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The Huron Expositor, 1923-03-02, Page 3WINTER RD .ON HABIT The winter season m a hard one on ''-the baby. Eie is more or lees confin to stuffy, badly ventilated rooms. la eo often stormy that the mother 'Aces ad get him out in the'"fre h air ad often'as elle should. He Catch- es atch es colds which rack bis little system; 'dila stomach and bowels get out of order and he becomes peevish and -cro a., "To guard against this the another should keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets' an' the house. They re- gulate the • stomach land bowels, and break up colds. They are sold by medicine, dealers or by mail at 25c a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. EXETER No Church Union.—A committee representing the London Methodist •conference, and a committee repre- senting the Huron Presbytery met the local committee in reference to iuuon between Main St. Methodist and Caven Presbyterian Churches in Main Street church on Thursday of last week and after consideration two of the clauses were rejected by the committee representing, the Methodist church. The clauses to which objec- tion was taken were that of station- ing a Presbyterian minister in charge first, and aleo the disposition of the property. No further action has as yet been taken by the local committee up to the present. 'THE 'FUR TRADE AND FOREST FIRES That the forest fires of recent years offer the gravest menace to the Do- minion's fur trade which is now threatened with virtual extermina- tion is the gist of a report made by the Fur Trade Commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company to the Can - Mian Forestry Association. The burning of forests not alone kills numbers of animals but drives them to less accessible regions for their maintenance. HURON NOTES —A horse belonging to Mr. Thos. Cameron, attached to a cutter, ran away Saturday afternoon in Exeter. The horse was being driven by Mas- ter James Connor on Andrew Street and at the school corner it was frightened by some children. It ran down Andrew Street and turned at -Dr. Sweet's corner. On turning onto Main Street it ran into a couple of -other cutters and. for a short piece took to the sidewalk. It turned a- gain at Dignan's bleckemith shop and came around to the Jemes Street church shed which it entered. ,The cutter was minus the cushions and -was somewhat broken. —During hockey practice in Exeter on Thursday evening last, Mr. Ed. Anderson had the misfortune to have iris left leg broken. During a rash be tripped and fell and went up a- gainst the board at the side with such force as to fracture a botfe in his leg. Be;was carried from the ice and was taken to Dr. Graham, where he received medical .attention. FIGHTING FIRE BY AIR PATROL The aeroplane is proving its value as a means of detecting fires in Al- berta: In the case of one fire re- ported in that province during the past season, the ranger was able to -have four men on the scene of the -fire in half an hour after it was re- ported, and it was soon put out. A SHORTAGE OF 80,000,000 LBS. The Tea Business, like nearly everything else, has been having its hard •times since the war. Unfavor- able tea growing weather, labor trou- bles en the plantations, and the un- settled, political atmosphere gener- ally, have so seriously reduced this facedyear's crop, that with ashortage of worldhe over K- 000,000 lbs., or more than two years supply for the whale Dominion 'of Canada. The inevitable result has been steadiry increasing prices, until t-dao. ten is bringing. higher prices han ever before int .the history of H BU IN the itis In. Canada,Salado a 8 ESS SIDE OF - d Tea, Otnpany, our largest Tea Eon. cern, has been forced by thin condi- trot; to recently increase the price of all their: blends, in order to maintain their standard of quality. fen�tie n In x q5 e ilst 'Milli own complete jwouki i ole s st rb lrflafjee to r Cartk 's eataluguo ,of the'obje the hoeredam era of the newt, b Tota hit e p e is elo ens tenth pony to the fact :t themetho a the' BgS'Ptljth th#ef hove: changed but little' in 3,000` Years, The inability e the:thief ttdivMo the plunder •withetie quoireling', ie' stili thepolice inapee' tors' Most valuable ally, FOUND RELIEF FOR HIS KIDNEY TROUBLE That's Why Another Man Recoiw. Mends Dodd's Kidney Pills to Other Sufferers. Mr. Eugene Provencher wants Every- one to know the Benefit he received from Dodd's Kidney Pills. St. Julien, Wolfstown, Que., Feb. 26th. (Special);—"It is with great pleasure that I tell you how much my health has improved since taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. They have done me a great amount of good. For a year I suffered from kidney affection and now L am quite well." This statement comes from