The Brussels Post, 1928-10-24, Page 2WPDN3 S1)AY, OCTOBER 24, 11926
Silver Iac
Fxes
Are proving to be the most
Profitable and Interesting
Live Stock for Farmers
Our increase this year was 4,8 pups per pair,
All are raised. 50 pairs of Foxes require no more
skill nor care than 10 dairy cows.
I have for sale at moderate prices some of the
finest Silver Black Foxes In the Province, all re-
gistered, pedigreed stock, Co-operation given
to new ranchers buying foxes, as to care and
treatment,
North Huron Silver Black
Fox Ranch
GiEO. BLAKE, Prop,
Lot 5, Con, 14, Grey R. R. 2, Brussels
BRITAIN'S NEW AREA MEI
1111 o4- used to explore the surround-
( ing territory. There is .,very indica-
] tion that a region hitharte regarded
Great "No Man's Larnl" or South ',as waterless will become a great na-
Africa Visited by Inepectoc— : tional asset.
Water to Be Had.
The M.P. and the ,Batch.
Visions of rich farming country 1 MI I7. M, Cowan, M.P., a Scottish
,,be -as a1' incident
trade1'41 han
and unexplored u•Hire of
was the 4-e
• 1
• Libels
come reality as a result of an chic yin the House of Commons recently
journey across the Kalahari Desert , which made members sit up and rub
just accomplished by Sub -Inspector their eyes with amazement. Mr.
This°ng of the a first Bechuanaland police. Cowan abstractedly put his hand in
This omeer Is the first white man to !his pocket, produced a pipe, and put
cross the great No Mans Latif ,,f 1 it in bis utouth. A ,noment later he
South Africa. produced matches, and a point of
It has long been realized that a light which startled the House ap-
well-watered route across the desert pgi. ed as he struca one of them, His
would mean that good cattle 4-c:uatl'y neighbor seized him oy the arm. Mr,
to the southwest of Lake Ngami i Gowan, startled from 11 is far - away
could be exploited. Boer farmers ; dream was inclined to be indignant.
who treked there long ago raised fin' 1 He turned towards Mr. Morris for a
heals of cattle, but they were unable moment as if to demand an expiate -
to find a practicable trine to the atioi of such rude conduct Then in
Beohttanaland Railway line on the a flash he realized where he was. He
borders of the territory. The recog- hurriedly dropped the iighted match
nized route to Lake Ngami means a on the floor and trampled on it. His
roundabout journey with water holes pipe disappeared with equal rapidity.
feat and far between.
Sa ''h Il,rh:tanaland authorities
decided to explore this nnmaPped
apantry, the home of wandering na- 1
tives and Bushmen, so primitive that
they have never caught a glimpse of
civilization. Sub -Inspector Beeching
received a letter at his lonely post of
Lebututu instructing him to proceed
north to Gleansi and then to strike •
across the desert to Metsematluk. He
looked at the large scale alae in the
police office and found to his dismay
a blank space between the two places. I
Orders from police headquarters
explained that the object of the trek
was to establish a well -watered route
as a short cut across the desert.
Rw.vhtt,g, with years of experience in
the desert., saw the importance of the
journey and did not questeen tea
danger. With his native corporal a
few policemen and a caravan of
camels and oxen he started out into
the wilderness of sand. 0
Vera soon, however, be found that
it had been raining in the desert.
There was enough water in the
"Pans" he encountered for his men
and animals, and wild Tsania net- len
supplied the expediti:7n whit fresh
food. Beaching wrote in his diary:
"I am sur.- taxi excellent dams could
be made capa'ale of holding water for
months." There were many line:-
stone
ir,:stone depe,df's hal::-a-ng water be-
low the 4-u ace.
beif een aftor " ,i 1 71 -
in c t , L ,-
--a bu-.h....,, It
ed, but tir eying a h
The uathe i1': ,v,a, u •n sear-
edearty. .10,,1.1'.1:.
It vis h• .^.1'y work, tit... -. ...
the thi,•k sand, and Hie. p • :1v,.`:,'
ed two ...ies an hone. :hl, ...
u•, re lit ;Ili to
lions. . r .11 p':
were, and into ,
fennel tr' . v..
