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tamamm mmxsmamm United cummm nudyetthe hmdm.mdws.G.R.Mield. mumm'mmm WMM’WM MyGod'ro Thee.” “m. Saviour, Pilot hie,” were mmmmmmm mmmmxmm :paperahovincthediflerenceinmode bym.)n.W.A.Ghugaveadevot- . KNOX W. M. S. The November meeting of the WMS. of Knox United church, was ‘held in Thursday, November 10. Mrs. Mather the mm, opened the meeting wit)! Mrs. John Bell. The-roll call was an- swered with a favorite text, and Miss Winnie Blyth took the tapic “The “thing of Canada". beginning with Our new study book promises to be very interesting as well as attractive. The closing hymn 645 was sung after which Mrs. Mather closed with prayer. nun SUCCESSFUL FOWL SW The ladies of the Presbyterian church held a successful fowl supper in the church basement last Tuesday night. The attendance was large and a most we have heard it pronounced one of the best ever held in this section of the country. Roast fowl with all the trimmings, hot vegetables, salads, pies and cakes. and served in real Hotel Ritz style made it a most enjoyable and successful aflalr. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL tent in the Durham hospital where she is recuperating from an appendi- citis opcratton Tuesday morning. Misses Charlotte and Margaret Flet- cher. Mrs. Hugh R. 31664211. and son, Gadon. attended the funeral of a but may. Mrs. J. C. Wright. and son, Mr. Wm. Wright 01 Hamilton, spent the week- end with the farmer’s sister, Mrs. J. Bryon. Together, they visited friends 3t mm on Sunday. Hrs. Stewart Ponder. of Benvme, spent Sunday at. the home of her broth- er, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Morlock. mu Water. McKenzie. Toronto, spent the week-end at her home here. UH Ame Blackburn. Mimico. visited with her sister. Mrs. (Dr) Grant. this W the farmer’s home folks here on WITH THE CHURCHES m. Nov-bur 11, I”: Fletcher. in Paisley daughter wrtheweekâ€"enduthctrhomes in dren, Tomato, m deck-end visitors with the fame)”: parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert mm 8:. manchethmdaonstanleywere intowniotoweekmdretm'nodto Toronto with their house furnishing for their new home in that city. Misses Jessie Priest, Believille, .1058 Melanie:- University and Jean, 01 John Ritchie were in Wiarton on Thurs day attending the ordination service of art, Emily Hunt and myrtle moniey spent the week-end holiday in London. Mr. and Mrs. George Constable,Mr A. Constable, of Churchill and Mrs. HOpe of Toronto were week-end guests with Mr. and Mrs. V. Blyth. Miss Ruby Blyth returned on Sunday to Toronto after the short vacation with her sister, Miss Winnie Blyth. She was accompanied to the city by Miss Wilma Smith. Mr. A. Hincks, Toronto, was a guest the first of the week with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McKechnie. Miss Gussie McAlister, Toronto, was a holiday visitor with h reparents, Mr. Miss Bessie Smith, Petrolia, spent Friday at her home in Knox mansc. later is in poor health at present. over the holiday. Inspector Wright, Hanover, is visit- Miss Harding, of the stat! of the Midland Argus, visited with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Wilson over Sunday. We were pleased to have a. call from Miss Harding while in town. Miss 13*. B. Nichol, teacher at Mal- burne Collegiate, Toronto, spent the week-end holiday at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. .Arthur Gray, attended the funeral of the former’s mother, Mrs. R. H. Gray, in Atwood, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Rowat Elliott, and son, George, are visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gagnon. ACCIDENTS AND COMPENSATION There were 3,342 accidents reported to The Workmen’s Compensation Board The fatal accidents numbered 32, as compared with 16 in September and 33, in October a year ago. The total benefits awarded amounted to $317,506.31, of which $262,732.26 was for compensation and $54,774.05 for medical aid, as compared with $422; \15.92, awarded in September and $575,- 076.25 awarded last October. m. and Mrs. John Renwick and gun- The total accidents reported to date this year number 35,283, as compared with 44,498 for the same period last year, and the benefits awarded amount to $4,247,773.52, as compared with $4,- 996,795.43 for the corresponding per- iod last year. the Durham Public School this Hunt and Myrtle Mom” ‘., Mr. and Mrs. 0. Petty, J. T. Priest and m- ALLAN an woman's mam-nun number of visitors present. The meeting opened with the usual The Allen Park Women’s Institute, met at the home of Mrs. .105. Brown, on Wednadny’ afternoon for the No- prayer in unison. was Gladys Might- on took the secretary-treasurers report in the absence of 10-8. W. Mather. Mrs. Ben. Coutts, read the scripture Coutts, thanked the Institute for fruit sent their husbands while in. Miss Mary Hopkins gave a very in- call was well responded to by a verse of Thanksgiving, and it was decided not to send a delegate to Toronto. teresting paper and ms may and Myrtle Sharp gave musical selections