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DOUVGLAS® TIA AT ALL DEALERS EGYP XmimeNt V PV V P Mr. J. A, McFarlane of Napanee, Ont., had chilblains so bad that he couldn‘t wear boots. Egyptian Liniment relieved them, Don‘t suffer from chilblains this winter. This liniment is also for Frost Bites, Burns Scalds, Cuts, Bruises, Sore Chest and Throat, Neuralgia, etc. ue Je _ A k. fls BR mcntih mt poOouGLAS LX MANUFAC TURERS,NAPANEE,ONL Thursday, Dec. 29th, 1927 Through the Canadian Rockies to the North Pacific Coast and Calitfornia OING TO CALIFORNIA? Then, do not miss the glory of the Canadian Rockies on your way. Their winter garb is a thing of dazzling beauty. Glittering peaks of ice and snow . . . falls, frozen into a spray of diamonds . . . every color of the rainbow dancing in the sparkling air. And you ride through this maze of beauty in comfort . . . over the Canadian Pacific Railway. But are you wintering in California? And is your return trip in the early spring ? Then arrange your return transportation via the scenic northern routeâ€"Puget Sound and the Canaâ€" dian Pacific Rockies. There is an excellent hotel and golf course at Victoria, the rose garden capital of British Columbia . . . also at V ancouver, the great gateway to the mystery of the Far East. If Dad can finance it, Jack intends to go to college next year. He‘s a sixâ€" teen ~year â€"old, keen on sports, intensely alive, interested in everyâ€" thing that goes on . . . manâ€"size in all but years. Every year he‘s learning new buying habits â€"steppingâ€"up his spending power. It means that Dad will have to do some figuring to give the boy his start. unB enc io al :A s expenditure within bounds. He: and daughter have earned the rig be wellâ€"equipped to face life‘s bat so that they may have every ch of success. What plans are you making for the future of your children? _ It is important that they should be enabled to follow their natural bent. Guarantee them a good start in life by providing for their future no matter what may happen to you. A Manufacturers Life Endowment Policy will do it. MANUFACTURERS LIFE Jur Children â€" and the Years to Come Jack Intend s Canadian Pacific . White, District Passenger Agent North Bay, Ont. Kindly forward particulars of endowment insuranc for my children, age...... INSU RANCE CO MPANY SSG o OVEE, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTYâ€"THREE ADVERTISERS had by actual ec sixtyâ€"three dift© presented in the sued, irrespectiv The want advts which is below t mas season is no vear for the nu had by actual count one hundred and sixtyâ€"three different advertisers reâ€" presented in the thirtyâ€"two page$ is sued, irrespective of the want advts. The want advts. last week total 43, which is below the usual as the Christâ€" mas season is not the best time of the year for the number of want advts., people generally having supplied their wants in many lines before the Christâ€" mas rush. The Advance is the recogâ€" nized want advt. medium, averaging over 80 want advts. per week during other than the Christmas season. Counting want advts. and display advts. together there were over 200 different advertisers who used The Advance last week, which certainly is not to be sneezed at. ast wed District Representative, Timmins. insurance matunng As soon as Dad can manage it, Edna hopes to begin that special training course. She‘s going out moreâ€"â€" wears evening dressâ€"has to have more clothes. More than ever, each dollar counts . . . must be well spent. So Mother plans and saves to keep expenditure within bounds. Her son and daughter have earned the right to be wellâ€"equipped to face life‘s battles, so that they may have every chance of success. Edna Hopes nc an( The Great Place Wood Has Taken in World‘s Progress In the Beginning the Tree was the Symbol of Life. The Ark Built of Wood. Ships of Wood for Discovery of America. â€" Some of the Virtues of Wood. _ Ancient Chariots with Wooden Parts Still Sound. Recent discussion at the Timmins Board of Trade emphasized the fact that the forest industries are of very great importance to this North. The mining industry in this immediate disâ€" trict overshadows all other lines, but at the same time it must be evident that forest products form a very imâ€" portant part in the welfare of the North. Mr. Alee. M. Dewar, of lroâ€" quois Falls, while president of the Northern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade, was accustomed to emphaâ€" size the fact that the industries of thel forest overshadowed all other lines in the North. ‘People in general, howâ€" ever, especially in the gold and silver camps, do not realize all the forests mean to the country. Accordingly it is of interest and profit to spend little time in consideration of the noteworthy influence of forest Wealth.' In this connection, The Advance last week received a booklet from the National Lumber Manufacturers‘ Asâ€" sociation, of Washington, D.C., deâ€" tailing what is entitled ‘*‘The Story of Wood.