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John W. Fogg Limited Lumber, ‘Eu!ldlgg Mate_rgg!_s_, Coal é For Sure Results Try Our Want Ad Column TIMMINS BRANCH, % sOUTH PORCUPINE BRANCH, To save money may require that you make some sacrifice, but if a stated sum is placed in a Savings Bank account at regular intervals, your money, with the interest it earns soon grows and you experience the joy of accomâ€" plishment. There is a Savings Bank Departâ€" iment at every branch of this Bank. 49 IMPERIAL â€"BANK The Joy of Accomplishment THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 1925 D. SUTHERLAND, Manager. J. PAUL MICHAUD, Manager. But the compass still has hidden secrets. â€" Elusive earth currents and stubborn static still act the part In spite of the fact that the comâ€" pass has been known for so long, it is today more widely employed than ever before. It is the sureâ€"fire pathâ€" finder, the cloud by day and the pilâ€" lar by night to the sailor afloat on the heaving main; the airman above the hiding clouds; the miner far underâ€" ground in the deepest shaft; and exâ€" plorers, surveyors, hunters,; trappers, prospectors, pioneers and travellers in the jumbled mountains, the virgin wilderness and the Far North. Compass information is particularly valuable in such a large new counâ€" try as Canada, and it is interesting to note that Champlain measured its dirâ€" ection at Halifax about 1604, John Davis in Davis Strait 1585 and Capt. Baffin in Baffin Land 1616, Capt. Middleton at Churehill and York Facâ€" tory 1725; while Capt. Cook in 1775 and Capt. Vancouver in 1792 measured it along the Pacific coast. Later Sir John Franklin 1819â€"26 and Sir John Lefroy 1843â€"46 made some measureâ€" ments, but comparatively little was done in Canada ‘before 1880. Since 1880, however the Topographâ€" ical Survey, Department of the Interâ€" i0r, has carried on a most extensive magneti¢c survey in this country in conjunction with its other work, at practically no expense, because the compass direction cam be measured in a few minutes when the survey parties are already on the ground; urtil it now possesses more than 20,â€" 000 _ measurements, and _ wegularly publishes magnetic maps which picâ€" ture all this information for compass users. But contrary to story book reâ€" port, the compagss does not point nortlv but more or less to the east or west at different places. Scientists state that this is because the magnetic poles of the earth are not situated at the geographical poles as shown on our maps of the world; that in fact the north magnetic pole is near Boothâ€" ia Folix on the Aretic coast of Canada, and the south magnetic pole in South Victoria Land south from New Zealand. It is very important to know this march of the compass, especially in Eastern Canada, because all the old land surveys in Ontario, Quebec, New Burnswick, Nova Seotia and Prince Edward Island were made by compass and onwâ€"aâ€"days when it is desired to retrace one of the old lost bounâ€" dary lines it is necessary to know beforehand what the march of the compass has been since the time when the old survey was made. It might be thought that the comâ€" pass would be satisfied to call it a day‘s work after pointing in a diffâ€" erent direction at each place, but such is not the case for it is all the time changing its direction and never stays put. .It marches to the west for many years, then turns back and marches to the east, then reverses aâ€" gain and marches to the west, and in fact changes its mind more often than any maiden fair, and earries on in a different way in each place. Whether this fickleness is caused by a wandering of the earth‘s magnetic poles, or by something happening inâ€" side the earth, or by the sun or planâ€" ets, seientists have not yet been able to find out. In order that the: compass may be used with reliance, therefore, the difâ€" ferent countries of the world carry out magnetic surveys to measure its direction, and picture the information on magnetic charts for compass users. ThE GOMPAGS POINTS IN DIFFERENT DIREGTIONS There will be general interest in the following recently coming from the Topographical Survey Deâ€" partment at Ottawa. The article has so many littleâ€"known facts and so many novel ideas that it will be of particular concern to the average man. In this new country, where the comâ€" pass has naturally been much used, there will be special significance