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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-2-18, Page 2da from Coast to Coast Halifax, figures here Winnipeg, M; nerd' stee ba'p lin- show that over 7r000 head of `cattle portaneo as a font producing Centre is have `been exported viii Halifax, be- clearly illustrated by figures recently tween ,Septeinber 20, 1925, and Janua compiled, wh;.eh go to show that due. ary 12, 1920. With the new lighting ing the past year 'approximately ona fai.cilities in the Rielunond yards hundred and twenty-five live foxes prompt handling; is given. .Working were shipped out of the province. A at high speed a cattle crew have been consignment ,of 114 `wan shipped to known to load 712 head in one hour Boulogne, France, last year, While and forty minutes. two were sent th Hamburg, Ger many; Saint. John, N.'B.--+Canactian trade anti nine. to Toronto, Ont. with British West Africa, has drown F Saskatoon, Sask..—A feature of the substantia1 increases during.; the, past dairy industry in Saskatchewan last few years, according to a report of i year was the increase in butter es - the Dept of Trade and Commerren ported from this province to the Brit - Canada shipped to British West ish markets. During 1925 more than Afriea goods tothe value of $x94,911 10,500,000 pounds of creamery butter during 1925, as compared with x812,- was graded for export. This repre- 618 in 1924 and $114„8854 in 1922. The sents a quantity more than double largest single item of export in the that graded during the previous year. three years under review was auto- No definite figures are available as to mobiles and parts thereof, while wheat the ultimate destination of all the but- dour and, canned fish occupied second ter exported, but it isunderstood that and third positions, respectively. the majority of shipments went to Quebec, Que.—Permission to instal England. a transmission line, having- a capacity Calgary, Alta. --The seed extraction of 160,000 molts, has been given by the plant of the Dominion Forestry. Public Service Commission to the Branch at Rocky MVMountain House is Duke -Price power. This line will be now working on an order for Can- ins'ta led between the hydro depart- adian tree seed from Great Britain. anent works of the company at Grand Lodgepole pine and spruce seed is be- g prepared at the plant, while other the in • 1]ecliarge and industrial. points in Lake St. John section at Arvida, varieties of tree seed will be prepared where the Aluminum Corporation is ` at the New Westminster plant. Ap- now-enema' r t „ itis, huge plants.. ; proximately G00 pounds of lodgepole Timmins, Ont.—Tbe Ile:'inger mill pine seed and 150 pounds of spruce will be enlarged. to the p:'acted ea- seed will be prepared at the Alberta parity of 8,000tons loll, •. It is plant. understood orders are being placed 'Victoria, B.C.—British. Columbia immediately for three additional rod hemlock is enjoyhg an increasing de- mits. This will add about 3,000 tons mand in Japau. Last, year's exports dailyto the capacity of the mill. A tro that country show an increase ex . as compared ion • teeng p , large part of the tank construct' 100 er cent has already been completed, and the i with the figures for 1924. This hem - outlook .is favorable for the plant lie-' ; lock has different characteristics nom ing able to handle a little over 8,0001 that found in the. Eastern Provinces, tons daily, shortly after the middle and is employed very extensively for of the resent year. building purposes. as p INIVIORIES THA LEAD AFAR There are times in the winter, when afternoon on the Lombardy plain: Y books, writing, and walking have all: walk the arcade streets of Bologna, yielded their hour interest, and yet 'are-nd and once more I tread the road above mains an or occen ocdcupation. ,and the sea where Capri lies in mist and dusk• that male for occupatioo. Thia sunlight like a blue shadow, and each .rambl=e in •one's armchair would neem a pleasant timethe to ltakeaved d deeply indented ravine in the hills is .... and remenbered pathways of the pant. I hued w,i" orange trees. Memory, at such times, drays her veil * * - * * aside and eh -owe -me, Vignette(' outs Sorne memories I love much are the from the vague shadows of less -re- ; softly colored pictures that open be - bill things4 a series of soft or fore me of walks