which everyone enjoyed very much. Miss May Sharp gave a ring contest, which proved very interesting. It was decided that at the next meet- ing the exchange of Christmas gifts will take place. This meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Ed. Bailey, on December 14. A question drawer was then given, and the flower collec4 tion was taken up. The meeting closed with National Anthem, and the hostess and her assistants served a very dainty lunch. The dipping of fence posts in boil- ing coal tar before setting them into the ground is reported by the Dominion Range Experimental Station at Many- berries, Alta, to be the most econom- ical and at the same time the most effective of three well known methods of treatment. While creosoted posts stand up well their cost is considerable greater than that of coal tarred posts. A new handy home method of treat- ing posts to prevent decay which is being tried out with some degree of success at Manyberries is to thoroughly char the base or the posts in a fire immediately before setting them out. A survey last year or two miles of fence posts set out 'on range land in 1927 showed that both creosote and tar treated posts showed little if any signs of decay, while on some of the un- treated - posts decay had penetrated to a depth or three-quarters of an inch. It has also been found that decay sets in more rapidly in gumbo flats Decay in fence posts or wood of any kind is caused by a fungus that feeds on the cells of the wood. Warmth and air are necessarv to the growth of this organism, and its activities will be greatest on the fence post in the first six inches of its length below the sur- face where the soil is warm and well aerated and where some moisture is us- ually present. Treatment by a sub- stance such as coal tar makes the swim impervious to air and moisture, thus preventing the growth of de- structive organism. In the smoking room of the big hotel the Scot had been telling everyone of the great‘ deeds he had done. Englishman (at last)â€"Well, now, supose you tell us something you can't d6, and by jove, ru undertake to do it myself. my bill here. COAL TAR PREVENTS DECAY :, 18th 13581111. The minutes THE DURHAM CHRONICLE ye (Continued from page 1-) Academy. Indeed, the Jude» mm- ed his Dying Hercules" as one o! the modeled it {p clay and this puece of sculpture brought him the gold med- al of the Society of Arts. At the height at his success in London, mou- ey begantnrunlow’anduorsehadto return home. Nothing could mage home my his brushes aside, however, and, back in the United States, he found himself in demand as a portrait painter. He spent four winters at Charleston, in South Carolina. He painted president Monroe and the members of M of old southern famiies. He climbed from height to height making por- traits of such distinguished men as General Lafayette (for the City of New York) and Henry Clay. It was as a famous American artist and the Found- er and President of the National Acad- emy of the Arts of Design that he went back to Europe in 1829. Returning home from this pilgrim- age three years later, he received the inspiration which did not let him rest until h had given the world the tele- graph. It was the packet Sully, which sail- ed from the port of Havre on October 1, 1832. Morse, artist as he was, had more than one side to him. Perhaps every young man in those days had a dash of Science in his mak-up, for the universe was opening up to Science, just as today, most intelligent young men find themselves willy-nilly, in- terested in economics; perhaps Morse had more genius than most. At any rate, he was greatly impresseintrees rate, he was greatly interested in the dinner-table conversations about the recent discoveries in electro-magnet- Somebody raised the question of the length of wire in the coil of a magnet. “Was the velocity of electricity re- tarded by the length of the wire?” Dr .Charles T. Jackson, of Boston, who seemed to be the authority, point- ed out that electricity passed instan- taneously over any length of wire. Ex- periments had proved it. Morse who had been listening in- tently and chewing on his thoughts, exclaimed: “It the presence of electric- ity can be amde visible in any part of the cciruit, I see no reason why in- telligence may not be transmitted in- stantaneously by electricity.” Deeply engrossed by his idea, ex- cited by his inspiration, he paoed the deck. He pulled a sketch book out or his pocket and scratched with his pen- cil the beginning of telegraphy. The instrument in use today, a century ,after instrument in use today, a century lat- er, after all the influences of time and widespread research, differs but slight- ly from the original conception out- lined on Morse’s pad. An electro-mag- net still attracts the lever and pro- duces dots and dashes but Morse's “weak permanent magnet’ ’has been re- placed by a spring. 