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The Wingham Times, 1915-10-28, Page 6Page 6 emor *04 THE WINGHAM TIMES PETRQGRAD 1S A WONDER. -A City Built by Russia ;;z Dofiwncs of the Laws of Nature. It is au amazing monument to the despotism of the ezfrs that I'etrogvn(t has flourished, as it was built, in de- fiance of the lase of trade and of na- ture herself. Asa port itsis lumens,: urably inferior to Riga. which pus a 'much !auger open season, for Petro- grad is icebound from early November to the end of .April, As a buildiug site it bas been repeatedly and disastrous• ly flooded by the Neva. The highest Ielevation within the bounds of the city is leas -than fifteen feet above sea level, and the cellars have to be baled out nearly every spring when the ice melts and the wind blows. And the rlgoroua climate conotantly gnaws at walls and 'columns until the city has been twice and thrice rebuilt by the czars. ;Many of the, most im- posing structures are held together only by means of iron clamps, and the huge bowtder on which Peter rides his bronze horse is ever crumbling away. The stones of the streets are continual- ly sinking below the level, and the great Cathedral of St. Isaac never ceases to settle on a foundation in which nearly $1.000,000 was sunk. No less than six tiers of piles were driven for the beautiful column of Alexander I., yet that eighty foot monolith. the tallest and largest in Europe, has to be clamped in iron. As a dwelling place Petrograd re- mains the most fatal of any great city in the civilized world, with a mortali- ty of twenty-eight to each 1,000 of pop- ulation, and within ten years its death rate actually exceeded its birth rate. Argonaut SUBMERGING A SUBMARINE. It Takes Five Minutes For the Best of Them to Get Under. Submarines are not easy to handle and it takes considerable sl311 and daring to navigate them successfully. Many people have the idea that as soon as a submarine sees an enemy, the officer in command gives a sharp order, and almost before it bas left his lips the submarine is diving beneath the waves. As a matter of fact the very latest submarines take a clear five minutes before they can become submerged. Many of the older submarines took ten minutes to a quarter of an hour to sink. The reason that a submarine cannot dive quickly, like a fish, is because the water which must be let into her tanks to make her heavy enough to sink, must be let in comparatively slowly. If it were let In with a rush the chances are the vessel would not go down on an even keel, but 'Would heel over and be in great danger of dis- aster. If water, too, were let in too quickly there is a danger of letting in too much and in that case the sub- marine would sink like a stone to the bottom of the sea. The depth at which a submarine travels under the sea is regulated by horizontal rudders. The water that is let in the ballast tanks is just suffi- cient to "balance" the vessel in the sea without rising or sinking.—London Spectator. An Effective Question. While Henry Ciay was a senator a resolution, in accordance with a some- time custom, was introduced into the Kentucky house of representatives in- structing'the senators from that state to vote in favor of a certain bill then pending in congress. The resolution was in the act of passing without op- position when a hitherto silent mem- ber from one of the mountain counties, springing to his feet, exclaimed, "Mr. Speaker, am I. to understand that this legislature is undertaking to tell Hen- ry Clay bow ,to vote?" The speaker aifswereed that such was the purport of the resolution, at which the mem- ber from the mountains, throwing up his arms, exclaimed, "Great heaven!" and sank into his seat. It is needless to add that the resolution was immedi- ately rejected by unanimous vote. Why She Wasn't There. An agent approaching a house met a little boy at the gate and asked: "Is your mother home?" "Yes, sir," said the boy politely. The agent walked across the long lawn and after rapping several times without receiving an answer returned to the youth, saying: "I thought you said your mother was at home." "Yes, sir; she is," replied the boy. "But I have rapped several times without receiving an answer." "That may be, sir," said the boy. "I don't live there."