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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-9-9, Page 31 STORIES OF WELL* KNOWN PEOPLE Tennis at Eighty -Two. Major G.Haven. Puanare, the head o *the ,famous publishing -house, is eurel one of the most active actogenarian that ever lived. •He is, eighty-twp, and dements that a npotor-eyele acciden ihich he sustained during the wine • ill keep him from playing tennis thi summer. lie makes a point of welkin three or four miles a day 'hildeis re- gu.larlY in his °Moe at 9 a.m. A trailed of his said to, hiin recently "Major, but for your experiences i the American Civil War you migh TRIALS OE INDJUSTION Errors About This, Trouble Into Which People FaIL Many people se tar misunderstands the digestive •eastern ars to treat it f I like a maelli0e; negleoting it until it y. Works siuggiehla, then irritatiug It In -1 0 to work again by the use of purgatives., The stomach needs help at all times, t but a etude of the process of digee-, • ✓ tiod will show that purgatives, as COPi - • manly taken, are seldom necessary g and often harmful. To safeguard your digestion the diet Must be controlled. Oyer-eatieg. is al - Ways harmful but one must assimilate • enough feod to spp1y thet of eeds he n t blood. Remember, the blood aaa to have lived to be anold rna,n." He rose from private to realer 'befOre he was twenty-one. • The Evil of Thoughts. • .There is nothing to beat Oriental courtesy. A qtery ergot of this is told about Wu -Pei -Fu, the famous Chi - 'nese general Some years ago, Wee -Pei -Fa came to the conelusionithat a Japanese general • had made money personally out of a • Chinese Man. One day he found that his suspicion Iran been unfouneed. immedia.Cely sent for the Japan- ese general and said:. - • e "I have an apology to make. I was under the impressioe that you had made money in a dishonorable way. Despite thes.esuessiclops, I never sal carry nourishment to all parts orthe body and find fuel for its energy. Bence when the blood becomes weak and fails to do its work, indigestion arises. Therefore the 'sure remedy for indigestion is to build up the blood. If you suffer from any form of indiges- tion chose your diet carefully and take wholesome nourishment, Above all, start buildi by takinga course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Then under the influence of the new blood supply, your digestive sys- tem will respond naturally, your eppe- tite improve and your food will do you good. So begin. to improve your diges- tion by starting to take Dr. Wililiams' Pink Pills now. You can get these pills from your druggist or by mail at 50 cents a box d frone The DE ,Williams`, Medicine Co., a Word about it to anyone the Brockville, Oni: same, thoughts are as dangerous a words, I apologise?' A more humorous story deals with • an American who called on 'Wu -Pei -Fu one day and gave e. long and weary dis sertation on the marvels of madam in • ventions. ' • s Holland to,Drain Zuyder Zee , After 250 Years' Delay. After two and a- halt centuries of scheming, of doubts and delays, the •draining of thr'Ztryder Zee is becom- g a factwhicb. the met casual the evidence, says Wu -Pei -Fir was bored, but listened pailentla. When however, the Ameri- can began to talk about America's aerial achievements, Wu -Pei -Pa could • bear it no longer. • ' "We, in China," he observed com- placently, "have long clistaided flying." The American was surprised. "Indeed?" he exclaimed inceedulous- ly. 'Certainly," nodded Wu -Pei -Fu. "If you read Chinese history you will find that the emperors used to ascend to Heaven on a gelden cloud. NOw, it I's iinpossible to fly on golden clouds It is obvious, therefore, that there must • havebeen aeroplanes. "However," Concluded. Wu -Pei -Fu lslenday. "itis not a Chinese custom to • tire our friends 1y discussing such.a boring subject." Britain's Henry Ford. The title bf "Motorcar King of'Bra tain" must go without question to M. W. R. Morris, head ,of the firm that makes the light British- car which is ousting the Ford from popularity. Mr. Morris has just brought off a big busi- e deal which makes him the head - of a motor -trade combine with a capital of five .million pounds. Yet whenhe started in business all he had was a little shop in Oxford where he built push-bikes which he sold to. his ac- quaintances. He rode his own ma- chinesin races. and Won about.twenty medals. , He had never had 'any technical en- gineering training, but he was born with a genius.. for motor -cars, and .by • 1912 lee had his first one built. 