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The Wingham Advance, 1921-10-27, Page 710� The Wingham Advance' Published at Wingham, Ontario Every Thursday Morning A. G, SMITH, Publisher Suboipription rates: — One year, MoQ; " six months, $1.00 in. advance, Advertising rates on 4PPIWatiOu. ' Advertisements without specific dl, rections will be Inserted until forbid and charged accordingly. Changes for contract advertise- me�ts'be In the office by ifoon; �-,ou, day. . 13USINESS CARDS Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Hand Office, Quelph Risks taken on all claisses of Insur- able property. on thb cash or premium. note system. ABNER COSENO, Agent, Wingbam V V DUDLr,i HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought and Sold. office—Mayor Block, Wlngham R. VANSTONE BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR Money to Loan at Lowe:st Rates. WINGHAM A DT n=4 J. IRWIN . . D.D.S., L.D. 0. Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pennsylvania College and Licentiate of Dental Slirgery of Ontario. Office In Macdonald Block. D*R. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry OFFICE OVER H. E. ISARD'S STORE W. i H- M BIS B.Sc., M.O., G.M. Special attention Paid to diseases of Woiiken and Children, having taken postgraduate worlt In Surgery, Bac- teriology and Scientific Medicine. Office h4 the Ker -r Residence, between the CLueen's Hotel and the Baptist Church. All business given careful attention. Phone 54,, P.O. Box.113 D r. R o b t. C. Redimilond M.R.C.S. (Eng). L.R.C.P. (Lond). PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON (Dr, Chishc4m,s old stand) DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office Entrance: Second Door North of Zurbriggle Photo Studio. JOSEPHINE STREET PHONE 29 Dr. Mar-garet C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate'University of Toronto, ­ Faculty Of Medicine. Offica�J6sephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones—Ohlea, 281, Residence 151 I SELL Town and Farm Proportles. Call and see my list and get �my prices. I have some excellent values: ' J. *G. STEWART WINGHAM Phone 184 Office In Town Hall DRUGLESS PH YLSICIAN CHIROPRACTIC It Is easier to keep well tilan to it - cover lost health. ' Chiropractic Ad- Justmexits Is the Key to Better Health. They remove the Canso of Disease. DR. J. ALVIN FOX Phoylwl9l. Hours -2-5 and ?-8 p.m. CIO DRUGLEw PHYSICIAN OSTEOPATHY DR. F. A. PARKER Osteopathic Physician, only qualified Osteopath in North Huron. AdJustment of the spina is more Quickly c-aeured and with fewer treat- i)ae4tg than by any other mcthod. Wood ''pressure and other examina- (Oils made, 9FFICE'OVER CHRIST151S STORE The word "father" appuirs in the Bible nearly Ave times as Often as "Illotler." � "To bed at 8,20, and ri4se �,t 6; ii(rer Use t6acco, intoxicating li,1110rs, 0.' 10eat; av,)id e,-niplalnin- and %vov*', P,T,td keelp eohri,ll are the rukei ot life 0 on ArAerk.an loctor aged 21ine, FROM WAR"SCRAP11 TO RITISH STEEL BLAST FURNACES GET- TING INTO SWING. Debris from Battlefield Be. comes'Every Grade of Steel ,in Britain's Great Works. After many weeks -of silence antl Idleness, the steelmakers are starting up again, although ttinidly, with an eye on the blast furnaces, says a writer in a London newspaper. They are giving the ironmasters it lead. If the blast furnaces get into swing, as they are beginning to do, the steelmakers can go on. Otherwise, they must very soon come to, a stop again� The great st&el works I have just re- turned from have qome halt a dozen� furnaces In operation out'of about twenty-four, and are what Is known as "working off the floor." That Is to say, they are using up all the avrap- Iron which is lying about the yards, pit, end ritroll,,i it few yardo owliy casually. Then there Is an explm'fon; the man strollq casually baek; the pit is emptled and refilled. And Be It goos on day aw,1 night. $'Plus" Preferma. This Is the sort of material the steel- works are using now, They Would much prefer to use the noat and handy "pigs" which come from the blast fur- naces. But the blast furnaces have been cold for months, and there arore, "pigs" available except the few they have in stock, Some of the blast furnaces have been otarted, and there are hopes that in a few weeks supplies