? “Aexecutioner. Coleman w “WHEN WILL END? BOOM an articles credite4. The ite with views eee ‘PAPERS ee ae ner doesn't _ DON’T FOOL YOURSELF ; fa potiok Enterprise) sont who tical game predict the King gov- fscihoy will be voted out ceorts after: jJament assembles. Don’t fool yourselves. The 245 members have asl aoe through a° strenuous; ob election campaign and are not pesos ous for another -contest with all its parortelaes: for 50.days ment-et least before another gener- al election. STARVATION AND BRUTALITY OF LIVE STOCK 18 DISGU — ——(st. Marys Journal-Argus year, but such reporta coming to the esre of the editor this fall seem to indicate that the unusually early frosts and bad weather with the eub- sequent scarcity of fodder has in- creased the practice of etarvation, rather a common thing among cat- tle herds of some farmers. Within the past week or so there have been re- porta’ regarding the etarving of a team of horees by a resident of Dow- nie, and also mention of a similar condition existing on some farms in Blanshard. If there is anything that is more disgusting than’ the neglect or starvation of poor dumb and help- less live stock by unscrupulous and are brought to thé notice of the Humane Society Inspectors, the better it will be for the rest of the community and the good name of Canadians as a whole. IGNORING OWN COURTS (London Adveriiser) Lindsay Coleman. a negro, was ar- rested at Clarkedaie, Miss., charged wi rl the murder of a plantation man- He was brought before-a court na. tried. After hearing the evidence - the verdict was that he was not guil- ty. We imagine the evidence “must have been quite conclusive, for courts in.that state have never been notor- ious for giving the benefit of the doubt to a colored person When the trial was over Coleman Was allowed ‘to go as any other ac- “quitted person have been Once outside the jail he had to face another court—a mob itself the duty of judge. rar, shot to death and his body thronn out on the street a few hlocksYrom the courtroom where he had found innocen long’ “ey ma The mob at Clark 8 get that they had no confidemo in . The mob heard no evidence, reversed the finding of the court, to which they themselves look for justice. If these people deliber- ately ignore their own courts, what are they going to set up in their stead as a medium whereby plain justice can be had? SMUTTY LITERATURE (Kincardine Review-Reporter) / } Canada is being drenched with a - @teadily increasing stream of por-; nographic periodicals and sugges-; tive fiction ‘magazines, espec fally} from the United States. Some are so} lewd that an outcry is being made} against them everywhero,-even In the country wierre they oviginate. There! are two classeg ~:f such literature. ! The irst is frankly and exclusively! 8s. The other sexually suggestive Magazines in which many of the stor- lea are absolutely rotten in their un-' derlying meaning It ie sad to say that| tT heads and be slaughtered to provide! 4 paper or the publishing of fiith for! pe end Saueite ere to read? ng: that. is killing the total annual. circulation in Canada of 13,251,596 copies and cost Can- adian ‘readers $1,395,950 a year. ko cidehtally, these sneaked into Canada duty free under & misrepresented clause\that ‘‘un- bound” periodicals Tree. These magazines are stapled or stitched Z ‘p 2 8 F Ef a 3 oe and by no —— ot the eeRure tion cons! are three be “considered to ad bea van plac by oa provincial government; at this ce done then the cus- toms taritt boule be tightened and the duty Las gaye nm. them would .pre- vent a great bee from coming in. Finally, the neake is the p o © pratihited in any Christian : a + has mekeresy N 1 bhamm da is Flori @6 not understand the} You: hi A| + bucket shop margin—the bucket shop eee gets yor bai and, Florida in Gores of wits enervating climate is a nice country to w ter, provided of course, that you have a sufficient bank account. As for a northerner settiihg there as a per- manent resident, the thing Ais well nigh impossible. For the ne summer climate is killing. saps one’s vitality like a Turk bsth, and I say this after having ex- perisnced a full summer there, with the spring and autumn thrown. in. And this both on the west and the east coasts, from Key West\to’ the horthern boundary. As a location in which to make’a living Florida has serious. disadvant-) tzes. Negro help. . tainable, is both lazy and i Florida is a long distance from» the larger markets, comparative