HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-5-1, Page 6markets.of
the Tori , feeders, $11.50 to $13.50; canners and
`cutters, $5.50 to $7; milkers, good to
choice, $90 to $150; do, earn. and med.,
j} $65 to $75; springers, $90 to $150;
Breadstuifs. light ewes, $13 to $15; yearlings, $12
---Manitoba 'Wheat; to $14; choice lambs, $18 to $19;
• Toronto, An. 29.
-No. 1 Northern$'3 41 No. 2: spring lambs, $12 to $15; calves, good
Northern, ,$'2.211:1;� No. 3 Northern, ; to chaise, y$15�to• $16; hogs, fed and
X2.177,; No. 4 wheat,$2.117/5, in store ;$22
watered, $ 2.25; do, weighed off cars,
fort y6'.illiam, i $22.50; do, f.o.b„ $21.50.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W„ 75%,c; THUMB LORE.
• No. 3 C,W,, 72%c; No, 1 feed, 7O7/sc;
No. 2' feed, '677;:c, in store Fort Wil -1
liam. t The More Brain You Have the Longer
Manitoba barley -No, 3 C.W,,
$1.06%e; No. 4 C` W , $1.011/4c; rejee- f Will Be Your Thumb.
ted, 94%c; feed, 94'oe; in store Fort Your thumb is a very interesting
William. i subject to all medical Students of
American corn --No 3 yellow,. $1.85; : nerve troubles. There are points which
No. 4 yellow, $1.82, nominal, track !could be given by the hundred to
Toronto, prompt shipment. 6 prove the importance of this member;
Ontario oats --No. 2 white, 73 to but the most extraordinary is that
75e; No. 3 white, 71 to 73c, according which is termed in medical work as the
to heights outside.
Ontario wheat -No, 1 Winter, per ; "thumb centre" of the brain.
car lot, 52.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do, 52.11 ? It is a well-known fact amongst
to $2.19; No. 3 do, 52.07 to 52.15 f.o.b.: nerve specialists that by an examine -
shipping points, according to freights.; tion of the thumb they can tell if tie
Ontario wheat -No. 1 'Spring, $2.09 ; patient is affected, or likely to be af-
to $2.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 to $2.14; No.' fected, by paralysis or not, as the
3 do52.02 to 2.10 f.o.b. ship g .
_pin
points, according to freights. thumb will indicate this a long time
Peas -No. 2, $2.00, nominal, ac -before there is any trace of the disease
' in any other part of
cording to freights outside. the system. If
Barley -Malting, 97c to $1.02, there is any trace, or such affection is
nominal, indicated, an operation Is at once per -
Buckwheat -No. 2, 51,10, nominal.: formed on the thumb centre of the
Rye -No, 2, 51.60, . nominal. I brain, and if the operation is success -
Manitoba flour -Government sten- ful-which is proved by an examina-
dard, 510.75 to $11, Toronto. i tion of- tits thumb-theu the patient is
Ontario flour -Government stand- ! saved.
ard, $9.65 to $9.75 in bags Toronto Another very interesting
and Montreal, prompt shipment in : point is
jute bags. the old theory of midwives -which is
Millfeed-Cor lots, delivered Mon-' easily seen to contain a great deal of
treal freights, bags included. Bran, j truth. They held that if an infant was
542 to 545 per ton; shorts, 5.0 to $45 inclined to keep the thumb inside the
per ton; good feed flour, 52.65 to 52.75; fingers for some days after birth, it
per bag. ! foreshadowed some great physical de -
Hay -No. 1, 526 to 528 per ton; ' lieacy.
mixed, 520 to 824 per ton, track To-' If, seven days atter birth, the thumb
ronto. I was still covered, then there wasgood
Straw -Car lots, 510 to $11 per ton• reason to suspect that the child was
Country Produce --Wholesale. 1 mentally delicate.