Bu':lr ( ra
illi 1 i- 11,1i.:". . 1 , •a11 ,
arrows l i
per;r
.1 117 1r..
Th' }•114'1• ': of tin 021''. . ...
pieced i:: t.'. iu - 'are, t. ..
Sub-Ineie , •. e' ....... .
sen a: . .,..a
frnrn ,
Wells :.t1.. 12 1 .
Fur.,.' eat y., 1 ,.
motor I. 141,:.: ,, ..1•
MUCH OF EXPORTS
COME FROM FARM It Is ""'"1t,' 0'
THE 113E 1SSE1t.s POST
MEANING OF ,e ",1lt,I,lt1 y it i 1;1'a
Nearly 48 Million Dollars in Agricul-
tural Products $old Abroad in
September.^
Ottawa, Oct. 111 --Nearly one -hilt
'i' the total export trade of (i ',:t la
' urinw t11.' booth of September 1'•,t;
mote of, et' .,'n1:liral and
le product.,, according to a report i0'
sued today by the Department el
National 'Revenue,
These 'e commodities accounted for
over. 17.700,000 out of a .total ex -
:notation valued at el0Meeteelati,
The ince:re' over September of
lust year was most marked, the 1927
lit ole str.nding at ::84,000,000 out
of ,tat ,,amort trade of *SIi,-il_2,0
-Animals and the'.'• prOdtiet., show l
slight increase over tiler total 1'+11• a
year ago. There i n Slight reduct-
ion in the 'sport value of wood,
wood 1noduc•te and paper, Non-fer-
roue metals and -their products also
derli'ued•
For the six months ending • Sept.
80, Canada's total trade amounted to
$1,2011,298,.142, an increase of over
$140,000,000 over the first six
months of 1020.
Gypsies Claim - to Steal.
Gypsies have always, whether just-
ly or unjustly, been labelled as
chronic tr.ieves. The Romany has
ever felt that the world is against
him and collects toll. Gypates were
severely persecuted in days gone by
and, until less than a hundred years
ago there was a law in England mak-
ing it a crime, punishable by hang-
ing, simply to belong to the race er
to speak their language.
There is a legend among the Alsa-
tian gynsi's that when Christ was to
be crucified, the Roman soldiers
came to a Gypsy smith and asked
him to forge the four nails for the
cross, one for each limb, The GYPSY
refused in spite of every threat, and
'when the nails were finally made by
a Jewish smith, the Gypsy tried to
steal them. He succeeded in steal-
ing only one, and that is why on the
crucifix one sees both feet held by a
single nail. To reward the Gypsy for
his most laudable efforts, the Lord
has granted permission to every
member of the race to steal once 10
seven years.
A Gypsy does not steal because he
is too weak to resist the temptation,
but front topsy-turvy principles.
Insect Hunters.
Giant hunting grasshoppers nearly
five inches long, that prey on small
animals such as mice and the young
of ground -nesting birds, are found in
the Congo.
They rival the kangaroo as jump-
ers and can leap a considerable dis-
tance on to their prey. The hunting
grasshopper is not so great a leaper
in proportion to its size as the king
grasshopper, the young of which,
even before its wings are developed,
can jump a hundred times its own
length. Very few men can cover
more than twice their own length in
• a jump.
The hunting grasshopper Is the
largest of all grasshoppers. Its great
front lip hides a pair of jaws as ef-
fective as a hay -chopper, and its ap-
petite makes it a plague to mankind.
O1f1. Scots.
Many of the inhabitants of the
Irish counties of Dew11 and Antrim
speak a term of old `;cants, with little
ecialnce
tray
:.t
PqW
Having been appointed Distributor for the
Chrysler
Co rp oration
We offer Cars at $695.00 and up, including
six different models, viz. , Plymouth 4 ; De
Soto .6 ; Chrysler 62,6 ; Chrysler 65 6 ;
Chrysler 75.6 ; and Chrysler 8o 6. All with
the longest wheel base of any small car, also
hydraulic 4 -wheel brakes.