short time each year can their fruits and. vegetables be sold’ to advantage. At other times} they come in competition with terrl-| tory more fortunately situated as re-| gards freight rates. Florida is naturs) ally a play ground for the rich, and: there it will end in spite of all amboyant talk of the subdividers: and land butchers. As is usual with such booms the! . In ot It ish > ‘ break it must, are goingyto lose heavily, for there is no sense nor reason in the prices) wh igh are being paid for sand lots, » outskirts of! i houses and) lots that could be purchased in Tor-| onto, Montréal and Winnipeg for say} 3ix or seven thousand dollars have changed hands at prices. ranging from sixty or sixty-five thousand. Of course the last @wner of this pro- perty is going to lose. Imagine giv- ing more for a residence located on the sands of Florida than a like house could be purchased for in the heart of the city of London. Naturally there is a large quantity ot * stage money” figuring in these dea's. A lot-of the stuff is-bought on what might be termed a ‘shoe; string.” with the idea of making al quick turnover. The “boom"’ from! first to last is unsound fundamen-} tally, and as such is bound tp col-j lapse. In the meantime Hving costs| n Florida have gone to very hich fig- } eek 60 that ft fs no longer possible} for any but the well-to-do to live} there in decent fashion People ask when the end of the} boom will come. It will end when| new money ceases to flow into Flor fa, It is being kept alive by land beosters who in turn are dependent: upon funds from the north. When| this flow ceases to be the bubble will: burst——in other words the boom will end when people awake to the fact that Florida sand is no more val-| uable than other sand—the winter! climate heing the only real thing). they have for sale. Ve a ase ee he ee a a + — PRAYER FOR THE NEW ey YEAR | ad o| 1 PEN fete Pe feelecfenbe tee cfeafeole ofeofeofeofeeteafeofeeteot eh | Grant me the strength from day to} H ay To bear what burdens come my way Grant me throughout this ‘pright| New Year More to endure and less to fear. Help me to live that I may be | From spite and petty malice free. ; Let. me not bitterly iW hén cherished hopes of ntine prove : | On great and low | My love to all who round me live. | Help me to put my faults away, | Keep me from selfishness and spite, complain Or apoll with deeds of hate and rage Some fair to-morrow’'s 6potless page. Lord, as the days shall come and go, In courage let me stronger grow Let me with patience stand and wait, A friend to all who find my gate. Keep me from envy and from scorn; As shines the sun with every morn. . let me give Lord, as the New Year dawns toddy, Let me be big in little things, Grant me the joy whieh friendship| rings Let me be wise, in what is right happy New Year! ~— pose 1 May’cause no tear in an When this new year in ime balk end Let it be sald: Yave lived and loved and I've played the friend, abor ere And made of it a Happy Year. MARRIES BATCHES ON ANNUAL| On his annual trip up to Deer Lake , Rev. J. W. United Church, bap- ized fifteen babies at the niorning ervice, married foar couples in the rnoon and administered com- anion to over 200 Cree Indians in ye qvente, oe a remote eettle ‘ent, calle “80 people aot one of whom has ag at been baptized into the Christian Oe Gee lack ofa missiOfiary teach- = r -_ penthaecn in hunting a and for*most of the year live os baton of rendering mission work ir- gular and difficult. Elsie, aged three, wae he of plav- ‘g telephone, but hated to take a ney Thinking she would: hy : lit-{. rategy, her grandmother picked ed the toy toy an and said: Pi Hel- The ena was delighted, \and eaid: Yes, grandma “Well, come: ‘and have your bath.” ing the Fecelver nhumber,”’ said wats, drop- feucsatend PR ; “Ah me,” exclaimed the ‘Bions old Ay “our minister was so that only for a! ¥ ; oxy-acetylene burner. | criminals, and there was ‘Scie ttific Safe-b pa it is said by a writer in the New York World that hefween 300 and 350 bank safes-have been entered in the- United States as a result of the safeblower using an oxy-acetylene torch, technically known as the cut- ter-burner tocol. _The new tool hea been in use by the bank robber far. just ten-years, and it helped him turn e balance against the safe maker in the long dus! that has been fougnt between. them, -It is a duel paralle! to that between the makers of arma- ment and the makers of projectiles, Now a. shell-resisténg