will begin to come in. Meanwhile, the steelmakers are using up the debris of the war and clearing their yards. � So when you ride -your new bicycle, or shave Wlth'ybur new Sheffield ra- zor, you may reflect that it has In its time In it 11 probability played many parts, It may have been, and very probably Was� it Bliell edse which never reached Fritz, or It might have be4n-a bit of barbed wire behind which you shelter- ed in your own particular trench, and on which you were possibly hung up when you participated In the delight- ful entertainment known as a night at- tack. much of It consisting of debris of the ' ' —*— � war. Reforestation on Dominion There are small' mountains Of shell Forest Reserves. cases, old and new, great guns sawn Each Year a certain amount of tree. into sections like cheeses; boiler- planting is, done on Dominion forest plates; machinery castings—lit fact, reserves in the West. The species any old scrap -iron, In the acres of planted are mostly white sprats, Jack this scrap which I Inspected In the pine and Scotch pine, Most of these neighborhood of Sheffleld there was atse set out In the forest reserves lo - almost everything one could think of cated among open prairie and agricul- ranging from locomotive axles and tural lands and form part of a general crank shafts to safety bicycle parts scheme Of reforestation. Some of and tin cans, them, especially on the Pines and the "Any Old Iron?" Riding Mountain forest reserves, are They are all grist to the steel- set out in small sample plots from makers.. The ordinary tin can is, at which it is expected In time to derive course, a misnomer. It Is not tin! It is valuable information as, to the most not even Iron usually, but a very soft economical and efficient means of es� steel. Out of this heterogeneous col- tablishing plantations. lection the steelmakers will, within -4!#-- certain limits, make any sort of steel Stock -Taking of Forests they wish, ranging from the softness and flexibility of lead to flint hard, Needed. 'such as they use for high-speed tools, Many tens of thousands of pounds which in working become red-hot and are spent every year in calculating the will goon cutting without loalng their world's cereal crops. Yet in the case edge. of cereals by the natural laws of sup - It is all much the same to the steel- ply and demand a few seasons? effort maker. In practice certain ores yield can meet the world's requirements, I better results than others, but, gener- would ask you to consider how much ally speaking, he will take any old money is spent in the whole Empire rubbish out of the scrap.yard and in calculating what will be the timber make from it high-grade steel, such as Position in ten or twenty or fifty Is used for razor -blades and ball -bear- years' time, Yet to plan,, establsh, ings. . mature and harvest a. timber crop It Is all a matter of refinement. In will rarely take less than a century.— uon-technical phrase it is boiled and Lard Lovat at Empire Timber Con. re-botled, heated and cooled, and feyance- kneaJed while hot like a lump of dough In the hands of the baker—only in this case the hands consist of a hydraulic press which adminigtens a squeeze" of 1,500 tons force. Vestigia. The scrapyard in which I was per- mitted to stumble about looked a most awesome &pectacle of o.7srupted human achievement, and reminded me forcibly of various "somewheres" In France. It I took a day to search for God, was all mouldering with rust, and look-- And found Him not. But as I trod ad as depressing a wilderness at rub. By rooky ledge, through woods un- bish as one could hope to see. But tamed, rust does not worry the steelmaker.' Just where one scarlet maple flamed, Rust Is Iron, and Is. used again, I saw His footprint In the sod. Putting the Lid on It. Then suddenly, all unawaxe, The chief dlfflculty about It is that Far off in the deep shadows where all this scrap has to be broken up A solitary hermit thrush - small enough to go through the fur- Sank through the holy twilight na�ce doorways, and this is not so. easy hush— a job as the uninitiated may suppose. I heard His. voice upon the air. I saw little gangs of men here and there engaged in reducing these And even as I marvelled ho.