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The Exeter Advocate, 1919-9-11, Page 7TWOTO MARVELLOUS Maria and her twv frail consorts eour:tless ships come and ill with. the commerce and travellers of tete Old. and the New Worlds. The growing light of the autumn morning greying the eastern sky showed to scared watchers on the beach three strange ships that had, apparently, sprang from nowhere dur- ing the night. And the watchers on the beach were scared, too, for though this was the year 1492, not one of thein had ever teen a shipp before in,, his or her life. Then serenger things commenced to ; happen: Something dropped from one of the ships ---caravels, their crews called theme .and into it stepped men. Thio,u it commenced to row ashore. This the watchers understood, for they used. small boats' th eneelves, Slowly a it made its wee- towards the tiny is -1 let standing like an outpost of the New World, a tall, gaunt Tuan, verging, on middle age and dressed richly in scarlet, standing in its bow, with a gold -bedecked ched flag dropping tr om its ts staff in his !land. The boat touched lane}. and the tali man, en an ecstasy of joy, with tits great eyes glinting with pride, fitting himself to the sand. Presently he kissed the dry ground; then, with tears of deep emotion rolling down his cheeks, drew his sword, raised his flag, and proclainle+i that be annexed the Laud as Bart of the dominions of his "Majesty Fernando, King of Spaln- After a Perilous Voyage. N' was Christopher Columbus, the doyen of all Transatlantic voyagers,. a dour personage, who, during his for= ty-:find-ane years, had "undergone trials not a few." B ohind bile lay a voyage of seventy days, wherein he lead seen no land or tieythiug made by men that floated on. t.11t. sea. His high -bowed and high- sterned caravel, Sancta 'Maria, driven by snowy sails with a scarlet cross emblazoned on them, had carried him at a slow eight knots across the hith- erto uncharted waters. the sport of the tides, dependent upon Nature's winds for her propulsion in the right direction. Culuinbus' crews were unwilling ex- plorers. It is on record that some were felons brought front prisons to make up the companies of the three ships. A few crude navigation instru- ments and the sun and stars were all his aids in the keeping of a due -west course, and the caravels had neither speech nor sight of their fellowmen until, seven months after they set out, they once again made Spain, Only theta could those who granted Colum- bus permission to make the venture be told of its snccess or failure, And the only authentic record of the trip is contained in a hand -printed book made at the dictation of Colum- bus months after he had recovered from the fatigue ,and exhaustion en- suing upon bis truly epoch-making Transatladtic voyage. The Pioneer of the Airway. But to -day school children learn that Christopher Columbus discovered America on October 12th, 1492, and across the path blazoned by Sancta The grey light ,of a. wind -driven sky almost laid the cigar -shaped hill of the great ship that had suddenly sailed tato the purview of the thousands of eager eyes watching for her advent. Steanewhistlos hooted and syrcns yelled, while the waiting crowds sent up cheer. after cheer to welcome this pioneer of aerial navigation. • `then the great ship of the • air stbpped, and hovered at a height of two hundred feet above the huge held which had been specially made ready for her reception. Suddenly a small speck detached itself trona olae of the microscopic carriages slung under her belly, and fell perhaps twenty Meet like a stone. Then it seemed to stop, and a para- chute opened out, revealing to the as- tounded watchers a British officer des- cending to the ground to supervise Majesty's 'c fr` sono theberthing a his Britannic a t g Airship R-34. This pioneer from the clouds carried a flag, nor could he annex land in the name of the sovereign to whom he owed allegiance.. He dict not kiss the earth, though he was unfeignedly glad to feel it beneath his feet, nor slid he cry with joy; Instead, he set about seeing that the specially -trained moor- ing parties of American aviation me- chanics made R -34's anchors properly fast to her moorings. Then the great airship commenced to sink lower and lower till her belly almost touched the ground, and from her gondolas there stepped less than a score of men. With gyery Scientific Aid. Behind R-34 lay a voyage <if 3,130 miles, performed in 108 hours and 12 minutes, or just over four and a half days. The great airship, 675 ft. long, had fought baffling gales and atmos.' pherte storms, and nosed through fogs at an average speed of nearly thirty knots per hour, despite the fact, that her petrol supplies were growing alarmingly short. Never bad she been the sport of the winds, nor had she been compelled to grope her way, for skilled navigators, armed with ultra scientific instruments, had guided her on the shortest route across the track- less wastes of air. Her drew were all volunteers --in- deed, one of them was so eager to make the passage that