" THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1925

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—so he can’t cloimb up th, soides—an’
he sets him down by th’ slough where
there’s millions of mosquities; an’ they
‘all had billg as hard an’ almost ag long
1 as a nadie.

“ ‘How d'ye loike ut, Mr. Blood-
sucker?’ sez Larry, sarcastically, as
about twenty of th’ mosquities git their

fp hooks in an’-start pumpin’. Poor old
Bat is wigglin’ loike he’s on a red-hot
stoye, an’ his eyes are. pladein’ fer
mercy. ‘I will not let ye off! sez
Larry. ‘Ut’s good enough fer ye!’ an’

' away he goes t’ wurrels.

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‘‘Bein’ busy seedin’ Larry fergits

abvai Bat *til avenin’, an’, by gorrie,
there’s nothin’ left of th’ little fellie
Int. 2 brown spot, peppered full of
holes, at th’ bottom of th’ bowl.
ry, now filled wid remorse, now does all
be can t’ save his old comrade’s life,
a4 paints his torso wid shellac, dopes
him wid good Oirish whiskey. an’ foi-
nally brings him to. He nurses him
undarly for wakea until Bat is as lively
ziiver, After that they’re better
, tyisca than before, but Bat niver wance

Pat O’Hooley i

Lar-

a mn

goes back to hia old tricks, :

:“After some good crops Larry builds
himself a bungalow an’ gits married.
But he has t’ lave Bat in th’ old shack,

fet th’ missia won’t have a thing t’ do

wid him—not a thing! So, along in th’
fall,

the shack wid his head in his arms.

“ ‘what's atein’ ye, Lerry?’ sez she.

“ ‘Oh, Mary,’ sez Larry, wid a sigh,
‘I'll niver see Bat agin!’

‘Ig he dead?’ sez she.

“ ‘Sure, an’ I have no way of tellin’!?
sez Larry. ‘Poor old Bat must have
got awful lonesome wideout me an’

tell which is which!’’

WEDDING BELLS

A Triple and a Single

o’clock in the evening, Rev. T.

after th’ .weddin’, th’ Miasus
foinds‘Larry sittin’ on th’ dure-stip of

hunted up an affinity, fer there’s a
million bedbugs in th’ shack an’ I can’t

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On Tuesday, January. 20, at 8

D. Proctor performed a triple
marriage service in St. Peter’s
church, uniting Walter Douse and

‘Lottie Sarah Go-Gag and Eli-Grey
Smith and Christina Grey, all of
_Kitwancool and Frank Clark and
Mary Smith of Hazelton.

The
brides were escorted to church
and then to the Indian hall by
the bands of their respective vil-
lages. During the service the
Kitwaneoo] chuir sang two an-
thems, Atthe feast afterwards
over a hundred Indians and white

‘people were unable to pain ad-

mission,

Wednesday, January 21, Rev.

T.D, Proctor performed the eere-
mony at one of the largest and
most beautiful Indian weddings
that has taken place in St. Peters

church, William Wale of Glen

Vowell and Kathleen White of
Hazelton weie the contracting
The bride was attended

parties,
by six bridesmaids decked out in
gorgeous silks and fine linen.

The groom was escorted by the
Hazelton band and the bride by
the Kispiox band, Massed bands
headed the procession to the In-

dian hall for the big feast.

Itiaa number of: years -since

there was as much snow in this
distriet as there is now—almost
too much for good sleighing,

Heavy snow at Kwnitsa has

been.the source of a lot of trouble
to the railway this week.

| Canada’s Smaller Wool Crop a
, Affords Food For Thought

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Col. Rott. MecEwan’s champion car fot of Canadian weather tambds, “Southdowns,” at Chicago {nternatienal Show,

arms in tie British Islea support 24,000,000 shorn

sheep, while the whale Dominion of Canada sup-
forts but 2,000,000, one twelfth as many, Yet during
the fiscal year ended March, 1924, woollen and knit-
ting mills imported into Canada some 19,375,925
pounds of raw wool. ,

in Canada. mn 1922, according ta the Census of
Industry figures we had 277 woollen and knitting
mills, which employed some 22,000 workers, Yet in
1922, countries abroad sent tnty Canada $38,0UD,000
worth of woollen and knitted goods. and in 1923,
$41,000,000 worth, representing employment for sume
17,000 to 20,000 workers, Although during the past
year the wool and knitting industries have expanded
to sume extent and, particularly in the Bastern
Townships of Quebec, have new mills opened up, it
is seen that only about half of the woullen guuds sold
in this country could have been produced here. Raw
wool, grown in Canada, comprises but a small frac-

" ton of that which is used by the mills that are operat-

“ing in the- Dominion,

There is not enough wool grown to supply the
demand of the world. Japan and China. the staple
clothing and bedding materiala for which countries
were formerly silk and cotton, wre rapidly becoming
great wool consuming countries, unports to Japan
alone having jumped 700 percent in.ten years.

Thus it is seen that the Canadian woul grower
hus not only a growing domestic market, but an ever
increasing foreign market for hia clips, yet sheep
are rarely” given due consideration by Canadian
farmers even though they. bave been dubbed "“morf-

“ Rage Hfters" in the West, a. . -
Col. Robt. MeEwen of London, Ont., president of
the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers’ Asaocin-
~tion. who won the championship for a car-load fot of
Canudian weather lambs, “Southdowns,” at the
Chicago International Show, has said, “taking Can-
ada asa whole it has been proved that, climatic con-
ditiwhe are favurable to ‘sheep raising, No devastal-

ing disease has visited our flocks.