Come in and look them over, -
E. O. CUNNINGHAM
Phone 9x BRUSSELS
1 Hereand
Where
(144)
An effort is being made to es-
tablish an abort at Banff, Alberta,
Government officials have Inspected
a site near the present golf links
and the prospect that a f}eld will be
Prepared within the next year is
bright.
A further supply of airplanes and
airplane parts arrived in Montreal
recently when the Canadian Pacific
freighter "Beaverford" brought two
De Havlland Moth planes, one case
ot wings and two cases of spare
parts.
A call for tenders for a large
elevator with a capacity o4- 1,500,000
bushels has been sent out by the
Saint John Harbor Commission.
The neve structure is to be erected
on the Colwell Fuel Company's site,
in West Saint John, the work of
construction to be got under way
as soon as possible.
A Cadillac sedan equipped with
rubbber insulated steel flanged
wheels bas been specially equipped
by the Angus Shops of the Canadian
Pacific Railway at Montreal for the
use of the engineering department
of that company on inspection
trips. Me machine has an extra
braking system operated by the
steering wheel and can make as
great a speed on the rails as it
can on the highway. Over seventy
miles an hour was made on a trial
run.
A big black bear tried to stop a
Canadian Pacific freight train the
other day near Arndale station in
Northern Frontenac county in On-
tario, and when the enoounter was
over there was not enough of the
bear left to make a pair of mitts.
Bruin evidently wandered on to the
tracks during the night and was
blinded by the glare of the head-
light. Black bear are found
throughout Eastern Canada but
are not often seen, except during
the berry season, as they are night
prowlers.
Addressing the Board of Trade of
Vancouver, recently, E, W. Beatty,
Chairman and President of the Can-
adian Pacific Railway, stated that
present prosperity In Canada is
clearly indicated by four main fac-
tors: Record of railway car load-
ings (showing the volume of busi-
ness), employment returns, reports
of financial houses, and building
construction. These indices were
of special value, be remarked, be-
cause of the wide range of activity
which they reflect. The gross earn-
ings of the company, he added,
had been greatly decreased, how-
ever, by reduced freight rates.
A unique piece of railway equip-
ment, a dynamometer car, has been
constructed by the Angus shops far
the Canadian Pacific Railway. The
apparatus is intended to test the
efficiency of locomotives at various
speeds and is placed between the
tender and the train during opera-
tion. The forces exerted on the
ler of the
car are transmitted
ransmitted
hydraulically to an instrument
Known as a chronograph, which
records upon a moving sheet of
paper. It is stronger by far than
any of its predecessors and is said
to bo the finest car of its kind on
the continent. One of its first
duties will pe the testing of the
new "3100" passenger locomotive of
the C. P. R., the largest engiae in
the British Empire.
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to 1tlr deal n 4741.41
is 744714,' ib1: to l^t„ , ,4 „1 .4 kik
WHO.,, 11:1'r1I 141,' 1,.'111'11:14' 111111. 1,1:1,
: 1
of 11,riNval1 l 1:1 1
utiles all 14,044' tor 1. ataar 1'it e,!
diti1.1411 to lur1.1 :ul iu1'11 111 71;. ..1
prriud 00 tint.' t4i4i1 , :1i i1 ,4
deah What id n , .-t
111101'4 to a 1'171 e.,a,
.rr...i.e11y ori
Al schmtist I 14; ,1.11 i111141 a : tlii•i,,
1111171, •cion , 1 melt 4 taps, et 111.
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i 11.101,-•11 n- ,(r,,. ,i 114- 1 t 11. of 4.
7(5404 41 1-1710 ,rt, $U t, '.0491'1',
recall the vent•: „!' 1(4" 1,, 't cr'm+
co:n ,'pt to 1 u: a 1111,,.14 , ti y, :(('41, .0541
44("41 era idet fin 1:1 It ii•;
1,1 44 'nal levee ai ene , 11,1 of ,
pale,l' r, !pre,. '1t , iii'
the wind! strip giv,.:4 pia,, lu1 nu:
a 1111111ot1 year.."