�ff mighty stacks of Iron and steel to a God gives, us Heaven here azid now, workable size. in a stir of wind that hardly shook One gang was dealing with big cast- The poplar leaves beeldb the brook, Ingo. They make a pile of these and His hand was light upon rn� brow, a crane raises, a weight over the pile, and drops It from the top of the jIb- At last with evening as I turned The weights used vary from a ton up- Homeward, and thought what I had wards. When one of these drops learned, plumb on to a pile of cast-iron scrap, And all that there was still to it is well not to be standing too close. probe— Wrought-iron has to be treated dif. I caught the glory Of His robe ferently. I found a blue -goggled man Where the last fires of sunset burned. working quite on his own in a corner with all oxy-acetylene ouilit. He was Back to the world with 'quickening directing a flanie no bigg(,r than a start match on to the boiler-plites of a bat- I looked and longed for any part tioslilp, and cutting them up, not quite In making saying beauty be . . . like cheese, but with a most astonish- And from that kindling ecs,tasy !ng ease and quickness. I know God dwelt within my -heart. Close by wm it blasting pit. TJiis, r —Bliss Carman. found, was used for masses of iron too large to be broken tip by the pleas- For �h_. Now Dictionary. alit inethod of "dropping the weight" Ail Optimist—"Ali Irl%liman buying The pit is filled with great frag. goods of a Scotchman, which he hopes nients. A Ionely man conies along to h -ell at a Profit to a Jew." with all extreniely handy and portable electric drill, and drills it hole in one �Skulls found during excavations of the larger fnignients. Ile puts in it prove that mankind, existed 'it least cliarge of dynamite puts the lid on the 1 1,500,000 years aVO. r_—_ rz� ve., LeRA 4& CHASII �HE SHADOW AND MISSING THE SUBSTANCE Fit as a Fiddle at FortY. Too often the man ef forty tells him- The Mounted. self that he is growing old. "Not so young as I used to bell Is a phrase agailiat which I would earnestly ,varn Between the s1lence and the stars all middle-aged people. Don't Bay It He takez, his lonely way —don't even think It, That Is my first O'er barren tundras where the wolves practical hint, alid the most Important And foxes. scorn to stray. of all, says a health spetWist. I The igloos of the Esquilualix, Fix Your allotted span at seventy The missions here and there., years or mare, cling to the thoughts, The tepees and the trading posts ideas, and actions of youth, and you Are in his loyal care. will find that old ago will pass you by. Hundreds of cases have been With horse or husky in the cold brought to my notice where the great Unflinchingly he goes: mistake has been made Of selecting Death like a shadow paces. him exercises of a too strenuous nature. Across the northern snows Some people put far too much vigor Beside his puny campfire sli;, into them, and then, on account of on- And In his blanket creeps-, suing stiffness and laas4tude., throw With silver daggers of the frost up the whole thing in disgust. To slayllim while he sleeps, Exercise need be of a Yery mild and pleasant character only, such as could His, beat is bounded by the ice be performed in five oT ten minutes at That rims the Arctic Sea, the outside without the least &train. The wilderness acknowledges A few bending movements to keep,1the 'His grim authority, digestion In working order are all that He tracks the evildoer down 'is requiTQ, and when there is an ob- Through famine, freeze and thaw, jection tG exercise, you can arrange For in the country God forgot a splendid substitute by following the Beholdt he is the law. morning bath with a brisk rub down with a rough towel or a pair of flevil 0gloves, Clouds Two Miles Long. A plain nourishing diet, a careful mastication, plenty of sleep and fresh We speak of "heavy" thunderclouds, air, and moderation In all things are but It is difficult to realize that any - the golden rules for those who would thing floating in the air is in actual live to a ripe old age and maintain fact heavy even when It is about to their health. percipittate� many tons of rain upon the "All work and no, play makes Jack earth. a dull boy," and for that reason a Clouds, indeed, have weight, for all hobby of scme destril)tion should be of thein contain water In suspension, taken