HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-05-27, Page 3May 27th, 1915
THE WIN(...
MAN WITH THE HOE,
(By Walt Mason.)
Oh, this is the time when the man
with the hoe gets out in the garden
where gooseberries grow; he weeds out
the spuds and he thins out the stalks,
and no one would say he was kin to the
ox. • You see him exulting, you hear
him exclaim, "Maria,•come look at this
cucumber frame! The dingbusted beans
lit‘and the marrowfat peas are growing
and thriving as fine as you please!
Come hither, Maria, and squint at the
corn -the way it's been climbing sihce
yesterday morn! And look at the onions,
a' -flourishing there -they'll take the blue
gibbon this year at the fair!" And
then, if you watch, you will see the man
go, this downtrodden mortal, the man
with the hoe, to call on his neighbors
and brag of his greens, his cabbage and
spinach and Safety First beans. The
man with the hoe, in the lands o'er the
brine, may look like an ox or a sample
. • of swine, as he drudges along in the
heat of the day, for a crust and a drink
and some counterfeit pay; but here in
this land of the brave and the free, he
bubbles with mirth and he chortles with
glee; he whoops and he laughs, where
the peasant repines, and bores us with
tales of his succotash vines.
A Wonder Worker.
"It heals like magic," is a favorite
expression when Dr. Chase's Ointment
is used. It works quickly, stops all
itching at once, often heals in a single
night. For eczema, salt rheum, bar-
bers' itch. skin irritations or eruptions,
it is a most satisfactory treatment.
Being antiseptic, it prevents • blood
poisoning.
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TIME'S 'REVENGE
I used to call you Carrots, dear,
When we were girl and boy;
I called you Ginger, tou-I fear,
With purpose to annoy.
1 held my hands above your head
To warm my fingers cold,
And it made you cry in the days gone
But now your hair is gold!
bused to call you Sorrel, dear,
When you were small in frocks;
But now you reign without a peer,
My darling Goldilocks!
For time's revenge has come to you,
And I am all forlorn
Iu the silken snare of your glorious
hair
With its aureole of morn,
i used to call you Candy Drop
When you were just a girl,
And Mustard Seed and Sandy Top
And Dandelion Curl;
But now your head has worn a light
Like fields of summer wheat;
I long to hold each lock of gold
That binds me to your feet.
I used to pull the tangled knots -
0, memory of shame!
I called aloud for water pots,
To quench the ruddy flame.
But now it is my heart that burns,
While you are coldly coy,
And my life I'd dare for the golden
hair
That I laughed at when a boy.
-Chicago Daily News.
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THE TARIFF INCREASE.
In speaking of the bill by which the
tariff was raised Mr. Rogers talked of
it as a bill to raise thirty milto dollars
for the war. 'In one place he specifical-
ly stated that the Opposition had "de-
clared by their voice and by their vote
want of confidence in our proposals for
the providing of the necessary means,
that up to the present had been
estimated as necessary for the carrying
on of our part in' this great conflict."
Mr. Rogers, of course, knows this to be
an untruth, but the party of priviledge
have only to give the cue to their papers
to get them to persuade the whole
country that an untruth is fact by a
continual reiteration of it as fact. Just
let them keep ori saying day after day
that the increase in the Canadian tariff
made during the last session of Parlia-
ment was for the purpose of raising
funds for eslrrying on the war and the
people will believe it, even though Mr.
White himself in rising to introduce the
tariff categorically stated that it was
not for that purpose, but to meet the
ordinary revenue of the country, and
though the real purpose of a good deal
of it is to increase protection. 1'he
hundred million dollars which the Gov-
ernment proposed to borrow, Mr.
White stated to be for war. The ad-
ditional taxes, such as the tariff and the
war stamp, were merely to bring the
ordinary revenue of Canada up to the
new standaid of lavish expenditure,
which the Government from its acces-
sion, had gloried in, and were made
necessary by the falling off of the im-
ports and consequent decrease in cus-
toms. -Montreal Witness
FAT AND EGGS
Occasionally hens get too fat to lay,
but most -hens are too lean, Very
rarely do you see a lean hen begip lay-
ing -some hens lay themselves lean.
