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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., SEPT. 1, 1938 Classified Advertising LYONS' MID-SUMMER SALE Reconditioned Furniture $35 £pdle z^/ZT. $24.50'J'i;' . ":;';,!- Bjofi table and « ieathei- upholstered $39 but fe tP' i ua" " i.' i',.:• x ten- i'f.e't. 6 an €a e' ieJ C *** $49 wainutflVinishP" h'.f f, ("«Jhi-*ion table, china .-abin.-t and (i lea- $79 c^binlH^iliirf'tabu' and C leather upholsi ereit rh.-'iis, feet condition. *12QMcLaSan suite (cost approxi-▼'f^ mutely $350) I. buffet, ti'ful' IrVil'her " ,?('" I'mi':'.'. d]K' 6 beJU" $19>.i;,...^ > ^3*Ured in Frenoh'jJS uard" $39 "it^edTfiHH T: J;'."?:*'"'- reversible Ma'i" b.-i'l'l" p, ,Vi!.ni" Fhnw-wood fronts. $45 ^r,^pe- LYONS TRADE-IN DEPARTMENT 478 Yonge St., Toronto Issue No. 36--'38 Eleven boring plants are hard at work on desert land in the Jordan Valley neighbourhood, and altogether 30 deep wells have yielded water. Hidden Waters In The Desert British Engineers Have Bored Down Into Jordan Valley's Arid Land and Found Oases. The arid desert of Palestine has yielded water in abundance. This amazing news was brought by British Government engineers who bored the parched Negeb Desert--and struck water in profuse streams. If this water is found on analysis to be pure, it will be used for SEARC*l**>OR "SNIFF-METER" Invc of iff-n still baffles the genius of the world, it was disclosed at McGill University, Montreal, last week. Science has accomplished mar- vels i the i things which register on the various human senses, but it still cannot produce anything which measures smells. The detection and elimination of odors constitutes a practical problem. For instance, in schools, it is found necessary to circulate some 30 cubic feet of air per student through classrooms though all that is necessary to eliminate carbon dioxide and supply adequate oxygen is four cubic feet. NINE-DAY CHICK CROWS Transformation of a baby chick into a synthetic rooster with a robust crow in a period of nine days was accomplished in experiments announced at Leland Stanford University, Palo, Alto, Calif. Dr. Calvin P. Stone, psychology professor, said the chick was injected daily with a synthetic male hormone substance that effected precocity and developed the crow, a mature comb and a strut. SPASM PREVENTS RESUSCITATION Toronto medical research men, one of them Sir Frederick Bant- Jack Miner Says: "Begin With the Children" fays practises what he preaches. Thi of group, wjth children which the Kii home for their annual picnic. right kind o photo shows him, in the jsville Lions Club brought | Gardening f Notes EVERGREEN PLANTING Taking everything into consideration, late August or early September is the best time to transplant coniferous (cone-bearing) evergreens. While spring transplanting at the time new growth begins is feasible, the plants often suffer due to the fact that new slow-growing roots are not abundant enough to supply the moisture demand of the new top growth. Fall planting does not incur these consequences, for very little or no top growth is formed at this season, while the roots are particularly active. This gives the roots a good chance to become thoroughly established by the time heavy demands are made upon them to support new growing tips. The exception to this rule is hemlocks, which do best if transplanted in the spring. Late fall planting always is followed by a high mortality rate, as under this condition the plants enter the freezing periods of the year without new roots having a chance to develop and become thoroughly settled in their new position. Warm Soil Stimulates Roots Early autumn planting, furthermore, has the advantage of falling irtto a period when the soil still is quite warm and this factor as well as an abundance of soil moisture stimulates vigorous root action. Under no circumstances should the plants be placed in dry, hot soil, and excavation of the planting hole should take place shortly after an abundant rain. COLDFRAME HELPS BIENNIALS The time has arrived to think of sowing seed of some of the quicker-growing biennials such as Sweet-Williams, English Daisy (Bellis) and Forget-me-nots (My-osotis). The coldframe is a most useful adjunct to give the plants special care, since regular watering and shading are essential to develop a satisfactory stand of sturdy seedlings. DROUGHT RESISTANT Truly drought-resistant plants always are welcome in regions where summer is sure to be hot and dry. While there are many good plants that have this