An oven 1WT x11-141(11 1i111a,1:It L,1
ti'ty be sen in the 404-1-111 of 4 r ore
Could We stand 111,141 I11' e d:, (.1
:;orae a mile and a hall in depth, ('41
out of the solid rock by a tiny 4-11 _a(,
scarcely visible at the bottom o1 th,
terrible abyss, t,nd 11'85, w1'
that the little strati s:et was able t
wear off annually only oil t.'uth
an inch from its rocky bed, w•hll
would be our conception of the pro-
digious length of time that 111
st1-01141 must have taken to ,xeayatl
the gorge
We should certainly feel startle
on finding that the stream had per-
formed the
eh-
Por edttc enormous1'mn113 amount
o1
went
in something less than a
million.
Machine That Talks,
A cigarette machine which auto-
mat)cally "talks" to the purchaser ae
packets are d.eldvered has been in-
stalled In a New York shop. "Cork
tips protect the lips," says the ma•
chine with one brand of algartettc..
"It's toasted" and "Thank you" art
spoken as other brands are del'Wered
a hartol1m-Prrtor•1a it"light.
Two South African Air Ferrel ma
chines flew recently from lehartott
to Pratorta in four days, a distant
of about 3,000 mites, This suggest+,
the possibility of the Cape to Cairo 11
silt days,
lallga.LOOK AT YOUR LABEi.
GOLDEN JUBILEE TEAR.
Canadian rational Exhibition Cele..
brates Its Fiftieth Anniversary.
The Golden Jubilee of the Cana-
dian National Exhibition is to be lav-
ishly celebrated when it throws open
its gates ml August 24ti1--to ro4 "14
countless displays of products, s r-
vfces, activities; is a majestic S, !ling
beside the placid waters of Lake On-
tario—a Luxurious, restful, yet glad.
some atmosphere traditional to this,
the world's largest exhibition.
That the Exhibition in its over-
whelming appeal, composition and
educational results, stands unlqu••
and monumental among annual ex-
positions is indicated by the crowds
who return every year in lucreastee
numbers, and every reeurriu -,aeon
makes more secure the C. N. E.'s
claim to the title the World's Great-
est Annual. Exhibition.
An hour, a day, a week are alike,
inadequate to exhaust the marvels of
this Canadian festival which must
not be confused vvith the ordinary
fair. It is not a fair, it is an exhibi-
tion built on world's exposition lines,
It is the nation in microcosm, a reve-
lation of the infinite wealth, tireless
energy and unbounded potentialities
of Canada, and a graphic visualiza-
tion of what Cauadlans have achieved
and what remains to be done with
our national heritage,
Among the numerous attractions
this year will be the band of the
Royal Air Force, the ynt.ngest and
most popular band in Britain to -day.
Another outstanding musical feature
is the Exhibition Chorus—a vast
choir of 2,000 voices.
Germany's 1Vholeeale Godfather.
President von Hindenburg is god-
father to at least 3,000 children, he
recently confided to Mayor Goerlitz
of Oldenburg.
"Beton I became President, I was
godfather to about 500," he said,
Now I ane asked about five times a
day to stand sponsor."
At times these godchildren prove
somewhat troubleso,ne.
"Not long ago I visited a smaller
city," the President continued, "I had
just taken my seat in the carriage,
when suddenly a little lee -year-old
Youngster was lifted into the seat op-
posite me. I asked in some surprise
what this meant, when the tot's
mother replied, rather reproachfully
'But don't you remember tbat this is
your godson?' The mother actually
town
throughow
-wanted him todrive
dt
with me.
I was just wondering how my lit-
tle friend and I wou11 get along dur-
ing the drive, when Le began to cry
so bolsterously that ais mother con-
sidered it wise to relieve me of him,"
W01.1.1) BET i;lt COafi)i'I 1)1 d.
liver 1+`4-777' eiillt1( a ,tomes in 1'ultea
States i 1,lllee,"
kine,) than 3p 4584 1 ,I+1 \ltl"1'fe1r1
."44 171111$ are ilsint n 4.0011,0 1 0 daeli-
414 hollsea 111 in,ulp-.u,ct,d towns and
'hies with nu hat 4,4 5,114 fa1i1n1,'0.
chis has berm 41'(0,'41 by 41 ihr'•tr•
ever survey kennel,„t d i,y 111 dep.at-
mint of the Ata , i,:,117 Immo , i 1,,r
lou,*111 F'nlcr:,ll„u ed Wool re's
111ubs, under the d11'' -'inn of jive.
