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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-02-25, Page 7Febru'lry 25•h, 1915 ...._ THE Di'1NION BANK 31R EDMUND n" OSLER M.P., PRESIDENT. W. D. MATTHEWS, VIOE•PRESIDENT C. A. BOGERT, General Manager, • ,_ Do Your Banking By Mail if you live at a distance from a branch of The Dominion Bank. Deposits may be made—cash-withdrawn—or any other Banking Business may be transacted by mall, just as easily as though one made a special trip to town for the purpose. A Savings Account may be opened in the name of two persons —man and wife, or two members of a family—so that either one can deposit and withdraw money from the same account. WINGHAM BRANCH: A. M. SCULLY, Manager. [Ld�l r. /.7einrm_•,tMECSESErw.ieXTr..s n : ;✓:,star•-srv�ESSESszmusi,ENTSEDWI Clt Humor and Philosophy ar D vJvcMr M. SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. KAN is born to be the prey of those who know how to play upon his vanity, just as stock is created to be 'watered. No nervous dyspeptic ever was con- --winced that that is why the world is .against him. Most of us think we know a lot of people that Satan isn't sorrowing over. When you think you are entitled to consideratfos and attention just endeavor to claim it and see where you get off. The more grafi there is the more respectability it appears to attain. Taken at Her Wo.'d. A Bloomfield wumnn melted a"g"es ,her lawn to here passersby were vbreaking oil'" the blossoming twigs of 'her favorite quince tree. "We might as well cut the tree 00tvrr .as let it stand for people to destroy." -said she. Half an hour later the tree lay on the ,ground beside At little hatchet. while around behind the house the small ii.,y •ut the family was m'ttlne a .witenee: •wir`h ane of the branches. This teaches us that we should he sure of our uudienc'e before we employ .hyperbole in our speech. — Newark , News. A Means of Approach. Though I am not a smoker 1 like, to .carry matches in my pocket. One is al. ways liable to be accosted on the street by some one In need of a light. To ne .able to give amatch is th great luxury. •lt forms the basis for a ruothental;e ctriendstfip.—Atlantic. Tit For Tat. Bill McGinnis went a -fishing Ia a dark, secluded nook. Maybe Billy wasn't tickled When a fish got on his hook. Once a shark that roamed the, ocean Swam around in quiet joy. It was pleased beyond expression; It had caught the plumpest boy. Had Them on Him. "What is the business of that fellow we were talking to?" "He is a man of letters." "Editor of a magazine?" "No; a mail carrier." Her Favorite. "And what is your favorite flower, Mrs. Cooke?' "Mine?' oyes.. "Roller process." PERT PARAGRAPHS. There are people who get into trou- ble with greater ease and frequency than they get out of it. Sometimes we run across a man roles is such a poor hunter that be can't even find fault. A small amount of truth, will tincture an immeasurable quantity of gossip. Lots of folks are aching for a scrap who are afraid to begin it. What we know about others . and don't tell sometimes makes us fee very superior and virtuous. llot air often proves cold comfort. A good cook in the kitchen is much more to be desired than a pianola its 111e i flh'lor. elle who can make fudge thinks r.,• can claim to be an experienced I 0111C. Keep a good appetite and you won't need to ,keep a ply§clan: . The second baby In the family is never walceued up tc' see if its eyes are changing color. .No yon g man was ever able to size up his sweetheart. from his knowledge et hie own sister.' . That Fem,iriine' Minute, "Sit down and let's have a good talk. I nave a free hour." "Aren't you going out . with your wife?' The Old Fashioned Purging pe"Yes, but she jn she'd ,ready' tent) o a ust minutecalled."—dowBaltimore and Griping Action of Pills • America n: Is Now Done Away With. Milburn's Lama -Liver Pills gently .unlock the secretions, clear away all waste and effete matter from the system, :and give tone and vitality to' the whole intestinal tract. They do this by acting directly on the liver, . and ,making„the, bile,, pass.: through the bowels instead of allowing it to get 'into the blood, and,thus causinteonsli° patios, jaundice, catarrh of the stomach .and similar troubles. Mrs. L. M. Ratchford, Peterborcr, Ont., writes: "Having been, troubled for, .years with constipation, and trying many •different remedies which did me no good whatever, T was Mired to try Milburn.* Laxa-Liver Pills. I have -found the most beneficial, for they )kt•c in ,:+,rplendid pills, tiled I can gladly ileo mend them to all pet* WbQ.su et"fr + •t`oustipation.” Milburn's taxa -Liver Pills are .a vial, 5 vials for $1.00, at all druggists .or dealers or mailed direct on receipt of trice by The 'I'. Milburn Co.. Limited, .•Toronto. Ont. w Feminine Touch. •'Pa, what is meant by a feminine touch?" "A feminine touch,, my son. is a bow" of pink ribbon on a ey swatter."— Baltimore Sun. Risappointing. "She is writing an ode to Pan." "That sounds good. What pan?" "Part,' the, god' of. nature" "Oh, shucks: I thought it was the frying pan." Etonomical. ' "Wily does he now eat breakfast?" "To get his motley's worth," "Don't_ understand." "Hoards at the hotel, American plAt1:'' ,y #,h#ul•.Manifastation. "'They' soy he hi in love with his w!!a" "Oh, well, give !dm tithe:" a T'IIE WINGI-IAM TIMES SES LAST QCLONY TOGOLrtNl) \VAS WON FOR GER- MANY BY FilEEBOOTER:h. IL Is Chiefly b'aia urs For Its ticra. ban Feathers end the Great Wire, less Station 'Which Was Finished Just In Time .i"nv til; 1, tt—,ts History as a Colony Only (l.:cs Birk About Thirty l;ear.w, The l:rzt of Ccrt.t.an colcnie,; to fall into the i,:;i.,.e:•, t=i liltat i;ti- lain, Togoland, c',i the _,It,rtln':e t Cottzt of Africa, tura. La: :;t,:u'cs. far the la:lit•s, as he:Ill; t11:I l.a:.4ee i.r:.1e of the birds fro.a whnn:e come tilt: highly -prized marabou ieatliez: , Louie, the capaal, is quite Halal •rn. It is a clean little town t; ith \s hi - laid -out