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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL THIAMIN, AUGUST 2801. i9.3Q,
Famous Husky
ins Prizes
Arthur Beauvais '.well-known
•:Indian. guide at the Chateau
Frontenac, Quebec City, owes.
much of his popularity among
visitors to the hostelry to the team.
of huskies that mush them out on
snowsled trips' in the winter.
Chief among his tea>at•is its leader.
Je€f.�.and�t=lheRlastzminn�¢it�
occurred to Arthur to enter Jeff
at the 'Montreal' Kennel Ashocia.
tion. Show held recently. He took.
rib" pritticular•"trouble in beautify- •
ing him for the occasion and ac-
cordingly was ' gratified to learn
that.;,e had taken three first prizes
and one special prise. In fact, • he
would have taken another : special
prize ; as the' best dog shown, if
Beauvais had net taken •Iiim . away,
_tow:acatclt:-.-�..,-_tlnir►,.:. Illnstrstion „-....�
shows close-up of Jeff with some
of his prize ribbons.
DONT THROW CIGARETTE
SUBS •
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A warning to railway passengers..
of the danger of throwing cigar or
cigarette butts out of • car windows
was seimded by W. E Weegar, :sup-
erintendent 9f this division of 'the • C.:
N. R. The, railway is it present ex=.
periencing serious trouble with grass
fires, and Mr. Weegar declared that
it will be, impossible to handle, ..the.
situation during this dry ,spell, un-
less the co-operation . of . passengers
is obtained: All the grass and weeds
aldrig the tracks .throughout+'thediv-
ision have been cut, and since, there
have been no recent rains, - this cut.
grass, .is at present time .%s, dry as
tinder. The least :spark touching 'it
starts a blaze. Mr. Weegar states that
the fires with which the C.N.R. is
coping '.etthe present have been cans-
ed mostly by cigar and cigarette butts
thrown from' .trains: The carelessness
of passengers inthis respect is earls.-
ing: serious difficulties. All the yard
engines as . well as ; some of . the road
locomotives are equipped with fire
fighting .apparatus. Thursday yard
engines were sent out of Stratford on
both. the . Goderich and 'London lines
in order to ,extinguish grass', fires.
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WHAT "SHALL WE NAME
t. THIS ONE
REMAINS ,OF LONG LOST
POLAR 'EXPEDITION FOUND
A
myater3r of the North rivalling"
in interest'. the loss of the famous Sir
John Franklin expedition, has at Iasi
been solved. •
Last Saul rday there was given to
L.,1„. the -world news; of the :finding 'of the
re n8inss?efthe-Andre balloon expedi-
tion which • set . out 33 -years .ago, and
'since then has not bean heard of. -
Many of our readers will remem-
ber things which happener in June
of 1897, and if there are any who.
have taken . an interest in the long
interesting . and rather painful story
of North Polar expeditions; theyy may
recall that on the ' eleventh of that
month Dr: Andre and .two compan-
ions set out in a balloon in the hope
of being carried over the North Pole.
The balloon could be, guided to some
extent, but Andre had to rely mainly
upon favorable wind to give direction
to his crude air ship.
The balloon with its three • daring
pasengers, rose front one of Spitz-
bergen islands, and in a short time
it was beyond the view of those who
remained behind, Had it desolved into
thin air it would .not have been more
completely lost to the world .from
that day to this.
Of course, the men have long sine
heel' 'given .up for dead, but as to
what fate hr overtaken and over-
powered them there never was the
faintest inkling or suggestion.
"Wireless" had not been invented
33 years ago, and Andre had to rely
upon passenger pigeons to carry mes-
: sages of his progress heck to his
friends. One of these released from
the balloon 47 hours after the start,
Lore . the brief and cheerful message
nit all was well. In 1898 a buoy was
found in which was a -metal tube in-
dicating that it had been dropped or
set afloat on .luly 11th, 1897. exactly
fine month aftert he §tart.. In Sept-
ember 1899. another buoy, yeas picked
up, but apparently it "contained scant'
information.
Now 33 years and two months after
the expedition set out the bodies of
Andre and histwo companions have
been found on White Island which lies
eastward from the Spitzbergen groiip
The discovery was made by a N r-
wegian expedition under leade ip
of Dry• a Horn This: expedition as=
not looking for Andre ;having scien-
tific aim§ of it8 own.
The Spot on White Island had fre-
quently been visited by seal -hunters
in recent years, but they foiled noth-
ing. The inference is that' the bodies
had been 'covered with ire ae'i moat.
and thatthis season owing to the
,un- sual weather conditions the cov-
ering had been melted away, the Horn
expedition by chance arriving in time
to Make the wonderfui. discovery.
bodies having been imbedded in
t;,e lee are in an excellent state of
preservation, after all •these years.