A very fat hen generally means a poor
layer and commonly the sooner she is
killed the more money is saved.
The attendant (or person caring for
the flock) has much to do with its suc-
cess. You may have the best breeding
and feeding, but the lack of attention
in regularity of feeding, watering,
cleaning houses, etc., means poor re-
turns. Dirty drinking vessels and dirty
drink kill a large number of hens.
Filthy houses and a good crop of hen
lice eat up the profits. The attendant
should cultivate a friendship for the
flock. Do not slam doors and kick
pails, to say nothing to the hens, and
expect good results.
In conclusion, a limited number. of
poultry will•pay the vegetable grower
in supplying his table with meat and
eggs, in disposing of unsaleable
vegetables; in destroyed insects and
supplying manure for some of his crops.
Large numbers might not be profit-
able.
Commercially. in my judgment, there
are but three breeds of chickens in
existence. There ars 180 breeds of
chickens, and any one of them will do
well under particularly favorable con-
ditions, but when you get down to
where everything counts, such as the
breed, the eggs they lay and the price,
Fwould select Plymouth Rocks, Rhode
Island Reds, and White Leghorns.
If I wanted a gener!lpurposes chicken
it would be Plymouth Rocks. If I
wanted to raise 2,000 or 5,000 chickens
there is just one breed of chicken you
can do it with, and that is White Leg -
horns.
Deafness Gannot be Gured.
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness.is caused by an inflamed con-
ditiop of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube
is inflamed you have a rumbing sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result,
and unless the inflammation can be tak-
en out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be des-
troyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing
but an inflamed condition,of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
Lor any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Danish Parliament has adopted
the new Constitution, by which all sex
privileges are abolished, and everybody,
including women and servants, has the
right•to vote, with a minimum voting
age of twenty-five. Women may also
become members of the Rigsdag, and
the qualifications hitherto necessary for
election to the Landsting are no longer
needed. The new Constitution will have
to be passed once more ,by the neer
Rigsdag to be elected this month.
CASTCyRIA
ger Infanta and Children
in Use For Over 301, ears
Always bears
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THE BLOOD IS THE
STREAM Of LIFE
Pure Blood Is Absolutely
Necessary To Health
"FRUIT-A-TIVES" PURIFIES
These Wonderful Tablets,
Made of Fruit Juices, Are The
Beat Of A11 Tonics To
Purify And Enrich
The Blood.
Pure, rich blood can flow only in a
clean body. Now, a clean body is one
in which the waste matter is regularly
and naturally eliminated from the
system. The blood cannot be pure
when the skin action is weak, when
the stomach doeS not digest the•.food
properly, when the bowels do not more
regularly, when the kidneys are
strained or overworked.
Pure blood is.. the result of perfect
health and harmony of stomach, liver,
bowels, kidneys and skin.
"Fruit-a-tives", by their wonderful
action on all theseorgans, keeps the
whole system as clean as Nature in-
tended our bodies to be clean.
"Fruit-a-tives" tones up, invigo-
rates, strengthens, purifies, cleans and
gives pure, rich, clean blood that is, in
truth, the stream of life.
"Fruit-a-tives" is sold by all dealers
at 5oc. a box, 6 for $2.5o trial size 25c.
or sent postpaid on receipt of price by
Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa.
RESUMPTION CANADIAN PACI-
FIC GREAT t-AKES SFR.VICE
Passenger service via the Great
Lakes Canadian Pacific route from
Port McNicoll will be resnmed com-
mencing Saturday, •May 22nd. The
service this season will be maintained
by the Steamers Keewatin" sailing
Tuesdays. "Manitoba" Wednesdays.
'"Alberta" Thursdays and Assinaboia"
oh Saturdays from Port McNieoll at 4
p.m. The "Manitoba" sailing Wed-
nesdays will also call at Owen Sound
each sailing date at 10.30 p m. Special
train will leave Union Station Toronto
at 12.15 p.m. arriving at Port McNicoll
at 4 p.m. Daily except Friday.
For reservations or other information
regarding this service, consult any
Canadian Pacific Agent or write M. G.
Murphy, District Passenger Agent.
Toronto. . 56-2
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FIFTY FATHOMS OF WATER.
