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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE Flood Stories The Fergus News-Rtcord Recalls Some of the Queer Incidents Now that the flood of February 21 Is fading into the ■ ^st and we have had a week to think over what we saw and heard, a few pictures to remain. Perhaps they are typical of the flood time anywhere. We didn't see them all, but we did see many of them, and the others were picked - up from the arsons who were on the spot. We have seen the river break up many times, but there is always an air of unreality when these disasters happen. We think of the following: A man living with his family in a house, two or thre efeet above the water, with the river rising quickly and steadi'y. He was warned to be ready to move, but he wouldn't go. Only after some persuasion would he promise that he would watch carefully and go If he had to. It was easy to believe that people along the Ohio had to be forced out of their houses. Standing in the shelter of a group o fcedars on that Sunday afternoon, for protection from the rain, and watching the upper edge of the ice Jam at the third concession of West Garafiaxa. There is a valley that might be used for a storage dam just three miles from Fergus. A man sitting on his back step trying to revive a cold, wet hen, the only surviving bird of a flock of fifteen in a henhouse now under the ice. A man chopping his way through four feet of ice in an attempt to reach his stable. The queer Hallowe'en tricks played by the river in those places where house lacked bathrooms and indoor "conveniences'* (as the ads say). One little outhouse was carried sixty feet or more and deposited, upside down, outside a kitchen door. Seeing the water louring around the en dof a garage :igh on a hill inn Fergus, and apparently far away from any flood danger. Watching the erosion of fields on the hillsides a mile or two away. The chocolate fluid was pouring down down the hills and piling up against the fences at the bottom. Returning home and finding our own garden washed into deep furrows, with hyacinth and other bulbs washed out of their beds. Seeing the Grand River rushing over familiar fields and roads, a hundred yards or more from-.the banks of the stream. Seeing a couple scrubbing . the filthy mud rut of their house the day after. A quarter of an inch of chocolate goo had to be scraped off first and then two scrubbings after that. -AThis was the good top. those fields upstream. Noting how trees held --particularly cedar tree Kill! Kill! Kill! On Willi L;e dance! Step on it: we are late! Hello, there are a couple of cars that have run into each other head on! Hurry past! There are dead and wounded people there on the grass. We might have to go to court as witnesses, or cany them to a hospital! Shoot the gas to her. You can pass that truck before we get to the top of the hill. Hurry1 Cosh you almost hit that old lady" Why do people tllow women as old as that to got out 011 the highway? They are all hen-minded. We niigh'. have hurt her. There is a hole you can break through in that line of traffic. Give her the gun! Gee, that was close! Did you hear that fellow swear? We didn't, hit him. What's he got to complain about? Blow that horn and make that guy get over where he belongs! Why. the fool won't give us the right of way! He can't be going more than forty-fi c. Hoy/ -;an he expect to stay on the pavement at that pace? Hit her up around the right side there! Boy, that scared htai! Maybe that will teach him to keep END PAIN -- Soothe SORE HANDS by Rubbing in K ^"KIHG OF HUN" DURING MOTHERHOOD over where he belongs! I- thought for a minute wc were going to turn turtle. Look, there s another accident! That car is on its top with its wheels in the air! Looks like a bug on its back, doesn't it? There was blood on the gra^s. Some one must have been badly hurt. Crazy fools, they don't know how to drive, yet they get right out into traffic. Watch that woman! She is driving all over the road! run up alongside her and give her a ^last on the horn! Whvw! Did>'t her fender nick ours when she swerved? I believe it did. Thank most particular about the milk she heaven she didn't lock fenders with us! It might have caused an accident. I hate women drivers! Cut around that fellow. Never mind the curve. There isn't anything coming. Crash! Where am 1? What has happened to me, doctor? My leg has been taken off? My God! While it is true a lot of money is spent each years for fun, there are some folks who never seem to have MARRIED When 1 put out to sea on matrimony's bounding main I thought it all would be sunshine and never no rain. When 1 put out to see I'll tell the world I saw, Now she rules over me; 1 hold my hands in awe. Tom--Is there any difference in meaning between sight and vision? Harry--I should say so. My girl and yours is a sight. A small boy handed in the following in a history examination paper:-- "General Braddock was killed :n the Revolutionary War. He had three horses shot under him and a fourth went through his clothes. Little Hinks presented himself at the office with :i noticeable gap in his upper dentui Only d<?Little Hinks- N. with m>' wife. Bookkeeper-- What! You surely didn't come to