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We want our patrons and our customers to under-
stand NOW how much we appreciate their
friendship and good -will.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year to every
Patron and Customer
When with pleasure you are viewing,
Any work a manis doing,
When you like him, or you love him,
Tell him now.
Don't withhold your approbation,
'Till the parson snake oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies.
O'er his brow.
For no matter how you shout it,
He won't really care about it,
Be won't know how many teardrops
You have shed. e
When you think some praise is due hiss,
Now's the time to slip it to him,
For he cannot read his tombstone when
He's dead.
More than fame, and more than money,
Is the comment kind and sunny,
And the hearty warm approval
Of a friend.
For it gives to life a savor,
And it makes one stronger, braver,
And it gives him : heart and spirit
To the end.
When he earns your praise, bestow it;
When you like him, let him know it;
Let the words of ''true encouragement
Be said
Do not wait 'till fife is over,
And he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone
When he's •dead.
Wellington Produce„ CO., Ltd.
W. B. THOMPSON, MANAGER
Phone 166 — Wingham Branch.
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WINGH4M ADVANCE -T1 ES
Tharaday, December 26th, 1929
Hospital for Sick Children
• 6i' 0014.EG ST., 1TORANTo $
December, 1,929.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Your newspaper goes to a lot of good-
hearted people who will be very pleased,
to learn that the new country, branch
of the llospital for WO Childrehl,
established last year a few miles away
from the main hospital in Toronto, la
producing results even greater than its
most ardent suppgrtera anticipated
when the ambitious project was moot-
ed. So please publish this letter as a
piece of good news for all friends of
the poor, little "Sick Kids."
Thousands of small , sufferers, from
all parts of Ontario: come to the Hos,
petal in the course of a year, and wits
the facilities available in this wonder-
ful institution' an immense amount of
humane service is performed for ail-
ing and helpless little folk, many of
the cures accomplished bordering on
the miraculous. Everyone is privileged
to assist in this Mission of Mercy. Now
is the time to do so in response to the
annual appeal for funds, which, being
In behalf of children, is appropriately
made as Christmas,draws near.
Generosity of friends throughout the
Province has made possible the mar-
vellous expansion which has now earn-
ed for Ontario the credit of having the
finest hospital in the world for little
ones, where every known child ailment
is treated and there is no distinction
to regard to race or creed.
For the information of your readers
it might be stated, as a matter o1 great
public interest, that, in the year 1918
the Hospital for Sick Children record-
ed 70,153 patient days. In 1923 the
total was 92,401 and - in 1928 it was
93,901. But in 1929. the business year
ending September 30th, the total had
increased to the impressive one of
121,417. It will be noted that, the num-
ber of patient days in the period o1
twelve months following the opening
of the country branch increased 30 per
cent:
This remarkable growth naturally
carries with it correspondingly 'large
additional expense and as there :is a
toss every day on the cost of mainten-
ance of practically every little patient.
the deficit to be taken care of by big-
hearted friends of the grand cause runs
into an enormous total. Please ask
your readers to lend a hand in lifting
this big load.
Who is .there, mos;, entitled toa share
of the Christmas bounty than the "Sink
Kids"? This year there are . many
laims upon benevolent citizens, but
none stronger than that of the large
number 9f afflicted children who can
be restored and a gift that will help
towards that end carries the real spirit
of Christmas with it.
It is important to note that the Hose
petal for Sick Qhildren does not share
in the funds Of the Toronto Federa-
tion for Community Service, for the
reason that patients are admitted from
all sections of the province. Some of
the helpless little ones come from the
remote districts. Through the activi-
ties of service clubs they are brought
in when their pitiable condition is dis-
covered and receive the best treatment
that medical and surgical science
knows. The Hospital for Sick Children,
which has been In operation for fifty-
four years, is a God -send for those to
whom it ministers and a big asset for
the whole community. *ae
Faithfully yours,
IRVINE E. ROBERTSON,
Chairman. of Appeal committee
Full line of
at McNab's.
Fancy Box Chocolates
Sisters Re -United
Mary and Ellen are sisters, 22 and
23 years of age. Their parents are
both dead, and the girls must need
provide for •themselves. Mary had
just begun to earn a comfortable
wage when she was stricken with
consumption and had to go to the
Muskoka Hospital.
Ellen, left to her own resources,
having to work harder than ever,
soon proved unequal to the task
long exposure to the disease through
close contact with her sister, coupled
with overwork, brought the inevit-
able result; a few • months later 'she
too was compelled to give up and join
her sister in the hospital.
There both girls are doing swell, andt
their restoration to health,i5: con-
fidently expected.
n'ould you not like to help tn, such
sora as this? Your contribution will
be gratefully acknowledged if seat to
W. A. Charlton and A. E. Ameai, 22a
College Street, Toronto 2.