be stowed Man- ed away. Never was R-34 for a nuo- ment unable to establish communi- cation with her starting point and des- tination, for at intervals her wireless tolaeof her progress, and even sum- moned aid to stand ny Iter when her feel threatened to give out. And in less than a minute after she had touched ground, wireless tele- graphy told the whole world of her feat. And hundreds of cinema camer- as filmed her as she hovered and handed, and thousands of people the same night witnessed in photographs the thrilling scene, And In the days to come the school children will be taught that Airship R-34 made the first voyage from Great An Exception in Daylight Saving The daylight saving laws effective in many countries have never been placed in operation in the Panama Canal Zone. This is for the reason That there is very little seasonal change in the time of sunrise and sun- Set for this latitude (approximately 9 degrees north), The earliest sunrises, occuring in May and June, are approximately 6 o'clock, and latest, in January and February, about .6.35. The earliest sunsets, in November, occur at about 5.50; and the latest, in June and July, at approximately 6.40, The •usual working hours in the Canal Zone be- ing from 7 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, the morning margin of daylight before work ` varies from twenty minutes to one hour. The evening period of light between 5 o'clock and the beginning of twilight (sunset) varies from fifty minutes to one hour and thirty-five minutes. To advance the time one hour would throw the 7 a.m. workers into the twi- light.period and tend to reduce rather than increase their hours of daylight labor, The morning twilight period is about half an hour the year round, the evening twilight slightly longer. In the latitude of Southern Ontario, sunrise 'varies from about 4.20 a.m. in. June to 7.35 the first part of January, or three hours and a quarter, as com- pared with a variation of thirty-five minutes through the year in the Canal Zone. Sunset varies from about 4.25 p.m. in December to' 7,40 in June and July. three hours and a quarter, as compared with the fifty minutes varia- tion in the Canal Zone between ear- liest and latest sunset. The twiliglit period is abort the same. Daylight hours are about eight hours and fifty- five minutes at the least in southern Ontario, and approximately fifteen hours and twenty minutes at the most. In the Canal Zone the hours of daylight range from approximately eleven hours and thirty-five minutes to twelve hours and thirty-five min- utes. The office of the chief hydrographer of the Canal Zone has recently fur- nished the police stations with charts showing the daylight, twilight and darkness periods through the months. They are of use for occasional refer- ence` in testimony as to the degree of light existing at the time under in- vestigation, as in traffic accidents, or where the possibility of having wit- nessed an occurrence is questionable by reason of the degree of light at the time. The street lighting sche- dule is also to be arranged by the charts. Instead of Tea. or Coffee buy a tin of the healthful table beverage STANT ?OSTU The quality is consta;,,- and the 'rich, even flavor pleases. No Raise in Price Britain to America, and reaches! New York on Jelly 6th, 1919, Sancta Maria, under .Columbus'' or- ders, opened up the ocean pathways to and from America; R-34, com- , mended by Major Scott, 114.13'., has opened up the aerial tracks, and sure- ly it is not too much to prophesy that airships will, in. the not -far -distant future, be as numerous in the air above as surface ships are on the broad, bosom of the Atlantic. +t, A LOVER WHO WAS ABSENT-MINDED, A great many stories have been told of the extreme absent-mindedness of learned men, but none is More amus- ing than that told of Ludwig Brugge - mann, whose vivid imagination helped to put him in a very embarrassing situation. Bruggemann, scholar, who was in 1817 a councillor of the consistory at Stettin, had got some reputation hY his clever work with statistics. For many years he had been a widower, and since he found single life lonely, he began to look round for a wife. When the thought of marrying again first came to him, he immediately con - faded et to one of Ins friends. The lat- ter gave him every encouragement, and even went so far as to mention a certain charming little widow, who was certainly attached to him, and • would make him a most devoted wife. That night Bruggman went to bed in a happy state of mind, thinking of the lovely widow. In Ins dreams ha, still saw her, ansd even proposed to her. Did she refuse? How could she: And he spent the remainder of the night dreaming of tile happiness they would enjoy as man and wife. When. he awoke, it was a glorious Sunday morning, ale dressed him- self in his best and wasted no time in handing to the minister the announce- ment of 'his engagement, to be read in due form at the morning service. The announcement was made without a , question. Hardly bad the words been uttered when a little scream was heard