near ap old English brilliantly tinted pictures as: beautiful,'. town. I see the cathedral town of to my ihinkin.g, es ally that have yet ; Salisbury, but beautiful as arre its y st ere is the F'flaee." • hung -on the walls of a gallery. The towers and the creeper -covered old -Season—but what matters the season? red brick houses in. its Close, I leave Here is the place where Loveliness In such 'rambles+ I set forth in early ' then town. by a weli'i•ernembered path, keeps house, sprfng, and wain into the glowing and now perhaps I. am on the short ; Between the river and the wooded heart of autumn_ Or, recalling some crlsp grass of the Wiltshire downs, i Mlle, mountainous track in soman -1' sum •' and I walk in the grove of black yew Within a, velley; where' the S ringtime it to look down on a swirling snow- trees that are sa to •ave rn s. -„ i shills. 'n the valley, and the exhilare. bows for the Saxon soldier. Or I turn. Her firrstling whi i -flowers: under bi'os- starm r F, n sof the dry•cold air returns to me to the water -meadows, or to the new 1 soming boughs: do d as I Limb higher into dazzling sun gores.. But on a winter afternoon the Where Summer sits braiding her Shine. _. meadows are .cold to walk in, for the' warm, white brows Sometimes memory sets me in the rale wraith of a mist rises from their , :net enaere see- • se •neneSsanans. • fat„ a DYKE BREAK CAUSES TRAIN. WRECK. The above gip photo photo illustrates one of the terrible results of the breaking of a dyke neer Beugen, Idol• inHolland are land. The tracks were washed away and the speeding train was derailed into the water, Floods H d said to have mused more damage than any other eimtier disaster in years. • Stars. Our little earth fares bravely through the night, For though before her stranger dark- ness arkness lies, A host of friends attend her in the skies.' her Northward, the two Bears lead with their white Lantern., Polaris, and the Great Dog's light Blazes -a nearest trail, When Sirius dies Out of the springtime East new torches rise As down the West old beacons fade from sight, That whirl of golden moths, the Pleiades, Orion's giant suns, the red -eyed Bull Depart' and the wee wanderer knows lose Of Gemini's twin flames: instead, she sees Altair and Scorpio„ the beautiful, Between the Northern and the South- ` ern Cross. --Lilian White Spencer: rammormerouraortrimmollilli Tbe Autoiflo-bilc • MUCH DEPENDS UPON ST EERING PARTS OF AUTOS„ There is nothing better calculated to with the first- through -means of a tie strike terror to the human soul for the driver of an automobile to suddenly realize, as he is -driving his machine at good speed on a popular highway, that the steering apparatus of his car Na to ral- eaint ces letxr � Trappers and fur traders have for centuries titlten freely of the fpr .e sources• of Canada, 'yet, contrary to the - general opinion, the furtrade of Canada to d n, employs more eapittt1 and rnege people and. serves a greater nitnibar then ever before. The demand for fat s. has ':increased to such a de - glee that the fur industry is confront- ed with new problems, among" the most important of which is certainty in, regard to the supply of good quality fur:- such as are supplied liy Canada, and ,increased production of them.. Due to the limited supply of qual- ity raw furs, in comparison with the demand, the fer industry has ,;,been• forced to use pelts formerly considered worthless, many of which are import. ed from foreign countries, The fur industry, however., is not content with the continued substitution of these low grade fur's and is looking forward OWL-LAFFS 51- O. IN, E. (On With Laughter) eagerly to other means to increase the Learniii'g the present dances is:Y supply. All you ;have to do iso to keep" tirnnfrrg' The farming .8 wild fur* bearers around and wiping your feet. for their fur on privately owned lands and the utilization of selected waste,' Narc1rus---'•'Look bore, blacik man, lands: and water areas is advanced as tivliu;t's you all gavine gimme for my solut a suggestion which- niay provide u birthday piesont?'