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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-10-21, Page 6Page, 6 CITTA VECCHIA. * • 00 e• MeRe's Ancient Capital a Constant mintier of $t Paul. The Place where Publlus, the chief man of With is St, Paul's day, lived is thought to be Citta Vecchia, tbe au - OVA capital. It Iles near tbe venter ot .the istand,but midway between Valetta and Si. Paul's bay, and is eofl. neeted with Valetta 03' a l'aprottd• [(ereevery turn reminds ii of St. Paul. The principal square is called Piazza San Paolo. and Imre we Mal a i lime cathedral, welch is said to be built on the very site of the Ouse of Pub- lius. Entering the cathedral, we see great image of St. Paul, covered with a silver cloth, a reminder by clearest perhaps of how little of • that precious metal he was possessed 'of in his life- time. In a. nearby suburb of Citta Veeebis Is another church dedicated to St. Paul and named for him, which the inhabitants devoutly believe Is built over the very, grotto in winch he lived during his tbree months on the island. and the catacombs of the grotto are also called after his name. One striking monument to the apos- tle reminds every passing traveler of this wonderful story. in the bay of St. Paul is a tiny island called Selman, and on this island is a towering statue of the epostle, which can be seen from far, a fit emblem of the colossal char- acter which in all the ages since bas so Influenced and blessed the world.— Christian Herald. SACRED NUMBERS. M••••••••••••••••••••......... Four and Forty Were Held In Raver - enc. by the Ancients. The number four eves anciently es- teemed the most perfect of ail, being the arithmetical mean between one and seven. Omar, the second ealiph. said, "Four things come not back—the spokenword, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected oPPorturdtas" In nature there are four seasons and the four Points of the compass. Potty, a multiple of four by ten, is one of the sacred numbers. The pro- bation of our first parents in the gar- den of Eden is supposed to have been forty years. Tbe rain fell at the deluge forty days and nights, and the water remained on the earth forty days. The days of embalming the dead were forty. Solomoa's temple was forty cubits long. In it were ten lavers, each four cubits long and containing forty baths. Moses was forty years old when be tied into the land of Midian, where he dwelt forty years. He was on Mount Sinai forty days and forty nights. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness forty years. The Saviour fasted forty days and nights before entering. upon public life. The same time elapsed be- tween the resurrection aid the ascen- sion.—Exchange. • Keep Gloom From Sickroom. There ought to be some sort of a test .for sickroom visitors. People who are just recovering from the throes of death and bataas,the grim reaper's shoulders on the mat should not be -placed at the mercy of the disconcert- ing, disheartening and depressing friends who gain admittance to the chamber under the guise of kindness. If some one can devise a way to de- teet the visitors who know of some- body who died of the patient's malady and stop them at the threshold, re- coveries will be quicker and deaths fewer. in the absence of such a test the best kindness folks with grouches, hard luck tales and yarns of misery in their system can do for those in sickness is to stay away. Many a pa- tient has spent days recovering from the effects of a ten minute visit by a misguided gloom spreader. — Detroit Free Press. • I Its a ' Lord Satisburats Joke. Count hilyatovieb,* former Servian minister, told in London the story of a meeting he once had with the late Lord Salisbury. "He was a brilliant man and a great statesman," be said. "A. little cynical, he 'never lost an op- portunity of having a laugh at one's expense, but in his laugh there was never a trace of any malice. In the interview I recounted my nation's his- tory, when he seemed a little bore& At the end Lord Salisbury dryly re- marked: 1/ thank you, minister. Now I know what I did not know before— that you have a brilliant history. But, my dear friend, it would have been much better for the Serbs if you had a less brilliant history and a port on the Adriatic,'" • weete.Sa ' THE WINGHAM TIMES Ockther zoth (9 ts -.....