‘‘ Much of this attractive little booklet deals with general facts about wood and the forests,â€"fasts that are as true in regard to Canada as to the United States, in which the association labours. ‘*‘The Story of Wood‘‘ is so interesting that The Adâ€" vance makes no apology for quoting from it at length. In opening, the booklet says :â€" the beginning the tree was the symhbo! of life and the revelation of human destiny. We picture the Garâ€" den of Eden as embowered in trees. Trees provided the ark that saved the chosen remnant of the human race from the Deluge. ‘"‘In the depths of the forest preâ€" historic man found a refuge from his enemies. Wood gave him his weapons, also his tools. Wood inspired him to build out of branches and leaves the also his tools. Wood inspired him to build out of branches and leaves the first human edifice. ‘"*With the passing of time the subâ€" lime structure of the towering trees exerted so great an influence upon the human race that there came into being a crude but genuine archiâ€" tecture. The first columns and pillars were the trunks of trees, and the various orders of architecture were developed from humble shelters of THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO cumnavigation of the globe. ‘*In sloops and squareâ€"riggers made of wood our forefathers won their way from the Old World to the New. Out upon the broad bosom of the Atlantic floated the Pilgrim eraft that was freighted with the genesis of a nation. Those who watched from its fogâ€"drenched deck beheld the ‘‘wind tossed branches,"‘ that welcomed them to a new strange and beautiful land that, even in the language of the wilâ€" derness, spelled Home. In brief, wood earried the advenâ€" turous spirit of man out over the globe and pioneered the paths of proâ€" gress leading toward modern civiliâ€" zation. â€" Actually, it founded this eaviâ€" lization, particularly here in America, The booklet proceeds to show how wood was used for the stockades to prevent Indian attacks, for corn eribs and barns, for homes, stores, schools, churches, etec. The equipment of the buildings was largely of wood just as toâ€"day. Emphasis is given to the allâ€" important part that wood played, and plays toâ€"day, in the life of trade and commerce. The very first cargo sent to the Old Land from Virginia was cedar logs. Reference is made to the ships, the canal boats, the doeks, the wharves, the railroad coaches, the ties, â€"all came from the forests. As the| booklet phrases it:â€"‘‘The natural| wealth of the magnificent forests was largely cony erted into buildings and. other property; thereby were ~multiâ€" tudes employed, trade stlmulated, and fertile land cleared for thriving farms. Countless industries, based on wood, sprang up over the land to balanco acriculture and animal husbandry. The real El Dorado of America was not in its gold eoasts, but in its glorâ€" ious forests. All the gold that has come out of America since Cortez and Pizarro looted the Aztees and Incas is not equal in value to the forest proâ€" duets and their manufactures in a single year.‘ Continuing its story of wood the booklet says :â€"â€" ‘‘Wood combines strength and stiffâ€" ness with lightness, an important facâ€" tor in buildings of all deseriptions and in all the work of life. _ Weight for weight, it is stronger than steel. [t is resilient and shockâ€"absorbing. [t is easily sawed, carved, planed and lathed to any desired pattern; it may be bent or twisted, and is readily shaved to paperâ€"like veneers and plyâ€" wood. It can be quickly and firmly nailed, doweled, joined or glued into place. % 3 s s L ‘*Wood has beautiful natural texâ€" tures, grains and figures. Its colour is varied and pleasing; it may be easily stained and painted, thus afâ€" fording much variety of appearance from a single species. It is easily apâ€" plicable in large units, and yet those units are not rigid, being capable of facile alteration on the job with handâ€" tools. A brick is a brick, but a board may be reduced to many pieces of many shapes. *Wood is durable. Chariots of anâ€" tiquity have come down to us with their wooden parts still sound. In Japan there is an intact wood temple erected thirteen centuries ago. Many wood articles were taken from the 3500â€"year old tomb of Tutankhamen. GGood lumber has been made from tree trunks that have lain six hundred years on the forest floors. The ‘*Conâ€" stitution‘s‘‘ oaken ‘‘ironâ€"sides‘‘ are being partly rebuilt of wood that has been stored under water for fifty years by the United States Navy. ‘"‘Wood is plentiful, inexpensive, and capable of perpetual replacement by natural processes through the myâ€" sterious laboratory of the leaf, whereâ€" in sunlight works its miracles.