as

an
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t

ate

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for Red Rose Orange Pekoe |

_ In clean, bright Aluminum , |
|

|

seve

these

humbte rural home,

gle furrow plough and yoke of

and culverts

The Impatient W est
Lyte
ty five years ago the population of the three prairle provinces was |

ly less than one million people; today it is well over two million |
Nevertheless Western people talk |

s and conveniences enjoyed by the people in other parts of the Domin-
ay these three provinces are as well organized, as up-to-date,
| served in most respects and better in some, than the older provinces.
_‘Twe ve years ago, with the exception of the main line of the C.P.R.
[@ few north and south branch lines, this western country lacked railway
tes. ‘Today the whole country is criss-crossed by numerous main lines |
and west, and by branches radiating out in all directions, while hun-| My appetite was poor and the least
‘of additional miles of branch lines are being constructed every year. | ¢xertion left me weak and trembling. |
short space of time, Saskatchewan, the central of the three provinces, |
t-distanced every province except Ontario in railway mileage.
ity-five years the production of the West has doubled
trebled and re-trebled; hamlets have become villages, villages have
into “towns, towns have developed into modern cities; municipal sys-
‘ems have been created which compare favorably with those of older lands;
courts of justice haye been organized; thousands of schools haye been erect-
K high’ Schools, collegiate institutes and universities established; great
" tor systems haye been created; the telephone has been carried into the

The old ox-eart, the wagon, the buggy, has given way to the automobile;

4@ tractor and gang plough;
u “down dale, and through the valleys to the far distant little
E station, calling for days and nights on the road to market a load of
have been converted into well built carth roads, graded to a standard,

of the slow growth in population, |

oxén has been superseded toa large
the winding trails leading across the

the old Tens of t

ae
“ae

: 1e West
; | West is not and

Government, under Pri
Farmers’ Gover i

Wee J
‘of miles of these good market roads have been built in the last ten or fifteen

impat:

ars, and millions of dollars thereby saved to the people of these provinces.
But are the people satisfied? Not a bit of it. When the well designed, |

| ent. In many respects it is, an excellent quality. The
: never will be content with less than the best. And what it
wants, it wants immediately. It is impatient at delay, Take this matter of’ symay reclamation area, Provincial
roads, If other provinces, states and countries can have gravelled roads and officials are about to establish there
_ paved roads, why can’t the West have them? Well, the West can have them three model farms, with buildings
_ if the people of the West are prepared to pay the price. But Ontario and’ ara complete equipment, to be sold as|
(Quebec, and the States to the south, and the countries of Europe did not going concerns, ‘The proposal, as|
enjoy hard-surfaced highways when they were only twenty-five years old, | outlined by Hon. E, D. Barrow, ‘Min-
and when their populations were small, and their-accumulated wealth not! ister of Agriculture, is that three

Pills help the nerves.
function is to enrich and increase the
blood, and as the blood supplies the
whole body, new life is given to the
entire system. Better sleep ,steaay
nerves, improved appetite, increased
vigor—all these can be yours by tak-
ing Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
them today.
dealers, or by mail post paid, at 50|
cents a box from The Dr. Williams’)
Medicine Co,, Brockville, Ont.

Colum)ia Government

luring July
with July, 1927, In July last, the
total catch amounted to 87,072,800
pounds, valued at $2,712,332, as
against 87,451,900 pounds valued at
$5,166,634 during July, 1927.

On the Pacific coast, the catch of
halibut during the month under re-
view was 3,608,200 pounds; while the
catch of the preceding year was 3,-
712,400 pounds.

