HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1915-9-30, Page 3r
AN OPEN • LETTER
From a Well Known Methodist
Clergyman of Interest to.
All, Who Are Sick.
One of the best-known ministers in •
;he Hamilton Conference is die Rev.
Chas. E. Stafford, of Elora, Ont,, who:*'
freely admits that he owes his present
good health to Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills. Mr. Stafford writes as follows:
"Some years ago I was severely af-
flicted for a period of nearly four
months. The leading physician in the
town in which I was then stationed
diagnosed my case as one of complete
nervous prostration, brought on by,
over -work and which superinduced
intercostal neuralgia and muscular
rheumatism, from which I suffered
the most excruciating pain night and
day for weeks: So weak and helpless
did I become that my attendants had
to handle me like an infant, raising
ine up and laying me down with the'
greatest care, so intense were my suf-
ferings.. Acting on the advice of my
doctor, andtaking his medicine, I did
not seem to improve. One afternoon,
while suffering great pain, the editor
of the paper published in the town,
and who was a member of the church
of which I was then pastor, urged me
to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I was
sceptical as to the medicinal qualities
of all proprietary medicines, but on
the strong recommendation of the
editor whoat
h cgrat faith in the
i t o
medicine, I decided to try them, To
my great surprise and supreme de-
light, I soon found that the Pills were
giving me relief,,and after I had
taken seven boes
I was fully re-
stored to health. Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, under God, having made me a
new man, Ever since I have been
better and .stronger physically than I
had been for a number of years.
Three years ago, after an active
ministry of forty-six years, I asked
the Hamilton Conference of the
,Methodist Church to grant me super-.
animation relation, which it did, but
for more than two years I have
been supplying a charge which neces-
sitates a drive of twenty miles every
Sabbath. To -day I am strong and
hearty, without an ache or pain, and
for my present physical condition I
am indebted to Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, and can most heartily recom-
mend them to the afflicted."
Rotund.
An elderly woman who was ex-
tremely stout was endeavoring to en-
ter a street car when the conductor,
noticing her difficulty, said to her:
"Try sideways, madame; try side-
ways."
The woman looked up breathlessly
and said:
"Why bless ye, I ain't go no side-
ways,"
At each respiration an adult inhales
one pint of air.
PRECEDENTS FOR.
WARFARE, BY GAS
GERMAN PROFESSOR,DIGS BACK
INTO THE PAST.
Idea of Using Chemicals to Destroy
Enemy Is Almost as Old
as War,
In the following article, translated
from a German paper, a German pro -
lessor, Dr, Albert Neuburger, traces
the history of past attempts to use
poison -gas in war. Quietly ignoring
the moral aspect of the question and
the fact that modern nations,
ing Germany, had pledged themselves
to refrain from such methods, he
treats them, under color of a learned
disquisition, as though on a par with
recognized military uses of chemistry,
thus tacitly attempting to justify the
revival of former barbarities. That
he is conscious of the moral guilt of
this revival is shown by his efforts
to shift the responsibility on the
French.
Dr, Neuburger writes as follows:
"The idea of destroying the enemy
by chemical substances is almost as
ancient as warfare itself. At first, of
course, its mode of application was of
a concomitant feature of the chemi-
cal process which we call "oxidation,'
tsubstance is
I indicates to us that a i
combining with the oxygen of the at-
mosphere, Hence the use of any in-
cendiary medium is a kind of 'chemi-
cal attack. In the earliest ages,
iteo-
peo-
ple meditated how to destroy the ene-
my's dwelling -places or fortifications
by fire caused from a distance It is
true that Homer was not acquainted
with this mode of chemical attack
from a distance, but it made its ap-
pearance as early as in the Fifth Cen-
tury before Christ,
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"About 360 B;C., Aneas described
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chemical substances to make them
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guish. They consisted of pitch, sul-
,,phur, tow,, incense, and resinous
wood -chips. The compound was put
into pots, which were thrown, burn-
ing, from besieged towns upon the
`tortoise' or shelter under which the
besiegers tried to approach the walls.
Later on, incendiary arrows came in-
to use, being shot from a distance
against the wooden structures of the
opponent in order to set them on fire.
