' Ss TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG en i HOME WEEK SPECIAL One gold plated Auto Strop Razor, com- plete with Strop in metal case free with one large package of Blades. : ONLY at this Store. Prescription Specialist 'Phone 50, FOR SALE Bateman's Real Estate. BRICK BUNGALOW---7 rooms, 38 pe. bath, electric light, double lot and choice location. $2,000-Frame, 4 rooms, B. and T., electric light. $8,000~Frame, 7 rooms, 8 p. bath, > electric light and furnace. $4,000 -- Brick, semi-detached, 8 rooms, 8 p. bath, electric light avd gas, deep lot and garage. 6 rooms, 8 p. bath, electric light and furnace, garage. #$7,600--Brick, all modern, central. DIAMONDS Have Wonderful Possibilities Let us show you how the gems from your ring or old necklet may be re- mounted in new, attrac- tive settings. The cost is very moderate and the new Ring or Bar "Pin_ is always most pleasing. | mand for New Policy. | |tudes and generalities regarding the jreports of your department Sh | MONEY TO LOAN. " CUSTOMS BROKER ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE. 1113 BROCK ST. KINGSLON For the next month, we will install GAS Pipes inside the wall of your house. * Auyone desiring to become a consumer of the best and cheapest fuel on the market, 'phone 1604 for full informa- tion. If it can be dome with heat You can do it cheaper with GAS, Public Utilities Commission C. C. Folger, General Manager, Natt 'GAS STOVES A 3 Burner Gas Stove with lower oven and gilltep .......... .........$20.00 A 3 Burner Gas Stove with lower oven, white enamel oven door and drip AY +. vn crite ne ee... $27.00 A 4 Burner Gas Range with lower oven, white enamel trim and grey. enamel op... .... A 4 Burner Cabinet rust ..... A 2 Burner Gas Hot Plate. . . .. . . $3.50 A 2 Burner Gas Hot Plate . . . ......$5.00 A 3 Burner Gas Hot Plate . ...... .$7.00 If the Civic Utilities has connected your new service get your Gas Range now. I McKelvey & Birch Type Range, white enamel trimmed with grey enainel top. The oven is enamel lined to prevent .....$35.75 c.....$78.00 i AN OPEN LETTER | To Ontario's Ministet of Lands | and Forests Regarding De- | » { Honorable James Lyons, Minister of Lands and Forests, | Toronto, Canada. | Dear Sir:-- ! The demand for an entirely new | policy in the administration of our de- i | partment of lands and forests is be- | | {coming more and mare insistent. The | | péBple are tired of listening to plati- | subject of forest conservation. They | are beginning to see that the oft reite- rated statement that "our forests are fast disappearing" will not in any way remedy the evils in our present system of forest administration. The annual something is radically wrong with our present method of handling our public lands and forests. Each year higher prices are paid for timber by the lum- ber operators, but still your balance sheet continues to show a tremendous deficit. Each year large sums of money arespent to aid colonization and deve- lopient and still your report shows that more than 'fifty per cent of the people you place upon the land aban. don it before obtaining title to it. Each | year 15 per cent or more of our forest | fires are reported as being due to the activities of these settlers who are | placed upon-the land at an enormous | cost to the people of Ontario. Do you | propose to allow these conditions to | continue? Do you consider it good | business to spend the income derived from the only branch of your depart- ment that is at present operating at a profit upon another branch that is shown to be, by your official report, less than fifty per cent efficient? In order to overcome any impres- sion that might be entertained that this communication is inspired by political considerations, I will combine the fig- ures given in the reports of your de- partment for the years 1922, 1923, and 1924, as this arrangement will then cover a period inciuding part of the preceding administration. We find therein that the total disbursements for the three years was $16,925,000, that ! the total-income was $12,663,000; leav- ing a net deficit of $4,262,000 to be met by drafts upon the pockets of the peo- ple of Ontarioc Of the total income received, $12,405,000 was directly de- rived from the forests in the form of stumpage dues, bonuses, contributions by lumbermen towards fire protection, and ground rents, which equals about 85 per cent of the gross income of the department. In spite of the fact that the forests yielded 85 per cent. of your gross income, only five pef cent was returned to them by way of adminis. tration costs and fire protection. The greater part of the remaining 95 per- cent. was used to promote various col- onization schemes and for so-called northern\ development. Has the suc- cess of those schemes warranted this outlay and the correspondingly heavy drain upon the dividends earned by the only money-making branch of your department? The answer, an indisput- able negative, is found in the official figures furnished by you. The total number of acres settled during the three years above referred to was 769,- 1 { thirty-five years. Their family is yet | | Clayton French, respect? We await your answer with | interest. | Yours truly, J --FREDERICK NOAD. | Newmarket, Ont, August 10, 1925. Pa PROBS :--Fine and a little cooler on Wednesday. A CONSECON COUPLE | WEDDED FIFTY TEARS § wo Mr. and Mrs. J. R. French Cele~ brate Anniversary--Fam«- ily Is Unbroken. A very pleasant and happy event = took place on August Tth at the | a home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. French, | Consecon, Prince Edward County, it " being the fiftieth anniversary ot [IN their wedding. Mr. and Mrs. French | were married in the old Methodist B® Episcopal church, Belleville, by the ow late Rev. Amos. Campbell. ~~ . 