a \-vvt u. Perhaps they had just discovered that their efforts were being recorded. Anyway we can imagine that the night before, the queen called the crowd together, or rhtaggs only the captains of teams, and said sqmething e 13:- Now, boys, the world's 01: its eye on ou and to- morrow : the day we go pver t e top. Any la that comes 3 In here with less than hxs full load gets into trouble and Manitgba Bees Set out to Make a Record PHONE 53 A Suitable Christmas Gift fihr Nnrthvrn Ahuanrr VVE TAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR TIIE MAIL AND EMPIRE AND HAVE SPECIAL CLUBBING RATES. LET YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT BE A YEAR S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE YOUR FRIENDS AVVAY FROM HOME WILL APPRECIATE RECEIVING THE HOME NEVVS EVERY WEEK DURING 1926. Northern Advance l Th-e ratepayers of Midland will be asked to vote on the question of a [grant of $10,000 by the town to- wards a war memoria in the form of a movement, and also to decide [its -location from three sites that i have been suggested. is survived by his widow and two .sons and two daughters. Brothers and sisters of the deceased are, John (deceased), Mrs. Bothwe-ll, Samuel, Joseph and Eben in Innisl, David, I Hugh and Thomas of Tuoronto, and Mrs. J. King of Bradford. vucuucc Lvuu, WJLU Wd UUJCJI. 111 the township of Innisl 72 years ago, and son of .the late Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer 'Dodd, passed away at his home at Devil's Lak, N.D., Mr. Todd taught school in Innisl and district for many years. Thirty- five years ago he went to North Dakota, where he was engaged in` farming and grain buying. His deaith o-ccuzrred in the hospital, where he had gone in March suffer-[ ing ;t`:nom leakage of the heart. He; Nothing More Appropriate llll. Mr. Wright's Floradale Apiaiies this year prouuced almost four tons of honey and he hopes that next year Southern Manitoba and the neighborhood `of Souris in particular will again show the world something start- ling in the way of honey production. In the meantime our friend the queen will continue her campaign for a bigger and better honey crop. ' me 0'l?I1e.!'." And how they worked that day! They worked all the other days of the season too, because the total honey produced for the season was 496 ,6 pounds. Of course there were two or three rainy days when they stayed at home and did chores around th~ Iii`/(.!, and two or three other days when it didn't rain, i_a.; they stayed home anyway to look after the local elections or something like that. And when it was all over no doubt the queen said Well, it's been a pretty good working season, I'll tell the : world," and as always is the case the Queen was right. it was natural that er superiority as an organizer etc.. wider spheres of endeavour should call to this queen, so Mr. Wright sl1ip_ped her to a big Bee rm in Alabama who are sending him another queen now, ten of her daughters next spring and three two- pound packages of bees with three more of her daughters in command. The trade was worth $35 to the Floradale Apiaries. The locating, capturing and caging read}! for exportation of the Wri ht queen was witnessed by . Breakey, M.L.A.. an a representative of the Plain- dealer. She was indeed a very ne lady and was head of an enormous population that objected pretty strenuously ta her removal, and you cannot really blame them for t at. Having proved E0 1182 that. ll me cnap or team brmging in the biggest bag gets a wax medal with my picture on one side and his own name on the other." And `hnm Hun: mn..1...A 44...; 4...: mu--. _..-_I-_ .1 n -1 the chap team_ bringing in the biggest \ my plcture side and his own nnmn Geo. M`cLea.