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The Huron Expositor, 1931-11-06, Page 6, ���.. ux rakabr�'�.. ��i,�a•a D � i THE 4N%10X! 41 f T: u'N COAL For over 60 years the Favorito D. L. & W. Scranton Anthracite, now trade marked blue Fir your protection Now, -phone your dealer and order with confidence 7B Sold in Seaforth by J. J. Sclater & E. L. Box The Well Known Human Race In his fan mail, George Arliss re- ceived a request for a photograph from an old lady on a farm in Illin- ois. The genuine sincerity and ad- miration of the letter aroused his in- terest and he sent her a handsome signed portrait. Ten days later, the photograph reappeared, with a letter :from the old lady. She was.full of appreciation, and said she -had enjoy - Puebla WASE. �algticala• rly'v,+ el , and all fif orts at " 11.00, c tar l ti proved ruitless, isia ,denlertstiOni the C,xpzter: al led an , Opeditti jli against them i in iaerson which te�rnnd.`out *Abe highly successful. The ha;clit leader was tied oii•a burro and taken to a local seat of government. Upon entering the town, General Diaz stopped and asked a boy standing on the sidewalk where he would be likely to find the • Jefe (Mayor). Cocking an eye at the General and his prisoner, the boy re- plied, "That's , him on the burro." -- Related by urro."--Relatediby President Diaz in the pres- ende of the writer, A. C. Pyne, Vic- toria, Tex. ed looking at the picture so much that she had been tempted to keep it, but she had read on the outside of the envelope, "Return in Ten Days to George Arliss," so she was reluctant- ly sending it back.—Personal reminis- cence, contributed by Jane Farrar, Columbus, 0. * * * When Porfirio Diaz, later Dictator of Mexico for many years, was Com- mander -in -Chief of the army, bandits floutished in all parts of the country. A band operating in ,the State of acts RoupReine Roup A Deadly Disease of Poultry IT IS CONTAGIOUS and MUST BE ERADICATED PROMPTLY. Sold by 7000 dealers in Canada • Prat Food Co., of Canada, Limited, i111 Guelph, Ont. •* * * Charles Lamb had no patience with prudery. Some small boys were en- joying a swim when he passed with a very prim lady. "Isn't it shocking, Mr. Lamb," she said to see those lit- tle boys in bathing without any clothes ?t' Lamb peered in their direction. "R -really, M -madam," he stammered, "until you c -called lny attention to it, I wasn't sure whether they were lit- tle b -'boys or little Ig -girls." * * * It happened during the San Fran- cisco earthquake. Frenzied guests were fleeing the St. 'Francis Hotel, which was swaying like a ship's mast in a storm. 'Pandemonium reigned. Down the grand staircase fore, a man, wild-eyed, with terror writteiion his face. Ibis head 'bobbed up and down as he kept chanting, "Do, ray, me fa, sol—.Do, ray, me fa, sol." A woman rushed up to the desk clerk and cried, "Look at that man— he's gone clear out of his head! Bete ter get him to a hospital quick!" "My dear lady," replied the clerk, "that is the great Caruso; he is test- ing his voice lest" he lose it during this catastrophe." k * *, When Sam Houston was running for Governor of Texas, he stopped at an old farmer's house for the night. After talking with the farmer and getting his promise of support, a long lanky boy.came in ,to show him his room. Houston sized the boy up and thought he saw in him another prose elective supporter, so he said, ."Young man, you look old enough to vote; how *old are you,?" The youth replied, "I was 21 .las' gone April, but I ,didn't bow my head when dad ast the blessin', so he sot me back two years, he did, an' I can't vote." * * A reporter, interviewing President Von Hindenburg;, hoped to learn the secret of his amazing courage and control: "President Von Hindenburg, what do• you do when you're nerv- ous?" "I whistle."' "But I've never heard you whis- tle." • •• "I never whistle." • * * James McNeil Whistler and a friend came upon a very small and very.dir- ty newsboy in a London street. Whis- tler 'bought a paper and said,- "How long have you been a newsy, my INT?" "Three years, sir," replied the boy. "How old. are you?" "Seven." "Oh, you must be more than that!" "Ne, sir, 'I ain't." • "I say, ,.Charley," said Whisr, !turning too his friend,;'I don't t ink. he could get that dirty in seven years, do you?, * * * When the late General Galgotzy, commander of the Austrian Army, was only a cplonel, he called another col- onel an ass, and was ordered to make public apology to the injured officer. Donning his dress uniform, he step- ped in front of the troops, saluted the officer and said, 14 am sorry I called you an ass." Later, meeting the offider in private he repeated the apology and added, "But d think you