quality, several species of Rudbeckia actually seem to flourish under such conditions. Perhaps the most showy of them is Rudbeckia bi-color superba, a hardy annual of easiest culture with flowers that measure up to three inches in diameter. St. Elmo's Fire On Great Lakes . Elm Ontario, struck t bound yacht Vision out of Toronto, one To the amazement of the en five aboard the ship, the t flames ran up and down y on Lake i 12 hours , the i the One member of the crew, thinking the ship afire, attempted to extinguish the apparent blaze with a fire extinguisher, the skipper reported. Only the lee side, Skipper WTood-born Thompson said, was without the unusual electrical display named after St. Elmo, patron saint of sailors. Of a flamelike appearance, St. Elmo's fire or light is seen usually only in stormy weather. More frequent in the tropics, it is of the nature of a brush discharge of electricity, reddish when positive, bluish when negative. ing, are reported to have discovered a new physiological fact in their study of artificial respiration for drowning persons. The Health League of Canada announces that an article in the September issue of the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association states that in a, large proportion of drowning cases a laryngeal spasm develops which prevents air getting into the lungs even with artificial respiration. It has already been observed in post-mortem examination of drowned persons that frequently no water was found in the lungs, the article states. The explanation of this fact was learned to be the action of the body's nor-may protective machinery which to the lungs during swallowing. In cases of drowning the same mechanism was said to operate and may persist as a spasm after the victim has been taken from the water. Thus artificial respiration is rendered ineffective. GERMAN SUPER-MICROSCOPE Magnification up to 30,000 times is made possible by a new super microscope invented by two Geo-man scientists, according to reports from Berlin. The inventors, Dr. Bodo von Borries and Dr. Ernst Rurka, utilize electron rays having a 100,000 voltage current in their instrument. INSECTS COLOR-MINDED Insects are attracted by lights, but have preferences in colors. If lights of a variety of colors are exposed at night, insects ol particular kinds will be found in greatest numbers flitting around the light which has the greatest color appeal for them. General Electric engineers observing the new sodium lights installed on a bridge at Clinton, Iowa, noted that the shad flies of that neighborhood did not like the brilliant pure yellow of the sodium lamps nearly so well as the almost white and equally brilliant incandescent lamps used on the bridgehead. The insects were recently found piled six inches deep under the incandescent lamps, but only one inch deep under the sodium lamps. The red end of the spectrum is much less attractive to insects than the blue end. Insects apparently have a wider range of vision than human being's, as they appear to,see the ultra-violet light, which is invisible to us but to which many insects are strongly attracted. STANDARDS: Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you .... Never excuse yourself; never pity yourself .... Be a hard master to yourself--and be lenient to everybody else .... Then you give the world value received for Mrs. Toots (in store) -- "I've waited since 5 o'clock for my husband and now its 6:30." Clerk--"And when were you to meet him?" Mrs. Toots--"At 4 o'clock." Suspicious Wife--"Let me see that letter you've just opened. I can see from the handwriting it is from a woman and you turned pale when you read it." Husband (calmly)--"You can have it It is from your milliner." Professor--"I forgot my umbrella this morning." His Wife--"How did you remember you forgot it?" Professor--"Well, I missed it when I raised my hand to close it after it had stopped raining." It was Rochefoucauld who said, "Small minds are the first to condemn large ideas." A man walked into a grocery Man--"I want all the rotten eggs you have." Grocer--"What do you want with rotten eggs?" Man (nervously -- "Sh-sh-sh-sh. I am the new comedian." Jeb--"I've an invention at last that will mean a fortune! Zed--"What is it this time?" Jeb--"Why, it's an extra key for a typewriter. When you don't know how to spell a word you hit that key and it makes a blur that might be an V an 'a' or almost anything else you like." In many ways, what with the international outlook, and the price of haircuts, we're just as well pleased