-n, who has been Mayor of 0r1"1~lia for two years, will not `seek a third term. The conrtest for mayoralty will :be between Reeve J. R. Boyd and Geo. D. Sin- clair. A lady, examining a Surnday School class about Dives and Laz- arus, asked whether it was not very bad of Divers not to give the crumbs rto Lazarus. All the children saidi. Yes except one little giml. Per- haps, ma am, Dives kept chickens, ` she suggested. PO. BOX 751 The Northern Advance nJ\J\4A Au ;. nuuuucuncn 0 It was on July 31st last that the hive of bees beside vxh-Tch Mr. Wright stands in the above picture gathered and stored the twenty-ve pounds and established a record for this continent and perhaps for the whole vsorld. There was no doubt about its being true, because the Provincial De artment of Agriculture made the test. From July 13 to ugust 3, the hive stood on a scale and every evening when the bees work was done and they had {fathered around their reside to talk it over, the weight ` of the hive was taken. The rst gain was on July 14 when 11/; pounds was brought in and from that quantity the daily take varied up ,to 14 and 16 pounds. But on 1 July 31 the bees got together and made a special effort i just ta) show what they could do in the way of establishing recor s. ` 'I\v .. ...... . l Miss Irene Ecclesto-ne of Brace- bridge has been engaged as public heaarth nurse for Oriv1~l1'a, succeeding Miss Ward, who resigned some monsths ago. ~ MODERN MISSIONARIES The modern missionary is often a mam--and more often :21 woman--of aiains. The idea that he is likely to be a narrow amd somewhat 001- ish famatic has vanished. The great mssionary oLrg'an*iza.`tio.ns are of inter- national importance. Their leaderrs are consulted by statesmen, and their adivice is not without in/uence on public policy. The sympwthy of missionaries wpom native races and their knowvlerdge of where the shoe pinches are of obvious vallsue to : olcialus. Their criticisms wre some- times resented, but they can sexlidorn -: be igtnnoired. They have expert I kn-owldgie and only one axe to grimd. 1 While they wish to spread the v1 Christizm faith, they are free both 4 from political mm] from nuanncizul : motives. Them, too, they harve the 1 ear Olf the religious commru.n.i.on's : which they serve`, and though we 1 hem` much of the weakness of in- 1] stitutional Chrstiamity, the inuence 1 of the churches in matters orw poli- -\ iticall morality shows no signs of Iess- t e'nri.nzg`-Times, Londlom. rt .. ...uu;. u1. uxuuuguuu stressed the importance of not neg;1ectin~g the rst `symptoms or an unnatural growth. Consult your physician at oncp. H` +nLv.-m 1.. or... n..... ....J1 O. ,, .. .,.. vwmuuu _yuu:. pxlymclull at! once. If taken In Lkme there need :be little alarm, but delays are dan- gerous. .... ....m cxxuxvo yuan nave ueen made. In the case of cancer of long shaming the chance of a permanent cure is less than ten per cent, but when properly informed and in- uenced to act the moment warned and to see-k an imme'dia.1:e examina- tion, cancer can be prevented and cured. In less than three per cent. will it be hopeless, and the charnces - of a peraimnent cure are 70 per cent. or more. Dr. Bloodgood stressed H10 1'.mnnH-xunnn A-P ...,.+ .......1,...4.:... L1, 7 V- ...\. yuvyu: uu1u.su1I..uLg me cnmc at Johns Hopkins Hospital were hopeless. To-day five per ycent. are hopeless, because of the grea.-ter edu- cational] efforts that have been made. In +1443 nncn A4` n n - -- A1` ' The greatest -hope to-day of re- ducing t-he Il.`l.l.lT.UbI` of deaths from " cancer in entirely throrwgh educating -`the public, and the only explanation j for the recent encouraging` resulrtis in comlbattinng `alie disease is the greater amount of correct imforination that 3 has reached the pu'b mostly through the public press. Such was the statement of Dr. Joseph Colt ` Blvoodgood, one of the continemfs greatest cancer specailisbs, when ad- 1 dressing` the Royal Canadian Ins'ti- ` tute and the Canadian Society for ` the Prevention of Cancer, in To- 4 ronrto. Up to 1900 fty per cent. of the people consulting the clinic 1 at Jnlmq T-T:n1'\lrinc- u.......-4-1 ..-A.V vAA\.