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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1913-11-20, Page 6G •I 1'. 1{. Now A Clever Girt W1IPPEi BY A LION Helped Her Mother Dzi.ORAIN$, &IAN. Y must tell you about my mother. She thinks there is no other medicine, as good as GIN PILLS, for Backache. She tried a lot of other medicine for her back. Sometimes she would get a little better, and then be as had as ever. Then a friend advised nee to get GIN PILLS. Mother tried theta and has not been troubled with backache since. ELEANOR BARR. Backache is the surest sign of Kidney Trouble—and GIN PILLS are the surest cure for weak, sick Kidneys. If you are troubled with backache, don't hesitate a moment but get GIN PILLS and you will get relief. If GIN PILLS do not do all that we say they will—let us know, and we will cheerfully refund you your motley. sec. abox, 6 for$2.so. If your dealer does not handle them, write us for free sample box. National Drug and Chemical Co., of Canada, Limited, Toronto. 204 atORRIE, Council meeting was held in the Town- ship Hall, Monday, October the 27th. Members of Council all present,:with Reeve Shortreed in the chair. Minutes of last regular meeting were read and approved. On motion of Frazer and Johnston the following accounts were paid:— A. Elder, Blyth, hall rent Judge's Court $ 6 00 W. S. McKercher, hall insur- ance. Blyth Standardiadvertising A. Baker, gravel ., John McDonald, gravel. Wm. Davidson gravel....., Jas. Anderson, gravel Thos. Miller, East bdy., tile drawing, excavating and laying........ Thos. Miller, repairing road where burned R. Wightman, gravell'g West boundary.... August Ghur, excavating at out- let Blyth Creek Drain Wm. Wells, approaches TayIor's bridge P. J. Kelly, culvert and load of gravel Leo. Kelly, culvert Jas. Gibson, 4 loads gravel on bridge approach A. McLauchlin, fixing bridge etc., bdy Simpson McCall, putting in cement culvert.... J. Shortreed, selecting jurors T. Miller, selecting jurors A. MacEwen, selecting jurors and rent of room Pedlar People, culvert R. Nichol, culvert less tile,,,, . . Geo. Barkley, making tile Duncan McDonald, guard fence on !Clark, Sunshine and CIegg bridges 85 00 Jas. Parish, filling approaches at East bdy.,jMcD'nald:tbr. 6 00 Chas. Turvey, repairing culvert 2 00 Alex, Cannon„ tgravelling at Clark's bridge 14 40 Wm. Ferguson, culvert, 0th line Nichol drain 187 00 Wm. Pipe, fixing washout 3 00 Duncan Campbell, farm bridge Magee drain 20 00 Johnstone & Peacock, tile, Pea- cock drain . 96 20 John Vancamp cleaning, Grasby drain .... 18 15 Breckenridge &;,Greenway, bal- ance on Peacock drain .. 75 40 Allan Adams, inspecting„ aj and lighten bridge, 5th line Nich- 1 3 1 1 7 3 60 00 70 10 20 50 5 05 5 CO 21 CO I0 16 21 CO 4 10 4 00 2 00 2 5) 3 50 4 00 4 00 5 CO 45 90 3 75 23 00 01 drafty....,.........,..... 17 10 David Smith, tile for drain and work .. 3 28 Next meeting November 27th A. MACEwE., Clerk. Fifty years ago Russia had a popu. Mien of less than 80,000,000. Thirty• five years ago the hundred million mark vas passed. To -day the population is Iver 171},000,000. The growth, there - 'ore, in little more than half a century, gas been nearly 100,000,000, or about eft tr, th eatire present population of the Fnited States. And this vast increeee has beets only in comparatively .mai: ..• :,fee due to absorption of new territerf•. l:ussi:t. in Europe taken by tse)f, is et edited with a population of Imre teen 110,0 t',0 3,), so that less than 10,000,100 is to be set down to the whole Asiatic area. Deuced upon it, the man who tties to soots t:.oeh usually is afraid of a sick pup. Children Cry' FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Livingstone's Fearful Ordeal and His Narrow Escape. A BATTLE WITH A MANEATER. The Wounded and Maddened Monster, in a Paroxysm of Dying Rage, Caught the Explorer In His Jaws and Shook Him as a Terrier Would a Rat. David Livingstone, the famous Afri• cau explorer and missionary, once had a singular encounter with a wounded lion that almost put an end to the ex- plorer's remarkable career before it had fairly begun. But the story must be unfamiliar to many persous who have never read Dr. Liviugstone's books. The adventure occurred while he was living among the Balrttlas, net far from the present town of Mare - king. This account is from his own narrative: . The people of