streets, shaded Ly vane ;..,td other trues. The pritmiDad iiu,lc:ing is the palace of the '.axe of isle burg, Inc Coy.rnor cf Togo. '1u come the dll,lcalties cauco.1 Ly the he .vy':;t:rf v,hicli breaks td.an uL in- Ces'a.n:.ij 0,1 the low sand,./ Lute!), a plc., a third ci a cello lana; Las Lean erected, and eonnee.ed n ith 'a ams - sive n•harf Or quay at the eea\✓ard end. Unfortunately the native:; aro for- getting .how to handle the surf- boats, and some: years ago, when the bridge connecting the v,harf with the shore was destroyed by a tidal wave supposed to have been due to a sub- marine volcanic upheaval. Lome was almost entirely isolated from the out- side world. What is believed to be ono of the most powerful wireless stations in the world was completed in prepara- tion for the present war a few months ago, at Atakpafiue, -about 110 miles from Lome. It is the chief receiving and distributing centre for the Ger- man colonies in Africa, and since messages can be either sent to, or received from, Nauen, just outside Berlin, a distance of 3,450 miles, it was a most important link in Ger- many's world wide intelligence Ser- vide. Atakpame is the terminus of the railway, but the Germans have built a good road as far as Sokode about 100 miles to the north, and a large motor car has been provided to sup- plement the iron road for further pro- gress into the foe hunting country nearer the interior of the continent. There, however, the inhabitants are hostile and treacherous, and have the disturbing habit of taking pot- shots at the passing traveler with their poisoned arrows. In this little -visited part of Togo are immense quantities of game. Antelope, leopards, and elephants abound, and many kinds of birds, in- cluding the marabou stork, whence come the greatly -prized marabou fea- thers. The rivers swarm -with croco- dile, and there are numbers of hip- popotami. • As regards Togo history, this only extends. -back about ,thirty years, at which time the Germans first occu- pied the country, They found it in possession of many. different tribes, all hostile to one another, the domin- ant tribe of the south-central region, dwelling 'round about which Sokode now is, being the Tschaudjo. These people were originally a con- quering tribe, like the Masai and the Zulus, and they swept" down from the north, somewhere about a hundred ' years ago, devastating the country as they advanced. They came riding on horses, and as these animals had never before been seen in Togoland, the terror they'inspired almost suf- ficed by itself to ensure the defeat of the aboriginal owners of the soil. When the Germans came up from the south, a motley but brave and determined rabble, led by a certain free-lance adventurer named Kerst- ing, they endured "their first real -Check at the handsof these wild horsemen. Impressed by their fighting quali- ties, Kersting, following ;in a small ;way the example set by Cortez in Mexico, and 'by Clive in India, allied himself with the • uro—or . king—of the Tschaudjo,\and, aided by him, he eventually subdued the whole coun- try and placed 'it under the German flag. The present uro, an old but dignified and amiable savage named Djabo, is the son of the man ,who fought under Kersting's banner. He resides at Bafilo, near Sokode, in a "palace" provided for him by tile Ger- man Government, who also grant him a small yearly subsidy. Although the bulk of the Togo na- tives are, as has been said, in a con- dition but little removed from bar- barism, some of the tribes, ,neverthe- leise, ehow censidetaltle skill,in handi- crafts. Thus, at Sassari and Benjali, in ,the Konkotnbwa, country, iron is mined, `smelted, and forged into vari- ous articles, under exceedingly primi- tive, though fairly' effective, condi- tions. Other tribes cultivate cotton, which they Weave. into strong and service- able cloth `Ott curiously primitive Wooden looms. Beautiful leather mats are also made, and large, strongly - woven baskets of palm -fibre, which sell for about half a cent apiece. In the far north, the only currency is salt or cowries. Amobigst the Kon- lcombwa copper and braes rods will Purchase almost anything. Mean of 1Itim. "Paw," "Well?" "When. I promise to marry him do you *alit *alit him to come and ask your rontreht?" ' "No, not my consent; but I would like to have bite trot in and tell me ,the good news: I Bort of feel like I needed cheering up." Square Measure. ' One hundred aiitd, f arty-fo it square inches in 1 square foot; 9 square feet in 1'eauare yard; 30 1-4 square'yards la 1. 'square trod; 160 square rods 'in 1 acre; there are 540 acres In 1 square mile. A Woman's Clothes, And a woman's clothes are always on her mind --even when on her If You Wish to Be Well You Must Keep tha Bowels Regular, If the bowels do pot move regularly they will, sooner or later, become con-. stipated, and constipation is productive of more ill health than almost any other trouble. The Sale cause of constipation is an inactive liver, and unless the liver is kept active you may rest assured that• headaches, jaundice, heartburn, piles, floating specks before the eyes, a feeling as iI you were going to faint, or catarrh of the st . aach will follow the wrong action of this, one of the most important organs of the body. Keep the liver active and working properly by the ere of Milburn's Laxa- Liver Pills, Mrs. lilijaih A. Ayer, Fawcett Hill, ' N.B., writes: "I was troubled with constipation for many years, and about three years ago my husband wanted me to try Milburn's Lexa-Liver Pills, as they had cured lhirh, I got a vial and took them, and by the time I had taken three vials I was cured. I always keen them on hand, and when I need a mild laxative I take one." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25c a vial, 5 vials for $1.'Y), at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. In Prospect. Summer Is alluring When it's tar away; In the nary Distance Looks so oright And gay. But When it 1s closer And we feel the sting Then we thing It rather Overdoes the thing. When The trosts Or winter Aip our classic nose And we sit And wonder Why So hard it sillies, And the weather Chilly Seems to be A crime, Then We sort of hanker For The summer time. But when it Is doing Business At our door And is very Friendly Then we raise A roar. Summer Is delightful When it isn't here. That Applies to any, Season In the year. Poor Guesser. "He is going to marry the Widow Jones." "But she is older than he." .ayes.a , "And no beauty." "Not exactly." "Is she rich?" "Why do you ask superfluous ques- tions?' Explaining 'It. "I see, as the blind man said," re- marked father when he was trying to be emphatic and facetious at tht- same time. "He couldn't, though, could he?" in- quired Willie. "No, son. That was just the blind man's bluff." 'keener ea, The Wretchedness of Constipation Can quickly be overcome y CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Purely vegetable —ad surely and gently en the ver. Cure Biliousness, Head- ache, asm, and'indigestioa. 'They de their y. mall Pill, Small Deb. Small Pelee, Genuine mit kat Signature .40021( A double spendthrift is one who wastes both his time and his money. The naval service gives warning of mine -sweeping operations off Canadi: n ports. Dollar Day in Wingham on Wedites day, February 21th. • Corne to town that day. FORCES OF NATURE, What They Do In Providing rower For Maolhinery. In several int; atone ways the forces of natpre are now exploited in order to provitte power for machin• cry necessary for various human activities. Such apparatus is ospec'-- ally favored by engineers, for not only can enormous power be obtain• ed, but the running expenses are ex• tremely low. One of the most in. genious of these inventions is that which obtains power from the rays of the sun. The apparatus is at worlt in Egypt, where it pumps up water onto high levels in thousands of gallons. This novel device consists of a number of refleating mirrors which concentrate the rays of the sun onto a glass -covered trough containing water. In a short space of time this water becomes sufficiently heated by the reflection from the mirrors tc give off steam, which passes into a pipe to an engine of the usual steam variety. When some 30 or 40 of these heating boxes are boiling water by means of the sun's boat sufficient steam is obtained to keep a powerful pumping engine at work with a min- imum of expense. Some idea of the enormous power which the sun machine conveys to the engine can be gauged by the fact that 3,000 gallons of water can be lifted 40 feet in one minute. In many ingenious ways water is now trapped by means of dams, gigantic reservoirs and great stretches of piping and converted into power for various purposes. Many great waterfalls are now har• nessed in such a fashion, two of the most important being the falls of the Rhine and those of Niagara, The machinery used to obtain power from these great products of nature is somewhat complicated, but, rough- ly speaking, huge pipes divert tons of water from the rapids just above the falls. This trapped water is then allowed to fall some hundreds of feet. Thought He Was Mad. The late Count de Lesseps was traveling on one occasion in a French railway train in a compartment with two commercial travelers. "I beg your pardon, sir," said one of them—"are you not a traveler?" "Certainly I am," said the count. "We thought so! What is your line?" "Isthmuses." "Wh-wh-what," asked the puzzled commercial—"what are they?" "I am introducing ship canals," said De Lesseps gravely. The commercial travelers feared that they had fallen in with a lunatic and were making preparations to es- cape when the count handed them his card and put them at their ease. Lure of the Opera. The music of operas always has been: and always will be the lure of its millions of patrons; the singing, too, is frequently brilliant and per- fect, but the presentment of scenes from life upon the stage where every- thing, however commonplace and banal, is sung, however beautifully, will always sadden the soul by the very impossibility and inappropriate- ness of the spectacle. Fat tenors and sopranos expire in flights of high notes, choruses express various quite unnecessary sentiments with what vo- cal skill they may, and the average person who likes music and a little logic, too, is thrown into ecstasies of wonderment. Bird's Milk. "I fed him with bird's milk." This curious expression was used by the old Sultan of 'Turkey, while a pris- oner on his way to Saloniki, with reference to his brother Mohammed, his predecessor on the throne. Abdul Hamid was lamenting his own fate and telling his captors how little he deserved it and how kind he had been to his brother. "I fed him with ••bird's milk," he said, as if that' were the greatest kindness he could show. What is bird's milk? Not the Turk- ish equivalent of the milk of human kindness, but a European brand of condensed milk bearing on the can a picture of a bird on a nest. Table Oilcloth Has Many Uses. Table oilcloth can be utilized for other purposes than its name indi- cates. It can be placed on kitchen and bathroom walls when smooth by adding a little glue to the paste. It also makes good lining for a market basket, which can be used for laun- dry and other purposes, as it is easily kept clean. It can be substituted for artists' canvas, tacking it securely to a frame. If the wrong side is used it should first be primed with a coat. of paint, and if the finished 'side, is, used treat first with turpentine. Study It Out. Here is a highly interesting para- dox, which may amuse or bewilder, as the case may be. It is supposed to have been invented by Socrates: A. says that all Athenians are liars. A. Is an Athenian and therefore" a liar. Therefore his statement that , all Athenians are liars is not true, and consequently all Athenians tell the truth. A. is an Athenian and hence tells the truth, wherefore his statement that all Athenians ate liars is true. Therefore he is a liar and his statgment false, and so on. His illusion. "I understand that you have called i to ask for my daughter's hand'?" "Oh, no; nothing like'thet;" "Then"-- "She and I settled all that. Whafe, I have called for is find out whit part Of the house you are going to turn over to us when we are mar- ' ried ?" Copper and Electricity. The electrieti conductivity .