armor will for a time defy the guns, but al | come a projectile capable of piercing any existing armor and the onus falls pon the armor makers to strengthen their shield. It ig not clear at the moment which is on top—the safe blower or the safe maker. There is said to be coming into general use in the United a and presumably In this country, a new safeimade of a pigs pt of metals that no torch s yet succeeded in piercing. It is the invention of one J. G. Donaldson, who sought in 1909 to warn bankers against the evil potentialities of the He was laugh- at then, but respected now This instrument came into use sometime after 1906, when-a French- man named Fouche took out Amer- ican patents for a welding torch ed | which operated by burning acetylene gas in an atmosphere of oxygen. Two years later Jotram, a Swede, took out patents for a method of cutting steel with a similar torch. Jotram first heated the steel to red- ness with the Fouche torch and then threw against the hot, soft spot a jet of oxygen. |The first models were rather clumsy, but their possibilities were realized and as they came into eneral use they were improved and refined to their present state of high efficiency. As they became more humerous some protection agents became alarmed, fearing that they might play bavoe with bs Vaults if they fell into the hands of no way in which they could be kept from erlin- inal hands. Donaldson on one occa- sion assembled a company of those interested in bank protection and ; Sought to demonstrate the peril. But he failed to burn through the tank door, although he contended that it was due to his own inexperience as an operator and not to any failure in the terrific power of the new device. was not until 1915 that the torch was used successfully on the first bank vault. The crime took place in Louisiana, but as the vault was an oki-fashioned one the vault- makers were not alarmed, believing that their, modern vaults. were safe, But two years later a modern vault was melted by the same agency and alarm spread. The lag ao bee safeno longer existed, 915 there was but one gang suiratiee in. the United States, but in 1917 there we: three which specialized in the cuttar- burner tool and their crimes extented to all parts of the United States, and a 1920 there were a dozen gangs ee oper n the safes from New York San neises, antl showing a al ano for coufitry and suburban banks. far it is contended that the Donaldson amalgram.has-resisted all torches brought to bear agamst t, but it is not known that the crim- inals have tried the latest gas torches, which have a vastly greater burning power than those in use a few years ago. hundred years ago all safer were locked with keys and the safe- robber of those days was merely @ clever locksmith. Later the ‘com- bination or spindle lock was inveated and for a while baffied the evil-dis- posed. But by means of powerful jacks and wedges they devised mach- inery that would tear these safes apart, and it was from one of the combination safes that a jack and wedges enabled the Manhattan Sav- ings Inatitution robbers to depart with $3,000,000 in cash d negoti- able. securities. When hd@avier and stronger safes were invented and uilt-itf vaults, thé safe-blower used Sage and blew them open. en he safe-makers devised a metal so card that the ree could not drill it to insert their pgwder, and many of the: old yest wert uced to thd necessity~o ing ‘to earn ‘an honest living. qten along came dyna- how apply it to a Beso without Shuiine holes in the in the middie "80's that the first nitro-gly- ne robbery k place, the. scene g Wisconsin. The years that fol- towed were full of terror to bankers despair to safemakers, and it was not. until 1910 that they began to cai the ascendancy came about as the reauit “¥ & discove ry by Sir . Robert Hatfield, the Shemeld metallurgist. It was tie who devised manganese steel, 2 metal containing enoae evi er thirteen per cent. of manganese, the mass being raised to a . care, ture of "Of 1 ,176 degrees Fahrenheit and bon, on which these safes had modelled. From 1910 until the pres- ent one ae the di of the trae othe tre for only a few of them torch when en the “soup” e ) Sun {Contributed A aahenint It is not feasible to cite all the deviations the stock takes going through the yard, but it is possible to give the reader some idea of the lar channels of ‘movement. tock yards are built on a definite plan wf smaliand large pens to effi- ciently