made a mistake in demanding a public retraction." "Why?" demanded the other. "Because until now, only you and I knew that I thought you were an ass. Now the whole army knows it." * * * Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated Por- trait painter, once met a lady in the street in Bostozv, who saluted him with, "Ah, Mr. Stuart, I have just seen your miniature, and kissed it, because it was so much like you." "And did it kiss you in return?" "Why, no." "Then," said Stuart,••"it was not like me." * * * Campaigning kin the State of his opponent, William Howard Taft had difficulty in hpeaking beeause of in- terruptions and constant heckling from the gallery. Finally a cabbage was thrown on the stage and rolled out near where Mr. Taft stood. He looked at the vegetable'intently, and then said to the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, I see that one of my adversaries has lost his, dead." When Douglas Fairbanks first 'be- gan his career he was placed under the care and tutelage of Frederick Ward. At first he was just one of the mob, .but. at Iast he was given one line to speak. He was to appear be• fere a solemn funeral procession and say, "Make way and let the coffin pass!" ' At. the first performance he was seized' with stage fright and shouted, "Make way and let the parson cough!". • * * * • When Mr. Hoover was doing Bel- gian relied, -work, before the United States entered the World War, he crossed the,. English Channel many times between London and Belgium. It took a full day to make the trip; so three meals were served on the boat. At breakfast on one of his last trips, he 'asked the steward as usual to keep count of expenses and• collect at the end of, the trip, The steward hesitated, shitted from, one ,foot to the other, and finally blurted out, "Damn sorry, sir, but when the last boat was torpedoed the passengers got drowned. We may be sunk any moment, so I must collect after each meal."' • * It was after the Armistice, t Pershing's General Headquarter at Chaumont. Officers and staff were feverishly preparing for the Victory Parade in Paris. A youpg Lieutenant saluted his major and begged to be excused, because his laundry had not arrived. At that moo ent General Pershing, face covered' With shaving s. Doubling a Retail Business in Five Years. .fin Advertisement Addressed to In; To double a retail business in five years, add 15 per cent. to the sales of the preceding year. At the end of five years, sales will be double their present amount.. Increasing one sales to the'exterit ' of 15 per cent. per annum to sales .can be accomplished in two main' wars. Thus: 1. Increase ,the amount of each sales transaction by an average of 15 per cent: (Note: This is not the the same as raising your prices 15 per cent. To do that would be fatal, even if possible). 2. Increase the numbers of customers served daily to the extent of 15 per, cent. • Good salesmanship will enable a re- tailer to raise the level of his average sales transaction—with advantage to both his customer and himself. Thus, a ' well-informe'dr' buyer will readily pay 20 cents or 25 cents more for a pair of gloves or 'stockings or shoes, or for a piece of enamelware, if the better value of the higher -priced "art- icle is, well presented. 4 1 our Local Retailers But the better way 'of raising sales to the extent of 15 per, cent. is to in- . crease the numberr of your customers Customer -increase comes from (1) satisfactory service, (2) satisfactory goods and . prices (3) good window displays; and (4) s good advertise- . ments in this newspaper. O' Men' and women buyers always want to be informed, in their. homes, by newspaper advertisements, about things which they plan to buy; and they are responsive to retailerst: in- vitions. Also, they like to see the ad tisements of those retailers whos• -ustomers they are, A silent retailer can hardly hope to increase his busineAs . and it's pretty certain he won't double it,in five years. �.•. ,0ecoifte1 6>� lA` Set'iee":issued by the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association of which The Huron Eiepo�aftoi' id •d' ' a heti U S E y 4'" Dr. Thomas' EcIe, tris Oil .e soap, turned and said, "Here, lieu- tenant, you may use these •gloves and collar. I just washed them out my- self." " * *,* Under the stress of war days, Lloyd George appeared at a meeting looking rested and refreshed when. those about•him bore signs of strain. "How do you manage to keep fit under all this work and worry?" he was asked. "Oh," said the mercurial Welsh- man, "with me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation_." * * * kir James Barrie talked very little, but invited talk in others by being a good