• of cop- per,., depends upon the total amount ;+0!.imptirltieli and not upon any one element. This is why the Conductiv- ity test le so valuable in determiin- I ing the purity- of cop•per,• ,,„ mann}I AOG,l pl! ..'IW �ulil II 1II Q11 41„Y,tul", W uY11,mLYL„ L,11L1u1,1,11 Thepropriefal to rialMedicineAc. 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Everyone of us must have won- dered how he would feel in battle for the first time, We may get some idea of how the average man feels in such circumstances from a study of the psychology of battle, just pub- lished in Italy. Lieutenant-Colonel Mangiarotti, of the 77th Infantry, carefully examined more than 2,000 soldiers who first faced fire in the recent war between Italy and Turkey, and he summat'ize ; their statements in the Rlvista Militare. He question- ed them one by one, Out of 2,000 men 1,700 confessed that' their most trying moment in the whole campaign was when they first heard hostile bullets whistle about their ears. But almost all of them said they were much less fright- ened than they had expected to be, and that the scare diminished with each battle. The average soldier finds the most terrifying position to be that of standing motionless in the front rank, exposed to the enemy's fire without being able to reply. The order to advance or to charge with fixed bayonets is then received as a release from agony. Movement, even into greater peril, distracts the mind and greatly reduces the mental an- guish. Soldiers are seriously affected by the trembling of their superiors. An officer who shakes in his shoes is a coward in the eyes of the rank and file, although the men know that many military heroes—Henry IV., Turenne, ar d Frederick the Great, for instance—trembled on going into a fight. • Colonel Mangiarotti says that of- ficers must understand this feeling. This is especially true for lieuten- ants, for this inquiry reveals the fact that in battle all officers from cap- tains upward are non-existent so far as the corn! ton soldiers are concern- ed. Thee beep their eyes on their lieutenar is exclusively. This was broughtout. when Col. Mangiarotti asked the 'nen what sentiment rn'- mated them when the bullets were falling all around them—was it love of country, religion, or their oath of fidelity to their king? "I went ahead," they replied, almost unani- mously. "because my lieutenant went ahead." It seems that once the battle is on and the first feeling of terror has vanished soldiers feel as if set free. The fever of combat takes possession of them and they thrrk about nothing else,—Johannesburg Sunday Times, "I heard Mrs. Talky broke her neck yesterday." "Yes. She fell out of a second storey window while trying to see what kind of furniture the new ten- ants have." Needlework. When engaged on delicate needle- work a good idea is to have a little flour in a saucer by you and to dip your lingers in it from time to time. This will keep the hands dry and the work beautifully Olean. • Ousting Timbers. The use of concrete for mine sup- ports instead of wood is increasing rapidly. Busy Censors. The Breslau police examine about 200 moving picture films a week. NEST AND. HEALTH TO MallEP iND CHILD., Mils. Wtnsraw's Sourptiso S r,>i hal been used for over SIXTY YllARa 1., tt.t,tONS of MOTIIIIRS for their Cuff.' N WSII TRItTlilNO With l ' RFEC : CC 5sooriuzS the OI the, iup, ALi.ALSail PAIN; CUR1tR' :o an is tat hest remedyfor DIA,' "' I, for sa ilr,lutrty harmless... be ante • "Mrs„ Winstow's Seething Syrup re so otbee kind Twenty -Ace cents a 1• STRENGTH IN EXCITEMENT. Either Fear, Rage or Pain Starts the Adrenal Glands to Work. Many a person has wondered where he obtained the strength that enabled him to undergo some emergency that called for unusual physical exertion when under ordinary "onditions he would be unable to control a tithe or that strength. It was from the adre- nal gastritis, two little glands situated above the kidneys which secrete what is known as adrenaline and when stimulated discharge the same into the blood. The effect of this addition to the blood is to release sugar from stor- age in the liver and bring it into the blood, drive the blood from the ab- dominal regions into the heart, lungs. central nervous system and limbs. The resulting effect is to excite the muscles to irritability and enable unusual effort to be made. Either fear, rage or pain will sup - illy the stimulus required to set the adrenal glands into action. When a muscle is fatigued without any ac- companying degree of excitement it may take a couple of hours for it to recover its normal condition, but if adrenaline is injected, or if through excitement the adrenal glands are stimulated to disctairge and secrete. the fatigued muscle may regain its "irritability" in three minutes. The sugar set free from the liver and cir- culated in the blood stimulates the muscles, for sugar is the source of muscular energy. Fear, rage and pain are thus given us toy nature as agen- cies to enable us to use our physical powers to their fullest extent in the crisis that produces the excitement — Los Angeles Times. WOMEN BEAT MEN AT FINDING BARGAINS By HOLLAND. WOMEN spend more mor' wv ey than men, and they spend it wiser. They not only buy most of the articles used in the houw. hut they also bay for their children and of. ten for their Wren folks. Women also read the ad- vertisements more than men do, This makes them better and safer buyers than men. They have equipped them. selves with the knowledge that makes them effective. They know the best stores. the best merchandise, the best values. By reading the advertisements women are enabled to shop more eco- nomically, to make the mon- ey go farther. HNOV IA10011 Yd " Ut* f 1r3t ll '11,RG. 2 Bank of Hamilton Capital Authorized $5,000.000 Capital Paid-up, 3,000,000 Surplus - - - 3,750,000 SAFETY FIRST The money you save, instead of being a comfort, may be a erne, if you have ,to worry as to its safety. Binish worry, by depositing it in the flank of Hamil- ton, which has saf.'