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THE FIRING LINE
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Have yku been on the firing line
Where life teats all of us ---common and
fine --
To see if we sing or worry and whine,
To see if we stand in our place and fight
Where the bullets sing and the bayonets
bite,
'And the world is against us and dark
and drear
The wings of our destiny hover near,
And down through the shadows we
dream of light.
I tell you, each day there's a firing line.
One in your life and one in mine;
.A line we must step to and take our
ehanee,
No matter how swiftly the bullets dance,
1;o matter how desperate the foe may
be,
There is need on the line for you and
forme,
Need for our manhood, our courage
and might,
To strive for our loved in the far-flung
fight.
It tests the mettle of men so fine.
This being out on the firing line.
The zip and the ping of the bullets
shows
How brave we are in the face of foes,
How strong, how true to out' colors of
creed,
Hew close we may rise to the golden
need
Of duty and faith and love and trust -
We creatures of chance in the toil and
dust!
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Dog tax collected this year in Penn-
sylvania amounted to $145,703.01.
A gum has been discovered in large
quantittes in the Malay peninsual that
yields from ten to 'twenty per cent.
pure rubber.
As The Result
Of a Neglected Cold
He Contracted
SEVERE BRONCHIAL TROUBLE.
Mr. W, T. Allen, Ilolifa::, N.B., writes:
"I feel that I would be doing you and
your great remedy, Dr. Wood's Norway
Pine Syrup, a gross injustice if I did not
write and let you know the wonderful
results that I have obtained from its
use,
"Last spring I happened to contract a
cold. Of course, this is a common oc-
curence, and I did not take any particu-
lar notice of it at the time. However, it
did not break up as quickly as colds
generally dict with me, so after two weeks,
and no sign of improvement, I began
to get alarmed, and went to my local
physician who informed me that I had
contracted severe bronchial trouble as a
result of neglecting my cold. He pre-
scribed some medicine for me, which I
took for about two weeks without any
sign of improvement. I was getting
pretty much discouraged by then, but
one day a friend happened to be in to
whom I was relating my trouble, and he
advised me to try Dr. Wood's Norway
Pine Syrup, saying that he had obtained
very beneficial results from its use in
a similar case. I took hiseadvice and
procured several bottles from my drug-
gist. After taking it, according to diree•
tions, for about two days, I noticed a
decided improvement, and from that
day on I began to get better, and in ten
days .I was in my usual health. I con-
sider this an excellent showing for your
remedy, and can highly recommend it to
anyone afflicted as I was. I shall always
put in a good word for it whenever the
opportunity offers itself."
You can procure Dr. Wood's Norway
Pine Syrup from any druggist or dealer.
Price, 25c and 50e. The 'genuine is
manufactured only by The T. Milburn
Co., Limited, Toronto. Ont
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THE WIi1',G'riAM TIMES
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The,Dogs of Tlarlkey.
In the matter of kindness to anis
macs it is said that the Turk cannot
be surpassed. Thus at Stamboul the
wandering dogs are treated with
great gentleness, and when puppies
come into the world they aro lodged
with their mother at the side of the
street in improvised kennels made
out of old boxes lined with straw and
bite of carpet. And frequently when
a young Turk happens to be flush of
money he goes to the nearest baker's
shop and buys a quantity of bread,
which he distributes among the dogs
of the quarter, who testify their
gratitude by jumping up at hien, with
m :day paws and sniffing muzzles.
Hamlet In South Africa,
It can hardly be expected that
"post impressionism" will be con-
fined to pictures in the future. A
friend of mine writes me from South
Africa that some genius out there
has done "Hamlet" in the Taal and
quotes the following example, which
seems to me extremely post impres-
sionistic, Here it ds:
Hamlet-Wie is u?
Ghost-Ik is eon. spook.
Hamlet-Wies spook is u?
Ghost-Ik is yu papa's spook.
Cold Feet.
During a marriage ceremony in
Scotland recently the bridegroom
looked extremely wretched, and he
got so fidgety, .standing first on one
foot and then on the other, that the
:`best Ivan" decided he would find out
what the trouble was.
"What's up, Jack?" he whispered,
"Hae yo lost the ring?"
"No," answered the unhappy one,
with a wo£ul look, "the ring's safe
enough, but, man, I've lost ma en-
thusiasm."
