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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1913-06-19, Page 6G W1NGIIA14 TIMES �Jt E 19, 1913 MAN'S DEVOTION. Jokes Boggles wits a comely yot,01. Who paid his debts and told the trteh. Ile labored hard, and seemed content 'With life no matter hew it went, 'Till with a girl named Sally Skreels Ile fell in love head over heels. Now Sally's father wasn't worth A dollar or a foot of earth, .And Jake's paternal parents owed Most every other man he knowed; But Jake, who had a valiant heart; Vowed that he'd work and get a start, And with the help of Sall, dear, Be'd own a farm within a year. Now Sally who was cold And pretty—that is pretty old. Pretended that for dear Jacob The heaviest cross she'd gladly take up; But. really, she cared no more For Jake than for the shoes he wore. An old maids matrimonial chances Grow very slim as time advances, And this explains why Sally Skreels Proposed to share Jake's bed and meals. They married. Time fled on apace— Jake rented old Bili Scroggins' place And went to work resolved to make A fortune for Sally's sake. Poor soul, he toiled with all his might. From early morn till late at night; But, ail no kind approving word From Sally's lips was ever heard. • She lay around, chewed wax and sung Love songs she'd learned when she was young; Read old love letters she had got From boobies, long since gone to pot; Yawned o'er ascrap book filled with bosh Collected by her cousin Josh, Trimmed her old hat in various ways With all the gew jaws she could raise. In fact, she proved herself to be A slip -shod lump of frivolity. Poor Jake, he worked and ate cold meals, Wore socks with neither toes nor heals. Washed his own clothes when Sunday came .And sewed fresh buttons on the same. Got breakfast while his Sally slept, Washed up the dishes, dusted, swept— There's no use talking, Jacob strove To prove how perfect was his love. One day Sal ate too many beans, Grew sick and went to other scenes. From that day forth Jake seldom spoke iOr smiled, or worked• -his heart was broke. In the poor house now he sits and grieves And wipes his eyes on his threadbare sleeves. MORAL:— I've told you this to let you see, What an all -fired fool a man can be. PAREMUS HILL EGG- EATING HENS. There are to many foods essential to keep the hen in geod health and proper conditien to produce perfeet eggs that it is realy a very easy matter to over- look a part of them, and then the hen will attack her own eggs in the hope of finding the material she lacks, Often- times :t is the mere matter of grit or oyster shell (or some other lime material) that prompts her to break the egg. It certainly is true that fewer hens having plenty of grit and shells get to eating eggs than those that are not thus sup - p lied. The lime used to melte the shell of the egg has to be supplied some- where, and as the requirements of body m aintenance are supplied first, it neces- sarily follows that if there is not suf- ficient lime for both body and egg, one of two things happens- the hen ceases to lay or else she lays soft shelled eggs. Eggs which are laid on the floor or in other exposed places almost always at- tract the hens and these are quite liable to be broken. The only practical way of solving this difficulty is to have the nests in a quiet, secluded place, and have them so convenient and comfort- able that the hens will always seek the n ests when they desire to lay. Cleanli- ness is important in the nest too. Some people never clean their nests. They have them filthy and full of vermin. and it is little wonder the hens do not like to occupy them. As to the cure for this pernicious habit, If the hens have got it very b adiy, there is only one sure and permanent cure. That is the hatchet. However, a liberal use of oyster shells in the litter, in the mach, and before the fowls, always satisfies the demand for lime, and sometimes checks the bad habit. China nest eggs in abundance have been known to do the trick too. Not knowing the difference between them and good eggs, the hens will pick and pick at them until they decide that it is no use. Keep some in the nests, on the floor, in fact every place practi- cal, and then roll them around every time you enter the pen. After a week or so, the fowls will pay no attention to them. Another excellent method is that of filling an eggshell with meal and red pepper. Make the mixture good and hot, and a few tastes of this kind of 'egg' will soon convince the hens that there are better things to seek for than that. Another method followed by some breeders is to trim off the tips of the -bills so as to make them sore. Thus the fowls cannot break the shells, but sometimes also they cannot pick up small pieces of grain and this is an objection. REST AHD HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD. MRS. WiNSLOW's SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLIC, and Ead Cold in Chest is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. It is ab. solutely harmless. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. "I am happy to tell you that I used dad low's Soothing Scenr a bottle take no other Dr. Chases Syrup of Linseed and Tur- pentine, and was promptly cured of a very bad cold in the chest, ' writes Miss Josephine Gauthier, Dover South, Ont. You can depend on Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine to relieve and cure all inflammations and irrita- tions of the throat and bronchial tubes. -_-----Mr-- Auld Lang Syne. As we grow old and sere and cold, we're prone to brood and pine o'er olden ways and vanished days and things of auld lang syne. "The world, I wist," so we insist, "becomes each day more punk; there is no truth in modern youth, and all men deal in bunk. No gifted potes sing golden notes that every heart can feel ; no speakers make the wel- kin quake like those who used to spiel. No Greely now, with bulging brow, \yields trenchant pen and ink, producing screeds the whole world reads and then sits down to think. No Susan B. do mortals see among the suffrage ranks; her tongue is stilled, her place is filled by futile female cranks. No Edwin Booth expounds the truth concealed in S',lialtespeare's plays; but on the stage there rant and rage a lot of tin horn jays. The world's a quince, that was, long since, a peach almighty fine; we backward turn and sigh and yearn for days of auld lang sync." In fifty years the laughing dears who hear us mourn, I trow, will sing the praise of bygone days just as we're doing now. "The year '18," they'll say, I ween, "was such a golden year! And mighty men were forward then, such as no more are here! Where'er we gaze we see cheap jays where once the men were fine; and an we sigh for days gone by, the days of meld langsyne. Walt. Mason. Indications of a Good Milker. Here are the main points in a good milker from the point of view of a stranger who must use his eyes solely: Head small and clean-cut. Muzzle large. Forehead staight or concave. Neck long and thin but not scrawny. Horns somewhat small. Eyes bright and prominent. Shoulders thin. Loin broad but not thickly fleshed as in beef cattle. Thighs thin. Hindquarters long, deep and strong. flank high. Legs short and wide apart. Tail long, slim and loosely jointed. Frame mark- edly wedge-shaped from all directions. Under set broadly, high up behind, square and high up on abdomen, not loose. pendulous or fleshy. Milk veins large and prominent. Chest deep and with well -sprung ribs. Belly large and deep. Teats medium sized, evenly placed and wide apart. A fleshy udder firm to the touch when empty and re- taining the size and form after milking, indicates a tendency to inflammatory troubles. The skin should be clean and thin and loose on the ribs, with a fresh color. Hair fine, thick and soft, and temperament active anc docile. —Farm, Stock and Home. DEAR MEAT HIS SELF CONTROL. He Proved. It to His Own but Not His The cost of living still keeps going Family's Satisfaction, up according to the statistics which the Mr. Brown was exciting by nature, Department of Labour goes to so much but he often prided himself audibly trouble and expense carefully to compile aeon his self control, One night while each month. The 'Labour Gazette' for the family were gathered at the tea April is just issued, and shows an ad- table the chimney began to roar. The furnaee draft had been opened and for-. gotten. Straightway a panic ensued. "Don't lose your heads—keep cool!" cried Mr. Brown. "It's nothing sere, Oils." He dashed up the stairs, discovered that the metal cap over the only un- used stovepipe bole was already red hot, Sud dashed down again faster than lie \vent up. -Keep cool:".he gasped as he passed through the room where the family Mut gathered in nervous apprehension. "I'll he back in a minute." Ile was back in less than that time, having observed that the flames were spouting several feet high from the chimney and that a shower of sparks was failing upon the roof. "Wit -\v here's the stepladder?" be panted. IIe was gone before any one could ;msw•er the question and presently was heard bellowing from the roof of the trunci shed. Ile presented a heroic figure in the glare of the blazing chim- ney. "I've got one end of the hose," he called. "Some one attaeh the other end aucl turn on the water—quick!" Two long minutes passed. "•\Vhy doesn't some one do as I or- dered?" be thundered. "Do you want the place to burn up?" "\\'e can't. Henry." called Mrs. Brown tremblingly. "You haven't got the hose. You've got the cow rope. It was hanging next to the hose in the -heel, and anyway the roof is covered with ice. and I don't think there's any great clanger outside. You'd better go and watch the chimney from the in- eide.' • A. half hoar later the family were again at the tea table. "If this had happened in some ;tomes," remarked Mr. Brown. "the family would have lost their heads completely and sent in an alarm. Self control is an excellent thing and far from common." "Indeed, it is," agreed Mrs. Brown emphatically.