Gives Name to Rockies Pass
ognitioll of the years of devoted Gabor by 3.
lVfurray Gibbon, general publicity agent of the
adieu Pacific Railway, in popularizing the Cana -
1 ;lioolties tllroughotit' �tfe World, has beehi given by
naming a pass in the mountains after him. Gibbon
Pass hots hitherto been anonymous and lies between
Shadow' Lake and the Twin Lakes, below Ball and
Storm mountains in the valley of the Pow,. midway.
between Banff and Lake Louise. Not far from
travelled routes in 'the Rockies and located in one of
their 'most picturesque sections, Gibbon Passe; was
actually discovered by Mr. Gibbon when he was plan-
ning the route to be taken by Trail Eiders last sum-
mer and himself hiked over the trail between the two
lakes.
The name was conferred recently by the Geographic
Bard of Canada in honor of Mr. Gibbons work as
poet, neeedist, promoter of musical and folklore festi-
vals and founder of the 'Order of Trail eiders of the
Canadian Rockies which numbers members from .all
parts of this continent, Europe and Australis and
which has done inestimable work in bringing the
glories of Canade to the `•ktlowledge of the world.
Lay -Out 'shows•' the Pass, with inset of Mt, ; Gibbon
and, below, close{tip of group of ''trail. Riders.
MILLIONS OF BIBLES.
Have Been Distributed Almost qhs
• World Oyer..
If the average man were asked
what book, in his opinion, is the best
seller in the world, he would no
doubt answer, quite correctly, "the
Bible"; but be would probably leave
little ,conception of the colossal fig-
urea which represent its sales, writes
H. Henson in the British Times end
Mirror.
Foul' hundred years have gone
since the first copy of the New Testa-
ment, in English; was given to -the
world, Since' that day the British
and Foreign Bible Society alone has
issued over 380 million copies of the
Scriptures—one copy for every fam-
ily of the earth's population. And
the society is only one of manyagen-
eies for the distribution of the Bible.
Last year the society. circulated
10,040,000 copies of the,: Bible or
parts of the Bible—snore than twenty
copies for every one issued the first
half -century of its existence. Of these
copies, it is interesting to note the
proportion wee: one complete . Bible
and one New Testament to eight Por-
tions of the Scriptures; and of every
ten copies four went to China.
When the Society was cradled, in
a city tavern, in 1804, it is said,
"Very few families in the Highlands
possaessed a complete Bible." In
Skye, :with its 15,000 inhabitants,
scarcely a copy was to be found;
while in Wales it was Mary Jones'
fruitless tramp of fifty miles over the
Welsh hills to purchase a Bible that
led to the foundingof a society which
was so badly needed. Thirteen years
later the Society had sent out two
million copies of the Scriptures in
eighteen languages, including, Ethlo-
pdc Syriac, Manx and Gaelic.
Today the Society publishes the
Bible in no fewer than 800 languages
and dialects, to which it is adding at
an average rate of six a year. Among
the latest additions are Rukuha, Lo-
go, Tabim, Barnum.' Tsimihety and
Thado-Kuki, • And in the majority of.
cases these languages have thus made'
their first appearance in print, thanks
entirely to the labor and zeal of mis-
sionaries.who have first learned them
and then given them a written form.
To illustrate .the difficulties of the
work, it took one missionary twenty
years to translate the Bible into Ta-
hiti. And difficulties • scarcely less
great were surmounted in translat-
ing the Bible into such :strange.
tongues as Sagala, Koi, Igbdia, Ny-
amwaxi, Narrinyeri and Utkala. The
Society has produced the Scriptures
in nearly 10,0 African tongues alone.
In one recent year it sold Bibles in
fifty languages in Egypt; in sixty-
eight languages in Argentina; and in
eighty-six languages in New South
Wales.
These Bibles have been distributed
almost the whole world •over, by a
small army of nearly a thousand col-
porteurs, who have followed the track
of Don' Quixote de la Mancha, and
climbed the mountain passes of Geor-
gia; entered the prisons in Formosa,
and traversed the foeests of Nicara-
gua, and sold Gospels in the sulphur
mines of Sicily, on Japanese railway
cars, among thelumber camps of the
St. Lawrence and in the market-
places of Omdurman. Nor are the
blind bereft of spiritual light, for the
Society helps to provide the Scrip-
tures in raised type in about thirty
European and Eastern languages.
TRAINS POE PIGEONS.
British Railways Handle 15,000,000
Homers.
Special corridor trains for pigeons
are run for the handling of the 15,-
000,000 homing pigeons that travel
on British railways during the pig-
eon -racing season:
The trains are equipped with cen-
tral heating, eleetrie light, and tor-
pedo ventilators, and a pigeon expert.
travels with each train to provide the
birds with food and water. The
coaches are windowless and can often
be distinguished by the faint cooing
sound coming from them: Each coach
costs 21,000 and holds twenty-seven
baskets, and as twenty pigeons us-
ually 'go in one basket, each van
holds about 640 passengers at a time.
