The Clinton News Record, 1929-09-12, Page 6N•
'41.i .nkr" PomeroyAs
The
.tie Man From Mars
Pow, the 'Press Viewed the
Advent of Pomeroy After
53 Years in Prison
The Alan From Mars it might havo
been who at in the rear seat of the
closed car. His face was pressed
against the glass as he gazed with
,awe at wonders he had heard of, but
never seen. A train roared by, high
inthe air above iiia head. In the
street a -machine -wad digging, appar-
ently by itself. Strange vet -ares, •like
the one in which he was riding, dash-'
ed by, but there were no horses; hitch.
ed to them. There were refreshments
-an atuber•colored fluid with a sharp,
pleasant taste, and a brittle cone fills
ed with a cold, soft stuff. Then came.
the greatest wonder 91 all, The party
.etopped',by an open field where stood
anoutlandish contraption. It' '-was- ,not
unlike a boat in shape,. • but tread
wings extended from its "sided; Ttie-
machine began to roar. It %rushed
along the ground. It soared into the.
Mr and flew away'. TI wee all Orange,
new, wonderful to 'the Men who had
• never encountered such evefY-day`db•
foots as elevated trales ste•un-shovels,
automobiles, finger -ale ice a orearn
coues, and airplanes.` it was -frighten,
lag Loo, and the '!Man frpm" I+Iar"
longed to beback ioj his home of halt
a century, even tlhoiigh khat hone was
For this "Man from 'Meese lied lived
on this earth for seventy years, But
• for fifty-three of them he •has been a
eerisuner " lie ' is Jesse (''Pomeroy,
• •America's •host .famous lifer, the man
the world passed by, as the •Minneap
: oils Tribune: aptly calls him::In 1890,
-•when lie; was seeenteen',yeers old,' he
• was sent to "prison for life for murder.
hese forty years: -or more he was in
solitary confinenieitt., The whole span
et More than hall a century fics been
spent, save .for one brief period, in the
Massachusetts State Prison atghettos-.
town, near Boston.: Recently, very
Much ogaiust-bis will, be' was :transe
tarred td the '.State prison farm at
Bridgewater, because •of his age.. The
transfer required' a forty-nine autoo-
bite ride for him, lasting less tm
than two
hours, it was his first glimpse of the
world since Itis incarceration; and the
wonders . lie saw during- this brief
period have served to sltow us grated -
early how much has happened• in, hu-
man progress in half a century. When
Pomeroy mitered prison, says the St,
Louis Globe Democrat; commenting
on a Boston editorial:
The dounlry scented over"the Cus-
ter anabsacre, Athyor Samuel C. Robb
of Boston was ongaged in a oampalgn
for stricter enforcement• of the liquor
laws, and a view downTromettt Street
was a elm of "nutddy•streets,,.hot'se•
cars, • oil -lamps; two•story shacks.
Riding to the hospital in an auto, for
the flrst.t}mesin his life, he sate traffic
as unfamiliar in its homeless units as
its volume is astonishing, crossed
bridges such as he never dreamed of,
caught sight on distant - waters of
Draft whose size amazes, The flerntd
thus enumerates wonders of whose
universal use only whispers Can, have
come to .Jesse In his dell: t'adlo,'olec-
tric light, ele eters, airplanes, ltq-
. proved paving materials, telephones,
motor•velhicles, electric -cars, elevated
and 'subway cars, motion lectures,
vacuum•cloauers,' .electric toasters,
wrist -watches, rotary •printfug-presses,
steam•iteating and other new tnethotis
01 beating, fonuteinpeus, safetyrazors,
steam•sltovels, steam -ropers:
The list might he extended. We
have fought two wars in' this time,
Japan has fought three and won all,
and Russia has fought several with:
final upheaval In the very bases of its
society, Many political and even re-
ligious view -points have veered almost
to reversal. The Panama Canal has
b- ben built and the Prussianism that
had its beginning just before 1870 has
been overthrown,.
