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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-01-19, Page 2THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1933 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE bFOR YOUR , LAMP on LANTERN Bring in your old lamp or lantern and walk out with a brand new, latest model Coleman 1 For a limited time you get $1.50 trade-in allowance on your old lamp or lantern. Take your choice of the stand ard Quick-Lites (match generat ing) or the new Roto-Types (instant lighting). Either model assures you the finest kind of lighting service at low cost. All Coleman Lamps and Lanterns make and bum their own gas from regular untreated motor fuel. n= Quick - Lite Model C329, Regular Price $10.75 . . . Coleman 5°n*ys9” DEALERSEE YOUR LOCAL THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE CO., Ltd. Queen St., East & Davies Ave., TORONTO, 8, ONTARIO (LT 18 X) CROMARTY The annual business meeting of the Cromarty congregation was held on Wednesday last with a good at tendance. Reports were read of the different branches of the congreg ation which were very satisfactory considering the depression. Rev. Mr. McIlroy of Seaforth, oc cupied the pulpit last Sabbath in the absence of Mr. Rogers, who has not yet recovered from his recent acci dent. Mr. McIlroy gave a very Spirit ual and uplifting sermon. A number from the village attend ed the funeral of Mr. T. M. Hamil ton, of Toronto, whose remains were brought for burial to Staffa on Sun day last. Mr. Hamilton was a life long resident of Staffa, until a few years ago when he moved to Toron to. Mr. Hamilton was one of the merchants of Staffa and a strange coincident was that Mr. DeCoursey Hutchison, also a merchant of Staffa at the same time, was buried on Monday last, both being nearly the same age. Mr. and Mrs. Strong, .of Peace River district, were visitors at the home of Mr. Andrew McLellan last week. A card party in their honor was held on Thursday evening and a fine time was spent. Mr. Leonard Houghton met with what might have proved very ser ious while skating on the ice at the Quarry. He fell through the ice at a weak spot and it was with diffi culty they got him out with the help of hockey sticks. He is none the worse for his cold dip. ' The annual business meeting of the Cromarty Horticultural Society was held at the home of Mrs Houghton on Friday last. In Memoriam notices with 4 line verse 50c.; each additional verse 25c. GREENWAY (Too late for last week.) On Sunday Rev. S. J. Mathers will begin a series of sermons on “The Fruits of the Spirit.” Mr. Willis Hotson visited in Til- sonburg for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sherritt and family called on friends in the com- Troubled With Indigestion Pams In Stomach After ieals I with your old lamp or lantern. munty recently. Miss Noble spent the week-end with Miss Gertrude Shaddock. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Curts and daughter have been ill with the flu Mr. Fred Gratton visited Mr. J Hotson Several from here attended the fun eral of the late Mrs. D. Vincent, of Preston in Par.khill on Sunday af ternoon. Mr's. Vincent was the old est daughter of Mr. Wesley Isaac and spent her girlhood in this com munity where she made many friends who regret her sudden death Besides' lier husband and little daughter she is survived by her father and three sisters, Mrs. Al bert Steeper, Mrs. Jas.. Geromette and Mrs. Stewart Webb and one brother Harry. The sympathy of the community is extened to all the bereaved. Election of officers in the Wo men’s Missionary Society of the United Church resulted as follows: ,Pres., Mrs. Goodhand; 1st vice-pres. i IMrs. Sherritt; 2nd vice-pres., Mrs McGregor; 3rd vice-pres., Mrs. Roy Hutchinson; Secretary, Mae Wilson; Treasurer, Miss Laura Leask; Assoc. Helpers Secretary, Mrs. Shepherd ' Mrs. Harlton; Christian Stewardship Secretary, Mrs. Curtis; Mission Band Mrs. McGregor, Mrs. Arthur Bro- phey; Supply Secretary, Mrs. Sher ritt; Mission Circle, Mrs. Russel] Pollock, Mrs. Lloyd Brophey; Baby Band, Mrs. F. Sharpe; Literature Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Curts; Mission ary Monthly Secretary, Mrs. Frank Steeper; Temperance Secretary, Miss L. Young; Auditor, Mrs. D. Brown. Unity class in United Church Sun- day School elected the follow|ing officers: Hon. Pres., Mrs. English: Pres., Miss Weatherhead; vice-pres. Rubie Brown; Recording Secretary Olla Jones; Financial Secretary, L Curts; Treasurer, Erma Goodhand; teacher, Mae Wjlson; Social Com mittee, Thelma Sheppard, Dorothy Luther, Devina Mason and Evelyn Isaac; Program Com., Lois Brown Olive Rock, Luella Curts and Miss Weatherhead. The class raised $5.00 for missions. W. T. Hawkins, of Clinton, in a friendly game of bridge was dealt the almost impossible combination of 13 spades. The pains and distress caused from indigestion or dyspepsia may be removed by the use of B.B.B. It tones up and restores the stomach to normal condition so that it digests food without causing discomfort. Mrs. G 0. Chamberlain, Sher brooke, Que., writes:—"! had been troubled with indigestion and pains in my