Maggio W, Barry, (iep(,rt411t'ut ('(4.411-
1(14111,
In view of fbe fame, .atbered In
the' 4utv'y, an ,1(.11, • • exhibit la
,liluaed by the Mori run '' ler the hl-
'n11hm1 ,•Dill elli ion to 111 11, 1110
'ley '28. The eeelaa. vae Inteee.t:
lieplity of the , 1 .:n( i 1'1 il:,
tielitina and dela 111 41'.404 pron1,1ve,
pec-hlsG rte ,I11)1,1 10 lin' pie rem. (my
of Illali, 111 .71,','1 111 C..
A
model Alnerit,... ,, 411.) 1111
erected,
Mes, John 1). Sherman, i(r, sid'n1 of
the t'4- ilerat.i'.11, eeeettaeled Amer -
lean home• dept 111 .11' the b,'.:ill-
ning of 11rr udnl'.''.::.r:ii ten feel' )ettel
ago. lu the euro'-' data 1419 teen
obtained about h,uuu,oeu (atm and
rity homer, Tlu, p 1rpee'. W0'i 111 hod
what. 83404 arr:411getaiiat had h ,u uc ii ,
through latter Saving dev tees, for tile
comfort of the lluuse'u•11e and her
family.
In many instances, accordl111 to
Mrs. Sherman, barns were found bat-
ter ',quipped than the 1t(rtn hnu.ees.
Attuning water and electric lights
were found lu buildings eheleering
live stock, while the home rl,4tering
the family was not so egttipp,ed. The
federation is supporting a bill in
Congress for a census of household
equipment as well US farm maelllllery
itde•s.
117, un
n1' 1'.a1 et 1 54
t u
The model hnni, on exhibit will be
equipped with a minimum of labor
saving devices, but with enough, the
sponsors say, to give the housewife
'reedonl front drudgery and make
her work efficient.
t'L Ni'1'!ARll_r11 GIFT.
First of 'fills Reproduction of tiro Sky
• to 130 Seen in America.
As the fliers of the Southern Cross
winged their way southwards over
the 0101!lc at night, the familiar stars
of our skies dropped behind the
northern horizon, say's Science Ser-
vice. In their place thele arose in
the south constellations We nelrel' see,
including the or'_:.1011 Southern
Toad Burnt as Witch.
I leave always liked the country
people in Austria, so Much that it
gives nee a shock to read a truly
dreadful occurrence in that land, says
a London Chronicle contributor. A
peasant's 00wa were attacked by some
mysterious illness. A toad was found
in the cowshed, and at once it was
sut:;geated that witchcraft had been
at work; 01'11• tl
had witch (u1turned her-
self into a toad; the toad must be
burned. So burned the wretched toad
was, while the peasants walked round
carrying a crucifix. Ile was fined
cruelty, but what a state of appalline
i'noranee the incident uncovered,
Modelling the Moon.
A plaster of pari; model of t'.;
'noon le being made by /111 (1nt11010,
'lc amateur astronomer in Los An-
odes, He has been working at it 401”
years and does all his work 4011»
lentil tools,
Hie observations made through tit•'
nigh -power telescopes in his home
lbservatOry are supplemented veal
:lhntogl'aphs of the moon, and whet
.'olnpleted the model, 40 Inches in de
emeter,
1 -
emeter, will be perfect in 0411,
',•tall.
Latest Armored car,
Guards riding with m01101 In at,
.t'tn0re4 ear need in a western cit
'(141 command a wide view of tit
.trout, both in front and to the nese
arodgh .an observatory in the roof
etas Popular Mechanics Magazine
i'ho glass wdndoWs, windshield ant
'leadltghts as'e of the ballot-proo.
variety, and the radiator and trot)
amps are also Incased partially it
armor.
Here and There
(149)
Brandon's first broadcasting sta-
tion has gone into daily use, and a
studio located there will give grain
and stock reports each day, and
once a week, in the evening, will
broadcast local concert program-
mes.
