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Completing all but • the "last lap' of their trip. from Los Angeles to
New Yoric—across, the whole continent -in an eighteen foot long motor
boat, ' two Americans.John Edwin Hoag: and Frank S." Wilton, •not` to
mention Spy-Wapato,their dog, arvived`reeently in Montreal, and stayed
dor a day. .or two before or.oeteeding to New York.
The entire , distance was covered by waster with the exception of one
portage of 400' miles from Celilo Falls, Washington to Fort Benton,
Ve7ntana. Their "boat the "Transcontinenital" ds .an• 18 -foot craft, "5 feet
Abeam, and ,powered with ,twafour horse power Evinrude outboard
motors. : They left Astoria, Oregon, May 20, after having their boat
.shipped up the coast from Los Angeles, The route was via the .Columbia
River from its 'mouth to Celilo Falls where the boat was loaded into• a
box ear and sent on 400 miles to Fort Benton; where the journey' was .
resumed down the Missouri River for '2,280 miles into the Mississippi
to St. Louis, then' up the 'Mississippi to the 'Illinois River as far as Ot- •
tawa, Illinois; through the Illinois and •Michigan, {banal to: Joliet, Illinois,
.end 'through the Chicago` Drainage Canaa into Lake Michigan, From
here the voyage; was plain 'sailing to M mtreal'-where they landed' ' at
the Canadian Pacific Pier, No. $; having moored their`; boat alongside.
the "Montcalm." ,; s
Messrs. Hoag and Wilton followed' in reverse direction the course
of the ,early explorers, -Columbus, Hendryk, Hudson, •Champlain, ;Cartier
.and' La Salle. Their mishaps commended early when, in the Columbia
River, they ran :afoul . of a sunken log which tore the stern out of their'
:boat', After this misadventure, which they finally weathered safely,
'they had comparatively no bad-, luck, except for .the tornadoes, 'heavy'
:storms' and risky runs down little-known rapids, which might naturally
'be 'expected. • ,•, •
Their adventure Tis unique, the only attempt previously made being
,. about 18 .years ago when a similar expedition ended at Bisniarch, North
'Dakota, after traversing the same route. Then, however, the adven-
turers were soheld up by adverse conditions' that they were overtaken
'lay winter and their boat was erushed•in the, ice:, •
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'one .grocery and 'ene Awe .store, two
saddlery : shops, shoe, tailors, and bar-
ber shops, blacksmith's earria'e, °and'
aarpentei's` sliap$,''&e., &e,, two pho-
tographers,.express office, two tele-
graph offices, liver' stable, three hp -
tele, school (with twQ teachers), three
'churches (Baptist, Episcopal, and
Methodist), one weekly :newspaper,. a.
commodious public hall "(besides tem
penance and L 0. 0. F. ' halls), one
grist and flouring and the two saw-
mills, a custom foundry, steam plan-
ing mill,
lan-ing.'mill, cheese factory, - two ,lime-
burning establishments, ; one pork-
packing eetalilishment, &c.,_ &c,
There is a lad " of'e.lers
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here, tile. " Lifeboat," "thicll hap been
in successful operation ' for `,fifteen
years, " l;Iowick" Lodge, No. 192, L.
0. 0. F., also flourishes ewith e mem-
bership of about forty, and the Or-
ange Order is represented by .L.O.L.
No, e6e, of which • Henry Peeeeins ,is
bea.ster (also+ District • Master and
County Master).
As observed in connection with
Wroxeter, the "Gorrie and`Wro'keter",
station on the Toronto, and 'Bra-
ce Railway answers both of those pla-
ces. There is a daily mail east and
west over. the above road, and to and
from Seaforth, eighteen miles south,'
by daily stage.
Fordwich, situated on Lots zo and
21 in the 6tl and 20 and ex.in the eth
Concessins, is the next place of im
`portance in the township. It was de-
signed by the Goverhntent as the seat
of 'a future city, and was laid out by
thein as the "Town Plot . of Howick,"
The experience of the Government
however, in city -making was but °a'ca-
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300 Bay, Street w Toronto.
