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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-03-18, Page 6ee 4 ART TRE=ASURES OF FFA AWL Precautions That Guard Them at the Louvre, In Paris. T,'hose who visit the Louvre tlo mit suspect the labor that is uecessarc in keeping the building iu order It must be protected at ;tight against lire and burglars by watchmen, who, with re volvers et hip and davit lanterns iu hand, make their rounds, accompanied by police dogs. Upstairs and downstairs and aloe; the corridors, says the Paris corre- spondent of the New York Sun, the distance they travel amounts to tour miles, and in every room the watch, Men must "punch" the clock that shows whether the rooms have been inspected and how often. During the night the most valuable works of art are kept under lock and key. When the galleries are closed to the public a clever piece of meeleinism ' is set in `teotion that carries the reyal jewels, worth millions of dollars, into a special burglar proof chamber The Venus de Milo, too, has ber own spe- cial bedroom. An iron shutter rises from the ground in front of her and hides the marble features of the god- dess, In the early morning an army of custodians pours through the rooms, and the process of cleaning begins, A force of 150 ruen sets to work with brooms, dusters and floor polishers. The custodians exceed the strength of a company or soldiers on a war foot- ing. There are one chief custodian, three undercbiefs. twenty-seven supe- rior and 14S inferior custodians. To these must be added the Louvre's arta. sans, for the great place has its own works department and almost its own factory. RADIUM AND LIGHTNING. And the Better Protection of Horses During Thunderstorms. Radium has been discovered vastly to improve lightning rods in their pro- tection or buildings during thunder• storms. Of course the enormous cost of radium prevents any practical use of the fact as yet But there is a very fair possibility that the information gained in this way will' lead to a new form of lightning rod which will be more efficient or that further experi- ments will show that a tiny quantity of radium ata reaeouable cost will im- prove the protection. The purpose of lightning rods, of course, is to catcb the electrical cur- ' ur' rents in the air during e a; storm and lead them safely into the ground in- stead of allowing the lightning to pick its own course down through a house or church steeple, and their use is based on the principle that a metal rod will give the electricity a smoother path of less resistance than ordinary -building material. The whole trouble with lightning rods now is that, though they can be made to do the trick if the electrical discharge is near them. there is no way to lead electricity through the air to the rod. Radium will do this partof the work, as has beeii demonstrated in scientific experiments. Two milli- grams illigrams of radium on the end of a rod made the air a considerable distance away a vastly better conductor. Thus any electrical discharge within several yards of the rod had a path open for it -along the radium rays to the rod and then down the rod to the earth.—Saturday Evening Post, Out of the Mouths of Babes. Sunday School Teacher—Can you tell me who dwelt in the Garden of Eden? Little May — Yes, ma'am; the Ad- amses. "What is an amateur, Bobby?" quer- ied his small sister. "An amateur," replied Bobby, "is anything that isn't nature." "Mamma," queried little Myra, "do you think grandpa has really gone to heaven?" "Yes, dear," was the reply. "Well. continued Myra, "1'11 bet he sneaks outside once in awhile to smoke his pipe." In the lesson mention had been made of the canthook that is used in rolling Logs. "Can you tell me what a canthook is, Tommy?" asked the teacher. "Sure," replied Tommy. "It's a cow that hasn't any horns;'—Detroit Free Press. What Bobwhite Eats. Fifteen per cent of the food of the bobwhite is composed of insects, in- cluding several of the most serious pests of agriculture. Half of its food consists of weed seeds, one-fourth of grain and about one -sixteenth of wild fruits. Taken in ati the bobwhite is very useful to the farmer, and while it may not be necessary to remove it from the List of game birds every farmer should see that his own farm is not depleted by sportsmen. Father Foots the Bill. ''other (having just accepted cigar from son)—And what do you pay for thele? Son—Two for a quarter. Va. they—What! And 1 content myself with two for a dimet Son--We11, you know, dad, our cases are different. If had as large a family es you to sup- port I shouldn't stroke at alt. --Boston Transcript. Watoh and Watch. First Pickpocket—$ere he terries, nowt Second pickpocket—All right. You keep a watch on 'ire while t take at watch' o *iihrie,ondort AMMO*. *. Var. tiff F`itmt: ► Wigwag -1 never knew snob A still• 10* rte ]1 cotes. He Iii eilwit7e 400kbg trot &Odi N& Henpeck--T11I w 7 doe ''t twos tlt_z._ . _ TTTy WINGHAM TIMES 0 Build Up The IIome Town * it 1? YOU want to live in the kind of a Town, Like kc the kind of a Town