up. If your 'hobby takes you A big thundercloud may be two miles into the open air so much the better. long and broad and three miles, high. You will have succeeded in obtaining If it is a continuous, mass composed of relaxation for the mind and exercise water vapor to the point of saturatlom, for the body at one and the same time. it represents 200,000 tow ol water Don't worry over things which can- suspon4ed in the a.1r. not possibly be avoided or altered. Natura'a pumping engfues have Worry kills, and nothing destroys radeed that great quantity Of water health so quickly or ages, one so from the, sea and the earth, and the rapidly. cloud itself contains In "energy of _ 0 position" exactly the power expanded A new device develops� fixes, washes In raising this water. The eloud is, in and ih-ies photographic films within. a fact, a reservoir of great capacity, per - single space -saving cabinet. haps 5,000 feet above thx� ground level. REGLAR FELLERS— BY Gene Byrnes 7H 17. Canada From One of the largest sales of pure bred live atook in, Northern Alberta. tack place recently when Han. V. W. Smith, Minister of Railwaya, dispo3ed of liki herd At Cammoe to Xleakum Ranch Compa-ay, Of Sexomith, Alberta, for ;25,000. One hundred and fifty head of cattle were bought by the Run�ch company, all being of the "Fairfax" Hereford breed, Nua4W& aid tQ returned ooldlews Is unlversall� known and the latest statistics Issued Ebow that the Sol- diere' Settlement Mard have Pliteed 26,000 returned Men on the land with monetary advances'exceeding *84,000.- 000; 101,000 disabled soldiers were treated by the Department of Soldlewe� Civil Re-Est,,tblishment and 50,000 of them fitted by vocational ta-aining for now positions In lif#; 79,000 are in re- ceipt of Pensions on it scale more liberal than avy other muntry in the -world; $104,000,0Q0 was paid In gra- tulties; and an Insurance scheme has been developed by which rnen may protect their families from want, ir- respective of their present condition of health. QuebWs population has reachefl 2,- 550,000, according tu estimates made by G. Marquis, chief atatisticlan, of tile province. The last provineka census, which was held in 1918, gave a. popu- lation of 2,486,000, compared with 2,- 002,232 In 1911, The In -crease, Air. Marquis stated, will affect the number of representatives In other provinces, which have not kept up with Quebec's growth, in the House of Commono. Exports of fish and fish products from Canada for the year ending December 31Bt, 1920, werla as foll-Lows: dry codfish, 1,788,016 qulntals�: pickled codfisill, 99,109 quilitals; lobsters., 14,- 498 caves; cod-liver oil, 291,351 gal- lons; cod oil, 4,797 turis; seal oil, 1,003 tuns, whale oil, 154 tuna; S. R, her- ring, 42,582 barrels: pickled salmon, 1,957 tierces. Woman all ever the. Dominion will be Particularly Interested In the com- ing general election, In view of the recent amendment to the Dominion Election Act, which gives: to vvomem a wider share in the government of Canada than they have ever had pre- Viously. Under the present Act any woman -who is a DrItish subject of the full age of 21 has equal rights with men In holding offices, being it candi- date for the House of Commons aad in voting. Forty new Silos have been erected by farmers In the country surround. Ing Lethbridge, Alta., this Year, which are all rmw filled with sun -flowers and "Broadening Out" the University. During the past week the provincial university has undertalken to provide stady classes in accordance with re- quests received from Junior I arnieTs- Institutes -and Junior Women's Insti- tutes in 0heltetiliam, Streetsvil�le, and Brampton respeotively, In each case the personnel -of the classes will con- sast of young men. and young women from the farms in the vicinity and in each case also the request is for in- struction in English literature. Be- lieving thet such a movement towards higher edileation is one of the most encouraging Agns of this new era, the University of Tor -onto is endeav- oring to provide instruction in all cases of this kind so far as the size 'of its staff will permit. In this "broadening out" Policy the lativersity his the cordial supportof the general pulklic because it is everywhere recog- nized that the provincial university