•••••••,•••••• ""*".elites,wieviviviowswviww,,,sseloisrivw",wimovs""4,6", "The Customer is Always Right His is the text or rnott of a great and famous department store in Chicago. It is an assertion of the customer's place of supren. acy in he relation between buyer and seller. Any Tetailer who slights his cus- tomer is dolTIMittintZ ouSitieSS Sui- - T. CUstr•Iner wants those who serve him or her to use the newspaper ,.a ,vehicle for their an (luncemt at- of goods or service. Timis is the modern and right idea. Newspaper advertisements give desired business news in the right place and at the right time. To ignore your customer's wishes in this matte- is to commit a costly mistake—far more'costly than news- paper space. To the Merchants of Wingham Keep your eyes on your customers and humor them. It pays to do so. Keep very close to them—by means of advertisements in the weekly "Times." FOLLOW LEADERS 1. • 41 4,%111110%le1511,115‘ 4/61belli4/4,11/4 15`1A11.51kikews,", %ea ekAheliewie ihwobii,w161"," GOOD SENTENCES. Morals and manners must be sown like Spring wheat.—Capt. J. W. Gamb- ler. Most people have a spice of goodness in ,them; but not all try to cultivate it. —Leonard Reward. What to have for diitner will always be the most important question of the day.—Arthur Walker. The two great evils of the day are drink and dulness; and the former is the outcome of the latter.—Bishop of Ken- sington. It's the smallest kind of "possum" climbs the biggest kind of tree,—Mal- very. We no not earn the right to be con- tent until we have reached the limit of our capacity.—Gerald Maxwell. It is better to commit a thousand in- discretions oneself than to give utter- ance to one calumny against others.— Gonia de Palaios. If you try to paint an ideal and the picture falls short, does that make your ideal less? —Mark Lee Luther. News In Olden Times. Not many minutes after a statesman bas finished a speech nowadays the news is selling in the streets and has been flashed to every capital in Eu- rope, It was different In the elections in the time of Pitt. Be made a memora- ble speech one Marcb, and the eager public only learned exactly what he said from the Gentlemen's Magazine of the following November.—London Saturday Review. The Real Toil. "1 Used to practice five hours a day on the piano," said the musician. "You are through with- that drudg- ery now." "DrudgeryThose were time ot testful leisure. Now I have to work fourteen hours a day giving lesson" --Washington Star. 'The centipede. The centipede was formerly a resi- dent of the southern part of this coun try, but it has gradually worked its way to the north. so that now it in quite common in nearly every portipn of the country. It thrives best Flu damp and warm places and bas its re- deeming feature in that it entehes and destroys many et the domestic pests we are welt rid of. Its method of catching an insect seems to be to spring .over it, inclosing and caging with Its nanny' legs. The belief occasionally met with that the centipede feeds on bousehoid goods and woolens or other clothing is without foundation. On the other band, the bite of this crea- ture is undoubtedly more or hese poi- sonous, the effect depending on the susceptibility of the patient.—St. Louis Post -Dispatch, Alt Poottah. *Did you, ever Write A fatale,/ Yffie, tutor . 4 , Hz neer wrote air loVs lattste "That is Practleally whoa X Mk. 4704."-enottitten Paste , • "A Man Is as Old -as He Feels." The well known saying, "A. man is as old as be feels, a woman as old as Abe looks," it seems, is pure Liver- pudlian, and legal :it that. During the trial of a breach of promise case there arose some argument as to the desira- bility of a man of fortyaaine marrying u girl of twenty, whereupon the judge delivered the famous epigram. He even went one better, for, when coun- sel for the defense argued that the lady had had a lucky escape front marrying such a moil as his client, the witty judge obset•ved. "What the wo- tnan loses is the men she thinks him to be."—Liverpool Post. The Proof Conclusive. They had disagreed. They had disagreed about her cook- ing. He bad sprung the bromide about her not being able to cook even as his mother did. Whereupon she ;,eked him, "If that be so how is it thus you haven't chron- ic dyspepsia, as your father had?" Whereupon they disagreed More thor- oughly than ever.—leilladelphia Ledger. 11 DISTRICT ITEMS The customs receipts at Clinton for the six moths ending September 30th were $14,504 56, an increase over the corresponding period of last year of $358.83. Letter Per Letter. "Why does a poet begin so many of his sentences wbth 'Or " said the ooliticiam • "Tilde's no all -Wer," replied Mr. Penwiggie. "Why does a Speechmak- er begin so ninny of his sentences with 'I' 7"-,- Was lihi et i)11 Star. Goderich responded nobly to the whirlwind campuign for the Canadian Patriotic Fund by subscribing $17,500 This amount will be augmented by dc- Iayed subscriptions, which will send the amount to over $18,000. Mr, F. McCaughey, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, Blyth, appeared before Police Magistrate Kelly, at Godericb, on Saturday and pleaded guilty to selling liquor in an unlicensed territory. He was fined $50 and