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Flesherton Advance, 8 Aug 1928, p. 7

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CANADIAN NATIONAL TORONTO ONTARIO Golden Jubilee Year of WorUPe LargeMt Exhibition, The Super Event of 1928 PRESENTING within a ^ 14-day period, exhSnts fron nearly every country; die fint puUic showing of 1929 motor cars at Canada's National Motor Siow; the G)ntinent's Piemier Horse Show; First In- tonational Air Craft EHsplay ; the noted 2,200 Voice Elxhibi- tion Chorus; Band Concerts by H.M. Royal Air Force Band (England), and other out- standing musical organizations; an entirely new Grand Stand Elxtravaganza by 1 ,500 perfor- mers on the world's largest stage, and the Premier Intema- tk»al Sporting Event of the year. The Third Wrigley Marathon Swim lor a $50,000 purse and the cham- pionship of the world ; and an ama- teur sports programme on land and water attracting the recognized stars of America and but why at- tempt to touch upon even half the liigh-lights of this, the greatest ex- bSiition in the world. Why not come and see this Goldea Tubiiee Year Celebration? Pei/ect higfaways, reduced railroad and steamship rates, ample accommoda- tion. THOUAS BRADSRAW. Preadmr H. W. WATBRa, Geiurdl Manager It May Be Urpit Africa Is Dry Especially When Down to the Last Drop North of Lake Chad Where Solo Biking is Diffi- cult 1 By Francis Flood YHien your Children Ciy for It Castorla Is a comfort wtien Baby Is fretTul. No sooner taken than the lit- tle one Is at ease. It restless, a tew drops soon bring contentment. No harm done, tor Castorla Is a baby remedy, meant or babies. Pertectly â- ate to give the youngest Infant; you have the doctors' word tor that! It la a vegetable product and you could Ma It every day. But it's In an emergency ttiat Castorla means most. Borne night when constipation must b« relievedâ€" or colic pains â€" or other raSerlng. Never be without it; some mothers keep an extra toottle, un- opened, to make sure there will al- ways be Castorla In the house. It is effective for older children, too; read the book that cornea with It cycle and I piled up at twenty miles T an hour many times that day. Some- times Jim would and me underneath, sometimes o ntop and sometimes fit- i teen feet away picking sandburrs out Symptoms That the Blood is of what was left of my clothes. _. . „. u »., ^ . », , ^ . Well, years passed. And then one Thm Should Not be Neglected day we missed the well the Command-, Weak, run-down, lacking strength, ant had so carefully marked on our energy and ambition, nervous, sleep- little penciled map. There was no iggg pc^r appetite, digestion disturb- well. And precious little water In our edâ€" these are the symptoms named canteens. In a big basin which we by ^ great majority of people who My partner Jim and I were the first J thought might contain an oasis, and have been benefitted by the use of ever to cross Africa north of Lake { which In any other country would pr. Williams' Pink Pills. These tonic Chad on wheels. And the 103 miles , have been a lake, we camped. Thought pjng correct the condition described from N.Quigml to Rlg-Rlg are 103 rea- , a caravan might come along. j and if you have any of tbese symp- Bons why I think we'll also be the ^o^ two hours I explored that basi toms you should give these pi:is a last. looking for a water hole. There had trial. Their great value In cases of At N'Qulgml, near the north shore been many. I could see where the jjjls kind Is shown by the statement of Chad and on the edge of the Sahara KO^^* and camels had drunk out of Qt Mrs. James A. Tibbetts, Halifax, Desert, we had removed our motor- ' POo's that were now dried up. As the x.S., who says:â€" "I was completely cycle side cars and loaded them, wlthl''*ater had disappeared, a tank or sub- run down In health. My blood was all our tires, spare parts, gasoline and I basin had always been dug in the low- thin and watery, and my nerves soj at the resurrection of Jesus and the baggage onto a battery of five camels est part so that the stock might get bad that I did not sleep well at nlgbt. and headed our little cravan toward I water tor a tew more days. And in My appetite was poor and the least Rig-Rig. Then we ate one last big I ^* lowest part of that there was exertion left me weak and trembling. meal In the N'Gulgml fort, and two ' always another smaller hole, a well, When I went out 1 would have a se- hours behind our camels, started out''""""* which the seep water