—Youth's Companion. vance from 135.9 to 136.3. This means that the cost of living is now 36.3 per cent higher than it was for the ten years 1590 to 1900. The cost of groceries, in- cluding vegetables and all kinds of manufacturers articles, has only risen about 17 or 18 percent over the price of the period that is taken as a standard of comparison. By far the larger part of this increase in cost is due to the great rise in the value of animal pro- ducts. Meats have advanced 86 percent leather products 61 percent, and fish al- so 60 percent. Animal farming would on this showing be now nearly twice as profitable as it was fifteen years ago were it not that the cost of labour has advanced materially. In the case of poultry it would be two and one third times as profitable. Even if the farm- ers began now to increase their live stock as rapidly as possible, meat is likely to become still dearer before it becomes cheaper. Indeed the only way to increase the live stock output is to hold a larger number out of the market for breeding, and so, still further, shor- ten the supply. The results of these high prices will certainly be, to intro. duce mixed farming on thousands of one - crop farms, as well as to greatly increase the number of cattle kept, where but a few head have usually been maintained An incidental benefitwill be the better: ment of the land itself. It will take some time for a readjustment of the country's farming, such as will equalize prices and provide for the inrush of emigrants, to take place. Its accom- plishment will, however, work good in many ways. Unfortunately the farmer does reap the whole profit of this large rise in the price of meats. It is very largely absorbed by the monopolistic work of the middleman, who control the trade. In parts of the country they are so despotic that they actually refuse to buy from farmers who dare sell a single animal to anyone else. Then again they refuse to sell meat to any butcher who ever buys from any one else, and the single farmer or the single butcher can make no arrangement that will assure the supply or market for their entire needs without the trust, so powerful has it become, all are at its mercy, and the public suffers along with the farmer and butcher in having to pay with them a common toll to the or- ganized middleman. Dr. de Van's Female Pills A reliable French regulator; never fails. These pills are exceedingly powerful in regulating the • generativell chep imitations. the female Van sc m. Refuse tatio sDr, dare old at 55 a box, or three for $10. Mailed to any address. The Scobell Drug Co., St. Catharines, Ont. Shake Off hour Rheumatism. Vow is the time to get rid of your r.,e,umatism. Try a twenty-five cent bottle of Chamberlain's ,Liniment and see how quickly your rheumatic pains disappear, Sold by all dealers. C. L. Haggan, Revelstoke, will be Pritish Columbia's Rhodes scholar this year. He was born in New Zealand in 100, came to British Coltiimbia in 1000, and was educated in the public and high schools at Revelstoke, going from there to the University of Toronto, graduat- ing with the degree of M.A. reeently from that institution. DR, A. W. CHASE'S CATARRH POWDER g is sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower. $eats the ulcers, clears the air,passages, stops drop- pings in the throat and permanent- ly cures Catarrh and Hay Fever. rSe. a box ; blower free. Accept no substitutes. All dealers or Comaneon, Dates & Co., Limited, Toronto, • Rural Wages in England. E7L. G. Chiozza Money, writing in the London Chronicle, draws a striking par- allel between the conditions of the Eng_ lish agricultural laborer to -day and in the days when taxation was imposed on im ported focd. In 1854, Mr. Money says, cash wages paid to ordinary lab- orers on farms in England and Wales was 10 shillings eightpence a week, while in 1908 the average wage was 14 shillings seven and one-half pence. Thus says, cash wage paid to ordinary lab -time. The condition of English lab- orers to -day is even better;, than is in- dicated by the mere increase in wages as the purchasing power of wages has actually increased while wages them- selves have been advancing. The actual wages at present received by English farm laborers is, too, great- er than indicated by the figures just given. In 1907 the average wage paid to farmers in England in cash Qor its equivalent, was 18 shillings fourpence, in Wales 18 shillings, and in Scotland 19 shillings sevenpence. John Gordon, of Harriston, died last week. Gordon first settled near Elora 47 years ago. Two attempts were made