blows? Little Hinks--Oh, no. But next time I gnash my teeth I'll remember to take my pipe out of my mouth. Jimmy (at breakfast table) -- Well, Dad, I've done my good turn for the day. Dad--What? You've been very quick about it. What did you do? Jimmy--It was easy. I saw old Mr. Brown going for the seven-thirty train, and he was afraid he would miss it, so I let our dog loose, p.nd Mr. Brown got to the sta- A tip to the ambitious:-- Don't let your system reek with greed, For Xale is onl.v. . . bitter weed. Wife (telephoning)--I wish you would come home dear; I think the baby has swallowed my pencil. Hubby--I'll be right over, dear. In the meantime what are you doing? Wife--Using my fountain pen. When Light* Fail--and Fires Die Before our marriage, he told me we'd never live in gloom. He sail the sunshine of my smile would always light the room. To tell the truth. I smile no more. I've lived with him two years, And he's so disagreeable my smiles have turned to tears. He said'that we would not need heat on any zero night. Because the warmth of his deep love would keer. our fires bright. Had I iepended on his word-- my; what ■<■ situation I'd be in now--in darkest night -- On Taking A Pig For A Walk The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Britain is always Hindi's out omething or other. The latest bulletin say it has been demonstrated that it a pig is taken for a brisk walk of half a mile or so before beinj killed the bacon is, better flavore-' The walk is said to make the pig's tissues more alkaline and this has been found beneficial in '."i.; curing process observes the Pet-cr'ooro Examiner. The trouble would be in taking a young pig for < walk. One could do that with a horse or a cow, but a pig is different, it doe snot seem to appreciate human company unless at meal times or on some occasion when when one might be inclined to scratch the pig's back. On the days when they used to ship pigs from the village there was opportunity to come into contact with a little cash recompense for exercising the degree of physical effort necessary in driving the pigs from the village weigh scales to the cattle yard at the station. There was a difference between the h.nount paid to the experienced pi driver and the one who was just learning the business. The oy with experience came with his own gad and he knew something of how to yell at the pigs and engineer heir turning at the right corner. lie could earn 15 cents per shipping, and it was paid in cash. The driver who was yet an amateur in the estimation of the shippers had to be content with 10 cents. Recol. tion is that the pigs never did go at a brisk walk; it was always something like a dog walk. Apparently they did not know where they were going; it was the first time they had ever seen the main street of a village first time they had ever passed the band stand at the edge URSDAY, MARCH 25th, 1937 J| long Canada's Mining Highway Que iec supplied most important during the past week. Manitou property, better the Golden Manitou, enc high-grade gold-zinc ore diamo id drilling. It has been known that t ie contact that appears to be respoi sible for the largo orebodies on Damaque continued easterly Uirouj h the Golden Manitou and Flemi tg properties. The finding of the w We vein containing the above-lenti >ned high-grade sulphide ore major mining --A located a few miles to the west of the Quebec boundary, supplied other important news. The finding of high-grade ore on the first level west added importantly to an already impressive large tonnage mine development. The proving of a new oil field by the Plains Petroleum Company by the bringing in of a producing well on the Company's 6,000 acre tract located thirty miles east of Lethbridge and eighty miles south-east of Turner Valley is a development of probable far reaching importance. Gardening By GORDON L. SMITH ARTICLE NO. 5. The seed catalogue is a thoroughly reliable guide for any gardener. It is illustrated with actual photographs. Those catalogues put out by the large firms contain much more than a mere mention of the many flowers and vegetables available in Canada. They specify important points, such as time of planting, resistance or lack of resistance to frost, height, color, season of blooming, whether scented, and also the suitability of the flower for cutting purposes. Ah of these points should be taken into consid- Majestic Sentinel Looking down on the Hudson Rive at Bear Mountain, N.Y., is this huge sented to Interstate Park by Commiss head is 14 feet high. d the surrounding country ize-plated elk's head, pre-• Victor H. Berman. The of the arket ed s mnds ( Sat- KARNESS AND COLLARS Farmers Attention--Spring is nearly here. Consult your nearest Harness Shop about Staco Harness Supplies. We sell our goods only through your local Staco Leather Goods dealer. The goods are light, and so are our prices. We manufacture in our factories -- Harness, Horse Collars, Sweat Pads, Horse Blankets, and Leather Travelling Goods. Insist on Staco Brand Trade Marked Goods, and you get satisfaction. .Made only by: Samuel Trees Company Limited 663 King St. West, Toronto WRITE FOR CATALOGUE Issue No. 13 - ■day evening; first time they had ever gone up the street that led to the