HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-03-25, Page 6POWER OF COTT;.
It Reaches All People and Round
the Whole World.
MAN'S MASTER AND SERVANT.
This Staple Is the Basis of High Ex -
i plosives and Smokeless Powder and
•
1 ` Without It Not a Modern Big Gun
Could Be Fired -Its Numerous Uses.
Cotton reaches all around the world
and is the master and the servant of
all the people. Without cotton not a
modern gun could be fired. Cotton is
the basis of high explosives and of
smokeless powder, and the warship
carries relatively more cotton than was
used by the frigate of a century ago
with all its sails. The Hottentot spreads
a film of cotton cloth across a few
poles to keep out the sun's heat. The
arctic explorer pads his duck suit with
cotton and finds it warmer and lighter
than fur.
It is evident. therefore, that cotton
touches all the world, and its uses are
,manifold. Clothing is only one of the
many points of contact. Did you ever
'comb your hair with a cotton comb?
Nos you did, for celluloid is nothing but
cotton treated with acids. All those
,useful celluloid things would be un-
heard of it were not for cotton.
Cotton even has its uses in the auto -
'mobile. Some of those soft cushions
are cotton felt covered with more cot-
iton that looks like leather. Without
cotton there could be no great office
;buildings, for fireproofing would be im-
;practicable Besides, it would be too
'expensive to get the cement to the
spot without the bags that consume
+150,000,000 yards of cotton cloth every
year. C.' T. Revere, the cotton expert,
!has drawn up some interesting figures
iregarding the use of cotton which are
'drawn upon bere.
Light your pipe and think them over,
;but as the smoke rolls up to the enam-
!eled ceiling remember that the Penn -
'dation of that enamel is cotton and
that one single company requires a
,million yards of cotton cloth to shade
tobacco plants growing in Cuba and
(Florida and 4,000,000 yards for the lit -
!tie bags in which that same tobacco
goes to the consumer.
The ordinary citizen thinks only of
'sheets and pillow cases and dress
goods when one speaks of cotton, but
such things are relatively unimportant
!compared with the vast consumption
'of cotton for other purposes. The rall-
road's and trolley lines of the United
'States use more than 250,000 bales of
cotton a year for enameled ceilings,
plush chairs, leather seats and air
:brake hose. The automobile consumes
'about 400,000 bales a year. Most of it
goes into the cotton duck basis, which
is the essential feature of the tires,
and the rest goes largely for cushions
land seats.
The largest individual contract for
cotton goods in the world is the one
placed annually by the greatest of the
!harvester machine companies. It calls
for millions of yards of cotton duck,
'the consumption for the entire harvest-
dng machine industry being estimated
- at above 50,000,000 yards of duck year-
ly. In normal times the New York
market alone consumes 400,000 pounds
Iof yarn weekly for the electrical in-
Idustry. It is necessary for insulation.
i Cotton bags have displaced barrels to
:a great extent, and a few days ago
'one of the greatest sugar companies
:announced that in the future cotton
!bags would be used exclusively. With
;cotton at 15 cents a pound, bags are
'cheaper than barrels. It takes about
115,000,000 yards of cotton duck annua-
lly for coal bags for delivering the coal
twhere a chute cannot be employed.
'Cotton duck is used extensively for
ventilating chutes in coal mines. Tar-
paulins have replaced other covers for
'flat cars, vans and wagons. In South
Africa the cotton blanket has driven
out the woolen one.
Fully 20,000.000 yards annually of
cotton duck are consumed in the Ca-
nadian northwest for overcoats, re
placing fur. With a padding of cotton
between 'layers of duck, these gar-
-meats are lighter and warmer than
•fur. Cotton cloth has taken. the place
.of wall paper in thousands of modern
houses. Buckram, made of cotton.
'covers books. Pottery establishments
use millions of yards of army duck
annually for squeezing water out of
clay. The government uses 4,000,000
yards of Cotton duck per year for coin
bags. It takes 2,000,000 yards of cot-
ton duck annually to make feed bags
to hang over the noses of horses. Duck
is used for filtering oils -millions of
r yards of it every year.
• It takes more than 50,000,000 yards
every year of cotton ducking for rub-
ber belting and rubber hose. The same
substance is used for stiffening the
, gauntlets of gloves and leggtns, tennis
and gymnasium shoes, canopies for
I Shower baths, where rubber formerly
',was Used, and the covering of trunks
and telescopes. About 4,000,040 yards
annually are used for draining mines.
Wood pulp paper mills and other
paper mills use Cotton duck for driers.
Cotton drills and duck to the extent of
millions of yards annually are used for
wagon tops, Cushions and waterproof
coats. Mattresses Of cotton felt rival
hair mattresses. ,
' This is the age of cotton. The world
has achieved its greatest progress Since
Eli Whitney invented 'the cotton gin.
