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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-04-20, Page 3Aprit 2Oth, 1916 THE WINGHAM TIMES Page 3 Violin and 'Cello Music All the whimsical witch- ery - haunting restless- ness--dreaniful exaltation of the world's finest violin and 'cello music caught for you with an exquisite sense of reality in COLUMBIA Double. -Disc ' RECORDS • Kathiews Have your dealer play these for you: Par!ow Kathleen Darlow -A5412-$1.50 Ilumoreske (Dvorak) orchestra accompani- ment. Melodic (Tschaikowsky) orchestra accom. paniment. Pablo Casals-A5649-$1.50 Largo (Handel), with orchestra. Melody in F (Rubinstein), with orchestra. Jules Falk -A1110 -85o. Aee Maria (Schubert) with Traumerei (Schumann). Charles D'Alrnaime-A1712-85o. White Cockade; Jigs and Reels Medley with Harrigan's Reel (Prince's Orchestra), Eugene Ysaye-36525-$1.50 Caprice Viennois, Op. 2 (Kreisler). Eugene Ysaye-36524-$1.50 Hungarian Dance in G (No. 5) (Brahms). Columbia dealers gladly play these and any other of the thousands of Columbia records without thought of obligation.. Complete Record Lint from dealers or mailed by us. I Graphophone Company Canadian Factory & Readquartera Toronto, Ont. 14 H. B. ELLIOTT Wingham, Ontario Sole Agent FEET (By Geo. Fitch in I)etroitNews) Feet• are the terminals of the human system, and cause about as much trouble to their owners es any other kind of transportation terminals. Feet were made by turning up the lower end of the human frame, thus en- abling man to steed without a prop after he has discovered the knack. They consist of a heel, an instep and five toes, anost of which are perpetually insurging against the adininistration. A foot is harder to keep happy and con- tented with its surroundings than a girl who has just returned from college, full of higher education. Moreover, very few toes get along well together. They have no esprit de corps, so to speak. There is continual', friction between them, and this leads to so much bad feeling and so many sore spots, that many a tortured proprietor of ten belligerent toes has looked with sad envy on a wooden -legged friend. Until some international court of arbitration is formed to settle the claims of rival toes, which insist on occupying the same place at the same time, man -cannot hope for complete peace and happiness. Feet are very retiring, seldom appear- ing in public. They live in shoes, boots and slippers. This is one of the great sources of indignation among feet. The man who will spend three days in having his shoulders fitted properly to a new coat, will leave the job of fitting his feet with shoes to a machine in Lynn, Mass., which has never seen them and has no interest in them what- ever. Until the invention of the bicycle. the automobile, the street car, and the elevator, the feet were used extensively for walking. Now, however, they are more or less superfluous. A great many rnen leave them on their desks all day and on the mantlepiece most of the evening FRUIT, THE GREAT PHYSICIAN Healing Powers of Fruit Proved by "Fruit-a-tives" The simple juices of apples, oranges, figs and prunes, when transformed into 'Fruit-a-tives' will relieve diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Shin. The truth of this statement has been proved in thousands of cases of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Constipation, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, Neuralgia and Chronic Headaches. The enormous sales of `Fruit-a-tives,' aro the best proofs of the value of this fruit medicine. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50,trial size 25c. At dealers or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. PRI NTING AND STATIONERY We have put in our office Stationery and. can WRITING PADS ENVELOPES LEAD PENCILS BUTTER PAPER PAPETERIES, a complete stock of Staple supply your wants in WRITING PAPER BLANK BOOKS PENS AND INK TOILET PAPER PLAYING CARDS, etc Owing to the great distance from the central heating station, it is very diffi- cult to keep feet properly heated in cold weather. Frigid feet are one of the curses of mankind. They are not only painful, but have a sad effect upon the brain. If it had not been for a national attack of cold feet, which swept over this country more than half a century ago, the northern boundaries of the United States would now extend almost to Hudson's Bay. Feet come in sizes varying from number one on a double A last to number nineteen, standard gauge. Small feet are generally preferred, though they are not so useful. In China they are so greatly esteemed that Chinese women" wear their corsets on their feet. There has been much un- profitable discussion as to where the largest feet can be found, but it can safely be said that as a rule they belong to the most truthful women. CANADA'S FINANCES The financial statement of the Dominion for