The Lusitania lies•in fifty fathoms of
water•• -a waterlogged hulk filled with
rotting bodies of men and women and
children. A broken mass of wood and
metal, once a proud ship vibrant with
graceful motion, joyous with music,
colored with lights and bunting. The
Lusitania lies in fifty fathoms of water,
and above it float the bodies of babes
and sucklings unknelled and tincoffined.
The•Lusitania lies in fifty fathoms of
water, and a thousand and one hundred
human souls which believed in the honor
of nations, which had faith in the con-
science of humanity, are marching in
the spirit land while civilization stands
aghast, stricken to its heart's core. The
Lusitania lies in fifty fathoms of water,
and in the highest council chamber of
an empire there is laughter and gratu-
lation. The Lusitania lies in fifty fath-
oms of water, and in the dark, unfath-
omed caves of ocean has struck her
colors to an assassin who crept up
noiselessly as a thief in the night. The
Lusitania lies in fifty fathoms of water,
and the men who plotted" and executed
her destruction lie in ten thousand fath-
oms of shame. The Lusitania lies in
fifty fathoms of water, where the tides
in there course will in time dissolve her
bones into impalpability. The Lusitan-
ia lies in fifty fathoms of water, but
not all the., waves that ever will wash
over her grave could cleanse the hands
of those who thrust the dagger into her
vitals and made a mockery of the wails
of women who had wished them only
good. The Lusitania lies in fifty fath-
oms of water! -Galveston News.
HOMESEEKERS' SPECIAL TRAIN
LEAVES TORONTO 10.45 P.M.
EACH TUESDAY COMMENC-
INC JUNE 1ST, 1915.
For the accomodation of Homeseek-
ers' and general tourist traffic to West-
ern Canada, through train carrying
Tourist Sleepers and Colonial Cars will,
commencing June 1st, leave Toronto
10.45 p. m. each Tuesday until further
notice, running• through to Winnipeg.
Attention is directed to the remark-
ably low round Trip Fares is Connection
with Homeseekers' Excursions to
Western Canada via Canadian Pacific
Railway. Tickets are On sale each
Tuesday until October 26th, inclusive
and are good to return within two
months from date of sale.
Apply to any C. P. R., Agent for fell
particulars or write M. O. Murphy.
District Passenger Agent, Toronto.
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DAIRY ane
CREAMERY
MILK FEVER PREVENTION.
Precautions That Tend .to Ward Off
Attacks of This Malady.
There is no method which will cer-
tainly prevent milk fever where large
Producing. rich testing cows freshen
in a plethoric condition, writes H. G.
Van Pelt in Kimball's Dairy Farmer.
The most advisable precautions to
take are ss follows: Just before the
cow freshens drench her with one
pound of epsom salts dissolved In a
quart of water. This must be care-
fully done that the process does not
strangle the cow. As a further pre-
caution do not milk her for the first
tarty -eight hours after freshening:
especially it the cow has been at>iicted
previously. it It becomes necessary
to relieve the udder pressure take
away a small amount of milk from
each quarter.
Por a week prior to freshening feed
the cow very lightly. Give her succu-
lent food. such as silage or roots, and
give her access to bay. The remain-
der of her ration should consist of
mashes only.' Twice daily she should
be given a feed of two or three pounds
of bran and one pound of linseed meal
together with a small handful of salt
mixed with lukewarm water to a slop-
py consistency. After freshening give
The Guernsey breed not only has
the greateat butter tat producing
cow In the world, based on a year-
ly official record basis, but the
general trend of the records of all
cows running tor the Advanced
Register continues upward. On the
last list of twenty-five cows to tin-
ish a yearly record there appear
ten cows whose records show a
butter fat production of over 500
pounds. The bull shown is a pure
bred Guernsey.
her a pail of water occasionally with
a pound or two of bran with a handful
or oil meal stirred in it or left floating
un top of the water.
It is also well to give the cow exer-
cise before freshening.
One of the chief preventives of milk
fever is to have the bowels loose.
Even with these precautions it is best
to watch the cow very closely for the
first forty-eight hours after freshen-
ing. and when first signs of milk fever
appear have the air treatment applied
at onee. This prevents the danger of
a serious attack, in which instance the
flow of milk for the milking period
will not, be decreased.