Eliminate Cotton and the mete stop•
page of spindles and loons* Would be
but a trifle emilpered With the paralysis
that sr, t,lM slot: CS *stiwes'other titrldui'
h _
req.
rnfese a man works he cannot fled
what jai Sit *Mese di.•-/anniasitlw.
THE W'NGHAM • IMES
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 grip
And go on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what ycu 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 Y O U.
RL.IL Towns are not liiatic by Hien afraid,
, Lest somebody else gets ahead.
\V.u'il 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
COMM UN I TY
irch i8th,
IS
WHICH?
Do you buy fence because YOU NEED IT? Or, to make money for the
`'middlemen"? If you're looking out for "Number 1" -if you want to get the
BEST FENCE at the LOWEST COST ---you'll buy
PA6[ F[NC[ -.DIR[CJ PaidjFrei ht,,9
Not only because PAGE FENCE WEARS BEST, But because it s�sold DIRECT from factory to farm -with
only a single small profit between you and us. Compare the Page Direct Money -Saving Way with the usual
"buy through the Middlemen" plan. (Made in Canada)
When you buy
DIRECT FROM
PAGE you save
your share of the
Salesmana g e r' s
$2000 salary, You
save your share
of the Blockman's
$2100 salary. You
save your share of
the Agent's or
Dialers 21 per
cent. to 85 per
cent. commission.
You save your
share of the deal-
er's "Free Excur-
sions to Florida."
PRICE LIST •
HEAVY FENCE
No. of Slays apael.g Ptlee is Oil
bar. ifeliht inches sport of horizontals O.tatlo
5 37 22 8, 9, 10, 10 . $0.21
6 40 22 634, 7, 834, 9, 9 .24
7 40 22 5,- """" 34, 7, 7, 7X, 8 .26
22 5, 634 71.4, 9, 10, 10 .26
22 6, i, , 6, 6, 6, 6 .29
1634 6, 6, 6 6,'76,'44.
, 6, f, f .31
22 4, 5, 534, 7, 8 , 9, 9 .30
1634 4, 5, 534 7, 834, 9, 9 .32
22 f, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, f, 6 .34
16% f, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, f .36
52 134 4, 4, 5, 5%, 7, 833,. 9, 9.36
10 48 1614 3, 3, 3, 4, 534, 7, 7, 734, 8 .3e
10 52 1634 3, 3, 3, 4, 534, 7, 8�• 9. 9 .38
•11 55 1435 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 534 7, 8 j4, 9, 9 41
t New Ontario Prices on Request. ALL FULL No.9 GAUGE
a 42
8 42
s 47
9 48
9 48
9 52
SPECIAL FENCE
lime loppa,lsM 1bM a eltoa, salese. .its. U.
Utnekss asset
18-bar, 48 -inch """,,., $1.44
20 -bar, 60 -lath
3 -ft. Gate
12 -ft. Gate
13 -ft. Gate ". -.. 4.60
14 -ft. Gate,,.. 1.85
Set tools ............... am
25 lbs. Brace Wire ............. .75
25 lbs. Staples .a„"".. .M
-.,.,---.- 4.35
FREIGHT PAID ON ORDERS
OF $10.110 OR Wit
`,mow
PAGE WIRE FENCE CO., limited
1v
8, hKuEr°nc. gh8S
tt.. West,
When you buy
fence in any other
way, port pay
more than the
Pence is really
worth. When you
any DIRECT
FROM PAGE.
you save most
" extra cost"
in Exera Quality
sad Lifetime Ser-
vice at no extra
;oat
Mail your onler
'1'O -DAY -before
the Spring rush
sets in. SELL
YOURSELF Page
Fence- and get
.PULL fence value
for your money.
W-ALKROINT
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PAGE FENCES WEAR BEST
DON'T KISS BABIES.
For the first few months the babe
should do little but sleep and eat. It
should not be tossed about, kissed and
tickled, nor should it be hawked about,
visiting; its feeding hours should be
regular, and between times let it alone.
The persecution these little ones
suffer at the hands of silly relatives
and family friends is really pitiful.
Leave the babies alone and let them
grow.
The death rate in the first three years
of child life in greatest, and after that
every added year increases its safety.
'1fie fndat frequwat, arose .ef .itlfsrtt
rnurtahty is intpropfe . feedferg, Wire.
pure milk; the ortomeich of ,*the nett
born babe is a very small, and a very
delicate affair, but it is through the
action of this small and delicate organ
all growth comes, and the food which
Nature has prepared for the babe's
stomach is the mother's milk.
The wise mother will insist upon
nursing her child not only for the
child's sake, but also for her own. The
mother -fed child is the one that escapes
a hundred dangers to which the bottle-
fed babe IS exposed; follow nature and
it is well for mother and for child.