yeti like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And go on a long, long Bike. You'll only find what you left behind, . For there's nothing that's really new. It's a knock at yourself iv1iemyou knock your town. It isn't your Town—it's You. 11 TOWIIs UT not made by mein afraid, 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 . • 11M1121111131111111111111,' IMMO= BE LOYAL TD YOUR OWN COMMUNITY 1 aeu THE NEED OF GREATER PRO- DUCTION. Great Britain has invested more money in this country than in any other country in the world, outside of the United States. The sum total is no less than $2,800,000,000, being equal to $400 for every man, woman and child. This money has gone largely to pro- vide railway and other facilities for carrying on our business. It is loaned money, and bears one hundred and twenty millions of dollars interest an- nually. That interest must be met. It can be met only by exporting surplus products. There is a ready market for all the farm products we can produce over and above our own requirements. > twenty per cent. increase in farm production will cover our interest pay- ments and maintain the country's credit. This is one answer to the question, Why is it necessary that Canada at this particular time should increase the out- put of the farm? It is neither asked nor expected th at the farmer should bear the whole aur• den. The railways and other organiza- tions engaged in the transportation of products must bear their share. The financial institutionsof the country must be asked to assist in financing the farmer's business as well as the manu- facturer's' The farmers of almost every country in Europe enjoy the ad- vantages of rural credits Similiar facilities are Urgently needed here. The need of suppling the farmer with information that will enable hits, to dis- tribute and market his products to the hest advantage, is becoming more and more urgent. The Canadian Minister of Agriculture recently put the matter in this form: "It is not, therefore, only greater production, but better production and cheapened production.• more aecurate knowledge of markets and better facilities for teaching them, All these things are tied up together, and it is to these things that not aplyafdlirmera but Govaiput tits, bankate apd anaperta,- tion then hnVe to addres8 themSeivea3" A clearer understanding of some of the handicaps retarding production wi11 be one of the good results that !must grow out of the present campaign. But let not the farmer stay his hand because and other defects in the econ- omic system have not yet been remedi- ed, Your country needs you, and needs You now, The loyalty and patriotism of the farmer has never been called into ques- tion. He has the opportunity before him to give expression to his patriotism by helping to keep up the food supply of Britain and her Allies. There is a higher motive than that of the pocket merely, and it should be a stronger one. At the same time the business aspe^t must be recognized. With afood short- age staring it in the fare, the, world is ready to absorb at good prices all we can produce. The main object of the campaign is to make clear the situation. There is no more reasonable body to deal with than the farmers. Lay the facts before them clearly and fully and they may be relied on to reach a correct decision. There is no necessity for calling upon the farmer to, work harder or for longer hours. Neither is it advisable to dictate to him as to what he should produce nor how he should produce it. The individual farmer must decide for himself how best to ir:eet the demand. We see, the question asked, and ask- ed too by agricultural journals, How can the farmer increase, the output Without putting more acres under cul- tivation and employing more labour? That production may to some extent be increased without a corresponding inerease in labour is clearly indicated, The best strains o£ seed will give larger yields than inferior kinds. A strain suited to the soil and climate and sown at the right time will give better re.. turns than seed that is not. Pure seed, plump seed, seed of strong vitality, will inerease the yield. These and other important principles are not as widely applied they asth y mi stet be. There is an appalling and almost universal Waste in the handling of liqui iii i. ►tr . Wafture in tbisistelMtrY. Beatify ;:prig aand restore &Unreel 411* elements of fertility now lost through lack of care, and production may be in- creased without any appreciable in - crease in labour. If the facts of the case indicate it, as we believe they do, then the farmer is warranted in employing more labour, provided suitable labour can be secured; he is warranted in preparing his land better, sowing his seed better, and in this manner doing what he can to meet the Empire's needs. The man who fails in his duty in the country's crisis, will regret it all his days. Nothing i.ike it for Cultist. /virs. Holland Ferguson, Sheffield, N. B., writes: "Dr. Chase's Syrup of Lin- seed and Turpentine has cured my children and myself of severe colds. We are never without it in the house. There is nothing' like it for colds and throat trouble, and it is so soothing and pleasant to take, my children would drink a whole bottle if they were per- mitted." A SET OF COMMANDMENTS "Ten commandments of good citizen- ship" have been formulated by the Chicago Woman's AIR, an organization headed by Mrs. Moses L, Purvin. Here they are: 1. Thou shalt honor thy city and keep its laws. 2. Remember thy cleaning day and keep it wholly. 