� adequate ton in part of the'problem' of an Black Man—"Chose yo' eyes, honey adequate fur" supply. In anticipation :of the'evident inter- est of the public and the increasing demand for information in regard to Canada's resources of '; fur. „bearing wild life and the raising of fur bear- ing animals in captivity :the Natural One thing r^onieu's clothes leave to Resources Intelligence Service of the the e ing wn ise 'Iver molter: veeto Dept. of the. Interior has prepared a number of monographs on Canadian so .expensive, fur bearers and their .domestication, including beaver, fisher, muskrat, rod connected to its' steering'' knuckle. mink, marten, raccoon, chinchilla rab- These .knuckle joints are necessarily bit,'skunk and blue fox. These several points of weakness as compared with bulletins contain data relative to de- a solid agile. Therefore it is necessary sclription, habitat, production, trap- has to provide some . means of giving ping methods, breeding, feeding, pens, p ranch practice, pelt values, markets, has gone bad—is failing to function. strength. mach iand various aspects s, One is alniest entirely lrel less,- There If the front whee�s were - placed in a ' f. y p perfectly perpendicular position con- their manufacture nit and commercial tial import- siderable leverage tvo�.rld be exerted on (busineas of closing your eyes). Now what yo' see?" Narcisstcs--"Nuthint" Black Man---aWe1•l, da 's : whit yeu all value git." is little to do but await a crash—or if lucky, slide off one side of the road or the other. Steering gears do sometimes go bad, but would also cause a great resistance this in spite lee great skill and care on to the tri L g 'movement that :is inti - the part of "flee manufacturers of cars. dent to the steering. To... overcome Of course, no large' percentage of the these faults the front wlieels are given total number of mater accidents can what is termed undergather—that is, be laid to functionless steering gears,. the distance between then. atrthe point yet tjere are enough of such caiang where they touch the ground is less sties to warrant every motorist giving than at their tops, careful consideration td this important Thus the weight of the vehicle bears • matter., ' Q" directly :'on a line with the steering m By way, of, a -rag the, steerstrg of a ,knuckle pins': and no leverage is•exert- car easy and giving it the ne ssary- eel..„, This undergather would result in strength and the required fieibi ty' the front whee_s-of an automobile are eicessive wear on the tires if both wheels were* pointed straight ahead, provided with certain peculiarities. At er in other. words, cif they were set the lower end of the shaft on which parallel•. To prevent this excessive the hand -steering wheel is located there wear the. wheels are given what is :s 'a gear usually of the worn type, called foregather, which means that although other types are sometimes they are slightly closer at. the fore the steering knuckle' pins. This would not only ,,lake for weak construction employed. 'This-. gearing makes it edge than at the ;rear. While this dif- er ncenin only -'bout three-eighths of with very little eiroit On the part is an'.inch it is very important that the the driver. At the same time it is front wheels toe -in that much. Of necessary for considerable pressure to coarse, this does not apply to the rear be exerted en the front wheels to move wheels, which in practically all cases the steering or hand wheel. wheels, directly - parallel. - " An arm from this steering gear con- The steering parts of an automobile twist of a road through a forest,netts through a drag link to a steer- need careful and frequent inspection I can go n , farther. I cross the bridge more inviting, where the windows Her lap with asters; and old Winter ing knuckle upon which one of the and he is a wise ownerwho does not of a roaring mountain torrent, and can show the glow of a fireside. In. the ( frills front wheels is mounted. The other neglect this essential aspect ofesatis- see the Iona desoent of a path through forest walks there is alawys a happy ;With ,crimson. haw and hip his, snowy front wheel is made to move in unison factory motoring. flowering trees, but the signpost has anticipation of seeing hollies gleam 1 blouse. ` With bramble -rases; and where Aut- but ",s'trea'.ms, and the thatched village is z urn 'Hills bri ht' with their scarlet .berries,' Here you may meet with Beauty. "- and the bracken is still -golden in the E Here she site frosty grass. Here along the.rutted Gazing upon the moon, or all the day road •comes a wagon heavy with logs• , Turning a wood -thrush