Butter -Dairy, tubs and rolls. 33 When visiting the asylums of the
to 40c; prints. 40 to 42e. Creamery, :country, you cannot fail to notice that
fresh made prints, 63 to 64c, t all congenital idiots have very poor,
Eggs -New laid, 42 to 43c. weak thumbs; in fact, some are so
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 30 to: weak as not to be properly developed,
34e; roosters, 25e; fowl, 30 to 83e; ! even in shape.
ducklings, 32e; turkeys, 45c; squabs, I These facts are remarkable, taken
in conjunction with Sir Charles Bell's
discovery that in the hand of the chim-
panzee -which is the nearest ap-
proach to the human -the thumb.
though well formed in every way, if
Cheese -New, large,. 28 to 28%c; measured, does not .reach the base of
twins, 281 to 29c; triplets, 29 to the first finger. The deduction is,
29%c; Stilton, 293-, to 30e; old, large, therefore, that the higher and better -
29% to 30c; twin, 30 to 30aec. proportioned the thumb, the more the
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 50 to intellectual faculties rule, or vice ver -
52c; creamery. solids, 63 to 64e;
sa.
prints, 65 to 67c.
lVlargaxine-34% to 355 We find in the war history of the
Eggs -New laid, 47 to 48c; new Children of Israel instances of their
laid in cartons, 49 to 50c. cutting off the thumbs of their ene-
Dressed poultry -Chickens, • 40 to mies. It is a well-known fact that in
42c; roosters, 28 to 30c; fowl, 37 to many Oriental nations, if the prisoner,
38c; turkeys, 45 to 50e; ducklings, lb., when brought before his captors,
35 to 38c; squabs, doz., 57.00; geese, covers his thumb with his fingers, he
28 to 80e. is, in dumb and eloquent fashion, giv-
Potatoes-Ontarios, f.o.b. track To- rig up his will and independence, and
ronto,- car lots, $1.40; on track out- begging for mercy. Gipsies, in their
side, 81.25 to 31.30.
Beans -Canadian. hand-pick., bus., judgment of character, make the
84?5 to $4.50; primes, 33 to $3.25; thumb the foundation for all their re-
marks.
doz., $6.00.
Live poultry Roosters, 22c; fowl,
28 to 33c; ducklings, lb., 35c; turkeys,
35c; chickens, 27c.
Wholesalere are selling to the re-
tail trade at the following prices:
imported hand nicked, Burma or In-
dian, $3.50: Limas, 13c.
Honey -Extracted clover: 5-1b. tin,
25 to 26c Ib.: 10 -lb. tins, 24% to 25c;
60-1b. tins, 24 to 25c. Buckwheat,
60 -Ib. tins. 19 to ''nc. C.omb: 16 -oz., -
A
despatch from Paris sa
34.50 to 55 doz.; 10 -oz., 53.50 to $4 i ys:-The
doz. German Government has officially ad -
Maple produets-Syrup, per imper- vised the allied and associated Gov -
jai gallon, $2.45 to 32.50; per 5 :m- ernments that the German plenipo-
perial gallons, $2.35 to 5':::10; sugar. tentiaries would not leave Berlin be -
lb.., 27c. fore April 28, and that they would
reach Versailles May 1, at the
Provisions -Wholesale. earliest.
Smoked meats -Hams, medii.}i:i, 37 Seven newspapermen will accom-
to 30c; do, heavy. 33 to 34e; coned. pan, the plenipotentiaries, the des -
52 to 54c; rolls, 32 to 33c: breakfast patch aided,
bacon. 43 to 47c; backs, plain, 4$ t
47e; boneless, 52 to 55e. CANADA. STEA:VISHIPS START
Cured meats --Long clear bacon, 29 ATLANTIC SERVICE MAY 24
to 30e; clear bellies, 28 to 29c.
