-- AND THE -- BARRIE. Eddy s Matches. T-HURSDAY, FEB. 27m, I , . i '11: along the lines of technical or 1. dustrial training, to which the .\11I;I e .ter has been devoting coxmdcra'3{ attention. It is not i!I1pI'Qi)`ii)iL`tn0I. he may suggest the appoiiitxxicnnt an advisory commission to clt'<}1;]i5 the more intricate phases 0! id project, upon which the_ Pl1i)i!C acrlts `High Schools, the laboring mtcrr and the manufacturers ma) be r presented. 4`! The legislation dealing with Ef"`_`"t [:0 tgrban Public Schools, prom15`?d In the address from the Throne, Im probably be ideqitied with a~ser1cf of important and far-reaching Chm es in the general` educational System 1' E.P.P *1 - 1 T T A delicious drink and a sustainin food. Fragrant, nutritious and economical. This excelient C060` maintains the system in robust Mimi. 1|IId- anables it to resist "`gt.9_"` `_xrm.cold _ _ p. :. wuxmz, President ALIX. LAIRD, General Hunger 3L. n. nznumw, Suporintendonto! h R Q` s-.----. You cannot` `possibly have C knit`;- Ag Gland: Ill cannot si ly hm _a_2_ottor gases tlm_I_ j Acct L; Withi abits I asscd he mui is Iunc y unnc uilding, AL, (1 es}: her My :1 pint. wk]: uw 'ghl_V 1' (1 add arsh, 01%: n, ' nstunt C Ihhll ut the asscd. T h C 1 hunts i undn- BANKING `BY MAIL.-Deposits "may be made or .withdrawn mail, Out-of-town accounts receive every attention .' ]("rk\ ix (`Ht Hf (:ing (A elungm tars p .,1 .,..'. '\ L`]_\' out 1 lwzlyr 341 btii llh U CFC IICL`, I\. Lilli, hcquc. kc clu CVC1 UC C`, SCCI1 OUTSC V ospcrit Branches throughout Canada, and in` the United stages and England dvancx-1 hmd erxty, 1 orning tion w ntcnm mc fun `ace W1 ncml. ed sn S11]: m. Ct thn erc uh 1HlC>1 Ind` 1h (3 53.111 Thef y .V\_r Benn- D hls `aim-< Ivory facility aorded. Farmers for their bankin business. Sales Notes cashed or taken" ` for collection o n u um Whl LIA _)bS( tn- eliciou 3(1 xuull hi mun `omen 'ro'1'u'nrro in-t\\`c{ thza mu A GENERAL `BANKING BUSINESS TRANSLCTED ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE. BARRIE BRANCH FARMEEF BANKING ; Paid-up Capital; 010,000,000 __A. v E nnn nnn i2E't,- - - 5,ooo,noo ; Total Assets, - ._ 113,000,000 An unfavourable feature of the sit- uation for several years was a tend- ency on the part of farmers to mar- ket their hogs in an unnished con- dition. Sometimes from lack of grain, oftener through the fear of taking lower prices later, hogs were sold in such condition, or at such weights, that the whole trade suff- ered from a surfeit of light or unn- ished product. This tendency is b.e- coming less pronounced in Ontario,: as hogs in that province are being' better nished now than in the past, but in the province of Quebec, where too little coarse grain is grown, too many hogs are_ marketed in an un- I nished condition. putation. The great lack is "quantity. During these periods of ebb we lose the business purchased during pre- vious periods. of high tide in deliv- eries. This all means waste of mon- ey -when at a later period, under heavier delivery, we have to buy back the business once again. .During the past_ two seasons sev-i eral features have retarded the ex- tension of our bacon trade. With ifair to good prices throughout the season the packing houses have not had sufficient hogs of any sort to .keep their plants going at anything like their full capacity. `This is at- tributed to the growing prosperity of the farming class, together with a scarcity of farm help. The bacon industry of Canada,i worth some eighteen million dollars `annually, is surely worthy of the earnest support of farmers. The chief weaknesses are the irregular` supply and a failure in many sections to meet the requirements of the trade by not producing the type of hog called for. The diiculty re- garding supply may be overcome by a closer study of the question of the production of winter and spring` [litters and the cheaper production I of hogs at all seasons. . The farmer who feeds his growing hogs and breeding stock in a close" pen on