Serious attacks of milk fever do have
a tendency to decrease the milk flow
.immediately and throughout the period
Ifollowtng. The milk flow, however,
is not apparently affected as is the per-
centage of fat. There is little doubt
that following a serious attack of milk
lever cows test very much lower than
when they come into their milk with-
out this -handicap.
VALUE OF COW TESTING.
How an Iowa Farmer Made His Dairy
Herd Profitable.
Our cow milking farmers can learn
a lesson from Peder Pedersen of Black
Hawk county, la.. says the Kansas
Farmer. £Ie joined the Benson Cow
Testing . association in 1911. discover-
ed cows in his herd which were not
paying for their board and • weeded
them ont and in three years increased
the profits of his herd three times. •
During the first year Pedersen dis-
covered that his herd averaged 5,665
pounds of milk, or 207.7 pounds of but-
ter fat, while the net profit per ani-
mal over cost of feed was only $22.12.
The best cow made an income of
$54.22, meaning that the poorest prob.
ably lost money.
In the second year, 1912, the aver-
age net income increased to $53.96.
That gain was accomplished by weed-
ing out 40 per cent of the old cows
and putting new cows, bred from a
pare bred sire. Into their places and by
the purchase of a cow and a heifer.
In 1913 the average milk production
went up to 9,697.5 pounds and the but-
ter fat average to 841.9 pounds. The
average net income went to $75, more
than three times what it was in 1911.
Those results were due to the weed-
ing out of 30 per cent of the previous
year's herd and replacing the poor ani-
mals with better of home breeding.
Care of the Churn.
It is almost impossible properly to
cleanse anything used in handling milk
if not first rinsed or plungi;d into cold
Rater. After rinsing in cold water
Scrub with a brush and warm water
iia which some salsoda has been dig.
Solved, then scald with boiling water
or steam. Dry in the open air. Never
eloee a wet churn; leave the lid off.
True Dairy Economy.
It It lmpeseible for the Winer to
:'tiled the entire dairy retie ' on bis
fern, but flu) mine who raises the
largest hurt ni It nl liana ily the one
who gets the best returns.
APIARY DEMONSTATIONS 1915.
Great interest has been abown in the
apiary demonetratlons conducted
throughout the Province under direction
of ler. Morley Pettit, Provint•ial Apiar-
ist. The attendance at the fifty-five
meetings held during the season of 1914
averaged 34, while in 1912 the average
waa 25. Unexcelled- epportunl•ties are
offered those present to have their dif-
ficulties in bee -keeping explained, and
the demonstrator, having the apiary
and the equipment at his disposal it
able to illustrate his remarks to great
advantage.
The meetings are held in the apiaries:
Hives are opened and the working of
the colony displayed. Attention is dir-
ected to the different kinds of cells, the
various stages of the brood, the queen
it pointed out, and suggestions made
on the activities of the colony. Foul
Brood, swarming, wintering and re -
queening are also discussed and the
time is very profitably spent both for
the beginner and the experienced bee-
keeper.
The use of models of a wintering case
for wintering four colonies outdoors
will be an interesting addition to the
meetings to be held this season. Al-
ready arrangements are under way for
two demonstrations in each county.
The date and place of meeting will be
announced in the papers and on cards
sent to the bee -keepers.
From present indications these meet-
ings will be more widely attended and
of greater value to' the bee -keepers
than ever before.
For particulars apply to the Apicul-
ture Department, Ontatio Agricultural
College, Guelph.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORPA
HENRY SHRAPNEL. --
Inventor of the Deadly War Missile and
His Reward.
Shrapnel was originally the name of
a British general who, about a hun-
dred years ago, was begging the board
of ordnance of his native land for some
substantial recognition in respect of
the new and deadly missile he had.
placed absolutely at their service and
was being told that the institution in
question "bad no funds at its disposal
for the reward of merit."
I Henry Shrapnel's invention was
probably first employed at Surinam in
1804 and was then "favorably report-
ed on," but eleven years later Sir
George Wood, who commanded the ar-
1 tillery at Waterloo, declared that
shrapnel had won that famous battle.
