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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-06-15, Page 4Page 4 YOUNG MEN! Young men or others who are unable to join for oversea ser- vice can serve their King and Country by helping on Munition Work. Apply to Ths Robt, Bell Engine & Thresher Co., Ltd. SEAFORTH, ONT. 011•11101,••••••••••••Wartmeava.nr, URAILWAY 1111 SYSTEM Are You going West? The Grand Trunk. Railway System will run NOMESEEKER'S EXCURSIONS EACH TUESDAY March 7th to October 31st (INCLUSIVE) Tickets valid to return within two months inclusive of day of sale. Winnipeg and return $35.00 Edmonton and return 43.00 Proportionate low rates to other points in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Tickets and full information from H. 13, ELI I` Town Passenger and Ticket Agent, Phone 4. W. P. BURGMAN , Station Agent, Phi. e .0. •••••••111•11 ME•01.1...., affiGrasoll1111111111111111111111.111my AUCTIONEERS m c aaaell & Vandrick AUCtIOLter for the Counties of Buron . ni, Bruer, are prepared to take all kinds ot saes. We are certain we can please You can have either one or both wIthout extra charge. Orders can be left with F. McConnell, or with 1 . P. Vnn,uiok at the Merchants' Brokerage i Is.'s Store, Wingham, Chargc. m'jderate. 1 annlentalenefielligallaill11111Milleimmmemo "11/1".11/6"'"10111'1111,11,‘1111161,11111411~, J. W. DODD Successor to J. G. Stewart Fire, Life, Accident and Health INSURANCE P. 0. Box 366 'Phone 198 WINGHAM ONTARIO 4.4,4„,s4v44,444,4444,4„"wviiit: NO GIFT MORE ACCEPTABLE than a box of our high grade candies, and it can be offered when other gifts are impossible -as yet. The door of a girl's heart opens to our candies. Try the experiment of giving one to one you want to like you better. W. A. MILLER Gonfectioner ihoetigesee1/11,41v1-101/6.1111,11,1011Ohalle Vacuum Cleaner We have a Universal Electric Vacuum Cleaner which will be rented at 10c PER HOUR with minimum charge of 50c. Cleaner will be delivered and called for. Take comfort in doing your house-deanin,g with the aid of a vacuum cleaner. Stove Truck The handy article for moving stoves. 10e PER HOUR Charge Of 25c if delivered and called for. W. J. BOYCE Stoves and Tinware 'Phone 58 IISTABI4SHBD 18111 The Windham Times ELS, ELLIOTT, Puraainsea Asn raornmica TO ADVERTISERS Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual advertisements accepted up to noon Wednesday of each week MINIM.111^ THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1916 THE CANADIAN VICTORY --- London Advertiser As the story of the Canadian resist- ance to the recent German drive along the Ypres.Comines Canal is unfolded the valor of the men of the maple leaf stands out more and more in bold relief. The position was one of the most diffi- calt to hold on the entire western front. The ground was so soft that entrench- ing was impossible; the only defence works were parapets, an easy mark for the enemy's heavy guns. Against that position was hurled an attack similar to those against the forts of Verdun. The parapets , were battered down, the oozing ground leveled and the German horde poured in, equipped with full packs prepared for a great advance. Under such circumstances a resistance of any kind would have required great bravery; to have stopped the enemy, made his full pack a useless burden and finally to have driven him back was a task that seems almost super -human. Thousands of Canadian families are mourning losses of brave men, but they were men whose watchword was, "No surrender." They won a great victory for the Empire. If the Ger- mans could not break through at the easiest point on the line, what chance would they have where the natural advantages lie with the Allies? It is a question which may cause them to stop and ponder. A ,G000 FORM OF "PREPARED- NESS." "Preparedness" is quite a popular slogan just now. We have had parades in favor of preparedness in the United States. The latest development of it here is the county of Bruce, where the Bruce Preparedness League has appear- ed with the following objects: 1 -To prepare to aid further recruit- ing. 2 -To prepare- to seek employment for returned soldiers. 3 -To prepare to care for and do honor to wounded and disabled soldiers. 4 -To prepare to aid farmers in se- curing help when sons enlist for the war. 5 -To prepare for the end of the war by a campaign of rigid economy in public and private life; by organizing for immigration in co-operation with all immigration departments; by urging preferential appointments and situations to returned soldiers and nurses. 