an almost exclusive diet of grain is not going to continue to raise pork for the reason that he cannot make -it protable. He must use green crops, roots, dairy by-products and other refuse, and care for his animals in such a way that the very best re- turns will be received from the food given. I _G'RKSET.T. Manager Ans'r.u%us_'nu-:n 1861 86 Bgitish Scientist Says too Much Water Being Taken by Power ` Companigs. A . . scientist, commissioned by the geolo- gical `_ survey of_' Canada to `investigate the`. Niagara'Falls problem, has been discussing the effect ofthe utilisa- tion of its waters by power plants upon its scenic. beauty. At the in- stance of the American Civic Feder- ation Dr. Spencer appeared before the house, rivers and harbor commit- tee and presented data concerning the requestof the Ontario Power Co, for a power franchise. To dev- elop this power would require forty thousand cubic feet of water per sec- ond, which Dr. Spencer contended, was from 20 to 25 per cent. of the discharge of Niagara river, `and would greatly impair the character- istics of the whirlpool rapids, lower the river bed up to the falls, break up the surface rock at the foot of the American falls and Goat Island, and thereby cause a more rapid reces- sion of the horseshoe. ' Dr. J. yA.i Spencer,i'the British] The woman who has an uncertaini income is the one who nds it hard-l est to lay by a small sum regularly. She who knows that at the end of the month or the beginning, or once in every week, a certain sum will be handed to her, which will have to do until the period of receiving comes round again, is in a better position to plan just how much-less she can make. do, and to immediately place [that much beyond her immediate` reach. For though the resolution may be good, if the saved money is kept in the house there is sure to rise an occasion on which some of it will be` borrowed. It is a good deal easier to borrow than to pay back, and the money in the bureau drawer will accumulate more slow- ly, without reckoning on the fact that it is not drawing interest, than will the same sum placed regularly in the savings bank. I `is markediby a rimover which the As the beginning of `these rapids flow of water is already thin, said! Dr. Spencer, the diversion of the water would destroy about 800 feet of flow on the eastern side of the great horseshoe and break up the American falls into separate streams.` The total length of both falls would. be contracted roughly from four` thousand` feet to sixteen hundred feet. This diversion of water, will produce a shrinkage of the horse- shoe, so that what remains will be entirely on the Canadian side of the boundary line. ' Three hundred million acres is the` latest estimate of the forest area of Canada. This was given recently by Dr. B. F. Fernow, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, in the Univer- sity of Toronto, Dr. Fernow was for years engaged in forestry work in the United `States, and is regarded as one of the best authorities on. forestry and. timber on this contin- ent. Dr. Fernow said: If we look at this. vast forestarea from the manufacturer s point of view, .from -the standpoint of supplies for the arts and industries, `of its commer- cial value, and study merely the geo-i graphy and nature of the country in the light of thereports on the more or less outlying. -parts of the same, we will come to the conclusion that` three hundred million acres, and per- haps less, will cover fully -the com- mercially valuable timberland area, actual and potential, or not much more `than one-half.'of the commer- cial forest A area _of the United States." . i He argued that the lowering of` the water `in the basin above the up- per rapids would increase the slope of the river so that the surface of Lake Erie would be lowered. by three 'feet, which in turn would lower lak-1 1 es Huron and Michigan._ I A1ready with a partial use Lake ;Erie has been lowered ten inches. This amount of lowering includes `that of the Chicago canal, which at present is.ta_king ve thousand cubic .feet a second. In connection with the calculations for repairing the *harbors and canals thus damaged;l {the United `States engineers calculat-i ed that to increase the depths of the Chicago canal even one foot would cost over $12,000,000. 