flute, remote, of wood' for fuel, and some forest' unseen: e - ponies are seen, in shaggy coats, Or when the storm is out, 'tis she who among the furze. flits as * * * * From rock to rock, a form of flying There is one road I often walk, but spray, I do not get tar along it. I want to get Shouting, beneath. the leaves' tumul- t()L a . old market town, and can see Mons green. —Madison Cawein. disappeared, and I know not in which. g y hemisphere I rejoiced at these lovely scenes. Nor do I feel there is need to see more. I am grateful for the land- scape that flashes by me when I tra- vel In a train. Andehow easily I take my remembered ramblings 'without. help of train. or steamer ,and find my- self in Italy, Egypt, India! Here is a dusty road outsde Flor- ence that winds steeply 'up between. high walls,; a majestic atone pine soars into the blue sky and the single hnd level caro-' ell is heard 'clanging in a ove y panne. There is no wind to shake th-e olive trees so that their leaves turn over to show the sneer underneath, and the glare is so intense in the unshaded lane that no one is about Far below, Me City of Flowers dreams with its palaces and towers alongth a Arno whioh- lies in a broad gleam of white in the shadowy recesses, of the Cas - cine Once in Italy, such m emeries the white road dipping up and down before int through the fields, but the' fields are full of ox -eyed daisies, and there are dog -roses in the hedges, and the ditch ir, grassy and full of, flowers. So I stay there and -pick them. It must be that I am a ohild again, for a market -cart passes me in the cloud of sunlit duet it raises, the grasses meet over my head, and th sorrel is like a tall flowering tree. There is a high,. hedge of may,. and somewhere sheep are feeding, and those ,little breezes that steal about in summer seem to whisper of "the sweet o'. the lead me far„ I see again th sombre... year" that is never stale in its com- pile of a. palace made a ba kground in4. lei. A B, in The Monitor. ' 0 c for the bright biossomsl in a flower girV's baeket. sl see the olive -clad 'hill- I side, bbe white foam of cherry blos- som against a distant blue mountain, the yellowing trees in a bright autumn There• are more than six times as And saute by the ;gate I stand alone, many passenger cars in the world as And nobody pulls up there. there. -are trucks.--Tivomae Hardy. Noboby Comes. . Tree -leaves labor up and -down, And through them the fainting light, Succumbs to the call of night Outside in the react the telegraph wire To the town from. the darkening land Intones to traveileirs like ` a spectral lyre Swept by a spectral hand. A car comes up, with lamps full -glare, That flash' upon a tree; It haps nothing to do with me, . And whangts• along in a world of ita own, Leaving a blacker air; T1 T' Lt,1'aur i&a fr tP__Rar 1%atr$ 'I' iah r.. a He—"It's ciuite a feat t'in.aance the Charleston." i She—"Yes, feet, hand and `every thing." When dining tables . first came into use diners reclined on them and ate with their fingers. The blue whale is the biggest of all living animals. It attains a length of ninety feet and a weight of thirty tons: ance These will be amplified and em- body any new developments as re- quired. • Inquiries relative to the' fur re- sources and fur farming in particular are on the increase. These come'ihdt only from Canada but from the Un- ited States and countries of Europe as well. Tile information Sought is very diverse. . Moments. So new are'woads;.unweildy toelsand " s'low ;. We have no names to call those mo- • rents' by--, • Dim stirrings°of a silent self, no flow Of • utteraxrbe can reach to ' satisfy. So new! So old!. Like meteors, they conte MI -blazoning,' we grope, we hesitate; Like meteors they pass, and leave us dumb . Great moments leave us inarticulate. The "sculptor stricken ofa palsled hand Before the wonder of the human form; The lookout ;high as any mast can Qi. sltand. .. Still ,at the gathered glory ofa storm. Though it 'roll -crested .death, black wave on wave;,• And . . 