Lar' -Pure? tierces, 3011 to iia ' A. d s;.. th from Montreal tubs, 31 to 311/2c; c; pails, 311.1. to „i ; " ` It
says: -
prints, 32 to 3214e. Compound tierces, Canada Steamship Lines, Limited,
25x. to 2533ic; tubs, 253 to '?trade; announce to -day that arrangements
pails, 26 to 264 c;'' prints, 2.71•:1 to have been completed for the inaug-
2 7 4 c. uration of their new Atlantic service
Montreal, April 29. -Quotations:-
Oats, extra No. 1 feed, 84;;2c. Flourand that fret iht steamer "Bilbster,"
,
Man. Spring. new standard grade. $11 8,300 ions, will sail from VTontreal' on
to $11.10. Rolled oats, bag 90 lbs., May 24 for french ports.
$3.75 to $4. Bran, $44 to $45.50. After this first saallig it is intend -
Shorts, $45 to $4.",.50. Hay, no. 2, per ed that a regu:ar ten-day service
ton, car lots, 529. Cheese -Finest shall be established.
easterns, 24 to 25c. Butter -Choice
creamery. 63 to 64c. Eggs --Fresh, 48 The Real Heroes.
to 49c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots,
$1.90 to $2.25. Dressed hogs-Abat- "The real heroes of this war," said
toir killed, $30.50 to 531. Lard -Pure, a recently returned officer. "are the
wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 311/2c. nursing sisters. Nothing too much
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May 1 the Earliest Date
Germans Can Reach Versailles
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, April 29. -Good heavy
steers, 514.25 to $15.50; choice but-
cher steers, $13.50 to $14; butchers' to the work of the nurse:: after an en -
tattle, choice, $13.25 to $14; do, good, gagement, when the badly shattered
$1£.50 to 512.75; do, medium, $11.5550 men were brought in and left to their
to $12; do, common, 59.75 to $10.25; kindness, which never failed. Their
bulls, choice, $11.25 to 512; do, med-
ium, $9.25 to 310; do, common, $7,50
to $8.25; stockers, 58.75 to $11.50;
can be said about their eourage, their
untiring patience, and their ability.
What the men had to endure in the
front line trenches was child's play
only reward in many cases tieing the
intense worshipful love of the mon."
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
This is a summons in which every
man, woman and child in this commu-
• nity should be interested. It is a Call
for Co -operation -an appeal to our
`coininunity Spirit -a plea for us "to
get together." Each week we .will
show in cartoon and tell in story the
needs of our community -what is hold-
ing it back -the things we must over-
come to progress and how this can be
accompllished by co-operation.
We will "Knock the Knocker" and
"Boost the Booster." We may hit
some of you pretty hard -the truth al-
ways hurts -but it's our most powerful
ally for advancement. If you are in-
terested in the progress and future of
our home town you can help by read-
ing these editorials each week -and
co-operating with us in making this a
bigger -better -happier -more pros-
perous community.
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INGENUITY OF AN EXPLORER.
A Four Thousand Mile Tramp Through
• the Wilds of Africa.
In order to obtain an accurate des-
cription of the route taken through an
unbroken country, there is required
an amount of hard and incessant la-
bor, of which few of us have any con-
ception.
For example, William Junker, a Rus-
sian by birth and an explorer, spent
five years in endeavoring to trace the
course of the River Welle, which lies !
between the headwaters of the Nile
and the Congo, in Africa, with a view
to determining the position of the
watershed between the two rivers. I
When he was actually on the march,
Doctor Junker wore a coat designed
by himself, having numerous large
pockets especially arranged for the
handy use of his watch, compass, ane-
roid, thermometer and notebooks.:
From one of the buttons of his coat '
there hung three pencils -one, red,'
for marking his route; another, blue,
for noting the rivers and streams;
the third, black, for recording the time
of starting and halting, together with
all the more notable incidents of the
day's march.