: Yet today we
find ourselves up against the serious

economic con-

for a comparatively new and fertile country like
Canada to have reached the stage of deficient sup-
ply for such an essential as clothing should surely
demand the serious consideration of us all."

But although wool growing as an industry in
Canada does not come up to what might be expected
of it, thuse who are engaged in it are highly and ef-
fectively organized as regards marketing. In 1914
those in charge of the Dominion Live Stock Branch,
Ottawa, began to urge that sheepmen be more care-
ful in putting ap their fleeces and ‘that they stop
selling at any old price which might be offered
locally. Followmg their efforts various sheep breed-
ers and wool growers’ assuciations throughout Canada
began to collect wool from their members, this wool
being graded in turn by expert graders supplied by
the Dominion Government and being sold on the
graded basis As more and more focal associations
were formed. it was felt that all should be affiliated
under one ventral selling agency with the result that
in 1918 the Canadian Co-operative Woo! Growers
Limited was formed with headquarters in Toronto.
This i a. commodity marketing organization hand.
ling wool only, having about 2,500 shareholders and
approximately 12,000 shippers of woo! througheut the
Dominion.. Individual clips are collected at various
points for shipment in car-load lots to the ventral
warehouse at Weston, Ont, for grading and sale.

At the present time this organization, which
operates from coast to coast, is handling from a quar-
ter to one third of the Canadian clip reaching the
open market. Its influence is being extended more
and more each season as will be noted from the fact
that in Ontario alone the number of shippers has ine
creased from 8,200 in 1922, to 4,000 in 1924, The
various gradea of wool are sold to equal advantage in
Canadian. American and English markets, and it i
perhaps noteworthy that during the past two years
approximately threa-quarters of a million pounda of
Canadian. graded? woola bave found 4 market with

Engliah quilis,

dition of consuming more woo! than we produce, and:

- up the

Here and There

Shipments of grain from Vancou-
ver for fhe 1923-24 season have now
passed the 41,000,050 bushel mavxk.
Officials estimate thet the 59,000,-
000 hushe! mark set for the season
will be surpassed in the near future,

Reports from England state that
it has been universally conceded that
Canada's pavilion was in the best
condition when the King opened the
British Empire Exhibition at Wern-
bley on April 23rd. “It was the
Canadian building,” the reports said,
“spick and span and complete to
the last nail that led all others in
the race te the finish in time for
to-day’s official opening.”

Over 3,000 settlers left Liversool
for Canada on April 24th, Thirteen
hundred of these sailed on the Cana-
dian Pacific’ liner “Montealm,” jn-
eluding a party of 200 skilled work-
ers from Manchester, 88 belonging
to engineering trades, 40 to bzi'd-
ing ‘trades and 42 farm hands.
Eighty skilled workers from Leeds
and a party of engineers from Dar-
row-in-Furness were also on board.

A total of 40,000,000 salmon trout
eges has been collected during the
last season by the Department of

Marine and Fisheries in Lake
Huron, Georgian Bay and lake
Superior. The total number cbtain-

ed compares favorably with the
average collections of recent years
and is sufficient to fill all the
hatcheries on the Great Lakes en-
gaged in the propagation of salmon
trout.

Graphic and interesting edueca-
tions] motion pictures will bring
Alerta’s various resorress to the
eves of those who attend the British
Empire Exhibition this year. In
addition to pictures illustrating the
Jifa of Alberta’s citizens on the
farms, on the ranches and in the
mining districts, charts will be used
to bring out interesting compilations
of statistics illustrative of the prov-
ince’s agricultural and industrial
output,

Carrying an invitation to the
President of the United States to
attend the: celebrations of the 140th
anniversary of the settlement of
Unper Canada by the United Em-
pire Loyalists, which will be held
Jz dune, Miss G, Lazier, herself a
descendant of, the Loyalists, left
Evileville reeently on horseback to
ride to Washington alone, a dis-
tence of 600 miles. Elaborate ar

‘rangements for the celebrations are

keing made and it is expected that
thousands of visitors will attend.

An_ attractive booklet entitled,
“A Week in Quebec in the Spring,”
by Betty Thornley, internationally
known writer associated with
“Vogue and other magazines, has
just been added to the serles of
artistic pamphlets published by the
Canadian Pacific Railway. It de-
scribes the Ancient Capital and its
environs, is illustrated by many
striking photographs ‘and bound in
a cover which reproduces in natural
colors the pattern of cloth ealled
eatalopne, woven by Quebec habhitant
Women.

That the Indian village of Hoche-
laga, which stood on the site of
the present city of Montreal, was
a place of about fifty wooden houses
having a population of some 4,000
souls when Jacques Cartier sailed
St. Lawrence, was the asser-
tion made by Dr, W. D. Lighthall
before the Antiquarian and Numigs-
matic Society of Montreal recently,

Dr. Lighthall was able to give the

boundaries of the village and de-
scribed it as resembling the home-
of Cedric the Saxon, in “Tvanhoe.”

Apropos of the recent “Save the
Forest Week,” BE. W. Beatty, Presi-
dont of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, stated: “A week's - concentra.
tion on' saving the forests of Can-
ada is well worth while—much bet-

_ ter to make it a ‘Forest Saving

Year’ and, if the forest resources
of this country are to be conserved
to adea'ste’y avail the greater Can-

ada of 1 few tars hence it must

be i‘ ‘orest” Saving Generation.’

Forest wastage is to-day tragically

too grest’ and we Canadians must

" pay and are paying. for the -logs,”

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