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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-02-25, Page 6THE WINGHAM TIMES February 25th, 1915 MEDICAL USE OF At COBOL. Aa the public heeomt : ; 'r•' enlight- ened' and as professi ,r n en tend to specialize, there it- :: t:-• :t ns.t for pr'- cisi to .and accuracy in .v• ,, .:. of medi- cine that hos to es: sows hatter in the. abandonment of ales hiS sss reliance in c..se of lever. Ie a stimulant sags • -. d, we ask. Wrier do wie wish to sii.•,:tS:-r? What vital function needs eti,..,, :err to bring it hp to normal? 'fleet we have to select the stimulant Lis:..ats encourag- inety on that special outer-wn and not on ony oth•es that. ns, o r6, widening up --anti in no solitary instance can our chess. be oleohol. If it is a general !,•,-.tor that is needed. we seek to . ,,,.s the cause of general depression - :ret this nearly always toxemia (or, :as •.o .ple words, blond poisoning). Indeed it is to the discovery that in all infer.ious maladies it is toxemia that co..- :utas the most proseing danger that at'';hol owes its death blow. For we sow know that alcohol never aids in ;Soiling the system of these poisons, but 'nvariably adds itself to the flood of poisonous agencies with which the patient must contend. The final stroke was given to alcohol as a remedy in fevers when it was found that the increased niteeenous output of the kidneys was derived from the food, the liver being so occupied in intercep- ting and throwing out the alcohol that the nitrogenous of the food slipped past the unguarded portal and gained access to the general circulation. ACTUAL RESULTS. To the Editor— The actual results of prohibition in West Virginia are most encouraging. The President of The Citizens' National Bank of Penusboro says 'I am person- ally acquainted with quite a number of farmer drinking men who have reform- ed since prohibition and are now sober aggressive citizens." Mr. Amos Wright, President of the Heine National Bank, of Sutton, says "I have yet to hear the first business man speak of the prohibition law except to say that it is a great help to business, and a great help in many other ways." Mr. P. NI. Snyder of the Bank of Mount Hope says ''Our Bank has open- ed up approximately three hundred new accounts since the first of July, a very large per cent. of which came from the laboring class who formerly spent their; money for intoxicantstl" Mr. John L. Rhul of the Clarksbury Trust Company says "The drink money is finding its way into saving's accounts." And so I could go on giving the testi- mony of number of prominent bankers and business men all of whom are de- lighted with the working of the new, law. It seems strange how slow people are in finding out that money won't buy boots and beer. But I am almost amaz- ed at the taxpayers who cannot see that they are bur..ened with taxes to support the paupers and criminals and take care of the wrecks caused by the liquor traffic. A. Arnott, M.B., M.C.P.S POINTED PARAGRAPHS. A man may be lonesome because other men are particular about their asso- ciates. But the young fool is not excusable on the ground that there is no fool like a' old fool. Any young man can afford to marry —If the girl has money enough for two. Some peop:e are as quick as powder and others are as slow as cold molasses. My son, there are two things you should never borrow—money or trouble, especially trouble. And sometimes the girl who marries her ideall gets a diverse and lives happily ever after. Being kind to a rich mother-in-law may be a good investment. An old bachelor fears a baby more than a woman fears a mouse. How a woman does enjoy quarreling with ,a man who isn't quarrelsome. SWINE HUSBANDRY. "Swine Husbandry in Canada" is the title of Bulletin No. 17 of the Live Stock Branch of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, This publica- tion describes the bacon hog and dis- cusses his breeding and rearing. The breeds of swine reared in Cana- da are described and a history of each is given. An interesting section is de- voted so the production of pork on Can- adian farms. The information was evi- dently secured from practical farmers in cheese factory and in creamery dis- tricta and in sections where hogs are rained without dairy by-products. The bulletin concludes with articles en hog cholera and tuberculosis, written by the Veterinary Director General and he Chief Matt Inspector, respectively. Mut ht generously illustrated and prhat- er,. in septa brown ink. Copies are die to those who apply for them to t!bellPublloatitme Branch of the De- t of Agriculture at Ottawa. • FTRIOTISWPRUC:1. Co i s 3 lete o r Pan The important thing now is to complete at once your plan for the year's work -- for increased production. By planning well in advance, each month's operations can be carried through more effectively when the time comes. Delays later on, through neglect of this, will mean loss to you and to the Empire. Use the Best Seed This year, for the sake of the Empire, farmers should be exceptionally careful in the selection of seed. Cheap seed is often the dearest. If every Canadian farmer would use only the best varieties, and sow on properly cultivated soil, the grain output of Canadian farms would be doubled. Deal only with reliable