6 -To prepare for co-Gperation with federal, provincial and county commit- tees organized to deal with present and after the war problems. 7 -To prepare Canadian youth for new social and industrial and economic conditions; by promoting a spirit of patriotism and sacrifice for Canada, and by inculcation high ideals of citizen- ship. 8 -To prepare to aid our country in adopting methods for increasing national efficiency. All these objects are commendable, bat it would probably have been better to have started with a Provincial organ- ization, and then to establish branches in various parts of the Province. CAUSES OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL The recent heavy rains have caused a great deal of discussion and specu- lation, particularly in the country districts, regarding the cause and whether or not a new record has been established this year. To settle the matter, A. A. Bertram of Vinemount recently wrote to the directors of the meteorological service at Toronto asking for an explanation and the re- ply he received will interest all. It follows: "Dear Sir, -Regarding to your letter of the 29th ultimo, the rainfall is de- pendent on cyclonic movements which occur within the fairly regular circu- lation of the atmosphere. These cy- clonic movements vary somewhat in different years, and in seasons when 11•69111••••••••••..MIN.1•1111 HAVEYOUWEAKLUNCS? Do colds settle eat your chest or in your loienchial hikes ? Do coughs hang on, or are'yoa soblect o ttwoet troubles.? Such tete:Ages should have immediate treatment with the rare curative powers of Seatt's Ihnialeko to guard agninst coneumptioa which iso daily follows. Soatt'sliarislaion contains pure cod liver cell which pondiarb, strenigthsens the res- pratory trod and improves the quality or the blood; the stymies Mit soothes and hea/a the tender manbranos of the throat. Stott's eireiscribed by the be special- ists. 4You cafe get it at any drag store. Ss_ Ilmose, epassee, OM. 6, THE WINGHAM TIMES Thursday, tine 15th, 1916 they are more numerous than usua the rainfall is excessive. The problem as to why the circulation of the earth's atmosphere varies somewhat from season to season is as yet un- solved, but we know now that the sun is a variable star and it is probably that the varying. solar heat affects the atmospheric circulation. "We are confident that the heavy artillery firing in Flanders has no ap- preciable effect on the weather even a few miles from the firing line, and absolutely no effect at long distances. The following are the rainfalls of Aril and May combined in several different years: 1858 8 00 inches 1864 7.70 inches 1865 7.97 inches 1894 9.98 inches 1909 8.60 inches 1912 .7.96 inches 1916 8 63 inches "The rain fall of May, 1894, was 9.36 inches, the largest monthly rainfall on record. "There are a number of instances where the rainfall of two summer months combined exceeded that of the two months just closed." THE MICHIGAN SPECIAL. A new night train, "The Michigan Special" now leaves Toronto 11.50 p. m. daily, arriving Windsor (M. C. R. 8.30 a. m. eastern time; Detroit (M. C. R.) 8.1u a. m. central time; leaving Detroit (M. C. R.) 8.25 a m. central time; arriving Chicago (M. C. R.) 3.30 p. m. central time. Note the convenient hour of departure, enabling passengers to spend the entire evening in Toronto, reaching Detroit at a most desirable hour in the morning. Equipment is modern in every including electric -lighted standard sleeping cars, Toronto -Detroit and Toronto -Chicago. Particulars from any Canadian Pacific Ticket Agent, pr W. B. Howard, District Passenger Agent, Toronto. 11-1 FAMOUS- PLACE-NAMES. Why Should They Not Be Called Alike All Over the World? It is perhaps too much to expect that a universal meridian or universal time will ever be established. still less that we shall babe universal money or a universal secondary language. All these things might be brought about if we could only get rid of our preju- dices. It is not, however, too much to hope that the present confusion of place names should be got rid of. Why the English and the French should per- sistently describe as Cologne and Mayence, cities which their own in- habitants never call anything but Kohl and Mainz, it is difficult to understand, and there is certainly no excuse for our pronouncing the name' of the Ba- varian capital us "Munick," as if in scorn of the dwellers therein, who call it, as nearly as English letters will reproduce the sound, "Minchen." Why should an Italian