stomach after meals. My mother recommended Bur dock Blood Bitters, so I got a bottle and after taking it was greatly relieved, I recommend it for indigestion, or any form of stomach disorder.” No, He Wasn’t feiiips That One to the Wife 7! can match that one,” said the man who owns a dog to the man with a new baby at home. “ImpossibleI” said the man with the new baby. He had just offered, ps an illustration of the intelligence of infants, the story of how a baby, picked up and walked with at 11:03 p. m., will demand with wails to be picked up and walked with the next night at 11:03 p. m. And the next, “Well,” said the man who owns a dog, ‘’when our Maggie had pup pies, I was doing night work. Came in at 3 a. m. Maggie and her pup pies were sound asleep in their bas ket at that hour, but one night when I wasn’t sleepy I turned on the light in the kithhen, dumped them all out en the floor and played with them for a while. The next night I did the same thing. And the next “The night after that I came home tfred, I walked right through to the bedroom, undressed and got into bed, and you should have heard the yelps that went up from that kitch en. Every one of those puppies spent the next 15 minutes noisily re proaching me for my neglect. They woke up the wife, they woke up the neighbors. They made the darndest tusk. The next night I Ignored them again, but they woke up and yelped at 3 a. m., just the same. It took three nights of ignoring them to break the habit” “You don’t say,” said the man with the new baby, looking thoughtful. “Well, I wouldn’t dare tell that one to my wife."—New York Sun. As the tourist1 gets a. Istanbul from the deck of an approach ing ship, he is more aware of. the mosques than of anything else, says an article in a Boston paper. Their demes, and the slender minarets which rise near them, give Istanbul a real distinction which many great cities lack. Not even Cairo has mosques which show up so aston ishingly against the skyline. They are almost numberless, but there are a dozen that are really tremendous in size. They occupy commanding sites, so that the domes and minarets rise above the surrounding roofs. They give Istanbul, from a distance, an aspect of wonderful dignity and gran deur mingled with the charm of the Orient. Of these mosques, the most re nowned is St. Sophia, one of the most glorious buildings in the world. It was built as a Christian church and dedicated in the year 538. The min arets at the four outside comers were added by the Turks when they con verted the structure into a mosque. From the outside, St. Sophia1 is apt to seem a little disappointing, but within it is hardly surpassed anywhere in architectural merit. It would be hard to find another great nave so light and so graceful.—Detroit News. Mother Earth’s Age The earth is 2,000,000,000 years old, according to the estimate of Prof. Dr. Otto Hahn, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute at Berlin. The noted physicist bases his calculations on the quantity of lead to be found on the surface of the earth. “The progress made recently in the study of radio-active substances and the disintegration of the atom enables us to fix the age of .the world with fair accuracy,” the professor told an audience of German scientists. “Ura nium and thorium, contained in cer tain minerals, are converted, in the course of millions of years, into radium, and finally into uranium lead and thorium lead. The lead findings help us to determine the ago of the earth at 2,000,000,000 years.” Old Story Disproved There is an often repeated story credited to the historian, Harvey Rice, that Moses Cleaveland’s exploring and surveying party started up the Chagrin river, mistaking it for the Cuyahoga, and that upon discovering the error Cloaveland gave it this name as repre sentative of the state of his feelings. It appears, however, that this story has little foundation, for on maps made before the Revolution the river was called the Chagrin. The name is no doubt from an Indian word given as “Shagrin” or “Shaguin” and said to mean “clear.” One map issued in 1755 calls it the Elk river.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Spinster’*” Derivatioa •Spinster means one who works at the spinning wheel. In the olden days the work of making cloth for clothing was a part of the household duties and fell to the younger women to spin the yarn. As the prepossessing and marriageable girls had their minds on their fellows, the job usually became the responsibility of those who had had their chance and lost. So a spin ster came to mean any unmarried woman, and is still today the legal phrase in England for any woman who has never been married. Mine Rescue School To train rescue crews in mine acci dents a factory In Berlin, Germany, has opened a school where invasion of gas-infested chambers and the carry ing of men to safety are taught. Ex periments are made under varying con dltlons, different types of gas masks being wbrn by the operators, and dum mies are rescued from rooms filled with poisonous vapors. NOT AFTER HER HEART “You used to say I was a man after your heart” “Yes, but when I found you were after half a dozen other girls* hearts, I changed my mind.” EGGS ROLLED OFF boiled eggs." “Vy iss? Too indijogistible?” “No, budt dey rolls off mein knife!