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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-09-25, Page 7• • • roti sp .F all ,f;,, $!,•; THE..• LUcKNOW sgmrnU L TEpESDAY; SEPTEMBER 25,, 1930 • PAGE FIVE The Red Man Tries the.Pipe's andy has a broad grin . on, his face as he watches brother Redmantakea fling at the; bag- pipes which he has loaned :him for a • moment"`totry his luck. The' Indian'is all intent ordain unaccu - tomed "task. and since it is' only a photograph and not'a' sound pic-' ture youcan contemplate the scene without •misgivings.. Photograph was'talcen during the recent High-. land Gathering and Scottish. Music. Festivalheld at, Banff Alberta. HOW TO 'IUD!, A. ,HOME .OF ANTS, • • `'Will you :please` tell me how: to get ot ants. i hire pat caYenne pep - 'per along the window ledges; but tney uo• not stein • Le, come in tnere; We live • in up,starrs ,rosnis,• 4o I"ilo not. under - e :u.0 how tnv get. ut. ' ' • The only Jnc4.. eo v! etJ2T4 R. id of` ants peiritatt=u iy"ice uy Iocating eti nests and` •treaui g thetii• in 'stich a way that tnetueens wi.t •iir.il• y be .le ,stroye 1. u n.vi.e eggs' is a1 , e laid, and. the .pruductrotT UL' worcers will. cense. One of the nest: substances. for .treating • nests, m ,.order' to k.11 ' the -queen and exterionnai.e the workers. •is carbon bisuiphide: 1t is 'uften,.'ditti- cult to locate tall nest, rind sotnetimes: when. found, it it ill .'be in an ..inacces- sible situation; tor, example, it may • be discovered' in the' founuatiun- walls under. th'e floor, or in some • other .1 equally secluucd aiid protected p:Ace. • One writer suggests tnat ..black • tints • may be traced • to their.'nests' by,:bait- ing them with , tiny broken pieces. of rice, ,farina, or crease 'of 'Wheat. The ants will curry these pieces i f white food to their nests' and may be easily traced in., this manner., .When .the col- ony is located it nay be treated with ' carbon .bisulphide by pouring an ounce or two of the liquid into each of sev-. eral . holes made in the . nest with a I sharpened- stick, after the operation. the Mouth of each. hole; should be quickly stopped with a clod, of dirt.• A' heavy wet blanket thrown over the nest grill aid in 'retaining the, gas and . will tend .to make the fumigation more effeetise. The . liquid evaporates quickly and the gas permeates the whole nest, killing the queen' and the workers and extertn:nating tie col- ony: If the' colony is Iodated in ,the foundation waif, tihe pxoolem will oe , much more difficult and may . . be impossible • of solution.• 'the ditticultY wilt •be •iii:rea..iiing• the ,hie. t.'w:ith the_. liquid: •if t.ae iiv ., 14• 'i.,catid .under. the door, ie may' be necessary to, re- move, a pie..e uL the .flooring in•. order .=-,�„Y„a�Si.-a a, r;,-tit.:-t'�iP-.•.cO�Q,x�:_ , In. the u.ie o.` u'irboi' bisul hide ••.it t. ,p , most . Le remembe4'ed that the gas is intianunau&e. anti •• explosive .and tit., forni, Of. tire or ,fight. should, be brought near'cue piaci. that is• being, fumigated. •• • A temporary expedient, and ,one. that -n.sy •utscuutage the•:an.s enough, to finally stop them loin coming, to •soak snca,t sponges in sweeteneo rater and.. place them where the in-' 'sects are numerous. Tee ants' will crawl into' the 'pores .of the , sponges in great 'nuiniters' and may be •Milled by dropping the sponges 'imb 'iiboiling water.' This processs• should be re- peated ,over .aaid over, aria thousands of the -Workers mays.,.thus.; be..de_s_t_roy-, ed. In instances 'in. whi:h .this prac- tice has 'been given,.a, thorough and. •persistent trial,. the. Ants `have become so discouraged and bewildered by. the sudden loss of se many. workers 'that they have finally abandoned the house entirely. Anis n tv be d_scouraged from .en- tering houses ,by keeping shelves tables and floor in kitchens and pan- tries, as fres: as possible from -crumbs and' other food fragrants., and • by storing foodstuffs in ant=proof con- tainers. In addition, •• openings in floors' and walls 'throtvrh wvacb ants way gain entrance 'should be careful- ly plugged. , . , pA r. David ., AdJ rson .has gone' to' London to. attend 'Normal., Mr. John Ritchie spent -last week. with Mr. Alfred '.Andrew • at ',Owen Sound. Mr. D.,, G. Stroud of Tiverton spent the week -lend with friends at Zion. Miss Jessie . Andrew of QLondon, spent Sunday at her •home here. Mr.' and Mrs. Wm. Irwin of Luck- now • spent Sunday at •Mr. . Samuel' Reed's. Mr.. ;Henry