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300 Bay Street. Toronto. '
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se -:of history repeating itself; and the
to -be city never has, nor ever will
amount to ' anything worth while as ' a
town, though it is quite a pleasat lit-
tle ;country village. It' was Bret sett-.
led by Joel Rogers, W. G. Walker,.
and Arthur Mitchell, in ' 1884. The
former gentleman kept the first public
house, and the .latteo built the first
'grist-mi,11 here, and one of the first in
the township. He for - many years
took a leading and active part 'in the
conduct of municipal affairs: He
built the first house : in • the "plot,"-
kept the first store and the first Post
Office, a position which he still re-
tains. The village atpresent contains
two •carriage shops, three blacksmith's
shops, ..one large steam planing mill,
three general stores, one grocery,
teeo saw-rills—one steam and one wa-
ter—one large flouring mill, one chee-
se and butter factory, a number of
shops of the various• mechanical trad
es,,two hotels (one a temperance hou-
se,) Dominion 'Telegraph office, one
school (with two teachers), and three
churches, (Methodist, Episcopal and
Presbyterian). The southern exten-
sion of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce
Railway , (over which there is a+daily
snail both ways to and from Ford
wieb) runs through the place, the sta-
tion being eighteen miles from Tees -
water, • the western terminus, 'fifty-five
from Orangeville, the jti ction with
the main line, and one `hundred and
'five from Toronto.
There are Masonic, Orange, and
Good Templer, lodges located here,
'viz: "Fordwich,' Lodge, A. F. & A.
M,, No. 33r, G. R. C.; L. 0, L. No.
642; and "Prosperity" Lodge, No. 443
Behiiore • is the place nett in site
and importance. It is partly in the
north-west corner 'of ,Howick, partly
north-east corner 'of • Turnberry, in
connection with which place it is else-
where referred to but chiefly in the
'County of Grey.
Spencetown, so called by Wm.
Spence, the original settler hi tllie
'neighbourhood, who laid it out as a
village plot,the official name of which
is Newbridge, , is , situated where the
`north branch of the Maitland crosses
the road .between Lots 3o and 31 in,
the 4th -concession. A store, grist and
'saw -mill, hotel, blam
cksith, s and. wage
"gon shop, and a'few houses constitute
'the village, which . though pleasantly
located, can never be anything more
than at present: ' It,has a post office
with daily mail 6ff F.ordwich, the
nearest railway station, four miles dis-
Lakelet' eon- Lot i8, Concession 15,
is , pleasantly situated at the foot or
south end of a concession of so-called
lakes (hence the name), the outlet to
which runs south and flows into the
north branch of,,the Maitland. The
place contains post office, hotel, store,
;and several / rn.echanics' 'shops. ` It is
about five miles,distant from Clifford,
ori the .main line of the Wellington,
'Grey, and Bruce: Railway.'
Altogether Howick, though one of
the newest town;hips of the county*'
may fairly be called a very prosper-
ous one, comparing favourably in the
class of its farm buildings and, prieate
ilnpro' teineitts throughout, ;With,many
of • is townshipswhose settlement:
dat s 'flack lottg entailer to the day
when; John Carter, the or'iginal'pion-
'eer,
when,
through miles after miles.
f forest' and' swainp,';a,d located fax
BETTER. HEALTH
RESULTS OF TREATMENT
MENTAL DISEASES
By Dr. W. J. Scholes
The popular belief • is that pati
Y'ou merchants eager for your share of the big Christmas
business should begin "hammering" away early to get
the people into your Stores. Competition this year :is
it' . the fellow • who tells .fiat he
keener that, ever and p.
has to° sell—who does it consistently and coritinttously--
who is going to show the nice, big profit at the .end of the
yearl
Plenty of Christmas Cuts—Santa Clauses, Holly,
here for. your Advertising. Tell us what you want and.
we'll help prepare it1
results would be even, better if moretinks av the hold days . whin Lower-
Patients with menta ise we a Town wus the hub av tings an the
nearest railroad wus at Clinton au ox
inaof the' psychiatrist , 'i , ,
OP+
placed ..the careP Y . -
sand given proper institutional care tames wus as common as otty
m
etasI
s -
i earlier.For there.is too often an in- are to -day. Shure, 'tis a long " way
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clination to delay treatment. we hev thravelled since thim days, so
ants hospitals
it is, an tink av all the new invinshuns
dtl
i h m t 1 di eases are •practic
The psychiatrist an the
p
ally
odev ted to t he care of, mental and net- that we nivir *tamed av whin the will'
incurable. We expect that their con-, vous; diseases are probably doing
dition will gradually or rapidly grow
much more effective work than they
; If they -do apparently worse.Y pP Y recover
generally get credit for,
we . expect that it is only a matter
time until they suffer a relapse.