Costs, this being his first offense, •A Fine fa arksman. The neer night e velum= at the e01 - Sege, had 'noticed same one Using the bienteleseopet .test :hen a star fell. "ftegorra," 3111(1 '.r. vatet Waft. "that telly sure is a cal. stmt." Mr. George Ladd, who has been in the employ of the Grand Trunk Rail- way for forty-three years, twenty-five years as foreman, and for sixteen years at Holmesville, is now retiring on a pension and having purchased a com- fortable residence in Clinton. By the death of Mrs. James Howson in her 85th year, Clinton loses another of its oldest and most respected resi- dents. For some years Mrs. Howson and her daughter lived together on Al- bert street. In addition to the daugh- ter several sons survive ker. A serious accident occurrel to Geo. Faegan, son of John Faegan, of Col- borne Township, on Wednesday after- noon last. The young man was assisting in cutting corn for a silo when he got his left hand caught in the knives, severing his hand at the wrist. 'Last Wednesday afternoon, while assisting in cutting down a tree on the farm of Alex. Smith, on the 4th con- cession, Minto, Benjamin Scarff, of Harriston, received a severe scalp wound, which required several stitches to close. He also received other in- juries on his body which were attended to by Dr. S. M. Henry at his surgery. The widow of the late Jos. White- head was married, on Thursday, to Mr. Melvin J. Clark, a prominent farmer of Hulret Township. The ceremony was performed by Rev. P. C. Harper at the mabse, Clinton, only a few im- mediate friends being present. Mr. and Mrs. Clark will reside near Gode- rich, where they have secured a new home. A sad accident occurred in Teeswater on Sunday evening, Oct. 3rd. Mr. Alfred Caslake was on his way to bring home his cow to be milked. He took a short way across his lotto the road and while climbing thelence fell backward and broke his baelt. Medical aid was instantly summoned, when it was found that he was paralyzed from the waist downward. Mr. and Mrs. William MacPherson, of the 10th concession of Kinloss, have the sympathy of many friends in the loss of their little daughter, Annie Isabell, who passed away Monday even- ing, Oct. 4th. The little girl, who was just four years and six months old, was quite welt until a few days before her death, when she appeared to have a slight cold. This, however developed into a severe attack of bronchitia, Which, in spite of medical aid proved fatal. A case of special interest was decided ih the police court, at Goderich. on Thursday, when Magistrate ReidIined Carasu Murray, of Goderiek, and costs for btinging liquor into a Canada temperance act country far other than his personal use. Murray, it was said, • hroughlbeer and whisky into the county for himself and about fifteen others. This is the first case brought under this section. Crown Attorney Seager prosecuted for Inspector Mitchell. The Brussels Council have decided to et a contract to Thos. McLettn„who has the first job completed except whatever rolling remains to be done, to put down a 16 -foot road bed of broken tone from the culvert crossing, Turn- bery street North, to the G. T. R. tracks. Stone will be rolled with the steam roller and the same process followed as on Turnberry street South, barring the curb and the extra width of stone. It is said next Spring will see the street from the bridge to the rail- way, drained, curbed and macadamized Tired -Out Rattneys Kidney troubles are so frightfully common because the kidneys are so easily upset by overwork or excesses of eating or drinking, Cure is effected not by whipping them on to renewed effort, but by awakening the action of liver and bowels by the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. This rests the kidneys and makes them well. Backache and urinary disorders then disappear. FROM THE TRENCHES SHIRKER. TO THE SORCERERS IN PAPUA. Easy to Start In the Ousiness There and Terrify the Natives. It is no very hard matter to set up as a sorcerer in Papua. One says, "I am it sorcerer," and the thing ie ao- • complished. One may be a greater sorcerer or a lesser sorceter, to be sure, but one is a soreecpr of some de- gree of evil. paeritsat least fronesthe hour that one says, "I am a sorcerer." Thereafter tbe Pleasure of success a practitioner may win depends upon his skill in advertising awl the Ingenuity of his magical methods,. What is new and mysterious is everywhere mightily impressive, and In Papua, as else- where, what a man noisily reiterates about himself comes eventually to be accepted as at least an approach to the truth concerning him. A certain Tanimi,' for example, bay- ing settled in a village of the Gira river, said, "1 am a sorcerer," and he was forthwith a sorcerer. He said, "I have an invisible snake with