3. Thou shalt love and cherish thy children and provide for them decent homes and playgrounds. 4. Thou shalt net keep thy windows closed day or night. 5. Thou shalt keep in order thy ally, thy back yard, thy hall and thy stair - Way. 6. Thou shalt not kill thy children's bodies with poisonous air nor their souls with bad companions. 7. 'Thou shalt not let the wicked fly live, S. Thou shalt not steal thy children's tight to harpiness from them. '9. 4:7{ltbu shalt.. bear witnessagainst thy neighbor's rubbish heap. 10. Thou shalt covet all the air and Isunlight thou canst obtain. KNOWS ALL THE GOSSIP, Carrie of the Telephone the Beet Post• ed on to wn, (n the AmeriP�recan 9UigTonzlne George Fite& the Illinois humorist. writes on "Tbe'Homeburg Telephone�a+:xebuuge," In which he describes the tt>leptioue iu a smell village. in the following ex. tvuet he expiates why Carrie, the tele- phone operator, knows more than any one else in town: "When my wife wants to know if bath are being worn at an afternoon reception she calls Carrie. Ten to,oue Carrie has caught a scrap of converse, tion over the line uud knows. But It she hasn't she will call up and find out. When a doctor leaves his office to make n rail he calls up Carrie, and she faith- fully pursues hire through town and country all day, if necessary. When we are preparing for a journey we do not go clown to the depot until we have called up Carrie and have found out if the train is on time. And when our babies wander away we no longer run t'runtically up and down the street hunting for them. We asle„ Carrie to leivertise for it lost child seven hands high and wearing a four -hour -old face wash, and within five minutes.she has called up fifteen people in various parte et' the town and has discovered that said child is playing Indian in some back yard u few blocks away. "Carrie is also our confidant. I hate to think of the number of things Car- rie knows. Prowling into our lines while we are talking. as she does, In search of connections to take down, she overhears enough gossip to turn Flumeburg into a hotbed of anarchy if she were to let it loose. -But she doesn't. Carrie keeps ail the secrets that a thousand other wo- men can't. She knows what Mrs. Wimble Horn said to Mrs.. Ackley over the line which mode Mrs. Ackley so mad that the two haven't spoken for three years. Sbe knows jest who of our citizens telephone to Paynesville when Homeburg goes dry and order books, shot's. eggs and hard boiled shirts from the saloons up there to be sent by express in a plain package. She knows who calls up Lutie Briggs every night or two from Paynesville, and young Alexander Bane would give worlds for the information. reserving only enough for a musket or some oth- er dueling weapon. '"There's very little that Carrie does not know, 1 shudder to think what would happen if Carrie should get miff- ed and begin to divulge. On'ee we bad a telephone girl who did this. She was a pert young thing who had come to town with her family a short time be- fore. It was a mistake to hire her— telephone girls should be watched and tested for discretion from babyhood tip—but our directors did it. and be- cause she showed a passion for litera- ture and gum and very IIttle for work they fired her in three months. She left with reluctance, but she talked with enthusiasm, and Homeburg was an armed camp, for a long time," Kant's Poverty. • Barring the ten years spent as tu- tor in private families. Kant passed the whole of his long life in Koenigs- berg, where he was born in 1724 Dur- ing his early tenure of the chaff of philosophy his sole emoluments con - slated of 120 a year, a sack of whdat every month and sufficient firewood to warm his house in cold weather. On becoming rector of the university only another £20 was added to his yearly stipend,'so•the greatest of all German philosophers was not much better off than the pastor of Goldsmith's "De- serted Village." however, in his lat- ter years Kant's scanty means were supplemented by an annual allowance of 120 from the privy purse of Fred- erick the Great.—London Chronicle. Alphabet In Bible Verse. In the twenty-first verso of the sev- enth chapter of Fzra can be found every letter of the English alphabet. It rens thus: "Andkl, even 1, Artax- erxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river rhat,whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe or the law or the Cod of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily." But, still more wonderful. in the eighth verse of the third chapter of Zephaniah is contained every letter, Including finals, et the Hebrew lan- guage.