the month of March and for the fiscal year ending with March (so far as the latter figures have yet been completed by the Finance Depart- n.ent) show a war expenditure of no less than $24,032,296 for last month, a total revenue of $171,248,568 for the fiscal, year, and a net national debt at the end of the year of $565,027,542. The war expenditure is now getting pretty close to a million dollars a day; the revenue for the yearwas$39,550,000 more than for the preceding year and a little over $1,000,000 more than the Finance Minister estimated in his Bud- get speech of February 15th last; and the net debt shows an increase of nearly $147,000,000 during the twelve months. The war expenditure for the fiscal year is given as $134,650,000, although the final figures will not be available for two or three months yet. Since the debt increased by $147,000,000 during the year it will be seen that apart from the war expenditures Canada ran be- hind to the extent of a little over $12,- 000,000 during the year. With war expenditure steadily increasing and the interest charges on the national debt piling up, the necessity of new taxation is obvious, especially in view of the fact that the revenues of last year did not even meet expenditures for domestic purposes. Revenue increases, as compared with the preceding twelve months, were made up for the most part of $22,480,- 000 in customs receipts, $5,576,000 in postofrtce receipts, and $1,000,000 in excise. Expenditures on consolidated fund account decreased by about $9,500,- 000, and capital expenditures by nearly $3,500,000. Customs revenue for March totalled $9,978,138, as compared with $7,066,470 for March of last year. JOKING RELATIVES. Peculiar and Embarrassing Custom of the Crow Indians, The Crow Indians are divided into thirteen clans. in former times the number was probably greater, These groups are called by nickname -like des. ignatiou, such as Whistling Waters, They Bring Game Without Having Billed It, Kicked In Their Stomeeh.aud so forth• Every individual belougs to his mother's clan. and it Is considered highly improper to marry a person of one's own clan, since all the marriage- able women of that group are reckon- ed as belonging to the status of either a mother or a sister. Those individuals whose fathers be- long to the same elan stand to each other in a very special relation, which for want of a better name may be call- ed the "joking relationship." They are privileged to play pranks and practical jokes on each other without giving of- fense, says the Southern Farmer. More particularly is it the function of one of them to administer a stinging re- buke when the other has transgressed some rule of tribal morality or eti- quette. In such a case the "joker" will bide his time until some public occasion arises. Then he will boldly come for- ward and twit the culprit with his deed In the face of the assembled throng and to his utter discomfiture. Against this punishment there is no redress, for nothing said by a joking relative can be resented. The only thing a man can do is to wait for an offense on the part of his denouncer and then treat him to a dose of his own medi- cine. We will keep the best stock in the respective lines. and sell at reasonable prices! JOB PRINTING We are in a better position than ever before to attend to your wants in the Job Printing line and all orders will receive prompt attention. Leave your order with us wheal in need of LETTER HEADS BILL HEADS ENVELOPES CALLING CARDS CIRCULARS NOTE HEADS STATEMENTS WEDDING INVITATIONS POSTERS CATALOGUES Or anything you may require in the printing line. Subscriptions taken for all the Leading Newspapers and Magazines. The Times Office STONE BLOCK Wingham, Ont Flow's This? COLD STORAGE AND COST OF LIVING Cold storage promisee as the years pass to have a greater and greater effect on the cost of living. Not only store -keepers and hotel -keepers, but ordinary householders in increasing numbers are coming to recognize that 1 the buying of food in quantities and preserving in cold storage means a sat- isfactory dividend on investment, Hence the general interest possessed by bulletin 41, unser the title of 'The Cold Storage of Focd Products", and written by J, A. Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Stor- age Commissioner for the Dominion, andJoseph Burgess, Cold Storage In- spector. Evei y person who makes use of a kitchen refrigerator. or places milk, butter, meats, fruits or vegetables in a cool cellar, puts into practice the principals which underlie the operation of the most up-to-date cold storage warehouse and follows in some partic- iulars the methods described in this comprehensive and informative publi- cation. An example of the benefits derived from the system is furnished in the suggestion that if it were not f lr the cold storage facilities which are now available the price of eggs would, for lack of an immediate market, go so low during the laying period of the spring and early summer that produc- tion would be seriously discouraged, Religious Statistics of Japan. According to statistics furnished by a Tokyo news agency as official, there are 15,000,000 Shintoists, 30,000,000 Buddhists and 164,000 Christians In Japan, which leaves some 20,000,000 with no profession of faith or other- wise unaccounted for. The returns also show one Shinto priest to every 200 adherents, but only one place of worship to 10,000. The Buddhists have one place of worship to 400 and one priest to 250. Tile Christians have one place of worship to 120 and one priest to seventy -five. -East and West News We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- ward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be- lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal- ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi- monials sent free, Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for con- stipation. A WONDERFUL CITY IS NEW YORK LUMBERING INDUSTRY OF THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES. A baby is born in New York every four minutes of the twenty-four hours. Every four years New York takes unto itself a city the size of Boston or St. Louis. New York is the largest Jewish city in the world. It is the largest Irish city, there being 674,721 of Irish blood there. There are also 723,333 Germans, 306,422 Austrians and 735,477 Russians' in the city. Every day 290,000 persons arrive or depart from the city through the rail- road stations. Every three minutes a new business corporation is formed in New York and every forty-five minutes one is dissolved. There are 3,087 miles of water pipes under the city; the capacity of the reservoirs is 170,000,000,000 gallons, and the conclusion of the Schoharie project will add 80,000,000,000 to this. The' Police Department costs $16,241,- 333. There are 10,674 policemen, The Fire Department costs $9,719,945.10. The debt of the city is $1,361,483,821.- 28, greater by more than $250,000,000 than the debt of the United States, and six times the combined debts of Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. while the scarcity that would result during the season of non -supply would boost prices for all kinds of eggs to such an extent as to make them prohibitive for the majority of the people, Eggs are but one of the articles of food the price of which is regulated, and to some extent standardized, by cold atorage. Dairy products, meat, fish and fruit can all be op kept and preserved if the treatment set out in this Bulletin, which can be had for the mere effort of application to the Publications Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, be followed. It outlines all the methods and processes that are pursued in the handling, storing, shipp- ing and preservation of such perishable articles as apples, butter, cheese, vegetables, eggs. fish, game, lard, meats, milk and poultry, the necessary temperature being given in each in- stance, and also in the care of furs and woollens. Eczema en the Head. Mr. Peterson, South Bay, Ont., writes: "For years I suffered a sort of eczema on the head. I tried four different doctors, giving each a fair trial, but the disease grew worse and spread to my arm I got Dr. Chase's Ointment, and it has entirely cured me. I give you my name because I want other suffers to know about this splendid Ointment." Altitude Lessens Power. The curious fact has been demon- strated that high altitudes apparently have a marked effect on the power ob- tainable from a gas engine. Recently one was erected several thousand feet above the sea level, but upon testing failed to give the desired power. An investigiv and the loss in power was attributed to the height at which the engine was operating. The general conclusion was reached that a gas engine loses about 1 per cent of its indicated horsepower per 1,000 feet of elevation. -Popular Mechanics. Although the prairie provinces are usually associated with but one pursuit, namely, farming, the forested portions give rise to a lumbering industry of importance, and, while inferior in development to those of British Colum- bia or the eastern provinces, are of great value to the immigrant settle- ment in the west. In 1913 some 188 mills in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta sawed approximately 250 million feet of lumber, valued at the point of manufacture at over $4,260,000. Of this quantity, Saskatchewan forests producted approximately two-thirds, Alberta one-fifth, and Manitoha the balance. The prairie market consumes about 1,434 million feet of lumber annually. Over one-half of this comes from British Columbia (in part from the Railway Belt portion), and the re- mainder is supplied from northwestern Ontario, the United States, and the home