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B.C, WEDNES

AS JANUA) ARY 1, 96

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The Omineca Herald’
NEW ‘HAZELTON, B.C.

Published Every Wednesday
1 Publisher

™ 1L. Sawle "

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BETTER BUSINESS IN CANADA

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Business all neross ,Canadn is re-
ported away ahead of any years since
the depression blt the country six
you's ago. Retail merchants. were de-
licbted with the upturn. Local mer-
chunts claim that their businesses in.
creased, in some cases, a hundred per
cont. Locally. the Indians’ had” con-
sideruble money, both from the can-
nery season ‘and from the fur. caught
the past fall. There were also a num-
Int of men in from pole camps and
they spent the first money they have
had for several years, freely.

HANSON IS WELL KNOWN NOW

The article which originated in the
(nineca Herald and Terrance News
telling of Olof Hanson, M. P., pulling
his own tooth becouse it kept him
wwike at night, has been broadcasted
from 2 number of stations, and it has
lwon printed in all the leading daily
pipers from Victoria to Halifax, as
well ag in many weekles in many
parts of the Dominion. The member
of prrliament for Skeena riding is as.
well known today in, Canada as any
ef the leading politicians, and Oo one
will ever ask in futnre ‘Who ‘is this
niin Franson,” “oe

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WHAT OF HEALTH INSURANCE?

While Hon. Dr. Weir may be strong-
ly in favor, of health insurance, it is
a matter awhich should be given very
serious consideration. before adopted
in any measure, At the present time
injy..a. portion. of the people are pay-
ing theiy inxes ud a furtber harden
on those who do pay would just about
put them out. of business, ‘at lenrst a
goodly proportion of them. It is very
fine for. the government to do this and
the government do that ad the other
thing, bat ig i07" tbe. govyernmer: that
is paying for,it:. On-the, contrary, for

covery new bit of sucial legis ulon ihat |

SAC RS

is enforced the xoverninent spends a

great deal in administration ad.in col-
lecting the new taxes, What the peo-
ple who get help receive is not so’ seri-
ous as the big salaries and other expe-
niltures. of the. commission and. its
staff. Is the government so eomplete-
Ey bHnd that it cannot see where the
province is headed for, or is it just a
pet schemé-of Hon. Dr. Weir's: that ‘he
is determined to saddle on the poor tax
ridden people? =) +)

| QUEER QUESTIONS.

Do ships’ have’ ever when they go to
sen? ros
Are there ‘springs: in the ocentt: ted?
Does the Jolly‘ tar flow from a tree?

Does n river Loose its heat?

Are fishes crazy when the go in seiny?
Can old hen sing her tay?

Can you bring relief to a window
Or mend the break of day?

w hint sort of vegetahle is a policemgns -
heat?

Ts’ newspnper white where it is read
Ts a baker broke when he is milking
* dough?

: Is nn tindertaker’s business ° dead?

World aowall paper store make a good “

- hotel? ,
Beetise of the hoardecs there? _

Would yon paint a rabbit on a Ind.
nis head
Just to give him a bit of hire?

Would you pay a policeman with sil-
ver coin :
‘For nickels aren't made for coppers?.
u a, ‘willow married a grass widower
Would their children be grass hoppers?

If yon ote a square meal would the
rearners hurt? ;
‘Can yon did with the ace of spades?

Would you throw i rope ‘to aldrow ning
ilemon .
‘ust to give W Jemon ade)

Head I Lettuce .

| Columbia.

.for so firm hens as the early crop, In’
the majority -of ‘years..a good quality |.

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Commercial Crop

Head lettuce, both for. commeretat }
purposes and for home use, is one of |*
the major vegetable. ‘crops in British
Tt is essentially a cool sea-
son crop and will, therefore, not pro-
dnee. good marketable heads during
the hottest days of summer. At Aga-
ssiz the best. results are obtained when
the sced is planted during late March

and throughout April for the early;
and from June 15 to <
The Inte]
evop will not ordinarily furm as jarec , .

stinner erep,
July 16 for the fall crop,

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nrmlact enn be grown, Lettuce 1s a:
evap which responds very. markedly to ,
‘ts enviorenment, which includes both |
the soil and climatic conditions. There
fs anise a pronounced difference be- |
craps xaised from ‘different
jstrains of seers. and anyone ‘contem 4
nin fire the prodnetion’ af this eron on!
an oxtivsive’ scale ‘shonld’ first of all!
tee ent ‘sererst different varieties and:
Airvevedtt strnins’ of tie. same variety?
te Tp assmied that from. ‘A. ‘seed. stand-'

“1 the out ix hoing used. The New :
York variety on the whole has given .
the most satisfactory results at Aas:
“iv, but Teeburg and Hanson ate both!
of, excellent sauialty and “Under many

terpon,

condition 2M préve vulunble, Whee

. the erop is ‘to be: miarketed over ‘u re:

latively Short period the whole aren
should be sown at once’ and plants
thinned out toa distace of oe foot in
Tows 46 to 18 inches apart. Where a
continuoas crop is required seed should
be sown at intetvrls of two weeks. |

tee, prove gs satisfactory.
insufficient quaiitities are

Where

arnilable

an application of nitrogeous fertilizer

at- 200 pours to the acre at the time of |
seed planting will prove beneficial. :

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ns 3 your sasoricion been, paid. ett

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and: interesting: history; “of? -tHale
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Tale of Heroic Achievemneni |
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rang rant: boo slong: ‘before
ay APR Nee se ene “the
great institution, - The’ easly: hiss
tory. of © transportation * by trail
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of... ehatty Incident. ‘and. in thio,
‘light. -readahle, -aRlyle. that: vane |:
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Mr. Gibbon vory largely ignores.
the ‘common-place history : book -*
stories of early settlement and. >
lays before us new incidents and -
hifherté * neglected“ *indventents’:
that led to the exploration and:
final conquering: of the Canadian
wilderness, ‘Thus, he'recatis that:’”,
in the time ,of;,Queen. Anne.the 5 ..
new demand for ten and the tro--"
fiends yoeus' for” Chinesé: por" ~
colainiand for Chinese house dec-"~
oratlons turned merchant eyig
tovgaris: the. -Orient; and sharpen :
‘ods the dos aire -to ‘find . tle Nor
West. passage,
the : book.
‘acareh: tor; aid’ the ultimate puitda
ing Sofa, new: road ‘to thé ‘Paeitic,
+The fur. trade, | gold: discoveries:
hand . ultimately the opening: up. of
the ‘country as ‘a land: for-pettio-

mont each. .nlaye
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‘pakiie waSlie! adurdh tor tha. roa”

ta. tho’ “Pagt™ that dtow..advon-
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