Gardner is able to be a'beut• again after 'a severe attack of lumbago.' .. *iss Emma McDonagh •oi~:Loiadon, spent Sunday at het home. hence. , Mr: and Mrs. Wi'II •Ritchie. attended the funeral issf their brother-in-hiw, 14Ir. Jarred Reed of Varna, on Thurs- day' fast. ere''and There (613.)' , The first oelectricatly .driven •'tug to he built in Canada was launched • at Lauzon, •Quebec, recently, when • the "Prescotonf"; Diesel'-eiectrie tug for the Canadian. Pacific Car. and Passenger. Tiausfer Company's service between Prescott 'an. d Og densberg, slipped into the, waters of the St. Lawrence,'after the tradi- tional bottle .of' chainpa„ne' had been brokep , against •her bows by Mrs. M. McD:: Daft 'wife of the n_an- ager-ot the Canadtan Pacific Great Lakes Steamship service "It 'lie' ' the' first electric tug to be'' built Canada. and is designed to tow,• a three -track railway car -float with accommodation for 16 hundred -ton cars. • Canada 'is taking advantage of all:.opportunities to 'fight 'tubercu- losis afd:' I; think •is far . ahead • of England in the matter or sending. ... "' ..to. anat.or.'a'tn:, t4lz au— intensive study or the subject, said Dr. J. A. Coutts. .of London. mem- ber of the group of ,British Tuber- :cular experts. interviewed aboard S'.' S. MIontcalm. , un his retirrn, to England. after .eoute weeks' stay In b th e' Dominion. Stating ;that the Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce officialtour of Japan and China. leaving Vancou- ver and Victoria October 16 aboard- S.S. Empress of Russia, offers' a splendidchance to tta.�hasize. Can- ada's • position as. a 'trading nation, 'Col. J. ' H. Woods. Calgary p''tb- lislier and president: of the Ceti- dian Chamber of Commerce, speak= ing, to 300 members of+the Vancou- ver Board of Trade 'in an address at the Hotel Vancouver • recently. urged Canadians :to take full op- portunty.of the chance afforded' by be tour. • "Princess Helene” is a Pr nces3'Indeed- • • T ''sly +• \�• '�'• •�'\ Aro'•••..• DOPING . OF HORSES .1$' S.TILL COMMON • . . proposals were inrldes recently • in this country. for establishing •i series of testa to determine whether r'ace- h'orses were doped or, t,ot before' they went tin the course. • These suggestions met .yvith gen= eral• ridicule in the -press. It was ;ar- -gued that -those who were responsible' for putting them .forward had been inspired by: sensational films in s'thich crooked race horse. owners and jock- eys . injected • dangerous 'drugs by' means of a hypodermic 'syringe into horses ,that, but 'for • these ;irtificial stimulants, would atand'.little• chance of winning, While 'it is. true .that the ,prevalence of •the practice .has been greatly ex- aggerated at tames by writers, who should•know•better, there is also no' doubt whatever, in the mind of any experiertced'i`acing.expert, that -•hors-' es are. occasionally doped—especially in..An erica..Brittiin, 'however, has, an, extremely clean record''tn'th'is respect. Indeed, apart fromthe, moral as- `peets of the case -and' the' standard 'of .racing in .this respect is„probably' ,higher in this country tlian . anywhere else• in the. world= -it Would be ex tremely difiicullt. for any unscrupulous owner. trainer or jockey a�• "get .a- way"' with such a practice for • any. tength of time. The vigilance of the jockey: club -.-the Scotland Y, rd of, 'the race -course is too •keen' and.:un- remiting for scoundrels :of this type, to prosecute this type of racing crime 'for long.. '• • Rac e -horses are .sensitive beasts, and. they °are trailed to .stack' a pitch 'of efficiency that the effects .of even' aniall 'auentlties of .;"dope" on their highly -strung• organisms• become evi- dent • at once to a skilful. observer.: • Yet• cases of doping ,are not un, known in 'Great.'Britain, as the Hon. G..Lambton; for 'many years trraingr to Lod 'Derby, and an acknoy ledged . authority on the' turf,• has • just reveal- • ed in his.'book,, "Men and; Horses I Hiave Known" (Butterworth), In' 1900 he says, it' began to be a serious men- ace to horse -racing• and by:..1903' • it had .become a scandal. ',I—Tortes `whish were: obvious `rogues' ran with.the sweat pouring, from, ..t:....�i�lr.�...:.a�tl�.:•.*.l't�,-w,�'ut•�-=-cit�ilri out of their h:endsand' won. Mr•. • L#Tnbt'nn's • attention was rive - •ted: to the iirobintn,.bv. the case 'of a horse, which after winning° a' ,..race, dashed madly into a ',tone Wel:Vend l.i'Ied . 