Nature loves her own, and it is when
we stray from her that infant mortal-
ity begins.
The mother must be well fed if she
would feed her child; make no mistake
*oat this. To -da To-day,;apc•) 'e so„ many
food fafis, and eat tto 410Y. itAAIBEt that
have rilfy lid food value, that 'often
the mother's milk is deficient in certain
essential elements necessary for the
child's growth.
Think of all the elements required,
bone, muscle, energy, nerve (we can't
live to -day without nerve) the heart,
lungs, in fact all the thoracic viscera,
all the abdominal viscera, the skin, the
brain all must be fed and kept grow-
ing; and the mother must through the
food she takes provide for herself and
her child.
It is not difficult to understand that
a most generous diet is required to
meet these demands. Every food stuff
should bea
p rt of the mother's daily
rations from the time of conception until
the child is weaned.
There is no better resting place for a
child , than, in a, roomy carriage on the
+Yerifftflah, shelter ad from the winds, or
in the south room of the houses well
ventilated, warm in the winter time,
A WELL ANDA POET. T
And an Unanswerable Argument In a
Suit at Law.
Among the many anecdotes told of
Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, the Ger-
man poet and novelist, the following
from Tagliche Rundschau is one of the
most amusing;
In a place where Scheffel once lived
there was a lack of good drinking wa-
ter. One day a well driver in the
neighborhood proposed that the poet
allow him to drive a deep well for
him. Scheffel accepted his offer, but
only on the condition that after the
water had been drawn it be found
drinkable. The well driver completed
his work, but all that the pump would
deliver was a thick yellow liquid, so
the poet refused to pay for the work.
Finally the matter was brought be-
fore the court, and the poet and well
driver stood side by side before the
judge to present their respective cases.
Both argued their sides so well that
the magistrate was plainly puzzled to
know which was actually right in the
matter.
14:t length, weary of the affair, Sehef-
fe said: "Well, I'll give in and pay for
the well and the court expenses, too,
but on one condition. My opppnent
shall, before our eyes, take a drink of
the water from the well in question,"
The poet then drew from his hip pock-
et a flask of dirty yellow water and.
after extracting the cork, passed it
over to the well driver. One glance
was enough. He thrust the bottle aside
with a disgusted look and strode out of
the courtroom with an angry growl.
HORSEBACK RIDING.
It Is a Sport and an Exercise In a Class
by Itself.
When Oliver Wendell Holmes pro-'
claimed the trotter the coming horse
and the steed of democratic useful-
ness. he did not foresee the invention
of ^the automobile. Small blame to
him. No one else dreamed of it for
some scores of years thereafter, but
the motor driven carriage has caused
the learned doctor's plausible prophecy
to go askew. By all present signs the
corning horse, or. rather, the - lasting
horse. the one which will survive any
amount of mechanical aids to locomo-
tion, is the good saddle animal.
Horseback riding is at once a sport
and an exercise. which Is without a
relative or a competitor. It is like
nothing 'else, and for one wlio loves it
It can be replaced by nothing else. It
is one of the finest aids to digestion
over known. The dictum of the old
.English physician: :"The outside of a
horse is the best thing for the insides
of a man," remains true.
With all these advantages the saddle
horse is likely to last till we degenerate
into a nation of button pushers. When
i ha t degradation is accomplished it
tvou't matter greatly whether we have
any desirable animal companionship or
nut -Chicago Journal.
The Musical Gamut,
Guido, a monk of Arezzo, in Tus-
cany. In 1009 A. D. was the inventor
of' 'the gamma "ut," or gamut, and
the six notes "ut," "re," "ml," "fa,"
-sol, "la." These syllables were
taken from the first three verses of the
hymn of St. John the Baptist, "lit
glfeant taxis,' etc. Without the use of
the gamut a person could not in a lit-
tle time become perfect master of
plain song. Guido says in a letter
which he wrote, "I hope they who
come after ns will not forget to pray
for us, for we make a perfect master
of . singing in a year or two, whereas
till now a person could scarce attain
this science, even imperfectly, in ten
years." The gamut is the first note,
but oftener taken as signifying the
whole scale of music or series of
sounds, rising or falling toward acute-
ness or gravity from any given pitch
or tone.
Home of the Huns.
The Huns have probably their near-
est actual European descendants in
the Bulgarians. It is a mistake to
look for them in Hungary. The Ogre
or Ungri, better known as the Mag-
yars, have very little to do with the
[Ions. But one conjectured deriva-
tion of the word "ogre" is from the
Ugrl, through confusion of them with
the Huns. It seems more probable,
however, that "ogre" should be traced
through Spanish and Italian to the
Latin Orcus-at first the god of the
dead, and afterward in Romanesque
folklore a shaggy, man eating monster
of the woods. -London Chronicle.
if You Wish to Be Well You
Must Keep the Bowels Regular.
