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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-11-04, Page 6Ewe 6 THE WINGHAM TIMES September 4th 1415 OARING COSSACKS 1ilssian Rough Riders an Old and Famous Body. ONCE KNIGHTS OF FREEDOM.. n former Times They Were Known i Entirely as Defenders of the Poor and • the Oppressed—Dew11y as Marksmen I and Experts With the Sword. The popular conception of the Rus- iian Cossack is a .;whiskered atrocity who rides with. the speed of the wind, comes to do ante-, of pillage and; of rae pine and then, goes back again into:.the bosom of the tall grass from which he ,came. By many he' Is supposed to be - Ilona to a legendarydribe whose history stretches back info the blackness of the dark ages from which he has not lyet emerged - No; the Cossack is in many respects 'like the simple Russian peasant. In tethers. be is like the cowboy of the western plains. whose home is as much In the saddle as in his own village. Far from being oppressors, the Cos- 'sacks were once known entirely as the defenders of the poor and the wrong- ed. They belonged to an order of rus- tic chivalry, the Kazacpesteo, the Knights of Freedom. • The name Kazak is of Tartar origin and means "Freeman." It was frpplied' oto men driven from the more settled countries and who under the blue sky rode without the trammel of tradition, without the interference of kings, po- tentates and powers. There was a time when nobles laid heavy hand upon the subject and human life was held in small account. The thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries saw the Cossacks developed into communities living in the neigh- borhood of the river Dnieper and rid- 'ing hither and thither to keep watch and ward over the domain of the em- peror. The cowboy guards of the great southwest In this country, who are stow disappearing from our American life, are Cossacks in spirit. When they beeome cavalrymen. Texas Rangers or rough riders they are American Cos- sacks. There were some criminals among the Cossacks, but once they had en- rolled in the Cossack legions they left behind them all their past. Some were exiles for political reasons, others had been hunted for taking into their own 'hands the avenging of wrongs. And what avails a name after all? When the officers of the state came inquiring into the Cossack encampments for De- metri this and Ivan that nothing was •known of them at all, for the Cossacks permitted men to divest themselves of former titles and to begin the free life with a new nomenclature. To them the newcomer were "Big Nose," "Yel- low Buttons" or some other nicknamed comrade. While other persons paid taxes the Cossack was subject to no such incon- venient levy. His share was paid by the power of his sword and his pistols. ,lEIe insisted always that he was not to be assessed, but that he should give his military service when Russia re- quired it of him. When the Cossack communities were first formed they were inhabited only by men. The Kazachestvo took vows of celibacy. It was an order that lived like anchorites and fought like demons. As the ages have passed there have been many changes. The Cossacks have families and their own home life. At first, however, young and daring youths were sent out to ride with the Cossacks, and there was no system of chivalry more punctilious than was this government of the men of the steppes. Offenses that involved violation of 'their vows or the Ill treatment of the ''creak and the oppressed were punLshed 'with death. The sentences were quick- ly imposed and speedily executed. Cowboy justice and Cossack rule are the same in principle. ' The dress of the Cossack has become more or less conventional as the years have gone. We see him in the long coat of brown or of green, with the great lambskin cap on his head, with strong belts containing cartridges about his waist He shows the influence of military training. The Cossaek of to- day is a model of elegance compared eyith what be used to be. He seized 'garments covered with gold lace, coats .of silks and sable and smeared them .with mire and tallow to show his su- 'preme disregard for fine trappings. He *ore coarse garb, but in the care of :his weapons the Cossack has always been punctilious. ' His markmanship was deadly and accurate, even when riding at full speed, as that of the cowboys of the western united States. The Cossacks have been expect swordsmen for cen- turies. Their proficiency in arms came 'from their environment. The steppes Rin which they sought their livelihood 'were covered with grass often so high only the head and shoulders of the rid- iers appeared above the top of it. Gamo ;was abundant in those thick tangles; fruit could be obtained easily; the riv- e liars teemed with fish. The wants of the Cossacks were few and simple. .They could do with much or little. A 'slice of 'horseflesh carried under the +saddle to keep it warm was a ration fit to be called a luxury,—New York Herald. x1111 K11111Wle11'N+0A1,4%11 WSo11111e1titi%tri bi111r1161"r IncreasrngYProsperityour HE surest way to get rich is to inc-ease the multiplier; which