In a little notebook, ruled for the
purpose, the exact time of starting was
put down, and, thereafter, at the end
of every five minutes, the direction in
which he was proceeding was deter-
mined by a glance at the compass and
carefully noted, while occasionally the
readings of the aneroid and the ther-
mometer were taken.
A brook crosses the path. With the
bine pencil it is instantly designated,
as well as the direction of its current
and its estimated breadth and depth.
Every change in the character of the
country is entered, as from wooded
to grass lands, or from desert to fer-
tile soil. The prominent objects met
on the way, with their apparent height
and distance, are all Indicated. So,
also, are the names of the tribes and
any local information that may have
The time and duration of every halt
is carefully kept, as it is necessary to
know the actual distance gone. Doc-
tor Junker's average rate was a little
more than three miles an hour.
When the night camp was reached,
the first duty of the explorer, after
supper, was to copy all the notes made
during the day into a large book -one
page, generally; though sometimes
two, being used to rcord a da
march. If the night were clear, the
traveller's work would end with an ob-
servation for determining the posi-
tion of the camp. This clone, he felt
that he had earned his right to rest.
In this extraordinary manner Doc-
tor Junker travelled on foot four thou-
sand miles through a wild country, a
large part of which, of course, had
never before been visited by a white
man, and the information thus de-
rived was of great service to geogra-
phers.
One of the mysteries that has puz-
zled bellmakers for years was how
the great bell in the bell tower at
Peking was ever hung. It was cast
in 1415 and weighs fifty-three and a
half tons. It measures fifteen feet
in height, is nine inches thick and
has a circumference of :Shirty -four
feet at the rim. To hang ,it nowadays
would require the most up-to-date
mechanical apparatus, and how it
was hung hundreds of years ago is
a mystery which has never been
solved.
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18 THE EARTH ROUND?
When This Question Came Up in an
English Law Court.
It will scarcely be'.believed that the
question of the shape of the earth
could ever have disturbed the peace -i
fill atmosphere of the Law Courts,
says a London newspaper. Yet in ,
1879 the question, indirectly, indeed,
did come before three learned judges,
and the case excited a good deal of
interest and amusement. The cir-
cumstances were as follows:
The Plaintiff, one Hampden, enter -
tai
ned the opinion that the world was600,000.
not round, and issued an advertise- • •
mens- in a paper called "Scientific
divines, and scientific professors to f
Hymn -Writers' Lease of Life.
Opinion," challenging philosophers, I The death of the Rev. William
Henry Bliss, the vvev.ell-known hymn
prove the contrary from Scripture, t t th f 86 1emmder
reason, or fact. He deposited £500
in a bank, to be forfeited to anyone
who could prove to the satisfaction of
any intelligent referee that there was
such a thing as a convex railway,
canal, or lake.
The challenge was taken up by no
less a person than the late Professor
Alfred Russell Wallace,' who proved
to the satisfaction of the referee the
curvature to and fro of the Bedford
Level Canal between Witney Bridge
and Welsh's Dam (six miles) to the
extent of five feet more or less, and
the 0500 was paid over to him.
But he did not keep it. The plain-
tiff apparently began to see that he
was making a fool of himself, and
brought an action, and recovered back I
his deposit, on the ground that the
whole affair was a wager, and there- I
for illegal!
BIG MEM DEAL IN WH. WHAT IS FULL
'BRITISH COLUMBIA DAY'S WORK?.
Operation of New E. C. Company
To Be Conducted on World -
Wide Scale.
A , despatch frern - Victolieb 3,•0.,.
says: -What is undaitbtedly the most
gigantic lumber enterprise ever con-
ceived, and a s:'henie that is fraught
with tremendous possibilities in the
development of the British Columbia
lumber !Industry, is about to be
launched by a syndicate headed by
Percy Furber, president of the Mexi-
can Oil Field Co. of New York, and
John Arbuthnot, financier, well known
in this city. This syndicate will be
known as. the. Furber Lumber Com-
pany, and the operations of the syndi-
cate will be eoncbu''ted on a colossal
and world-wide scale.