Mr. Proven - cher, a well-known resident here. Dodd's Kidney Pills act directly on the -kidneys, strengthening them so that they do their hill work of strain- ing all the impurities; all the seeds of disease, out of the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills are known all over Canada as a standard kidney remedy. They have made their repu- tation by doing good to people who suffer from any form of kidney di- sease. Ask your neighbors about Dodd's Kidney Pills. HOW TOMBS DERE ROBBED 1000 B. C. Not often is it given to the 20th century A.D. to glance into the law ccurts of 3,000 years ago and to watch the process of a cause celebre of 1,000 B.C. And yet this is what the Mayer Papyri, which have lain in the Liverpool free public museums fdr over half a century, enable us to do. In themselves they are unattrac- tive looking objects, especially the larger of the two, that known as Mayer A., which was covered years ago on both sides with a semi -trans- parent paper in order to hold it to- gether. The writing on this papyrus is very cursive, and in parts extreme- ly difficult to decipher. Both contain reports of trials deal- ing with thefts from royal tombs and elsewhere. The tombs of the Phar- oahs in and near the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, where Lord Carnarvon has just made his as- tounding discovery, must always have offered, with their concealed treas- ures, a tempting prey to plunderers, who did not stop short at sacrilege, and we now know that the early kings of the XVIIIth Dynasty '(1580 to 1350, B.C.) kere already being fur- tively robbed before the end of the dynasty. In the XXth Dynasty (1200 to 1100 B.C') things had reached such a pitch that a definite campaign was initiat- ed by the government against the tomb -robbers- Numerous trials were held, full reports of the proceedings were made and tiled. A section of those reports came to light somewhere in Egypt—we know not where—in the ai ties, and found its way through the antiquity dealers into the hands of the- various museums, chiefly in England. Thus the Abbott Papyrus in the British Museum records show, in the sixteenth year ..of • Ramese IX. (about 1126' B.C.) an inspection was made of certain tombs reported to have been violated, and it was .dis- covered that all were intact save that of King Sebekemsaf, of the XIII th Dynasty. Another papyrus, the Am- herst, contains the confession of the thieves who robbed this Wirth, and ever stripped the mummies of the king and queen of their bindings in the search for gold. To this group of documents and to about the same date belong the two Mayer Papyri. Mayer A contains abstracts of the reports of a number of accused persons and other witness- es The method of examination seems to have Included a prelimin- i ary bastinado.' Thus we read case after ease like the following: "The', artisan, Themenary, was brought in, he was examined by beating with a stick, and was made to take an oath not to speak falsehood. They said to him: "What have you to say?" He said: "i saw nothing." He was a- gain examined with the stick and plated in confinement. The last of the thirteen pages of which the pap- yrus consist contains a list of_ per- sons accused and imprisoned, toga" er apparently, with their wives, and gives a fate of some of them. Seven had previously, been put to death "on the wood," whatever that may be in connection With the case; fifteen fell "in a battle" of which we know noth- ing, three were slain by one of their fellow thieves, six fled, two were re- leased, and nineteen were imprison. ed, "and were'eafe and sound."• Mayer B is a fragment of only one page, clearly taken from the 5onfes- sion of a thief. At the beginning we nee this man quareling with a fellow thief about the spoil. "I quarreled With him and said to -him, "I don't think much of your division of the booty. You've taken three parts and 'ieeNING The town planning division of th Canadian' National Parks Branch df the department of the Interior points out that `tate zoning df cities becomes obligatory in Great Britain during the, present year. In the United more than one hundred cities have adopted zoning regulations and a number of Canadian cities are als moving in this direction- because "zoning stabilizes property values" and reduces the cost of civic gov- ernment. The zoning of cities has for its purpose the direction of the future building development of the ,city a- long orderly lines and this in the in- terest of all the phases of city life —commerce, industry and residence. Tht cost of ,jumble building ori the poral aide is the des[ ction of the economic efficiency, h pines and life of the people an the creation of social disorder, disease and discon- tent. When alums develop they cre- ate the gravest