atâ€" as it is known that the Arabian and Chinese traders met in the Persian gulf ; and on account of its very great practical value as a guide in all weathâ€" ers, it rapidly came into general use and enabled Christopher _ Columbus to sail straight west from Spain, by day and by night, through fair and stormy weather, to the discovery of the New World. The invention of the compass is lost in the dawn of history. It is first found mentioned in a quaint Chinese legend which relates that the Emporor Hoâ€"angâ€"ti in 2634 B. C. led forth his army and attacked the rebel Khiang on the plains of Tcehouâ€" lou. But Khiang, getting the worst of the conflict, ecalled the wizards, magicians and sorcerers to his aid who raised a great fog to hide Khiang and his army. Then the Emperor, not to be outdone, in his turn used the greatâ€" er magic of the compass, which led his army through the great fog so that he was able to overcome Khiang and capâ€" ture him. The compass appears to have been brought to Europein the twelfth cenâ€" tury, most probably by the Arabiauns, Other Interesting Facts About The Compass and Canada‘s Magnetic Survey Last week The New Liskeard speakâ€" er makes reference to the recent proâ€" nouncement of the Minister of Lands Forests for Ontario that an 80â€"acre farm is large enough for the average settler. The Speaker says:â€" ‘*Under the heading ‘*80 Acre Liâ€" mit for Settlers,"‘ which may be found in another column, it will he seen that the Minister of Lands and Mines thinks an eighty acre farm is all that a settler sghould have in the Clay Belt. We gave this information two weeks ago through our Englehart news. ‘*Having been in close touch with DOES NOT THINK 80â€"ACRE FARM HERE LARGE ENOUGH ‘*Having been in elose touch with farming in the Clay Belt for thirty years, and having a fair knowledge of the conditions existing here,. we offer it as our opinion that the change in the regulations will retard settleâ€" ment. ~In Old Ontario, the average farmstead consists of one hundred acres. To tell a prospective immiâ€" grant that in this Northland he may not hold more than eighty acres would discourage him from coming here. Besides, a 160â€"acre form is not too large for a man who wants to follow mixed farming, and more particularly the man who wants to go largely into dairying. of chighway men and hold up our friends the telegraph _ and wireless and radio. We know these highway men are in nature of first cousins to the dancing northern lights and magnetic storms that torture the compass, and black eyclonic sunspots that try to rob us of our light and heat, but all those things are still seen throuoh a glass, darkly, and scientists beheve they never plobably can be foreed to take the stand and lay bare their inmost secrets until the directâ€" ion of pointing of the compass has been properly mapped all over the world. ‘‘However, what we want is that our readers residing in. Temiskaming would give us their views on this settlers have not cleared their land as quickly as it was expected they would and hence much valuable land in the best settlements is still held, but not improved. This certainly is wrong, but the change would bring about a greater wrong. Carnation Milk Products Company, Limited, Aylmer, Ontario. Carnation Milk keeps pure and sweetâ€"the milk that‘s never late. 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A recent departmental survey of radio broadeast reception conditions in the most populated cenâ€" tres of the Dominion indicates 50 per cent. of the *‘*preventable interferâ€" ence‘‘ which prevails is caused through the incorrect operation of reâ€" generative receiving sets by the broadeast listeners themselves. _ The survey further indicates that most of this interference is due to a lack of knowledge of correct methods of adâ€" justing a regenerative receiving set, and it is accordingly hoped that a material reduction in the same may be effected if the broadcast listeners can be persuaded to coâ€"operate in an enâ€" deavour to clear the air of regenerâ€" ative whistles. To this end the cirâ€" cular letter gives special instructions for operating the class of receiving sets referred to. Anyone and everyâ€" me interested should write to the K{adiu Branch. Department o¢ Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa, Ont., for copies of tins cireulars. change in the land settlement laws. 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