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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-07-20, Page 6Page E WI;JGHAM TIMES 1 IitEoFt :i3a;:n4 1(1) Where C.P.R. Crosses the Brooks Aqueduct, yi(2) The Aqueduct. ,$) The Interior of the Aquedu.t. ' 'THE Bassano Daae is the most im- 11 portant engineering work in the 1iastern Section of the t'aaadian Paci- ]fic Irrigation Block, but it is not !the only important feature ioy any means. Next fo it in importaw:e tonins the Preoka Aqueduct. The 'rnain irrigation canal, which is fed ;ifrort the lake creetsd by the Bassano sham, runs in au easterly direction .icor about five miles and then divide; ',Anto two branches, one going north 'and the other east. The east brnneh, enter having filled several smaller 'branches, discharges the bulli of its •tt'water into the Lake Newell reservoir ';iyvhich has been artifielally formed in 1 a depression in the h111e, is nine ...Iles long by four w'de. bas a itur-e;.-e cw ipacity of over 50 000,000.000 gallon:e land is designed to be filled during Wee non -irrigating, seasan. Just east iof the Lake Newell reservoir is a deep ivailey about 2 u.11•es wide and it is :for ;he purpose of crossing it that the Brooks Aoi teti let was construct - led consisting of a reinforced con• urate flume 10,450 feet long with a curved cross eeetion some 23 feet wide at the top and nearly 9 feet deep rom full -flow water level .:t the top o the centre of the curve at bottom. lbIt has a discharge capacity of 900 cu- bic feet per seeped, the eastern end Bing 4.85 feet lower than the west - tern so as to create a grade for the neater flow, and it carries water for he irrigation of 125,000 acres situated in the Bantry Hills. The flume, the ;walls of which are five inches thick, AS suspended between horizontal ?girders, the whole supported by a re- iinforced concrete trestle made up of two lines of columns with a maximum height of 60 feet, but lower in places according to the contour of the val- ley. About three miles east of the town of Brooks, Alberta, the line of the aqueduct is crossed by tho Can- • w,..xi.t.,+rn:.ww�uwrw¢�x,waowa«va-.:�....m.a. ,.,•�,.u:. ,tet adian Pacific ley. and, the track being at such an elevation that it was impossible to carry the flume overhead, it was necessary to build a siphon under the track. At the west side of the track the curved form of the flume is continued round until a completely circular pipe is made. which dips at an angle of about 45 degrees and enters the ground, pass- ing under the rails at a slight depth for a distance of about 55 feet when it rises again to the original level and reverts to its original form. The siphon is 9 feet 9 inches in diameter., at the smallest, and 12 feet, 8efei inches at the lamest point. This in said to be the first aqueduct in which: the peculiar form adopted has been/ used and the engineering protk��emsi presented considerable difficulty. That they were happily solved 1sj proved by the fact that when the; water was turned on the siphon res mained perfectly water -tight under full pressure. K44-, Travel from one to two years free in your Ford on your saving in one year's depreciation. Other cars in the X1000 or less class, after one year of service, are worth from $250 to '$400 less than their purchase price. That's their depreciation. Ford cars, after a year's hard work, sell on an/ average for only $125 less than they cost brand new, That's Ford depreciation. The difference in depreciation of these year-old cars ranges from $125 in the one case to $275 in the other ---both considerable savings for Ford owners. Thousands of owners tell us that it costs .024 per mile on an average to drive a Ford—paying for gasoline, oil, tires and repairs. So, if your saving in depreciation for a year is $125 you pay all your expenses for 5,208 miles --•- while if it is $275, you have kept enough money in your pocket to pay for driving your Ford 19,458 miles. Buying a Ford in preference to other less than $1,000 cars, lets you save in one year's time a difference in depreciation that pays alt your motoring bills for from one to two years. Think it over. tosimissominimilmenuen A. M. CRA •o FORD Dealer Ford Runabout $480 Ford 'Touring - 530 Ford Coupelet - 730 Ford Sedan - 890 Ford Town Car 780 f. o. b. Ford Ontario Wingham, Ontario All cars completely equipped, including electric headlights. Equipment does not include speedometer to LONG LIFE There is no reason for the volun- tary surrender of our bodies into the clutches of Father Time. We ought to live to be 120 years of age, and we can, barring accidents, draw our skein of life far past the allotted three score years and ten if we make a careful and deliberate effort to preserve the youthful attitutes of our minds. Where, then, lies the fountain of youth? Where may it be sought out and utilized in our hunt for an avenue of escape from senility? How can the decay of flesh and spirit be postponed and vigors of middle age be preserved? In the Old Testament a constantly recurring statement is "he died 120 years old," and the average age of the men who were the leading person- ages of those times was about that figure, Metchnikoff, who is the greatest liv- ing Carwinian, and head of the Pas- teur Institute in France, agrees ab- solutely with the figures laid down in the Old Testament. Two books, written by this authority, lay bare the truth regarding human life with as- tounding clearness, One of them is a very stately volume entitled "The Nature of Man." In this work Metch- nikoff emphatically states that from o•rservations leased tib animal life he hes concluded that man's days should number 120 years, Granted, then, that the natural life of man eoold easily be extended some ,35 or 40 years beyond the limit set .4nwn in the minds of most persons it can be readily understood that when death occurs supposedly from old age before this latent period has even be- gun, that the cause was something other than that insisted upon by nature. Certain it is that if knowledge of man's truly allotted time could but become universal, the popular notion regarding the age called the "prime of life" would have to be advanced from 40 to GO. Hope, which beginsto die at man's command because he has laid down the law that she shall leave him at a certain time, might then be coaxed to remain longer, and Youth, too, which must be gladdened by Hope in order to live at all, might stay where her companion lingered. Says Metchnikoff in the other of the two books, entitled "Prolongation of Lite": "I find it impossible to ac- cept the view that the high