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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1916-10-12, Page 6• 1.e • ,.. 'ha Ins .,..•••••..•a,...,.—.••W,...4- .,.. ..._.-.._.-_.--.-- .-.., IS t; IE4%i; AIR A VITAL. i''iteCESS1Tyf? deleterious effects. At the same time meet of n'n t'r,>!'t+r ter lu.,t t,.,o Bili• fa ti:t ul++ C:',, l fu„, tG contamination caused by paa.ire; throe 4.1 the lungs of aete.h •r THE OflIGIN OP TW ilel'r'Y- The following are the various fits ;'•e - tion that have been published for the use th.' of "23" as a slang phrase; 1, Usually race tracks are laid out for 22 horses at a time wherefore the 23rd horse must be put out, 2, In Bellevue Hospital, New York, Ward No, 23 i 1 the ward for lunatics, 3. By mist ate the number 25 was omitted in numbering the romee of a large hotel recently built in New York. Therefore, an undesirable apniicant was passed over to "the bouncer," when the clerk ordered him to be shown to room 23. 4. The expulsion of Adam from Eden } is recorded in verse 23 of the third Chapter of Genesis. 5. In Dicken's Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton is the 23rd victim of the guillotine in the description of the ex - j ' cution of a large batch of prisoners. i When the play, The Only Way, was adapted from this novel a few years ago, the word "twenty-three" denoted the end of the play and the drop of the Pertain. From the stage hands the slang phrase spread all over the United States. 6. Telegraphers use "23" as a signal to warn others "Keep off the wire." To which list of possible derivation a "scrap -hook" correspondent adds a seventh, ascribing the expression for a roulette player, when reduced to his Tho t.c} th.r.f 1 i„ lE. t tla it is tune - thing ptticfir+icy i,rattielal or invigor- atii,e ,,, •,t t:tt,,,•t:t.r i;ir 11iee't, $:44 the Nee"' n. ,.t t been effectu- ally c•l,luoh-tit t,y tug experitneilLS carts.•, :,.1 (:uru,g the pt:et tl'w years undre ,.' otisp:eea of the New York State v'.,n,tnission on Ventilation. The i;,iest rt*c,bits of this investigation given is School and Soei,Ay for May 6, and ciu;ust 1;, 1J16, sbuw that the Chfd,t. t, in a r hoot rt,ctn provided with Irl,, l:et supply of outdoor air do ns better work and maks: no more progress than those in a room where the air is partly reeircilc+tee. Tile experi- ments ran. for three months at a time, the teachers t•<cchztu;tc•il roufns, and a very elaborate cyst,,. cls of cneutai tuts devised by Professor Thorndike of Teuvna,i,' College was used to test aceura..1•, speed, memory and improve. meat, The results in the fresh air Foam eati.e out practica:iy toe same as is the recirculated air room, what little t) Il',-tenee there was being mostly in favor of th,• latter. It appears then, the Independent concludes, that if air is kept to the proper temperature, guano,. y and composition it may be brr.it, •u again and again without another daywith Itching Bleed- ing, or i''rotrud• ing Piles. No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and as certainly cure_ you. 60c. a vox • all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Sample box tree it you mention the¢ paper add enclose 2e. stamp to pay postage, TIDE WINGHAM TIMES October, i z 190 aai9` 0 wren it 11 Liver ' llLMIREI' LAID. -LIVER FILLS Ceiheeefel ' Mrs. Thomas Sargent, Berkeley, Ont. writes: "I have been troubled with my stomach and liver for the past seven. y' ars; also have had constipation, caus- ing ,headaches, backaches and dizzy spalls, and at times I would almost fall darn, 1 tried all kinds of medicine, without obtaining any relief. I coin- menced using IVl ilburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, and they have cured me. I have recom- mended them to many of my friends, :inti they are all very ranch pleased with the results they have obtained from their use." )'lilburn's Lasa -Liver Pills have been en the market for the past twenty-five years, and can be procured from all dealers, The price is 25 cents per vial, or five vials for 31.00. If your dealer does not keep them, they wilt be mailed direct on receipt of price, by The T. Milburn Co,, Limited, To- ronto, Ont. last chip or check, to place it on 23. Wherefore, to say "23" to the desperate player was equivalent to an ivitation to eave. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C A S T Q R I A BUBBLING WI1`H SPTIMI5.M_ Baron Shaughnessy Strikes Hopeful Note BARON SHAUGHNESSY 1331..E in Vancouver, Baron Shaughnessy, President of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, gave a most interesting ad- dress lasting almost half an hour to 'the members of the Vancouver Board of Trade. During his re- marks, which were listened to by several hundred members of the Board of Trade as well as by pro- minent business men not connected with the board, Lord Shaughnessy briefly referred to what his com- pany had done for Vancouver and Victoria, to the position of the sol- diers after the war, the question of immigration and the duty of the cit- izens of Vancouver as well as of the entire Dominion in furthering the interests of this country. Prefacing his address with a brief reference to the gentlemen who had accompanied him on the trip to the coast, Lord Shaughnessy alluded to the Vancouver of twenty-five years ago. "When you Ibok around," he said, "and see the changes that have takenplace at that pedi d,you feel. no doubt as we all feel that we are all entitled to a great deal of credit for the present conditions here. Yon have your splendid wharves, your large ocean-going tonnage, your magnificent streets and resi. dential section, your splendid busi- ness blocks, and i1 I might be per - raided to say it, probabiy the fin- • est hotel on the continent." (Ap- plause.) T think, too, that you wilt admit whatever little differences we may have had from time to time that, during all these years your work- ing partner, the C.P.R., has neither been niggardly nor narrow. 1 think too, that if our friends and neigh- .lielurs across the gulf in the older c2ty of Victoria, where at present business in not as brisk as it might be, a sttnsition that we are exper- iencing in Inany localities on the continent, but I think that Victoria, which has Made such marked pro- gress and has been so exceedingly Prosperous in recent years, will al- so lso bear testimony to the earnestness with which your partner assisted forwarding all their good works. 'Mee policy of the Company In Victo la add et outer poihts•,served by the company's lines haS been one j1f creation and improvement. in Creation and itnprovement, Sonne- times probably we have overshot 'the Mark and. bs.i'e antidipated the tfatutte, but we did it with an impll- !eft eemfidertde and there Wes only a little while tot wits "iMlreii e+lre - thug would grow b V est we had been providing for in 'Vaztcouve . as elsewhere. The last itirxitle or four years *eve beep yCars d deprensio'R fat gr aces, vat in Vaisfeterer aka* last tirronshant tike edis tars. Proial- cuffs May be ktbdirlefeed to x de- greri of Acer-crenfidence and M draubt he ri0ette !>Yt - tri Altar but we have all learned a lesson." Lord Shaughnessy said that there. was evidence on which his banking friends would bear him out, of de- cided improvement in trade condi- tions on the Pacific coast, The lumber industry beyond doubt is more brisk than it has been for a considerable time, the mining is in a very prosperous condition indeed. The works that the company has performed in Vancouver and its en- vironments involved a vast expendi- ture of money. It is true that we had a substantial return for the town - site that became the property of the company at the time Vancouver was established, but every clonal -receiv- ed from that townsite and many mil - Ions more have been expended with- in the boundaries of the city. (Ap- plause.) "This is not the time to undertake many improvements, not a time in- deed to take anything in hand or to say anything in the nature of pro- mises of important works, but it is clear to me that for the future re- quirements of the port it will be necessary to spend a very large sum on money in providing additional jetty for which steps have already been ta'cen. The port in its present stag: of development would be a matter of surprise to almost any person who had -not followed the his- tory of Vancouver. When the first Empress came here in 1890, we hop- ed to secure traffic enough to feed these three Empresses on the east- bound voyage. Today we have ton- nage beyond the facilities that have been provided at a cost of millions of dollars and we can sae that we have in the future a veryesubstan- tial increase in that tonnage. The Oriental traffic which was divided with a number of lines in which our enemy made a great inroad can be in a substantial degree diverted to us and arrangements have been made with the Russian authorities that will insure a very large in- crease in the tonnage for Vladivos- tock passing through the port of Vancouver." (Applause.) Lord Shaughnessy then referred to what had been done by the C.P.R. for the development of the mining industry in the province, when the Consolidated Company was at a low ebb. He also made a brief reference to the opening of the Kettle Valley Railway, and the fact that it was now nearer the coast by rail. ,Sneak- ing with regard to the Esquimault & Nanaimo Railway, acquired by the company some years ago, he maid that had been extended and facili- ties were now being provided for a very largely increased territory. With the return