'It. took lam two years. Now he turns out one every two and a quarter minutes. His e boast is that he alas always "played Off his own bat." • "The London Mail." Weiringen, where the ea -Crown Prince of Prussia was- re- eeived with' a mixture of welcome and tolerance when he and his tether, the .ex-ICalser, fled their country, 'is no lbnger an island, for a broad dyke, with spacious roads, now unites it with the meiniand of NOrth Holland. Omnibuses new splay their regular services across what a year or two ago Was a narrow strait of sea. water, the crossing. of which M small boats was not always unattended, by danger. This 'dyke is, however; only. a very small though sornewlean important, part . of the whole scheme, asst result of which an, area about the. size of Warwick- shir wit be 1 i. ed It --was in 1891 'that the present scheme took definite shape, but the 'Dutch edvernment was chary of giv- ing its consent and stillenore DO of its suppert. Difficulties were gradually 'overcome, however, and the week was started in -1920. •The first thing to be done was the erection of a new ha.rbor at. the easternend at Wieringen for the purpose Of unloading' material, and also to take the place of smaller har- bors used by fishermen, whichwould be rendereduseless or difficult, of ac- cess. After this Came the erection of the dyke , recently completed, and now, 'Ors" shortly, will be begun the laying down of the great dyke miles:lone between•Wieringee and the Mainland of Friesland.. Te latter dyke is the one •yvhich will' turn the Zuyeer Zee into, a freshwater lake in place of a shallow but being arm of the North Sea • ' • • • One of the mostiniportint secondary featuaes ot the work is this" provision of fresh Wateran place of thepreseits salt and Brackish suppliesn. for t•hti mere value of thenew lend will be less thin thennet of the work. - „Including certain financial provisions that have been made to achelerate, the work '(Whicli originally :was to take about thirty years, but will not now take so long) the cost Win be about 540,000,000.guilders, while, the value of the new land even at the end of tWen- tydive yeas, thotimewhith it is esti- mated it 'will take to make it fit for cultivation, will be only about 510,000,- 4. This loss of 30,000,000 guilders will he made goed partly bealthe new areas of fresk water, partly by the improved conditions of traffic hetweenethe north - era provinces of Holland and partly by -the abolition of som.e ,present dykes and the hnprovetheet of the land be- hind thane Bacteria in the Mouth. Over twenty kinds of harmless bare teria have been found in the niaath of a human- being. Hot Alr In Washington. In summer the Washington monu- ment esepands five and one -halt inches in height. • Prof. Julian Huxley Who has studied sex instinct in the animal kingdom, and says the lowest of animals "court” their female charm- ers. His research work, he says, part- ly confines Darwin, and pertly dis- proves him. Moon Glitter. A moonlit flower -garden -- mildly moonlit -els, a fine place to see stars from. One is so thrown upward, at night. Dark sweeps of hills, Alpha immensely 'looming; one's world, ex - cent for a few starry Bowers, is all stars. It is only lately I have discover- ed this.; beoausethe garden used -to be „ ames ad Their Origin volation—Maali • FtElciai orion—egottEsh. Sourcee-A sobriquet. • The name of Niven appears to bo ex- clusively a ScOttish •one. it is found s� infrequently in Ireland as to make it certain that , it (Mee appear there only as the result of the chance settle merit there oS a Scottish faintly now and then. ' • On the other hand it is a family name which has exiete4 for a long time in Seotland, being borne by septs, or branclies, of three of the foremost clans of that. country, the Clan Cum- ixtiag, the Clan Macintosh (or Mackin- tosh, and the Clan MacNaughton, These septs, Qr subdivisions of claim, were formed in Scotland in xnueh the sone manner that they were in Ire land, by some famous member of the clan, other than its leader, establish- ing his own organization of followers, who, together with the members of his faraily, would adopt his name. in addi- tion to that of the big elan. The family name 01 N1yen s a de- velopraent of the Gaelic "Gille-naomh" or Naoimhein" (the latter being nounced very much like Niven), mean- ing sons or followers of the Saint. Ap- parently there were at various times in each Of the three clans raentioned, men famous enough both for their ability as leaders and for their sanc- tity to bear the sobriquet of "The Saint" and to eatablish septa of their own. • QUI NN, Variationse-O'Qeinn, MacDisinn, Mae. Queen. Raeial Source -A gaven name. The eorrect Irish spelling of thle family or clan name is eitber 'Mae - Cuban" or "O'euinri?' There is no In the,Trisli language, It should be noted, too, • that one variation of this