Mabotsa were trou- bled by lions, which leaped into the cattle pens by night and destroyed their milk and draft animals. They even attacked the herds boldly by day- light, and although several expeditions against the wild beasts were planned the people had not the courage to car- ry them through suecessfully. It is well known that If ono In a troop of lions is killed the others leave that part of the country. I therefore went out with the people to help them destroy one of the marauders. We found the animals on a small hill cov- ered with trees. The men formed round it in a circle and gradually closed up. Being below on the plain with a native schoolmaster named ?la- baiwe, I saw one of the lions sitting on a piece of rock. lifabalwe fired at him, and the ball bit the rock. The lion bit at the spot as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him, and then, leaping away, broke through the cir- cle and escaped. The Bakat)as ought to have speared him in his attempt to get out, but they were afraid. When the circle was reformed we SEW two other lions in it, but dared not fire lest we should shoot some of the people. The beasts burst througb the line, and as it was evident the men could not face their foes we turned back toward the village. In going round the end of the hill I saw a lion sitting on a piece of rock, about thirty yards off', with a little bush in front of him. I took good aim at him through the bush and fired both barrels. The men called out, "He is shot, be is shot!" Others cried, "Let us go to him 1" I saw the lion's tail erect in anger and said, "Stop a little till I load again!" I was in the act of ramming down the bullets when 1 heard a shout, and, Iooking half round, 1 saw the lion in the act of springing at me. He caught me by the shoulder, and we both came to the ground together. Growling horribly, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock pro. duced a stupor like that felt by a mouse in the grip of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain or feeling of ter- ror, although I was quite conscious of what was happening. This placidity Is probably produced in all animals killed by tbe carnLvora, and, if so, it is a merciful provision of the Creator for lessening the pain of death, As he bad one paw on the back ot my head, I turned round to relieve my- self of the weight and saw his eyes directed to Mabaiwe, who was aiming at him from a distance of ten or fif- teen yards. The gun missed fire in both barrels. The animal immediately left me to attack him and bit his thigh. Another man, whose life I had saved after he had been tossed by a buffalo, tried to spear the lion, upon which he turned from Mabalwe. and seized this fresh foe by the shoulder. At that moment the bullets the beast had received took effect, and he fell down dead. The whole was the work of a few moments and must have been his paroxysm of dying rage. In order to take out the charm from him the Bakattas on the following day Made a huge bonfire over the carcass, 'which was declared to be the largest ever seen. Besides crunching the bone into splinters, eleven of his teeth had pen- etrated the upper part of my arm. The bite of a lion resembles a gunshot :Wound. It is generally followed by a great deal of sloughing and discharge. and ever afterward pains are felt pe- riodically in the part. I had on a tar- tan jacket, which 1 believe wiped off the virus from the teeth that pierced the flesh, for my two companions in the affray have both suffered from the usual pains, while C have escaped with only the inconvenience of a false joust in my litub. Old China. The beauty of old eitiva is often de- stroyed by brown spots which appear on the surface. An effective way to retmove,ibese is to bury the dish in the earth, covering it completely. The darker spite require more time to re- move them than the lighter ones. This method will not harm the most dell. cate china.—New York 'i'elegrain. Universal. "There is one thought which eomes daily to every man." "What's that?" "That nothing is too gond Cor him"-- t'ltl ii o Record-ltleraid. Either 1 will And a way or i V►ill malt one.