gratuitously misname London "Londra?" We really ought to know how our own capital should be called. As to Polish place names, also Prato naysl and the like, only an internation- al commission could decide. - London Globe. A Strict Dramatic Censor. Vienna once pessessed the strictest dramatic censor ever known in the person of .Franz Hoegetin, who held that post in the Austrian capital at the beginning of the last century. Hoegelin published a manual for the guidance of censors. "A pair of lovers should never be allowed to appear on the stage alone. They must always be accompanied by a third person of mature years." Marriages out of one's class were also strictly forbidden by Hoegelin on the stage, and he quotes an instance of a play which he re- fused to pass because the author made the hero, Count Valdemar, marry a gardener's daughter. "Such misalli- ances have unfortunately been known to occur in real lite, but that is no reason why they should be allowed oa the stage," he said. The Hippepitarnms, In spite of its clumsy build the PoPotanins can trot fast. That is why he is called "river bone." The hips feet are kept fax apart by the arid& body and make paths with a ridge down the middle, recognizable at OINCe. Hippos swim very well, bat go at their greatest speed when they can ,gsRop along the bottom in shallow water. They can stay under water. a long time, and when they come to the saw face they send little jets of spew from their nostrils. The cow is de- voted to the calf. The young' one stands on her back as the mother swims. Cyrus and the Persists,. The Persians of the time of Opus were Zoroastrians. The Persian re- ligion was primitively monotheistic, and they allowed no idols or other mar terial symbols of deity in their tem. plea. There was less enmity on the part ot the Jews against the Persians than against the other great mittens with whom they came In contact, dim probably to' the monotheism which characterized the Persian rellgioo. So Cyrus', whatever else may 'be said of .him, was certainly not an idolater. - Christian Herald. Napkins. Napkins became Neuter in France sooner than in Ragland. At one time it was customary' at great French Lim- ners to change the napkins at every course, to perfume them with roeewn. ter and to have them folded a different Vi fOr itetk.ting. REAL EVERYDAY LIFE. As Seen on the Stage and Appreciated by Two Spectators. Two womeu stood In a queue Walt lug to get in to see a melodrama. "This'll be a good show," said the first woman. "Life, you know --real life-nothin' overdone." "Yes, I like life, too," said the other. "I don't want to bo put to sleep, though. Still, I can't stand nothin' far- fetched." "Same here," said the first woman. And then they went in and sat through five acts, wherein the hero kill. ed thirty Kaffirs with his naked hand, found a diamond as big as a duck's egg, smashed with his revolver from a mile away the bottle of poison that the beautiful heroine was about to swallow rather than yield to the bleu- dishmenta of the villain and finally killed the latter in an aeroplane duel, slightly oft the stage, inheriting later an unexpected dukedom, and so forth, and so on. When the curtain fell to the sound of wedding bells the two women look- ed at each other with glistening eyes, "Grand, wasn't it?" said the first. "Life, real life, eh?" "You bet," said the second. "That's life, that is-nothin' farfetched or over- done." - TOWER OF SKULLS. A Legacy Left by the Turks to the Servian City of Nish. There have been many tragic epi- sodes in the history of Nish, in Servia. In the fifteenth century the Turks cap- tured the city, and for 300 years it re - maimed in their possession, although there were brief periods when the Austrians held it. Then, in 1809, the Servians, who had recovered most of their country from the Turks, besieged Nish, but were defeated with great loss. The Turks to celebrate their vic- tory erected a rough tower composed alternately of lumps of rock and skulls of Servians cemented together. It is related that there were original- ly 1,200 skulls in the tower of Nish. For a long period it was the habit of travelers to Nish to carry off a skull as a souvenir, and this reduced their num- bers. But in the, Russo-Turkish war the Servian army, under the command of King Milan, besieged Nish, and the fortress fell on Jan. 10, 1878. The remaining skulls were then rev- erently buried by the Servian troops except one, which was too deeply im- bedded in the plaster to be extracted. The so called "tower of skulls" is