Pomeroy did not want to leave
Charlestown which, during his long im•
prlsonment, had come to seem like
home to him. Even 0101101 a hatter
lite, in the country, awaited him, he
was dissatisfied, peevish, almost surly,
when the time came for him to start,
According to Charles Druty in the Bos-
ton Herald, where Pc read further:
Deprived of the privileges of being
conbldered "famous" and permitted to
accept little revere from eisiLors, and
to occasionally'thee a little flyer In
the stock market; Dotnei'oy :was, listed
at tete farm as • just "notorious,", and
told that he will live out the remain.
-der of hes life as alt ordinary 'donvIot-
transtes'ee.
He lost itis crown as the most wide.
ly • talked -about, written-arottild and
gazed -upon •life prisoner when he stem
Ped through the portals 01 the State
•prison .at- Charlestown and into an
atutoniibile hi which be was whisked
away to Bridgewater :where he was re-
'ceived es "just another transferee,'
booked ainii taken down the long cor-
ridor to the.,infirtnary, from which Ise
tuiU . never be released exeapt by
death.
He left the prison as he .entered It
fifty-three years• ago,,' surly, not he
cause he was going; into. the State
prison, but because he .was being
tatter atvay from it, and agajnet his
wishes .and will.
Yet tor nearly tteo hours the mute
delve gazed upon a new world;, on
wonttors of creation of which' he knew
only from pictures and inagazie and
newspaper stories. He rode for the
first tine' along the broad highways
of Massachusetts in an automo'b'ile;
The 'only other a.utomob'ile ride he
ever had was a short one around the
prison yard several, years ago.
Ide saw an 'elevated train go b'1 11r-
Mg past; turned to gaze et else 'Wen-
ders of a steam -shovel and' a• steam
load roller;" became' frightened` iii the
Mazes ot'traf Ic ire" never dreamed he
would see, eattich 'less pass through;
and asked, childlike, where eorsos had
gone to, from the roads. •
When his car reached itandolpie Joe
O'Brien ran. into a drug -store and
bought three vanilla lee -cream cones.
and three bottles of ginger -ale. He
tendered a eerie to Pomeroy, who de-
clined it, but he took the proffered
gingei v,le.: Ho said It tasted efiele.
He said he had had ice-oream, but
never saw it in a Couo_ before; then he
munched it and enjoyed it,
One stop was in front of a news.
paper office, A huge bulletin board,
with red and bide letters announced
that •Pons/roy had :been transferred,
and the bulletin described him' as 'Boy
Slayer." Though he had lost • the sight
of ono eye and the sight of the other
is dimmed, he read' the bulletin, and.
asked why eu much should` be made
of so little an affair, and why the
world persisted in calling him slayer.
Ahead, obscuring the road, was a
dense cloud.. Then it cleared a little
and the transfer. officers told Pomeroy'
it was the dust raised by an airplane
which just landed'at the Brockton .air
port. Billie Robinson slowed down to
avoid the dust. The plane roared and
lifted, and Pomeroy saw the big ewe
rise gracefully and sail away. "I've
seen them things In the air' from' the
Prison, but. •1 never saw one get start-
ed," he said, as he watched it(Map
Dense Smoke Pall
Hides Sun in West
Scores , of Forest Fires Burg-•
brig in Widely Scattered'
Areas
Mang' Square Miles of Timber
Lands Falling Prey to
Flames
Winnipeg.—,0 smoke pall so dense
that at • times it blotted„ out the sun,
hung" over a large area: of northwest
ern Ontario, particularly in the Ken -
ora district and 'Manitoba recently,
Tilo conditions et scores of forest
fires, ,large and email, that caused the
blanket of smoke, was considered un-
changed though. it ems feared a light
breeze, which'sprang _tip about dusk,
might accentuate the danger.
Reports that the town of Redditt,
Outset' .the main line of the Canadian
National Railways, was in serioue dan-
ger weP% .refuted'- when a dispatch
from Kenora •stated that Redditt was
now free from the •forest lire menace.