which to work my will," and his fame began. They said, "Where is the snake?" And he replied: "nave 1 not said that the snake is invisible? How can I show you an invisible snake?" And his: fairies greW. "Antr he added,'"Ie ware of nae, if you please, for 1 am very easily offended, and my invisible snakes obey me." Finding now that he was inspiring terror indeed, Taelmi created an es- tablishment to forward his conse- quence. Three menials were taken in to wait upon his wants at home, and two qualified assistants were engaged to attend bis dignity abroad. To the • qualified assiatants, 13enhancenaent of his own importance, Tanimi gave invisible snakes. "They too are sor- cerers," said he, "and have Invisible snakes," and added, with the large, easy air of every great professional: "But the invisible snakes of nay as- sistants, of course, are small and rather stupid snakes. My snake is tbe snake to beware of." Ingenious Tanimi might have lived • long in plenty had he not grown so intolerably extortionate in the matter of pigs that the administration got wind of his ways and confounded his success. It was shown upon trial that Tan imi bad founded his enormously lucra- tive practice upon nothing better than a bald assertion. "I am a sorcerer," said be. "with an invisible snake."—Norman Duncan in Harper's Magazine. Small, Caliber Martinets. All public institutions, I here assert should have as their employees only people who are courteous, pleasant and kind. One of the greatest hard ships of poverty is to be obliged tc face the autocratic martinets whc seem to guard the doorways of all such organizations, There is some thing detestable and offensive in the frozen, impatient and often insaltins manner of the women and men wht occupy little positions of authority tike this, and before whom poor workiel girls — and I suppose men must al ways go.—From "Me, a Book of Re membrances," in Century Magazine. Rainbow Trout. The rainbow trout is bluish above • silvery or golden below, more or lest ' spbtted with black on the body and fins and with an orange or red lateral band. It is doubtless for this varicoloe Ing that it receives its name. It is more hardy than the English trout and accommodates itself to almost stag. nant waters and has thus proved a sue• cess in many ponds which were regard ed as fit for coarse fish only. In many places, however, it bas caused distal). pointment *by going alown • to the sea and never returning.-- Philadelphia Press. • — _ Sergt. J. Grindley Makes Appeal to Canadians From Firing Line. The following verse was written by Sergt. Grindley, of the first Canadian overseas contingent now in the trenches. Grindley is well-known in Western On- tariii, being an entertainer of no mean ability. He was originally of tbe 84th Battalion, bat was sent 'as reinfcrace- ments to the first division. The poetry was contained in a letter received by Mr. C. R. Copeland, of Wingham, from his brother, Sergt. Copeland. Hark how the 4ugle is calling To the shirker who still does delay: Your country needs your assistance; 1 • So come do your bit iu the fray. Why do you hang round the corners, While others are fighting for you? i Why stand idle and contented When there's work out here to do? Think of gallant down -trodden Beigium, With her cities .and towns all in ruin; She suffered to help us, you know it, Then what for her are you doing? Think of her women and children, What they suffered for you and me. Why not help to crush the enemy Who slaughtered with such savage glee? So list to the bugle that's calling Calling you out to the fight; Come, join don't be a slacker, But fight for the cause and the right. Was ever a Canadian a coward? Just look at their deeds in the past, When Brock with a handful of heroes Fought and won a great fight at last. And the heroes who fought in South Africa, Their naMes, they never will die: And in France Canadians have made history, For men such as these we now cry. And then when the struggle is over And the heroes are all welcomed' Lome, What will you say when you're shunned When in the cold you are left alone? You'll wish you bad shouldered a rifie And played the part of a man: You could say, youfiad done your duty, But as a shirker you never can. So now shoulder the sword of freedom, For its freedom we fight for to -day; 13e a mat and don't be a slacker, Come. and do your bit in the fray. SERGI!. J. GRINDLAY. France, September 21, 1915. Alphabetical. Willis—Won't you dine with me? ,Gillis—Thank you, 1 just dined. 1 was Aome and had my regular meal of ap- ples, apricots and asparagus. Willis— Isn't that a rather odd combination? Gillis—Well, you see, my wife went to a domestic' science school and had to knits after the first week. -141e. 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