now only about four feet in height, and only one skull can be seen to remind the traveler of its gloomy history. - London Answers. PinchecrHirn An esteemed citizen went into a shoe store in a metropolitan town and asked to see some leather goods. Another minute and an obliging salesman was hauling out some boxes. "That is a nice looking shoe," re- marked the customer as the salesman pushed his foot into a shiny right and 'started to lace it. "What is the pricer' "This pair is $8," responded the sales- man as he finished the lacing and ran his hands across the vamp. "Does it pinch you any?" "Well, I should say it does!" was the prompt rejoinder of the customer. "Give me something about $5 cheaper." Armenian History. The history of the later years of the Armenian kingdom is bound up in the history of AM. The stronghold city became the capital of the Bagratid kings of Armenia in 96L The Byzan- tine emperor captured it in 1046, and it was then a hive of many scores of thousands, a wealthy city and an in- viting one. The Seljuk Turks carried fire and sword throughout its confines eighteen years later. The warlike Georgians took it five times between 1125 and 1209. The Mongols overran it in 1239, and an earthquake In 1319 completed the worieot ruin. The great cathedral, the most perfect survival, was founded in 1010, just at the 6egin- idng of the city's long chain of mister- tunea. Keeping It Quiet. A little girl was out walking the other day with her mother when she caught sight of a man with a wooden kg. "Oh, mammar she cried. "See that man with aastick for a leg?" "Don't talk so loudly," said mamma. "He'll hear yea." "Why?" the little one replied in nue- prise. "Doesn't be know itr-London MaiL Hew the Roughhews* Started. They were talking about various things at. the club, when a member not especially noted for his elevallaess remarked, "'Would you can a bath a haxnry or a necessity?" "In your ease," replied 'the mait droned, "it would be both -a neeeesity because you need it so badly and luxury because you take it so raw.* The Cow. 'Johnny" Bald the teacher, 'ler:ateN sentence containing the wort, tea - tads.' .After a few moment** hare lab“ Johnny submitted the following; Ilia contents of a cow is rank.* One of Its Uses. nun% did you see my ne* ShitWilt brush?" "10. htentls using ft to pais* the M,d ergo? Thil :Vied "lowassrair° aver ilarimied he NI -MIs,. .11.111" 4.• EVOLUTION OF A WORD. "Hypocrite" Was Once the Title of a Pantomime Actor. Do you know what a hypocrite Is Why, he Is a person. who uses the church as a cloak to cover graft and greed and all manner of evildoing, At least that is what be was iu the daye of our fathers. Afore recently be has taken on another color, a different kind of cloak. He need not he a dissem- bler merely in the mutter of religion. 13ypocrisy may be practiced in friend- ship, in culture, in philanthropy. It goes a degree further even than that, for the hypocrite may deceive himself as well as his fellow man. But how did the word, which is ob. viously a compound of "hypo," meaning "under," and the very familiar "critic" come to mean a person who deceives. either himself or other people? Thin question suggests a second one: What is a critic? The Greek verb from -which the noun was derived meant originally to an- alyze, separate or judge. So the critic came to be one who had been set apart or judged worthy to plead a cause or present an argument. At one stage ol his evolution the critic was a person wbo recited the works of the great dramatists. He was an actor -who did not act. The gestures were supplied by a man trained for that purpose, who went through a sort of pantomime, while the real interpreter of the pari gave the melodiously intoned words. The pantomime artist was a "hype crite" because he played an under part to the "critic." Later, when the speak- ing and acting were done by the same person, be was called the "hypocrite." Now any one who plays a part not hie own is practicing hypocrisy. ANCIENT MEALTIMES, When They Rose at 5, Dined at 9 and Supped at 5. The change in mealtimes is evl denced by the old rime: To rise at five and dine at nine. To sup et five and bed at nine, Will make a man live to ninety-nine. But one suspected that the change is in the names of the meals rather than in the hours. Our ancestors would have termed our luncheon din- ner and our dinner supper. It is a curious fact that in some of the Ox- ford colleges, where the founders made allowances for the meals of the sta. dents. a much larger sum, is alloted for