A training school for the encour-
agement of home industries is
being talked of in Winnipeg, fol-
lowing the Folksong Festival held
in that city recently under the aus-
pices of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way. Montreal, it may be noted,
has bad for some years classes to
teach their native handicrafts to
children of foreign -born settlers,
Who would otherwise be likely not
to acquire the skile they would have
developed in their own country,
W. N. Beach, a hunter and piho-
tographer of wild life who had the
unique distinction of finding two
different pairs of locked antlers
during his career, was a recent
visitor to the General Tourist De-
partment of the C. P. R. at Mont-
real. Locked antlers are very rare-
ly found and one of the two pairs
discovered by him are so firmly
interlocked that they cannot be
pulled apart by two strong men,
and to be separated would have to
'be cut.
"In all nay experience I have not
previously found so general a feel-
ing of complete coufidenee in this
country and its possibilities as was
observed in the cities and district.
where we made stops and bad an
opportunity of talking things over
with their 'representative citizens"
was the statement made by E. W.
Beatty, president ot the Canadian
Pacific Railway, who has just re-
turned to Montreal from an eight
thoustlnd mile tour over the com-
pany's western lines, accompanied
by a party of directors and Mont-
real financiers,
Billing and cooing and showing
no signs of having their affoctioa-
ate dispositions dampened by the
strain of travel, two cages of Jape,,
nese Love Birds pseud through
the Windsor Station at Montreal
recently on their way from Japan
to Scotland. Travelling from 3Oobe
on the Empress of Russia and
across the Atlantic 00 the Duchess
of Athol], the shipment of twenty
eight Cobalt Budgerigars, as they
are also called, etre under the pro-
tective wing of the Canaelian Paeleic
Express throughout. They were of
a brilliant blue plumage, long tail-
ed and beaked much like a parrs:
rivet,
Not only is Canada svtficientle
tnter0eted In the League of Nations
to have the Prime Minister go over
to Geneva In person to participate
In this year's assembly, but malty
thousands of active supporters of
the movement are now organised
throughout the country, Accord'
ing to information given out by the
General Secretary of the League oh
Nations Society in Canada at Otta-
wa the membership of that organ-
ization has grown- 111 three }'ears
#roma less than a thousand to almost
fifteen thousand in huniber.
Although strongly at71pported by
women's organizations of all sorts
and descriptions., its ataracter to
by no means feminine as over halt
the members are bileiliese men, and
in Btriti#Ii CoihttiNhi0e C4nt .100
V311'
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4504' Wei,'d ' Al. e'I lh tg" ul Ruffian of
5;,14.110re Seas- dsngi ish (amen
t :-,', 'rn:ed the ceremony.
"And you Think that a pretty wo-
man, alone and unartued, eeuld vena
tune into 11,e remotest corners of the
earth and live in the jungle haunts
of primitive men without coiling to
grief?"
The duchess, a leader of Parisian
soe(ely, chuckled. but the face of the
Countess Tit., )
oyna did not flinch "1
G
will prove 11 can be done," she an- -
nuanced. "In a year's time I shall ua i
back here in Paris and let you }ridge
for yourselves. I shall sail from Mar- 1
statics as the may woman on a french
eheener, And go by way of the Pan-
ama Carnal to the Paten'. I shell
take my chance with the Fiji Island-
ers, the head-hunters of Sumatra,
lane tical j0101048 In,,n of Cochin China,
and , Ir c" Pcly'ntsic,"
That rt w ,s ,. 1"01- ago. Tbnyna, as
the your( t1.1(0tcss do Citylar-'roiras
is known, has kept her promise and
won her het, says an article 111 Tit -
Bits.
'?iy WOi'St experience W/1./1 aboard a
Polynesian convict skip, e;lr said:
"Phe shit, wets manned by about'
t1':,'nty vice -us -looking convicts who
were not allowed to set font on land. '
"No sooner were wit clear of Pa-
peete than I began to feel anxious.
The only d'.•eent fellow was the rook,
it. seemed to me. Vane \vast Thirty.:
lithe and strong as a. panther, and
had been sentenced to tour years for
killing a than who refused u4- ex-
change wives with him,
"1 played cards with the crew and
had all of them subdued except a
murderer named Gleam, who one
night, about 3 a.m., crawled toward 4
are. I gave him a cigarette and tried
in vain to get him into conversation.