The incendiary arrows were subse-
quently enlarged, so that they `were
even shot from catapults. These in-
cendiary arrows were called, in the
Roman Army, `falaricae.' They were
provided, in water, generated heat
sufficient to ignite the petroleum,
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formed, with air, an explosive mix-
ture, Thus explosions took place and
enormous clouds of smoke and soot
were developed. Then the sulphur
also caught fire, and in its combus-
tion formed a gas of very highly as-
phyxiating action—viz., sulphurous
acid, which renders approach impos-
was squirted towards the enemy..
from his position. Thus we are al-
ready coming near to the present-day
methods of fighting. It was impossi-
ble to extinguish the fire, because wa-
ter poured upon it only served to
spread the petroleum, and thus pro-
pagate the fire. But they went still
further, Large syringes were, after
thestylemouths
of f - the
.ire en roes
,
g
having o d other
a i g the shape of drag ns an
monsters with wide-open jaws. From
these orifices the reek fire or other
burning liquids, especially petroleum,
was sGquirted towards the enemy,
who fled, terrified and stupefied by the
poisonous gases. Greek fire was still
in use at the time of the Crusades, in
the thirteenth century after Christ,
when it Was employed by the Sara-
cens against the Christians with the
aid of the devices just described, sub-
sequently, its secret was lost, but the
idea still survives.
A New Basis.
"It appears that it was not until
the present war that German chemi-
cal science succeeded in creating a
new and better basis for chemical Ott-
tacks. Again and again the reports
of the French General Staff have
stated that the Germans poured burn-
ing liquid over the trenches. But the
French themselves also make chemi-
cal attacks. The report of the Great
Headquarters of June 1, 1915, states
that they poured a readily inflamma-
ble liquid upon the German trenches,
but nevertheless failed to penetrate
into our positions. 'The enemy fled
back to their own trenches with heavy
losses!'
But a chemical attack may not only
be carried out by means of burning
substances, but also by asphyxiating
gases. We know, in fact, from the
reports as to Greek fire—as given,
for instance, by Vegetius„ and as
handed down to use from the reports
on the Crusades—that the sulphur
mixed with it filled the atmosphere
with a gas having a highly asphyxiat-
ing effect and irritating in nature, in-
ducing coughing: But they were not
always in a position to employ 'sul-
phur; and therefore tried to act by
other means on the respiratory organs
and olfactory nerves. Some of these
substances, especially sulphuret of
carbon, were employed in the Ameri-
can Civil War, but they did not prove
very effective. When chemists learn-
ed, subsequently, how to liquefy gas-
es, new possibilities of chemical at-
tack were presented. Liquid sulphur-
ous acid and liquefied chlorine, on be-
ing allowed to volatize, disengage
enormous volumes of vapor. The
French complain of the chlorine va-
pors which have been used by the Ger-
mans. But it is established by the re-
ports of the German headquarters
that they (the French) themselves
had previously employed asphyxiating
gases. The English now assert that
they have invented masks which .are
a protection against these vapors, ,and,
as reported in the London Daily Mail,
such protective masks are sold in the.
streets of London in large quantities.
These are to be carried by the Lon-
doners in their pockets, to be put on
immediately a German Zeppelin ap-
proaches, in order to ,render ineffec-
tive the `chemical attack' likely to be
made by the latter, as alleged, by gas
bombs. Thus, in this instance,' also
'chemical attack;' in 'its latest form,
has led to measures of defence, and
time only can tell whether these are
really effective."
His Wedding Suit.
One of the largest ready-made
clothing houses in London received
not long ago from the country a let-
ter, the substance oi.which was,
"What is the proper dress for a
groom in the afternoon?" The clerk
who opened the letter naturally re-
ferred the inquiry to the livery de-
partment. The head of that branch,
in turn, dictated a brief reply, some-
thing like this:
"Bottle -grown . coat, fawn -colored
trousers, with :,top boots; silk hat,
with cockade. - Our prices are as fol-
lows, etc."
A week elapsed, and the big store
received a plaintiff little note;
"I always knew it was expensive
to get married, but can't you suggest
something a little less elaborate?"
About half a ton , of whalebone is
obtained from one whale, its value'
being, roughly, $5,0007. ,
The House of Lords may transact
certain business when., there are only
three members present not necessar-
ily the Lord Chancellor.
If Your Food
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Thousandsust of broken-down, des-
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The Secrets of Dye -Making Are Hard
to Discover.
It is a melancholy fact that the
serge from which our naval officers''
uniforms are made is dyed with Ger-
man dye, says London Answers,
English cloth -makers are trying to,
remedy this state of affairs, but the
secrets of dye -making are not to be
discovered in a moment. The basis
of the true blue dye--indigo--is at
hand for all to use, but t a
pparen
ti
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something more than indigo is need-
ed in order that the cloth treated
shall be dyed evenly and permanently.
Withan inferior dye you merely pro-
duce a "spotty" cloth, of no commer-
cial value.
So great is the scarcity of the right
dye, that it is said there will be prac-
tically no blue serge by the autumn,
except in the warehouses of tailors
who have had the foresight to buy in
advance of their needs. Already the
price is up about fifty per cent.