—Exchange. ***/*1,*,*Arwstvsv+ws. iviiwkihwiavoibeww 11 RAILROADS IN ARGENTINA. "The Customer is Always Right" His is the text or mott of a great and famous department store in Chicago. It is an assertion of the customers place of suprem- acy ick the relation between buyer and seller, Any :retailer wilt, slights his. cus- tomer is committing ausinr ss sui- cide. The cuvt' mer wants those who serve him or her to use the newspaper as a vehic'e for their announc, ments of goods or service. This 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—fir 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 Run Under Rules .Framed by a Strict Government Commission. ,Argentina has a commission which ill In some respects even wore power- ful than the Interstate commerce corn - mission. The direcciou geueral de ferrocarriles, as it is named, prescribes the number of trains to be run -and in - sista on the number of coaches, Ev- ery night train must carry a certain number of sleeping cars, and dining cars, or restaurant cars, as they are known in Argentina, are obligatory on runs of certain distance. Every train is obliged to carry a letter box, and re- eently the railroads have been squeez- ed into carrying the malls for nothing. A medicine chest, a stretcher and a bicycle—this last to establish quick communication with the nearest sta- tion In case of an accident—are com- pulsory on every passenger train. Every passenger coach Is disinfected each month, and the precautions for preserving • the cleauliness of sleeping cars are probably the most thorough in the world. No time table can be altered with- out the sanction of the director gen- eral and at least two mouths In ad- vance of their taking effect. If trains stop at stations not scheduled a heavy fine Is imposed, and all late trains must be reported to the government, $ with the reason for being delayed.— New York Tribune. 416+11.'v11111.11/111.11✓111,'WY1111+'Oti4.N.1kAt4114/0.1ti41.16.11 tiYlsiellitsa ill,1,111•'rer'rrVd He Got the New Suit. "When 1 was a boy your age I used to have to wear my father's trousers cut down to fit me." "I know, pa, and if you were the boy that I think you were I'll bet yon vowed many a time that if you ever had assn he'd never be made to wear such clothes."—Detroit Free Press. THE VICE OF LAZINESS. It has been said that a lazy man will have lazy fowls -and it is so. That "tired feeling" has been the cause of much trouble and not a few failures in the poultry business. Unless a man is wide-awake and energetic he cannot succeed, The man who is physically unable to get up in the morning before 8 o'clock, and who becomes too tired during the day to regularly attend to his duties. is too lazy for this work. A busy, energetic man will see that his fowls are never allowed to stand around idle, that they are continually on the move, and that they never tire! of taking good exercise. It is not difficult to judge the nature of the man by the disposition of the fowls, and the appearance of the premises. When it is seen that the fowls are as busy as bees. the hens singing their tuneful lays, and every specimen the picture of health, the premises clean, and the odor of the pens sweet and not in the least offensive— that is the poultry plant of a busy man, and it doesn't need a horseshoe over the door to bring success to his enterprise. On the other hand, when we find the Her Majesty, the Cook. "Well, is our dinner party going off all right tonight?" "I hope se." "And what are we to have?" "I don't know' as yet. The cook le to give me sin: audience at 4:130."—Xan- sea City Star. Logical, Miss Bute—You really ahonld gtye up anioking; it affects the heart. iadt Lover—By that reasoning I ought bo eV* ep you too.—Boston 'itranilcript. We are never eo happy er ab ham as we supp MOLIV premises all upside down, the quarters dingy and dirty, mounds of manure piled up under the roosts—that is the home and the plant of a lazy man. Think of the uncomfortable nights these fowls must spend with such a stench coming up to them, and lice crawling all over them But it is said a fowl does not possess the faculty of smelling, which I believe is so, but the germs are located in that pile of manure, and sooner or later there is an epidemic. The appearance of the fowls en a lazy - man's plant are enough to disgust any- one. They stand about on one leg' their bodies all drawn in, so that one cannot tell if they are sick or cold • they certainly cannot be in the best of health, for well fowls do not, "shrug their shou:ders" when there is a little work to do. Now what is the man's defence for this condition? He claims he is so overrun with other work that he cannot properly attend to the hens, A man who has so much to occupy him that he cannot give the stock proper care had better get rid of them at once. There is no profit in neglected poultry. The hen, like the cow. gives returns according to the treatment given her. The poultry business calls just as much for wide-awake men as does any other business. Shiftlessness is followed by failures, while enterprise