‘"‘ ‘*Did my wife speak at the meetin yesterday 1‘ ‘"*I don‘t know your wife, but there was a tall, thin lady who rose and said she could not find words to express her feelings.‘‘ *That wasn‘t my wife."‘ and timbers â€"â€"Exchanze HOW EDINBURGH ONGE GELEBRATED "HOGMANAY" Quaint Christmas Relative to Noew Year‘s Eve in Scotland. ‘‘Hogâ€" manay‘‘ is the Scots‘ Big Day Now that the great Christmas i tival is over, it is interesting to t to the coming observance of N year‘s is more generally obser than even Christmas,. _ New Ye: Eve, or ‘*‘Hogmanay,"‘‘ as the N« eall, is a big tune. All people f the Old Land are interested in ‘* H manay,‘‘ and as there are many this camp to whom **Hogmanay‘ a wonderful time, because of men ies of years gone by, the follow article by Margaret Hillman will Year‘s Day. In some Old countries, notably in Seotlan Year‘s is more generally o than even Christmas. â€" New article by Margaret Hiliman will u doubtedly be of interest :â€" A hundred years ago the old Seo tish festival of Hogmanay was cel brated in Edinburgh with greater d monstrations of merriment and wit far less decorum than in these pré dignified davys. On New Year‘s with blackened fac in old shirts, were from house to ho was accompanied by another tired as a girl, and carrying . stick. They announced tl mands by singing the old refi _ et up, gudewite, ana shake your feathers, And dinna think that we are begâ€" gars, For we are bairns come out to play. Get up, and gie‘s our Hogmanay.‘"‘ Currant loaf and shortbread were usually bestowed upon the guizards, though in some places oatecakes and cheese were given, In bygone days it was a very popuâ€" lar custom to see the old year out and the new year in by drinking the hot pint. As the witching hour of midâ€" night approached, the hot pint, or wassail bowl, was prepared, which consisted of warm spiced ale, with an infusion of whisky. When the clock struck twelve, each member of the night approachned, INn€ NOb pPIntl, oL wassail bowl, was prepared, which consisted of warm spiced ale, with an infusion of whisky. When the clock struck twelve, each member of the family drank some of the hot pint, and there was a general handshaking and exchange of good wishes for a happy New Year. In Edinburgh the New Year was usâ€" ually, as now, solemny ushered in the Tron Kirk, and after ‘‘Auld Lang Syne‘‘ had been sung, there was a general dispersal of the crowd to firstâ€" foot all their friends. It was most important that the firstâ€"foot should not make his visit emptyâ€"handed, but carrying shortbhread and currant loaf in his hands. A dark man was the most popular firstâ€"foot, as he was supposed to bring good luck to the house. Woe betide the householder if a woman or a man with a squint, was the first to eross the threshold. The firstâ€"foot had the privilege of kissing the person who opened the Aoor to him, so the young men always tried to be firstâ€"foot at a house where there was a pretty girl. When granâ€" ny received him, instead of the fair _ approached, The NOl pint, o ail bowl, was prepared, which Yer sted of warm spiced ale, with an | 82 ion of whisky. When the clock | POC k twelve, each member of the to « y drank some of the hot pint, Pos chere was a general handshaking boy at eoaod. wishes <CREAM +MALT udewife, ana sh bairns come out to play gie‘s our Hogmanay.‘ f and shortbread werd wed upon the guizards ne places oateakes and Avoid inferior quality. Eve, the guizar ces, and dressed » busy going rou use. â€" Each guiza by another boy, : 1 carrving a hbroo * * ‘‘ as the Neots All people from obset AINn !:â€"â€"~â€" ike vou U1Zaards, ssed up Ho NT eW The direction of the wind was alâ€" ways sceanned anxiously on New Year‘s Eve, for it was a cherished superstition that the way of the wind on the night foretold the prospects of the New Year. Simeoe Reformer: the presence of a but vice probably refers feet will take care 0 Louisville â€" Courierâ€"Journal :â€"â€"The whole family owns the ear. This is, when the car is idle it is mother‘s car, when it is in use it is the children‘s car, and when dlsabled or with a tire down it is dad‘s car.‘ KILIP in a COOL PLACKC o iA DUrgIRAEC.~> . kA BAL efers to the head are of themsolves cocl in ir.‘*.. This ad= the head ; the not so his rigl and m