Wnen Moles Fight. •
You would hardly believe that moles,
clumsy and almost blind, become per -
feet deruous when' they ,quarrel. No
one knows %vhat they quarrel about,
hut if they once start fighting one has
to die. They will keep on in the pres-
ence of any number of spectators,
hanging on to one another like bull-
dogs and burying their enormously
strong jaws and teeth in one another's
flesh.
Hedgehogs, another type of the quiet,
inoffensive looking animal, not only
fight. but always to the death, and
when one is killed the other generally
devours him.
'$100 REWARD, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one ,dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
tht.t is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a.constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do-
ing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO„ Tole-
do, 0.
Solcl by all druggists, 75e.,
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa-
tion.
Too Much Expense.
"Yes," said Mr. Tyte-Phist, "I was
just stepping on the car when the
conductor gave' the motorman the
signal to go ahead, and the car start-
ed. My foot went out from under
me, and I sat down on the muddy
crossing, ruining a twenty-two dollar
suit of clothes,"
"Then you sat there, swore like a
trooper and gnashed your teeth in
rage, t suppose," remarked the sym-
pathizing listener.
"No," said Mr. Tyte-Phist. "I may
have sworn a little, but I didn't do
any gnashing. My teeth are new
and cost me $30.'.'
Don't forget that we have est*blisb-
ed a parcel post system with Greece.
There's no telling when you will want
to use it in a burry.
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His quarters having been raided by
suffragettes. the young Prince of
Wales should realize how "crazy tbe
girls are about him."
Had Salt Rheum.
Coulel Scarcely
0 Work.
Skip diseases are invariably due to
bad or impoverished blood, and while
not usually attended with fatal results
are nevertheless very distressing to the
average person,
Among the most prevalent arc: Salt
Rheum, Eczema, Tetter, Rash, Boils,
Pimples, and Itching Skin Eruptions.
Burdock Blood Bitters drives out all
the humor from the blood, and snakes it
pure and rich.
Mrs, Ellwood Nesbitt, Apsley, Ont.,
writes: --"I had Salt Rheum so bad I
could scarcely do my work. I took two
treatments of doctor's tncdicitne, but they
did ane no good. A friend told me his
wife had had Salt Rheum, and that
13urdoek Blood Bitters had cured her, so
I ;got a bottle, and before I had it all
taken nay heed was better,"
Burdock; Blood Bitters is "tnanufac'
tured only by The T. Milburn Co.,
Limited, Toronto, Ont.
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tF rr:74 11 A 11 Y YIPS'
Used "Fruit -a -tines" With The
Best of Results.
GEQRGE McKay ran.
ICI-ear:x, Ogee June 17th. 1913.
"Ihavd been using "Fruit-a.tives"
as a family remedy for many years.
They are the best medicine I have
ever tried. "Fruit-a-tives" do me the
most good• -they never gripe and their
action is pleasant.
"I have used then] for Indigestion
and Coustipation with the bestresults,
and' I heartily recommend thea] to
anyone sintilarly afflicted.
These troubles have leftmecomplete-
ly and I give "Pruit-a-tives" full credit
for all this. A nicer pill a man
cannot take."
GEORGE MCIKAY.
The enormous demand for "Fruit-a-
tives" is steadily increasing, due to the
fact that this wonderful fruit medicine
gives prompt relief iu all cases of
Indigestion, Constipation, Sour
Stomeeh, Rheumatism, Chronic,
Headaches, and Neuralgia, ;and all
Kidney and Bladder Troubles:
50c a box, 0 for $2.50, trial size 25c.
Sold by all dealers or sent on receipt of
price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa.
A new Ito"tan aeroplane with numer-
ous tying surface i,, d,' iened to act ^a
it, own parachute and corne to earth
safely in event of a mishap.
- • GOING HALVES.
The Cranky Man Made Sure the Divi-
sion Was Perfectly Equal.
"I once had a neighbor," said the
retired merchant, "'the oddest speci-
men of humanity r ever met. I had
been warned that this man -Blank I
will call him -was unreasonable and
cantankerous. I certainly found him
eccentric, but I am ,egsy to get along
with, and we lived side by side nearly
seven years without any serious trou-
ble. We each had a few fruit trees
and a small vegetable garden.