and most expensive problem of communal life. In an un - zoned city the houses of the well-to- do are usually protected from jumble building by private restrictions, though these restrictions become less and less operative and effective with the changes in property ownership. The dwellings of the poor are often robbed of their light and air and pleasant surroundings and degener- ate into slums which become the disease spots of the city. Hospitals and prisons have to be built and maintained at the public cost to deal with the ill effects of bad city build• ing. The distinct business side of zon- ing brings illumination to the fact that an unzoned city is constantly lowering the assessment value of property and thus decreasing the civic income and increasing general taxes. An industrious family man invests $5,000 of his life savings in a home. The property is valued at $10,000 and the home owner obtains a loan on the recognized security of 50 per cent. margin in value. As 5505) as the transaction is completed the owner finds that an undesirable industry is opened' up next door—this through lack of zoning regulations. The home value of the citizen's pro- perty immediately drops to $7,500 be- cause the home environment has been changed for the worse. The home owner immediately loses $2,500, i,e.,' 50 per cent. of his life savings. The loan company loses 50 per cent. of its margin of security and the city loses 25 per cent. of the assessed value lot the property because it is immediately called upon to reduce its assessment by that amount. The cost of zoning the city might roughly be stated as one -twentieth of elle per cent. of the assessed values involved. "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" STILL GOING STRONG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS The recent death of Mrs. Amy Stone at eighty-six, at her home in Brooklyn, called up recollections of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the minds of veteran theatregoers, for Mrs. Stone was reputed to have played. Little Fva in the first production of this familiar drama. Many changes and vicissitudes have come upon "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the life span of the youngest of its players, but those who may sur- mise that the old drama is dead have another guess coming. At least twelve "Uncle Tom's Cabin" companies are still on the road, according to good authority, and each season sees scores of spor- adic productions under canvas in small towns or in halls under the auspices cif community players. Colored entertainers have had cause to bless "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it has given employment to many who might have found no other field for their talents, says an interview in the New York Tribune. To -day, with a wide and increasing vogue for colored musical shbws of the "Shuffle Along" stamp, there is more call for colored actors than ever before in stage history.; But "Uncle Tom" still gives employment to many. Uncle Toms and Topsies and Chloes and Sambos and euimbos are not the only opportunities offered to colored persons. There are minor characters if the production is at all pretentious, and then there is usually a colored band which helps materially toward drawing people to the big show. Some of the larger producers, like Stetson and the Rials, made a great deal of money from the show, and their names to a production were guarantees of real bloodhounds, passably good ice and not indifferent acting. The scheme of having two Topsies and two Markses was one of the happy hits in connection with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" production. For a while it was hard sledding for the company that advertised only a single Topsy and one Lawyer Marks. Stevenson, on hearing ' "Home, Sweet. Home," played when he was journeying across 'our continent sick a •.,ii. t r alb., vii theE w li +,d ArnCw e ! :1 ax? fw ti oPhlia��bt ,ilii eetl d coin h . agent. ea#ury in; Holireel "1'he widta:'en Loire illid*OY.49,904.i„ would go an rite MmLI. ' Bes%dee, t ,couldn't be.,allown spti i'of Marlon and pFinitea tri at the ata'e Diitons liner, ail the ae a 'lot A producer,; mor :Qaarring than • the ,l rent, ventured to nialte a big produe- tion of the. drmt iebuut) found every-. body'afraid of"iit .