is encouraged by success. The man who starts a Lanni in size within the limit of his experience, and enlarges as his experience grows, is the man who has his wits at work, who never gets beyond his ability, and who is making money. There is only one class that will succeed—the live man. M. K. Royer, in American Poultry Advocate. Eczema on the Head. Mr. Peterson, South Bay, Ont., writes: "For years I suffered a sort of eczema on the head. I tried four dif- ferent doctors, giving each a fair trial, but the disease grew worse and spread to my arm. I got Dr. Chase's Oint- ment, and it has entirely cured me. I give you my name because I want other suffers to know about this splendid Ointment." The town of Weston has been de- vided in 33 districts to raise money for the British Red Cress Fund and there will be two canvassers in each district. It is hoped that $2,000 will be raised for the fund. 0- 0 1916 Models 1916 IN COLUMBIA GRAFONOLAS. At this, the commencement of our Fall and Winter Advertising Campaign, we wish to impress these im- portant facts upon all present and prospective owners of talking machines. Despite the war tax, there has been no increase in the price of Columbia Grafonolas and Records. Columbia Grafonolos and Records are made in Canada. Columbia Records Fit any Disc Instrument Wear Longer Give Better Results and --- Cost Less than any other record upon the market. New Columbia Grafonolas $20 up to $650 and up-to- date Columbia Records 85c up (tw oneeschon3) can be purchased from the following dealer: HILTON HUNTER AGENT WINGHAM ONTARIO 0 GERMS ON SALADS. A Simple Method by Which All Dan- ger May Bo Avoided. Drs. Loir and Legagneux of Parts tested vinegar as a destroyer of the germs of typhoid fever. That they are killed by a mixture of wine and water in equal parts has tong been known. These investigators prove now that twenty grams of vinegar to a liter of water kill the typhoid bacillus In an hour and five minutes. "From this," writes the Paris corre- spondent of the London Lancet, "a practical inference may be drawn con- cerning salads. After washing the sal- ad as usual, detaching each leaf, it should be .put into water acidulated with ten grams of vinegar to the liter and remain immersed in this liquid for about an tour and a quarter. All veg- etables ordinarily eaten uncooked may be subjected without any inconven- ience to the same process." A liter is equivalent to about a quart and ten grams are equivalent to about a third of an ounce. So if lettuce or other greens for salad be placed in water to which about one-third of an ounce of vinegar has been added and be left for about an hour and a quar- ter all danger of typhoid fever will be removed. 0 DROWNING OUT A FIRE. High Pressure Water Streams That Tear Down Room Partitions. Just think of picking up a pond or a small reservoir containing about 30,- 000 gallons of water and throwing it bodily at a fire, and then picking up another pond or reservoir containing the same amount of water and throw- ing that at the fire within a moment's time, and keeping up this performance every minute for an hour until the fire is drenched with nearly 2,000,000 gal- lons of water! Quite a "bucket bri- gade," rigade," eh? Practically that is what the New York fire department does today with its high pressure system, for .with this method of water supply the firemen can obtain 30,000 gallons of water a minute and, if necessary, at a maxi mum pressure of 300 pounds to the square inch _ sufficient pressure or "pushing power" behind the stream to carry it from the street to the top of an eight story building or even higher. It has the greatest possible advantage over the "throwing" method, since the firemen, with the aid of their water towers and monitor nozzles, can direct right into the heart of the fire this im- mense volume of water—enormous streams that smash windows, tear down partitions, sweep aside merchan- dise and squirm; twist and force them- selves into every nook and corner of a building, searching out the fire bet- ter than the firemen can and smother- ing it before it can reach the danger mark. And this is why that in a portion of New York city noted a few years age for destructive fires the big fire has, to a sense, disappeared.—Charles T. Hill In St. Nicholas. His Flee Was Covered With Pimples. Pimples are not a serious trouble, but they are very unsightly. Pimples are caused wholly by bad blood, and to get rid of them it is neces- sary to purify the blood of all its int - purities. Burdock Blood Bitters has made many remarkable cures; the pimples have all disappeared, and a bright, clean, com- plexion left behind. Mr. Lennox D. Cooke, Indian Path, N.S., writes: "I am writing you a kw lines to tell you what Burdock Blood Bitters has done for me. Last winter my face was covered with pimples. I tried different kinds of medicine, and all seemed to fail. I was one day to a friend's house, and there they advised me to use B.B.B., so 1 purchased two bottles, and before I had them taken 1 found I was getting better. 