of better times, and when conditions were more favora- ble, no doubt extensions would be made "without any demand on the exchequer of the province." (Laugh- ter.) "We mast try to determine," said Lord Shaughnessy, "what our policy is going to be in the future. I speak for the policy of all of us who are interested iii the welfare and progrea i of the Dominion. At the moment tae have one working thing that supercedes all others. The war must be prosecuted to a successful conclusion at all hazards. (Applause.) Nothing that is hither directly or indirectly connected with the suc- cessful prosccutien of the war should occupy more than a second- ary place In our thoughts. The war will not last forever. "Indeed, there are those of tis who think that the end is not far off. But whether it be this year or next year or the year after, we most be prepared to take advantage of su'bh opportunities as rues offer. Canada has Made tremendous sacrifices In money and men, giving direct de - tib ' anstration of Canada's p atrioti C loyalty tO the MMother Country and t i the Empire. The fact that we Mere 'taken sash a strong position 'that we have done no much to heel) bile wee ter us tie scion atxy beyond dap. OK elf Oro* lerieiliu and Of BA - anti to the extent that theiee iesteoas tan be of serale ill l ,i;Iiehiatl.he i.Afleaehe. mereiai and agricultural interests, operation. "But I do not like the idea of pending too much on the goo of others. We must endeavor to do the right thing ourselves. It is quits useless, to my mind, to imagine that because of the animosities arisen ._tom the war, that the Germans and Austrians are to be shut out fr all civilized countries of the world, compelled to confine their trade re- lations in their own countries and with each other, "Those feelings of animosity are rapidly dissipated if there be a com- mercial advantage in forgetting that they exist. We cannot count upon. that either as a very important in- fluence in determining what our policy must be. We must try frame our own policy and we must try to carry it out vigorously, r: ceiving, of course, such advents_ as may properly come to us. But onr own capacity for business, our own organization, our own ener aro the factors that will determine what is exactly the amount of pro- gress we are going to make. (Ap- plause.) "At the bottom of everything is immigration. We must have more people, not only on the pra1r where there is grain, but here in British Columbia, where almost ev- erything can be grown, where there is such room for the development. of our fisheries and timber an mines, where the fruit industry can be made one of such vast impor tante. The question is, where We going to secure these people. Possibly the patriotic desire to se that the returned soldier is cared for may induce the country and others to place soldiers on the land, but I do not know that the soldiers may care to go on the land, at least for some time after they return front their experiences on the battlefield.; To the extent, however, that theyi can be induced to take up land to! provide homes for themselves and families, they should be given the clleerful co-operation of every inter-. est involved." (Applause.) Lord Shaughnessy issued a warn-. ing against allowing undesirables! into the county after the war, ass had been done on former occastons,j and suggested that such an organ- ization as the board of trade, ani organization of business men, would, be the right people to look alter the development of the land, of mining and other industries, instead of a, government, which often was, he• said, slow in its movements. "We N have ample tune to make plans," he said, "to induce good people to come here. For several months after the war all the ships on the Atlantic will be engaged in bringing home; the troops, so that there will not be much opportunity to bring people from Europe for a long time. Dur- ing that intervening period we must have opportunities to see where these people can be secured, , the kind of people that we strotrld seg cure, and other information that! Will promote a scientific Immigraa tion aeo elfganda. "About the future we have ha doubt whatever. If we continue as. we are, conserving our resources,, avoiding unnecessary expenditure until we can afford it better, if eve conclude that our success is going to be dependent entirely on our, own efforts and that any assistance we get from other causes must be considered extraneous and not es- sential, if we make up our minds; that we are going to be equal to any country in .the world, that of our ability to do things there is no. question, there will be no doubt as to the position of Canada in the, future. I have not a doubt That there are in this mein many young; men who willa i u