—o—
ruld ` wus young wid us -electric,
loights, an tilly • phones an ottymo-
beels, an radio, an phoriygrafs, an'
bunny hug dances,an foor be foor
beer, an wimmin wid bobbed hair an •
Dr. Earl b. Bond of Philadelphia a whole lot more tings:
believesthatthe g
lie good results obtain- Ay coorse we hev got a long way
ed in the treatment i en of mental diseases + ahead av thim ould shlow toimes, but,
are we army the betther fer it?
Fur inshiance whin we wus out on'
the farrum growin what; an makin`
butther, an raisin harses an cattle, an,.
rearin our childer, wid often a nayber
droppin in fer a chat av a whither av-
enue mebby we wus betther an hap-
pier
than we are today, wid all thine
inodhern improvemints an the incon
vayniences av ould age wid thim.
In the 'ould days whin the childer
tuk the maysles the mothers tought it
wus a good ting to .hev thim over wid,
Questions and Answers
Iodized Salt
Mrs. F. W. asks: "Will the use of
is underestimated. In an article pub- odized salt in food for children do
fished last August in the Journal of any harm?'•
the American Medical Association, he.
Reply
gives some encouragingf ac
is The ar •No. During childhood is the time
ticle gives the results of treatment of o us it to prevent goitre.
1,054 consecutive patients admitted to '
the department for mental and nervi-' e —o
ous diseases of the Pennsylvania Hos- Neither, Harmful Nor Beneficial
pital. The careers of these patients L. S. asks: 1. Does frequent cut-
were studied over a period of from ting of the hair do it any harm? 2.
/five to ten years. Is once.,a week too often for a man
The more severe forms of mental to wash his hair?'
diseases were 'represented in the Reply
group ofcases studied. Dr. Bond I. Cutting the hair is probably nei- 1 fer, shore, in thin days, no choild ivir
says that the patients usually, entered her harmful nor beneficial: The shaft ,lead thim more than wance, but now,
the hospital after many "opportunities of the hair is dead matter and this i$ wid the advance made in the dochtorin
for early treatment had been wasted. what is cut.
Some Recovered 1 2. No.
Thirty of the patients were lost _o_
of 1,024 patientswhose
from observation. This left a group 1 o
careers could Not Suitable for Home Treatment
` H:' H. B. writes: "I have heart dis
"274 recovered.
be followed over" five years. Of these' ase and get out of breath very east
`and stayed well; 139
improved greatly; 331 died, and 260 ly'yvheri I walk or hurry. I have had.
t for a number of years but formerly
remained stationary or grew worse."
it never bothered me much. It there
These figures indicate that a little eveanything that I can take to strength-
er 26 per cent of the entire group of en my Heart?"
patients recovered, and that 14.5 per
cent showed conssderable, improve- I Reply
merit. Some of the patients who re -1 Heart disease, 'like most other dis whin ye git up late av a Sunday marn
covered became healthier than they ev- eases, els not suitable fer honie treat- in, arr yer.lumbago does be botheriu
er had been` before their illness. mens. The best thing to do is to pia_
ye wurse than usual, so ye don't want
It is pointed out that in the case ce yourself in the care of a physician tooto Church, ye kin tune in on the
of many of those who died, the men- who can see you frequently. Then g
Ithrade, any choild may take the disase
two arr tree arr webby foive toimes.
In the ould days if a:man called ye a
loier or a thafe it wus a foightin wur-
rud an he had to take it back arr shtand
the consequinces, but now he loin say
purty near what he loikes to ye over the
phone an, be the toime ye mate him
ata trashin arr a corn cuttin bee the.
nixt day, ye hev both cooled off, an
theer is no more about it, barrin that
yer woives may shtay mad at aitch
other fer a month arr two. Thin, too
'from the tlusy haunts of frac," now
hear'Iy,thirty years ago.