•guardei the earn- ing, of the thrifty for over forty years in good times and bad, building up Star by year, a Surplus now 25 per cent. greater than it Capital. C. P. SMITH, Manager Wingham, Onto' r ttn" ell tee t0-0 i�f t ses , i' 1, 0.: ti • rr. l _____ c ' 'i -ri k i Clt Humor and Philosophy ar D vJvcMr M. SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. KAN is born to be the prey of those who know how to play upon his vanity, just as stock is created to be 'watered. No nervous dyspeptic ever was con- --winced that that is why the world is .against him. Most of us think we know a lot of people that Satan isn't sorrowing over. When you think you are entitled to consideratfos and attention just endeavor to claim it and see where you get off. The more grafi there is the more respectability it appears to attain. Taken at Her Wo.'d. A Bloomfield wumnn melted a"g"es ,her lawn to here passersby were vbreaking oil'" the blossoming twigs of 'her favorite quince tree. "We might as well cut the tree 00tvrr .as let it stand for people to destroy." -said she. Half an hour later the tree lay on the ,ground beside At little hatchet. while around behind the house the small ii.,y •ut the family was m'ttlne a .witenee: •wir`h ane of the branches. This teaches us that we should he sure of our uudienc'e before we employ .hyperbole in our speech. — Newark , News. A Means of Approach. Though I am not a smoker 1 like, to .carry matches in my pocket. One is al. ways liable to be accosted on the street by some one In need of a light. To ne .able to give amatch is th great luxury. •lt forms the basis for a ruothental;e ctriendstfip.—Atlantic. Tit For Tat. Bill McGinnis went a -fishing Ia a dark, secluded nook. Maybe Billy wasn't tickled When a fish got on his hook. Once a shark that roamed the, ocean Swam around in quiet joy. It was pleased beyond expression; It had caught the plumpest boy. Had Them on Him. "What is the business of that fellow we were talking to?" "He is a man of letters." "Editor of a magazine?" "No; a mail carrier." Her Favorite. "And what is your favorite flower, Mrs. Cooke?' "Mine?' oyes.. "Roller process." PERT PARAGRAPHS. There are people who get into trou- ble with greater ease and frequency than they get out of it. Sometimes we run across a man roles is such a poor hunter that be can't even find fault. A small amount of truth, will tincture an immeasurable quantity of gossip. Lots of folks are aching for a scrap who are afraid to begin it. What we know about others . and don't tell sometimes makes us fee very superior and virtuous. llot air often proves cold comfort. A good cook in the kitchen is much more to be desired than a pianola its 111e i flh'lor. elle who can make fudge thinks r.,• can claim to be an experienced I 0111C. Keep a good appetite and you won't need to ,keep a ply§clan: . The second baby In the family is never walceued up tc' see if its eyes are changing color. .No yon g man was ever able to size up his sweetheart. from his knowledge et hie own sister.' . That Fem,iriine' Minute, "Sit down and let's have a good talk. I nave a free hour." "Aren't you going out . with your wife?' The Old Fashioned Purging pe"Yes, but she jn she'd ,ready' tent) o a ust minutecalled."—dowBaltimore and Griping Action of Pills • America n: Is Now Done Away With. Milburn's Lama -Liver Pills gently .unlock the secretions, clear away all waste and effete matter from the system, :and give tone and vitality to' the whole intestinal tract. They do this by acting directly on the liver, . and ,making„the, bile,, pass.: through the bowels instead of allowing it to get 'into the blood, and,thus causinteonsli° patios, jaundice, catarrh of the stomach .and similar troubles. Mrs. L. M. Ratchford, Peterborcr, Ont., writes: "Having been, troubled for, .years with constipation, and trying many •different remedies which did me no good whatever, T was Mired to try Milburn.* Laxa-Liver Pills. I have -found the most beneficial, for they )kt•c in ,:+,rplendid pills, tiled I can gladly ileo mend them to all pet* WbQ.su et"fr + •t`oustipation.” Milburn's taxa -Liver Pills are .a vial, 5 vials for $1.00, at all druggists .or dealers or mailed direct on receipt of trice by The 'I'. Milburn Co.. Limited, .•Toronto. Ont. w Feminine Touch. •'Pa, what is meant by a feminine touch?" "A feminine touch,, my son. is a bow" of pink ribbon on a ey swatter."— Baltimore Sun. Risappointing. "She is writing an ode to Pan." "That sounds good. What pan?" "Part,' the, god' of. nature" "Oh, shucks: I thought it was the frying pan." Etonomical. ' "Wily does he now eat breakfast?" "To get his motley's worth," "Don't_ understand." "Hoards at the hotel, American plAt1:'' ,y #,h#ul•.Manifastation. "'They' soy he hi in love with his w!!a" "Oh, well, give !dm tithe:" a T'IIE WINGI-IAM TIMES SES LAST QCLONY TOGOLrtNl) \VAS WON FOR GER- MANY BY FilEEBOOTER:h. IL Is Chiefly b'aia urs For Its ticra. ban Feathers end the Great Wire, less Station 'Which Was Finished Just In Time .i"nv til; 1, tt—,ts History as a Colony Only (l.:cs Birk About Thirty l;ear.w, The l:rzt of Ccrt.t.an colcnie,; to fall into the i,:;i.,.e:•, t=i liltat i;ti- lain, Togoland, c',i the _,It,rtln':e t Cottzt of Africa, tura. La: :;t,:u'cs. far the la:lit•s, as he:Ill; t11:I l.a:.4ee i.r:.1e of the birds fro.a whnn:e come tilt: highly -prized marabou ieatliez: , Louie, the capaal, is quite Halal •rn. It is a clean little town t; ith \s hi - laid -out streets, shaded Ly vane ;..,td other trues. The pritmiDad iiu,lc:ing is the palace of the '.axe of isle burg, Inc Coy.rnor cf