`e Rim was on .his hands;, and ,:app rently would. never be shown Then. two strangers', to the motion picture ,ave bought the film at a ridiculously low price, They. featured it oe th,efl Anew England circuit with colored.iiands. It wenn big and made a lat•of'money, --Bet, be it evere'fiawsome, there's no show like "Tone he motion plc "Uncle' T " A MOTHER'S; HEALTH NEEDS GREAT CARE Care of Home and Children Often Causes a Breakdown. The woman at home, deep in house. hold duties and' the care of mother- huad, needs occasional help to keep her in good health. The demands up- on a mother's health are many and severe. Her own. health trials and her children's welfare exact heavy tolls, ,while hurried 'meals, broken rest and much indoor living tend to weaken her constitution. No wonder that the woman at home is often in- dispoaed through weakness, . head- aches, backaches and nervousness. Too many women -have grown to ac- cept these visitations as a part of the lot of motherhood. But many •and varied as her health troubles are, the cause is simple and relief at hand. When well, it is the woman's good blood that keeps her well; when ill she must make her blood rich to renew her health. The nursing mo- ther more than any other woman in the world needs rich -blood and plenty of it. There is one way to get this good blood so necessary to perfect,. Keith, and that is through the use of, Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. Mrs. W. T. Riley, -R. R. No. 1, Apple Hill, Out., has proved the great value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to mothers, and tells her story as follows:—"Two years ago, after the birth of my boy, I became very weak and run down. Gradually I lost weight and energy until I was unable to do my house- work. I could not sleep, my nerves wculd twitch and jump so that I a- rose in the morning with heavy aching limbs and head. Indigestion helped to make the misery worse, and my heart would palpitate .terribly. 1 doctored steadily for a year without getting better, but just dragged along feeling that I would never be well again. But one lucky day, on the advice of a friend, I began treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I have taken only six boxes, but I wish you cc•uld see the difference. I am now able to do my work, go about and enjoy myself. I feel so entirely, like a new woman that I advise every weak or ailing woman to try Dr. Wllliatns'•Pink Pills and I know they will get beneficial results." If you are ailing, easily tired or de- pressed, it is a duty you owe yourself and your family to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial. What this medicine has done for others it will surely do for you. You can'get Dr. Williams' .Pink Pills through' any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.500 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. CURRENT WIT AND WISDOM Talk doesn't amount to much un- less it paves the way for action.— Border Cities Star. After one hes paid for one's fuel there is nothing to bank but the fur- nace.—Kincardine Review. We don't mind supporting the government, but we think the gov- ernment should leave us enbugh to support ourselves.—Halifax Herald. It's all right to hide your light under a bushel, provided a reporter knows where the bushel is parked,— Kitchener Record. A dog chased a ,jazz band three blocks down Fifth Avenue the other day. Man's best friend!—New Or- leans Times -Picayune. What would the Germans do were they at this time in the place of th French?—Kennebec Journal. In Turkey, every man 'is entitled to- life, bigamy and the pursuit of Christiana.—Life. There is one attempt in which fail- ure is unforgivable—the attempt to be funny.—Youth's' Companion. The only difference between a Pro- gressive from the west and a Lib- eral of the east is that -the former wants the return of $2 wheat .and the latter the return of the $1 shirt. —Ottawa Journal. The governments the world wants are not governments that play at politics, but governments that will seek above all things else the ad- vancement of the welfare and happi- ness of mankind.—Halifax Herald. Petrified tree in the National Mus- eilm, Ottawa, was casting its shade over some weary mastodon a million years before Tutankhamen was en- tombed in the Valley of Rings near Thebes.—Ottawa Journal. Education increases your earning capacity unless you happen to become an educator.' -Calgary Herald. The smarty, who says "most cas- es of flu aro bad colds tidth a scarce Complex," lust shows hes not had "it."—Owen Sound Sun -Times. a L[`i'�V`,]j?^:r:r taltR is'1. MifAtiib , P\ 71i17"".,,,„„ IIIIIIIIIIII „els Yrs a�M\P ~�'ti, ,,.111-I11I1I1�111111111 V. y\,\ S ll' 11 ��� 111.