Orders have afire:ad,y been placed
with the syndicate by British inter-
ests to deliver 30,000,000 feet of
lumber, which; in th4 event of a sat-
isfactory agreement being reached on
purelia'se price with the sawmills and
lumber manufacturers, will be sup-
plied by British Coluinbia mills,
Great Honore to be Paid
The Body of Edith Cavell
A despatch from London says:-
The
ays:The body of .Edith Cavell, the English
nurse who wae executed by the Ger-
mans in 1915 at Brussels, will be
brought to England from Belgium on,
May 15 and taken to Westminster.
Abbey, where cermonies Will be held,
The body will be brought to Dover
on a warship and will be transported
on a gun carriage with military
escort to Victoria Station and thence
to West'ntinster Abbey. Internment
will be at Norwich, the home town of
the C.avells.
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$343,836•801
$343,836.801 COST OF
LAST YEAR OF WAR
A despatch from Ottawa, says: ---A
blue book tabled in Parliament gives
details of expenditures under the
War Appropriations Act during the
fiscal year 1918, the last full twelve
months' period of the War. Total
expenditure for the year was $348,-
886,801.
343;886,801. The expenditure in Canada
by the Militia Department was 5201,-
288,628,
201;288,628, while overseas expenditures
amounted to 5115,381,243. Naval de-
fence cost $9,666.229 during the
twelve months' period, while the In-
valided Soldiers' Commission requir-
ed 511,393,654. The remainder of the
total was spent by the various other
Government departments.
WONDERFUL WORK OF
ROYAL AIR FORCE
A ,despatch from London says: -
The Air .Ministry has published an
astonishing record of the work of
the air force during the war. It
states that before the war the air
forces consisted of 272 machines, 197
officers and 1.647 men, while in Oc-
tober, 1918, there were 22,171 ma-
chines, 24906 officers and 263,842
men.
From July, 1916. to the armistice
the air force on the western front
brought down 7,054 enemy aircraft,
dropped 6,048 tons of bombs and fired
over ten and a half million rounds at
ground targets.
500.000 CONGO NATIVES"
HAVE DIED FROM INFLUENZA
A despatch from Brussels says: -
Great loss of life among the natives
of the Belgian Congo as a result of
an influenza epidemic is reported in
despatches receivfed here. Some esti-
mates place the number of deaths at
wrier,,185
of the fact which has often been
mooted, namely, that hymn writers
seen; to live to a riper age than auth-
ors engaged in other departments of
literature.
Fanny Crosby reached the age of
95; Mrs. Alexander, who wrote "There
is a green hill," was 77; Charlotte El-
liott, the author of "Just as I am,"
and Mrs. Cousins, famous for "The
sands of time are sinking," were both
82. The writer of "Our blest Redeem-
er," Harriet Auber, died in her 90th
year.
Contrast these with Thackeray, who
died when not more than 52; Dickens
was only 58, Scott 62, and Keats 26.
Pleasant Contrast.
The wheat crop of South Africa
is now worth about 520,000,000 a 1
"Mike."
"Phwat?"
"I was just thinkin', After we get
out of the trenches an' back home
again how nice an' peaceful that old
year. boiler factory will sound to us."
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SOME AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS
IN WAR -TIME FACTORIES,
British. Hold World's Record in Ship-
yard Riveting -London Rifle Bri-
gade's Wonderful March.
The most difficult task of the Bri-
tish Coal Commission seems to be to
discover, how niucli coal cutting is a
fair "darg," or day's work for a col- •-
liar. It appears that in a good "place"
a moan will cut four tons of coal in a
shift, yet, for all that, the yearly 'out-
put of coal per man was only 220 tons
last year.
It is rather interesting to
glance ce at
other forms of work, and oto see just
how much other toilers do in a day.