1 The woman who saves,`if it be on- ly a dollar` a month, which She can `spare, has a decided advantage over the woman who spends every ishe gets, and who in an emergency `has to borrow from her friends cent ini order to meet it. It is hard for` some women to spare anything to save, but it is hardly` ever impos- sible, and the woman who has once experienced the satisfaction of the thought that no matter what happens she` will not be entirely stranded while the little bit of savings is in the bank will not need to be urged to try and put by a little, be it ever so little, for a rainy day. bww-In 'vvu.u rcgaru` I20 l'a.l|l'O3(1S tles the. estimates" have been changed in a . diametrically opposite manner. `The Canadian -Northern, the Nation- al ranscontinental and` the Canad- .:ian;QPacic [R-ailwa y s .ar'e}1l, _d.rawin"g 'un`nn Ontana now 1 1-1.... .....s.. ...g lhogs in Canada so regular .48, inthe main, , _ _ t` N `9iisi_st_eat purchaser `of o,ne`.~brand of `(If _his, supply from` a certain , g _ _, W . ejr ~falls', 'ishort.. iuseeks anO'ther' lgratids vainuua DUUILCD aa auuuvva ."`.l.`l.Uul the United States the product of about 7o,ooo hogs; Denmark, about 35,000; Canada, about 30,000; Ire- land, about 10,000, and continental Europe the product of about 5,000 hogs per week. - It will thus be seen that Canadian bacon _is about 20 per cent. of the total quantity imported by {Great Britain. This, considering the im- portance of our `agricultural and dairying industries, can -`h-ardly be regarded as a satisfactory percent- age. Moreover, we are hardly hold- ing our position is relation to other countries. Denmark has improved her position during the last seven years by about 40 per cent-, while during that time Canadian exports have been practically stationary. Numerous causes may be cited for the difference in the progress made in hog raising by Canada and Denmark. In the latter country a thorough system of co-operation is in progress not only in a united en- deavor to produce hogs of-only the desired weights and form, but also to keep up a regular supply through- out the year and from year to year. In Canada is it quite different. While the improvement in the qual- ity of hogs produced has for a num- ber of years been very general, it. has not been nearly so pronounced` as it would have been with greater cooperation. Nor is the supply of _ as in Denmark, either throughout the year or from season to scason..~"`Raising hogs in fair quantity when. prices are high, going out of them, whole or in `part, when prices are low, too many farmers deny them- selves the advantage of a good aver- age price, and make . impossible a steady inroad into . the English ba- con market, which must have ' quan-. tity-and steady quantity-_ at 'that-.-to `back it up. Such spasmodic` `support spells ruin to `the. Canadian` bacon- `grade, because the ,En`gli_sli `customer _a conservative. and ,,.3F".'- ,_ W_-'_g8`i0III`.0 in. The most urgent need of the ba- con industry is a steady, persistent support, begotten of the belief that year in and year out hog-raising pays when pursued along right lines. If this is done there are great possibilities for -Canadianbacon `Be- cause of distance from ma'rket and the demand for an exceedingly mild- cured article, Canadian bacon has not, up to the present time, sold on even terms with the best Irish or Dansih -brands, which are within a couple of days of the market. ~Hom_ ever, with improved cold storage facilities on steamships and at Brit- ish ports, the difference in price be-i tween Canadian and the more popu-I lar European brands is gradually be-} ing overcome, and the finest Cana- dian is rapidly approaching the top price paid for bacon in Britain. Our bacon occupies a, position some shill- lings per hundredweight bett_er than ',A_i_nerican and, with its growing! ,popularity with the English consum- `er, it should be the bacon of the peo- ple in just the same way that Cana- dian chese isithe cheese of the peo- ple of Great Britain.