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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-02-24, Page 2Rheumatism A Kotor Car Accurst i Followed by Disaster Mrs, Middleton Collins, R.R. No. 3, Port Perry, Ont. writes:—-UT am the mother of four children, and after my third baby was born I got rheumatism which left my heart in a very weak condition. I was like that all summer long and could got no relief, siater-in-law told me to give My ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES—-By O. Jacobsson Of Interest to Motorists o o o c With Beaches G-. Brown, Consort, Alta^1 writes:—‘*1 was troubled with vorjr severe headaches, and sometimos was nearly crazy with them. Ono day a friend told me about ride in the juggernaut. It broke down, and the general announced his inten­ tion of disposing of it. A year later the writer ran into a man who had served under Sarcotlc; they exchanged reminiscences, and: I chanced to ask him what became of the General's notorious automobile. “Oh, you mean tho red car? The ’devil-car,” as we called it? Nothing in particular. It is still in use. But about six months ago it collided with an ox-cart. Two peasants died as a result of that accident, and the poor chauffeur, that fellow whom you knew, is still in the hospital. . . ” And the '“devil-car” went on its fear­ some way. Left in Serajevo, when the Austrian authorities evacuated Bosnia, it passed into the hands of the new Jugoslav Governor of the province. He used it for two months, within which time he had four accidents with it, in the last one suffering a severe injury to his right arm. The automobile was then sold to a Jugoslav physician, Dr. Srskic, who was rather well known throughout the country. The “devilcar,’’ however, had such a bad reputation that lie was un­ able to get a chauffeur, so he finally decided to drive it himself. Dr. Srskic used the car for about six months. One day he wanted to visit one of liis friends in the country and took his car with him. When the doc­ tor failed to arrive’, hours after liis ap­ pointed time, his friend became ner­ vous and went out to meet him. He came back a few hours later with the body of Dr. Srskic, found on a lonely road in a ditcli, with the car on top of him. Again the demon-car was sold, and J this time it -was a Bosnian landowner j woh had the courage to buy it. He ; was thought comparatively lucky, as he had no accident with the machine. Of course- it was merely am odd coin­ cidence- that he committed suicide a year later. But his family were con­ vinced that the automobile brought this misfortune, and ,no one of the i uuuu man s iieifs wanted tlie hoodoo ing back from the front. I The Austrian armies had suffered a • ’ terrific, defeat in the Battle of Val;evo, I and. General Potiorek fled with Ills troops into Austrian territory. The General was disgraced and lie took his downfall so much to heart that he ( lost his mental balance. He left Sera- j jevo, and the red car was used by a former staff officer for a time. In the span o-f two months it had two more tragic accidents. It ran down two peasants in the outskirts of Serajevo. It skidded and threw out tlie chauffeur, who was instantly killed. ‘ In 1917, Mr. Deri again stopped in ( The “Devil Car” of Serajevo Had a History Replete With Tragic Associations. ♦ <JINXED" FOR TWELVE YEARS. The “Devil Car” of Serajevo. “A symbol of death and disaster, carrying misfortune wherever it went,” is the way one writer describes the red car in which Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, was riding on June 28,1914, the day of his- assassina­ tion at Serajevo. In the twelve years of its weird career the “WitC’h car” has caused the death of thirteen per­ sons, and injured, many more^'an heir to the throne died on its cushions and a powerful Army leader rode in it to his defeat. Its road was marked by fatality, death followed in its wake, its very appearance brought sorrow and tragedy,” says Emery Deri in the New York World magazine, and con­ gratulates himself on having lived to write the tale after riding in the “accurst machine.” Ho had his first glimpse o-f the “legendary red auto­ mobile” shortly after the royal tragedy that became a pretext for the World j War. The car at that time’stood peace-! fully enough in the garage of the Governor’s palace in Serajevo, al­ though the correspondent tells us that its velvet cushions were bloodstained and its back seat perforated by the murderer’s bullets-. Otherwise: “It was a brand-new car, ordered by the Bosnian authorities for the exclu­ sive use of the Archduke when liis Caicus, a banker of visit to tlie province was announced.” Six weeks later the World War broke out. General Potiorek was ap­ pointed leader of the Southern Army. and advised mo to give it a trial,I decided to do so, and after taking throo bottles I found it had dono mo a world of good, and I haven’t had tho least sign of a headacho for a long while,” Put up only by The T. Milburn Co., TTmiM-l, Toronto, Ont. ft try, so I did, and took two boxes of them and I am now enjoying per­ fect health. I trust they will help others as they have helped me.” On the first sign of any weakness of the heart or nerves, you should, not wait until your case become desperate be­ fore you avail yourself of relief by using Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills as they will tone up and strengthen the nerves, build up tho muscles pf the heart, and enrich the blood. Price 50c, a box at all druggists or dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milbum Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. O O o ° O o o o o a o o v oo ° o o o o Ancient Bankers. One of the first examples o-f adver­ tising done by a banker comes to us from the early Greeks- about the fifth century, B.C. some seaport city, perhaps Alexandria, made the following announcement, which, it is supposed, appeared en­ graved in neat characters over the 1 He made up bls mind to make use of doorway o-f his banking establishment: the red automobile, despite the tragid “To natives and to strangers this ; association already connected with it J bank gives equal dealing; deposit and j But scon the fatal red car was speed-; ‘inai?r heir< withdraw for the calculation comes to ' account. Let another make excuses; Caicus pays foreign moneys at re­ quest, even by night.” This is Dr. Leaf’s translation of a quatrane ac­ credited to the poet Theocritus. Caicus was even a little in advance of the modern banker in that he was pre­ pared to carry on his banking business after night, as well as during the customary daylight hours.----------------- Civil and Moral Law. The difference between the Law and the Moral Law is this: ---------—------ -------- --------- Men who break the moral law may; the Bosnian capital. At this particular be legally innocent and escape the period of its career the red car belong- penalty of their wrong-doing. G-od od to the military governor of the.city, alone through their own conscience General Sarcotlc, and it was while ac- oan reach them. Under man-made laws a person may troops that the correspondent had a and imprisoned who in jl- -------■ God is innocent of of- ’■ F - .......———— Civil companying him on a.n inspection of j Again it was sold, this time to a well- known manufacturer, a certain Peter Svestitch. He was an intelligent, open- minded man, who laughed at the warn­ ings of his friends, and was glad to ■ buy a fine automobile at a price far 1 below its real value. The first week he had an accident • with the machine, which was as mys- ! terious and fatal as the others in the i career of this Frankenstein monster ' of mechanism. On a country read the driver suddenly lost control of the car, which ran amuck and -collided with an­ other autom,pbile in which Six persons were riding. One of ‘these “was killed and- four others were severely Injured. Three more times the car changed hands, being bought successively-by a country physician, whose patients i by outward acts. God bo convicted the sight' of fence. Men judge reads the heart and considers the mo­ tive, as well as the degree of tempta­ tion. have A SEVERE COLD TURNS© TO BRONCHITIS However slight a cold you you should never neglect it. In all .possibility, if you; do not treat it in time, it will- develop into bronchitis, pneumonia, or some other serious throat or lung trouble. . Mrs. Marlett Gee, R.B. No. 1, Simcoe, Ont., writes:—”1 caught a severe cold that settlod on my lungs and turned into bronchitis. I tried many different remedies, but they all Beemed to fail. I then got a bottle of Dru Wood's ’ Norway Pirse Syrop and after the first fow doses X found wonderful relief, and before I had used tho whole bottle I was completely relieved of my trouble.” . Price 35c. a bottlo; large family size (50c. For sale at all druggists . and dealers; put up only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Case Not Proven. Years ago, probably most civilized people believed that the earth’s weather was influenced by the moon. Many believe that still. A study of a great mass of weather observations-, however, fails to show such an in­ fluence as being at all appreciable; and j the final test pf our knowledge of weather and its relationships certain­ ly lies in many years of records taken by men over groat areas of the globe. Yet ideas of any sort, once rooted in people's minds-, are hard to uproot whether there is much truth in them or not. ’ ' • The fact of the matter is that vary­ ing weather conditions in cur atmos­ phere do alter the appearance of the ------- Much humidity will make it dreaded. the ill-omened vehicle forced him to foil it to a dealer, from whom it was purchased by a Swiss sportman, relates Mr. Deri. He had it sent to Vienna, and undertook a trip through-, the famous Dolomite' Pass. This was last summer, and we read on: “A few weeks later tho Austrian news­ papers printed details of one of the most terrible automobile disasters that ever happened in the Dolomites. Two automobiles collided at a sharp curve. One of them was thrown into a deep cliasm, while the driver of the second suffered a fracture of the skull and died two days later in a hospital. The name of this driver ' and the car lie drove red painted six-seater Archduke had been twelve years befofe.” Once more the red car passed into the hands of a dealer, and once again it came back to* Serajevo. There is was sold and resold and became in­ volved in so many mishaps and acci­ dents that it found uo buyer in Bos-' nia, Its owner, at last, sold it to a Hungarian, one Tibor Hirschfeld, who owned a garage