\| ux: cant. Chemists zvlvl over the cou'ntr_v have tried unsuccessfully to analyse the mertad and learn its in,2'1'edients, ac- cording to McLezm.--P~acket. CANCER `CAN BE CURED IF ARRESTED IN - ..u.vuu.u :41 E3 . I E l I [only two points heavier than alum- A-lthough it is one-third as heavy as bronze, brass or cast iron, and ivnum, M'ac~L-Ite is strong, requiring a pressure of more than 100,000 pounds to the square inch to crush it. The metal closely resemblers aluminum in aippearance and under a buffer wheel takes on -the appear- ance of silver. It will n`o rust or cornode. Earth acids have no effect on it. In testing` his new metal Mc- Lean made a bearing` and installed it in machinery tzhat is being used aft ist. Louis. oiled, he said. i m_.._.- n N; The bea1vi:ng' ran more ' than Six months before it had to -be ` fame to its inventor and may resvolu-I - rtionize the mechanical world has; been made by Harold McLe-an, aged 32, chemist, employed. at the Uni- versity of Kentucky as a p1um'ber, says a specia desrpatch from Lex-I E A discovery that promises to bring: ington, Kentucky. The inventor is I an Orillia boy, the son of Mr. and I Mrs. A. F. McLean, 109 Dunioip I St., and a brother of Mrs. R. M. l Greer and Messrs. William and 1 Howard McLean of Ozridlia. He 1 visited his home here last winter to 4 attend the funeral of his brother, I Forest McLean. J The discovery, the desipatch says, I is a new kind of metal called Mac-1L- I Ite, after the inventor, and w-as I made ater nine years of constant I research. The formula, which is I `known only to McLean, is three 1V 1\ l\ I F I times as strong` as bronze, cast iron, brass and milled steel, and can be used at much saving` in the place of any of these mea.t1ls. Materials used in the new product are sufciently aboundanrt to warrant the manufac- F ture of Mac-L-Ite in large quan- S tities. McLean perfected his inven- S tiorn last April while at the Univer- S sity of Kentu.cky, where he came to S S T do research work in mining and m`ertal'lurg'y. A1+L,-...,..1. :; :_ . n - 1 ORILLIA BOY DISCOVERS IMPORTANT NEW METAL TIME ..,...... um, v-vvucl. Wmdl 11 E000 D1151- ~ ness fully paid for. Silver foxes will soon become so plentiful, says the vwiseacre, that prices will fall to rthe level of the red. Such predic- tions were free-lvy made as long ago as 1912, and have been made and published every year since. Yet the _`saturation poirnrt has not yet been rewched. The market or pests of ne quality is practically unlimited. A cash expenditn` of $20,000 :' or $25,000 will now purchase ten I pairs of the finest young foxes, build and equip a ranch, and pay or care and arlminist/1'at~ion for one year. ~ With average results the first sea -son, and the selling of only enough of the young` to provide for ex- tensions -to the plant and for current expense, the owner should possess at the beginning of the second year wt least fteen pair. In two more seasons his yield, if marketml with average skill, should return the whole of the original investment and leave the owner with a good busi- ness fulllv `naizl 4`.-w q:.1...... Au.-- If one is inclined to doubt in any sense the accuracy of these state- ments he need but refer to the words of the association themselves, said Mr. Prichard. They follow: To Enter Business Although hundreds of men and women are engaged in silver fox ranching` at the present time, there is ample room, declared Mr. Prich- ard, for the man or woman who will put his or her best efforts into pro- ducing quality foxes, and will resist the temptat.ion to engaage win quan- tirty production. The fox industry, he srtated, is based on human need, and as wild foxes become sca-rcer the demand for quality fox pelts wi-1-] increase. ,, -7-.