—Westminster Gazette. Not For Doctors. Of course It Is all right for ignorance to be bliss. but we dislike to have our doctor enjoy himself that way. -Gal- veston News. Don't Allow Your Bowels To Become Constipated. If the truth was only knows you would find that over one half of the ills of life are caused by allowing the bowels to get into a constipated condition. When the bowels become. constipated the stomach gets out of order, the livet does not work properly, and then follows the violent sick headaches, the sourness of the stomach, belching of wind, heart burn, water brash, biliousness, and a general feeling that you do not care to d0 anything. ' Keep your bowels regular by using Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills. They wil clear away all the effete smatter which collects in the system and make you thinly that "life is worth living." Mts. liana McKitrick, Wakefield, Que., writes: "Per several years I was troubled with sour stomach and biliotis- neis and did not get relief until 1 used Milburn's taxa -Liver Pills, I had only taken them two weeks when my trouble Wad quite gone, and I will recommend *in to all suffering as I did." Milburn's I,axa-Liver Pills are 25c per vigil, 5 vials for $1.00, at all drug stores or dealers, or will be mailed on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Cripple . With Rhe .. fi:i" at sm .And Skeptical 14- ,• `.trying Many Medicines—Dr It Kidney - Liver Vials Cui• i•)l :�, When the lcidn::: fail to purify the blood the poison i.'ct in the system cause pain and ret r, tig, such as back- ache, lumbago as .'d. nwatisni, Iteed how this skeptic to 'sed by Dr. Chase's Ktdnoy-L! Mr, F. W. Brow;:. Lingsbury, Quo., writes: --"I have 1. • 011 e„uipietely cur- ed of backache 1 lame back by using Dr, Chase's .lat•'ney-liver fills. I also recommend ,.l the pills to a roan who was a cripple Proal rheumatism. He was skeptical, an he Bald that he had tried nearly eve,•yclaim; on earth. Finally ho consent: d to try them, and to his surprise was greatly benefited in the first weak, and the pains loft his legs until lie was so 5091:10 Ite could walk without pain or diu:ieuliy. Dr. Chase's Kidney-i'.iver Pil:s 1'^ worked wonders in this place, and ,. think there is no modirine like them. - Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Mils One ;till a dose, 25 cents a hc,x. 6 .For St 110: til dealers, or .Edetanson, Rettoe Limited, Toronto, PROGRESS. To. the Editor:— "0f course we all know that railroads have long maintained strict rules in re- 1 gard to drinking among employees; I but do we know that within. the last few years practically every great in- dustry in the country has established similar rules.” "Drinking will now spell prompt dis- missal for you if you are an employee of the Hershey Chocolate Company, the International Harvester Co., Sher- win Williams Co., Sheffield Car Works,. United States Steel Corporation, Western Electric Co.. Pullman Co., Edison Co., Western anion, Interbor- ough Co., Standard Oil Co., or any one of a thousand other American firms of the first rank.'' "This magazine could be crammed from cover to cover with instances of the strong front industry has assumed De not suffer another day with Itohing Bleed- ing, or Protrud. ing Piles, No surgical oper- ation required. Dr. Chase's Ointment will relieve you at once and as certainly cure _you. tiOc. a box • all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Sample box floe if you mention thic gaper and enclose 20. stamp to pay postage. March ;8th, 1915 against alcohol during the last two years." "And note this: C. L. Close, Mana- ger of the famous bureou of safety of the United States Steel Corporation, a man who knows the social side of in- dustry as few men do. declares his opinion that in ten years, through the combined effort of the American in- dustries, the manufacture and sale of liquors ill be at an end in the United States." January issue of the Technical World, `7 Ilow I wish that every one could get a copy of the Journal from which the' above extracts are t.lken. There would be few who would not be convinc- ed that alcohol is the greatest evil in the world to -day, H. Arnott, M,B.,NM,C,P,S.. ASTO R IA For Infants and Childre a Bn Use For Over 30 Years • 4' Always bears the Signature of SENTENCE SERMONS Living will teach you how to live,. better than preacher or book. His attitude toward animals is a fair- ly trustworthy test of a man's charac- ter, Give the half -discouraged man a slap on the shoulder and in good cheer tell him to brace up. Work is an honor. The dishonour is in not knowing how, or in shirking your share. That you are young only once does not justify you in spoiling your pros- pects for an agreeable old age. If you read it right, a failure is often the guideboard pointing the way to success. Be an optimist. If things come to you dark side uppermost, turn them over: Get the bright side on top. Setting a good example is not enough it should be an attractive example. 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