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Want Ads. in The Advance Bring Results Thursday, May 13th, 1926 MONARCH ffosmNE _Â¥YY ~protection against "runs"â€"and the lasting beauty of pure thread silkâ€" and the long wear of fibre silk "reinforcement" â€"and still pay only $1â€"then you‘ll ave the equal of this hosâ€" iery! But try and get it!â€" outside of Monarch Green Stripe. _ All good dealers carry Monarch Hosiery, WHEN you get double nroftection acainst Telephones 608â€"J and 608â€"W. 78 THIRD "Several hundred dollars have been received in donations to the Miller Memorial Fund whiclh=is being sponâ€" sored in the camp. The chairman of the T. N. 0. Commission, George W. Lee, has announced that a site for the proposed memorial will be presented in centre of the flower bed at the south end of the station here. It is intended to raise an appropriate stone, with a bronze plate depicting the late provincial geologists‘s head and shoulders in bas relief, and with a suitable inseription. â€" This, it is felt, would be the most fitting tribute to the memory of the man who gave to Cobalt the name by which it known throughout the world."" COBALT MEMORIAL TO THE LATE DR. MILLER. The Cobalt Northern News last week says :â€"â€" «_ Henry I established the yard as the distance from the point of his nose to the end of his thumb. It is not recorded how often he was called upon by the surveyors of that day to renâ€" der the necessary assistance in graduâ€" ating their measures with the legal standard ors what ambiguities may have resulted from this peculiar method or measurement. _ Equally curious was the derivation of the rood in Germany in the sixteenth century. Koebel‘s work on serveying relates that "‘to find the length of a rood in the right and lawful way, and accordâ€" Perhaps the most curious of these old standards was the inch in the reign of Henry III of England. In 1224 the rule was laid down that three barleycorns equal one inch. The barleycorns were to be dry and were to be taken from the middle of the ear and laid end to end. The rule continued that 12 inches equal one foot; 3 feet equal one ell or ulna ; 5% ulna equal one perch ; 40 perches long and 4 in breadth equal one acre. The measurement of land therefore dependâ€" ed on the fundamental unit of a barâ€" leyeorn. One can readily see the multiâ€" plication of error which must result in the measurement of land and the trouble it would in this age where city frontage often reaches a value of several thousand dollars a foot. A survreyor‘s steel band tape 100 feet in length can be measured with an error not exceeding one oneâ€"thouâ€" sandth of an inch. This is an inâ€" teresting fact mentioned in a recent report of the Physical Testing Laborâ€" atory of the Topographical Survey, Department of the Interior, at Ottawa. How is this done and what is the purpose of such accurate measureâ€" ments, the layman may ask? _ The question can best be answered by considering the origin of some of the standards of length of the past and imagining the difficulties that would result were surveyors in Canada to survey valuable city lots with the statutory unfts of length of earlier times. Contrasted with the Scientific Plans Now in Use. Interâ€" esting Tales of Early Land Measurement. Standard of Linear Measurement in Canada is a Bronze Bar Sent Here from London in 1874. Some Amusing Old Methods of Securing Measurements THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO. ass, : iWM a A J it reaches your table y elicl fI’CSh ‘ KW : 101151)’ W t W Â¥ /Â¥ )08\ «id )\P “.- ‘nfii }' A R c \ t PsP _ es SEALED TWICE SORE THROAT FROST BRUISES SPR THE QNLY GENUINE 15 PERAY ODALS PAINMMALLER AP PLYÂ¥ iT FOR Dominion Land Surveyors are reâ€" quired by statute to have a steel band tape, of which the length has been determined. A certificate is supplied by the Physical Testing Laâ€" The standard rules of the Topograâ€" phical Survey for calibrating measures of length are kept at the Physical Testing Laboratory. There is equipâ€" ment here for determining lengths to the finest limits of aceuracy. While under observation the rules are kept in a bath of distilled water to ensure uniform ~temperature and megasureâ€" ments are made with the aid of special highâ€"power microscopes. _ In order to avoid multiplication of error in extending the unit measure over the length of 100 feet, measurements of the single unit may be made to an accuracy