The third was found in it small boat -
part of the equipment ofthe expedi-
tion•=and evidentlyhad been exposed
to the sun from time to., time and
had suffered decay. Andre's 'log book
containing a •record of the expedition
was foundencased 'in ice. It will
have tobe ladledwitha great deal
of care, and the publication of its
contents will be awaited with keen
interest. a ` ,
There was no evidence of 'a .tent
nor shelter of . any kind, but near one
of the 'sledges' which the party had
been dragging, lay the skeleton of
a ' polar bear, likely killed, and car-
ri^d along for: food. Other instru-
ments and other equipment were lay-
ing about as though bears had been
nosing them, but the animals do not,
appear to have attacked the bodies,
a fact which suggests that they were
covered with now soon .„ after
party was overwhelmed. -
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BARN FIRES
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The prevailing dry weather has led•
to . many bush and tarn fires. The lat-
est reported is" the, destruction of a
large barn belonging: to Thomas Mc-
Glynn of turnberry township. Thresh-
ing operations were under way On
Aug. 22, andfire was discovered on
a hay stack near the barn. The thresh-
ing machine Was hauled out of the
reach of the •fire, but everything be-
ing dry as tinder, nothing could be
done to stop, the conflagration. The
season's crop of course, went tip with,
the barn.
Although none have been reported
.in this neighborhood, elsewhere in
the province, a number of barns have
been destroyed by fire mysteriously
originating in the threshing . separa-
tor. These fires are due to the devel-
opment of electricity, or to friction,
and the very dry condition of the
grain being threshed make it easily
ignited. Down in Waterloo Cougiy
where a few such firesoccurred, far-
mers feel that they are taking a
desperate risk in having a barn
threshing, and are having as much as
possible done in the field.
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Moiinmental Works
hsclprow; Ont
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THE
LiMigNOW SF.rNTflLEL
Published every Thirsday morning
at Lucknow, Ontario..
A, D, Mackenzie. Proprietor•
and. Editor.
THURSDAY, AUGUST -28th, 1939.
:MAN WIHH HAVE HIS ,
CRAZE AND WOMEN TOO
Golf and the golfer have in recent
years been thebutt for manya fling
by . the jokemaker, but golf retains
its popularity and grows for all that.
"Not only that but golf is"_develop-
ing a sort of by -product -"miniature
golf,". This appears tobe the great
game on'':a reduced : scale, and ripper -
eptly issuitable for those who have;
not time •and perhaps the:Means to
indulge in ,the real article. The course
may be laid outon a vacant town lot
and `the only implement required. is
a "putter" -and the ball,_ Of course.
We are told that "other lines of
business' are being affected, some ad-'
versly, some favorably by the spread
Of miniature golf."
The "tom.apotato" a new plant de-
manding a new name, which'. produces'
potatoes at its roots below the ground
and tomatoes on its stalk 'above the
earth, has been developed after twen-
ty years of experiment by Oscar
Soderholm, .. foreman of. a ..fiortst'S
greenhouses at Worcestor, Mass.,
says. Popular ecienee Monthly: The
plant is no freak, but is the demon-
stration of .:Soderholm' theory that
as the roots 'of the po ato plant are
stronger than those o the 'tomato,
• s eo nbination--shoul produce-het--
ter
roduce-bet'ter tomatoes. His results have prov-
er the soundness of the theory, he.
claims, for'.not only does his hybrid
grow potatoes but the grafted, ; to-
mato section attains a height bf ten
feet, : if supported, and bears more
fruit than '.'+ normal plantm
In_ grafting. hisqueer plant, Soder-.
holm starts . by planting a ,piece of
potato, containg at least two eyes in
the ground, and planting tomato seeds
in a pot. When both have grown . to',
vines about one-quarter ofan inch
in diameter, he makes a cut diagon-
ally across each; then he matches
them and ties the grafting together
with athread. Special care must be
taken to prevent wilting.
Soderholm now plans experiments
in grafting cucunihers,. on' Hubbard'
squash, the roots of the squash ,being
much the stronger.
FIRE DISTURBED MARRIAGE
J 'CEREMONY
While a marriage ceremony was
under way in Salem Church, a few.
miles north of Teeswater, on August
19th, the jront porchof the parson
age, just across the road from the
church, was discovered to be on fire,
the. blaze Having' gained such head-
way as to threaten the 'slice ' brick
residence with •destructkhn. Mr. Leslie
Howe, , a farmer, who was at Work•
nearby assisted by his son succeeded
in putting out the fire.