seedsmen. Write at once to Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, and to your Provincial Agricultural De- partment for information as to the best varieties of seed to be used in your particular locality, and use no others. ATTEND YOUR CONFERENCE Clean Your Seed All grain intended for seed should be thoroughly cleaned and selected to retain only the strong kernels. You can reap only what you sow. It does not pay to sow weeds. Cleanseed means larger crops and helps to keep the land clean. When you have your seed grain ready, put it through the cleaner once more. The Farm Labour Problem The Government suggests the forming of an active committee in every town and city, composed of town and country men and women. This com- mittee would find out the sort of help the farmers of their locality need, and get a list of the unem- ployed in their town or city, who are suitable for farm labour. With this information, the committee would be in a good position to get the right man for the right place. . Councils, both rural and urban, Boards of Trade and other organizations could advantageously finance such work. Every unemployed man in the town or city who is placed on the farm becomes immediately a producer, instead of a mere consumer and a civic expense. Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada Test Your Seed Test your seed for vitality, too. Seed is not always as good as it looks. For example, oats, quite normal in appearance and weight, may be so badly damaged by frost that their value for seed is completely destroyed. If you have any doubt as to the quality of your seed a sample may be sent free to the seed laboratory at Ottawa, or Calgary, for test. But in most cases this simple test will prove sufficient:— Take a saucer and two pieces of blotting paper. Place seed between blotting papers. Keep moist and in a warm place. In a few days, you will be able to see whether the vitality is there. Neglect to test your seed may mean the loss of crop. Increase Your Live Stock. Breeding stock are today Canada's most valuable asset. The one outstanding feature of the world's farming is' that there will soon be a great shortage of meat supplies. Save your breeding stock. Plan to increase your live stock. Europe and the United States as well as Canada will pay higher prices for' beef, mutton and bacon in the very near future. Do not sacrifice now. Remember that live stock is the only basis for prosperous agriculture. You are farming not speculating. r -- EMI EMI MEM ® Nal l®MEM MEI" No Postage Required. Publications Branch, Canadian Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Please send me Bulletins relating to Seed. 1 1 Name P.O. Address County Prov — =MI VmSn ParAVI MGM 7P 1W1RM112 1 1 -Build Up The Home Town I F YOU want to live in the kind of a Town, Like the kind of a Town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in a blip And go on a long, long hike. You'll only find what you left behind, For there's nothing that's really new.. It's a knock at yourself when you knock your town. It isn't your Town—it's YOU. REAL Towns are not made by men afraid, I� Lest somebody else gets ahead. When everyone works and nobody shirks, You can raise a Town from the dead. And if, while you make your personal stake, Your neighbor can make one, too, Your Town will be what you want to see. It isn't your Town—it's YOU BE LOYAL TO YOUR OWN COMMUNITY MOM CARLYLE ON WAR, When Men Kill Men Between Whom There Was No Quarrel. What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and up- shot of war? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil in the British village of Dumdredge usu- ally some 500 souls. From these, by certain. "natural enemies" of the French, there are successively selected during the French war, say, thirty able. bodied men. Dumdredge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them, She has, not without difficulty and sor- row, fed them up to manhood and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under 'thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected, all dressed in red and shipped away at We public charges some 2,000 miles, or, say, only to the south of Spain, and fed there till wanted. And now to that same spot in the south of Spain are thirty similar French artisans from a French Dumdredge, in like manner wending. till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into ac- tual juxtaposition, and thirty stands fronting thirty, each with a gun in its hand. Straightway the word "fire" is given, and they blow the souls out of one another, find in place of some. sixty brisk, useful craftsmen the world has sixty dead carcasses which 'it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest! They- lived far enough apart; --were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a universe there was even, unconsciously, by cora• coerce. some mutual helpfulness be- tween them; How then? Simpleton! Their 'governors had fallen out, and in- stead of shooting one another had the cunning to make these poor block- heads shoot. Alas, so it is in Deutsch• land, and hitherto in all other lands. Still, as of old, "What deviltry so ever kings do the Greeks must pay .the pip- er!"