Only capable dire -fighting saved the
railway division point. There was be-
lieved to bo no truth in the report that
trains were forced to ` wait several
hours before proeeding through the
town,
Regarded as the most serious In the
history ot the province, forest blazes.
in Manitoba assumed gravely danger -
out proportions.
The Swan River area, .adjacent to
the targe Daclr•Porcupine National
Forest, saw the flames that broke out
inalte such rapid advances that it was
feared the enormous district, cottsti-
tuting the province) largest part,
would fall prey. In the Rennie district
a dozen seal bush fires made such
Headway over the week -end that the
dames were sweeping au area of many
square -:Weis. . Rennie village was
menaced and forest rangers and home.
steaders rushed from Winnipeg, mak-
ing a brave attempt to elteck the
flames.
Conditions at Winnipeg Beach were
improved, fires threatened to des-
troy' the dummee eesort but the flames
were put ander control -
Winnipeg was shadowed by an over-
hanging smoke pall.
Situation Serious
Italispel, Mont.—Fires continued to
spread through the forests of north.
western Montana"and northern Idaho
The great half-moon fire, which hun-
dreds of men. were lighting, made Its
way toward thetop of the Continental:
Divide in Glacier National Park
Mapor E W. Elley, district forester,
who has characterized the situation
ha the forests as nothing short of a
catastrophe, held a conference with
other forest officials and decided upon
a general reorganization of the trews.
Camps Wiped Out
Nelson, B.C. -- Seventeen C.P.R.
constri'ictlon camps were believed to
have been .wiped out by flames witisib
suddenly swept form Kootenay Lake,
near here, aping a wide fire front,
while scores of railway workers fled
to high ground before them.
No one was trapped, reports added
Cancer His ital
i
To ®eril' n London
Four of. Great Radium
Specialists to Take
Charge
Loudon,-1liount Vermont Hospital
at North Wood, Middlesex is being
reorganized ae a special cancer hos-
pital and research station .with ani•
ccmmotlation for $50 patients.
•Four et tine greatest .radium spe-
cialists—De. Donaldson, Mr. Stanford
Cade, Lady Barret and.Mr. Keynes
will take charge. An order has at -
ready been placed for 160 platinum
needles containing from one•half :to.
three milligrrmmes each of radium,
Notable' results are expected,.
Ilene :Sete you have a brilliant idea
for malting a fortune?"
'Sure, thing; I'm going to (pee .a
bather shop for men."
Some one estimates a jazz saxo-
phoned must move his fingers ; 600
times a minute. We don't know how
often his neighbors must move.
•
Said` he; "1 think I'll buy a rope
And end this daily striae." , •
And so he bought a rope of, ;pearls
+ Much _Snag bi his wife. '
Garin Notes
HOG- FEEDING TROUGHS.
Three types of hog 'troughs have
boon tried at the Experimental Farms
of the Dept. of ,Agriculture at Ottawa.
These were made of wood, galvanized
iron, and of concrete. The wooden
troughs have been found t0 be the
meet eerviceablo and have the further
advantage in that they 'tnay be ecu•
structed.,at home. The Dominion Ani-
mal Husbandman, in his report .for.
1928, favors the V-shaped trough be-
cause it is more resistant than other
shapes to hard usage and it simply
made: The ttvc sides are :'nailed 'te-
gethor in rho shape of a V and the
ends nailed on. These ends it is re-
commended, should be extended at
.oast twelve inches beyond the edge or,
lip of the lee tell in order to make it
more stable and fess easily tipped over
by the hogs when feedin,.,. Pine,
spruce, hemlock," or other similar
,;Dods are ,suitable,; The ioaterial
should be two inches in thickness and
eight 01' ten inches wide for moot
feeding purposes' The upper ...tee of
the finished traegh' should be sheeted
with galvan.zed iron eo preterit thein
against the chewing of the hogs,
These troughs . sitauld not be nailed;
down but left so that, they can be tnov
ed from place to -place and easily
cleayed when necessary, Galvanized
or othel metal troughs are more eas-
ily broken and bent `hon wood and.
are difficult' to repairs Concrete
troughs that are sometimes builtinto
a cement floor are more difficult to
keep clean than: a moveable trough.
hen these are installed the. Dominion
Animal Husbandman recommends ,that
the bottom' of the trough be slightly
above the floor levet. To facilitate
`the easy cleaning of the permanent
trough a drainage hole should be left
in one end and a wooden plug kept
inserted in it, . The wooden trough has
the further advantage over the cement
or metal trough in that the feed does
not _hill so quickly in it during ne
cold Weather.