had been ; vere headache, and would have to lie ourselves. We had the worst hundred ' drawn in buckets for a few more days. Ulown as soon as 1 got in the house. miles of our entire trip ahead of us, ! ^"'^ °°* ^^ '^ater table was too low ; a friend advised me to try Dr. Wil- New Lights on Bible History Ancient Document Throws New Light on Fate of Pilate That the Man Who Hand- ed Jesus Over to Death, Himself Was Yielded to the Jews by Tiberius and V/as Crucified. London. â€" K document which has been translated by Dr. A. Mingana and Included in the bulletin of the John Rylands Library throws an in- teresting light on the crucifixion story. The document was written by Gama- liel, who declared that Pontius Pilate and his wife Procula were overjoyed and r was rlcTlng a motorcycle wlth-i^^'^" ^°^ ibtse. They were all dry. Hams' Pink Pills. I soon found they out side car for the first time In my j "^^^ desert folk and their herds had : were helping me and by the time I life â€" and the last time. Just because I used to be a good bicycle rider when I was a kid, I let Jim talk me into tackling the motor- bike solo when we to"nd the sand was too bad for our side ca's. Long be- fore we reached Rig-Rig I showed Jim that when sand gets bo bad one has to ship bis side car on a camel, it's time to load up the whole expedition, bikes, drivers, and all. But Jim wait- ed until we reached Rlg-Rlg and then reminded me that we did make It after all, one way or another, with our Bolo motorbikes and we never could have done It with our side cars. And so we were both right. The camel trail Itself, the "route propre," was impossible from the start. Fifty feet wide and longer than I dared to guess, this huge sand bin of a road had been ground down Into the desert, deep and soft and white, moved on. We were too lote. had taken the si.\tb box I felt like a miracles at the tomb of tho Saviour. They gave a great banquet for the poor and needy of the city. The Jews, hearing that Procula was about to visit the tomb of Jesus conspired to seize her and kill Pilate. Gamaliel discovered the plot and warned Joseph of Arimathea, who in turn told Pilate. His soldiers captured Barabbas i and other plotters and crucified Barab- •Here's water. Pop," Jim yelled, new woman, and have enjoyed good ! bas with his head downwards. Th d I went back to camp. He was health ever since. For this reason I jews incensed, complained to Klni and boiling coffee In an old gallon oil can can highly recommend the pills to we used for a water carrier. It look, anyone run-down or troubled with ed like coffee. "That's water," be their nerves." explained. "Not bad." I "Where'd you find it?" I asked. "A jackal showed It to me. It was }ust light enough to see him and I figured If here was a jackal then there must be water. So I lay low Not only do Dr. Williams' Pink Pills help the ne-ves. Tiieir main function is to enrich and increase the blood, and as the blood supplies the whole body, new life is given to the omplalned to King Herod, who sent a complaint to Ti- berius Caesar. Pilate wrote to Rome, accusing the Jews of causing the cru- cifixion. Tiberius, on receipt of this news, ordered certain of these Jews killed and sent messengers to Pilate summoning him to appear before him. On the orders of the envoy of Ti- berius, Pilate was flogged because he killed Jesus without consulting Caesar. entire system. Better sleep, steady and watched him. He went down nerves. Improved appetite, increased into that basin there where you see vigorâ€" all these can be yours by tak-.Tbe enraged Jews finally persuaded all thoBe dead rushes. And after Ing Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Begin the envoy to deliver up Pilate to them while he went away again. So I beat them to-day. Sold by all medicine jf^r the crucifixion Instead of sending it down there and found this." j dealers, or by mail post paid, at 50 blm before Tiberius, whereupon the It was the only basin I'd missed in â-  cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Jews crucified Pilate upon the my patrol of the whole valley and it , Medicine Co., was on the upper side too. | "Better not go down to see the well 'til this has boiled and cooled Brockville, Ont. Crows anrd you've had a drink. You'll prob- Crows that stand on the tops of pines by the squashing, padded hoofs ofl*'''? enjoy it more. This looked | And flap their wings in the face of years of camel caravans. I plunged j Pretty bad before I strained it through j the sun