Take ploughing, for instance. The
man who, with a single horse plough,
turns an acre in a day, is well earning
kis money. In completing his task, he
will have }walked and guided the
plough about fourteen miles.
Harvesting in the old days u::od to
be slow work, and the man who cut
by hand half an acre of wheat was do-
ing well. 'With the modern Horse -cut-
ter and binder there is a great speed-
ing -up, and one man, with the assist-
ance of two "shockers," has been
known to cut and bind twenty acres
of wheat in one day.
Some .wonderful records were put up
in munition factories during the war.
In November, 1916, a workman belong-
ing to Woolwich Arsenal told the Lon-
don Munitions Tribunal that he had
made seventy-eight shells during a
six -hour shift -something that had
never been done before.
The feats achieved by riveters in
the British shipyards were startling.
In May, 1918, Robert Parrant, of Brom-
ley -by -Bow, set up a record of 4,275
rivets in a day, to be beaten a week
later by Daniel Deviney, who, working
at a Clyde shipyard, drove as many as
4,429 rivets in a day.
Records in Riveting.
Two Americans -Charles Knight
and Tom Moore -successively, beat,
this amazing achievement; but in SiSis
end the record remained in British
hands, for on May 23rd William Moses,
of Barrow-in-Furness, drove 5,894 riv-
ets in the course of a single working
clay. These were high tensile steel
rivets, much more difficult to beat
than the mild -steel rivets used in the
previous competition.
At one time the setting of three
hundred bricks was considered a day's
work for a bricklayer. But at piece-
work, and using a special soft mortar,
a man has been known to lay 1,400
bricks during an eight hours' day, and
to continue this average for days on
end.
Packing fruit is no easy task. Take
oranges, for instance. These average
one hundred and fifty to the box, and
each fruit has to be separately wrap-
ped in paper. Seventy boxes is con-
sidered a very fair day's . work, but a
man has been known to pack one hun-
dred and twenty boxes in a ten-hour
day. He had to handle and wrap eigh-
teen thousand oranges to accomplisn
this task. The work our men slid in
France when marching in full kit is
far beyond that of an ordinary laborer.
The world's nrarching record is held
by a detachment of the London Rifle
Brigade. In April, 1914, these men -
sixty -two in number -marched from
Loudon to Brighton, a distance of
fifty-two miles, in fourteen hours
twenty-three minutes. They were in
full kit, and carried rifles, a total
weight of forty-two pounds, yet not a
man fell out. The next best achieve-
ment is that of the French Foreign
Legion, of which a 'battalion covered
fifty miles in fifteen hours thirty-three
minutes. - - -----
CONCERNING POLAND.
Newly Organized State Will Rank
Fifth Among European Nations.
So much is being written about Po-
land these clays some of our readers
will read with interest this item, tken
from the new journal Free Pola, :d:
The new Poland will contain a popu-
lation of not less than 25,000,000 of
peoples, all speaking the Polish
tongue. It will rank fifth among the
nations of Europe, for it., population
total will exceed the combined popu-
lations of Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
Belgium, Holland and Serbia. It is
not a small nation.
With access to the sea, Poland will
be a self-sustaining nation. It is
fourth in the world in the production
of wheat per hectare; third in the
production of corn. The Polish city
of Lodz is the second Manchester of
Europe. Warsaw, the capital of Po-
land, is the second Largest railroad
terminal in the world, • and through
that city traverse the rail routes to
Eastern Russia, to Siberia and the
Far East.
Already economic alliances have
been established with the new States
of Czecho-Slovakia and Ju go-Slavia, I.t
is ready for friendship with all na-
tions.
The First Food Monopolist.
"This ought to make life easy from
now on," remarked Noah as the ark
landed.
"To what do you refer?" inquired
Japhet.
"Our monopoly of eggs, butter, milk,
beef, etc., with not a soul on earth to
start an investigation,"
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