* HIS COLLEGE YEAR Mr. Jones—I didn’t know your son was at college. Is this his freshman year? Mrs. Newrich—Oh, no, indeed I He’s a sycamore. “Why did you never marry?” “I don’t feel that I could support a wife." “Don’t let that worry you. If she finds you can’t she’ll leave you.” RAIN CHANGED HIM “He vowed he would traverse raging sea® just to look into my eyes.” “When, last night?” “No, last night he telephoned me that it was raining too hard.” ‘‘Mrs. Proud is tickled to death with the Way she fooled the customs in spectors.” » “How did she do it?” “She didrt’t buy a thing abroad." Picturesque “Home” for Wild Life in France There has been constituted in the south of France a national reserve for wild life which, in some ways, is the most picturesque natural home for bird and beast to be found" In Europe. It is situated on (lie Camargue, the Is land famous In old French history and legend and well known to visitors to Arles in Provence. Really the delta of the River Rhone, entirely formed by alluvial deposits, It is In great part a savage region of marsh and prairie, The Societe Natidnale d’Acdlmu- tation, which has charge of the re serve, protects about 50,000 acres ns tenant, and it is proposed to increase the area ultimately to 100,000 acres Even after a relatively short expert epee, howeyer, it Ims been observed that the migratory birds of nmiij species which have always used the Island as a landing gtation are tn creasing In numbers. For many it is the last hopping-olT place for Africa. Besides every sort of wild duck in immeasurable .numbers—storks, her ons and egrets—there are many rare birds which cannot be seen elsewhere in Europe. Perhaps the most astern ishing are the pink flamingoes, which are to be found in flocks of 3,000 or 4,000 together. It is suggested that a statue be erected to the memory of the man who first introduced the orange to Great Britain. Japan already has a statue to its first orange bringer. France has put uh a statue to M.arie Ilarel, the Inventor of Camembert cheese, and Offenburg, in Germany boasts a statue to Sir Francis Drake for bringing the potato from the New world to the Old. But nobody knows who brought the oranges to Britain. They came from Spain about the year 1290, but beyond that there is no rec ord. The first man to import oranges in quantity was Benjamin Bovill, a London fruit broker, the centenary of whose death .recently occurred. The man who first brought bananas to Britain is just as worthy of a statue as anyone connected with oranges. Worthiest, perhaps, of any is Sir Rich ard Weston, who flourished in the reign of Charles I. Though very few people have heard of him it was he who introduced turnips, clover and other sown grasses into Britain and so laid the foundation of modern agri culture.—London Mail. Blinds Not “Venetian” Venetian blinds, now becoming pop ular in America, are not, and never were, really Venetian, Home and Field says. “While the roller shade Is purely an American invention, the use of Vene tian blinds, or tilting slats, dates back nearly 300 years to the West Indies," the article says. “The blinds now in use are quite similar, but with added improvements. Apparently there Is no authoritative information as to why they are called Venetian. Careful re search shows that they were not seen in Venice until many years after they had been' in use elsewhere. It has been suggested, however, that they may have been invented by a Vene tian trader making his home in the West Indies and named in his honor." The Three «f Them The following incident is reported by Mrs. A. M. G.: “A little five-year-old girl was added to my class last Sunday, and when the lady who brought her introduced her to me she said: ‘She was born in Egypt.’. “I thought no more about it, and when class work began. I told the lit tle tots about Moses. The little new comer said she had heard about Moses; and then, to interest her, I said, ‘Moses was a Jew, but lie was born in Egypt.’ “ ‘Yes,’ exclaimed the new child, ‘all three of us were born in Egypt: my sister, and I, and Moses.’ ”—Kansas City Star. Make Life a Battle Young, people like to be doing things. A keen student of youth has said that the average young person gets a far greater thrill out of hewing his own pathway through the world than in rolling along ih h luxurious car over a roadway that other hands have pre pared. But, after all. no one can wholly remove from us all responsi bility or fight all our battles for us. Nobody has a right to find life unin teresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.