listener. At a dinner, an animat- ed dispute arose as to the character of a man of international reputation. One of the guests assailed him -violent- ly, calling him a bounder and a ras- cal. Barrie sat perfectly quiet, ap- parently paying no heed to tlzfr' wran- gle. When there came a lull, he said in a low voice with a quizzical smile, not looking up from his plate, "He was an infernal scoundrel, but 'twas his only fault!" . The Jungles Hidden Empire of Diamonds •A thousand miles noxtth of Kimber- ley, where the . Congo-Kassai cuts through gravels that only now are be- ginning to yield up their untold wealth gangs of naked Negroes are 'splash- ing in the .mire -=shoveling for d'iani- onds. Regardless of world wide de- pressions, •regardless of booms or slumps in the demand, regardless of whether the price of cut stones falls or rises in New York and Antwerp, the hunt for gems goes on. Until bluff and skill beat down•the native resistance less than 20 years ago there was a black man's wall a- bout the inner Kassai, Africa's new big diamond field: The tribes along the Lubilash, eastward from the Kas- sai, were cannibals. The hemp -smok- ing sects to the westward were head ht,nters. Between them lay inviolate the Kassai Empire, secret as Tibet, inaccessible as Lhasa. Even David Livingstone darect not push•tthrough to visit its paramount soba. He was warned that 'the na- tives were irihospitable. So long was their river that one might follow it for months and fine) no end. So far away were their principal cities that 40 days barely measured the distance, Hc would be robbed of everything and his men taken as slaves. Had not diamonds been discovered, that same front which opposed Liv- ingstone might still to -day hold out all foreigners. On the Lubilash they were first found by men who, in trenching to keep floods from their camp, saw something sparkle in the wet gravel.. Quartz and many -other crystals which flash in the air lose their brilliance under water, .but un- cut diamonds do not. they become theniselvos with a flash when im- mersed.' The diamonds in that .drain dtteh spelt destruction to the biack man'- wall around the Kassai.. Yet to make the Kassai penetra- tior really effective, world syndicates bad to work together. The " Piamong" was formed, backed by English, Am- erican; Portuguese and Belgian capi- tal: Cunning •agents were sent to deal with the sobas. Government troops accomplished what guile could not. From the first a monopoly dominated the Kassai—which, isolat- ed hundreds of miles from the near- est white settlement, enjoyed unique advantages as a diamond country. At first its -natives were unable to appreciate the stuff they toiled over. "When I' seat in the diamonds from my mine to the ventral station at Dundu," one foreman told me, "I gave them to one of my Week boys to carry in a little tin box. Sometimes he'd meet other 'boys and leave his treas- ure 'unguarded in the middle. of the path while he ran off with them to. splash in the river. Once the boy found -no one in .the general office, so he just left the box on the window sill and walked away." It was the Illicit Diamond Buyer, who introduced .a cult of the diamond to the Kassai native. The "I. D. B." worms his way into all regions, of the world where precious stones may be found or purchased without bene- fit of law. Arriving mysteriously on "a coastal steamer, 'hev ie sets out for the interior with as f } ern' n and box- es as possible. Some oaths later he it appears, still travelling light. Pos- sibly lie has shot ,.•giant sable, or fix- ed upon some other trophy to explain his presence in such an out-of-the- way section. Quietly he slips aboard the next outgoing steamer, and• some flurry on the exchange at Antwerp six weeks later indicates what has become of him and his sub 'rose pur- chases. Compounding, to keep the natives out of temptation, just as is done in South Africa, was the Kassai miner's only weapon against the I. D. B. Yet even compounding presented its dif- ficulties. When penned up the natives began to fight among themselves. Other natives passing along the road outside the compound always took up the argument, and hot words and mis- siles flew back and forth between the "ins" and the= `outs." One day a con- troller noticed that the natives on the' outside, who often caught`the sticks and rntidlbails thrown at them, were leaving the field 'with several reserve shots still in their hands. He investi- gated, and found that every niudbaff had a diamond for a core. In the end not merely the native workers but the whole of the inner, Kassai had to he compounded. The empire of fetish has simply passed, en its ,pref,ogaitives to the em- pire •of iniaxn'ongr which issues its +visa. like 'a sovereign state. 