3 The children were all present to- gether with a large number of their relatives and 'friends. The children R are Freeman French, Melville, Ex- Alderman G. H. French, Belleville, Mrs. Sherman Chase, Consecon, Gar- fleld French, Vancouver, Caleb Nn French, Oshawa, Mrs. Fred Spring, ™ Brighton, and Clayton French, Con- secon. Mr. and Mrs. French were born in Hastings county but have resided in Prince Edward County for the last unbroken. At five in the afternoon the wed- ding breakfast of half a century be- fore was repeated. Tables were pre- pared on the lawn. There was a magnificent wedding cake. Later, the youngest son, read an address. To this the groom of fifty years ago made a very elo- quent reply. On behalf of the bride and him- self he wished to express their plea- sure in having all the family toge- ther on this the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. That Body of Pours By James W, Barton, M.D. When we read nowadays of the methods of treatment of conditions, | that in former days carried off thousands of people, we do not won- der that our research men are work- i¥g night and day on the probleins that mean health, and life itself, to suffering humanity. It is not so long ago that tubcr- culosis, yellow fever, diphtheria, diabetes, and other ailments were carrying off thousands yearly. And now a simple thing like. the swallowing of lye by young children. Some of us have seen, all of us known where innocent children have been lost, due to this terrible chemi- cal which caused suffocation, per- foration, or perhaps pneumonia. The ow =u = =u i nu wu u mw =n = ol i i wu =) Foor | ] i n = wn N 513, the total number of acres resumed by the Crown for the non-fulfillment of settlement duties was 476,308; which proves, conclusively, my charge that your settlement policy is less than fifty per cent efficient. During the same period 2,612,000 acres of forest was destroyed by fire, and as 15 per cent of those fires were reported as be. ing due tq the activities of settlers, the balance in our account against your department is still further increased. The above facts and figures have been taken from your annual reports. In order to clear the way for further discussion, will you be frank enough to acknowledge to the people of this province that they have been correctly quoted? Will you, in order to assure us that you are pursuing the right po- licy in regard to the administration of our forests, tell us why you not, only allow the conditions I have pointed out to continue unchecked but also explain to us why, during the current' year, your expenditures on these unsuccess- ful colonization schemes will be great- er than ever, in spite of the fact that the probable income from our forests will be much less? Will you tell the people of this province your reasons for increasing stumpage rates to our lumbermen and pulpwood operators when the condition of the lumber mar- ket is so discouraging that the propos- ed cut for the coming season is antici- pated to be 'less than half that of a normal year? Will you tell the people who are anxiously awaiting a decrease in lumber prices in order that they may proceed with long delayed plans for building why they must, through still higher lumber prices, contribute to a still greater extent towards the Much work has been done to prepare reception of a percentage of deaths was high. So when we read of the simple meth®d of a European physician we simply wonder why it was never thought of before. This physician reports a series of 226 cases of which 214 were cured, or over 95 per cent., by the following treatment. The stom- ach is washed out with water and a fluid diet is given. After the second or third day the stomach tube, filled with fine shot, is put down the throat as far as the stomach, and left there for a few minutes. The next day| it is left in for a few minutes longer, | and at the end of six days is left in place fog a full half hour. The patient is given soft food in 'YT the second week, and ordinary food in the third. After a few days, the swallowing causes no pain whatever. Now how very simple this ot to us. Just putting a rubber tube | - filled with shot down the throat tog the stomach, which thus keeps the |g walls of the food canal from getting |g closed together by the action of the | B= lye. , It is this terrible contracting |= or closing action of the lye, that has | 5% cost the lives of so many children in | 88 the past, by actually closing up this canal completely. This physician quite naturally calls attention to the tremendous saving of lives by this method, and compared its success with the results obtained by the old method of simply waiting to see If the food canal would remain open itself sufficiently, to Allow nourish- ment to be given to the child. It is certainly a great step forward. i i ; s NEE YANN ANNE RANE Ha "A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR HOMELOVERS » Wednesday at Steacy's SALE OF - Salvaged ods . Hundreds shared in the rare economies of this great $25,- 00 salvage sale on Saturday, and we expect thousands more this week. Our entire stock of House F urnishings has been more or less damaged, so we have decided to clear the entire stock at drastic reductions with no reserve. Floor Mats and Placement Rugs Sale Price Less 257% 150 Rugs of various sizes from 18 x 36 inches up to 3} x 7 feet -- damaged by dampness. In a wonderful range of patterns and colors. Our entire stock of Persian, Wilton, Axminster, Brussels, Jute and Rag Mats to make your selections from. Every Rug or Mat is marked in plain figures, less a cash discount of 25%! At 20% Reduction Our entire stock of LACE, SCRIM AND NET CUR. TAINS, CURTAININGS OF LACE, NET- AND SCRIM, DOUBLE AND SINGLE FACED VELOURS, WOOL AND COTTON FURNITURE COVERINGS, NEW BED COMFORTERS (Fall stock just arrived) and WINDOW BLINDS. Damaged only by dampness. Slightly Damaged Cretonnes to clear| = Bed Pillows 1,000 yards of Import Cre-| 75 only, with fancy Tick tonnes in light and dark col- | Coverings--in three lots. orings, in small and large | Reg. 75c¢. values ...39¢c. each patterns. Priced as follows: Reg. 95c. values ..49¢. each Reg. 50c. and 65¢. Yokes 4 Reg. $1.75 values 99¢. each En aa Hin a TURKISH BATH MATS Reg. 75c. values 436. yard{ y50 Nii Colored Terk. Reg. $1.00 values .65¢c. yard |; "5 Mats -- new Fall Reg. $1.25 values . 79¢. yard | stock. In two lots, | "No reserve. The entire stock Reg. $3.50 each . .$2.29 ea. must be disposed of. Reg. $4.00 each . .$2.98 ea. s i de 'withou : 8 Sta Licut. Leigh Wade, and a com Linton Wells, came ific coast to New York city in an auto- In order to make the trip without any| avoided all ferries by taking a longes s. This shdws Wade (right) and by Miss Helen Hoffman i