SHIPPING CRATES'FCR,HOGS.
Piro ExQerinhental.Fartns ship out a
great' many hogs eor breeding pur-
poses, using individual crates in most
cases.. In his •eport.for 1928 publish-
ed by the Dept, of Agrieelture at Ot-
tawa, the Dominion Animal I-Iusband-
man describes the metho•_' of cote
structingea strongsattd rigid crate that
is light in weight. The sine of the
crate for hogs of different weights
are: for hogs up to 75 pounds, 9 inches
wide, 2 feet high, and 2 feet 10 inches
long; from. 75 to 100, pounds the di-
mensions have to be increahad to 10
inches in width, 2 feet 2 inches in
height, and 3 feet in length. Hogs
from 100 to150 pounds require a crate
1foot wide, 2 feet 6 inches high, and
3 feet 8 inches long. From 150 to 200
po.:ods the width sho'ald be 1 foot 2
inches, the height 2 feet 6 inches, and
length 4 feet.
In constructing a crate it ie first
necessary to nail the floor firmly into
the two floor skids then assemble each
side and attach as a trait : ud nail in
one end, The other end should con-
sist of a removable gate set into
grooves. Cross pieces should be placed'
across the top binding the two sides
together. Spr or pine is satisfac;
tory 'wood to t,sb. The floor skids
should be 2 inches square and of the
required length, and the lower sats on
each side and on the ends should be
flush with the floor, The spaeing be-
tween the side slats should not exceed
21/4 inches, Those -are bound together
with two uprights, or for the large
crates a third one may be placed in
the centre.
.The crate may' be constructed en-
tirely of 4 -inch material, five-eighths
of an inch in thickness, but for the
lower slats on each side wider boards
np to V or 8 inches may be used ac-
cording to the experience of the Do-
minion Animal Husbandman,
SELF FEEDERS FOR HOGS.
teal Husbandman, Tho methods and.
results of the test'are gtvenin his Re-
port for;1e28, puelishcd•by.the Dept;
of Agriculture, Ottawa,'
�anadi,.. h Saliyaori
Prices Adv ..l nce
Excessive Demand in Europe,
Takes. All Available
Quebec Duo to the excessive• de-
mand 'tor Canadian Batmen trent ,Itur-
ope, the price of ,the product Iron the
North Shore, Gaspe and Saguenay has,
gone" up, while it le atmost Irnpessh.le'
to obtain it here, according to .1, le.
DeRoine manager of, the Quebec, Har-
bor Commission cold storage plant,
and inventor of: a new method of
freezing salmon,
"When rise was frozen the old way,
as in former, years, there was practi-
cally no European demand, es the fish'
couldnote kept;sufltcleetly fresh, to
ensure acceptance on arrival,• and if
large quantities were processed for
the local market, there was not surd,.
Went. demand for them. In many
cases several Years ago, we have had',
as many as 1,500 ones of salmon spoil
ed on account of ,their 'being :no.'de-
•mond fol' diem,' declared Mr, De -
Rome, in discussing tee situation, _
"Noce; :with the det'inand'far exceed-
ing the .supply,; advantageous prices,
in ekcess of Igeat ones, and with -4u•.
tura marltets: assured, flea exporters
are .naturally shipping all they can to,
"rite last shipment to be made from
Quebec '1twill • be loaded some time'
soon, 'and will be around 25,000
'pounds. Net yeas. there willbe an
oven greater demand for Canadian
salmon, 'for Germany will be on lbs.
market." « -"•
With tate salmon market for the sea-
son almost' over. attention will focus
from next weed, en, 011 the eel mar-
ket, .and as Quebec sties around 1,-
000,003 pounds of eels each year;,
there wilt be considerable activity.
around the Island of Orleans, teem
Leyte to Loteiniere and all around
the'Quebec district. Germany takes
the bulk of the Quebec eel catch.