"In the fall after I first moved
there Blank proposed that we buy a
ladder together. It would help in
fruit picking and be convenient for
various other purposes. He could get
a good second-hand thirty foot lad-
der for $6, and I agreed to pay half
of it. The ladder proved to be a use-
ful article, and we kept it on top of
the picket.fence that separated our
gardens, where either owner could
get it without trouble.
"In the spring of my seventh year
in the neighborhood Blank 'moved
and tried to sell me his share in the
ladder. He wanted $2.50, which 1
thought excessive. For six years the
ladder had been out of doors, and it
was showing signs of wear and tear.
I offered to pay him $1.50 or to take
that gum for my own interest; but
no, he would have no use for a ladder
in the flat to which he was moving,
and I must buy it at his price. I said
it wasn't worth it. He grew sulky,
and so the matter rested.
"The Blanks were to leave the lst
of May. Two days before that date
I had to go away on business, my
wife went to visit her sister and we
shut up the house for a week. When
we returned the Blanks were gone
and I found in our letter box a curt
note from him:
"'As you would not come to terms
about the ladder, I have settled the
matter by dividing it equally. Have
taken my half and left yours on the
fence.'
"Well, a thirty foot ladder is a lit-
tle cumbersome, and, although a fif-
teen foot ladder is rather short, still
I thought on the whole I should be
satisfied with that solution of the dif-
ficulty. From the back doorway I
looked over at my half of the ladder
as it lay on top of the fence and was
surprised to see how long it seemed
to be; certainly it was:anore thin fif-
teen feet. I went out for a closet
inspection and made a strange discov-
ery. Blank had fulfilled the neigh-
bor's predictions and had 'broken out
in an unexpected spot.' With nice ac-
curacy and an almost inconceivable
display of malice, he had sawed every
round apart through the middle. He
had divided that ladder lengthwise
from top to bottom!"
A Tug of War..
The well-dressed, portly man stood
for several moments watching the
brawny drayman who was laborious-
ly tugging at a large, heavy laden
box, which seemed almost as wide as
the doorway through which he was
trying to move it. Presently the kind-
ly disposed onlooker approached the,
perspiring drayman and said with
pat? nizing air: "Like to have a
lif"Bet yer life," the other replied,
and for the next tdo minutes the two
men on Opposite
sides
o! the box
worked, lifted, puffed and wheezed,
but the box stuck fast. They went
at It again, but it did not move a
inch. Finally the portly man straight.
ened up and said between. •pttfte,. "T
don't beiieV'e We ear. get it ire Mere."
"Get it in?" the dray7rfine altdest Oaih hits oft with tt'rtichereUs tropes
shouted. "Why, you blamed mutton- , ted turn ta.i relit►.-'Sophocles.
head, I'm;, trying to get it out!"
UNDER A VOLCANO
A Town That Lives In Perennial
Dread of Extinction.
COLIMA'S CRATER IN ACTION.
It's a Solemn Speotaole For the Dwell-
ers In the Shadow of the Gloomy
Peak When "Old Faithful" Explodes,
as It Does Regularly Once a Year.
It Is singular how indifferent to a
persistently threatened danger human
beings can become, even when the dan-
ger Is of a deadly nature and may
imperil their very lives. Harry 13,
Dunn, in the Montreal Herald and
Star, tells of a case in winch a whole
townful of people lie under the con-
stant threat of extinction by a volcano.
The roof of tfle little boxlike hotel in
Colima. capital of the state of Colima,
in Mexico, was freshly drenched with
wetter in a vain effort to fight off some
of September's heat, I think there were
,eighteen of us gathered there in the
cool., gray night. The almost silent
town lay like a Meek and white check-
• erboard at our feet.
Twenty miles away, across a valley
still green with the rains of summer,
rose 0 conical tuouptain, almost soli-
tary, Even by night it looked sinister;
by day it was terrible, with Its barren,
lave coated sides. its gas exuding cone
shunned even by the vultures which
haunted mountain and plain. It was
the volcano of Colima, the "01d Faith-
ful" of craters, which explodes regu-
hirly once a year -and it was almost
due for an exhibition.