of one fiftyâ€"thousandth of an inch. But the fact remains that the standard of measure in Canada is a bronze. bar similar to the Imperial standard yard legalized in (1875. Three copies were sent to Canada in 1874 but two were lost in the fire which destroyed the Parliament Buildâ€" ings at Ottawa in 1916. The disâ€" tance between two fine lines on the surviving bar in the custody of the Weights and Measures Standards Branch of the Department of Trade and Commerce is the legal unit of measurement of length in Canada as established by the Weights and Meaâ€" sures Act. Standards of length have varied throughout the ages from country to country, from county to county, and even from one vill@ge to a neighbourâ€" ing village. Many attempts have been made to select a standard not depenâ€" dent on a recognized physical measurâ€" ing rod. _ French engineers spent seven years in determining the length of the metre and even then failed to obtain the millionth part of the earth‘s quadrant to the accuracy !de« sired. Others have attempted to reâ€" late measures of length to time by the determination of the length of a penâ€" dulum vibrating seconds, thus estabâ€" lishing a measurement of length funâ€" damentally related to the time of reâ€" volution of the earth, ing to scientific usage, you shall do as follows: Stand at the door of a church on Sunday and bid sixteen men to stop, tall ones and small ones, as they happen to pass out when the service is finished; then make them put their left feet one behind the other, and the length thus obtained shall be a right and lawful rood to survey the land with, and the sixâ€" teenth part of it shall be a right and lawful foot.""‘ We are not told what authority there was to compel these men to stop and line up or what the penalty would be in case of refusal. And that is why we are able to give our moneyâ€" back guaranteeâ€"printed in red on each waxâ€" wrapper. Look for it. Fresh and crisp from the toasters, Quaker Corn Flakes is sealed immediately in the carton. To absolutely protect the corn flakes from moisture and foreign taint, the carton is covered with a waxâ€"wrapper, which is also sealed. That is why Quaker Corn Flakes has all its original goodness and flavour when it reaches your table. FROST BITES SPRAINS uaker Corn (Way â€"wrapped) boratory for each tape tested. This tape must, in each ease, be handled with care and on no ageeount used for field work for fear of altering its length by getting bent or twisted. With this tape the surveyor checks his field tapes from time to time. It is therefore necessary in these days of very high land values that his fundamental unit of length be known with a high degree of accuracy and the testing of tapes is therefore one of the important funcetions of the laâ€" boratory. Recently in this district some of the police are said to have centred on enforeing the trivial regulations in regard to automobile operation, such as the rule regarding rear lights, etc. This has not occurred in the town, but it is reported from other places in the district. The Advance has no desire to handicap the police in the fulfilâ€" ment of their duty, but it is submitted that trivial infractions of the motor rules should not be aired in court. For these minor matters the practice elsewhere is to give a warning. In most eases this warning will be all that is necessary. A motorist who makes a minor mistake of any kind will be grateful for a warning and will wateh more closely the next time. The real purpose of the law will thus be achieved, with the minimum of fuss and eost to the good citizen. Of course, if a warning is not taken in good part, or is not heeded, then the offender should feel the force of the law. At the present time there are seriâ€" ous dangers to the public from motor traffic,â€"the menace of the drunken or reckless driver.. Motorists and police and public alike should work together to eliminate these perils, and it is a fact that if there are petty proâ€" secutions for minor offences there cean not _be>â€" wholeâ€"hearted good humoured _ coâ€"operation that. there should be. In addition, if the time of the police is takem up with trifling things there is the tendeney to overâ€" look the serious matters. It would be: well for the police generally to adopt the city plan of a warning for the unimportant infractions of the highways regulations, and centre all real efforts on the eonviection of the ecriminally