'itself. He placed the natter before :'t steward. <if the jockey ci'ub. who, however. took a sceptical vievi• of it. Mr: Lambton had ser'ral' "ro- gues"•..in,.his ;sta:ble at the time, and he informed the stewards that he in.: tended to .done them ' .so „that they could see for themselves what the re- sults were. "The first .horse.I doped,". iteclares fir.• •l ambt"on,' "nas a. chestnut geld- ing called Folkestone. I sent hem tc Pontefract,'where• he, beat a field'of fourte^n very easily, and nearly went round the course, second time before his jockey could • pull . him. up. He won a race again the next- day: was sold. and never' wen again: • •"`.I lead told my brrother.. Lord Dur- ham, What •I was don. 'So 'much did he dislike this •doping that he was in- clined to object to my. having any- thing to do with, • it.'Bet When ,I ex- plained that tiny .ehject was to open the eyes of the •stewards., he withdrew •his objection; but begged me not to .have a shilling 'on any horse, with a dope in him.. To this I agreed:" The famous trainer -then procured six dopes from • a veterinary surgeon He did not inject these with ;a needle but just eave them out of a ..bottle. The effects of these were amazing. Lambton . •used five of them—;and• .had four winners and a second. Not One of these horses had 'shown any form throughout the 'al. One . of them, Ruy Lopez. • who• had, previous- ly entirely defeated the efforts of the best jochhys in England. "ran away" with the Lincoln autumn handicap. . But that was a score of years go. The pe,nalties against •donine are now so severe. and the'watchfnlress of the jockey duh- so acute. that it is. un- .likely n-.likely that this nractice could .ever be- come frequent in this' country. HEALTH' SERVICE OF THE •CANADIAN MEDiCAL ASS'N '_. itttress Helene" which, has, just entered T new"'f'r 1 -the service of. the Canadian Pacific Railway Coni. pany.i•trtining between Saint John, ' N.B., and Digby, 14.S. is worthy of her ttle in every respect. She is the last word in speed and doinfo: tc and her accom • modntion, as is shown by the above pictures; tom. avorably with llner-class ship's, 1. A bed 604 • room eotiibinin;,• luxury and accorni odation. •l. the obsersation' rot i, with cbtnfortabie chairs and specs l ►tklly constre to 1 seiiidow'a to aid passengers in "See- I ,'ing the sea". 3. The graceful "Princess Helene" , i.,cutting davit t o f yYfi a between pot:ts. 4. The dining saloon, just as r o. ante upto-date as sat l`eit lll' . ant gshot'e.. 64 10 stttokerocgai real, 00101% '• of the shin and hair. Illness and J'tin leave their mark and',sour. disease's cause Actual deformity. The desirable bapPY. friend or 'ac-- -quaintatiee has a healthy .mind and a healthy body. Pain n ;ekes us irrita- ble. The healthy.' mind is able to meet • the . crises of lite .without emotional upsets; - • Health • is a great economic asset. We do our best work' when in a heal- thy condition. We do not lose time from our `duties. We are not obliged to meet the cost of ,illness. Theheal- th' of workers i .so desirable that many'business• :or anizations have found. that it pays `to eikre for the. health ' of their: employees by provid- ing • a `health ;service for', them. If it is profitable. 'for an organization. to• preserve the health of the worker, it :certainly ,paysrthe worker to',con serve his 'Own health::.. Mankind tin general is not'' selfish. and health enables eachone hot only to, •do the best for himself but .for others—the mother to give' the best of care to her children; the father to provide the ,most for liis .fans]ly;' the citizen to serve his' fellowman and his country. Practically all of us can have heal- th if .we pare 'willing to make. the ef, fort. -,We have indicated why it is well worth while' for each one • to make the necessary effort. Questions concerning Health. 'ad- dressed 'to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, .;184 College, St..' Toronto,' will he answered personally .by: letter.. THIS IS' TOUGH A young Scotehreen and his •t:*ife, carrying; by turns,, their 17 -month- old child, were given a' lift on the highway near Clifford, by a •Waiker- tonian recently. ,They, out from Scot- land •onlya :year., had started from, Brampton,. to Sulk to.. , Kincatdlin' ivfi"ere i rkiuend"s"he zisig � Which the father was .,engaged near Br'imntore wog 'completed. :For the, drive, from Clifford, to Walkerton they appeared' very 'crateful. and resumed 'heir tri^+,n. cheerfully towardLake lit ron.