in the rear of the church; the widow, shocked at hearing herself so unexpectedly disposed of, had fallen in a swoon. The blunder could never be satis- factorily explained, and the visionary engagement remained visionary. The lady might not have refused an honor- able proposal from the councilor, but', she never could be convinced that lie had not made intentional game of her. A MOTHER'S TRIALS Care of Home and Children Of- ten Causes a Breakdown: The woman at home, deep in house- hold duties and the cares of mother- hood, needs occasional help to keep her in good health. The demands up- on a mother's health are many and severe. Her own health trials and her children's welfare exact heavy tails, while hurried meals, broken rest and much indoor living tend to weak- en her constitution. No wonder that the woman at home is often indisposes through weakness, headaches, back- aches and nervousness, Too many women have grown to accept these visitations as a part of the lot of motherhood. But many and varied as her health troubles are, the cause is simple and the cute at hand. When well, it is the woman's good blood that keeps her well; when i11 she must make her blood rich to renew her health. The nursing mother more than any other woman in the world needs rich blood and plenty of it. There is onealways unfailing way to get this good blood so necessary to perfect health, and that is through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These pills make new blood abundantly, and through their use thousands of weak, ailing wives and mothers have been made bright, cheerful and strong. It you are ailing, easily tired, or depress- ed, it is a duty you owe yourself and your family to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial. What this medicine has done for others it will surely do for you. Chinese Medicine. Dried frogs and asbestos are com- mon ingredients in the "order" which the Chinese doctor prescribes for his patient. For the sake of variety he may include in the prescription any of the following for which the patient perhaps may express a preference: Scorpions, rhino? ros skins, wood shavings, flies, crushed pebbles, moths, centipedes, toads, lizards, cater- pillars, powdered snakes or wasps. 1' She'd Learned. The puppy had been punished, and was sulking in a corner.- To orner.To him came the small daughter of the house, to administer, not com- fort, but advice. "You may just as well be good first as last, Spot," she , admonished. ''Everybody that belongs to mother has got to mind. I've been through it all—and I know." .b Sound the motor horn when ap- proaching a turn in the road or the brow of a hill. If boiling hot tomatoes are to be combined in any way with 'hot milk, always add a sixteenth of a teaspoon- ful of. baking ,soda to the vegetable and then blend slowly, .stirring con- stantly. It is better to be brought up on porridge and milk in the country than on tea and sugar and jam in the town. —Peter M'Intyre.. SUMMER ER CO L INT KILL LITTLE ONES At the first sign of illness during the hot weather give the little ones Baby's Own Tablets or in a few hours he may be beyond aid. These Tablets will prevent summer complaints if ale en occasionally to the well child and will promptly relieve these trou- bles if they come on suddenly. Baby's Own Tablets should always be kept in every home where there ere young children, There is no other medicine as good and the mother has the guar- antee of a government analyist that they are perfectly safe. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. 'Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,. Ont. MULTIPLE THINKING. It has been asserted that the brain can function directly upon only one thought tune and that gthea- ap- parent multitude of matters consider- ed by the mind in a ininufium of time is due to the rapidity with which thought moves from one to the other. For instance, two objects that form one nteetal picture, as two horses, may be visualized at once; yet distant things, as a city and a mountain, are entertained by the mental faculties, not at' the .same instant, but in lapid succession. Take the example of a man seated at a piano and singing. Before him is the sheet of music, perhaps new to lulu. In the lines awl spaces the notes have different meanings or places in the octave of the keyboard, according as they are in the bass or the treble clef. The player's two hands are busied with these two lines of music, which are thus of slightly different meaning and are altogether different in performance, having in common only harmony and time. There are also the composer's annotations, or directions for empbasis, to which the player gives regard or not, as he pleases. Then there are the printed words of the song to be read and to be sung. Also the player's foot must i sometimes operate the pedal, which, in addition, it is the experence tbat unrelated thoughts enter his mind; the probable pleasure or dislike of the audience and even memories recent or far in the past. With all that the music must be executed in proper time. Thus at the same