0n the other sheet of paper, the inventor joted down a series of dots, and dashes and spaces, the beginnings of the code. They seem- the most practical symbols to him. “Well Captain, ” he said before New York came in sight, “should you hear of the telegraph, one of these days, as' the wonder of the world, rememb- good ship Sully.” new: the worldaorldlcfllymdwithonem W m 9, new era, by hidden tor threeypars.MoraemtDObWD‘mt' matoranveuhoodtospendflmepfl" tectmg his appcntus. ms mind work- er on is, however. and sometimes he atremendoustoroehehadbut Buthlschancecame. 1111835, hem versity. This brought him a small but regular’moome and he joyfully seized the Opportunity to turn one of his rooms in Washington Square into an experimental workshop. The first telegraph instrument was built on a picture frame, with a lead pencil suspended by a pendulum to make the dots and dashes. A simple crude, almost childish apparatus, but Samuel Morse was confident of its po- tentialities. If the friend of General Cummings who handed him the first message was pulling his leg, Morse could afford to smile quietly to himself. “Attention the _Universe! By K813- doms, Right Wheel!’ This first telegraph message was transmitted at a public demonstration on January 24, 1838. In the same year Morse demonstrated his invention on Philadelphia and before the President of the United States at Washington. For five yearsa fter that, he used all his energies to persuade Congress to vote $30,000 for the building of a tele- graph line from Washington to Bal- timore a paltry forty miles. For five years he was laughed at and abused. Just before the closing of Congress at midnight on March 3rd, 1843, Morse crept down out of the gallery and trudged slowly to his hotel, broken by defeat. The stupidity of mankind was incredible. ‘ He came down to breakfast next morning as melancholy as a. men might be when he knows the value of a gift the world has rejected. He could not believe his senses when Annie Ells- worth, daughter of the Commissioner of Patents, rushed up and overwhelm- ed him with congratulations. In its bill. It was Miss Ellworth who had the honor of sending rthe first public tele- Wrought?" Until 1845, the first telegraph line was operated free, and was looked unon by a gaping public as a novelty, some sort of a toy that would never have any practical use. There is no need to comment on its short-sightedness. In 1871, Superintendent Minot, of the Erie told Engineer Isaac Lewis to “Run to Goshen regardless . . . ” and Isaac Lewis said “Do I look like a fool?” The rest of the story of telegraphy is all around us, a commoan of everyday life, with automatic printers and carrier current and other devices, developed to uncanny perfection. The centennial of Morse's discovery has been fittingly celebrated this year President Hoover, in the White House at Washington, using the gold key which has become a historical instru- ment, and a Western Union wire, op- ened a radio programme which linked millions of listeners anxious to pay their tribute to the artist whose ideas were once derided. Mrs. Leila Morse Rummel, 82-year old daughter of the inventor, spoke from Paris, France; Miss Leila Living- stone Morse, granddaughter, joined the broadcast from Washington; Senator Gugliemo Marconi spoke from London; father had been associated with Morse spoke from Berlin. and others added their tribute, including Cass Gilbert who, speaking from New York, re- called that Morse had been a disting- uished painter before telegraphy had brought him a greater fame. moments, Congress had passed his wmmmm whennlhtphmkemcaucwlthn anchorJlouedevi-adaphnwm mmmmmamm mdtownemewttermelttom- duct the ebcmaty ms. On Dec. 10. mementmtheauunxwm- installâ€"a truly Runnable nonhu- meat of wireless through the m." speaking from the Capitol gt Wu!» “The first President of United sm- States. George Washington. had b mit weeks at a time to secure answer: to important questions. In 1832. an hundred years ago. Samuel F. 8. Ian. said in Paris: ‘The mails are too slowâ€"- of the lightening were used it would b bei'ter to transmit intelligence.‘ “Today, one hundred years later, 3 is thrilling to me, his granddaughter. tostandon thesamespotintheCnp itol of the United States. standing by an first instrument, speaking to my mill- ions of radio liseners where he sent the first telegraphic message: ‘Whfl hath God Wrought?’â€"and what may I not predict for the future develop- ments of this wonderful radio over which I speak and which is the reeul of that inspiration of Samuel F. l Morse one hundred years ago?" LITTLE THINGS TO FIGHT Dr. Lionel Stevenson, Provincial Zoo- logist for Ontario, in a recent min a the control of internal parasites of sul- rnsls stated that those which give prin- cipal cause for concern in the livestod industry are compsritively few. (I these he named six principcl intend parasites in sheep, two in swine. we ni cattle, three in horses. two in poultry and five in fur-bearing animus. II the case of most of these psnsites I is possible to check their rum U simple control measures. 10. at the Red Cross Hospital, Dunn. a daughter (Marjorie Armetta). great victory-anew. a. not â€"Duke of Wellington. “mambo“ PAGE 5