9ountry people waiting at a grave. Mildred Fowler Field. The highest-gro\ving: plant 'yet found by man is a larkspur, collected at a height of 20,600 feet by a Swiss naturalist;. Dr. Janet Guiiarmod, on Mt. Kangcherrjunga, in a Bible Times Sunday School "How old is your boy?" "Fittty-seven.'" "Just the right age for our, e idle roll." 4 Sentence Sermons. No Man Ever Made --A success at anything by worrying over it. —A failure of life who kept faith with his own causcience. --•-Enough numerate be able to live ,on it alone. • •• -•-Progress who did not occasionally attempt the imposs'ibie. =A bargain who -lost his honor: in —Himself popular by making other the transaction. - people feel -uncomfortable. • —His opinions carry more weight by expressing them with profanity. Literary Studies. These studies are' the food of youth, the charm of old age, in prosperity an ornament, in adversity a refuge and consolation; a delight at home and no hindrance in public life; they are our comrades of the night, in foreign lands; din country retrreaa,ts,—Cicero. Art the ;first r performance of "The Messiah" in Westminster Abbey, the effect produced upon George II was such that he started to his feet and remained standing ii'nti°l its: Conclusion„ 'His ex -a: ip:e was followed by the- en- tire congregation, and it has been ems, tomary ever since to stand during the perfoirnance of this chor'u's. Mutt Pull Off a .Dirty Trk? an Paris __- __ _ - _ ANO IN 'ilia •DIsTAni e .WC- cR�s sccT7`c Holo. D;C•Vil.lG: sef c ebfFICE, Et , WOTf?7 CH M9NSiCirR?? to AT's 'Me MALtc 2- CANT YOU sPGAK wNAT Do '(NU "MINK • oC' THC- . (4GTE -, 1}E V1Lt.d? WELL, WHERe IN.. ? NowstcUR .CCF. '(OU STccic -iz nc'QDAY AND. C'Lt. SNoW Nati MoRG of PAI (S THAN `'!GU'b 5GG ALoN.G,, Iii A Naon1TN: NOW TAt(-G T*G Fo.1TAtN6 cARPCAvX,- 'tk11Ts'ry woNbc-Reut.. Fovtft'Alts; CFi? • • _ P oRTC- ? At MT- �`` '(rt, 'Dews: t-i/+ vticryReco iS r. .. .:. ..,: , _rn. ..: '-_-•"• �It,Z #. qi ., N ny .;,,, .,,.. i •. a-_ .+w ..' 7 _,:,,r r, :.• ' i C` � aY .3 ([_}y�y��f ? 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This a*d That, Reading in the morning paper Of the :crimes of,. eons -"Kidnaper" Who can blame ave if I say Tbus a word that's spei_ed that way? Yet considering tine'sililes That will put 'two I's, in 'lilies," There again I'm brought to pause By our tongue's ungodly laws. Sa'Iiielt one has two r's--r"enibar ase,' Or the other sticker, "harass? There'' they aro---but I suspect Both of then are in O'rrect Curse a language that's so sloppel. Now my brow is 'lined and soppe. I nrmslt seek a beauty shbppe . And give ray face a little xuoppe! Just tile other- day we heard an • "optimist" descrlbed as a. fellow who sells his neighbors; ten dollars worth of eggs to set; and .then invests the ten in garden seed's, Professor—"Young man; name a great universal, time saver."' Y. M.—"Love at arst sight, sir." It's consoling, in a way, to know that after the thermometer gets •down to 10 below a couple of degrees more aren't particularly noticed, "Bare' with me," eaid Eve to. Athuu, as the wind made away with her Sun- day dress. - .- We Should Think So. After being scalded by- Ibis parents, a Paris schoolboy left h-glue.—l,upkfn Herald. - --• A man bas written a. book on Bean Culture. That's, vulgar. Why couldn't he just as well hitve called it Mental Development? The younger generation will soon grow old enough to wonder what the world 1s comping to`when' young tolks dot so. Asked to compose a . sentence ' con- tenting the word folly, a bey in the grammar department e wrote.: "Ma says that Pa is like Hiram Green—all he can de is folly'themetround," A womma's safety valve is her tears•, man's his maser. The fellow who gets music cut. of a saw doesn't do it with a file.. The Snow -Shower. Stand here by -my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes'; The. clouds hang over it, heaby and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And lett of that frozen mist the snow In •wavering flakes, begins to flow; Flake after flake They sing in the dark and silent lake. See how in a .living swarm they:como Prom' the chambers beyond that misty vela Some hover a`tshile in air,, and sonde Rush prone from the sky like elm - mar hail, t' All, dropping swiftly or •;tattling slow, Meet, and are ,'till In the depths be low; • Flake atter Rake { Diseolved in, the dark and silent •lake. Yet look again, for the cleuds• divide', A gleam of blue -on the water lies, And far away, on (be mountainrstde, A sunbeam falls from the opening slkiee. • But the hurrying host that flew be- tween ,, • The cloud and the water, no mare 14 is see . At rest Ili the clerk and Flake atter flake lent lake r—Bry