So popular has pigeon racing, be-
come that railways print a time -table
for pigeons only. Railwaymen all
over the country co-operate in the
sport, for it is the porter's auty to
release the birds upon their arrival
at their destinations:
The L.N.E.R.' deals with 1,800 Pig-
eon baekets from the north" every
week, while in one day during the.
'season the L.M.S. runs seventeen
"pigeon specials." The largest train
on record is one that carried 15,000
birds from the North of England to
Bournemouth,
MANIC' QUEER PETS.
English Women are Said to Be Adopt-
ing Snakes.
Hundreds of English women are
said to be adopting snakes as pets,
and to frighten burglars. Usually the
snakes—they are non-poisonous—are
kept in glass cases, but sometimes a
special conservatory is built for
them. One commercial traveller takes
a python all over the country with
him in his automobile.
While pulling down a wail, in Cam-
den Town, some builders came across
some snakes. They Were quite harm-
less, and had probably been kepi; as
pets by someone living near.and had
tlscaped. They had made a nest of
paper and etra'w.
Green and other bright -hued liz-
ards and tortoises are also in de-
mand.
e
man .
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Lust season
more than 50,000
tortoises ,were imported from abroad,
Tae largest weighed 90 pounds; the
smallest would not have covered a
two -shilling piece.
Sacrifice to Service,
• Ancient i' eviiles Court, in London,
is about todisappear to make room
for a street enlargement plan. Flower•
gardens and trees 'will have to die-
eppear, and worse still, the Moravian
Chapel In which Wesley and George
Whitelletdpreached 011ie oe their
most impressive sermons may 'be in-
vo-lved:,,i-t►. the destruction,
News and Information
For the Busy Farmer
How to Produce Layers
Poultry farmers will find it profit-
able for the purpose or building up
the laying capacity of their flocks,
to select the best laying hens of the.
flock and mate them with males from
heavy -laying stock, In one experi-
ment, fifteen of the best layers were
set apart for the production of hatch-
ing eggs and were mated with the
sons of heavy laying hens. The first"
year of the test the fifteen best hens
laid an average of 123.6 egg and
five years later the yield of the best
fifteen had gone up to 246.2 eggs per
hen.
New Uses for Barley
Until recently the use of barley on
the farm was restricted to the feed-
ing of live stock. In Germany, how-
ever, barley is used for a multitude
of purposes. Millions of busiels
yearly are used in the manufacture of
malt coffee. Besides this an enor-
mous quantity of the grain is used
in the manufacture of bread, break-
fast foods, biscuits, infant aild, invalid
preparations, tonics, condiments and
food preserves. In view of this, it
would seem that barley is destined
to occupy a position of increasing
impprtance in all farm rotations that
may be devised with a view to obtain-
ing some relief . from the :weed
Scourge.
Canadian Hogs Improve
The gradual increase in the num-
ber of select bacon hogs indicates
two things, namely: better breeding
stock and -more attention to rations.
Competitions conducted last summer
show that there is a very good pro-
fit over the cost of feed if the pigs
are bred right and have the necessary
feeds in the right proportion. Al-
though Danish bacon still brings a
higher price than Canadian on the
British market, the quality of our ba-
con is constantly improving and pros-
pects are that with the improvements
that have already been taking place,
the time is not far distant when Can-
adian bacon will be on an equal plane
with that of any country in the world:
Cost of Yearling Heifers
Fifty dollars may be regarded as
a high price to pay for a yearling
heifer, but if she has been reared this
far in a manner to give her proper
development, this price is little en-
ough. 'Indeed, when the costs are all
taken into consideration there is no
profit in selling a 12 -months -old heif-
er at fifty dollars, This has been
proved by aeactual •computation of
the cost of feed consumed by heifers
of Ayrshire, Holstein and Shorthorn
breeding: from birth to one year of
age. It showed that the year's
growth had been produced at a cost
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weighing an average of 633 pounds
at the end of that period,
' Martin Birds Won
White Wyandottes owned by Hon.
John S. Martin, Minister of Agricul-
ture, scored several notable victories
at the recent Chicago Poultry Show:
of $46.04 per head for feed, the calves In keen competition they captured
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the 'best display' award in their class.,
The complete 'list of winnings by the
Martin birds was as follows; 1st, 2nd,.
and 4th cockerels; 1st, 2nd, 3rd,. 4th
and 5th hens; 1st, 3rd and 4th old
pens; • and 2nd and 3rd young pens.
A total of 46 birds were entered by
Hon. Mr. Martin, who had not: shown
at Chicago for three years.
Commencing In Our Next Issue
By Frank R. Adams,
The Funniest, Most Exciting
Story In Years
"Jingle .; Sells" starts Next Week
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