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The Blyth Standard, 1930-03-27, Page 4PAGE 4—THE BLYTH STANDARr—March 27, 1980 SHiP AHOY! The Merin of White Sara Against Blue lig and See Roasts the Bart of Every Briton. Every year the race of the wheat Alpe tram Australia to Europe brings hoose to thotteands of people a sense of the romance and drama of the use Icor the racers are sail - Ing ships—the pick of the few that still keep alive the glories of the old wtndjammer days. By this time some of the chips are on their way; others are getting ready to start, tiblch of them will torfee will be built on the pieties of make the but time? the west to take earlt ed feet sed At the moment, rays Answers, the vegetable harvests. Hersogln Nellie, which wen the last The changing west IS finding elide - three races from Australia to Europe, ly scattered markets for Its dlversi- 1s the favorite, but the Pammern is fled products. Just now the particu- also a possibility, especially as she lar phenomenon of the prairie pro - beat the Hersogin Cecile on a recent winces le the fishing industry. voyage to Australia. Both ships are Far from the sea, these provinces sailing to Falmouth by way of Cape . have a harveet of something like 20, - Horn, 000,000 pounds of whitefish and Although Britain has built the . trout every year, most of the harvest coming in the dead of winter when the eastern Canada and United States markets are at their best, In Saskatchewan a scant army of 1,000 halfbreeds, Indians, Norwe- gians and a few others scour the northern lakes dnring the coldest months of winter. They harvest near- ly halt the crop of western whitefish and trout, To them William Rowan 1s king. ethernet tor replacing her with on- They esti him "Cap" Rowan, or other ocean-going sailing -ship, to be Master of the Fteh. His word is law used tor the same purpose. Title : in the north country and he travele from Prince Albert to the Barrens. Inspector tor the Federal Department of Marines and Flehertes, "Cap" Rowan has mutated over northern Saskatchewan trails for twenty yeare. A short, stocky veteran, whose great- est kick in life is a cigarette at the end of a long day on the trail. He Is a big man In a big country. Last winter Bowan lett Prince Al- bert hound for the Barreua. He plan- ned to Inspect every lake along the route and to travel Into little known country In search for new tithing grounds. Rowan faced groat hazards. He travelled alone in a oountry which has not been reached by the map makers, They know its borders, its outer fringe, but they have learned little of the Interior, The doughty little flatteries inspector chose 50 be- low sero weather to evplore this country. Population is eeanty—Chlpewyans and a few Creee. Trails are treach- erous, with reports of a -number of deaths by drowning on the northern lakes this year. Rowan himself has had some narrow escapes. "Cap" Rowan occupies an import- ant position in 8aekatchewan'e big commercial fishing Industry. For three months after the opening of the northern season in November he travels from lake to lake, sanction- ing or Mopping fishing operations. Ills word to law and the native fish- ermen obey him without dispute. There are no police, no game guard- ians, no other Government agents In the country he travel', But on hie say-so fishing operations cease on one lake and are resumed on another, MASTER OF THE FISH "Cap" Rowan'. Word la Law In the North Country — Harvest. 