COMPLETELY RUN DOWN

Symptoms That the Blood Is
Thin Should Not Be Neglected
Weak, run-down, lacking strength,

© y %,
rely critical of the Government at Ottawa, irrespective of its/ Teas boeit auBetite aipertioe vistueRel
complexion, and the immigration policies which have prevailed. i
Twenty-five years ago Manitoba was largely an undeveloped province,
the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were yet to be born, this
oo Came known as the North-West Territories, lacking a fully | pills correct the condition describen
mous form of government, and without many of the Institutions,| nd if you have any of these symp-
| toms you should give these pills a
msl trial. _ Their great value in cases of
| this kind is shown by the statement
|of Mrs. James A. Tibbetts, Halifax, |
| N.S., who says:—‘I\ was completely

ed—these are the symptoms named/

by a great majority of people who

have been benefitted by the use of
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. These tonic|

|run down in health, My blood was)
thin and watery, and my nerves so_
bad that I did not sleep well at night. |

When I went out I wauld have a se-
| vere headache, and would have to lie
down as soon as I got in the house.)
A friend advised me to try Dr. Wil-}
liams’ Pink Pills.
were helping me and by the time Ij}
had taken the sixth box I felt like a
new woman, and have enjoyed good)
health ever since.
can highly recommend the pills to
anyone run-down or troubled
their nerves.

I soon found they

For this reason I
with

Not only do Dr. Williams’ Pink

Their main

Begin
Sold by all medicine

Building Model Farms

In Reclaimed Areas

Government Schemes To Stimulate
Land Sales In Sumas, B.C.

To stimulate the sale of British

land in the

great. These things came to them gradually. But the West is impatient. | complete farm units shall be created|

We ‘are living in an age of rapid improvement, and the West must have! on choice Sumas land at Government}
_ everything others bave irrespective of its numbers or wealth. :
It is not sufficient that in twenty-five years the West has created great
o Provinces out of virgin territory, and supplied its people in that short space
f time with institutions, public services, and conveniences which other and ery, It is believed they will be sold)
older, and wealthier lands took hundreds of years to provide. Thus it is that) without dificulty, but the main pur

expense,
models of modern agricultural meth-
ods, with houses,-barns and machin-

7 Alberta the U.E.A. Government, under Premier Brownlee, the Liberal) pose is to attract farmers to the dis-

in

grayelled or paved many thousands of miles of roads, although in order to

“do so the publid debts of these provinces would have been enormously in-|
x _ creased and the taxes imposed’made much heavier. |
a ie And mo sooner are roads gravelled than a new demand is made.
* ‘Manitoba complaint is now made that these gravelled roads are too dusty,
"and the Government of that Province is called upon to remedy this condition. |
as _ In Saskatchewan, a proposal is calmly made that there should be paved) comes exhausted and finally, though’
roads provided, running from the United States boundary through the proy-| the attack passes, is left in unceas-
ince to the northern edge of settlemgnt, and that at least two other paved
_ roads should be constructed hight across the province from east to west,—|
good thousand miles of paved highway

g tars. |
: And along with the demand for more roads, better roads, gravelled|
roads, oe roads, payed roads, is coupled the demand for reduced license |

fees fo b and the

In

at a cost of many millions of dol-|

to ies of a goodly por-|

tion’ of the money now collected; in
gle. It is a peculiar situation.

“Yes, the West is impatient, and, at times, apt to be a bit inconsistent,

too.

a word, for reduced taxation on the

All Governments being urged to spenu|

lons more and to collect very much less,
| of Edmonton. Successful experiments} of the tagged fish were recovered. |

|

‘Travelling By Airway ,
2,000 Passengers Fly Across English
» Channel nI Five Weeks

Statistics just published show that

Britain is rapidly becoming airmind-
ed. Every week for the last five weeks

+ __—— more than 2,000 people have taken the

ence perilous air journey across the
English Channel. This is an increase
of more’ than 500 over the highest
figure for last year.

During the busiest air week last
year Jess than 1,500 people took ad-
vantage of tht quick service from

‘TRE BROKE
OUT W PILES

Had to Keep Hands Out of
Water. Cuticura Heals,

| “Eczema started: with an, irrita-
ob and soreness between my fin-

Z it broke out in small
ae were red and full of
v id to keep my hands out
‘of water, and could not do my reg~

cura Soap and Ointment so I sent
‘a free sample. After using it I
discovered the trouble was disap-

so I purchased more, and

Mollie Hanna, Ox-
ak. Oct, 10, 1927.
\ heal'skin troubles.

London to Paris. London now has}
air trips to 73 European cities. There|

are nine scheduled services each day}
64 |

last at 4.30 in the’ afternoon.

More than 50 per cent. of the cross-|
channel passengers are women and
they have included the extremes in

octogenarian and once a man of 90.