fa* Gluj, Transylvania, and did a business in secoSid-hand automobiles. Hirschfeld intoned to sell the oar to some one in Transyl­ vania who did not know its story, changed- the color of the car to a deep blue and offered it for sale for $600. So here stood the “devil-car,” in its new blue disguise, in the garage of Tibor Hirschfeld, waiting for another owner and victim. A few weeks ago Hirschfeld was in­ vited to a wedding in a town about eighty miles from Cluj, He under­ took to drive out, "find invited five friends to accompany'him. When they were about to start, Hirschfeld saw that there was- no other car available except the blue six-seater. “I hope you are not afraid to ride in a bewitched automobile,” he said to his friends.. No, o-f course not! No­ body was afraid. There -were laughs and jokes about tlie modern devil, who ' . accommodated himself to the. times, ^“ey onc® &P®e(f UP was M. Bluntli, i was the same in which the assassinated MIDDLE-OF-ROAD DRIVERS ARE »A MENACE TO SAFETY. There are few more satisfactory ■experiences in the life of a motorist than suddenly, after a wretched de­ tour, to come upon a beautiful stretch of newly constructed highway. This is the tourist’s idea of a grand .and glor­ ious feeling. Such roads are a boon to — — all drivers of motor vehicles. They1 violating traffic regulations and at should be appreciated by such drivers the same time stands a chance of be- ing along slowly and at the same time keeping to the left. j This situation puts the driver of a moon, IT...' ..111 ___.... 11 following car to an unnecessary dis-1 seem red; thin upper haze or clouds advantage. If such a driver wishes to, will make it pale and watery; clear Pass., as he is very likely to do, he atmosphere will make it sharply de- slovyly ambling vehicle or on the left, i observed If ho ti’ip.s too -fm-rnp.-r mAhhod lio i« worn and the result should be more gener­ ally satisfactory motoring conditions all around. But this is not always the case. Frequently I have the opportunity to travel over a stretch of improved highway that has recently been com­ pleted. It is a remarkable piece of engineering work, providing a practic­ ally perfect road. Steep grades that must either pass on the right of the‘fined and silvery. Those changes as --------- _.l in the past by people who ITtries the former method he isjwero Interested? in such matters un­ doubtedly helped in laying much of the responsibility of weather foretell­ ing upon the moon. Wet and Dry Moons. Many people believe. the character of the moon’s phases determines the ' weather shortly to follow. For in­ stance, the wet moon and the dry moon i are oft'en spoken of; In. the one case, tlie horns of itli.e crescent at quarter are turned up, so it is said they will hold water and the weather will be dry; in the other case, the horns be­ ing down, the rain wi-H be- free to fall. Opinions differ, however, -as to which is which, since what is called the wet moon in one section is called the dry moon in another. Again it is the truth to say that in different parts of the country there will bo both dry and rainy spells during lunar quarters, whichever way the horns turn, for rarely if ever is the country all dry, and never all wet. The direction of the crescent, it may )m said, depends upon the astronomical relationship be­ tween sub, moon and, earth in their or­ bits. As to the moon’s relation to seed­ time and harvest, that also is lore, be- Uleved in thoroughly by men here and I there, and actually taken into account | at planting time by individuals in a I small way, but hardly considered by | farmers on a largo scale, since in prac- | tical farming the surest scientific I methods-, and not the dictations of folk­ lore must prevail, ' The Moon’s Horns. There is a saying that “sharp do threaten windy weather.” saying is foundedyon fact, since when the air is well mixed by s'rong winds .in el cad of being of air of different humidities. The thus sharply dc- ing squeezed if the driver ahead should take a notion to suddenly shift to the right, as he is likely to do. ' TRUCKS MOST CONSIDERATE. ■» If the driver of the following ma­ chine tries the plan of passing on the; left, he is then forced’ to get into the’ legitimate territory of cars coming ini the opposite direction. If an accident! formerly were an annoyance in these' happened while so doing he would 'have little, if any legal help, on his side. Consequently, if he attempts to pass on the left, which is the normal way''to pass, he may* find himself traveling into a very dangerous situa­ tion. The only thing left to do is to follow along behind at a slow pace and add one more car to the troubles of those who are next in line. It should be said in regard to this middle-of-the- road driving that operators of trucks appear, as a rule, to keep .to the right parts have been largely eliminated. Several rather dangerous sharp corn­ ers have also been done’ away with in the process of this new construction. The road has been widened so that four machines can readily travel abreast. DANGER LURKS ON GOOD STRETCHES. The strange thing about this situa­ tion is the fact that more serious acci­ dents have happened over this stretch __,___ ___, ____ ________o.._ since it was improved’ than occurred and have more consideration for other