2,000,000 Pounds. Canada's prairie provinces provide Mote for most of the pancakes and doughnuts eaten in Toronto and Montreal. The hooey on your break- fast table may be from southern Manitoba. Last Sunday's turkey, u likely as not, came from one of the big ranches in Saskatchewan er Al- berta. And there are people who pree diet that a string of canning tat - beet of the world'e salting -ship. --as she now builds the boat steamships -- there is, at the time of writing, no square-rtgred sailing -ship under tho British dig, The last of them, the Garthpool, was wrecked on the Cape Verde islands Met November. The Gutbpeol wasprinclpally used for the training of cadets, and now that she le gone, her owner, Sir Wil- liam Garthwatte, is setting on toot a movement is being enthusiastically supported by those associated with the M. Yet there are big dlfficulttee in the way. In the first place, It is no long- er possible to run a sailing -ship at a profit. Even if a secerd-hand "sail- er" were bought, the loss on working her would be about $10,000 a year. If a new skip were obtained, the lose might be double that. Loss or no lose, however, the sail- ors feel that Britain ought to have at least one saning-ehlp for the train- tgn of young sailors. Germany has actually built sailing -ships for this purpose in recent years, and the windjammers are subsidised in the United States. But the Britlah Gov- ernment, so far, doesn't see Its way to .help. Tbls Is one reason why British i youngsters are often found sailing under foreign !lags. The beat train- ing that a seaman can have le on a sailing -ship, and youngsters who know this, and know that they can't get this valuable experience 011 a British ship, go elsewhere where. I they can get it. If their met/Wong take a eerie% (direction, Indeed, they have to do so. I Before Trinity Nouse will grant a I pilot's license it must be eatfefied that the applicant hoe at least twelve month,' training In malls. That regulation, in itself, is a pretty good testimonial to the value of a galling. ship' training. Waseaflbse Apple Trees. During the month of January, Somerset, England, farmers partici- pated in the time-honored custom of "wassailing" the apple trees so as to insure a bumper apple crop. The ceremony takes place at night by the flickering and uncertain light of the old -worn lantern, The villagers gather in each orchard In turn, round the largest apple trees they can find. A. bucket of cider accompanies them, in which a small piece of toast Is dipped end •placed in the branches. Then an old chant is sung, starting: "01d apple -tree, old apple -tree, we've come to wassail thee," This song concludes with an exhortation to the tree to: "grow apples enow; Hate full, caps toll, three bullet bags full, Big barn floors toll, and a little heap under the stair..,, Then guns are tired and the vil- lagers drink the health of the trees In elder. It 1e a quaint custom, and has been kept up for centuries, Forgetfulneee Benefits Nation. How do folk manage to forget money, mike Looker-on In the Lon- don Daily Chronicle. Dividends on Government stocks are now due, and it ie likely that the Exchequer will benefit (aa it does aunually) by the absent-mindedness of stockholders who fail to claim their share. The amount lett unclaimed averages a quarter of a million pounds a year, which, if the ownership proves un- traceable, is eventually taken over by the National Debt Commleslonere. When Goschen converted the Nation- al Debt in 1889 over 12,000 of the noticee sent to etockholders were re- turned "unknown," and atter every possible inquiry had been made near- ly eight million pounds remained unclaimed. End of the Sunbeam. Known at practically every pert in the world, the Sunbeam, which is shortly to be broken up, has a his- tory unique in the annals of yachts. the was built for the first Earl Sno- wy in 1971, and on her maiden guise, famous through Lady Bras- aey'a book, she travelled 87,000 miles. Since then she bas covered over 500,000 miles and girdled the globe with Lord Braasey many times. to 1906 the stout ofd Sunbeam chal- lenged racing yachts of the latest de- signe in the Atlantic Rao, and gave them the race of their livea. Quite a Bargain. Thinking that his bid of ;12.60 bought only one machine when a 5atob of sia motorcycles were offered et, tuition at Alfreton, England, re- cently, a farrier mounted his pur- chase and rode home. Later he was ❑otided that it he did not take away the other AT. included In the ;18.61.1, lie would he charged storags. 