â€" Into it with my drunken solo bike, ! â„¢y shirt tall." j These have life and fling it to the plowed my front fheel sidewise, buried I ^^ ^^^ m»rning I went down to see. j winds; to the hub, and chugged to a stop, ; ^°- t^^e bottom of the old pool a deeper | These have life that is never done, falling in a tangle of spokes and | larger hole had been dug and away j elbows and handlebars and hot sand. ' down in the bottom were a few Inches Great black crows on the I lifted the heavy machine, started â-  ' AHiiy, brown liquid, the surface cov- 1 pines, 1 the motor and tried to move on. j ered with slime, dead Insects, and , Flapping their wings at the golden â-  Straddling the bike didn't get us any- general flotsam including bits of dung sunâ€" j where and pushing from the side I and decayed vegetation. The only These will stand on the tops of pines, made it fall over the other way unless ! ^'^^ t^ie jackal could have drunk ] And flap their wings till time is Saviour's cross and crowned him with thorns. WTiile his wife, Procula, was stand- 1 ing at the foot of the cross talking to i Pilate, a heavenly voice was heard promising him a crown in heaven and the Jews grouped nearby fled in ter i ror. Another version tells that Ti- - berius ordered Pilate to be crucified because he allowed the crucifixion of Jesus. Tiberius acted in this manner j tops of I because his own son had bpen re- I stored to life at the tomb of Jesus. I'd lean it toward me so much I'd be half carrying it. I sweat my bush shirt black and then remembered that we couldn't carry enough drinking water for me to do that very often â€" even if I wanted to. And there was no relief in sight. Ahead, the next hundred years looked the same. Behind us was N.Gulgmi fort, looking like a picture of a castle hanging on the walls of a sand bin; and I knew its walls were covered was to jump down into the water and done. then scramble out as best he could. ' But We knew we'd have to sweat For life is not a garment to be kept some more that day so we boiled an- other gallon and took it along. Ac- cording to our may we were only twenty kilometers from Lade, a year- round village, and there'd be plenty of water there. We made our twenty kilometers. No Lade. W^e struggled along for five more. No Lade. At two or three SAVE THE CHILDREN In for best. And washed with care lest Itfl colors run. Life should be flapped from the tops of days. Like the wings of crows. In the face â-  '^"° of the sun. Summer When Childhood Ailments Are Most Dangerous. I Mothers who keep a box of Baby's I Own Tablets In the house may feel I that the lives of their little ones are reasonably safe during the hot wea- Stomach troubles, cholera In- with people watching the fool Amerl- miles an hour we sweat through five , cans. Miles off to the right mocked the faint hint of the reedy shores of Chad, that lake withering dry In the sun. To the left, across a halt mile of no man's sand was a fringe of scrub trees and thick bush. Maybe we could make headway over there â€" If we could get to it Might as well try, tor there was no place else to go. Tugging bodily through sand blow- outs, missing a few, tumbling and sliding about over the eternal bumps and clumps of scrub, falling and get- ting up, sweating and straining, we finally wrestled the bucking, diving more. No Lade â€" and our water was \ nearly gone. Probably a half pint i left. I told Jim 1 was good tor just | one more intermediate gear dash be. fore we camped for the night. Five 1 more kilometers, no water, and no I Lade! Perhaps we'd gone past. The! big caravan route branched off so, much We might easily have taken the I wrong fork and missed a little grass ! village hidden down in a water basin We'd missed villages before that were! POOR CONTORTIONIST supposed to be on the route. "You say that fellow who is dead It was three o'clock. Neither of us broke is a contortionist?" had had a drink since one. and all j "Yes." bikes up onto the slightly firmer | the water we had was a half-pint each ' "Must be a mighty poor one If he ground among the trees and bush. 'in the carbide generators on our' can't make both ends meet." Here we could go fast enough to keep j motorcycles that Jim happened |to -E. Clark Stillman In Poetry. ! ''^"'y'^ and diarrhoea carry off thou- ' sands of little ones every summer, in most cases because the mother does not have a safe medicine at hand to give promptly. Baby's Own Tablets relieve these troubles, or if given oc- casionally to the well child they will prevent their coming on. The Tablets are guaranteed to be absolutely hirm- less even to the new-born babe. They are especially good in summer be- cause they regulate the bowels and keep the stomach sweet and pure. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. our feet off the ground about half the remember. Lucky thought. We'd Road Signs for Motorists New York Herald Tribune: (A fio ' plea Is made for uniformity of road time â€" but always In low gear and i keep that thoughâ€" keep it until we always dodging stumps and bush and > needed it. often crashing into something wej We held a council of war. didn't know was there. use looking for Lade any more. Un- signs.) The motorist who tours We'd left the caravan route. We | doubtedly missed it. Rlg-Rlg prob-' north from New York to Canada, weren't even on a toot path. We | ably twenty miles away; it was ' ^''^''**'' •** ^a*'^* the Daniel Webster were simply out In "the blue," which,' thirty from Lade, and no water of anv , Highway in the east, the Green Moun Is the desert idiom for what the jungle j kind between Lade and Rlg-Rlg. A tain Highway in the west or the Col- folk call the bush and what we callj-day's run if we had good luck. I ^^^e Highway in, the centre, is con- the sticks or the slick of the wide ' Couldn't possibly do It on our water \ tinually confused by the differing open spaces. We were simply in ! supply and we knew there was no s'«"s which are employed by day and Africa, going eastâ€" with 2,500 miles \ water of any kind between Lade and ; night. ^*5/°u*°i ..,. , , , .iR'K-R'K- No basin near here. No; m,^,^., L"[;;|-7n;tl,nlver.al remedy Jim had ridden solo motorcycles all [use to look for water. Better make ^i his life, and I was having my first camp quietly, keep In the shade, lie i ^n egotists is one who, whenever experienceâ€" many of themâ€" that day, down, conserve our energyâ€" and Just'^e has a blhhday. wishes his friends and so he would rack up his machine hope that somebody would come ^ ^any happy returns of the day. and help me start. I'd sit away back ; along. We hadn't seen a soul all day, ' ^.^ on the luggage carrier, as far behind ; but there must be some travelers on i In America, according to a statls- the seat as possible and still reach ! the road. Anyway, there was nothing ' ticlan, "poor" babies have more the Ups of the handlebars. Then, with ' else to do .No use running around ' chance of living than "rich" babies. Jim pushing fl-om behind and the : sweating out w! at moisture we did ! Poor babies. motor racing wide open, I'd start off have. j _^_______„___^____^_^_^__^ in Intermediate. It was also a ques- } of course I lived through this all tlon of getting up speed before start- ' iright, or I wouldn't be telling about Ing. The effect usually ended by my i u. But I believe It was the tightest skidding out into the blue and com- \ fix 1 was ever In. I'll tell you right Ing up In a pile against a bush clump now however, I've got a nice clear beside the road. But sometimes, â-  glass of cool water here on the table eventually, I'd make my getaway â€" as I write. and then watch outt It a fly lit on my nose or a sand burr in my shOrts I'd I just leave 'em alone. I was too busy ' hanging on and I never stopped until I we spilled. I knew that would be soon enough. Fifteen miles an hour was as slow I as I could go and still keep upright i and not bag down In the sand, and I twenty was the speed I tried to keep â€" as fast as the motor would roar In ; Intermediate. Now, It's one thing to tall off a motorcycle while plugging Utterly at Sea Designed FOK DependabiHty Firestone engineers found that the life of a tire depends ' as much upon the fle:ung life of the cords of the carcass, as Upon the toughness of the tread. To provide extra strength, stamina, and long wear, Fire- stone dips the cords of the carcass in a rubber solution. This saturates and insnlatM every strand of every cord, minimizing internal friction and gives thousands of extra miles. The Firestone Dealer in your locality will gladly servo you, and save yon money. riRESTONE TIRB Ik RtTBBER C(X or CAMAOA. ULMITKO BamOtcn, Ontario Mad Milea ptr DoOar BUILDS THE ONLY GUM-DIPPED TIRES Sunlight L. 'V. Dodii.s in Si ience Progress (London): In a country sudi a.-' Eng- land, where the population is b.