all of last year when conditions were' drivers than most folks at the wheels not nearly so favorable to safety. This of pleasure cars, seems to indicate a point for consid­ eration. Is there not perhaps <a tend­ ency for drivers to lessen their cau­ tion in somewhat the same ratio as the danger elements of the route appear to’be eliminated or at least d'imin- | ished? It has been noticeable that when drivers strike this particular highway, . This is quite natural and' not undesirable if the increased speed is kept within the bounds of good judgment. This, ho-w- j ever, is not always the case, especially liereetofore who had come in contact ■'Y^en rt been raining and the with this machine had met his death.dangers from skidding are much m lie drove at top speed. j Then the unforeseeable, the inexplic-l able happened. The car swerved, , , , ■ , ; - ,crashed into another 'automobile, and surely get by the car ahead on such a the next minute both maciljneS! wide road tend to take unreasonab e crumpled up—completely Wrecked. j chances along these lines- The result The‘“devil-car” had carried down to',^hat some who find their path He News From The Provinces ____. ____________________ / bushel grain elevator ata a cost of ?50-0,000. The Cleveland-Sarnia Saw Mills Co., ary old established Sarnia concern, and the McDonald Engineer­ ing Co. of Canada, are said to be be­ hind the new project. Quebec, Que.—The new mills of the Lake St. John Paper and Power- Co. at Mistassini will be ready to produce at tlie rate of 200 tons per day from January, 1928, said W. Walberg of Toronto, who came here to complete arrnagements. It is understood that the production will be shipped to Eng­ land and perhaps in a lesser degree to the United States. Moncton, N.B.—The silver fox in­ dustry in this province has bad an excellent year, according to. Dr. F. Richard, President of the New Bruns­ wick Fox Breeders’ Association, who states that the outlook for the^present year is also favorable. Halifax, N.S.—Jfe B. Tanner, of the Fisheries Experimental Station here, announced that a school of fisheries would be opened at Halifax on Mon­ day, February 14th, under tho direc­ tion of the Biological Board of Can­ ada. Tuition will be free to men en­ gaged in the industry in the Maritime Provinces. It was remarked that the propo&ecT course would be the first of its kind ever offered in Canada. Edmonton, Alta.—The sheep raising industry in Northern Alberta is keep­ ing pace with that in the southern part of the province, according to re­ ports at the annual convention^' of breeders here. In the past season 108,607 pounds of wool were sold, whereas total sales of wool in 1915 i amounted to only 12,788 pounds. Saskatoon, Sask.—The Locktave Buildings of Canada, Limited, is establishing in Saskatoon. The com­ pany specializes in the manufacture of ready-to-erect material for build­ ings, on a patented system of con­ struction consisting of an interlocking stave-joint by which the lumber is dovetailed easily without the use of nails. The firm will manufacture granaries, silos, barns, cottages, gar­ ages, small elevators, water tanks, etc. Winnipeg, Man.—Capital has been subscribed to erect and equip a $250,- 000 coarse paper and box board fac­ tory in St. Boniface (Greater Winni­ peg). Detroit capital is largely inter­ ested. R, Charles Wood, President of the Great West Paper Mills, has noti­ fied the Mayor of St. Boniface that the machinery for the proposed mil! has been bought. Mr. Wood is a well- known lawyer of Detroit. Sarnia, Ont.—-Industrial interests here are planning to erect a million ’ i i Another point to consider in''this connection is in regard to parking cars, especially on the provincial high- 5(Ways, which are scarcely wide enough and selected a high-powered automo­ bile as his vehicle. Everybody was in the best o-f humor. I Hirschfeld told jokingly how every one I liereetofore i its final destruction five of the six pas­ sengers. - Pastry will keep for several days if it is wrapped first in muslin wrung tightly out of cold water, then in a dry cloth, and kept in a cool place. for* three cars abreast. It is not unusual to find cars parked on the pavement along such roads. Instead of parking mostly off the regular road, they per­ sist in leaving their cars well on the surfaced highway. Consequently there is room for only one other car to pas3. Traffic is slowed up* and1 the chances of accidents increased. It only takes a little thoughtfulness I in such matters on the part of motor­ ists to make motoring conditions better for all automobile owners. i evidence. In this connection it is also notice­ able that drivers, thinking they can Dearer Soap. Rotail'price of yellow soap is about 70 per cent, greater in Britain than in July, 1914. Price of raw material and other factors enter into the cost of pro­ horns This blocked also find their rate of -speed t so high it is difficult to control the duction. action of the car as much as may be J " necessary. This situation grows out! An ambitious young photographer of an irritating habit some drivers advertised: “Your bhby, if you have- have, especially those who are out one, can be enlarged, tinted, and fram- primarily for* getting ths air, of mov-'ed for $8.79.” . 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