While self faders for hogs save
much' labor they are not odtirely sat-
isfactory for the feeding of bacon hogs
throughout the entire feeding period.
This is particularly so in the case of
newly weaned pigs, although a well
balanced protein ration supplemented
with milk by-products: would appear to
permit the use of the self feeder for
the younger classes of bacon type
hogs. .In -his report for 1928 publish-
ed by the. Dept, of Agriculture at Ot-
tawa, the Dominion Animal ufisband
man states- that acme' surprisingly
good results havebeen obtained from
using the selffeeder throughout the
entire feeding period, In too many
cases, however, it is shown by exper-
ience at the Experimental. Farms that.
the uee of the self feeder has a tend-
ency to result in a thinker type of hog
than is usually produced by nareful
trough feeding,
BUTTERMILK COMPARED WITH
BUTTERMILK POWDER..
In the feeding of hogs at the Ex-
perimental Farm at Ottawa each of
two lots of five pigs Was fed on an
ordinary meal ration, while one lot
received buttermilk and the other but-
termilk 'owder. The teat was con-
tinued for 98• days. The,. meal was
fed at the rate of 4 per cent• of the
live weight of the ewes, Buttermilk
powder was mixed in water at the
rate of two pounds to eight gallons of
water, this solutior was fed at the
same rate as the buttermilk, Gains
made by the ..ors were net wisely dif-
ferent,. Those rece,iving the butter-
milk powder required 2,4,4 .pounds of
meal ;ler pounds of gain, while those
fed buttermilk made a pound of agin
on 2,2 feetuds of meal, Tho total cost
of the -teed in the ':ase of buttermilk
powder fed lot was $44,55 and for the
buttermilk $44.82, The cost per pound
of gain, charging 8 cents . per pound
for buttermilk powder and 80 cents
per 100• pounds for buttermilk, am-
ounted to $7.02, as compared with
$6.47 from 'pigs that received butter-
milk. In this test 1,616 pounds of
meal and 152 pounds ;of buttermilk
powder roved to be equal in feeding
value to 1,460 pounds of meal and
3,970 pounds of buttermilk, or with
meal valued at $42 per ton and, but-
termilk at $6 per ton, the powder had
a relative value of t',53 cents per
pound 1. $70 60.;per •.ton. Thie test
weee.
carried ore by.',the :Dominion Ant -
Health of Earl.
• Causes Anxiety
Preparations for Birthday
Celebrations for Lord
. • Harewood Dimmed
Loudon.—Considerable anxiety was
manifested recently over tate health
of the Earl of Harewood, 83 -yeas' -old
father-iu-law. of Princese Mary, which
dimmed the preparation tor the joint
celebration of .lite birthdays of the
oldest and youngest male 'members of
the house of Harewood,
Plans had peen made for the Earl
and Gerald Laseeiles, Youngest so,
of Princess Mary and Viscount I.asooi-
les, who is5 years old to celebrate lo•
gather. The illness of the Earl is fits
home at Haretvood House, near.
Leeds, however, has interfered with
the Plans, Debility due to extreme
age is given, its the cause ot, the
Earl's Indisposition.
The Earl and his lively mischievous
grandson are the best of pals, The.
Dari. and Countess of Harewood al-
ways snake a great [ups over George
and Gerald Lasoelles when the young-
sters visit Harowood House in Leeds.
The 1•Iarewoo'i residence Inas been a
guest house of. Kings and Queens
since It was built over a century and
a half ago, The ruins o[ Harewobd
Castle are included in the grounds.
The Earl owns Wiliest 30,000 aures.
Grandfatbe..and grandst•n form a
combination of,one of England's
wealthiest elderlPeers and a most
vacleious and interesting youugster.