The marriage which 'was being,
solemnized at the time was that of
Miss Helen May Croth, daughter of
the minister at Salem, and Mr. • Lionel'
Boehmer, of Kitchener. ' Following
the ceremony at the church the wed-
ding party returned .t$ the parsoage
to enjoy a• nice dinner prepared by
young ladies of the congregation, a
feature of the day which ,was enjoyed
in spite of • the fire incident. The din-
ner being over the bride and groom
set out on a motor trip to the Atlan-
tic Coast and back.
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GRAIN CHOPPER RLOWS UP
AT AUBURN
Shortly after being put in opera-
tion, on Friday last, a grain -chopper
belonging- to Harold Bogie,, of Au-
burn vil ;age, •flew to pieces, and -was
completely wrecked.-•Daniel_,MacLean
who was attending the machine bad
gone to the basement of the mill
building, and by so doing, in All lik-
liheod, saved his life. As pieces of the
machine were hurled in all directions_
-into the ceiling, the ,floor and walls
MacLean ,could hardly have escaped
had be been on the upper floor:
It is thought that the; pipe convey-,
ing the grain to the feed •hopper:he-
edme elogged, and that the .niatehine
running . empty attained too great a
speed, and that the centrifugola force
caused the explosion..The loss Is pint
at about .11,000, as the trill had just
been put ' in condition for the seas-
on's work. •c ,
Mr. Bogie will immediately initial
a new, Chopper. . ,
-Manufacturers of "putters" : say.
that they are months behind with
their orders; • and it is said that . the
"movie picture industry is feeling ad-
versly the effect of, the popularity of
the new diversion."
So itgoes, Man must .:;have his'.
craze, and it. " doesn't matter much
what. A prevailing fad begins to pall,
and something new catches the fancy
and up it goes ` like a released ballon
-it becomes thefashion and to be
.out of thefashion is to be out of the
world that is to those who have no
guide but. fashion. ,
Bridge is another fashionable game
the popularity of which amounts al-
most to a craze or mania. Golf and
bridge and- bowling appear to have
-their=substantial--.qualities-and-are_
gearing well. Like many other things
in the world they are good in moder-
ation but bad in excess.
The energetic people of the North.
must find some ' way of expending
their . surplus energy, now 'that all
their strength and . activity are not
required 'for the getting of a living.
How•different are the people of the
North from those •of the South, where
the warmth is enervating and the
getting' Of • some sort of living is not
a problem. In a part of India there.
was • developed long ago a' philisophy
of life which found expression in
these lines:
"It is better to sit than to :stand.
lit\is better to lie than to sit."
em gloyment prot►lem and other et
-
gent matters.' •
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THE VISITING AMERICANS
AND„ BOOZE . a
,Itis frequently "nsserted and as-
sumed by many that much of the
American tourist traffic into Canada'
(especially Ontario . and Quebec) is
induced by the ease with which in-
toxicating liquors may be procured
in these provinces._
• This conclusion is readily • arrived
at because a number of the. -tourist,-
from thesouth do indulge in liquor
drinking soon after they get on this
side. But the proportion who da' so is
greatly • exaggerated. The reason ..for
this is that the drinking •or drunken
tourist attracts more attention than
does the sober and' well-behaved one
and the development of this Ameri-
can, tourist traffic having"' coincided
somewh at with the closing of saloons
in the -United States,:: and•:,the .open.
ing of government liquor' stores rbere
we conclude that there is a connection.
between the4wo, and that it isnot
mere co -incident.
'Accurate • fnformation, hgzwever,
does not justify the conclusion.
Mr. Seymore Lowman, assistant
secretary of the iJ S. Treasury, who
supervises .the herder patrols, in a
recentaddress said: "It is ',estimated
that 25 million people and -seven mil-
lion ears' will cross the bored, this
year. Some attribute .'this enormous
travel to the , supposed American
thirst for booze. The records show.
that less than three out of every one
hundred American visitors qualify as
"buyers."
That, is verydifferent from what
many are led to believe by the loose
talk ofthose who jump at conclus-
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YOUTHS GO TQ PRISON FARM
Eari '?egloo' 18, of Hanever, was
under suspicion . by Provincial Con;
stable McClevi' when he w.ts advis-
ed :of the burglaries at Hanover, ten
days ago. says. the Walkerton Tele-
scope,3.The 'officer searched in the.
country and Hanover :grid" Vita:lkerton,
and last Wednesday afternoon appre-
hended Peglo on the street here's
Accused' took him to a 'small.,island
in the Snugeen River,• between Han-
over -and Neustadt, where, in a cache,
•moat of the goods stolen from the
Canadian -,Department Store, Eatgn's,
in Hanover tUe ' . previous Monday
night ' were 'recovered:.. Pegle' Was
,wearing a suit he took from the stock
there. Some of the money, etc., istol-
en from the othee of the Morlock %Lc
tory, ; Friday : night, Aug. ,$th, and' oh
Monday night, also at. Eaton's, was
handed over to: the police.