forests. - Forest Protection in Canada, 1913-1914. In Dread of uroup Every mother dreads croup unless she knows about Dr. Chase's Syrup of Lin niii seed and Turpentine. GiVefrequent small doses, at the first indication of trouble, this treattnest loosens the cough and affords relief and comfort. Its use should be kept up until the child is entirely recovered, Governed by Ancestors. The Gamboa of South Africa believe that their ancestors, whose wishes are interpreted by the sorcerers, direct and govern every act of the people. They find auguries, too, in the flight of birds, particularly in the nighthawk and the eagle, the writhing of the serpents, the timidity of the mole, the changing col- ors of the chamelon, the barking or ac- tions of dogs and foxes and even the circumstance of a pest of flies. If a native shudders involuntarily the act is regarded as a sign that some misfor- tune is about to befall him. WAR AND FOREST FIRES Canada is at war and the enemy has to be fought on land and on sea, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Canada. In Canada we must fight, among other ways, by keeping our production of necessaries up to the highest point and by conserving our resources. One of our most valuable resourced is our for est wealth. Timber will be in demand to rebuild ruined Europe and to carry on our development, made more strenuous by the war. If all our forests were to burn down our enemies would be delighted.' It would mean the crippling of. Canada. Are Cansdians going to do anything to delight our enemies? If you who go into the forest do not de- sire this then do your part in keeping down forest fires this spring and summer by seeing that your camp fire is drenched with water, and that you do not carelessly toss away burning matches or cigar or cigarette stubs be- fore they are fully extinguished. Every acre of forest burned makes it that much harder for the Empire to win the war and delays to that extent our de- velopment after the war. Shopping In Europe. Visitors from abroad are always sur- prised at the lateness of the hour at which Loudon shops are opening. In all large towns on the continent shops are open and in working order at S o'clock or earlier. But in London one frequently sees a sleepy eyed porter taking down the shutters at 0, while a walk down Oxford street or Regent street at this hour necessitates con- stant vigilance to avoid the debris and litter of the day before which is be- ing turned out of the half opened es- tablisment.-London Spectator. AILY'BE WEEN "BUFFALO, & LEVELAND . .K .n , The Great Ship SEEANDBEE ass eft.... The largest and m=commode:.oat costly steamer on any inland water of the world. Sleeping commode:. no tions for 1500 passengers. ti "CITY OF ERIE" - 3 Magnificent Steamers - "CITY OF BUFFALO" BETWEEN BUFFALO -Daily, May 1st to Nov. 15th -CLEVELAND '. Leave Buffalo - - 9:00 P.M. Leave Cleveland - - 9:M P.M. q Arrive Cleveland • - 7w0 A. M. Arrive Buffalo - - - 7:30 A.M. (Eaotern Standard Time) Connections at Cleveland for Cedar Point, Put-ia-Boy. Toledo, Detroit and all points West and Southwest. Railroad tickets reading between Buffalo and Cleveland are good for transportation r ` on our steamers. Ask your ticket agent for tickota via C. & B. Line, a i4 Beautifully colored sectional puzzle chart allowing both exterior and interior of The Great i Ship "SEEANDBEE" sent on receipt of live cents to cover postage and mailing. 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Although the Ilavaua or Havana seed tobaccos are low in nicotine, they are high in oil. The settlement in a pipe stem or the brown stain obtained from blowing tobacco smoke through the meshes of a handkerchief is not nicotine, as commonly supposed, but is in reality tobaco oil, nicotine' only being obtained in extract by au elabo- rate process of distillation and double distillation. The oil in cigar tobacco prevents the smoke being inhaled, as it would cause a strangulation and pain- ful irritation. Tho Battle of a Week. The battle of a week was the great conflict at Tours in which Charles Martel overthrew the Saracens, A. D. 732. The members of the Saracen army are variously estimated at from 400,- 000 to 700,000. and the historians say that 375,000 were killed ou the field. It is suspected that these figures are a gross exaggeration, but it is certain that few battles of history have been either so L-toody or so decisive. A Sickly Diary. "Look here, old chap; I'll give you a valuable tip," said the experienced married man to the prospective bride, groom. "Don't let your wife keep a diary on the honeymoon. My wife did that, and now whenever we quarrel she brings it out and reads some of the idiotic things I said to her then." Different. "They say marriage is a lottery." sett %narked the morose young man."it isn't," replied Miss came. 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