"Ile should begin soon." droned the
hotel keeper. "Maybe today, maybe to-
morrow, maybe not for ;7 week, but it
it the middle of September, and it is
Ills time."
The old man had scarcely finished
when a bubble, black as night, crowd-
ed itself out of the broken. end of the
mountain, which we knew was a pot of
molten stone, twenty miles away. The
bubble, so dark that we could see it
plainly, swelled like a ;;rowing puffball
mid then. pushed out from below, rose
like a giant umbrella, with incredible
speed, into the Sky. Behind it came a
sirnight tubular c'oJumn of smoke, such
smoke as that of which the bubble was
made, bine!: rind thick and ominous.
Up, use up, ruse the bubble, riding, it
sec'a,eci, on the column below it. it ap-
peared to Ilene. litre n huge blanket a
thousand feet in the heavens; then
'slowly, like some great octopus feeling
its wry along the bed of the sea, the
bubble flattened and began to spread
one Probably it moved miles every
Minute, but it was far away and so.
monstrous that we could not judge it
by ordinary standards.
It seemed that the town below us
heaved a Tong. sigh. The thing for
which its ten or twelve thousand in-
habitants had been waiting was about
to happen. The mighty drama was
about to be enacted before their eyes,
as it was before the Spanish conquis-
tadores set foot on Mexican soil. Yet
to them the spectacle was ever excit-
ing, for its end might be death, might
be destruction of their town, as it had
been the destruction of the manysmall-
er towns clustered more closely round
the skirts of the gloomy peak.
The roofs tilled with people. Here
and there a woluan screamed; many,
both men and women, prayed; queru-
lous cries and questions from children
rose on the night air, and the bells in
the churches began to ring, slowly. at
tirst and then more rapidly, as the fire
god began to play about the crest of
Colima.
Like a waterspout on tbe crest of a
lofty roller at sea, the smoke column
end its spreading top rested for a mo-
ment on the volcano and then, with a
thunderous outrush of air, which must
have been beard for at least a bundred
miles, vanished into thin air. A col-
umn of fire took their place.
No ordinary tire was this. No flame
ever kindled by human hands burned
so white as that tower of luminous bits
of lava and sand and stone and super-
heated gases that shot upward from
the mouth of the crater.
1 gazed at it spellbound as the light
of day spread round all over the valley
and the city. A constant roar came
from the volcano, a roar so insistent,
so monotonous, that I could not bear
what the old hotel keeper who stood at
my elbow was saying. I bent my ear
to him and hearth "Not so bad as last
year. Maybap we shall not be harmed."
Too Modest.
Sir W. S. Gilbert's own story of his
first experience as a playwright is in-
structive. He took his maiden attempt
to a --manager, who read it carefully
anti offered to accept it. "Now," said
be to the overjoyed dramatist, "what
do you expect me to pay you for this?"
The young author, not liking to be
too forward, modestly suggested 30
guineas. The manager immediately
wrote out a check for the desired
amount and, presenting it to Gilbert,
said: "Young man, let me give you a
word of advice: Never sell So good a
play for such a small amount again."
A Curious Trial.
The records of Kirby Matzeard
church in Yorkshire, England, men-
tion a curious trial which took place in
the church, In the seventeenth century.
A woman was tried for stealing a skull
out of the churchyard, tier defense
took the skull to
was that shoput un-
der the pillow of a Sleepless friend as
a charm to make her sleep. She wan
reprimanded ttttd ordered' to put the
sknit hack.
SENTENCE PHILOSOPHY.
Begin it well, and know.
'that Ged wilt end it so.
An honest patch msy be a badge of
honor
Kincl' words do not wear out the
tongue.
Learning to do without gives you TWO FARMERS.
more to do with. -"`"" "-"
The milk of k'uman kindness is often -
Mame skiremed.
The biggest prima man can pay for
a thing is to. ask for it.
Who has never tasted what 'is bitter
does not know what is sweet.
road to ruin is in gond repair;
the I:ravelers pay the expense of it.
It is a pity that often the man with
the biggest heart has the smallest
pocketbook.
Work can be made into a pleasure
and it alone is profitable to a man, to
hie country, to the world
CA TO RIA
For Infants and Children
it
Use iFor Over 30 Years
Always bears /�..�,.�.�...
the �dY•
Signature of
A Gentle Hint. -
"I was speaking with your father
last night," said the young man.