` That it may occupy this. position, however,-`there must be, on the part of the farmers, persistent and. increased raising of hogs during periods of low prices as W611 .88 high; the hogs marketed must conform to market require- ments as regards type, quality `and weight. To_the extent that Cana- dian.h_og raisers comply with these conditions they do their part to- _wards building up a very desirable and valuable trade 'with Great Brit- ain and other countries looking. for becon of. high quality; on the other hand, those` who persist ..in raising hogs spasmodically or of poor`_`typ'e, and disposing of them either too fati or_too' thin, are very efEectivelydam-V 1 aging the~:.'industr_y. t},at._ 15 doing much for the grosperityaof _CaiIadia n_v 38!'1<;ul_ture.. `T e packers, too, must ``_``4P *9 do -their p_aft; in theVca_re-` ll. l1l'l:flg._.and marketing of the pro- ` .,dtI,ct , as will steadily build .,up_-_i_ts re- A wtation, .for..;.qua1ity and . uniformity, t.h3t_?'5:. .l'>o siti9n; in irelatioii.` to ~ot`h'ei2.. L The lastest estimates of the .pine but for the season received by the Department of -Lands, Forests and Mines of, the Ontario Legislature show a. shrinkage of 35,000,000 feet.` The estimate made earlier in the season was 7Io,ooo,o_oo feet, but this now has_ been reduced to 675,ooo,ooo . 1 u. a.nuaL;UuullCIlIa_.l arm the Lama- ian. Pacic Railways are fall drawing upon Ontario; nowgfor their: supply of t._i.S,.:.,v:v,igh `the :re_sp_1_t that; the. estiwqat-;, 3 I3 CANADA'S FOREST AREA. THE HABIT OF SAVING. 9N'rARIo's PINE cur. AT NIAGARA FALLS. THE NORTHERN ADVANCE; "Fixing the Respengliility For the Loss` of Harper: Ferry. ' President Lincoln's jokes, especially!- _when ` perpetrated in connection with "gra\'e matters, usually had a [)'.1rposi- in them. After Lee had taken. Har- pers Ferry the president." realizing how great a calamity it was to the north- ern arms, determined if possible to as the responsibility for the loss of the`- ; important position. - V , -9 I_..L .11.! ..AI Penny For a Priceless Book. A workingman once purchased for :1 3 penny an aged looking volume bearing date of 1540. The man tried to read ; it. but threw up the attempt appareni- ~ % ly in disgust, and the volume was rele- i ; gated to the cupboard. A friend of his happened to see the book and took it to the British museum authorities; who promptly made an offer of 90. l l I the highest sum the librarian is allow- ; ed to expend without a special vote of : ithe trustees. _ Had the man known L :what he was about he would have ` stood out for more. as the authorities ` would have paid almost any price rath- ; "er than allow the volume to slip J a through their ngers. It was, in fact. the first book printed by Gutenberg l and was therefore almost priceless.- j i London Tit-Bits. -While each of the provinces of Canada contributes hogs to the ba- con industry, from 75 to 85 per cent. of the annual pack comes from On- tario. farms. The hogs raised in Quebec up to quite recently have `been 2consumed largely within the province. An effort has been made by the Dominion Department of Agriculture to. improve and increase the hog stock of Quebec by intro- ducing, by a system oii auction` sales,| hogs suitable to the requirements of the export trade. In the maritime provinces "the raising of hogs is not so extensively carried on as it should be. In fact, only in the dairying sections are any produced for pack- ing. The farmers of Prince Edward island are doing, more proportion- ately in this regard than the other Atlantic provinces, but the output of hogs for 1906 was considerably less than during 1904, and only a comparatively small proportion reached the export trade. In the west there may be important devel- opments within the next few years. {Damaged wheat, cheap coarse grains .