instant the per- former may be busied with four lines of text; two of the notes, one of the musical annotation, one of words; his foot operatifig the pedal, his two hands finding the notes on the key- board to which he occasionally looks, while his voice is engaged in song, and his emotions enter into the singing and playing, together with thought of external, unrelated matters: It seems too much to allow the ar- gument here that the entire reading is done with infinite rapidity between the playing of the notes, and that the mind then directs the hands to press the keys and the voice to sing at the proper moment, and then releases it- self from that part in order to sweep across the four lines of text for the next measure or part of a measure. It is true that the muscles have some automatic powers, yet there must be some mental supervision simultaneous- ly directed over the complete per- formance. Weeping Potatoes. Traveller (to Irishman) : "Well, Pat, I see you have a small garden." "Yes, sorr." "What is it set with?" "Nothing, sorr. I set it with pota- toes last year, and not one of them came up." "That's strange! How do you ex- plain that?" "Well, sorr, the man next door to me set his garden full of onions." "Well, had that anything to do with your potatoes not growing?" "Yes, sorr. Bedad, them onions was that strong that my potatoes couldn't sea to grow because of their eyes watering." MONEY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Express Money Order. They are payable everywhere. Lost Arms Without Pain. Our story of a man being blown away, unhurt, by the explosion of a bomb which he did not hear must seem incredible to many people. Here is something like an analogy. King Edwart once brought together at his diner table Rustem Pasha, who had had half his right hand and part of his arm torn off by a bear, and Sir Edward Bradford, who had had his left arm up to the elbow mulched away by a tiger. The two men compared notes. Neither had felt the least twinge of pain at the time. They imagined that their intense desire to save their lives •.dulled all other senses. Under -Sees. The little man made his way back to the box office. This seat number sounds: like a German submarine; it's .13-19," he said. "You don't want to exchange it merely` on that account, do you?" asked the ticket man. "No, but I thought you might be able to supply ane with a periscope to see overthe big :woman just in front." British companies are preparing a scheme of aviation insurance. Mivaa:a!s Liniment Cures ]Burns, etc. IT Or 1 FROM HER &T RE A Mysterious Language, A Frenchman who was learning Eng - fish read a little every morning in an English newspaper. One day he was sorely puzzled. "What ees this?" he asked a friend. "'Your English ees a puzzle." The friend took the paper and read: "Should Mr. Rinks, wito sat for the Mudville constitueuey in 19—, con- sent to stand again and be run, he ; would probably have a walk -over." POR S ALM. N1 P:WSPAltkt. Wicgicl.v IN C3RU(:H J'Q Count'' Splendid opportunity. Write. Pox 'i Wilson Publishing Co.. Limited. TS Adelaide St, W.. Toronto,. W1 I.I. l'I'asr) N i+.. �vsPAi'Isa rQui'and job printing plant Stn Easters untarlo. Insurance carried SI,500." Wilt go for 51.200 on Quick Bale. Box lit, Wilson PubailshInt< Co.. Ltd.. Toronto, so els. von 54.LD, -F2 V e:ref'3: IesepELLIGENT FARMER .s,'r likes my terms, Why? Because I do not want exclusive sale or any ad- vantage over any other agent. All I ask is for a correct and truthful description of your property: your best price and terms, and 1 will do the rest. Wri e for tlisting form.- ,Andrew .Elder, the Farm !Seller. 88 Icing Street East. Toronto. No Such Mistake For Him. The stingiest man was scoring the hired man for his extravagance in wanting to carry a lantern in going to call an his best girl. "The idea!" " he scoffed. lichen I was Courtin I never carried no lan- tern. I went in the dark." The hired man proceeded to all the lantern. "Yes," he said sadly, "and look what you got." Too Bad. Little Bobbie (to sister's sweet- heart): "May I climb on to your knee, Mr. Drabble?" Mr. Drabble: "Yes, Bobbie, if you like. Want to pull nay moustache, eh?" "No; I want to see if I can find that word," " ,Vhat word?" "Why, I heard nay sister say that if ever a man had the word 'noodle' written on his face it was you." Misplaced Sympathy. There were two Browns in the vil- lage,. both fishermen. One lost his wife and the other his boat at about the same time. The vicar's wife called, as she sup- posed, on the widower, but really upon the Brown whose boat had gone down. "I am so sorry to hear of your great loss," she said. "Oh, it ain't much matter;' was the Philosophical reply. "she wasn't up to much." "Indeed:" said the surprised lady. "Yes," continued Brown, "she was a rickety old thing. I offered her to my mate, but he wouldn't have her. I've had my eye on another for some time." And then the outraged lady fled. Too Slow. "Please, mother says thele matches won't strike:" From behind his counter the grocer looked down on the child with the air of an insulted saint. "Won't strike?" he said." "Why, look here!" Anti, he struck one on his leg. The child departed home to tell his mother of: the mistake she had made. But in a very short time he was back at the shop with the matches, which he laid on the counter with an air of finality. "Mother says she hasn't time to come and strike matches on your trousers;" GiRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to remove tan, freckles, sallowness. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in the orchard white, and shake well. This makes a quarter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Massage this fragrant creamy lotion daily into the face, neck, arms and hands and just see how freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless, and the beautiful results will surprise you. HOW YOU CAN TELL GENUINE `:MIN ONLY TABLETS MARKED WITH "BAYER CROSS" ARE ASPIRIN. If You Don't See the "Bayer Cross" on the Tablets, Refuse Them—They Are Not Aspirin At All. / A pAY There is only one Aspirin, that marked with the "Bayer Cross"—all other tab- lets are only acid imitations. Look for the "Bayer Cross"! Then it is real Aspirin, for which there is no substitute: Aspirin is not German but is made in Canada by Canadians, and is owned by a Canadian .Company. Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" have been proVed safe by millions for Pain, Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets,—also larger "Bayer" packages,—can be had at any drug store. Aspirin is the trade mark, register- ed in Canada, of Bayer Manufacture of. Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic - acid. 1'OULTBT N713.2; TED % TKAT MAI TOU FOB SALE IN t Live Poultry, Fanov Hens. Pigeon*, Egg' etc.? Write I. Weinrauch & Son. 1018 St, Jean Baptiste Market: Mont, raae, Que. z senzrerrEovs. !"4LASSY RABBIT MAGAZINE, 10e. i1 copy; 50e. year. Fur and Food Monthly, Brantford. (1ANCER. TUMORS. LUMPS. VTC. 11✓✓ internal d z it term. so, external. curet!. wit*. cut pain b our home treatment. Write as before too late. Dr, BeUman Madinat Limited, CAtlingwood. One 1 1 Af n tete Iu d from "Fri e ,I was ,. miser pose n me?" Hee words.s asked: A Vegetarian Silenced, cod faddist harangued a inob o arvelous benefits to be obtained, a vegetarian diet. ends," he cried, "two years ag a walking skeleton --a haggard able wreck. What do you sup- pose this great change f paused to see the effect of tli Then axe of his listener "What change?" St. Isidore, P.O., Aug. 18, 1894. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Gentlemen, ----I have frequently used. MIINARD'S LINIMPNT and also pre- scribe it for my patients, always with the mast gratifying results, and I con- sider it the best all-round Liniment extant. Yours truly, DIt. JOS. AUG, SIROIS. Up to Date. "How's this, Dauber? You've paint- ed Father Time with a mowing ma- chine instead of a scythe." "That's all right. We artists must keep up with modern inventive pro- gress, you know," batnart't'a Liniment Relievep Neuralgia. Small boy: "Father, what is chaos?" Father: "1 don't know exactly, my boy; but .it's something they always bring order out of." Most automobile factories in Can- ada and the States are from 25 to 100 per cent. behind orders in output. Not much relief in sight for months, as orders far exceed production. It Warks! Try It Tells how to loosen a sore, tender corn so it lifts • out without pain. O 0 0 0 0 o • Good news spreads rapidly and drug- gists here are kept busy dispensing freezone, the ether discovery of a Cin- cinnati man, which is said to loosen any corn so it lifts out with the fingers. Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter ounce of freezone, which will 'cost very little, but Is said to be sufficient to rid One's feet of every hard or soft corn or• callus. You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the soreness is relieved, and soon the corn is so shriveled that it lifts out with- out pain. It is a sticky . substance which dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin- ing tissue. This discovery will prevent thou sands of deaths annually from lock- Jaye ockJaw and infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting corns. SINCE t 1870 a.) STOPSCOUGX S 1SSVh Not se- • 15, 7.: Ladies '- 4 , A ord WithYou 4 bout Your Skin TM HY not make Cutl. curs Soap your every . day toilet !- i soap,assisted Ointment and Cuticura Tal- cum, now and then as needed,and have in most cases a clear fresh complexion, a eleali scalp free from dandruff and irritation, good hair, soft white hands and a wholesome skin fret from blemish, without resort - int to tiresome, expensive "beauty" fads? Cuticura costs little and does much. Sample each free by mail of "Cutieurn, beet, t'4, Boston, bf. S. A." Sold by dealers throughout the world. Cuticura Talcum Powder -'ase Do not fail to test the fascinating fre-. grance of this exquisitely scented;face, baby, dustingend>skin perfuming row - der, delicate, delightful, distingud, it` imparts to the person a charm incom- parable and peculiar to itself: 1SSVh Not se- • 15,