fill the various requirements and geach class of peste ae allotted a certain section of th On arrival of Stak ac: the yards it is immediately unloaded into the un- loading pens and the pens are locked by the employes of the stock yards company, These pens are divided in- sections so that the different —_ of live stock can kept separated in of ntixed carloads. Usually ail the cars of the train-load are tuercadie a these pens before the distribu of stock to the var- nts De De) artment of this operation there is a the Humane Society present, whose duty it is to see that the live stock be roperly loaded, cared for in transit and that it is handled ju- diciously about the yards, also to direct the care of dead and ¢rippled animals, It is not absolutely neces- sary for the owners of the stock to be present as their interests are look- ed after by employes of the stock yards company. Each class of stock through, so will confine this report to a carload of butcher cattle. Handling ‘Butcher Cattle. When the cattle leave the unloading pens they are counte this must check with the railroad shipping bill, They are then moved.and locked In a pen in the alleys of the commission firm to whom consigned, where feed and water are availa (It may be stated here that most eattle are fed and watered as in order to receive a good price it is necessary that they have a good fill to appear at their best at time of sale, If not, the buy- vious to selling in order that the ca tle may have a good fill and quiet own.) 6 gate is unlocked and the stock released to the commissioa firm, after it accepts the count and signs a slip to that effect; it is responsible now sorted according to amin. The mar- ket opens at nd closes at p.m., and no trading is done before or after these hours under penalty provided by a rules of the Live Stock Exchan When he asic? opens the buy era enter the pens, look over the stock and make their bids for the whole pen if they are of even quality or in- dividuals, according to grade. he price-offered depends on trade con- ~ ditions, and supply and demand us- ually establish ft. When the sales- man is satisfied that he has the high- est possible bid he completes the sale, as it seldom pays to carry the stock wn record final | settlement is effected — — 0 ay’s bargaining is ove credit to the market araonant that such a huge business can be carried on this manner without the scratch of 2 pen to an agreement and with very rare disagreement later as to the prices and terms of sale. Sorted According to Grade. stock is driven to the scales by employes of the commission norm, sorted and weighed into lots, accord- to the grade and price paid. weigh ticket is made out and stamped by employes of the stock yards com- pany showing the weight, owner, commission firm making the sale, and agreed price. The out of the shippers’ hands and driven and ldcked into pens, according to the same grouping as weighed. Export cattle are kept separate, of course, to comp the quarantine regulatio’ ma Cattle that are billed through and watered are stock yards.com- y. They are unloaded and driven and locked into pens, fed and water- éd, and then reloac-d to continue their journey. Calves and sheep are handled much the same as the er classes of live ry a wee ae ih “the ¢ unloading 1 pera the cal are/inspetted by a sentative « of r the Markets’ tly phe bobs o calves, and the before selling, and a grading sheet lot. The se! is much the same as for the sattle tock yards co de- mands that all gates be loc! ween eir care, and a. signed when released. und ‘ite hogs shipped co-operatively the weights are deducted from the home weight and the shrink ah.aged ted to each animal. Bach says, “What. about ‘Here the Bride’?”.' es atte 7 ' } | - umper crops and farmers an opportunity to sail back home for a hidden sights and faces. Every ries scores of happy men and women bound for the Old Countr Here and there among the surging passengers get- ting ready to change from train to boat are the eager, expectant faces of easily recognizable Londoners. They are going back after years of toil and hardship finally rewarded with substantial a of these men carry a picture of Lond hearts. Every minute seems a day on the long journey across the Atlantic. crowds, rub elbows with their countrymen. join first night audiences at theatres, tour the city in clanking taxis, appease the gnawing soul-hunger with one more walk around Piccadilly and a stroll through Leicester