whitewashed yard where they entrained. The first ant1, the last time for all these experiences. The belief was firmly established then that it is not possible to take a hog for a ijrisk walk; that belief we hold today. The hog does not undc"-stand what is meant by a brisk walk and we do not know how the thing could be explained to him. That is unless hogs know a great deal more today than when they were driven from the village weigh scales to the shipping yards of the Grand Trunk Railway, there to be picked up and attached to the "mixed" train which departed at 7.15 in the quiet hours of .!ie evening. eration in planning a real garden, authorities state, as only with such knowledge can a comprehensive and practical scheme be worked out. FLOWER PLANNING For instance, little plants must not be hidden by tall things, and there should be as much bloom in the garden as possible from early June on. The most satisfactory planting, also, will give plenty of material for bouquets and there sho/uld be some plants noted for the r scent. A good flower garden refect the individual preference of the owner ant (here will be something to fit every occasion. C NEW VEGETABLES With literally thousands of vegetal le varieties and types available dens in nearly any part of Algoma McCarthy Wefcb Golden Canada, it is a good policy to add at least something new and unfamiliar each season. This may not be new advice to the gardener whose huge, luscious tomatoes take prizes in the Fall Shows, and whose corn is known about the neighborhood for its sweetness, but to those ordinary amateurs who grew a pea, bean, corn and tomato garden, with no variety from year to year, it should awaken a little curiosity. Hrere are a few uncommon edibles which can be easily grown, and variety adds interest to vegetable gardening:-- leek--a fine onion-like flavorer for soups and stews; marrow --is delicious when fried; chicory, cr French endive -- for winter salads; salsify or oyster plant--i root with a distinctive flavor which can be left in the ground ever winter; and there are many others. Look for them in the new catalogues. I use a Fine Cot grand! Fragrant, mellow Ogden's--that corrals full smoking enjoyment for roll - your - owners. Whether you're already an old roll hand or are "fixln' to start in now'* try Ogden's with "Chantecler' or "Vogue" papers. That com bination will teach you all there is to know about pleasure in rolling your own. 15c Buys a fs ___™.bigger package Your Pipe gt Largest Exporter Of Wheat in World wording to the International lute of Agriculture, the gross d exports of wheat for the 10-period 1926-35, reached their maximum in the xears 1927, 1928, A Lot of Snooping Americans are reminded of a seldom-noted blessing by the experience, in no way unusual, of a traveler who has just arrived in London from Istanbul. H« patienty compiled a log of official inspections endured at the eight borders he crossed, by two sets of inspectors at each. Sixteen times his baggage was ransacked, his passport inspected, his money checked and counted. Twice in the Balkans he was searched for firearms and explosives. In the 2,000-mile journey. 42 officials looked him and his lelongings over. He traveled by sleeper train, but there were no scruples about interrupting travelers' slumbers. Our traveler passed all the inspections successfully; otherwise, he might now be languishing fn a foreign jail. All this is commonplace in Europe. The "See America First" cata-paignwrs could benefit their cause and show up some of the domestic faultfinders by calling attention to-fault-finders by calling attention to our citizens' freedom from officio) snooping. 781,002,518 bushels, and 746,879,754 bushels, respectively were exported. Yearly declines are show in wheat exports for the years 1932 to 1935, the result largely of importing countries taking steps to become self-sufficient In regard to wheat pioduc- Canada is the largest exporter of wheat in the world, according to the flve-year average (1926-1930). Canada's average for the five years was 256,862,886 bushels, compared with the Argentine average for the same period of 149,785,696 bushels. The United States was third with 116,-210,230 bushels. During the last five years (1931 to 1935, inclusive) wheat exports from Canada averaged 189,-779,890 bushels annually, again placing Canada as the leading wheat exporting country. For the first five-year period (1931-35), annual average exports from Argentina amounted to 144,481,566 bushels, placing Argentina again in second place, while Australia replaced the United States as third largest "'heat exporter with an annual average of 101,217,302 bushels. The other principal wheat exporters in order of annual average during the last five-year period (1931-35) were as follows: Soviet Russia, United States, Hungary, Germany, Rumania, Algeria, France and French Morocco. The world exports when divided into British Ilnpire and Foreign countries for the five-year average (1931-35) amounted to 330,165,797 bushels (British Empire) and 363,-352 bushels (foreign countries). In 1931 British Empire exports were 329,282,424 bushels, while those of foreign countries were 417,597,330 bushels. 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