mortality between the ages of 70 and 75 indl• cates a natural limit of human life. the fact that so many men of 70 to 75 years old are well preserved, both p:nysically and intellectually, makes it impossible to regard that age as the limiting one. Philosophers, such as Plato, poets such as Goethe and Vic- tor Hugo, artists such as Michael Angelo, Titian and Franz Hals, pro. duced some of their most important works when they had passed the time which has been called the limit of human life." One naturally puts the question, "How did these men keep alight the fires of youth, which n.ust have burn- ed to an exalted height indeed in their minds and souls?" These men learned something every day; they sought knowledge, never relaxing into the conscious position of a seer, one who imparts knowledge with the air of having memorized all that was worth while. These men studied all the time; they kept appre.' ciating how much of new there was in that old, old quality we call hu- man nature. They watched the changing ideals of science, religion, literature and politics with zeal, un- derstanding; sympathizing, criticising perhaps, but intelligently. Minds which lose their plastic quality and become closed to convic- tion are old, and the bodies belonging to such minds grow senile along with the mental processes. The old cannot change the ideals they formed long ago, in youth. That is why they are old. If they had but cultivated the power of reinterpreting their ideals to fit a changing world, they would have had the secret of remaining young. More than all other religions, Christianity embodies the spirit of youth. Christianity is hope, which is synonymous with youth. It is ever looking toward a millenium. If we but care to listen we can hear God's voice proclaiming, "There shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." After all, righteous- ness is but harmonious living, and one must be rightly related to have within himself the soul substance of life's morning. Could we but realize that our bodies and souls need not stop renewing themselves unless we so elect of our own free will, we would understand something of the tremendous processes of creation which God is continually striving to set in motion everywhere, even within ourselves, as well as in the world around us. IL iso not suffer another day with Itching, Bleed- ing, or Protrud. ing Piles. No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and as certainly cure you. 60c. a box • all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Sample box free if you mention this paper and enclose 2c, stamp to pay postage. A clergyman in the east end of Lon- don recently presented a ragged little urchin with a new suit of clothes. Nerves Were So Upset Could Not Endure Noise Neuralgic Headaches and Extreme Nervousness Caused Keenest Suffering --Lasting Cure by Use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. Once the nervous system gets run down everything seems to tend to makeq it worse. You worry over your condition, tire unable to get the re- euired rest and sleep, noises excite and irritate you and the future is most discouraging. .rhe nervous System does not get the proper nourishment from the food you eat, so you hoist have something also to Lift you out of the run -downs condition. You may find that your e*perle ice coincides with the writer of this letter and be encouraged to pat Dr. Chase's Nerve root to the You will make no mistake In em- ploying this food Cure, for, acting al it dots hand in hand with Nature, it is bound to do you good. Mrb. 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It is often convenient to know wheth- er a given number is divisible by an- other without going through the usual process of division. Almost every one knows that however large a number may be, it Is divisible by 5 if the last digit is 5 or 0. The following gives the rule for some other numbers: A number is divisible by 2 when the last digit is divisible by 2; by 3 when the sum of the digits is divisible by 3; by 4 when the number represented by the last two digits is divisible by 4; by 5 when the number ends in 5 or 0; by 6 when it is divisible by 2 and also by 3; by 8 when the number represented by the last three digits is divisible by 8; by 9 when the sum of the digits is divisible by 9. For example, the number 1728 is di- visible by 2, because its last digit. 8, Is divisible by 2; by 4, because 28 is divis- ible by 4, and by 8 because 728 is divis- ible by 8. It is also divisible by 3 and by 9, for the sum of its digits total 18, a number divisible by 3 and by 9. Since it is divisible by 2 and by 3, it is also divisible by R To find whether a number is divisible by 7 you must go through the usual process of division.—Youth's Compan- ion. DEATHWATCH BEETLES. Their Uncanny Ticking and Their Trick of Playing Dead. You've probably beard the death- watch beetle oftener than you've seen him. He hides away in furniture or Interior woodwork and keeps up a continual "tick -tick -tick" like a watch. Day or night you'll hear him pounding away. He's eternally persistent about it and ghostlike and uncanny, hence his name. He makes the little ticking noise with his head, pounding it on the wood. It's the way he has of calling his mate, and his mate answers him in turn. If you pound on the wood where he is hiding he'll answer you just like he does his mate. You may wonder how he finds his way inside a piece of furniture. He gets there when he's in the grub or larva state, boring his way through wood, paper or anything the grub can eat. The larva which eats its way through the leaves of a book is a cousin. The deathwatch beetle has another trick besides that one of calling his mate by pounding his head on wood. When you touch one of the little crea- tures he folds his legs up beneath his body and makes believe he's dead. He will keep on playing possum even if you put him close enough to a fire to roast him.—Philadelphia North Amer- ican. The Word Calico. The word "calico" has a queer ori- gin. Many centuries ago the first mon- arch of the province of Malabar, in Hindustan, gave to one of his chiefs as a reward for distinguished services his sword and all the land within the limit of which a cock crowing at a cer- tain temple could be heard. From this circumstance the little town which grew up in the center of this territory was called Calieoda, or "the cock crow- ing." rowing." Afterward it was called Calleut, and from this place the first cotton goods were imported into England bearing the word calico. 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