Gerald Is a regular boy, interested In
everything he sees, with just enough
lire in hie eyes to make him complete-
ly' lovable. At the age of five his
smile has already become well known
In liingland and the Dominions, He
LS a great favorite with the King and
Queen.
Much of the ilarewood family
wealth came ' from sugar plantations
in Barbados. The (amity has Been
connected with the industry ,dice the
begittningg of the eighteenth century,
The traveler was ou '.tis way east
but he had gotten no further than the
teverand-ague district of a Southern
State. As the tram jerked to a stop
at ono particularly desolate town he
Pet his head out of the window ,and
galled to a native propped against a
post: "Telt me, what do you call this
dried-up, dreary, ornery, ,low-down
Place?" "That's near enough, straug-
er," was the melancholy answer.
"Suet let it go at that"
EMPIRE'S GREAT SCOUT JAMBOREE
Canadian Boy Scouts, dressed as snake charmers; having some fun at
Arrow Park, England, where world scouts gathered for the jamboree. •.
' Sunday School
Lesso
September 15, - Lesson XI—Teaching
the Law of God -Nehemiah 8: 1.3,
5, 6, 8.11 Golden Text—The en-
trance of thy words giveth light.--
Psalm
ight.—Psalm 119: 130, •
AN ALYSIS,
L Timm CEAOING 05' THE LAW, es. 1-12.
II. THE FEAST OP TH: SEVENTH NMONTI,
vs, 13-18,
INTRODUCTION—Ezra seems to have
brought with him from Babylon a new
edition of the ancient, taw, the origin
of wh.ot• was ascribed to Moses. It is
difficult foil us to understand why the
priests and the people of Judah should
have been ignorant of this IOW, We
are told In Exodus of the "book of the
covenant" (24: '1),which contained
the laws in ells. 20-3, or part of then,
and of the "two tables of testimony,
tables'of stone, written with the finger
of God," "tables of the covenant,"
which were put in the ark and pre-
served there (Exod. 24: 12; 31.: 18;
Dent, 9: 10, 11; 10: 1-5), We are
told also in Deuteronomy that the
!sing must "write im a copy of this
law in a book," and "read therein all
the days of his life." In this case the
law referred to may be the code con-
tained in chs. 12-26, and may be the
lost .>r forgotten book King Josiah (2
I{ings 22: 8-10), whose reforms, based
upon this book, coincide closely with
the requirements of Deuteronomy.
There' le also the story ,of Samuel, last
ofthe judges, who chose, under divine
direction, the • first kings of united
Israel, and who "told the people the
manner of the kingdom, and wrote it
in a book, and -aid it up before the
Lord," (1 Samuel 10: 25; compare 8:
10-22). During the long period of
exile in Babylon there must have been
great danger that these ea'•iier books
would be lost, and it seems to have
been due to men re the Spirit and
mind of Ezra •that both history and
late, of the'early times war nresereed
and copied and made available for the
estored commur-ity.
r
1, THE READING OF THE t.AW', es, 1-12.
In this chapter Ezra. the priest and
Nehemiah the ' governor appear he:
gether in a great religious service con-
tinuing eight days, in which, the people
are instructed in the arreent law, and
the custom of celebrating the feast ..f
tabernacles, long neglected, is renew-
ed. Ezra had come to Jerusalem on
his mission of teaching and reform
fourteetlyears before, and at first, ap-
parently, had had some measure of
success (Ezra 9-10),. But, on the
whole, his mission does not seam to
Mee prospered. He may have lacked
Power to enforce the law which he pro-
claimed, and which at first he per-
suaded some of the people to accept.
Or there may have been a determined
and well organized oposition to its
enforcement.