���\,' jnec T During a trip across Canada last summer, mem- bers of the Montreal Board of Trade gained many new and striking impressions of their own country. They expressed varying views en these; dtscnsaed, criticized, or commended theme These exchanges be- gan tocrystallize into a dominant but unspoken thought In every heart. Finally it wan given voice in the words: "There in no East, and no West,: THERE.I8 JUST CANADA." It is not merely a bit of fine phrasing. The senti- ment has an appeal to every one who has caught a vision of what Canada is to be. Before the eptendor of that vision selfish local Interests wither and die and provincialism fades into nothingnesa. WHat Is et benefit to the farmer of the West or the fisherman on the Atlantic coast, should be a matter of concern to every citizen of the Dominion. ''There 1e no East, and no West: THERE IS JUST CANADA." In the roll of centuries since the world began, the history of Canada occupies bat a modest measpyrc. Within the memory of people still In the vigor of'life, new areas of this country have been opened to settle- ment, as large as some countries In Europe; vast re- sources of timber and mineral lands have lyeen re- vealed, and great water powers have been harnessed to d" the will of man. The once unexplored and the tont A nknown have been linked, until this Empire with,.. an Empire begin:; tn, I:now Itself as a land of Possibilities beyond the dreams of all th,, pioneers who laid its foundation in faith and hon. '3 'There is uo East, and no West: THEP.E IS JUST CANADA." I Most potent of all the factors .in awakening Called„_ tans to the troth about their own country has °heal' the railway. Its slender ropes of steel are efu'rl& where harbingers of still greater days tocome. Crow- ing the wide -flung prairies, spanning rivers, paella& by means of tunnels, through Rhe mountains. that barred the progress of man in days gone'by, or wan- dering through the meadows and orchards; of the earlier settled portions of the country, they are sl visible embodiment of the sentiment, "There _ia. as East. and no West: THERE IS JUST CANADA:' ' The railway has made it possible for increasing thousands of Canadians to widen their education by travel in their own country- And their own Canadian National Railways has played an amazing part in this education of its owners. Since its humble beginning* in Confederation days, it has expanded Into the great- est railway system on, this continent.^- Its contribution to the development of Canada to the past was incalcuf• able; Its part in the progress of the future cannot be measured by the mind of man. More than anything else in the Dominion to -day it emphasizes the truth of the words "There is no East, and no West; THERE IS Jt'ST CANADA." Mount Robson, 13,069 Feet, Is the Highest Peak in the Canadian Rockies Canada has some of the moat magnificent mountain scenery in the world, as anyone who has travelled through the northern Canadian Rockies knows- The scenery is 80 varied, so full of surprises, that 1f the traveller gives his constant at- tention to one side of the car he Is almost certain to be missing some- thing very wonderful on the other side. For years transcontinental rall- ways in America have tried out various types of observation care through the mountains, the objec- tive being to give their patrons the best possible views of the scenery. Some of them have been simply. open platform cars, with no protec- tion from the sun or inclement weather. Car builders have been vloing with one another in the construc- tion of !these cars to provide the fbnest obs" "'Alen facilities along with the maximum of comfort. At last the Canadian National Railway shops at Leaside. Toronto, have turned out a car which has all the requisites. This car might almost be de- scribed as a sun -room on wheels, in view of the large percentage of glass used In its construction. It 1s regulation size, with a closed -in section 44 feet long and a spacious open comparttnent at each end where passengers may enjoy the open air. The interior of the car has sixteen large windows on each side running from the seat arm rests to the ceiling. These win- dows are 4 ft. 6 tn. high by 28 in. wide. having two panes of glass 24 in. by 24 in., one above the other. There are also two of these win- dows at each end of the ear, one at each side of the door leading out on to the platform. The seats are arranged trans- versely on each aide of a centre aisle. as in an ordinary car, there • being -sixteen double seats on each side providing seating capacity for 54 passengers. The platforms pro• vide capacity for. 36 additional persons. The entire car side fram- ing is of steel, with the interior finished tn British Columbia Cedar. stained mahogany. The interior 1s equipped with the most up-to-date ventilators. electric light and shades. One of these new ears was ex- hibited et Toronto Exhibition last year for the first time. and 150,000 people inspected the car during the fair. It was very favorably com- mented uponat The ear le many ways is aty innovation, and market another advance move -by our Nay' tional Lines. These cars are to be. used on the Mountain pivision of:tht±^ILati•Ad nli. National Railways, and•i4Ilf eflab travellers to view the m>;tteatle scenery on -both side's' of Age eiltC with the utmost ease and eottoft;