HEAVY SNOWSTORMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 3 January 1913, Page 7

HEAVY SNOWSTORMS.

IN THE UNITED STATES

Ottawa, December 31

A. terrific snowstorm blocked the western United States railways. It was the worst blizzard experienced for twenty years. New York, December 31.

At Milwaukee an avalanche killed a number of employees in the Cascade Mountains. A rotary snowplough exploded on the Great Northern Railway and five men were killed.

The telegraph and telephone wires are. idle, and much damage has been done to small shipping. When the tug Margaret struck a submerged rock on the New Jersey coast the captain and crew reached the beach while the vessel was sinking. They were stranded on a sand bar during a terrific gale. They attempted to launch the lifeboat,.which overturned, and one sailor was drowned. Life-savers rescued ten others. When the lifeboat overturned, spectators rushed into tire surf and dragged all ashore.

POUNDS OF BUTTER

The old Australian cow, having got her head out of the hails, looked at the brimming can of milk, and in her usually mild eye there was a’ fiery spark of enthusism.

“It is at moments like this,” she murmured to the young heifer, who was in tire milking-shed for the first time, “that we can feel proud of being cogs and cranks in the wonderful machinery of the commercial world. These are modern days; not the slow, old-fashioned times. In the era of our grandmothers the cream collected from that milk would have been made into dull, uninteresting butter, carried in baskets or boxes to the nearest market town, and there sold for family use. But now, through what exciting vicissitudes it will travel! Half a dozen people in turn will make an honest livelihood from it; some by buying it cheap in large quantities and selling it dear in small; some by mixing it with rancid grease or with clay. 0, the dignity of such labour! It will go in big ships to far countries, to appear in many different forms. It will cease to he parochially Australian, and will become cosmopolitan, like the best Australian burglars and confidence-men. It will be paraded as Danish, Norwegian, Breton, and Irish. A pound of butter! Those simple words are no longer suggestive of bucolic Arcadian scenes, but of great modern marts, where mud, suet, and inferior oik; car ail he glorified into breakfast food In the aid of you and me!”—Sydney Sun,