- ,...v.4yuuu\.. When other minera-1 m-aittom is not avuvi-Iatble, ordinary wood or coa ashes thrown on the oor gives good rresutlts. -... .m.u.u.u u; an per cent. 01 mineral matter proved unsatisfac- tory and gave similar resurlts to a ration supplemenrtecl with two per cent. of rock phos-p}w.t.e. 1171, ,,, M ` `PLENTY ROOM FOR FOX FARMS Ibo ever heard of a hive of bees that in one day gathered no less than 25 pounds of honey? If anyone doubts. that the busy bee can be as busy as all that, refer him to Mr. W. D. Wright who has a large and prosperous apiary near Souris, which 1: in southern Manitoba on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and if anybody doubts the fertility of the Province of Manitoba or wonders if the summer sun: tlmre shims. dnwn nn wirln nldu nf alm-{mm In ordexr to test this material, a total of 84 pigs were divided intzo fourrteen lorts of six pigs each. In every ration whe-re the mineral mix- ture was fed increased gains were scured. This ap-plied not only whem the usual trough feeding method was fod'lowed, but allso when self feeders were used and when the meal ration was supplemented with cookd potatoes. In one instance there was a prot of $7.85 in favor of the mineral rartion. ,. .-._. ..... ........\...a. The nn'n`eu'a`-1 mixture used was composed of ground bone meal, 8 pounds; ground charcoal, 5 pounds; ground rock phosphate, 5 pounds, and Salt, 3 porurnds, at a. cost of 2.7 cents per pound. H, was fed at the rate of 3 pounds to each 100 pounds of meal. Some va=1~uab1e infomnzntion re'1a- tive to the impo1`\tan.ce of adding mineral Ina-titer to iihe usual graiin mtionis of ]1og's has been secured at the Agassiz Experiinenxtail `Farm dur- ing the last two winhters. nu MINERAL ADDITTIONS TO GRAIN RATION OF HOGS glMcKinlay, 2 days, 30 miles .... .;$ 1- Begg, 4 days ........................ .. Ls;Boyd, 4 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. d Brown, 3 days ............... .. i- Canlvton, 2 (lays r, Coombs, 3 days ........................... .. :- Cunvni.ng~ham, 6 days, 90 miles s Davis, 2 days, 20 miles ............. .. d Deinrney, 5 days, 40 miles ....... .. .` p Devitt, 7 days, 50 miles .......... .. A I. Drysdale, 4 days, 25 mies ....... .. I d Glover, 4 days, 60 miles .......... .. 1 e Gooclen, 3 days ............... .. . .. I 3 Graztrix, 5 days, 50 miles ....... .. ', Ham.-bly, 4 days, 50 miles ....... .. 5 Je-bzb, 4 days, 40 miles ................ .. , l{'nupp, 3 days, 30 miles ....... .. 1 - Lambert, 4 days ........................ .. 2 5 LaRose, 2 (lays ............................... .. J t Leslie, 2 days, 20 miles ......... .. 1 ; Lowe, 3 days ................... .. . 1 2 Mart,in,`4 days ................ .. . 2 . McDuf f, 2 days ...... .. 1 2 McKnight, 1 day ......................... .. :' Patterson, 6 days, 50 miles .... .. 3 : Potter, 4% days, 30 miles .... .. 2 Robb, 45: : days, 30 miles ....... .. 2 v Rusk, 5 days .......................... .. 2 v Scott, 1 day .......................... .. S.hield`s, 6 days, 60 miles ....... .. 3 Smith, 5 days 2 Spicher, 5 clays, 40 miles 2 S-tephens, 4 days, 40 miles .... .. 2 Templ-eman, 1 day, 30 miles... Tom, 5 days ..................................... .. 2 Webb, 3%: days . . . . l l . .. Wiley, 3% days, 50 miles .... .. 4 Wilson, A.H., 3 days, 40 miules 11 Wilson, J., 4 days, 30 miles..... 2.` W1-ay, 3 days, 30 miles .......... .. 1: Young, 2 lays, 20 miles .......... .. 11 McPl1ee, 3 days ............................ ., 1.` 24 COUNTY COUNCILLORS PAY WORK ON COUNTY \ROADS "$13.00 20.00 .... ..20.00 ............. .. 15.00 .......... 10.00 ................ 15.00 39.00 as 12.00 [1185 29.00 les 40.00 mies 22.50 26.00 les 25.50 les 25.50 , . . . . . . . 25.00 : 5.00 ( 36.00 I ....... .. 25.00 1 les 29.00 t les 24.00 I 8.00 C ................ 25.00 1 ............ 17.50 9 mes 22.50 I 0 19.00 miles... 