family name, Mac- Queen, is not to be -confused with the Highland Scottish name spelled the same way, the origin of which has been expleined in a previous article, MacQueen is but an Angiieized form ot MacCuinn, 1 whien the word "queen" bas been adopted, owing to the similarity of sound, but with no regard for the meaning. `e The "Cann MacQuinn" held the ter- ritory known as "IVluintir Gillegaln" in what is now County Loaeford, As nearly as can be estimated from the Irish historical records, Which are scrupulous as to genealogy, hat often neglectful of dates, • forcing the re- searcher to the comparative method of filling them ire the chieftain Conn who foun,dedethis particular elan., lived •about the year 120-0. Though you would net suspect it if you did not know the peculiar method by which some of the Irish nouns are declined, "Ouinn" is but the genitive case ef the given name "Con" (the meaning of which is "wisdom"), one which is frequently met witb in the pages of Irish history. The Alibi and the Horse. Though bedecked in splendid trap - a vegetable -garden, and some way one pings, gliding on its stately tours% did not stand 1 the midat Of one's Still the Auto's but a lackey to His vegetables, no matter how ardent one's Majesty, the Horse. interest in them (and mine never was very ardent), to admire' the stars. A • casual scent of turnip; let us 'say -or even the pleasant muskinese of tome - to -plants, would tether one to earth; I the stars would -have to lift one out of it; whereas on a flower -fragrance, the veriest unutilitarian whiff of it, one floats upward, presumably( The moon is old and golden tO-night; when I Went down, she was just rising; • g of 1 golden. blitters at me through chinks in the pear -tree foliage. The petunias, with that golden light coming through them (they hadbeen staring at the setting sun, and so had thelr backseast), were un e- lievably glorified; I had seen them quite • common -place, the other ev-ay !round. Yea as Monet says, "light is 'the' most important person in the pic- ture"; the garden ehows methat every • day. The petunias are little glebes of 'beauty, with the moon, that low and ad, behind them, their leavesnclarkly silhonetted, their transparent base - 1 me glowing. Tkey seem to be hav- ing eereereaniee of their own, that little hOst; will they turn, erelong, to the moon? ,. .Across the patin Int Moonlight 'and theii. fragrance 'seem the same:- White moons above slam silven-their lim, silvee timers of foie: age' are almost dazzling*. Something on their petals glistens like mica; a pink is made for the moon. Single smell white .moons above spun silver I foliage; precious to know they are just pinks. They might bemoons, and float away, Poof! But under a. dew like this one canal follow them by' their fragrance, breathe oneself into the scented wake of them, and bring them. down. More than any oth.er &Ingle flower they bring this moonlight down; holdit fast in those Small soented circles, pin it with elver leaf -pine, with' their long cool saver stems, quite safe - Early Man Lost Hair ` • Playing With Fire erne prehistoric had habit of playing • with fire caused man to be:the niaet hairless creature,, Dr. R. T. Gunther told the anthropological section of the Scientists' Conference at Oxford; Eng- land. - ' Thtis hair was continually be4ng singed off •and was eventually lost trace of inthe evolutionary 'process., Regions in which oil andnatural gas issued from the ground also helped, to make inan hairlene 800,000 years ago, he said. In Persia one .oil lire heated 900 years. The Long, LontnTrall. After performing the marriage eere- ny the kindly old vicar was giving e newly Married couple Some advice for their future happiness, "Pay close attention 16 what I say," he said. "Now that you are man and wife you must always help one another along; the wife must obey her hus- band and follow him M the walks of ' this life--" "But, sir—en interrupted the young wife, "I have ..not yet finished!" and the view* frowned' majestically.. "Bet, surely," protested the bride, "can't you alter thet last part? My Joe's a postirian I" Balsa Is Lightest Wood. .s Balsa, a wood toured in Ecuador, uth America, is the, lightest M the orid. As it weighs only 7.5 peunde cubic toot, a maa may easily carry a large load of It on his ahoirlderg. Blind Corners Dangerous. Motorists should slow tip at all turns 1111 the road, blind corners are danger - oldie When it Is irapossible tp pen What le meleg. aroune the viler, he pee - pared to etop. Soiidyour hern as kau approach a censer. Tribes of Pygmies. Tribes IA pygmies alneest rieknosen tc civilized maxL nlutblt the interier of Dutch Gtrianee ••• • FREE REPORT. A Fortnightly Report will be sent to you regularly upon recetpt of the Coupon below. Engineers and Corres- pondents on the spot In Northern On- tario and Quebec write these for your benefit and ours. This Is, valuable In- formation, and being the latest news, will help you to choose the right Stocks. MOWAT & MaeGII.LIVRAY 126 Sparks St , Ottawa clear 01 rz • . • Please tleied to me your FOrtnightly Market •Report, free and Without any obligation. *whatever entilY part. .Addresea i,),411i**4.61•.