May Be Given New Post |

First Secretary Of
tion At W

anadian Lega-|

ashington Is Returning |
To Ottawa

It is understood that Laurent Beau-

dry, who is r the post of

ae

emier Gardiner, in Saskatchewan, and the Bracken | trict and to encourage the establish-
it are all under fire because they have not |

ment of first-class farms of similar
character there.

Like a Grip At the Throat. For a
disease that is not classed as fatal

more terrible suffering than asthma.
Sleep is impossible, the sufferer be-

ing dread of its return. Dr. J. D.
derful remedial agent. It immediately
relieves the restricted air
as thousands can testify.
by dealers everywhere,

‘n]

It

Fruits In Peace River Country

Plums, apples, raspberries and oth-| hglibut of all sizes in a stretch of 1,-| up like jelly-rools; sprinkle with su-
er fruits are now being grown in the! S00 miles were tagged and returned | gar, and serve at once.

Peace River country, 200 miles north
in respect of these fruits were con-
ducted at the Dominion Experimental
Farm at Beaverlodge.

: i ga | eben ave “indli |
Worms in children work havoc, catches have been dwindling for ten 18,000 ibs. Of Mall Carried By Fleet

cl :
st as compared

_The Worlds
Greatest Heala

|

| WOULD BE PAYING INDUSTRY)
} Seder ign |
| Production Of Soya Bean In|
Canada Should Be Increased

| A country so rich and yaried in
a agricultural possibilities as Can-
ada should not import products which
it can grow equally well at-home,
One of these is the soybean or soya
bean, a native of China and Japan. |
It is grown to an enormous extent in
Manchuria where 25 per cent. of the
cultivated area is given up to it and
where it forms the chief freight for
the South Manchuria Railway. Its
uses are amazing in number. Not only
are the beans in yarious forms an ex-
cellent food for cattle, but the bean
oil is used for burning, cooking, as
4 jubricant, as a substitute for butter,
Tor making soap, and high explos-
ives. And the bean cake is a valu-
able fertilizer. By soaking, crush-
ing and boiling and adding sugar, the
beanS can be turned into a cheese}
rich in casein. The beans can also}
be made into a sauce or used as a}

‘to ve
yment of 8 cents a bush-|
heat, basis No. 1 Northern at}
Villlam, This advance is 10)
‘cents @ bushel less than a year 9g0,"
and reflects the caution of the Pool)
management arising out of the fact!
that Western Canada is now harvest-|

er members

t ing orders and option

iberal A: Prompt Settlem'
ern handled Cred your own shaker an do, Indepondent
stabilize prices than any

arketing is the only way to
praia. Write us for shipping ae
Kets. Licensed and bonded, Reference ae ahippers:
mercantile agency. Premiums obtained for

McBEAN BROS., 808-818 Grain Exchange, Winnipeg, Man. |

ing the greatest wheat crop in its his-/

tory. |
The Canadian Wheat Pools, which
control the world's largest supply of
exportable wheat, make an initial
payment to thefr members when the) WV
wheat is delivered, Three other pay-|
ments are made during the year and|

are determined by the price realized) point to the
initial! say:
Alexander Bain, now
year, a native and lifelong resident of
Cooksville, Ont. She makes the same
boast of her brooms with which she
tidies her comfortable home and lit-
tle store, not only making the broom,

in the foreign market. The
payment is therefore no indication
of the total amount the farmer will
eventually receive. _

It is announced by the Wheat Poo}
management that they are starting)
the new crop year with old stocks
practically sold out.

|

Import Game Birds

Ring-Necked Pheasants From Ore-
gon Introduced In Medicine
Hat District

Fourteen brace of  ring-necked
pheasants arrived the other day from
Oregon, for the Medicine Hat Fish
and Game Association. The birds
will be placed in pens, already pre-
pared for them on the Bray poultry
farm on Ross ‘Creek. The young