"01], were your answered the sweet
young thing, lowering her eyes. "What
were you talking abort?" •
"About the likelibood of a war with
Mexico. Your father said if there was
a war be hoped it world be short."
"Oh, yes; 1 know papa is very much
opposed to long engagements." -Yonk-
ers Statesman.
Can You --7
Girl with glory gilded hair,
Girt of grand and gushing graces.
Fairy fine and fain and fair,
Can you wash the children's faces?
When the rosy morning bright
• Paints rare roof and special spire,
Banishing the shades of night,
Can you start the kitchen fire?
�v111ing wight, with you I wander.
Springtime's sweetness overhead.
Pensive, all your proofs 1 ponder.
But, Babe, citn you bake good bread?
Tested, true and tried and tender,
_Heart in which 1 place reliance,
Hast thou had a course, 0 slender
Maiden, in domestic science?
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Too Late.
"Yes," be was saying, • "as a matter
of fact, a man doesn't learn what hap-
piness really is until he is married."
"I'm glad you've discovered tbat at
last," replied she, with visions of im-
medIate'proposal..
"Yes," he continued. "and when he's
married it's too lata" -Brooklyn Citi-
zen.
The First Caricature.
When man was made (of dust they say,
The sneering Satan marked his shape;
Then took another piece of clay
And in derision made the ape.
But, sinning through a million years,
Man so unspeakable became
At length the Simian house of peers
Denied similitude with shame.
While man, who wouldn't be denied,
Set every monkey house agape
1y claiming, with a blatant pride,
He was descended from the ape.
-Bertrand Shadwell In New Zeaiama
Times_ . _ - -_
ChJdren Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CAS"T'O R I .ems.
The slipshod farmer goes by guesa.,
and has all kinds of black distress. He
doesn't keep his head on straight, but
sticks to methods out of date. You
say, "Why don't you take a brace. and
cultivate your flamed old place, in
modern• style, with modern took, ae-
cording to the latest rules? Why not
improve your flocke and herds? Then
you ti have coin to pr•l, the birds."
He answers through hie old strew lid:
"I do the way my father did. I have
no use for modern rules, for egrieulture
learned in schools. No farmer's• journals
do I need; I have no time to sit and
read. I've too much trouble on my'
mind, to stand and talk here till I'm
blind; my cows are all producing whey,
my bens have never learned to lay; my
hogs are troubled with the thumps; my
horses have the jumping mumps; our
old stone churn is out of plumb, and so
the butter will not come; the well is
dry, the chimney smokes, my hired
men are lazy blokes, and I must kick
around and roar, just as my father did
of yore,"
The modern farmer, up to date, has
all things running smooth and straight
He knows the farmers must advance.
and knowledge gain, at every chance.
For farming is no blind man's game;
the winner needs a lofty aim, must
have a comprehensive view, and know
what other farmers do. Ha ought to
know what kind of stock will bring him,
roubles by the crock, know how to com-
bat bugs and worms, and put a crimp in
deadly germs; he ought to know what
kind of grain will flourish best on hill
or plain; he ought to know what loud of
pills to give his horses for their ills, a
thousand things he has to know, if he
would sidestep grief, and so he reads
s
farm papers every day,and knows the
good one makes it pay; it pays a hun-
dred times its cost -the time spent
reading isn't lost. -Walt Mason.
Children., Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CAST 0FR1A
Renewed
This Letter Bring
to the Aged-:
Chase's Nerve
New, rich bloo a
needed in the deci
up energy and
Chase's Nerve Fe
help in maintains
prolonging life is re
er of this letter.
Mr. Stephen J.
F.B.I., writes :-' .b
of age my heart p
very irregular and
would palpitate.
came weak, and
but lie in bed in :+
tion, losing strerg
that condition I
Chase's Nerve Fo'
Had I not ohtairc
would now be in tl-
over my nose. At
an energy which ir
writing this letter
like myself may n
and strength by us'
cine." 50c a. box,
sale' by all dealers.
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THE TIMES
To New Subscribers1
We will send the Times to New
Subscribers to any address in
Canada to January 1st,
1916, for
$ 1 .00
Leave your orders early
Your `order for any newspaper
or magazine will receive
prompt attention
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