didn't stop
to think of what the sailer and fisher-
man would do without a sou'wester,
or a hat he himself would do without
galoshes. Until he' paused and look-
ed around, he didn't realize to what
extent he was indebted to the water-,
proofing industry, for his comfort,.
•
convenience and well being,
In Canada there are twelve estab-
lishmetuts whose output • consists-
largely
onsists-largely of waterproofed clothing. In,.
1939 the gross value of production wke
over one million dollars. At the
present time more "Waterproofing pat-
ents are, being granted than at •any
time during the past decade or two.
With new and valuable proofing' be-
ing discovered, it is not being pre -
Bumptious to say that we can expect
big things from this industry, as time
passes. •
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L. A. G. Strong, the novel it,
:brought back a .pleasant story from(
the country, the other day. "1 am a,'-
sured it is true, but pass it on to you
without comment," he said. "One tf
the .local bigwigs, returning after a
couple of weeks' absence, learnail
that 'a certain old man in the village
bad lost his wife, and 'went off to
pay a visit of condolence.
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