The Water .ate (v, 1) was on the
eastern side of the city, overlooking
the Virgin's Spring, The book of the
laws of Moses, wltuh Ezra brought,
robnbly contained most, if not all, the
laws of: the Pentaterch, andrepre-
Sents the first collection of canonical
•
book of the law (the Pentateuch); and
to this day it is their only sacred apd
authoritative- Scri•,ture, The Greek,
"First Book of Esdras" (,that is Ezra)
says of him, " Esdrrs had very great
skill, so that he omitted nothing of the
law and commandments of the Lord,
but taught all Israel the ordinances
and judgments,"
Ezra stood upon u pulpit of wood,
or rather "a wooden platform," upon
which .others also were sta;,ding, At
the beginning Ezra blessee the Lord,
the great_ God- _t, is not easy I,., under-
stand just how the reading and teach-
ing was done. Most robably Eera read
first for all who could understand and
tallow his reading, and then chosen
men (v. 0) gathered the people in
groups aid caused them to understand
the reading. It' nest have required
som, such organized plan to; convey
instr•iction . to some thousands of ,peo-
ple. However it was 'dorm, Ezra and
his helpers were able to snake clear
to all the demands of their law anti.
religion, and to make them realize
that this was the most important
thing in their 'eves.
Tirshatha is a Persian word and is
here the title of the governor, The
statement made in some commentaries
that this reference to Nehentiat is an
interpolation and does not roperly be-
long to the story seams to be quite
without foundation.
All the people wept, realizing how,
ignorant and neglectful they had been
of. these important matters (compare'
2 Kings 22: 10-11). Weeping and
laughter are often closely jwned, and
these simple folk, when comforted by
their leaders and bidden make the day
a holiday, soon tinned their veepieg
into great mirth, Their mirth, we may
be sure( was not lessened by the dis-
position to send porti,>t,s to those who
were el need, For, they_learned, the
joy -if the Lord is your strength, that
is, r' doubt, the joy experienced in
doing the Lord's w111,
II, THE FEAST OF THE SEVENTH MONTH,
vs, 13-18,
For the taw governing the time and
order of this festival see Lev. 23: 38-
36 and 39-43; Exod- 23: 16 ("the
feast of ingathering"); anti Nut. 16:
18-15. The ritual is set forth' in de-
tail in Num. 29: 12-38. The festival
seem_ to have had, like the Passover,
a double meanir ;, Tt celebrated the
ingathering of Nee ft harvest and
so the et. of the old economic year, and
it also commetnnr'ated the dwelling in
tents during the long period of their
life in the wilderness before the con-
quest and settlement of Palestine, The
going out of the narrow, crowded
quarters of the ei}la>.ee and towns into
the fields, orchards, and vineyards,
where they liver: in booth's made of
olive branches, pine, myrtle and palm,
must have been both healthful and
delightful.
The statement in v, 17 that since
the days of Joshua .(Joshua.) they had
rot done so must have been made by a
writer unacquainted with'2 Kings 7:
8-10 aim 8: 13, See also Ezra 3: 4
and 1 Dings OE: 2, 65, 06, Or, it is pos-
sible, that he means to say that the
feast had not been kept since Joshua,
Strictly according to the law.
General Escobar has been named.
by the rebels provisional President
of Mexico, whet means, WO take It
Scripture. Tt is interesting to note! provided he can get lt,
that the Samaritans adopted the sante
DISTANT AND DARK SCOUTS 'AT JAMBOREE
Indian 'Boy Scouts With some ,et their curlew) Instruments at Camp 131rkenieead, England.
Premier #ergt4son
Asks oat..erata'10 n
Importance of Agriculture in
Affairs of , Canada
Emphasized
SpAIS AT TORONTO'
New C N.R: Oil -Electric -Loco-
motive .Makes Fast Run
• from 1VIontreal
Toronto,—Premier G:�'H, Ferguson,
of'oihtario, emphasized the importance
agi•Icutf:ure plays in the alfaire of rho
country in an address at the Canadian
National Exhibition directors' lunch-
eon recently, He said that the auto.
motiveindustry would have had still
further progress this ` summer it
Western Canada farmers had more
money available to expend on cars.
The •mahufacturers' organization".