1 got two more, and when they were finished I was eotnpletely cured. I find it is a great blood purifier, and 1 recommend it to ally, Burdock Blood Bitters has been on the market for the past forty years, sad is manufactured only by The T. Milbank Co„ Limited, Toronto, Out. • GILLETT'S LYE EATS Di RT" "�IOL tauthr011 0,00110 ruck OI1t6,1e4 •'O« G .LErrik q•••*G TTC OMPANYLI LIMITED gra, I�`rTOROKTO ONT THEY TRADED WIVES. ..,.......r..«.•....-. (Metier 28th 19t5,_ START PULLETS NOW. Two European horn couples' ideas of liberty in this land of the free received a rude jolt, says a Michigan despatch. Two years ago Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Klasterwic, and Mr, and Mrs H. R. Bloomstag came to the United States from Hungary and purchased 20 acres each in the hills of Fiimore township, near Hudsonville, Mich. - There developed in both familiea`'dis- satisfaction with martial relations A change was decided on. Tuesday, Sept. 14, Klasterwic gath- ered hi3 private belongings and moved to the Bloomstag home. Bloomstag. moved the same day into the Klaster- wic home. Things went along'about as usual until the mail carrier left a letter for Klasterwic at that man's former home. On his return trip Mrs. Klasterwic asked the carrier to take the letter to Klasterwic at the Bloomstag home. She explained that her husband was "living down there now " The carrier was interested, He made inquiries in the neighborhood and then notified the sheriff. With that official, he drove to the Bloomstag form and assembled the four principals in the unusal domestic tangle in one room. With the aid of an interpreter, the sheriff questioned the four. All expressed surprise that exchange of mates was ndtpermitted, but showed a respect for the law by hastily agree- ing to return to their own abodes. No further action will be taken by authorities. Got Thorn to Begin to Lay Before Cold Weather. About the meat profitable pullets are those which begin to lay in October and early November, That's why J. G. Halpin, secretary of the Wisconsin Poultry Association, in now urging Wisconsin poultrymen to get, as soon as possible, their young' x, Rock into, and accustomed to, Winter - guar ters. inter•quarters. FACTS ABOUT PULLETS. They should begin to lay before cold! weather. They should be in Winter quarters:. early, They should be handled quietly, A little attention now means 4ollars4 later on. He has found that whenever possible - it is well to give the pullets a separate-• pen, which should be web cleaned ands and well littered. The pullets should, be moved in as quietly as possible so as not to frighten them and stop their - development. "We have found," says Mr, Halpin,., "that if a pullet starts to lay or gets nearly ready to lay and is then movedi and badly frightened the partially de- veloped yolks may be reabsorbed. It:. sometimes takes several months to re- • cover from rough treatment. Specials attention should, therefore, be given so that the pullets will. not notice the change from Summer roosts to Winter - quarters. A little precaution now wilt. mean dollars later on. "It is easier to keep pullets laying. - that begin to lay before cold weather. • sets in than those which start after - cold weather comes. "At this time we should make our - plans for early hatching in order to - have the next crop of pullet old enough•, to begin laying in October or early, November. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR Nelson, B. C., wants the 1916 con- - vention of the Western Canada Irriga- - tion Association. Poolrooms in Chatham closed cast• night to encourage men to attend a e cruiting meeting. It is practically certain that there is to be no session of Parliament called till, the second or third week in January. PRIN'T'ING I' AND STATIONERY We have put in our office a complete stock of Staple Stationery and can supply your wants in WRITING PADS ENVELOPES LEAL PENCILS' BUTTER PAPER PAPETEItIES, WRITING PAPER BLANK BOOKS PENS AND INK TOILET PAPER PLAYING CARDS, etc We will keep the best stock in the respective lines and sell at reasonable prices JOB PRINTING We are in a better position than ever before to attend to your wants in the Job Printing line and all orders will receive prompt attention. 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