for

The soya bean hasbeen grown to
2 small extent in each of the proyinc-
es of Canada, but there seems to be
room for a great increase in the pro-
| duction of it, A bulletin issued by
the Department of Agriculture, at
Ottawa, descriptive of the soya bean,
says that Canada has imported an-
nually, during the last seven years,
an average of about 5,000,000 pounds}
of soya bean oil for use in the manu-|
facture of soaps and oils. One ton of
the beans yields approximately 240)
pounds of oil. As a ton of beans would
be an extremely good yield per acre
the quantity of oil imported

|be in a position to turn loose several|

are about three months
old, apparently, and are about the
size of a full grown Hungarian Part-
ridge, although considerably longer
in the leg. They are a lively lot and
apparently have suffered no harm
from the trip. The Association is now
in possession of 44 birds altogether,
16 having been secured from the eggs
shipped here in the spring. It is pro-
posed to keep all the birds in confine-
ment for breeding purposes and thus)

hundred, in the fall of 1929, along
the creek beds and river flats.

represents the product of at least 20,-
000 acres of the soya beans. Why
jcan we not raise these beans at home. |
| Moreover the cake or meal resulting}
| from the extraction of oil from soya|
beans has a feeding value equal to)
that of linseed meal or cotton seed,

in considerable quantities for feeding

make our own soya bean food for}
cattle? |

lFahermed Plant To

Renew Halibut Supply |

In every way they will be) International Commission Will Estab- | mayonnaise dressing.

| lish Nurseries In B.C. and Alaska

| The world's first attempt to regu-|
late deep sea fishing that halibut’s/
tives may be long on earth was part |
|of the program proposed by the In-,
‘ternational Fisheries Commission in|
| session. Two halibut nurseries will al-|

so be established to conserve the fish |,

| supply. These plans were adopted af-|

ter a three-year investigation of the

| there is probably none which causes life and habits of the largest deep sea}

food fish.

The halibut is a home-body, they
found. In youth it sticks close to
home. Halibut do not produce eggs

| Kelloge’s Asthma Remedy is a won-| until about three to four years old |

In recent years halibut have been)

“ge; \ marketed before they had reached| grease. When griddle-cake is puffed,
‘full of bubbles, and eooked on edges,

spawning age.
| These facts were ascertained by a
| system of tagging. More than 100,000 }

|to the water. More than 33 per cent.|

One halibut nursery will be estab-|
| lished off Graham Island in British]
Columbia and the other at Cape Ad-|

dington, Southern Alaska. Halibut)

These pests attack the tender lining) years.

to Paris, the first at 6 a.m. and the) of the intestines and, if left to pur-|
sue their ravages undisturbed, will

wall, be-|
yk wlar halibut season, beginning this |

ultimately perforate the
cause these worms are of the hoo
variety

have done.

Lodger: “Did you ever see

Landlady: “Well, there's your bill.

Courtesy opens many doors and
lack of courtesy leaves them open.

any-
| thing so unsettled as the weather?” |

to fishing permanently while the reg-

that cling to and feed upon! year, will be shortened two weeks, no
eee = ane the interior surfaces. Miller’s Worm 4
age, babies travelling from time to) Powders will not only exterminate

February 16th.
timé as well-as the septuagenarian,| these worms, of whatever variety, but Per 18 to February 218
| will serve to repair the injury they

fishing being permitted from Novem-

The regulations and plans are
agreed to by Canada and the Uniteo
States Fisheries Bureaus,

| —= +
Defective Vision In Children
Willie can now have a new alibi
when he fails to pass his school ex-
1 aminations. According to W.
Blocker, chairman of the convention

first secretary of the Canadian lega-|
tion, at Washington, to return to Ot-

| tawa, will be appointed counsellor of

the Department of External Affairs.
ean Desy, who was counsellor for|
the department, has been appointed)
imilar pogjtion in the new lega-
tion at Paris. No announcement has
| yet been made here as to just what
| post Mr. Beaudry will be given. He
| was formerly one of Premier Macken-
zie King’s secretaries.

loa

The Thoughtful Husband
| It was obvious that Mr. Specknoo-
| dle had something on his mind
His wife gave him a searching loo}
as he paced up and down in front ot
the fire,
“amelia,” he said suddenly, “I was
veading an article in the paper y
terday and—er—it said that women
| required more sleep than men."
"Oh?" observed Amélia, a
suspiciously
| “Br—yes," continued her
‘so 1 thought—er—p'r’bps you'd—er
| __petter not wait up for me tonight.”

shade

spouse,

a ee

ATTENTION,
WOMEN OF
MIDDLE AGE!