Square. Christmas and New Year in London! What] said she was paying visions these exiled sons of England had conjured up in the long, lean years before they wrested from|the first time since s the soil their means of return. And now, to be there | ago. again. Of cou good prices have given western to Visit scenes of boyhood days. Britishers who took up farm lands in the Cana- dian West are taking advantage of the good season rse, it is only for a while. are able to return to their respective places in the scheme of affairs in their adopted country and work with increased enthusiasrn to make their lands yield the maximum. They are better citizens for they will endeavour to make this Canada the staunchest and Britain is the “a boo: view of familiar but long oe to wo! east-going train car-| country. disciple. _of the cre Ear "trave ellers who in West for the S.S. “Metaga ous parts of the Bri ‘group being Mrs. But they The youngest me tn a checked gown, xbout. She canfided oo * tere most prosperous link in the British Empire. Every prosperous farm best advertisement t of Canada could possibly have. neers’ one of these is oster, proving conclusively that men the very westerner is directly with her four “smiling Canadian-born ¢ ped aboard the first Canadian Pacific holiday special as the train passed through Winnipeg, Mrs. Patterson er ‘who returns to Great t the Dominion with can and do win out in this or y, ac ed that “Happiness Must tended an reach the Old ponnsy rk for Christmas came on the Imperial spec’ in time. to board th e Cariadian Pucific pase “Metagama”™ and “Melita” at Saint John, ge ae bout Every one|two hundred and fifty passengers cro: time in their|to get the S.S. “‘Melita” on December 10, while three hundred and fifty Canadians arrived, in-Saint John ma,” sailing on December 11. In these groups were passengers intended for vari- tish Isles, one distinctive family Gesrge Patterson, of Vancouver, nap- a visit to her native heath in Scotland at Road Mecting. Carluke, Lanarkshire, for he came to Canada, twelve years mber of the party, a little girl wanted to know what it was all in mother afterwards that she iked age only they seemed to be altogether wndicates a fine career as a moving Sir John Martin Harvey, famous English actor, arrived at Saint John, N.B., on the Canadian Pacific ‘ liner Montnairn, on December 20. He was met by Bert Lang, manager of His Majesty’s Theatre, Montreal, and gdvance agent for Sir John. Mr. Lang has arranged Mr. ° Harvey's tour through Canada, from Halifax to Vancouver. we Advices from the Montreal office of the Dominion Express Company are to the effect that one of the largest and most valuable consign- ments of pedirree black foxes “ever sent out of Canada, and priced at over $100,000? had arrived in Switz- erland in perfect condition. The 64 foxes will form the nucleus of a fox- breeding ranch in Klosters, Switz- erland. Grandmothers are flappers in the Canadian West. Mrs. Edith Jones, of Leeds, Yorkshire, who sailed back to England on the Canadian Pacific liner Montclare on December 16 told how she learnt to ride horses and do farm work at Plato, Saskat- chewan. She had a great time and will endeavor to bring Grandpa, her son and her grandson back to Can- ada with her in the spring. Grain handlitig. at. the port of Montreal is in excess of the total for last year by 4,831,718- bushels, thus creating a new record in the movement of grain. throngh this port. Tho total amount handled by the harbor elevators this year comes to 328,830,805 bushels, representing | 163,592,846 bushels reeeived and 165,287,959 bushels delivered - since the. beginning of the year. An exact replica of the Palestine made memorable by the life of Christ errived in Montreal from Winnipeg recently on a freight car. The miniature is made up of six million pieces in 16,000 sections and weighs - abut seven tons. The scenes, cities and villages. connected with the brothers of— Malta, after cleven years of unceasing toil. ("What Does The Label Say? Sey MURDER WILL OUT br, Smith, a Br 1a road physician urgeon tal Ohio; com- Satned that he had ot had a-wat a factory vacation for many years. matter where he went, sooner or lat. er, he was called u nc for profession- Ge services. “But fool them this * he said, am “going so far aay that Fil iaoget where al am * “He crossed the prairies and pine mountains and finally alighted cee us pe, Aig little. haces. 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