within an hour to burn down the mill of the Wat- son Mfg. Co., at Brantford. A boy employee was suspected and dismissed. Cent Reel, it Secret. This splendid work of Chamberlain's Tablets is daily becoming more widely known. No such grand remedy for stomach and liver troubles has ever been known. For sale by all dealers. After attending the funeral of Mrs, John Snelling, at Listowel, Mrs. 1%:obt. Stanley, aged 58 years, dropped dead on the street. FREAKS OF NATURE A Tree That Throws Somersaults and a Waterfall Reversed. A. tree gone mad and a waterfall that falls up instead of down are among the strange things to be seen in Ha- waii, as described by John Burroughs in the Century Magazine: "Nature in the tropics, left to her- self, is harsh, aggressive, savage; looks as though she wanted to hang you with her 'dangling ropes.or impale you on her thorns or engulf you in her ranks of gigantic ferns. Her mood is never as placid and sane as in the north. There is a tree in the Hawaiian woods that suggests a tree gone mad. It is called the hau tree. It lies down, squirms and wriggles all over the ground like a wounded snake. It gets up and then takes to earth again. Now it wants to be a vine; now it wants to be a tree: It throws somersaults, it makes itself into lobes and rings, it rolls, it reaches, it doubles upon itself. Altogether it is the craziest vegetable growth I ever saw. "It was near Pali that I saw what I had never seen or heard of before—a waterfall reversed, going up instead of down. It suggested $tockton's story of negative gravity. A small brook comes down off the mountain and at- tempts to make the leap down a high precipice, but the winds catch it and carry it straight up in the air like smoke. It is translated; it becomes a mere wraith hovering above the bee• tling crag. Night and day this goes on, the wind snatching from the moun- tain, in this summary way the water ;it has brought them." End of Western Real Estate Boom. Montreal Gazette: There are signs on the commercial horizon which indicate that the boom in town lots in the Wes- tern Provinces has spent its force. It has a long duration and it affected people practically all over Canada, with some beyond it. Bankers, while doing something to help it along by the free way in which they established branches of their institutions, warned their share- holders and clients against being drawn into over -risky speeulations, and news- papers repeated and drew attention to their warnings, Such fevers, however, like those from which mining company promoters make their gains, are net to be lessened by treatment. They must run their Course, and the sufferers must pay. They are beginning to pay now. The realty dealers' advertisements do not now take up so much of the news- papers' space as was the rule last sum- mer, and here and there where extensive areas ate announced for sale it is the tax collector's r c ors name whit appears hat the foot of the notice. Lots valued for sale purposes at from a few hundred to a couple of thousand dollars are in default to the municipalities for sums of $l0 to $15, and the title holders- do not appear to have the money handy. Their number is likely to increase. • Lucky Thirteenth, A woman who sets particular store by the thirteenth superstition surprised her friends by accepting an invitation to a luncheon where there were to be thirteen guests. "I will be late," she said, "for I shall make it a point to be the thirteenth person to enter the room. That is a funny thing about thirteen. Many ac- cidents have happened to parties thaw teen in number, but investigation has shown that while the ether twelve per- sons suffered more or less the Chir. teenth person who joined the company always escaped unharmed."—Philadel- phis Ledger. Twentieth Century Definitions. A witty judge of the municipal court of Boston stoutly declared that "a pat- riot was a man who refused to button his wife's lingerie waist." "A martyr," he went on, "is one whc attempts.and faits, while a hero tries and succeeds." "Then what Is a coward?" asked a curious bystander. "Oh, a coward," replied the judge, "Is a man who remains single so he wOn'l have to try."—'i'buth's Companion. . Not Unlikely. "Well, my boy," said the visitor to Bobby, "I suppose some day you ex: pert to step into your father's shoes?" "Oh, I suppose - so," said Bobby gloomily. "1 been wearin' otrt every thing else he wears Since nhothet learned how to cut 'em down for me." * tiarper's Weekly. it • lhformation Wanted, "Pop, I want to ask you soreethtng" "What is it. My child?" "bo they make airships go with ft? wheels?"—Baltimore Amerihsn. The above ii si• acture of " Chief Little Bow," who was probably the first ishaMiest of CARMANGAY, where once the savage roamed M will, NOW the gamer till the lent Railways, Wheat, Coal and Water . ! 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