I ]night as well have tried to caress
an angry cobra, I had. bought a
small automatic at Papeete, but with
a sweep of his fist he knrcked it from
my hand. Then the unexpected hap-
pened, From behind a pile of boxes '
another man jumped up, It was
Vans- In a moment the two men
were wrestling on the deck -- then
there was silence. Gham lay dead at
my feet.
" 'I must save myself by swim-
ming,' he said.
"I knew it was reckless for me to
remain on the ship, so I jumped with
him, and it woe more than as hour
before we reached a palm -fringed
island.
'This is the island of Vana-'
vane,' said my guide. 'My ancestors
were great in 414050 forests, and I
have hidden twenty times as many
pearls as you can count on your fin-
gers. They will be yours '
"Then Vane called a man from one
or the 1111t5. Wo was wane, inn shoat,
Freneh with an English accent, Vane,
told him to marry us according to
Western law, He made us hold hands
and mumbled something in his funny
French,
"1 will bring the pearls now,' said
Yana, and When lie had gone 1 hand-
ed a purse to the preacher, telling
him I must get to Tahiti. 'Come now,
be quick,' I added, in Pinglish.
"My boy will take ,you to Tema-
tangl,' he said, aril a little later I
was in the canoe vrith a boy.
'"Gnod-by ,m
madam,' the strangeank
e
man said, 'and don't worry. I'm no
preacher,'
''But who are you?'
"I look of sadness passed over iris
face. "I've been marrying people for
sixteen years on that island,' he said.
'I am an Englishman, and used to be
a clown In 11 circus'."
Thaelkel ay.
In common with ordinary citizens
Tbackeray had cite:teionally to hustle
in order to Mid the quarter's rent, so
that we find hint wiling. in 1141, an
urgent tetter to his publisher stating,
"I want to matte up £1 i 10:x. for my
landlord, whose rept was due. July
1st." He was then )1yine at 13 Great
Coram street, his first Loudon mouse
afl.er his nlarriat;e, although he had
shared One at 18 A11)1011 street with
hie improvident friend, Major Smyth,
111' prototype of Col. Newc001'. Along
with mealy other letters and manu-
scripts this Thackerac nut', was re-
cently offered for sale in Loaodn.
Another letter contains the re-
mark: "I think the chi, 0 rood I got
out of Charterhouse was to learn to
hate bullying and 'yratny, and to
love kind-hearted, simple children."
Find Old Gannon Ball.
A relic of a bygone day in Toronto,
one that dates back possibly to the
war of 1812, 0r earlier, bas been un-
earthed in the process of excavating
the foundations for the new eastern
stables of Toronto's street cleaning
department on St. Lawrence street
Here, twenty feet below the street
level, in the bed of an ancient creek,,
now filled in and forgotten, the work-
men found a six -pound cannon ball
that probably was hurtled in some
forgotten enga.gement, A number of
timbers and tree trunks also uncover-
ed were still sound and in excellent
condition.
Important Mineral Substances.
The 171051 important mineral sub-
stances required in fo0d'are the salts
of iron, iodine, phosphorus, calcium
(lime), manganese, potash, and soda.
Iron is required for the bit od. The
red coloring matter, largely compos-
ed of iron contained in the red cor-
puscles, carries the oxygen taken in
by the lungs all over the body.
A botched Job !
Is usually one done in a flurry, by a cut -fate printer, who
was not able to submit a proof to the buyer of the printing.
The price at which the job was done necessitated quick
work and the minimum attention to detail.
esLdt9
` n h against his will,
customer uses the hinted matted u1 c ag \\ ,
and possibly to his detriment so far a8 his customers are
concerned, all because the printing was done by a printer
at distance, and that the ,job was not checked before
printing.
Kleist on Proofs
Your home printer will always gladly submit proofs of all
work so tbat it may be carefully checked for errors and alt-
era'd for appearwnce if deemed advisable, while any desired
additions or deduction's may be freely made. ''his results
in a satisfactory job of printing, and pleases all concerned.
See that all your printing bears the imprint of your ,focal
printer. -
The Post Publishing House, Brussels
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