se this country with eveno elation trebled eble(1 at least Myer figures tonight not be ea -i email,* if we perilorta oar duty as I have remarked." (Applause.) . A Imager vote of thanks was aoe meted to Lord Shane/nesse' an the's motion of Meyer McBeath, secozetettl: .Size ,C.ilitrieit; Hiltltert TOM ,. BOLD CAR THIEVES Tricks of the Clever Crooks That Steal Automobiles, DARING IN THEIR MGTKIODS, One of Their Pet Schemes Is to cis. guise: Themselves as Repairers and Openly Tow the Car Away—Ordi- nary Safeguards Are a Joke to Them, "Phe man who steals en automobile is one of the cleverest mechanicians in the country. He knows every make oe ear from the steering wheel to the tires, and there is scarcely any precaution taken by the owner of the car to safe- guard This property that the automobile thief cannot beat, Some ear owners fondly imagine that when they chain the wheel of their car with a fairly thick steel chain they have made it impossible Por any crook to move the auto from its anchorage. Tlie simplicity of this safeguard must cause hilarity among the motorcar crooks, for the ordinary steel chain can be cut In a second with the appliances that the motor thieves carry in their outfit. But most car owners consider they have made the car immovable by mere- ly Melting the switch box. It will inter. est them to know that the car thieves can beat this precaution very easily. The clever mechanician who makes a business of stealing cars can cross wires so as to cause ignition and move the engine without bothering with the switeh box at all. A method that is kin- dergarten to the car thief is to connect wires from the dry cell battery direct to the ignition coil, thus starting the motor without difficulty. Some cars have devices by which the gasoline supply can be locked, and this is regarded by some owners as placing a hopeless barrier in the way of the thief who would run off with the standing car. For how can a car be Roved when the supply of gasoline is shut off? Nothing easier. The motor- car thief carries with him his own sup- ply of gasoline in a flask. With this gasoline the automobile thief can nego- tiate a good run with the car by con- necting his flask of gasoline direct to the carburetor. Feeding the gasoline to the carburetor through a rubber hose, the automobile thief can send the cur sufficiently far to enable him to put the gasoline tank and the car in regu- lar commission and speed where bo will to safety and a sale. But the commonest and therefore the safest trick of the automobile thief re- quires no expert mechanical knowl-• edge. It simply requires nerve, which these thieves possess to an unusual de- gree. This trick is the old one of driv- ing up in an auto that looks like a ga- rage repair wagon, hitching a rope to the car that is to be stolen and towing it away. The thieves dress for the part in oil soaked overalls. When they have selected the car to be stolen, picking one that is in a side street and not like- ly to be under the eye of a policeman who may have been tipped to watch the car, the thieves come up to the scene in their old ear, looking like the ordinary crew sent for from tills garage to repair a car that is in troublelor isn't working as well as its fastidious owner would wish. They alight from their own car and make a great pretense of examining the car that they intend to spirit' away. Tliey, remove the hood and scrutinfee the motor. They get out a kit of tools and tinker for awhile with some part of the machinery. If any one should happen to be watching them or looking on from a neighboring window all the tacit do has the appearance of natural work by honest workmen from the repair shop. Presently the men hold a consultation, pointing to some part of the motor machinery, and apparent- ly come to the conclusion that the car cannot be started with the tools at their command. Then they bitch a rope to the car and tow it away at the end of their own ear. Could anything be more simple? How can you beat such a game as this? Carrying away part of the ma- chinery does not prevent the thieves from towing the car away. One sure way to prevent robbery is to have the car watched. The policeman on that patrol will keep an eye on it if you are only going to make a visit to some office • building and coming back in a short time. But if you keep your car in the street the entire day no one can watch It. You are simply taking a chance with the car thieves. There are other ways of making the path of the motorcar crook as steep and difficult as possible. One motor- ist believes he has solved the thief problem by having a slot cut in .the clutch pedal shaft. Through this he passes a bar which he locks. So far his car haS not been stolen. Another way is to remove the rotor.' This makes it very difficult for any thief to steal the car,for he would have to carry a number of rotor/1 to be sure of hating one that Would fit that par - tenter motor. Dry and Moilgt Air. ' A cubic foot of dry air weighs mord than a cubic foot bf Moist air at the some temperature and pressure. The addition of vapor to a cubic foot of dry air enlarges the volume of the mixture if theit is free toas a e eitpand, in ttn atmosphere, and as the 'vapor has only about two-thirds the density of dry air at the sante teniperature and pressure the density of the mixture is less than that of dry air. Don't put oft thatching till tho eters le at liana.