At Owen Sound, last. Friday, Peglo
pleaded guilty 'la three charges- .,of
breaking and entering and theft. On
the 'first he was sentenced by Maris`-
trate E. C. Spereman to servenine
months in .,the Ontario Reformatory
at. Guelph. and, on each of the .other
two, to three months, the 'sentences
to . rently. incialCo'
L!�trun Fridconcurz►y Prov.Cnstable
McClevis searched, }n. Hanover, the
place of Milton Mansell,' 21 years of
age, and found there materials stolen
from the Britsh-American Oil Stave:
tion, there. on June 23rd:.
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Milton stood : his teal al before Mag-
istrate ' Spereman the same. day . ,'in
Owen Sound.•.. He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to six months in the
Re€urn
iatory'
BRITAIN'S DRINK BILL
We hear 'a great deal about bad
limey' in: Britain -of iti enormous War
debt, its{ unemployed. its poverty.
It is now reported -that during 1929.
the people of Britain raid for in=
toxicating liquors the• enormous sum
of $1,440.000,000. .This is equal to
the cost of carrying the national debt,,
but there is, no .complaint. of this.
The people pay this debt willingly.
What ''insanity is this!,
The enormity of this Worse than
waist is realized when one observes
that ajll' this drink is not only worth-
less,. but ;harmful -reducing the of
flcienc y and injurying the health of
everyone who take' part in it.
It is said that .the drink bill -am-
ounts to double that expended for
education,, and three times as much
as was paid for bread!
NO OPPOSITION TO ' ..
CABINET MINISTERS
Rt. Hon. IL: 11_' Bennett and: four-
teen members of his cabinet, having
returned to their constituencies, for
election as "ministers of the crown"
on, Tuesday of this week, all were
re-elected by acclarration, so there
will be no by-elections because .of
these fifteen members ' of parliament
accepting -cabinet positions. '
This is the first ' time in the history
of the Dominion Parliament that this
bas occurred -that is the return by,
acclamation of a whole cabinet, or
indeed , any considerable number : of
cabinet ministers.
• According to constitutijsnal prac-
tice a member of 'parliament, On ac-
cepting 'a cabinet position, automati-
cally loses .his seat as a member of
the House of Commons, and he has to
return to ,his constituency, and be
elected over . again: This .practice,,
perhaps lonce necessary; is now re-
garded as an absurdity, putting the,
member and the country to needless
expense. The idea at the back, ,of this
practice was that while electors
might. be pleased to elect a candidate
as an ordinary member • of parliament
they might not want him as a minis-
ter of the crown, or in a positionin
which be would draw additional pay.
At the nominations held on Monday
the Liberal Party, or any other or-
ganization had the privilege of nom-
inating candidates to oppose the new
cabinet ministers, but .this' was not
,done; sot the government can now go
on with the business of the country.
In days gone by. the permission of
the wholesale return of a set of tab-
inet' ministers .without "putting un.
rt, fight" would have been regarded as
evidence of weakness on the part of
the _ Opposition. . .
Not so now. On the contrary we
believe that the, course taken by the
Liberal Party will meet With general
approval; as the commonsense clay of
_doing. •
In this Hon. W. L. Mackenzie I inti
nti* leader 01 the Opposition, has
acted' According, to his • ststemen'
made .following the election of Jtsli'
28th. that hewould do what he county
to facilitate the calling of ,a special
gamier' of parliament at the ..earliest
posible date, in order thatth,s new
$o eat ent. might dal kith 'the,
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CREWE
Mr. and Mrs, •Wilfred Plunket and.
children of Auburn were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Drennan on
"Sunday..
• Mr. ad .Mr,. .Rayn•ond Finnigan
and.. children spent Sunday with -
friends at Dungannon.
Mabel Reed' spent -the week-
edn with friends at Celt, and attend-
ed the .Reed picnic . while there.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam .Sherwood 'were
guests of Mr. and Mrs.. Will McDon
ald on Sunday. t
Miss Violet Kapatrick was home;
from Toronto fora few days.
Mrs. Ren Con:fort and sen Ennis
of St. Catherines are visiting her
mother, Mrs. Rlake..
Mr. John Watt who has had }a-od
poisoning, is •improving; also Xis. •
Watt who has had a severe attack of
quinsey.
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