that we aren't twenty years younger. Jasper -- "Can you stand on your head, Peter?" Peter--"Nope, it's too high!" BIG BEN The PERFECT Chewing Tobacco Freckle-Faced Entrant On Children's Day, August 26, at the Canadian National Exhibition, the "King and Queen of Freckledom" were crowned in elaborate ceremony and awarded complete new school outfits. Entrants sent in their applications from all parts of the country. Proud of his facial adornment is David David (ABOVE) of Toronto who was entered in the boys' divi- Fall Fair Dates Toronto ................Aug. 26--Sept. 10 Woodstock ................Aug. 25, 26, 27 Comber ............................Sept. 16, 17 London (Western Fair) Sept. 12-17 Ailsa Craig ....................Sept. 22, 23 Dresden ................ Sept. 19, 20, 21 Exeter .............................. Sept. 21, 22 Forest ............................ Sept. 20, 21 Gait ........................ Sept, 22, 23, 24 Goderich ........................ Sept. 2CT, 21 Harrow ....................Sept. 22, 23, 24 Lambeth ................................ Sept. 22 ................ Sept. 21, 22 Merl Shedden ...... Springfield . Stratford ..... Thorndale ... Ingersoll ....... Jarvis ............ Langton ........ Leamington .. Mitchell ........ Rodney .. ■athroy w.i; Alvinston ........ Brigden ............ Dorchester ..... Embro .............. Fairground ...... Highgate ......... Melbourne ....... Mount Brydges Norfolk County ......... Sept. 20, 21 .......... Sept. 20, 21 . Sept. 22, 23, 24 .....................Sept. 19-21 ....................... Sept. 21 ......... Sept. 26, 27, 28 .....................'.. Sept. 29 .................. Sept. 27, 28 ................ Sept. 27, 28 ....................... Sept. 28 ................ Sept. 29, 30 .............. Sept. 27, 28 ........................... Oct. 1 ......... Sept. 26--Oct. 1 ............... Sept. 27, 28 ...................... Sept. 28 ................. Sept. 26, 27 . Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1 ................ Sept. 29, 30 ....... Sept. 27, 28, 29 Real-Life Tarzan Bearded and naked, a real-lif< Tarzan has been found in a thicl forest near Sanski Most, Bosnia The man appears incapable of hu man speech, and shrieks wildly al the sight of money. Apparently ht has been living on herbs and animals which he caught with his | THE FAMOUS RUBBING LINIMENT The BOOK SHELF By ELIZABETH EEDY VAGABOND VOYAGING By Larry Nixon This book, as its subtitle states, tells "The Story of Freighter Travel." But "story" is an inadequate word. Larry Nixon gives his readers much more than the story of the freighter ship's acquisition of passenger accommodations and growth in passenger popularity; he gives them precisely the information they need if they want to go vagabond voyaging themselves; and he makes them want to. The list of freighter routes and lines covers eighty-one pages at the back of his book, and in addition there are "real" freight ships which definitely do not take passengers. The book deals, however, not with these freight ships which are freight ships only, but with those which do carry passengers, for a moderate price and in acceptable comfort. It's a matey way of traveling. It's leisurely. It's simple, of course. But most freighters are well kept, many of them are new; they go to interesting places, they have no inside rooms--Oh, there's a lot to be said for freighter travel. Larry Nixon says it clearly, attractively and sensibly, in an inviting and practical book. "Vagabond Voyaging," by Larry Nixon. Illustrated. 314 pp. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. $2.50. An Interview "And were you pleased?" they asked of Helen in Hell. "Pleased?" answered she, "when all Troy's towers fell; And dead were Priam's sons, and lost his throne? And such a war was fought as none had known; And even the gods took part; and all because Of me alone! Pleased? I should The Exhibition is a dream of marvels. Here are gathered some cf the continent's finest livestock. See them judged, discussed, paraded. Wander through the stalls and inspect them closely. Thrill to the of England's Royal Artillery Watch the excitement of the harness races. Examine the huge farm-implement displays. See the mirror that talks, the Art brought from Europe. Take the youngsters 'to stare at "Hooty" the strangely intelligent owl, play in Frole::kmd, eat in a restaurant on the grounds. There are a million things to see and something of interest for everyone. flUC.2SSEPT.10 CRDRDIfill MRTIOHRL EXHIBITIOII 1879 <&> 1938 Dinmonp -jubilee