--Irlah *''roYWslt b __.. W 1 ""Bet*if$ ti so great a eearce of annoyance lM 3depAsse inert ala the ineonpenieneo nt beins o.lfed to the tel.pfross• spa( then heroins an *nice > td.uraow to 'hold thy Wire' whirl the` ealhnJt I boa. tstedttr to talk. if 'there's waiting to be W. itis' (,''Aitsttra oblt1elten to do .-Arq dwirot Duatnen Alen It's Your Plage to Wait. WOULI you call on a busy roan at his office, send in your card, and then, when he had indicated that he could see you, keep him waiting while you ,finished reading an article in a magazine in his outer office? It is just as important when you telephone that you be ready to talk when your party answers! It shows consideration for the other person's time. It makes for a more cordial welcome, and it gives you theadvantage of having gained good will by your correct telephone practice. A prompt and courteous greeting at the telephone helps to smooth the way for a successful conversation, •1 The Bell Telephone Co. DIFFICULT BREATHING We are wont to think that every'I condition that is naked by difficulty of i breathing is asthmatic, especially if there are repeated paroxysms. But ,there are rnany affections, in no way related to asthma, of which shortness of breath is a symptom. Anything that prevents the free access of air to) the lungs or that interferes with the proper aeration of the blood makes breathing difficult. Thus we have so- called "asthmatic" affections caused by trouble in the sir passages, or by disease of the heart or the blood vessels, or of the blood itself. The obstruction in the air passages may be the result of croup; oedema of the larynx; pressure of a tumor on the larynx; inflammation of the bronchial tubes; consolidation of the lung tissue, such as occurs in pneumonia; compres- sion of the lungs by an accumulation of fluid in the chest or by a tumor. Tuberculosis of the lungs sooner or later causes distressing shortness of breath; and a not uncommon condition that sometimes simulates asthma is emphysema of the lungs, or dilatation of the air cells. Shortness of breath occurs in anaemia, a disease of the blood in which the red blood corpuscles, which are the oxygen carriers, are greatly reduced in number. Certain diseases of the heart are so constantly associated with difficulty in breathing that the term "cardiac asthma" has crept into medicine and been adopted as if the condition it in- dicates were a definite variety of true asthma. It is not true asthma, but it imitates it closely, for it comes on in sudden paroxysms without apparent cause, and, like true asthma, usually in the night. It is not known just why those at- tacks occur; short breath is a symptom of many forms of heart disease, especially of -those forms in which there is degeneration of the muscular wall or dilatation of the heart, but generally it is continuous r or brought on by some unusual physical exertion. The sudden- ness and the paroxysmal character of the attack may be owing to a tempor- ary rise of blood pressure that the weak heart cannot overcome by increased strength of beat. A REMARKABLE HEN With clockwork regularity a hen of the barred rock species laid an egg a a day during the past year and set up a world record for this breed. The poul- try branch at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph hag been specializing upon the barred rock species as a utility beeed of poultry both for egg and meat production. During the past year one member of the flock laid 310 eggs. This is the greatest number of eggs laid byany hen of this breed in one year, so far as offi- eal world's records are obtainable. The world's record in egg -laying for hens of all breeds is 814 eggs in a year and the Ontario champion had ten days of her twelve months still to go when she felt victim to the heat arid suddenly departed life. She was layingup to the last. The poultry department this year has produced more bens which have laid an average of 200 eggs pet year than ever Woe. The average annual production of the ordinary barnyard hen is 8s eggs per year, . a OF CANADA. 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