Ihe Said, •'fls sa wonderful -force• in Cert.:
ads, -You do. not get; the co -opera -
'tion, -of agriculture and'w0nder wbse
ft is because you do not co-operate
with it. You have the organization,•
tee;.pubt[cfty methods, all the features
necessary to co-operate, with the un-
organized • farming communities. K-
ele Manufacturers' Association Bhang •
ed, its name to sontethieg more use-
ful, say an industrial association, and
brought in an agricultural branch• and
recognized agriculture, -we. would get.
some great results." . .-
Appeals for the development of
inter -Empire trade were made in a3 -
dresses by Sir Stanley, Bois, or-. ale
Rubber Association, .Lleut.•Col, 3,, E[.
Levey, Commissioner for British West
Africa, endi3. 0: Outerbridge,"secre-
tare oc the 'Trade Development Board
of Bermuda, at a luncheon' tendered
by the; council of tate Toronto Board
of Trade to commissioners of British
Empire Exhibits at ,the Canadian Na-
tional 10xhi1>ltion; .
West African Market,
Col. Levey said that a potential mar•• •
het of 25,000,000 people.; in British
West.. Africa, who are •fast. becoming
educated to western standards, should
be taken advantage or by Canada.
Mr. Outerbridge said travel between
Canada and Bermuda had increased
considerably since last February
when. extra. steamships.. had.. been
placed iu service between the two
countries,
Sir Stanley informed his . audience -
that. Great Britain produces approx-
imately 80 .per cent. of the world's
supply of rubber, the.bultc. of which is
used by the Bailee States. ,
• Oit-Electric .Enelne
Opening' ot, the new automotive
building; arrival of "oit-electric loco-
motive No, 9.000 of the Canadian Na-
tiotial•RalIways" and another record-
breaking atendaitee marked the third
day of the Canadian National Exhib[-
tlon,
The electric .locomotive lett the
Bonaventuro station, Montreal, pull-
ing the second section of the Inter-
national Limited at 11.30 Daylight
Saving Time Monday morning.
The engine, ,the biggest of. its kind
in the world, accelerated, rapidly as
It lett the yards and gained a run-
ning•speed that variedbetween aix-
ty and seventy'lve, miles an hour over
the 324 utile run ,averaglug more than
fifty -live tubes an hour.
Arriving at Toronto at 7,10 (East.
ern Standard Time) the special train
was switched to a track leading to ttto
Canadian National Exhibition grounds,
where all aboard were received as
guests for the grand stand perfor
mance for the evening, after being
welcomed by Mayor McBride of To-
ronto and President Bradshaw of the
Exhibition.
Premier Ferguson officiated at the
opening ceremonies of the new build.
lag, He predicted that good highways
would be built in the near future
from one end of the province to the
other and that all people OL Ontario
would be able to enjoy benefits of
improved transportation.
A network of highways had been
developed in Ontario he said, but this
was not enough. "We must push this
transportation system to the remit(
sections Of the country. We give
everyone who makes ]its home lo the
province equal oppurtunities. The
ntan who chooses to make his home in
the remote sections of Ontario is
surely entitled to the same privilege
of economical social prosperity that
the man In the more -populated area
has:"
The arrival of the C.N.R. oil -
electric locomotive was greeted by a
large crowd, eager to see Canada's
contribution to improved railway
transpotation facilities.
Health Program
Hon, Dr, B'orbes Godfrey Ontario
Minister of Health, opened the health
program at the headquarter'e booth
Of the National Couneil'of Women of
Canada. 'Referring to the memo 1, he
said: "This tittle group is the key-
stone and foundation of the whole
Canadian, National. Exhibition. If
wedid not have health, where would
we be. Without health there is no
1l4
ppiness' '
Ibo said iso was pleased at the
growth of a "health attitude" among
Canadians, and pointed out that when
Premier Ferguson announced $1,000,-
000 for research foundation, citizens
responded by contributing $2,000,000
toward the work.
Dr, Helen MaOMurohy, Ottawa, De-
partnie'tt of National Health, spoke
on maternal mrrtallty.
"When you take a girl out in a ma-
chine de you drive with one Ann?"
"When 1 take a etre tvtt I hire a
cab