'Possibllr gO in= dependent observers have 'seen the inner itriestai, which today is turning 4111. 0t0,04 which support the ;whole. 0101 bid et of Such great cololrfies as Poi ugu o Angola and 'Belgian Congo. One enters tbia sovereign state a- long mere wagon tracks beside which the tall Afflean grasses grow higher than the top of an automobile. Scorp- ion's, 'worn' and a profusion of daz- zling purple; red and orange grass- hoppers rain in on one as the car brushes aside the heavy grass crests. Gradually, ;the grass becomes less tall. Stretches of woodland appear. Occas- ionally there' is shade. One is approaching Dund*. the eart of the diamend country, a''nod. ern city standing in 'relief against the absolutely primitive. With its wire- less, its aviation field, its electricity, its concrete houses, its motors and its diamonds Dundu stands alone, isolat= ed, fieeeiy aloof. In close dependence upon ouster civilization, itt yet remains as closedaway' from them as a *hit- tled ship sealed in a glass bottle. If one must search for romance in the 20th century, here it is in this perfect flower of a city blossoming unseen in a wilderness! In Dundu one goes regularly to an office, one eats ice cream or frozen custai+ds for dinner and one dances or plays, backgammon throughout the evening': Out from Dundu the diamond mines 'lie, each with its throb and clangor—a dripping hole in the earth where naked Negroes slash in the mire and shovel ;gravel. On the hearts and minds of tRe white men who work around Dundu dwells something far more insidious than boredom. An unwholesome atmos- phere of fear hangs over the Kassai,- fear assai;fear of every fellow .worker and of ;all strangers, fear of the past and fear of• the future. The men in the Diamong have not come out to Africa for the thrill of adventure. They have signed their long contracts in order to make money as swiftly as possiBle. It is a desperate game, They • are staking health, sanity, life itself, against the few years needed in this ,tropic deso- lation to . assure themselves of inde- pendence. Before our visit to Dundu there oc- curred a most ingenious theft. Its perpetrator was one of those 'who weigh diamends. It is against men like this --clever, dangerous ,men—that the leaders have to contend: No wonder that every man regards his neighbor with suspicion! "What if you see ay diamond in the mud?" 'I asked an offider. "If you're wis* you leave it alone," he replied. "I've found diamonds and left them where I found them. If one were discovered on me my: reputation —and my job—and my liberty would not be worth a straw." HUMOR IN WISDOM Kuida's skull was fractured and he was not given a"chance to live by at- tending physicians.--Qtitariq (Calif.) Daily Report. / Pair who took pajamas from clothes line at 249 West Street please return and no embarrassing exposure 'will be made on my ,part.—Oklahoma City News. ' ,Mr. I[- {— and Miss-- went to high school together . . . and their marriage will ' stop a romance be- tween them there.—Charlotte (West Va.) Gazette. Three hundred thousand Freshmen will •enter American institutions of higher yearning ,next fall.—Princeton Seminary Bulletin. We have not done any business with firms or persons in America since Prohibition came into farce in that country. --London Dispatch to N. Y. Sun. The evening was spent in an infer- nal way, a radio program being the main diversion.—Kentucky paper.' And they were married and lived happily even after. -Church World. Miss Belle Cramer is showing some landscapes and still 'lives. . — Daily paper. Send mother a gift of hardly ever- blooming rose bushes.—Ad in Sious Falls Argus -Leader. , _George Grant is the proud posses- sor of a brand new sedan and also a new wife, having traded in the old one for which he received a Iiberal al- lowan e.—Logan ' (0.) Republican. ry Promises to Sin for John D.; Gets Dime.—Sun-Telegraph. man kicked by hgsband said to be greatly improved.—Headline in Il- linois paper. Dig he ground over thoroughly and then ,ant. 'Gardening Article. FARM NOTES Use• .Home -Growl Seed. 