Without it, Wood asserted, no effort of
the British could have recovered the
farmhouse of La Haye Sainte.
In 1814 the government granted
Shrapnel a pension of £1,200 a year
for life, but this was interpreted by
his paymasters to cover all the inven-
tions Shrapnel had given to the army,
including an ingenious gun mounting
whereby the recoil was utilized to
bring one gun into action at the same
• time as another was put under cover.
Shrapnel was, thus placed at a disad-
vantage, though he had the satisfac-
tion of drawing his pension to a ripe
nld age. He died in 1842, aged eighty-
-Arg naut.
ighty-
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THE MALTESE DERBY.
Its Curious Race Course With Go as
You Please Rules.
Horse racing is a favorite sport the
world over, but it is doubtful whether
any nation can boast of such a curious
race course or claim more remarkable
ideas of the sport than the Maltese.
Once a year the road skirting Sliema
harbor is reserved as a race course, and
the people turn out in thousands.
There is no regulation of the course.
The crowd simply clears out of the
way as the horses come along.
The jockeys ride without bridles or
anddles, and each carries a whip in
either hand -one for his own mount,
the other to keep back any horse which
may try to overtake him. We saw one
of the spectators deliberately trip a
horse up by putting his leg out, at
grave risk to himself.
These things, however incredible as
they seem to sportsmen in this coun-
try, are taken as quite a matter of
course, and consequently hardly a year
goes by without a fatality of some
kind. All things considered, It is not
likely that the "go as you please" rules
of this Maltese derby are likely to com-
mend themselves to other turf authori-
ties. -Wide World Magazine.
Quicksilver.
The ore from which quicksilver is
obtained is a brilliant red rock known
as cinnabar. When of high purity it
is actually vermilion in color. Cinna-
bar is the original source of the pig.
Ment known commercially as verrnil-
ion. It is a compound of sulphur and
quicksilver, and in order to separate
the latter from the sulphur the rock Is
roasted. Passing off in the form of n
gas. the • mercury is afterward con•
d^nsed and flows. out in a fine stream,
like a continuous pencil of molten sil•
ver. Like gold and silver, mercury is
occasionally found in a native or 'pure
state. Sometllnes the miner's plat
penetrates a cavity that contains a
cupful or more of the elusive and beau -
Wu! fluid. Miners setter much from
-the. poisonous effects of the fluleksilver
fettles. ,Extreme cleanliness is the hest
'safeguard for workers in this danger-
ous occupation.
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POTATO IS OUR MOST USEFUL
VEGETABLE.
The potato is our most valuable
vegetable, agreeing with almost every
stomach. It is most digestible roasted
or well mashed. People growing old
those with few teeth should use potatoes
sparingly. Of the other vegetables,
artichokes, carrots, parsnips, and beet_
root are the most nourishing, contain-
ing from 10 to 14 per cent. of starch and
sugar (the potato contains about 18 per
cent.). Onions, tomatoes, turnips,
French beans, cabbage, cauliflower.
and truffles contains from 5 to 7 per
cent. of starch and sugar. Cucumber,
asparagus, Brussels sprouts, celery,
spinach, and seakale contain only from
2 to 4 per cent.
Of protein the range is from only a4
per cent. in cucumber to 2?. per cent.
in artichokes, asparagus and spinach,
but green peas contain 4 and truffles 6
per cent., while the very large content
of 23 . per cent. is found in lentils and
dried haricots, and 28 in pea flour (lean
beef contains 21 per cent,)
From these figures it is clear that
while a few vegetables are very nu.
tritious, the majesty have no great
value as food. But their sats are in"
dispensable. These keep the blood
pure, supplying 'it with sodiun:, po-
tassium, calcium, etc, If the blood
does not get a sufficiency of these the
health suffers.
Both for enjoyment and for obtaining
the greatest possible value to the blood
it is necessary that vegetables shall be
flesh. This condition is not always
satisfied in London and other cities.
One must have his garden andbring his
green vegetables straight from it to
the table to obtain the best results. A
cauliflower or a dish of green peas from
One's oven garden is a very different
thing from what is often 'bought at the
greengrocer's. It is more appetizing,
more digestible, and more satisfying to
the body.