800,00e Depositors. The Glasgow Savidge Bank, which has 300,000 depoeitore, le one of the Largest of, tbeno listitutiona in the Weld. Lod Who Made Good. Some years ago a poor Manchester youth set out ou a voyage of adven- ture. All he took with him was a small paintbrush and palette. He is Mr. Augustus Kenderdine, who now lives on a lonely ranch on the North Saskatchewan river. Many old school friends in Manchester will remember the boy who showed a dis- tinct bent for drawing, and who at- tracted the notice of the famous Bel- gian painter, Lataase, M. Lafosse persuaded Kenderdine's parents to allow him to study painting in Paris, but after this art training young Au- gustus.suddenly sledded to leave home for a lite of adventure. He left the 01d Country for Western Sas- katchewan, where he married, During the long winters he occupies his tlme in palntitteg pictures of the prairies, Some few yeare atter arrly- Ing in Canada he beld an exhlhitlon of hie work and was acclaimed a great artist. Since then he hag ex- hibited at the Bayal Academy and at the Paris Salon. Sayoa Court Park. Sayer Court Park, Deptford, Eng- land, now a recreation ground, is all that remains to -day of John Evelyn's stately mansion and demeene, which figures so trequentiy in that famous author's diary. There he dwelt dur- ing the greater part of his life, and there he entertained, amongst other distinguished guests, Queen Henriet- ta Marla, King Charles II., the Duke of York, Pepys and Dryden. To Sayer Court, too, came Peter the Great to study shipbuilding in Deptford Dock- yard, a doorway being broken through the wall separating the yard from the grounds of Evelyn's man- ston, so as to afford the coat' con- venient !agrees and agrees. EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN AND FARM CATALOGUE TO INTENDING PURCHASERS W".' RENNIE C9 LIMITED, TORONTO ALSO AT MONTREAL• VANCOUVER Too Shy to Wed. Situated In the lovely fruit -grow - Ing dbtrlct of the Cornish valley of the 1 alar, Landulph Is raid to be the shyest village to England. The young folk there are so nervous of one another that there has been but one marriage at the ancient parish church within the past five years. Ac- cording to the rector, the young men think more about playing cricket than they do courting. A churchwarden is optimistic enough to believe that ro- mance will return to the village in due course. CTION SALE IIOUS[HOLD [FFECTS The undersigned auctioneer has received instructions from the executors of the Estate of Emma Dexter, De- ceased, to sell by public auction at her late residence, Dinsley Street, Blyth, commencing at 1.30 p. m. on Sat, March 29, 1930 the following, this is to say: 3 dresses, 2 washstands, extension table, 3 fall leaf tab- les, 10 small tables, 5 rockers, 9 cane chairs, 6 dining chairs, 8 kitchen chairs, 2 sewing machines, 3 knitting machines, 2 glass cupboarA, cook stove, wood stove, 2 base burners, coal oil stove, settee, armchair, 2 small cupboards, organ and stool, 5 wooden bedsteads, 2 springs, 2 mattresses, 3 feather ticks, 4 straw ticks, 2 bolsters, 11 pillows, clothes horse, step ladder, clothes hanger, 2 kitchen clocks, counter, pantry shelves, sin- gle bed couch, kitchen couch, 29 mats, a quantity of rag carpet, 2 club bags, suit case, quantity of dishes, quantity of books, cushions, curtains, 2 kitchen stools, 2 easels, hat rack, quantity of curtain poles, sealers, fruit and pickles, whatnot, 2 toilet sets, window blinds, 5 bird cages, 2 washing machines, iron crib, quantity of garden tools, hanging lamp, 8 lamps, window screens quantity of pictures, lawn mower. kitchen utensils, 2 irofi pots good tea kettle, six 1-2 gallon jars, 3 lamps, iron frying pan, steamer pan, large bake pan, side plate The dwelling a 1 1-2 and 1 storey frame structure will also be offered for sale. Motor Vehlciee In Britain, Between 1921 and 1928 the num- her of motor vehicles In Britain In- creased by 235 per cent.