•,.• .leeee ly in the earth. ' In the shadows bf the pear tree, safe from the -moons a firefly °limbed the sweet -pea brush. Green as an emerald, or a deli star; lighting the red -brush- stems, the pale small leaves and ten- drils of the sweet peas, one great pale :bloom -then slowly floating his starry - emerald away. Very dark where he was; darkly gelden just beyond, where the young pale -blue heads of depliin- lum, half -buds, were -catching the soft gold light. -Anne Bosworth Greene. Quite Otherwise. Sport Editor -"Yee, I ran a story of Your wedding on the sport page. What about it?" Heavyweight -"Welt take a tip from me. Marriage ain't no sport. It's a job. 'TheChrftdH God delighte, in nothing nriore than in a cheerful heart, careful to perform him service. What .pazeet is it that rejoiceth not to see Iiia Child pleasant in the limits of a filial duty? -Owen Felitham, in "Regolves," 1620. , •Marriage Make. An elderly and a young nember of certain -club met In the enadking room, • "I hear, Mr. Apnea," said the termer "that you are going to be Marrieti, shortly. I hope yott Will be very hap - "Oh, I don't see why nota replied the prospective tridegroora, cheerily: "I carne through the war without a scratch, yoit know." Ruh your sealp with Minard's Llisnaerrts r •e Who could know a pang of pity for a broken frame of steel, Likeathe sorrow that a master for kla • fallereateed must feel? Who, behind' a chugging engine--tliing w . .without aeartor will— Ever belt the bloe,d-tide tingle like the bargeman's gallop thrill? Death is in the Auto's pathway; mad- . • ness glowers, at the wheel; But a good horse guides and guards • you, faithful, trustful, wise and leal. Let the Auto toil' for Commerce, claim the maze far strength and speed: • Butler frolle and for friendship, give a true bred man his steed. -Sohn E. Miller. •. Rabies. . "The most terrible death a man can die," said the doctor after ne had re- turned from the bedside of a little boy who had -been bitten by a rabid dog. S'The thirst is intense -beyond imag- ination; his tongue is swollen to twice its size and hanging out of his mouth - yet he can't take a drop of water; his throat is paralyzed, and the sight of a drink • produces chasing and a paroxysm of the muscles used in swal- lowing, .which no human being could look at without pity. And the tragedy is that there is no help under heaven for it, once the disease develops." The boy had been bitten by a rabid dog; Unforturiately his parents had de- layed too long in getting the lid treat- ment to prevent hydrophobia, and it was impossible to save his life. The treatment will absolutely prevent rabies if given ten days to three weeks after the person has been bitten. Don't kill the dog that bites a per- son -tie him up. If alive at the end of 10 days, you may be perfectly sure he did not nave rabies; no dog suffering from rabies will live longer than. 10 days. If the dog is dead within ten days, send the head well pecked in ice to the Laboratories of the' Department of Health, Spadina House, Toronto. They will advise you immediately whether the dog died of rabies and whether it is necessary to take treatment, which is known as the Pasteur Preventive Treatment for Rabies and supplied ifree of charge to Ontario residents. A child'a life is worth mare than a thousand dogs -let us muzzle Ontario dogs and keep out dogs from the 'United States which may spread rabies among our stock and kill our children. Minard's Liniment relieves stiffness. 0 ---. Son of Lady Asquith is Boadicea in Fihns • The Hon. Anthony Asquith, son of Lord Oxford and Asquith, has been playing part of the role of Boadicea, the Amazoniaai queen, in a British illm. He drove the chariot in an exiting race some in place a Mies Phyllis Neilson Terry, who otherwise played nee queen. Mies Terry found that guiding galloping horses from a sway- ing chariot was beyond her strength, and Anthony Asquith "understadled" in it, liaised in her royal robes and a wig, Mahogapy should be washed with vinegar or cold tea. GanathrinPlanPook In co-opeistion with Canadian Arthiteett lished inl 0 MisLosn Readies' Goan. Velem of rderats eriad homes are pub.. Data led information 'on pla nit) buildinefliinishing,danniingii d asning, seneeettilen ni ' 4' '''' Mittean 4tilidere. ;Os ill 1.1. Tis'i „..:1, ,...., t sAenndit:talaTerti ortrraotif,etispor.tfitok:b :b.