foolish who imperil pubâ€" lic safetv by driving motor cars in reckless manner or with a driver unâ€" der the influence of liquor. POLICE AND MOTORISTS SHOULD WORK TOGETHERE FPollowing a suggestion made at a society or club meeting in Timmins, The Advance has been acknowledgâ€" ing in these colums all the donatmm made to the fund for establishing the V.O.N. in Timmins. It is an odd fact that through an inadvertence, the very first donation made to the fund has been overlooked. The Adâ€" vance learned last week that the very first contribution to this good cause was from the Timmins (‘ouncxl of the Knights of Columbus. This contriâ€" hutmn amounted to $20.77 and being given at the very commencement of' the campaign for funds had a double virtue because of being= given so quickly. _ Accordingly in â€" further acknowledgments of the contributions received in the V.O.N. fund campaign the prompt and early donation from the K. of C. should head the list. FiRaT GONTRIBUTION T0 A.O.N. FUND BY K. OF C. Donation That Was the Very First \to be Made Inadvertently Orgitâ€" ted from the List in The Advance ) At the meeting last week of the Mmm«r (,()Iporatlon of Canada, a <shdrehnlder from the North Land is credited with telling a very interâ€" esting and entertammg qton as to how the Flin Flon mire reeeived its name. According to this story, when Jack Hammell (now equally famous for his connection with the Red\ Lake discoveries) and Rhis were paddling down the lake on which the Flin Flon discovery was made they joked about a book: they Rad found on the shore of the Iake./ This book was a tale of a Chinaman named Flin Flon, who had diseovered a bottomâ€" less lake. _ According to the book that amused the party so much, this Flin Flon invented a boat in which he made a trip. to find the bottom of the lake. On tkis trip he encountered a complete mew world where the woâ€" men were the bosses, instead of the men. This state of affairs did not appeal to the Chinaman, Flin Flon, and he decided to get back to. earth where things were more seemly. ~He started back for the surface of the bottomless lake, and when the woâ€" men of the underwater kingdom saw him leaving they took after him with stiecks, giving him a merry chase. It can easily be imagined how much the Hammell party would enjoy such a fantasy as this Flin Flon yarn and how the book woulid be diseussed with all sorts of humourous allusions. The North Land man coneluded his story thus :â€" " ‘LNMENT The officers were told that Lambert had taken a number of spells this winter. On one dccasion, he walked into a settler‘s house and demanded to see the man, stating he wanted‘ to kill him. It is reported that he made similar threats many times. He is now in the jail here awaiting examinâ€" ation as to his sanity. A few days later when Hammell‘s party discovered the historic break which has now become Flin Flon mineâ€"one of them said: ‘‘This looks like the placc where old Flin Flon came upâ€"‘ STORY REGARDING ORIGIN OF THE NAME ‘"FLIN FLON®‘ Finally Lambert broke away from those who were holding him and as he reached the entrance with his rifle in position for shooting, Clarke grappled with him and at the same time shifted the barrel of the vifle upwards out of danger. The two enâ€" gaged in a desperate fight inside the shack for 20 minutes and Consta‘ble Clarke finally subdued‘ his opponent. So they called it "Flin Flon‘‘â€"and Flin Flon it was incorporated. The officers left for (Foulais Bay Monday might when residents of the district phoned in that the man was insane, and threatening murder. When the officers came clobe to the house, the sereams of a woman and children were heard inside. _ Mrs. Lambert came outside and beaged theparty to leave for fear smnethmfl' terrible would happen. She told the officers her husband had a loaded rifle and threatening to shoot anyhbody who came in sight. She also told them one shot had‘ been fired at a bush which he had taken for an officer. Clarke has a badly mangled hand, his injuries being caused by Lamâ€" bert‘s teeth dm'mfr the hfl‘ht Lamâ€" bert‘s right ear was all but torn off as the result of a terrible blow from Clarke which knocked the madman out.. POLIGE SUBOUE MADMAN AFTER FIERGE STRUGGLE Sault ‘Ste. Marie Officers Put in Terrible Twenty Minutes with Man Weighing 200 1bs. Saturday, May Selfâ€"Denial T pouGlAS CQ MANYUFACTURERS, RAAPANEE OLF az 1)ay 22nd, will hbe the 8. x Dav. # AT ALL DEALERS