Togo. '1u come the dll,lcalties cauco.1 Ly the he .vy':;t:rf v,hicli breaks td.an uL in- Ces'a.n:.ij 0,1 the low sand,./ Lute!), a plc., a third ci a cello lana; Las Lean erected, and eonnee.ed n ith 'a ams - sive n•harf Or quay at the eea\✓ard end. Unfortunately the native:; aro for- getting .how to handle the surf- boats, and some: years ago, when the bridge connecting the v,harf with the shore was destroyed by a tidal wave supposed to have been due to a sub- marine volcanic upheaval. Lome was almost entirely isolated from the out- side world. What is believed to be ono of the most powerful wireless stations in the world was completed in prepara- tion for the present war a few months ago, at Atakpafiue, -about 110 miles from Lome. It is the chief receiving and distributing centre for the Ger- man colonies in Africa, and since messages can be either sent to, or received from, Nauen, just outside Berlin, a distance of 3,450 miles, it was a most important link in Ger- many's world wide intelligence Ser- vide. Atakpame is the terminus of the railway, but the Germans have built a good road as far as Sokode about 100 miles to the north, and a large motor car has been provided to sup- plement the iron road for further pro- gress into the foe hunting country nearer the interior of the continent. There, however, the inhabitants are hostile and treacherous, and have the disturbing habit of taking pot- shots at the passing traveler with their poisoned arrows. In this little -visited part of Togo are immense quantities of game. Antelope, leopards, and elephants abound, and many kinds of birds, in- cluding the marabou stork, whence come the greatly -prized marabou fea- thers. The rivers swarm -with croco- dile, and there are numbers of hip- popotami. • As regards Togo history, this only extends. -back about ,thirty years, at which time the Germans first occu- pied the country, They found it in possession of many. different tribes, all hostile to one another, the domin- ant tribe of the south-central region, dwelling 'round about which Sokode now is, being the Tschaudjo. These people were originally a con- quering tribe, like the Masai and the Zulus, and they swept" down from the north, somewhere about a hundred ' years ago, devastating the country as they advanced. They came riding on horses, and as these animals had never before been seen in Togoland, the terror they'inspired almost suf- ficed by itself to ensure the defeat of the aboriginal owners of the soil. When the Germans came up from the south, a motley but brave and determined rabble, led by a certain free-lance adventurer named Kerst- ing, they endured "their first real -Check at the handsof these wild horsemen. Impressed by their fighting quali- ties, Kersting, following ;in a small ;way the example set by Cortez in Mexico, and 'by Clive in India, allied himself with the • uro—or . king—of the Tschaudjo,\and, aided by him, he eventually subdued the whole coun- try and placed 'it under the German flag. The present uro, an old but dignified and amiable savage named Djabo, is the son of the man ,who fought under Kersting's banner. He resides at Bafilo, near Sokode, in a "palace" provided for him by tile Ger- man Government, who also grant him a small yearly subsidy. Although the bulk of the Togo na- tives are, as has been said, in a con- dition but little removed from bar- barism, some of the tribes, ,neverthe- leise, ehow censidetaltle skill,in handi- crafts. Thus, at Sassari and Benjali, in ,the Konkotnbwa, country, iron is mined, `smelted, and forged into vari- ous articles, under exceedingly primi- tive, though fairly' effective, condi- tions. Other tribes cultivate cotton, which they Weave. into strong and service- able cloth `Ott curiously primitive Wooden looms. Beautiful leather mats are also made, and large, strongly - woven baskets of palm -fibre, which sell for about half a cent apiece. In the far north, the only currency is salt or cowries. Amobigst the Kon- lcombwa copper and braes rods will Purchase almost anything. Mean of 1Itim. "Paw," "Well?" "When. I promise to marry him do you *alit *alit him to come and ask your rontreht?" ' "No, not my consent; but I would like to have bite trot in and tell me ,the good news: I Bort of feel like I needed cheering up." Square Measure. ' One hundred aiitd, f arty-fo it square inches in 1 square foot; 9 square feet in 1'eauare yard; 30 1-4 square'yards la 1. 'square trod; 160 square rods 'in 1 acre; there are 540 acres In 1 square mile. A Woman's Clothes, And a woman's clothes are always on her mind --even when on her If You Wish to Be Well You Must Keep tha Bowels Regular, If the bowels do pot move regularly they will, sooner or later, become con-. stipated, and constipation is productive of more ill health than almost any other trouble. The Sale cause of constipation is an inactive liver, and unless the liver is kept active you may rest assured that• headaches, jaundice, heartburn, piles, floating specks before the eyes, a feeling as iI you were going to faint, or catarrh of the st . aach will follow the wrong action of this, one of the most important organs of the body. Keep the liver active and working properly by the ere of Milburn's Laxa- Liver Pills, Mrs. lilijaih A. Ayer, Fawcett Hill, ' N.B., writes: "I was troubled with constipation for many years, and about three years ago my husband wanted me to try Milburn's Lexa-Liver Pills, as they had cured lhirh, I got a vial and took them, and by the time I had taken three vials I was cured. I always keen them on hand, and when I need a mild laxative I take one." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25c a vial, 5 vials for $1.'Y), at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. In Prospect. Summer Is alluring When it's tar away; In the nary Distance Looks so oright And gay. But When it 1s closer And we feel the sting Then we thing It rather Overdoes the thing. When The trosts Or winter Aip our classic nose And we sit And wonder Why So hard it sillies, And the weather Chilly Seems to be A crime, Then We sort of hanker For The summer time. But when it Is doing Business At our door And is very Friendly Then we raise A roar. Summer Is delightful When it isn't here. That Applies to any, Season In the year. Poor Guesser. "He is going to marry the Widow Jones." "But she is older than he." .ayes.a , "And no beauty." "Not exactly." "Is she rich?" "Why do you ask superfluous ques- tions?' Explaining 'It. "I see, as the blind man said," re- marked father when he was trying to be emphatic and facetious at tht- same time. "He couldn't, though, could he?" in- quired Willie. "No, son. That was just the blind man's bluff." 'keener ea, The Wretchedness of Constipation Can quickly be overcome y CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Purely vegetable —ad surely and gently en the ver. Cure Biliousness, Head- ache, asm, and'indigestioa. 'They de their y. mall Pill, Small Deb. Small Pelee, Genuine mit kat Signature .40021( A double spendthrift is one who wastes both his time and his money. The naval service gives warning of mine -sweeping operations off Canadi: n ports. Dollar Day in Wingham on Wedites day, February 21th. • Corne to town that day. FORCES OF NATURE, What They Do In Providing rower For Maolhinery. In several int; atone ways the forces of natpre are now exploited in order to provitte power for machin• cry necessary for various human activities. Such apparatus is ospec'-- ally favored by engineers, for not only can enormous power be obtain• ed, but the running expenses are ex• tremely low. One of the most in. genious of these inventions is that which obtains power from the rays of the sun. The apparatus is at worlt in Egypt, where it pumps up water onto high levels in thousands of gallons. This novel device consists of a number of refleating mirrors which concentrate the rays of the sun onto a glass -covered trough containing water. In a short space of time this water becomes sufficiently heated by the reflection from the mirrors tc give off steam, which passes into a pipe to an engine of the usual steam variety. When some 30 or 40 of these heating boxes are boiling water by means of the sun's boat sufficient steam is obtained to keep a powerful pumping engine at work with a min- imum of expense. Some idea of the enormous power which the sun machine conveys to the engine can be gauged by the fact that 3,000 gallons of water can be lifted 40 feet in one minute. In many ingenious ways water is now trapped by means of dams, gigantic reservoirs and great stretches of piping and converted into power for various purposes. Many great waterfalls are now har• nessed in such a fashion, two of the most important being the falls of the Rhine and those of Niagara, The machinery used to obtain power from these great products of nature is somewhat complicated, but, rough- ly speaking, huge pipes divert tons of water from the rapids just above the falls. This trapped water is then allowed to fall some hundreds of feet. Thought He Was Mad. The late Count de Lesseps was traveling on one occasion in a French railway train in a compartment with two commercial travelers. "I beg your pardon, sir," said one of them—"are you not a traveler?" "Certainly I am," said the count. "We thought so! What is your line?" "Isthmuses." "Wh-wh-what," asked the puzzled commercial—"what are they?" "I am introducing ship canals," said De Lesseps gravely. The commercial travelers feared that they had fallen in with a lunatic and were making preparations to es- cape when the count handed them his card and put them at their ease. Lure of the Opera. The music of operas always has been: and always will be the lure of its millions of patrons; the singing, too, is frequently brilliant and per- fect, but the presentment of scenes from life upon the stage where every- thing, however commonplace and banal, is sung, however beautifully, will always sadden the soul by the very impossibility and inappropriate- ness of the spectacle. Fat tenors and sopranos expire in flights of high notes, choruses express various quite unnecessary sentiments with what vo- cal skill they may, and the average person who likes music and a little logic, too, is thrown into ecstasies of wonderment. Bird's Milk. "I fed him with bird's milk." This curious expression was used by the old Sultan of 'Turkey, while a pris- oner on his way to Saloniki, with reference to his brother Mohammed, his predecessor on the throne. Abdul Hamid was lamenting his own fate and telling his captors how little he deserved it and how kind he had been to his brother. "I fed him with ••bird's milk," he said, as if that' were the greatest kindness he could show. What is bird's milk? Not the Turk- ish equivalent of the milk of human kindness, but a European brand of condensed milk bearing on the can a picture of a bird on a nest. Table Oilcloth Has Many Uses. Table oilcloth can be utilized for other purposes than its name indi- cates. It can be placed on kitchen and bathroom walls when smooth by adding a little glue to the paste. It also makes good lining for a market basket, which can be used for laun- dry and other purposes, as it is easily kept clean. It can be substituted for artists' canvas, tacking it securely to a frame. If the wrong side is used it should first be primed with a coat. of paint, and if the finished 'side, is, used treat first with turpentine. Study It Out. Here is a highly interesting para- dox, which may amuse or bewilder, as the case may be. It is supposed to have been invented by Socrates: A. says that all Athenians are liars. A. Is an Athenian and therefore" a liar. Therefore his statement that , all Athenians are liars is not true, and consequently all Athenians tell the truth. A. is an Athenian and hence tells the truth, wherefore his statement that all Athenians ate liars is true. Therefore he is a liar and his statgment false, and so on. His illusion. "I understand that you have called i to ask for my daughter's hand'?" "Oh, no; nothing like'thet;" "Then"-- "She and I settled all that. Whafe, I have called for is find out whit part Of the house you are going to turn over to us when we are mar- ' ried ?" Copper and Electricity. The electrieti conductivity .