() ' 344 Adelaide 5 . gyr, • . eei CHOLERA INFANTUM Oholerheinfantum as one of' the fatal ailinents of *childhood, It is a trouble that comes on suddenly, especlally during the summer months, and unless 'Prompt action is taken the little one may soon be beyond aid. Baby's Own Tablets are an ideal medicine in ward- ing off this trouble. They regulate the bowels and sweeten 'the stomach and thus prevent the dreaded summer cone - plaints. They are an absolute safe medicine, being guaranteed to centain neither opiates nor narcotics of other! harmful drugs. They cannot possibly' do harm -They arways do good. The, Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. Could See the Rust. "That red-headed chap has a head of iron." • "I believe you -Lean see the rust." TO11 Bridges and Roads Survive in England Britiab- motorists recently were sur- prised to learn than in the kingdom there remain more. than 100 toll bridges. .Also while there are no por- tions of the 'country not served by pub - Ito roads, there are still a few toll roads which serve as short cuts. Suggestions have been made that the government should compensate the healers, of toll privileges and abolish this archaic system, but with the in- crease of motoring reoently, the toll privileges, are so profitable the owners are unwilling to sell. Addition. "How old are you?" Bobby -"Eleven." "But you were only fiveelast year.' "That's right. • Six this year and five last year. That makes eleven." Mysterious Powers of the • Brain. During a thunderstorm at Shefdeld a Man standing near a place which was struck by lightning loot his speech, says an Eaglisb. welter. At Fakenhana, in Norfolk, a, soldier who had lost his epeesal atter shell - shock In the war suddenly recovered it while, he was, plying his trade as a' house -painter. His ladder lurehed, and With an "Ok!" of fright his speech came back. Not the cleverest investigator of the brain can tell us the why and wieere- fore of such happeniags, but can only say that the mechanism by which the brain, or parte of the brain, directs the throat, the tongue, the palate, the lungs, to fulfil their duties in giving ut- terance to spoken sounds is infinitely more complicated than the works of a watch. Tetbe brain come along the nerves from different parts of the body sen- sations of heat 4ar coin or pain or hun- ger, to which the brain gives names. From the braln ge thoughts which set the omens of speech or action in move- ment All these impulses have to go through telephone exchanges in. the brain system far more complicated than any which give and take calls in a city. A. sudden yeolent jar, and the tele- phone exchange is put out of gear. Lines cross the buzzer sounds a wrong note at a wrong time, th•e desk tale phone becomes, altogether silent. In the city exchange the damage can be located and repaired.; in the brain exchange it -cannot be found. Nobody can say where the damage -has taken place. Another jar, and it may right itself as mysteriously as it went wrong, but no man can say how. Others Rin Wedding Bells • For Bellringera All the bellringers in Cherts,ey, Eng- land, were men:there of the bridal party at the wedding of Miss Lay Stevens, and chimers from. distant parishes had Youthful Philosophy. The little sister had net been well,, and bad been particularly trying to little Tommyeher brother, all the day, Finally the young =We patient's came to an abrupt end. "Mother," he asned, 'don't you want Doro.ty to be a good wits like you when she grows up?" "Of -course," aid hi mother. "Well, you. Make me give evezytaing to her 'eos she's littler'o me. But you're littlerni father, and when he comes home you say, 'Harare your slip- pers and magazine, dear.' " And before. his mother could move Tommy tore his railway train from the Screaming baby. "If we don't begin to train her she'll be a terrible wife," he remarked as be slammed. the deer. Gland Transplanting In 1672. nee transplanting of glands brae the human system is n,o• new diecovern, the first record of such an operatiort being accredited to Jan Hunter hai 1672. POULTRY PROFITS. ; Do you keep hens? or de hens keep you? Anyone ' oan make Blddy lay three months each spring, The Wok la how to leaks+ her produce during fall and winter months. Years of experience and study haa •taught us how to make BIG PROFITS every month of tho year. You can do the mane. start feeding 1 and oaring for your flock in a laertilia way and reap rewards this winter. Send 51 tor necessary Information. Oliver Poultry Farm, Shanty Bay. 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