-and the inux of- United States farm- ers all point to increased hog rais- ing, and the consequent establish- ment of packing centres at western points. .1110 Page Amwokid. Do yqu know that I wujpom on v--v -cu---w tn. -innavl 311$ `.`Both eveats being, Vmhtorh nwmm" A r on-A-`Iv. un~-- ...,....-____- ` Halleck was summoned, but did not know where the blame lay. "Vex-3 well," said Lincoln, I'll ask General Schenck." The latter could throw nu ` light upon the question. further than to say that he was not to blame. Mil- : roy was the next to be called to the presence or the commander in chief and to enter a plea of "not guilty." 1 Hooker was next given a hearing. and 3 Fighting Joe" made a very emphatic T disclaimer of all responsibility. ____-._.I_l_.I .A.I.- Had I Woman to IMIIIO. . I have had dreadful luck. This morning I dropped my spectacles, and my wlteitepped on them_. -- '1`hat s.what 1 call good luck. It 1 I had dropped mine, I should have step- ped pn them myself! ' ml: v v I V u uvuyvuunwnuo ""`3 h'). ` M}. President; who is It? asked the distinguished quartet as they looked anxious. if not troubled. _ _p,I-_;. --- -~ v-v l------.. r.--.-`. Men have composed great literary works in their sleep. Coleridge's `Ku- bla Khan is the most famous example of this; but. then. Coleridge was a morphinomanluc. and his sleep was scarcely natural. But R. L. Stevenson, Corelli and Longfellow have also done good work while sleeping. p,_|I .__I,,__ I--. vvv. .. V-.. _.- -r._:... "Divers sometimes fall asleep deep down in the sea. but some unknown part of their brain keeps watch. and at the proper moment. though asleep. they give the order to be hauled up This is a good deal like the miracle that happens to all of us--the miracle whereby if we tell ourselves on retir- ing that we must wake at 7 we in- variably do wake at that hour--how or why lt"ls impossible to say. Some part of us watches. works, keeps awake all night. so that at 7 it may call us.- Improved on Solomon. In a certain Sunday school a little girl told the story of Solomon and the disputing mothers in this Wise: "8010- .mon was a very wise man. One day two women went to -him. quarreling about a baby. One woman said, `This is my child. and the other woman said. `No, tuin't: it's mine. But Solo- mon spoke up and said: `No. no, la- dies; don't quarrel Give me `.my sword, and I'll make twins of him, so Irnn nan \4\| lug..- A..- I ll -.-- - q-w--v ovv :- -c'a,n bott; -have one. Egbert-No. I would not. ' ; How nrany times have you heard him talk?" _ V ` Only once. V - And when was that? When he was trying toopen 1 at ; xlnnlncn 0| Q--no-._--use-p~-.-p-..--can-.-1.-- ' ...:-o----.. ,._,,,,,_, _ cANAb`1ANBANK` OFCOMMERCE ,\A |SI\pI-Ihannnnrn Then the president assembled the four generals in his room and said tn them: Gentlemen, Harpers Ferry was surrendered and none of you. it seems. ls responsible. l am very anxious. to discover the man whois." After strid- lng across the room several times the president suddenly threw up his bow- ed head and exclaimed: "l have it! I know who ls responsible! are _,._:.1____... .._n_- n.. (sun -v-`.rv---- -----., . I\I\VuoI-In suugov---up gn -v. ---.-.--.-.. "Gentlemen." said the [;resident. with a meaning twinkle In his eye. "General Lee is the man." n.-on-you-5-u \an assay`:- One can become so accustomed." he sald, "to a monotonous task that one can fall asleep and still keep on work- ing. Thus in India there are pnnka coolles. men who turn a fan all night long in the "hot weather while their English masters rest. and it is not un- common for :1 punks cooly to acquire the knack of sleeping at his task. On and on he sleeps through the hot. per- fumed hours of the Indian night, but hls hand mechanically and steadily turns the punkn pulley. nxll__ L,.__ _ _ _,____| _______g_ |]`______ \aI\.n.:\.a\u.