supper than for dinner, implying that the former was the more sub- stantial meaL Taken at 5 or 6 o'clock, it was really "early dinner.". Some particulars of the mealtimes of our ancestors may be found in William Harrison's "Description of England," published in 1587: "With us the nobility, gentry and students do ordinarily go to dinner at 11 before noon and to supper at 5 or between 5 and 6 at afternoen. The merOants dine and sup seldom before 12 at noon and 6 at night, especially in London. The husbandmen dine also at high noon, as they call it, and sup at 7 or 8, but out of the term in our universities the scholars dine at 10. As for the poorest sort, they generally dine and sup when they may, so *that to talk of their order of repast it were but a needless matter." -London Chrote icle. Melbourne, a City That Planned. There is and always has been a great amount of public spirit in Melbourne, due, in large part, to the Scotch ele- ment that has predominated from the beginning,. "The first citizens, led by Scots, as a rule, set to work with mag- nificent faith in the future. A city was planned worthy of being the capital ot 10,000,000 people, and the public build- ings were designed on the same gene* ous scale. The soil on the site wail deep and rich. That suggested tree planting, and most of the streets are today relieved by handsome foliage, and the parks which ring the city round have trees worthy of the forests of Europe. The avenue of elms in Fitzroy gardens certainly represents that tree at its best -Bishop E. E. Ross The Blind Man's Lantern. A blind man In Khoota (a Caucasisus village) came back from the river one night bringing a pitcher of water and carrying in his hand a lighted lantern. Some one meeting him said: "You're blind. It's all the same to yon whether it's day or night. Of what use to you is a lantern?' "I don't carry the lan- tern in order to see the road," replfed the blind man, "but to keep some fool like you frora running against me and breaking my pitcher." Not a Gay One. . "Do yon believe all men are gay des ceivers?" asked Mrs. Twobble. "No, indeed," answered Mrs. Dub. walte. "There's Mr. Dubwaite, for he stance." "Year "In his efforts to deceive me he even goes so far as to shed tears."- . Antagonist*. How many who hare deemed theme selves antagonists will smile hereafter when they look Loeb Upon the worhre wide harvest Sold and perceive that le unconscious brotherhood they west helping tO bind the selfsame sheati-0 Hawthorne. No Escape Bella -7 understand your sister itsse* Mel a struggling young num? fitts-v Yes; he struggled hard, bet he sealleart get array ft** bee. Mora is an fialtativ• fcera whoever Is litieskm ed as , ) BARGAiNS EVERY DAY • WE bought all our goods before the greatest v v advance, and are giving them out to you at the same rate. All other lines reduced. GROCERIES Comfort Soap only 4c Comfort Ammonia. 4c 2 lbs Seeded Raisins 25c Best Canadian Cheese 2 2 C Special Green Tea only 29c 12 lbs best Sugar $r oo 2 large pies Eddys Matches 25 3 cans Plums or Beans 25c 4 bottles Extracts 25c 4 pks Jelly Powder 25c MEN'S WEAR SPECIALS Men's $22 Suits $r2 48 Men's 20 Suits 9.95 Boys' 6.00 Suits 3.98 Boys' 5.00 Suits 2.98 Hats and Caps at Cost. BOOTSJAND SHOES Ladies' $5 Shoes $ 3.19 Ladies' Medium IS Quality Shoes 2.5o Light and Heavy boiS Shoes for 1,98 (v) Children's Shoes 98c, 1.25 and 1.50 Boys' 3.0o Shoes 1.98 SPECIAL' CURTAIN () . f) 20C Creamm1 15C ) Highest 4oc Cream or White Madras 25c J 5oc Extra Heavy Madras 35c All other lines reduced WHITEWEAR $1 Ladies' Princess Slips for $2 Ladies' Night Robes for Ladies' fine quality Vests t2 I -2C Ladies' Middys 98c, 1.19 Children's Middys 59c Girls Dresses about half price. DRESS GOODS $r Most all shades in fine quality Dress Goods 59c a yard. $1.50 to $2 Dress Goods most all shades for only 98c a yd. MILL ENDS ! MILL ENDS ! These ends are a great saving to you. Mill Ends prints, 9 I -2C Mill Ends Table Linens Mill Ends Ginghams Mill Ends White Mus 1 i 6 59C Q8c 6 Prices for Produce f) R. M. 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Every new fad and fancy for Men, Youths' and Boys' can be found at this store. Raincoats for Men A big assortment of Raincoats at a very low price quality considered. A variety of Patterns and a good range of sizes. $6.00 to 12.00. Specials in Men's Raincoats About 15 Men's Coats --a good strong serviceable Coat in light olive shades; sewn seams; all sizes. Regular $5 value, for $3.75 each. J. A MILLS Successor to T. A. Mills PHONE 89. WINGHAM, ONT