is in this way serviiig the interests of the province. China's New Alphabet. The new phonetic alphabet for China has proved a success. In 1912 the National Educational Conference recommended a Chinese alphabet of I thirty-nine characters, of which there, were twenty-four so-called Initials three medials and twelve finals. B 1915 schools to teach the phonetic symbols had been established as an experiment; lately all the normal schools have given special courses in i the subject, and this year all the pro- vinces are learning the new system and putting it Into Use. PO,000 Oranges on Tree. A single orange tree of average size I will bear 20,000 oranges. Good trade usually meanq fewml criminals, according to official figures. No e �Wv Coast to, Coast Corn. Sunflowers In yjo0d have nver. aged more than twelve tonv to the acre and tho vorn, crop bas, beeA the beat ever harvened in Southern Al- btxta. An average of 1hirty-ilve bumb0a ct wheat Per acre for the fievm dayc' Operations in which big outfit has been engaged is the report of Grant 1361- 12nger, who has been operating a large threshing mathine, In the�'Ylclut­ ty of Lake Saskatoon. One fleld of Marquis- wheat threshed'nixty busbels to thv acre, a field of oats, one hup. dred and seven bushels, and a field of barley 6evelity-one. I I � Ex-CaMidian soldiers -at the rate of more than two hundred pew week are making application for life Insurance Policies under the Returned Soldiers' 111.5urUnCe Act, which eliminates pre. liminary medical examination. The number of returned soldiers holding policies now totals more than f;,000, Involving some $13,500,000. Census returns f4or the following t(Avns, and cities- have been announced by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics: Vernon, 3,649, 1911, 2,671; Fernie, 4,343, 3,146; Brandon, 15,369, 18,839; Port Arthur, 16,134, 11,220: Kitchener, 21605, 15,196; Guelph, 1s,u19, 15,175; V�11,,Yflald, 9,180, 9,449; St. Johns, Que., 9,859, 5,903; New Glasgow, 8,959, 61383; Magog, 5,145, 3,978; Joliette, 9,036, 6,346. The. utilization of Potatoes, for the manufacture at Potato flour, potato starch, dextyine -,and othcr products from potatoes, is the purpose of a company which has been organized with headqilartei�s at New Westmin- star, B.C. H. V. Jansen, it Danish ex - Pert, is to, be in charge of the plant. Carried out successfully, the new en- terprise Is Planned to afford a per- manent market for the potatoes grown in the Lower FraseT Valley, rblieving the situation when there Is a surplus. Henry Robertson, one of the pion - cars of the distrit some twelve miles west Of Grande Prairie, Altit., expects to thresh from fiftew, to eighteen thousand busheis Of wheat this sea, son, making ]its twelfth consecutive I bumper crop here. His yield Per acke during this, period has -never dropped below twenty-five, bushels, and has run' as high as fifty. Several heavy yields of wheat axe reported by farmers in the district of Magrath, Alberta, Wuo, have finished threshing. Oil one fmin forty bushels to the acre were obtained on a field of 150 acres, and on another thirty- two busliels to the acre, on a field of similar size. Yields of thirty bushels to the acre are faIrly common. Sanctuary. No choir, no priest, no church alsle vaat and dim, .No orgiln gwandly rolling hymn on hymn, But in the West the altarelotb Is bright, For woven there with ' threa,da of sun- set light Are rare decrigns, in purple, rose and gold, Beneath bright opal tints in beauty scrolled. And high o�er all, star -candles faintly glow, While flowms- offer intense from be. low. Low winds an anthem breathe through da,rk'i-dng trees, Earth, sky, cloud, star; a temple fair is these, Get Out—And Walk. There is no better tolife in the wide, wide world that a good walk in the open air. It your woxk keeps you In. side most of the day, get up a little earlier and walk to work. It will make you feel better, make you better able to do your work. As, an Did hunter once said, "The good Lord must have wanted every- body to get lots of fresh air and sun- ablnQ2 that's why He made a<> much of IV, When yen walk, walk briskly, broathe deeply. You will find that It be,�its any amount of me.,dicine, and it doe ;Sn'� cost a rant. bell. you play, play haril; when you work, don't play at iffl