—from 070,- 700 to 2,056,000. It is estimated that In 1928 there was one motor ve- hicle tor every twenty-two persous iu the country and one driving licence for every eighteen persons. Will Meet at Fredericton, N.D. The Canadian Society- of Forest Ra.ngere meet in convention nest s'eatr at Frodoricton, N.B. TERMS CASH. J. H. R.ELLIOTT, JAS. DODDS, Executors. THOS. GUNDRY, Auctioneer. By a vote of 14 to 24 Quebec has again refused to give to women the right to vote in provincial etectione. The crop report for the second week in March indicates a brisk demand for seed in Carleton. Dundas and Dufferin are both apprehensive regarding the unusual weather conditions. Egg prices in Dur- ham are at a very low level. Alfalta and clover ie Halton appear to be favorable at the present time while in Hastings the reverse is true. A good supply of red clover seed obtains in Huron and will re- place alfalfa in many cases, Plowing has already started in Lampton and a great interest in the better cleaning of seed grain is reported. No scarcity of hay ex- ists in Lanark with quantities moving at from $0 to $12 per ton. Fait wheat and clover are good in Lincoln and fruit trees have wintered well. Milk production in Middlesex is adequate to meet all de- mands. In Peel, one farmer reports 150 of 200 trees so badly girdledby rabbits that bridge grafting is useless to save them. Fall wheat and clover look well in ontario, Peterboro and Prince Edward. Conditions are not as good in South Sim- coe but feed is plentiful. In Waterloo fall wheat is In a precarious condition. FOR SALE—Eggs for hatching, from pure bred White Leghorn hens. Apply to Mrs. Chris Rogerson. FOR SALE—Gasoline operated slush pump and 20 feet of hose. Apply at The Standard. tar Will exchange a goose for a gan- der. Anyone wishing to make this change apply to Jame. Wells. The Cradle. DOIIERTY—In Blyth. on Saturday, March 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Doher- ty, a son, MOULTON—in Blyth on Monday, Mar. 24th, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moul- ton, a daughter. RE EEDS BEST GROW EVEAYTHI9 G 9041 THE GARDEN AND FAIN CATALOGUE 1004TENiNNG PURCHASERS W':' RENNIE CI? LIMITED TORONTO ALSO A7 MONTREAL VANCOUVER FARM FOR SALE 100 acres of good land. being Int 21 on the 12th con. of the Tp. of IIullett. 10 acres of bush and pasture. On the farm is situate a good 11; storey brick dwelling; frame barn 50x50 with stone stabling and water in stable. Cement driving shed 50x30 feet. Cement hen house. Drilled well, All land in good state of cultivation. Hydro passes the farm. Farm situate 4 miles from Blyth. Twenty-five acres fall plowed; 3 acres fall wheat, For particul- ars apply to Fred Austin, R, R. 1, Blyth. FARM FOR SALE 100 acres of land, being North / Lot 40, con,3 hast Wawanosh, On the mem ices is situate a good storey frame dwelling; barn 50x00 and 40)(00 with stone stabling. Hen house 20x30, driving shed 30x30, all in good repair. One and a half acres good hearing orchard. The farm is in splendid state of cultivation, well fenceddrained end watered. For particulars apply to Walter McGill, R. It No. 5, Godench. 1®s A Mother's Work is Never Done— but it can be lightened con- siderably by the installation of an Empire Duro Water Supply System in the home. A kitchen sink, laundry tubs, both with Emco faucets—and best of all a modern bathroom completely furnished withFixtures and Fittings of guarantee,? Emco construction. Such a bathroom is a joy and will give lasting satisfaction. An Empire Duro Water Sys- tem will serve all these improve- ments with a constant pressure water supply, Models for deep or shallow well operation, suitable for faun, suburban or country homes with a capacity of 250 gallons or more per hour. See your local dealer and he wilt be glad to show you the system most suited to your needs. For sale by MUNRO BROS. Blyth, Ont. Pressure Water Systems 9 and Bathroom Fittin¢s, FOR SALE—Seed Barley 0. A. C No, 21. $1.00 per bushel. Apply to Leo Watt .FOR SALE—Raymond Sewing Mach. ine in first-class order, Apply at Th, Standard. FOR SALE — Buckeye incubator, in good condition capacity 220 eggs. Ap- ply to Mrs, P. 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