-ing crowded more and more into towns, and where even country dWelltrs are deprived of sunlight through the vagaries of climate, the practical value of artificial sunlight !a preventing the onset of disease, and restoring health in such a wide range of conditions, is quite sufilcient, apart from the many technical uses, to warrant the exten- sive installation of apparatus in in- dustrial concerns throughout the coun- try. This will compensate tor our dark winter climate and indoor life, and the benefit will be both immediate and permanent. The following is a. bishops descrip- tion of the kind of preachins some- times addressed to fashionable con- gregations: "Brethren, unlass you re- peat. In a measure, and be converted, as it were, you will, I regret to say, be damned to some e.\tent." â€" The Churchman. HIl-L THE MOVKH â€" ILU-NEKlt JjlS. TANCE movers" of (.Nnaila. I^iiidfSt speedy padded vans New Huuipni"iit, latest methoits. Two e.xiieri,?nceil tiicn every trio. All loads Insured. He,.ond comparp for ekill and i-are. Ref.ire vnu move, write us i>r wire no.' r«*v»»r«o .ii^ ehar^ea. Head offlca ITamnton On»irl{\ Canada. Hill ih.- Mov»r Vacation ! Toronto Globe (Lib.): (Rev. Dr R. Keene Ryan, pastor of the Garfield j .^nj'^M i,' rcL'!^o Boulevard Presbyterian Church, Chi- | cago, expresses the opinion that In j time the fnited States will absorb Canada. Mr. Ryan is utterly at sea.) ! Canada has a better and more demo- 1 cratic form of government than has | the United States, It Is richer in native | resources, and has more potential wealth for Its population. It has re- ' tained the tried and true traditions of the Anglo-Saxon world, which the United States has largely lost, and, above all, has a future as part of the British Empire which it could never have as a portion of the RepubMc. This is the big thing for Canada, al- though it is something which most people In the United States do not understand. The Empire is immeasur- ably greater than the United States in power, resources, enterprise and in- fluence. Canadians realize that it would be folly to change positions. as Tuues Teieacopes, j ..la..', $x;> pes to choose I'roni. to have anywhere. Send for ll.«i Ji*. . • -St liUi.sses Hundy Albarta Ovtlc&I Co., I.td., 123 8th Avs. West, Sept. 16. Calg-ary, Alta. When you are going on vaca- tion take a bottle of Minard's along. You'll need it for sun- burns, bites, etc. ETHEREAL "What's become of that pretty young actress I saw last year?" "She's starring." "And the young fellow who seemed to be so devoted to her?" "He's still moonlhg." â€" (Weekly Scotsman.) Of Course Teacher: "Willie, can you name a along In low gear, probably with one j city In Alaska?" CA STORI A toot on the ground anyway. But It's another to be seeming across Africa, fltteen or twenty miles an hour, hang- ing on like a Jockey on a wild steer If a eteer could go that fast, skidding and skidding from the edge of one disaster Into the middle of another, like a Are truck on a drunk, and then to pile the whole works In one grand, sudden smaak. Mjr snorting motoi^ Willie: "No'm!" Teacher: "Correct.' ♦â€" When packing for a journey of any sort we should Include with all other accessories that much-needed pack- age of "good manners." Many people, two hours after eat- ing, suffer Indigestion as they call it. It Is usually excess acid. Correct It with an alkali. The best way, the I quick, harmless and efficient way. Is I Phillips' Milk ot Magnesia. It has re- mained for 50 years the standard with, physicians. One spoonful In water neutralizes many times its I volume in stomach acids, and at once. I The symptoms dUappear In five min- WOMAN SO SICK GOULD NOT WORK Helped by Taking Lydia E. Pink< ham's Vegetable impound L«t Minard't LInltnsnt RtHeva Pain. "^«^ You will never use crude methods when you know this belter method. And you will never suffer from excess j acid when you prove out this easy ; relief. Please do thatâ€" for your own ' sake â€" now. | Be sure to get the genuine Phillips' j Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physlclhns tor 50 years In correcting excess acids. Each bottle contains full directionsâ€" any drugstore. | Grainland, Sask.â€" "I am glad that I heard of that good Lydia E. Pink- ham's medicine and I will not be with- out it again. I was so sick that I could not work at all and could not sew on the machine. My aunt told me of Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Ccmpoundandnow I am telling all of my friends how good it is and T will answer all letters T get from women." â€" Mbs. Maky ScuLLTiGS, Gitunlant^ Saak. ISSUE No. 31â€" -2S

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