If the bowels do not move regularly
they will, sooner or later, pecome con-
stipated, and constipation is productive
of more ill health than almost any other
trouble.
The sole 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 if you were going to faint, or catarrh of
the stomach will follow the wrong action
of this, one of the most important organs
of the body.
Keep the liver active and working
properlyLiverPills.
by the use of Milburn's Laza-
Mrs. Elijah 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 Laxa-Liver Pills, as they
had Cured him.
I got a vialand
them, and by the tie I had akeehree
vials I was cured. I always keep them on
band, and when I need a mild laxative
I take one."
Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 26c a
vial, 5 vials for $1.00, at all dealers, or
mailed direct on receipt of price by The
T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto; Oat.
Danger Signals Warn You
of Approaching Paralysis
Slowly and. Surely Exhaustion Goes on Until Collapse -
of the Nerves is the Natural Result.
You may be restless, nervous, irri-
table and sleepless, but you think
there is nothing to be alarmed at. You
have no appetite,
digestion is impair-
ed, and there is
weakness and irre-
gularity of , other
bodily organs. You
feel tired in body
and mind, and find
that yorf lack the
energy to attend to
the
oduallymay task. `• f9'
Ynot ����
realize that these \\`a�'>,t?t,i\
are the symptoms ��\\,\�y
of nervous prostra-
tion and the dan-
ger signals which
warn you that some form of paralysis
is the next step of development.
Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is the most
successful restorative for the nerves
that has ever been offered to the pub.
lie, This has been proven in mann
thousands of cases Similar to the one.
described in this letter.
Mrs. Thos. Allan, R,F,D., 3, Sombre,
Ont., writes: -"Five years ago I suf-
fered a. complete breakdown, and fre-
quently had palpitation of the heart..
Since that illness I have had dizzy
spells, had no power over my limbs
(locomotor ataxia) and could not
walk straight. At night I would have -
severe nervous spells, with heart pal-
pitation, and would shake as though.
I had the ague. I felt improvement:
after using the first box of Dr, Chase's
Nerve Food, and after continuing the•
treatment can now walk, eat and sleep
well, have no nervous spells and do
not require heart medicine. I haus,
told several of my neighbors of the
splendid results obtained from the use•
of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food."
Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, 50 cents O.
box, 6 for $2.60, all dealers, or Ed- ,
manson, Bates Co., Limited, To-
ronto, 1
EVERY BRITON'S DUTY.
R. H. Rew, C. B., concludes an illus-
trative ;article on "Food Supplies in
War Time," being one of a series of
Oxford Phamphlets, after pointing out
that Great Britain might hold out a
year if actually blockaded by saying:
"Farmers, in my belief, will prove, in
this crises, not unworthy to be country-
men of those who are heroically defend-
ing British homes and hearts on the
fields of Flanders. They will do their
duty by working their utmost often
under grave difficulties -to maintain
and, if possible, increase the produce of
their farms, not because it is (as in
fact it will be) profitable to do so, but
because it is the desire, no less than
the duty, of every Briton, each in his
qwn sphere, to do his part to help his
country in the time of her direct need."
Is not every Canadian a Briton in heart
and sympathy, if not by actual birth.
CATARRH POWDER Ce
is sent direct to the diseased parts by the
Improved Blower. Heals the ulcers,
clears the air passages, stops drop.
pings in the throat and permanent-
ly cures Catarrh and Hay Fever.
25c. a box ;flower tree. Accept no
substitutes. All dealers or Edmaneon,
metes & Os,. Limited, Toronto.
THE BOY.
•
He comes when we call him, he goer.•
when we send;
His hands and swift feet he is ready
to lend;
He laughs and he shouts and is keen,
at his fun,
Sedate at his books, and his work is
well done.
He is freckled and awkward and lou-•
stile, too,
Forgetful acid headstrong, we'll own
unto you;
But lie's gentle and kind to his numer-
ous pets,
To attend to their comfort he never:
forgets. '
We need much of wisdom to guide -
him along,
We need stores of patience, we need-,
to be strong,
For a boy is a problem complex and'
obscure -
But the love that we bear him will,
ever endure.
The traits of his clan in his being are -
met;
The brighest of hopes on his future -
aro set;°
And we pray and we trust to the -
Father above,
To deal very kind with this..; Oy•
whom we love! 5.
-Emmma A. Lente.
Children Cry
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PAPETEItIES,
WRITING PAPER
BLANK BOOKS
PENS AND INK
TOILET PAPER
PLAYII:G CARDS, etc
We will keep the best stock in the respective lines
and sell at reasonable prices
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