23.00 18.00 cent. of Six champion juvenile swine breed- ers, winners in Manitoba, Saskatch- ewan and Alberta, have been award- ed medals and trophies by the Cana- dian Pacific Railway and are now the guests of the latter at the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto. The young people, who competed in clubs on ` Canadian Pacific lines in the West are: Vern Johnson and Oscar Gud- lagson, Alberta; Lorne Joynt and Fred Argue, Rouleau, Saskatchewan: Mamie Cormack and Grace Ewen, Kenton, Manitoba. Two bears, six coyotes and fifteen chipmunks were shipped to England on the Canadian Pacific liner Mont- clare last week from the Toronto Zoo to the London Zoo. In exchange, the Curator of these gardens has been asked to supply Toronto with Ceropsis, Bean, Magellan and bar- headed geese; shell ducks; L male Comb Duck; two Rheas (ostriches); four Jays; two young leopards; and a Barbary Sheep. A stiff order. xerzuity or me rrovmce 0: Manitoba wonders if the r.v.xmmer surs there shine down on wide elds of glorious bloom. let him read the following which is gathered from the columns of the Souris Plaindealer." 7;, 1,: n4.` ..u ... .. .. . .. 1 With each succeeding` year Great Britain is relying more upon British colonies for agricultural supplies. In the seven months of 1925 ending` July, Canada supplied Great Britain with 4,927,266 pounds of butter, compared with 154,224 pounds for Ithe same period of 1924, and 40,- 458,544 pounds of cheese, compared to 20,153,504 pounds for the same period of last year. The Far East has heard about Canadian apples. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia car- ried 8,000 boxes of apples when clearing out of Vancouver last week. General trade conditions between Canada and the Far East are quite healthy as there was also on board the vessel 800 tons of Canadian flour, 100 automobiles and 160 tons of Al- berta beef. . 1. i '.l. _PREVENTlON_ 0'3 Emulsion Eighty-seven black foxes, valued at about $100,000, shipped in 44 crates, arrived at Montreal last week from Buffalo. Twenty-five of the animals were prize-winners at the Black Fox Exhibition which con- cluded last week, and were on con- signment to the Borestone Mountain Fox Ranch at Onawa, Maine. Reports received at Canadian Pa- cific Railway headquarters this week E show that four more accidents occur- ' red in cases where motorists drove their cars into trains alrc Ily in the process of crossing levels. This brings the total of accidents of this kind up to thirty for the year. In all four cases the automobiles were damaged while the motorists escaped with minor injuries. Constituting a record for Canada and probably for the world, 3,447,- 624 bushels of all grains were mar- keted on the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Western Canada on November 19.` The nearest ap- proach to this figure was the 3,406,- 000 bushels marketed on October 18, 1915, in the year of one of the great- est crops the Dominion has over harvested. J. Stapleton, of Regina, ordered two springer spaniel puppies from a dog agent in Liverpool on October 9th. Thirty days later they were delivered to him after a voyage and journey totalling 4,500 miles, the shipment going at the rate of 150 miles a day. This constitute: 9. re- cord for speed. According to G. F. Tomsett, super- intendent of the Saskatchewan Branch of the Employment Service of Canada, about 43,000 harv? hands were brought into Saskatch- ewan and distributed over the prov- ince to harvest and thresh the 1925 crop. cuuu neeas re ulaug Scott's Emu sion is important nourish- mentto help overcome faulty nutrition. n,_.. - ..-..... 'rm-nnln. Ont. British Columbia's whaling indus- try produces about 400 tons of whale bone meal and 900 tons of meat and blood for fertilizing purposes an- nually. This is exported mostly to the United States. _ _..- v -u-uIwIIvlv- 9` PUI'_!. nourishing cod- l1_ver _oxl, abounds in the vIt_amms that nearly every *`2*3-.':?sds,:?5.:':*:' (A4 Medical science ac- knowledges that cod-liver oil is invaluable to prevent rickets, Wean '_ nes or other forms of malnutrition. [ere and There Tj ,. Toronto. Ont. 25-41 Rage Seven I Charles Todd, who was born in I-\r\ 4........~.`I.:.. ...L` 'r..._:_c1 nn ,, THE LATE CHARLES TODD THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1925.