'At the Growers' Council Potato Meeting held recently in Toronto it was reported , that Ontario farmers had bought 65;000 bushels of certified seed from outside the province last year. It was stated that we have an excellent crop of .certified !Cobblers, Dooleys and Green ,Mountaue in On- tario this year and it was rbcommen'd ed that Ontario 'farmers should first make use of this, seed before import- ing, owing to unusual market condi- tions. It was felt that farmers might order their •supplies and save money by making their purohases now. Weekly Crop Report. The weather continues to be very satisfactory to Ontario farmers. There has been enough rain to en - coinage the' luxuriant ,growth of pastures and in many areas .to in- crease the flow of underground streams and fill wells which have been very low or empty. Farm work is well ;advanced. Fall plowing will be $niched in good time. Wheat is making wonderful growth and there id fear that in the more southern die-, trietsi growth will be too rank. All" classes of live stockare in good con- ditibii:. Weather has permitted eon- tinned pasturage and there is a boun- tiful feed supply. The root crop is. being harvested, in good condition. Miry procIpittj.on is ; ebo've normal. 4 You'vm seen men like "Mac." Always stepping to bigger jobs. With the energy and good health to realize his ambitions. ! So often a promising career is handicapped by constipation. This ailment frequently brings: headaches, loss of appetite and energy. Ambition is dulled. Avoid constipation. Just eat two tablespoonfuls daily of Kellogg's ALL -BRAN. Thi, de- licious cereal suppliep "bulk," Vitamin B and iron. "Balk" gently cleanses the in- testines. Vitamin B tones therm up. Both promote regularity. Ho* much' better than pills and drugs. a.,EnJpy Kellogg's ALL -BEAN as a cereal. Have your wife use it in cooking. Appe- tizing recipes on the red -and -green package. At all grocers. Made by Kellogg in Lon- don, Ontario., HELPS KEEP, YOU FIT 1, The yield in Oxford County has been estimated at 20 to 30 per cent, higher than last year, while in Grenville a 40. per cent. increase has been re- ported. Farmers,' discouragement is confined almost wholly to market prices. • Keep the Pullets Well Fed. The time is at hand when pullets should be confined to their winter quarters,." but the pens should first be • thoroughly cleaned and. disin- fected. Birds will not do their best work is infested with lice or mites. It. is during the winter months that the birds make' their best profits, and for this reason they should be housed and fed in a manner that will keep them healthy and vigorous. They will reqvire a full ration of suitable feed, besides. plenty of clean water, green feed, shell and grit. The change from the growing ra- tion tp the laying mash should be made gradually, Home-grown grains cannot be sold for Much on the mar- ket, and while they may form a large proportion of the birds' ration they do not supply all 'necessary ingredi- ents for the production of eggs.` The use ofsa high protein commercial mash mixed with chopped ` home- grown grains will give much better results than the grains alone. Grape Crop Moves. While prices received by grape growers have . not been entirely satisfactory, C. W. Bauer, secre- tary of the Growers' Markets Coun- cil, points out that they have dispos- ed of the crop• to the public this,:year. without any great dependence on ,the wineries for an outlet, Growers lrho held back the cutting of their grapes were rewarded by a higher price. Mr. Sauer does not believe that there ha"t been overplanting if the growers will continue to develop the fresh fruit market; in fact he predicts that there may not be a large enough 'crop to meet the demands for Ontario -grown grapes next year. The special ef- forts and advertising campaign to sell this fresh fruit east and west this year undoubtedly brought goad re- sults. Boys', and Girls' Contests. The -year 1931 marks a new era in Boys' and Girls''Club work in Ontario. Early in the year new ,.policies were issued in connection with• the follow- ing club objects: Calf, swine, poul- try, garden, grain, potato and '•cante-- .,ling. As a result there were 220 boys' and girls' clubs with- a total membership of 5068, carrying on ac- tive programmes during the, year. On October 19th teams representing the swine and cattle clubs held their pro- vincial. competitions. Six swine and - twelve cattle clubs took part in the contests and in each case a team was composed of two club members, be- tween the ages of 16 and 20 years. The winning team in the swine de- partment was from Lennox and Ad- dington' ad scored 995 ofit of a pos- sible 1,200 points; while the rti iners- up from Durham scored 908.' The competition consisted of a judging. of four classes of swine and answering questions on general management and marketing of swine. The Peel' Coun- ty Holstein Club was high teain in the cattle competition, scoring 1081 out of a .possible 1,200 points, The Cat- tle Club teams judged four classes of cattle and answered , questions on management and care of cattle. The winning teams' from Lennox and Addington and 'Peel will represent • Ontario in the national contests at the Royal Winter Fair. II.�Jt ° tea, �i i.�t�t,k vti .e z