Mrs. Goodkey Tells Her Experi-
ence with Pinkham’s Compound

Byemoor, Alberta.—‘The Change
of Life was the trouble with me and I
wasrun-down, thin,
id. could

had a

not sleep,

poor appetite and
could not do much
I am taking

3. Pink

Compound now
and J feel like a
ell woman. I saw
it advertised in the
papers and tried it

E. Pink

nk=

and Ly
ham’s Sanative Wash. I h: econ
mended it to a lot of women friends.
Mrs. WM, Goovpkey, Byemoor, Al-
berta.

tion Opticians of America, eyestrain
|and defective vision is retarding 2,-
100,000 schoo) children In their stud-

ies.

cycles Popular In Holland
are popular in Holland,

Bi

th
habitants. This is attribuled to the
fact that there are practically no hills
in Holland. The importance of the
machine is recognized by the author-
ities in that they provide separate
picycle roads running paralle) to the

Bi
whe

other roads,

Agriculturists Are Contented

I talked with at least one hundred
farmers,” sajd Senator Shipstead of
the Unitetl States, atter concluding a
trip through Western Canada, “and I
failed to find one who was in any way

dissatisied,

Mother Graves’ Worm Extermina-
tor will drive worms from the sys-
tem without injury*to the child, be-
cause its action, while fully effective
is mild.

The halibut nurseries will be closed}
|

A.|

committee for the Guild of Prescrip-|

e is one to every 2%% in-|

Recipes For This Week

Not many Canadian

talk with this active lady is to turn
back the clock of time half a century
and to step into an era in which
necessity was the mother of inven-
tion.

The sheds at the rear of her home,
the chimney in her summer kitchen,
the shingled roof of the little veran-
da which shelters the front of the
store, are all evidence of her adapta- |
bility to different trades. |
ing room are a couch which she made |
and upholstered, and a comfortable)
rocking chair, a relic of bygone days, |
which she also coyered. On the living
room window is a pair of curtains
manufactured out
from the store, and-a lesson in thrift,

fighting was used for the first time
when for over five hours a big force of
firemen, with over 30 engines, fought)
one of the worst riverside fires seen
in London, Eng., for some years. It)
was a new
| throws 1,500 gallons of water a min-|
jute with sufficient force to crumble)
(By Detty Barclay) | brick walls.

; Tnsurance For War Veterans

Clever At Many Trades

Polici Now Amount To
f x ville, tario, Has] Policies Issued

“ Mr ARe cea Fifty-Five Million Dollars

; numbering 25,000 and

Policies .
amounting to $55,000,000 worth of in-
surance have been issued to the re-
turned soldiers under the insurance
provided for by the Returned Sol-
diers’ Insurance Act, according to a
statement received from the insur-
division of the Department of

women can
shoes on their feet and
as can Mrs.
in her 79th

“I made them!"

ance
Pensions and Nati

but growing the broom corn which | tawa. r
3 i qT t provides insurance for

she manufactures into brooms, To This ac! :
those who served in the Dominion

military, naval or air forces over-
seas during the Great War. It is of
special benefit to those whose health
is so impaired that they could not
obtain insurance from the old insur-
ance companies. In the majority of
cases, insurance will be issued with-
out medical examination, and poli-
cies from $500 to $5,000 may be pur-
chased at a very low rate as com-
pared with the cost of the ordinary
life insurance. No policies will be is-
sued after August 31, 1929.

In her liv-}

Pictures From Arctic Cruise
Having completed Her annual cruise

of bags,
into the ice-filled waters of Baffin

sugar

with crocheted lace made from the| Straits to within 600 miles of the
string which sewed the bags. north pole, the S.S. Beothic, of the
= Canadiarf Government Arctic expedi-

New Fire Apparatus tion of 1928, has returned safely. In

The latestt invention for fire-|her itinerary, the ship followed a

cburse of more than 7,000 miles, fre-
quently under conditions‘of extreme
severity. This voyage was made in
six weeks.

which | Veterinaries use Minard’s Liniment.