- -a\4\r --u an... -.--.--. There was a lack nf mirth In the laugh created. and the four generals tool: their departure v-`tn a determina- tion that they wouzx not again be placed under slxspicion. * Tasks Often Performed While the Worker Slumber-3. V A psychologist was discussing the-' miracles of sleep. ;A I _-A _ _ ..... _-_..._L-......3 I! L... SLEEP MYSTERIES. At a Diiadvjntago.' * n-Wou1d you call lm Vs good LINOLN s mks. ..;+-e+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++->++.;..,1d| 0! . Gi%a %C1%11bbing W The production of hogs made! marked progress in Canada during the fteen years ending 1905. `Since then considerable decrease in pro- duction has taken place. In 1890 there were about 200,000 hogs mar- keted; in 1904 1,700,000; while in 1906 the number was 1,300,000. In 1890 there were but two packing houses in the export trade, with a weekly capacity of perhaps 3,000; in 1906 I9 packing houses, with a capacity of at least 65,000 a week, were in oper-| ation. Acording to the statements of the managers of these. various houses at `no time have these insti- tutions been taxed to cope with the hogs offering. In fact the supply[ has not exceeded from 20,000 to 35,-` 000 hogs weekly, according to the season of the year, so that condi- tions have favoured an active com- petition for the hogs. Such is understood to be an im- portant feature of the additional Aeduational legislation to be present-. red :`to_:_th.et Legislature by -Hon. Dr. 'Mini3.t!=.r Of " Educatia at: it ` ' u\:' | E -z--:~+-e--e~s-z-4~z-s---:~:-4-1:-+++~:~:--:--a--z-1-+ +-1-+-1-+-a-a--is-s--a--:-+4--;-_-2-.2-+ t-'}};:~-:~4 Wesley -is-a--::-+-z--s---~:--z--z-:-:--3--3-t-:4-t-i:-o:-+-a-rts++-xv-:~:-+++-3--3-+4-a~ag-3-+4-2-++++++++3| -_-- J.--.-v. --3-n navuvvu vv VA I50 I The entraqce examination as a lirge of demarcatton between the Publnc agd the High School will be abolish~ e . T . - _ -_-`_-w~ v--g uqsnvunavvu VV \J l\ 1:; brief, township High schonsl are aimed at, bringing the High School tgaining to the doors of the rural resndents. `I v + 4-'b'b+++-fi'4"Fi'1~9b'Pi'+i+4~{~+`+4-+44+`!~++-!`!---!"+`i*`%'+++.v,.;,.El Furthef Important Changes Likely: ' In Our Educational ` System. Exit the`rural Public chool con-' tinuatipn class. Canadian Bacon Industry. 1:} it} 11' will .follow the fth` class, tgking up in rotation the pres- ent Jumor .-High School work. fI`I' . ' Special inducements will ge given for the fth class Public School work, and the present grants to continuation classes will be .perpe- tuated, and probably `increased if the nances of the Province warrant it, in assistiig rural trustees and schools .in developing the advanced work. Y._ I_, TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOLS. Eddy s : -'~+-5i~-"-++4-'!-'--`-!--'+4- --~-I-it-2*---1---a.`~~!~ have all the applinncee for the care of funeral: in transit th_:-ough town and nus-rounding country: Healfses and Wagzans; Morgue and Bur1.slPar}ora. 1,, termeute in all cemeteries. or shipment: to 3)! parts of the world. W ork 0} undertaken promptly and prooerlv cared for. PHONE 32, Barrie undenakingeszablishmeria TUBHNT DAILY WORLD For One Year 2 1:} _f_om Date, for a f ,# Silent V Parlor Matches per the. and satisfactory are Canadian stationary. Up-to-the-Minute Grocers can supply you with You get the local news of the County (weekly) and the general news` of the country (daily) for ONE YEAR at the price named. While this `extraordinary offer is available to Advance subscribers old and new, it applies only to new World subscribers. Send along your order EARLY. ,. G.SMITH 6 C0. (Toronto News.) Northern`? Advance Collier and Clapperton Streets (AD./WITTEDL Y BARIEIES LEADING PAPER) SILENT AS THE SPHINX! ALWAYS OPEN. ESTABIJISHED 1870 The output of Canadian packing houses is largely exported. Eighty- ve per cent. of the total pack nds its way to the English market. Great Britain s weekly supply of ba- con during the year comes from the various sources as follows :-Fr0m