• of cop- per,., depends upon the total amount ;+0!.imptirltieli and not upon any one element. This is why the Conductiv- ity test le so valuable in determiin- I ing the purity- of cop•per,• ,,„ mann}I AOG,l pl! ..'IW �ulil II 1II Q11 41„Y,tul", W uY11,mLYL„ L,11L1u1,1,11 Thepropriefal to rialMedicineAc. 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Everyone of us must have won- dered how he would feel in battle for the first time, We may get some idea of how the average man feels in such circumstances from a study of the psychology of battle, just pub- lished in Italy. Lieutenant-Colonel Mangiarotti, of the 77th Infantry, carefully examined more than 2,000 soldiers who first faced fire in the recent war between Italy and Turkey, and he summat'ize ; their statements in the Rlvista Militare. He question- ed them one by one, Out of 2,000 men 1,700 confessed that' their most trying moment in the whole campaign was when they first heard hostile bullets whistle about their ears. But almost all of them said they were much less fright- ened than they had expected to be, and that the scare diminished with each battle. The average soldier finds the most terrifying position to be that of standing motionless in the front rank, exposed to the enemy's fire without being able to reply. The order to advance or to charge with fixed bayonets is then received as a release from agony. Movement, even into greater peril, distracts the mind and greatly reduces the mental an- guish. Soldiers are seriously affected by the trembling of their superiors. An officer who shakes in his shoes is a coward in the eyes of the rank and file, although the men know that many military heroes—Henry IV., Turenne, ar d Frederick the Great, for instance—trembled on going into a fight. • Colonel Mangiarotti says that of- ficers must understand this feeling. This is especially true for lieuten- ants, for this inquiry reveals the fact that in battle all officers from cap- tains upward are non-existent so far as the corn! ton soldiers are concern- ed. Thee beep their eyes on their lieutenar is exclusively. This was broughtout. when Col. Mangiarotti asked the 'nen what sentiment rn'- mated them when the bullets were falling all around them—was it love of country, religion, or their oath of fidelity to their king? "I went ahead," they replied, almost unani- mously. "because my lieutenant went ahead." It seems that once the battle is on and the first feeling of terror has vanished soldiers feel as if set free. The fever of combat takes possession of them and they thrrk about nothing else,—Johannesburg Sunday Times, "I heard Mrs. Talky broke her neck yesterday." "Yes. She fell out of a second storey window while trying to see what kind of furniture the new ten- ants have." Needlework. When engaged on delicate needle- work a good idea is to have a little flour in a saucer by you and to dip your lingers in it from time to time. This will keep the hands dry and the work beautifully Olean. • Ousting Timbers. The use of concrete for mine sup- ports instead of wood is increasing rapidly. Busy Censors. The Breslau police examine about 200 moving picture films a week. NEST AND. HEALTH TO MallEP iND CHILD., Mils. Wtnsraw's Sourptiso S r,>i hal been used for over SIXTY YllARa 1., tt.t,tONS of MOTIIIIRS for their Cuff.' N WSII TRItTlilNO With l ' RFEC : CC 5sooriuzS the OI the, iup, ALi.ALSail PAIN; CUR1tR' :o an is tat hest remedyfor DIA,' "' I, for sa ilr,lutrty harmless... be ante • "Mrs„ Winstow's Seething Syrup re so otbee kind Twenty -Ace cents a 1• STRENGTH IN EXCITEMENT. Either Fear, Rage or Pain Starts the Adrenal Glands to Work. Many a person has wondered where he obtained the strength that enabled him to undergo some emergency that called for unusual physical exertion when under ordinary "onditions he would be unable to control a tithe or that strength. It was from the adre- nal gastritis, two little glands situated above the kidneys which secrete what is known as adrenaline and when stimulated discharge the same into the blood. The effect of this addition to the blood is to release sugar from stor- age in the liver and bring it into the blood, drive the blood from the ab- dominal regions into the heart, lungs. central nervous system and limbs. The resulting effect is to excite the muscles to irritability and enable unusual effort to be made. Either fear, rage or pain will sup - illy the stimulus required to set the adrenal glands into action. When a muscle is fatigued without any ac- companying degree of excitement it may take a couple of hours for it to recover its normal condition, but if adrenaline is injected, or if through excitement the adrenal glands are stimulated to disctairge and secrete. the fatigued muscle may regain its "irritability" in three minutes. The sugar set free from the liver and cir- culated in the blood stimulates the muscles, for sugar is the source of muscular energy. Fear, rage and pain are thus given us toy nature as agen- cies to enable us to use our physical powers to their fullest extent in the crisis that produces the excitement — Los Angeles Times. WOMEN BEAT MEN AT FINDING BARGAINS By HOLLAND. WOMEN spend more mor' wv ey than men, and they spend it wiser. They not only buy most of the articles used in the houw. hut they also bay for their children and of. ten for their Wren folks. Women also read the ad- vertisements more than men do, This makes them better and safer buyers than men. They have equipped them. selves with the knowledge that makes them effective. They know the best stores. the best merchandise, the best values. By reading the advertisements women are enabled to shop more eco- nomically, to make the mon- ey go farther. HNOV IA10011 Yd " Ut* f 1r3t ll '11,RG. 2