“swivel gun,”

B.C. Salmon Pack
| The British Columbia salmon pack

gi
|
SALMON SALAD CROQUETTES
Can of salmon, 3 hard-boiled eggs.)
1 cup

sprinkle w

purposes. Why can we not grow and), bit of onion juice. Mix well with] 4 total population of 1,

|
just enough French dressing to coma
into croquettes. Roll each croquette
in finely-ground nut meats and serve

{on lettuce leaves with salmon dress- street

ing made from 1 cup of salmon rub-)
bed through a colander into a plain

GRIDDLE CAKES
cilps flour.

Montreal's population is/1,032,
: finely-minced celery, 1 large| according to the estimate c ined |
cake and it is imported into Canada| \yite -potato, boiled and cooled:|in the 1928-29 Montreal directory.
ell with paprika and addj Greater Montreal is estimated to have] things in such a way that nobody

. Many a man who seems to be on
| easy street is only on casy payment

The good don't die young. It jus
| seems that way because they get over
jit while young.

|" The man who praises the baby al-|
ways wins the mother’s smuc.

this year totalled 519,359 cases com-
pared with 335/562 cases up to the
same date a year ago.

Montreal's Population

Diplomacy is the art of saying

461. can tell exactly what you mean.

Dressmaking Schoo!

A practical training In designing and making
costumes and millinery; individual instruction.
The Winnipeg Dressmaking and Millinery
School, 7§ Donald’ St., Winnipeg. Est. 1900.

OFFER TO INVENTORS, SEND
for our free list of inventions want-

, and free adyice. The Ramsey
|Company, International Patent Attorneys,
273 Bank’ St., Ottawa,

teaspoon salt.
3 tablespoons sugar.
1414 cups milk.
1 egg:
8 tablespoons melted butter.
Orange marmalade. |
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add]
beaten egg and milk; beat thorough-|
ly, and add butter. Drop, by large|
spoonfuls, on hot griddle that has been}
rubbed over with a piece of raw tur-
nip, which will prevent cakes from
sticking without the use of butter or

‘

turn, and cook on other side. Spread
cakes with orange marmalade; roll

Corns are painful growths, Hollo-|
way's Corn Remover will remove}
them.

Record Breaking Air Mail Cargo

Of Planes

A fleet of 18 airplanes, each laden
with a half a ton of mail, landed at
the municipal airport at Chicago re-
cently and established what is belley-
\ed tobe a new record for shipments
|by air mail. The fleet, chartered by
la Lansing, Mich, manufacturing
fara which sent out almost $50,000}
pieces of mail in their record-break- |
|ing cargo, carried approximately 18,-
| 000 pounds.
|. The Lansing Company's postage on

[the shipment amounted to more than
3,000.

| Would Eliminate Punctures
A new type of wheel ing two
tires, one within the other, and said

rubber, |
the other, inside it, is of pneumatic)
and is incased in a steel frame next
to the hub, ‘This arrangement is
said to take the strain from the out-
ér tire while the inner one acts as a
ock absorber, Punctures are also}

eliminated.

Helping the Doctor

Dr. Charles H. M now tells in
complete detail just exactly how to|
run a newspaper and the Ohio State
Journal is thinking of writing a two-
column editorial on the technique of
removing the gall bladder, in case
j he'd like to know.

| “Unquestionably” contains all the
five vowels, but “abstemiously’’ con-
{tains them all in order.

| Minard’s Linlment cleanses cuts, ete,

There's a giant of i

a giar power in
eo pacctiess You can’t faves mene
ot-Shot for heavy duty igniti
engine, tractor or marine SE No agen
Crank once, and off

of fat hot sparks before aGives millions

eplacement is

value for your mone

v 3 'y- Metal
in 6, 7%4 and 9 volt Sizes,
Built and guaranteed

battery uandtactisore ranada's largest

“Eveready” on each b, name
an Eveready, it’s not a Heese not
Canadian Nati
2. National Carbon wor
Single cell Ignitor Calgary es Co., Limited
Rrra eden nee ERROR Wee
Size 1% volta. Winnipeg

Dry Batteries

they last longer

onal Health, Ot-
~