—Thomas Carlyle. BEARDS IN BATTLE. And Why Clean Shaven Men Became Prized as Warriors. The habit of shaving is not of a very ancient origin. According to James Stephens in "Here Are Ladies." when humanity lived a quiet, rural and un- ambitious life web did not shave; their hair was their glory, and if they had occasion to swear, which must have been infrequent, their hardiest and readiest oath was "By the beard of my father," showing clearly that this feature was held in veneration in early times and was probably accord- ed divine honors upon suitable occa- sions. With the advent of war came the habit of shaving. A beard offered too bandy a grip to a foeman who .had got to close quarters; therefore, war- riors who had no true hardihood of soul preferred cutting off their beards to the honorable labor of defending their chins. Many ancient races effected a com- promise in order to retain a fitting military appearance, for a barefaced warrior has but little of terror in his aspect, The ancient Egyptians, for example, who had cut off or could not cultivate or bad been forcibly deprived of their beards, were wont to go into battle clad in heavy false whiskers, which, when an enemy seized hold of them, came off instantly in his hand, and the ancient Egyptian was enabled to dispatch him while in a trance of stupefaction and horror. Cleanshaven men became by this cowardly stratagem very much prized as fighting men, and thus the founda- tion of the shaving habit was laid. Names of Nations. The names of the great nations of Europe set many puzzles to the philol- ogist. There is no doubt .that France Is the country of the Franks, the free men, or that Austria is the eastern empire. But one would not so easily guess that "Russians" means rowers or seafarers—a word of Swedish ori- gin commemorating the Scandinavian vikings. The Britons have been sup- posed to take their name from a word signifying variegated, in allusion to their staining their skins with woad. Most puzzling of all is "Germans," which is not the Latin "germanas," own brother, but of Celtic origin, and has been variously interpreted as meaning "the people" or "the shout- ers."—London Chronicle. War News Affected Her. Many people who have been reading the terrible war news from day to day, especially those who have relatives at the seat of war, have become so nervous that it is impossible for them to sleep. The nerves have become unstrung and the heart perhaps affected. Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills will build up the unstrung nervous system and strengthen the weak heart. Miss Iiildia DItxtire, Martintown, Ont., writes: "In August, 1914, I was Out of school for my health. I was visit. 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I'm just as keen for honest fun As what I ever used to be, And when there's duty to be done It still can safely call on me; Yet age, beyond the slightest chance Upon the frame of me is sneakin', Along about the fifteenth dance I find that I've begun to weaken. No gray hair glistens in my, head, No curve has started in my spine, Each morning when I quit my bed I feel superbly fit and fine. Of course, I am no acrobat, No strong man in a vaudeville show, But I have no superfluou-i fat And I can give and tas"e a blow., And yet this is a circumstance That tells me I am getting graver Along about the fifteenth dance I find that I've begun to waver. Time was that I could hold the floor Until the misty break of day, - I was the last one through the door To start upon the homeward way, Fatigue I thought was some disease That only came to grey, old men , And crippled them below the knees, But I was young and foolish then, And now I find whene'er I prance I no more wait dawn's rosy red -time Along about the fifteenth dance I tell the missus that it's bedtime. Th Sawfish, ' The sawfish has a formidable wea- pon of killing in the fiat, bony sword, armed on each side with about twenty large, bony teeth. The sawfish ruahes: into a shoal of fish and slashes to - the right and to the left, In sea fights sometimes whales have been killed by sawfish, and the saw some- times has been driven - through the' hull of a ship, The sawfish, common about the West Indies, goes into the - gulf of :.:exieo and the Florida wat- ers and sometimes ascends the Mis- sissippi and other southern rivers, do- ing great havoc to the nets of fisher- men. This species sometimes reaches a length of fifteen feet, a fourth of which measures the "saw." ArIsthion. In a small village in Switzerland is a comfortable old inn much fre- quented by English, and the menu generally includes one dish supposed to be specially British. Though the orthography is peculiar, the meaning is generally obvious—as, for exam- ple, "rost bif roti," "rumesteck," but "aristhious de mouton a l'Anglais" was puzzling. The first word had a distinctly classical appearance, which suggested a Greek origin. But when the dish appeared the meaning flash- ed into the guests' minds. "Aris- thiou" was the Swiss chef's attempt to render phonetically the words "Irish stew."—Manchester Guardian. Paid In Full. Miss Pinkerton (daughter of a rich manufacturer)—Pardon me, miss, but I have not the honor of your acquaintance! Miss Lowton (who does not intend to be put down in that style)—I thought you had at one time, but never mind! 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