means for the merchants of Wingharn--•increase• your customers rather than add to the lines you are selling, or the stock you are carrying. Adding to the number of the lines or grow that doesn't add many cos - ‘.:you sell or to the volume of the tomers each year. �i ?carrystock you is not the way sur• Customers must be added bypurposeful effort—oy seeking them, $ est •to prospe• ri y, Indeed, this has Waiting tor them to find you is ruined thousands of men, The surer wily fully. Seek them by the news - try is to multiply cos- paper advertising This is the only tomers, Nt; business can prosper sure way to build up numbers. $ i To the Merchants of • Wingham $ You can multiply your customers through a series of good advertisements 6 i $ in the Weekly Times. Ask us about the cost of Advertising. $ : The Nimble Penny Beats the Slow Dollar $ $ $ $ L1,,,,es,„,..Am s,..A►tis.„.1"...ti til.., ."i",.„',tii,,tit0,ti,,',ti'rfrN•71'.1v.4.1ti14. • 0 HOW BUSINESS WILL BE AFFECTED To the Editor:— The Vindicator has the following:— "As a matter of shere common sense we know that if the liquor business were abolished the people would buy more of farm products, more of cloth- ing, more of flour, more of meat, more of every commodity than they now pur- chase. The experience of no -license cities has ever shown that where the saloons are closed men buy more cigars and tobacco in spite of the fantic effort made by the liquor business within the past few months to persuade tobacco dealers and growers that it is to their interest to fight prohibition. In fact outside the liquor business there is not a single industry, line of trade or business the interests of which would be adversely affected by prohibi- tion. The cooper will not make whiskey barrels or beer barrels but the demand for flour barrels will be much greater. The manufacturer of saloon bars will find his market gone, but will find a bigger market for home furniture, opened. The man who builds buildings for liquor selling and liquor making will build factories and homes. The man who makes beer and whiskey bottles will make milk bottles. All this is determined by the simple rule that the people are going to buy the things they want, the necessities, comforts, and luxuries of life and that their buying will be enormously in- creased when the liquor traffic stops robbing them." When a brewery in West Virginia was closed it was converted into a peeking house,which immediately gave employment to ten times as many men as the brewery had ever done. H. Arnott, M. B.. M. C. P. S. Shows it. Snicker—Does your wife understand the use of leftovers? Bocker—Yea; she Is constantly pointing out to me hoe?' ;she might have married thaine Jt dge. Idieneats ird the beginning o• ski vices, t t►ranaa ProVerb. LAUNDRY SUGGESTIONS. with care, to preserve their shape and to escape possible specks from wind dirt and the yellow, waxy spots that honey bees frequently leave on white goods when on the clothesline.—Mrs. Medora Corbett, in American Agricul- turist. A. Year lndoora "For thirteen months I was so bad with chronic indigestion that I could not go out of doors. Nerves were unstrung, the heart bad and smothering feelings came on till I thought I would choke. Doctor's treatment failed me, so I be- gan the use of Dr. Chase's Kidney - Liver Pills, which I thank for my present good health. I am now doing my housework and have a family of ten." HOUSEHOLD SUGGETIONS—OF AN- OTHER KIND. Minutes are to hours what the pennies are to dollars. If the reins are drawn too tightly, the young folks are liable to run away from home. •When you meet a man who does not know his own mind, it is because he has none. We cannot afford to lose our temper when we are wrong, and when we are right we do not need to. It isn't always the cook's fault that the bread is poor. Water -soaked wood does't make a very brisk fire. It is becomes necessary to destroy the little kittens, don't let the children see you do it. Simply because a woman is a good cook it's no reason why she should run a free boarding-house for her rela- tives. All women are not wearing short sleeves, and the long sleevds of a wash Waist must receive more attention in washing than any other pate. The longevity of a dress waist depends upon the condition of its sleeves, and as they naturally get the most wear and hardest rubbing, or at least more rubbing than other parts whenever a waist is laundered, the following suggestions are made, not only for sleeves, but also for all knit undergarments in cotton or wool, and wash goods in general: Make a strong, lukewarm suds, dip a piece in, soap thoroughly, run the left hand within sleeves, drawer legs and stockings, that no soiled spot may escape, turn the outside in, soap and pack down into the suds. Soak white cotton pieces overnight. or at least one full hour. Soaking does not injure material, while hard rubbing does. It is a ;treat saving to all delicate goods and trimmings to rub or squeeze the dirt from the inside first, especially colored cloth with printed designs. Starch should be thin, well boiled and strained, and all pieces starched with the inside