—Montreal Family Herald. Says New Buildings Ungodly “There is a saying that God made the country and the devil made the towns," said Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt in an address before the council for the Preservation of Rural England, in London recently. ’“When I walk in London and See the buildings they are erecting I can quite believe they are not the Work of the Almighty, Eng land owes everything to the country.” Health in Economy In order to determine the effect of a special diet, hlne young Women, stu dents at the Washington Missionary cbllego, lived four weeks on food cost ing 28 cents a day apiece. At the end of the period physicians pro- flounced them fitter, fatter and fairer. , CLillren Enrolled in Old English Colleges A cnii'His possibility of the turning of the wheel is suggested by the plea which Is being made for an earlier entry Into the universities, partly in order that distressed modern parents ma.v be relieved a little earlier of the cost of maintenance of sons and, pre sumably,^daughters, It is true that at present hoys enter the university at an age when, over a long period, they would have been ready to leave. John Milton had only just passed his fif teenth birthday when he went up frotn St, Paul’s school to Cambridge, and he was nineteen when he took his bach elor degree. Sir John Denham was sent to Oxford at sixteen, though he seems to have behaved himself there vej-y much after the fashion of some young fellows who have matriculated at a later age, for the future poet is described as a "dreaming young man, given more to dice and cards than study." But even fifteen or sixteen, which seems very early to us, would have seemed very late to the author ities of an earlier age, when "thou sand® of boys, huddled in bare lodg ing houses, clustering found teachers as poor as themselves, In church porch and house porch" took the place of “the brightly colored train of doctors and heads.” It was in those days that scholars like “Edmund Rich, arch bishop of Canterbury and saint in later days, came to Oxford, a boy of twelve years." The most ardent ad vocates of changg would scarcely ad vise a return to those days.—Man chester (England) Guardian. Treasure trove was recently thrown up on a Pacific coast beach In the form of a piece of ambergris; at least that was what its finders called it. Ambergris, always scarce and now even scarcer, has been a coveted pos session for centuries in view of the high price it commands. It has figured In history and in fiction, and from time to time it has brought a measure of wealth to those who have been fortunate enough to find a piece of it. This strange substance ccnpes either from the stomach or the intestines of the sperm whale and frequently contains the beaks of cuttlefish, on which the whale feeds. It is a gray ish substance, often mottled with darker streaks. Whalers after a kill sometimes found large pieces of it floating in the water. Long ago chem ists discovered that ambergris could be melted in boiling alcohol and used In the manufacture of perfumes. Hence it became a valuable com modity. It is much rarer than it used to be, because of the scarcity of sperm whales. In the early days of American whaling the sperm whale was plentiful, ranging into the North Atlantic for its food. Ruins of Old Roman City Timgad Is a ruined city, 28 miles: ■outheast of Batna, in the department of Constantine, Algeria. Timgad, the Thamugas of the Romans, was built on the lower slopes of the northern Side of the Aures mountains, and was situated at the intersection of six roads. The auditorium of the theater, which held nearly 4,000 persons, is complete. A little west of the theater are bath®, containing paved and mosaic floors In perfect preservation. Ruins of other and larger thermae are found In all four quarters of the city, those on the north being very extensive. There are the remains of seven churches. Numerous inscriptions have boon found on the ruins and from fiuMfl many events In the histery of Thamuga® have been learned. Tnamu- gM passed from history after the de feat of Gregorius, governor of Africa, by the Arabs la 647. Road Versus Rail It 1® now many years since the ex presses of the railway companies run ning England to Scotland services used to race against each other, and there la today very little “sporting In terest" In connection with trains. On the continent, a new form of railway racing was growing up some time ago, touring cars being run against ex presses. This road versus rail racing Is now discouraged in Europe. How ever it 1® catching on so much in New Zealand that a recent race be tween a car and the Welllngton-to- Auckland train was broadcast through out the country. The race took place at night and, despite the handicap of bad and very hilly roads, the car won by half an hour. Had Daughter’s Sympathy , Iris had been sitting with an ab sorbed look on her face, gazing at her father. "Why did you marry mother, dad?” ®he suddenly said. “Because I was a fool, I suppose," he replied. ‘Toor Mums,” said Iris softly. “What do you mean, miss?" asked father sharply. “T mean that it was sad for mother* to marry a fool, dad,” explained Iris seriously. Ray Baths for Horses Race horses and dogs are being treated with artificial sunlight just before they go on the track In Eng land. Some stalls are fitted with four powerful lights, and In (he rays from these the animals stand quietly while taking their “baths.” Among those In the know the sunbath Is con sidered a factor wheh deciding racing odd®. A,