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tal condition was in no way related follow his advice. He will prescribe
to the cause of death. any medicine that may be necessary.
Now, of course, *e all know that'f —o—
everyone with mental disease does I • Diabetes in Children
not recover or /improve. Many grow p: Mrs. C. E. S. writes: "I would like
worse in spite of all that can be done."
sto ask some questions about diabetes.
Radio an listen to a man praychin in
Toronto arr webby in New York,
widout annybody to notice whether ye,
hey 'a clane collar arr a thirty face.
Shure, 'tis a great toitn.e we are livin
in, so it is, we kin jttnip into an otto
and go as far in an hour as a. harse
There is no intention of conveying Is it very likely that a child of 12 cud thravel in Half a day, an if : we
don't loike the looks av tine's in I(in-
cardine, arr Clinton, arr Listowel arr
Walkerton az. wherever e 'rtver we hev one
iti
gone,
we kin come back home in toime fer
supper an the minus nivir trade know
we hev been away. Theer are some
disadvantages in the modhern loife,
but we musht admit theer are a lot av
priviliges too.
Sandy Banks troid to shpring a joke
on Die wan day'laslit wake in Lepard's
resht rooms. • We got shtarted talkit,
pollyticks as usual, an I wus rubbin it
in about the almosht clave shwape
the Tories made in Ontario.
"That's all verra 'weal;". see he, "but.
the idea that meixtal diseases are cur -
could have diabetes? Do chiIdreiz,. if
able ,even in the majority of cases. they have diabetes, get along better
are not.
Forapparently they � 1' ev-
er
or worse than adults? Is insulin v
But the figures given by Dr. Bond er used in the treatment of diabetes
would seem to justify his belief thatiner children?'
the good results of treatment in men-
tal diseases are underestimated. There j
are diseases other than mental in 1. Yes.
which 26 per cent of the patients do 2. Diabetes is generally much more
not recover. It is possible that the fatal in children than in adults.
3. Yes, Many children with dia-
betes are sawed since the discovery
and use of insulin.
Ryj l (Note:—Dr; Scholes will answer
Reply
r. Glaring
Light
batigerous to
the egos
'r°ne tito lateen Wing tad
KA* L reoet!'t%
eye N,rtif°rt by pratnettA'g
your eyed 'fram thn *anent..
dos
ieutdoolet rays always pretelit fn etrone et
elatlnetrght. Vim vtnlet tayd altar* wade eye
dual,° heti °keit causes.Cau¢et, '
roti,are 501 en)oyb,e *Ito eomfortthet remte
Veal weiUinit tine tit at coed.
Wire about the advantage, of trite wond'ett it new
tent rteem&annded tryallleadtat Rclet lel, tlnandfns
sir b�i,Vartolyn. ('
nee Ire Mao tulrei,eete•- ene, :&aloe TLV II
*Pficatii'etoa'.--a /meteor -fee
ttyallk C1'J *air,
lassestirade to all dov°torst'
prescriptions.
1hoite
krason
Ophthalmic, Optician
Wing,hatii,
such health questions in these col-
umns as will be of interest to ethers
and permissible in public print. Per
-
ye questions will be answered only Ye mush# admit that Quebec an Sas
katchewan are the twa waist no -torr
ous Prawvinces in the Dominion,"
1 knew it wus an oaid chestnut, but
cudden't tick :at fursht wheat I .had
heard, it befoor, but whin I got borne
I 'renumbered that I saw it in "Grip„
wither the elickshun av 18'7f3 whin ould
John. A. wus defayted in Kingston.
he in Y "Grip," said thin that Kingston was
the inosht no-tory-ous city; in Canada,
when accompanied by self-addressed
Stamped envelope, Address Dr. W.
J. Scholes, in care of this paper.)'
(Copyright, 1025, by The Bonnet-
Brown' Corporation, Chicago.)
To the Editu
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an has noth{n much to do but sit art
tink afther he is troo raydin the pay -
pert an toircd shxnokin, •a lot av
cfuare tial$ come Into his head. l I
av
noospayper,
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I worldlier if sonne feilah will be
shpritrgiu the own jokes far neW want
in fifty years from
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