out, and placed on clean line Before you take any man's advice, stop and think whether or not he knows any better than you do about it. Plenty of good books and publications, with time to read them, are powerful factors in keeping the young folks on the farm. Boys and .girls need care, rest and proper training as much as does that promising colt you hope to see develop into a fine race horse, A man and his wife some years ago made it a Mule that when one got out of patience and said things, the other should just keep still. That works first rate; they've never had a quarrel since. The little chap will work like a tiger bringing in wood and such things as long as he knows somebody is helping too. It is the fob that must be done alone that takes the tuck out of a fel- low. The home life is what you make it. If you do your part, speaking the kind work and doing the good deed, the day never will come when you are sorry. These are the things that make the heart glad, clear down to the end of time. COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN RAIL- WAYS. While many lines of industry in the United States are enjoying what looks liked phenomenal prosperity, there is something like a collapse in American railroad. Eighty-two roads, represent- ing 42,000 miles, one-sixth of the whole mileage of the country, are in the hands of receivers. This condition is, however, attributed by the Railway Age Gazette and New York Sun, not to general industrial conditions, but to what they call "pernicious State regu- lation." As an instance of this at- tention is called to a Texas regulation which prohibited the putting of two engines on one train, and so prevents the hauling of the heaviest possible load. The New York Outlook, on the other hand, sees, in some cases at least, another cause for the trouble from which American railways are suffering. It cites the case of the Rock Island as an example. This, we are told, is a prosperous railway running through a populous region, which for many years served both its customers and stock- holders well. Buc it fell into the hands of a group of unscrupulous financiers, and is now in the hands of receivers Testimony shows that very large sums of money were deliberately diverted from the railway for the personal bene- fit of the insiders. "Is it surprising," asks the Outlook, "that even conser- vative men are beginning to ask them- selves whether the evils of government ownership can be any worse than those contained in the Rock Island records?" HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS. Better fix that weak step in the cel- lar stairs. It might cause a serious fall. For the Men.—Take off your rubbers or overshoes before entering the house. Scrubbing is hard work, so make it as easy for the women folks as possible. Good springs, mattresses, and bed- ding with pretty spreads, make the beds easy to make and neat in appearance. Plenty of pretty doilies save many changes of table cloths. If you wish to use only part. of a lemon, instead of cutting, try pulling it apart in sections, the same as you would an orange. The remaining sec- tions will keep much better 'than a cut portion. Instead of wringing flannels by hand, it is better to put them through a wringer, which squeezes the water from the fibres instead of twisting and mat- ting them, which is one cause of their shrinking. In making laundry suds, place pieces of soap in a clean salt sack. Tie the end. In this way the soap will not stick to the bottom of the boiler or to I the clothes. There is also no waiting Wm. J. Morton, of Toronto, was ac- for all the soap to dissolve. cidently shot and fatally wounded by iI When embroidering dots some people C. L. Brooker of Toronto, while rabbit f find it difficult to make them round. It hunting at Orangeville. is a simple matter, if when you are half through, you will run your needle Ito the other side of the dot and work toward the centre. Be careful to finish t with your centre threads parallel. Get"More Money" for your Skunic Muskrat, Raccoon, 1 oxes.'.Vi:ite Vireeeein Fisher and other Fur bearers collected in ecotion SKIP TO1'R 1c"t•US DIIeItt;4iPI'Ililt."'• lar --;t house 1n the World dealing exit :citt -ly in r 0R;itt 4 tiff Ab t 1W rens - areiial err-Sott,,1,ke—,_u, 1 t,, ::tat ?rtp- .,eii utation e..t ,t nP for -more t.,:tn a t:.'t t r f t: , a 1 s ce•;fel re:',r,1„fr;rndiuzr1 :rSttirnrrotr t i '!