When indigo was first introduced
into Europe no one would have it. The
Germans themselves said that it was
the "devil's dye," and called it "per-
nicious, corrupt, and corrosive:" Both
the English and French authorities
forbade people to use it. In England
the prejudice against the new dye
was so keen that commissioners were
appointed to go round to all places
where it was likely to be found and
destroy it,
A SCOTSMAN'S AWFUL FATE.
An Instance of the Refinement of Ger-
man Barbarism.
On the great silent service of the
British Army Medical and Red Cross
work among the wounded heroes there
is a fine article by the special corre-
spondent of the London Morning Post.
The following is an excerpt from it:
"Then there was the little Scotsman.
I saw him on his stretcher. This was
back in the days of the Aisne. He
and some dozen comrades had got cut
off. They barricaded themselves in
an old farm and doggedly held out
to the last. When their last cartridge
was spent the Germans broke into the
place, and despite a homeric hand-to-
hand fight in the interior of the farm,
crushed out the little band by weight
of 'numbers.
"The boy was bayonetted all over
and as a refinement of barbarism the
Germans .had his eyes put out. Yet,
he still lived, how or why, or by what
law of nature, the doctors confessed
they did not know, When I saw him
he had been made as comfortable as
possible, but there. was no hope. He
was still able to tell his story, and
asked in broad Doric: 'Gie's a cigar-
ette.' But almost' with the first savor
of the smoke his heart ceased to beat."
BONAR LAW ON SAVING.
Luxury • Should Be Distasteful at a
Time Like This.
Rt. Hon. A. Bonar Law, Secretary
for the. Colonies, speaking at the
great Guildhall (London) meeting
which inaugurated the campaign for
the popularizing of the British war
loan of July last, said:'
"Now, when wages are unusually
would be a thing
high
oif the
g great
wage-earners throughout the country
would form the habit of laying aside
something,however small, every
week, and lending it to their country
when their country needs it. It would
be a great thing for the State;.- it
would, also be a great and enduring
advantage to the individuals who ,ac-
quire that habit. But I am not going
to dwell upon the advantages of thrift
to the working classes, I believe in
thrift, but I do not mph value pre-
cept. There is no task which would
be more uncongenial to me, or one I
should be less willing to undertake,
than for a man who is comparatively
well off to preach the virtues of econ-
omy to the poor. If that lesson is to
be driven home it must not be by any
precept but by example, and there is
room for it. At a time like this,
when our minds are at all times filled
by the thought of what is being suf-
fered and endured by those who are
fighting for us, luxury of all hinds is
distasteful."
MUSIC DESTROYS BRIDGES.
Measured Vibrations Particularly Try-
ing to Suspension Bridges.
Does music weaken metallic or
other bridges ? This question recent-
ly asked of a well-known bridge
builder brought this reply;
"Measured vibrations are more try-
ing to any kind of bridges, 'and par-
ticularly to suspension bridges, than
irregular agitation. Music alone
would not strain a bridge enough to
injure it materially, but a regiment
of troops keeping step to music when
crossing a suspension bridge would
subject it to :a very severe strain,
Consequently, it is customary to stop
the music before troops reach the
bridges, and let the men break step,
and march' more or less irregularly.
"The reason for all tliis•is obvious. "Willie, is your father a rich man?"
The structure naturally will suffer "No, SaAie; he is a professor, so I
least strain when at rest. When in can be educated for nothing." Sallie—
uniform motion the bridge acquires a "That's all right; but my father is: a
momentum equal to its entire sus- ministez, and I can he good for no-
pended weight multiplied by the veto. thing.»
city of the motion, It is manifest
that, in the case of a heavy structure,
a uniform downward vibration, be it
p*i^'trek a Ziaimant CgrNs Aaud"uft:
ever so small, would develop a mo- Doctor—"And how are the children
entum of many tons in the direction this morning, Mrs. Murphy?" Mrs.
of a breaking strain. The same this- ; Murphy -"Well, sorr, I gave them
turbing forces acting irregularly, so the physic you sent, and the mildest
as to counteract one another, would ; is very bad indade this morning, but
r be far less trying to the structure. it doesn't seem to have done much
l : harm to the other two yet!"
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A miserly landlord was going round
collecting his rents the other day. At
one house he was greatly interested in
a little girl, who watched open -mouth -
.ed and open-eyed the business of pay-
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"Short." " Purty short, or middlin'?"
"Very short." "I wouldn't if I was
you, sir." "Why not?" "I don't think
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"Oh, yes it would. It would suit me
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to come here for a long time." "Oh!"
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