—Telescope • 6.92 Asbestos prod_ uctipn In • Canada during 19.29 set lip a new high rec- ord. according to the finally revlsed figures -of 'the Bureau of Statistics. Shi +;++ ents la 1929. amounted • ' to - 1060 55 o-106,1.55 tons. valued at 51.3.172,581. an increase of 12.4% in quantity and. 17.2% •in value as 'compared with the. previous year. The' average. value received by the operators Was 343.04 per ton, compared' with tole the previous year,` ' Nipigon.trout, known allover the' continent as, the gamest of ,game fish.' are coming into the spotlight again according to reports from tlir " famous Onterio,resort•• where the annual contest• for • the 'largest.• apeckl,ed trout' is now in full. swing and will. ct btinue until S'epfember , 14' The best entry to date ;is a 544 " Ib fish,; ineasur•ing 22 • inches le. . ledgth and 14 ia,girth taken with a: • ; siAgl•e spinner with fly 'en...a foot'rod, .by Edmund Sta1t, r, of Pa: terson •• N. J. `July 29 , East. and West rient and fleet - dent; will 'meet the British Em- pire. Pping mpetition. one of tbe most tmpo tanr•of the ' new features. to be introduced -at • this year's Highland Gathering : and , Scottish. Music Festival, to be held at Banff at, the end of August. :Pipe•,_Majors John Clark and E. •L Collins" of• the • Royal (-cots Regiment of Scotland. of which ,Princess Mary:is `Co:onel- in -chief; will a otic•, front the' British,, Isles,'' R•.hf1e tie "e -Ma or W. (., Mac= Kie'of the Scottish Company of. volunteers •Is on his way to Banff from Hong -Kong. Prospects. for 'Increased earnings during the fall 'monthsare good and, directors of the 'Canadian Pacific, Railway have no in;teation of reduc- ing the dividend,,said 5.•W.' Seatty. :chairman and president of the cont- pany,: recently in • reply ;to, rumors' that the dividend ,might ba cut. • .1 • Nowadays pthe world 'moves, on rubber •:and this ,does • rot apply ,a., automobiles .alone: According. tr. a recent return of the t iinadi,att Gov- _ w!+"Ie"i r"Nr en i " June•bvtight :leo r;f'r , of shoes rubber ,solus it+:r I'•1.,;•dh' 13,1'-h14-. . does took' :;.i(I i;:tir. and Trinidad 6.555 parr; Im inn the exp -,rt •-it Canadi.' ••n I :e t,rd_; exc:eded in n n Value of Health When we have health we are 'free from disease and physical defects; we' are living • at the highest level with our •physical and mental capac- ities at their 'best: Health is not a matter of big muscles; it is a condi- tion of fitness of the whole individual mint as well as body*. We do trot know any person who would suggest that the 'possession of health is not desirable. or that it ik net worth. wile. We believe that any- one who gives a moment's thought to the. subject .must' agree.that heal- th is well 'worth striving far. • We. shalt- enumerate a few of t'ie hatters which go. to prove `the value of health. because those,' who enjoy health may become careless of ore of their' most precious possessions unless they are reminded occasionally of fs ivorth.'fhe titne'ta tFiiii ;of the safeguarding of a precious thing i while it is till ,in otir possession, not after it has ' been lost. • Health and happiness go- .hand iin hand. Disease is an enemy of human happiness. We do admire the courage displayed by some' persons in the face of s'nrtyering borne' with little cern- plaint, but no none of Us sul*gests that to be' happy we should first of all beeimie ill. Beauty ' is' a reflection , of health: Lack of health steals daftly* the-lesitt • THE NEW McCORMICK DEERING HORSE AND TRACTOR. POWER GRAIN BINDERS contain the best features of the. Famons'' McCORMICK and DEER- ING BINDERS. The McCormick has' always :been known as the Sturdy Machine with Strength and Durability to withstand hard use; I While the DEERING, shad 'long been recognized as the Light- est Draft Binder. They are fitted with ..Ball and Roller Bearings where required to make a light .tanning Binder. The main frame is 'made of flat Steel Bars, rivetted together with the edges up to give the greatest stgength. The'. Tractor Power. Binders are made g anti • 10 foot widths. W. G.. ANREW'S.• THE RED FRONT HARDWARE CLEAN UP = - -. PAINT OP - JUST ,ARRIVED FRESH SPRING STOCK OF MARTLN SENOUR ^100% PURE PAINTS AND VARNISHES AND LACQUERS.~ MURESCO IN AL SHADES. • PULL ASSORTMENT OF • PAINT BRUSHES ON HAND. RAKES • AN'D' HOES COIL' SPRING .WIRE' GARDEN CULTIVATORS ' ''BLACK .WIRE ZINC INSULATED WOVEN FENCING • CALL iN AND SEE THE NEIVA .FRIGIDAIRE. 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