< AND PIaiVITA1:L1; returns. WO:e. f .t ¢ , aa, : fa' vt t the only reliable. accurate marketron.,rta.,•, , '_�... Write for1t—NOW-$t'a A« B. J& A'J $ERT, Iric.CCACOtU.S.A. MISSING LINKS. Amorionomommomsommift Pages of Geological History That Na, tun Has Destroyed. New details are continually being added by geologists to the known his- tory of the earth, including the devel- opment of plants and animals. How- ever, that history, which is recorded in the rocks, is still fragmentary, like a badly mutilated book, One of the great defects in the record in the Atlantic and gulf coastal plain regions of this country is the absence of the later part of the cretaceous and the early part of the eocene chapters—perhaps eight to ten millions years ago. .t report by the geological survey discusses this missing part of the record and shows that the break must cover a very long period of time. It is known that at that time the continents were at least as large as and probably larger than they are now, and the oceans were accordingly small- er. Any rocks that were then formed in the sea seem to have been weather- ed and washed away. Hundreds of kinds of plants and animals that lived before and hundreds that lived after this great period are known, but not one which lived during the period. Strange to say, few if any of the spe- cies which existed before the unknown period lived through it. It is like a play in which the places of one act remain the same as in the preceding but the characters are all new, and yet many of the new play- ers resemble the old ones so much that one is compelled to admit that they are close relatives. In each of the states bordering the Atlantic ocean are lay- ers of rock which were formed be- fore and after the period whose record Is missing. In these layers are entomb- ed sea shells of many kinds, but ap- parently not one species lived through from cretaceous to eocene time. j I haven't a carpet in my house; never have had, and do not anticipate having any. Does it sound cold for winter? + Well, I do not find it so, The library has a big rug 9 x 12 feet on a polished floor. The dining -room likewise, ex- cept that in summer this rug is taken up 1 and stored in the third story in good shape, and the dining -room looks un - j usually clean and sanitary with its 1 light oak polished floor and only a few Ismall rugs.—Ellen. BECKONING THE DEAD. The Call of the Indians to Which the Sea Responded. On the rugged coast of Washington by the Copalis sands there is a tower from which the Indians watch' for sea otter. They are very eager after that game, for the bide of one of those crea- tures is worth all the way from $500 to $2,000. Two young Indians were watching one day when they saw a sea otter off in the surf. •Two shots from their rifles killed the otter, and then they rushed down to their surf- boat. The sea was heavy, and when they were out some distance from the shore their boat broke in two over a comber, and the men were thrown into the sea. One of the Indians drifted ashore on a piece of wreckage. The other, al- though a splendid swimmer, was drowned. The news soon spread to the reservation, and the Indians from far and near came to the beach and stood on the sands, silently beckoning to the sea to give tip its dead. It was a solemn, impressive sight— the stalwart. rugged, copper colored men and women standing at the verge of the sea foam asking the sea by the motion of their hands to send the body ashore. For three days they waited and beckoned, and then a dark object was seen drifting into shallow water. Sometimes it was burled completely from view by the heavy surf; then it was seen again a little nearer, and so the body of the dead Indian came ashore at the call .of his tribesmen.— Youth's Companion. Engineering Triumph. "Why are you studying that dachs- hund so intently?" "I consider him an architectural tri- umph of Mother Nature's," explained the bridge builder. "See how nicely the stress is calculated to the span"— Judge. Our past lives build the present, which must mold the lives to be.—Sir Merin Arnold. ' • Story of a Dream. Of course the medical sharps know it all, but let me tell what happened tc me. I had a strikingly vivid dream in Which I saw and spoke to a dead friend, and she emphasized what she said by laying her hand on my hair, a trick the dead girl had when living. The subject of -her speech has no value. But when I woke I could almost feel her touch still. In a day or two I no- ticed my hair looked queer where she touched me, and it faded until I had four bars, almost white, across my red mop, just such as would be made by four fingers.—Letter in New York Times. DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS Relieve The Kidneys and Bladder Like Ordinary Medicines Do The Bowels. When the kidneys get out of order the back is sure to become affected, and did' pains, sharp pains, quick twinges all point to the fact that the kidneys need attention. ' Plasters and liniments will not cure the kidneys, for they cannot get to the seat of the trouble, but Doan's Pills do, and cure the kidneys quickik and permanently. Mrs. Lizzie Melanson, Plympton, N$., writes: "I ant sending this testimonial telling you what a wonderful cure Doan's Kidney Pills made for me. For years I had suffered so with my kidneys I could hardly do my housework. I used several kinds of pills, but none of them seemed to be doing me any good. At Last I was advised to try a box of Doan's Kidney Pills. When I had taken the first box I found relief. I have used five boxes, and to -day I feel like a 'new woman. I cannot recommend them too highly." Doan's Kidney Pills are 50c. per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Wheneardering direct specify "Donn'e. " 'F,w$,roJisONEs & co. ro ROUND span? 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