—Sir Philip $lduees eee 61201, NO:THANKS. ,, err One of the surest:ways to be unhappy i is o insist on having (full credit for everything�yole do, [A great many people are not to do right and helpful ihings,b hey want toebe prais- ed* and lauded,}: Atid: invariably such people accuse their friendsand acquain- tences of lack of appreeiation. They show kindness o thepoor anddaarra as- tonished to find that poverty Is as poor ingratitude as in:other thing$ They take hold of church work and are agrieved and indignant;becausee instead ot being bailed as public benefactors t ee,y are frequently subject to criticism. And always in i1i ear tib y :tire out and give up the effort to -benefit an un- grateful humanity. If you are gomgito do,anything for , the woridelyou, must work for the love of it, if you rare working for gratitude or appreciation you will find to pay too_;small oto ebe worth effort. Theaworid's bene- factors always been ,men who do not worry about the appreciated —they were likely to receive—they cared:only to do their duty as they saw:it.Ze„ The Reading Habit. Sooner or later we all need some kin of consolation and ,,diversion; ,for the world is not Invented to suitjany one man's fancy, and theecontinuous Clash of wills es boundjtto bring about a; cer- tain amount of sorrow to everyone.e:Of all consolations, the:cheapest, the easi- est, the most effective, is a passion for the,printed page. To be fable to step out of our immediate environment, at will, to roam. the centuries, to scour the earth, to ibeckon the spheres, to have all theebest,minds ready to serve our need—this is the gift for the read- er. k Reading, like ;everything else, is a matter:of habit ieThe little child, as a rule, finds ittpainful and:certainly cess alluring than action.LBut habit perfects one in this matter, and the life with books may become as vital, as real, as consoling as a life_with society. More- over, as soon as one has learned to love them, books never faii,;us; they are always acessible always willing to yield upgtheir secrets, always sympathetic.;;, In life one cannot always eultivate the associations we would like. The people you:want to know may live at the other ends of the earth, or their moods may be variable, or their inter- ests other than yours; but in a world of books we can literally choose just what we want for our own immediate consolation. On the:whole, there is nothing in the world, perhaps, so repays a person as acquiring the habit of reading•—"Har- per's Weekly." Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAST 0 R, IA When a Man Marries. in When a man marries hey quickly dis- covers his need efinnumerable things he had never thought of before. And the butcher, the baker and the cabinet maker have a new home to supply. The new husband and wife roust buy things to which they had; previously given little thought. A :thousand marriages means a:thousand new homes. Right here is a fact overlooked by many merchants. They say, "How could it pay us to keep on_repeating the story of our goods or service?) If they could reach every possible customer with one advertisement—and if people didn't for- get—tthere might be no object in "keep- ing everlasting at it,", But ;because every possible customer does not read every advertisement, you must repeat. And because these thousands of new homes are every day coming into exis- tence, continuous advertising brings ir.- creased results. Perhaps some people knew your gocds or your store five or ten years ago. Since then new gener- ations have come into existence. The boy of to -day is the man who will sign the cheques to -morrow. To -day your advertisements are of small interests to him. To -morrow he is your customer, if you solicit his trade through adver- tising. Every day thousands of people discover for the first time their need of your kind of goods. Will you be there every day with your bid for their busi- ness? Or will you leave the field to your competitors? The entire 1912-13 opium crop of Eur- opean and .Asiatic Turkey is placed at 7,000 cases of 150 pounds net each. Seven militia squads of 48 men, two non-coms. and two officers, competed in a forced march of ten miles around Montreal Mountain, the winners being the Royal Scots, Victoria Rifles being second. The French parliament has passed a law which grants official assistance to large families in poor circumstances. You may have observed that expert testimony is used on both odes of a case. OR. A. W. CHASE'S CATARRH POWDER is sent direct to the inceasr.l I1,nrt4 by the 1•nprove3 litoe, or. tient+ them. crs, clears th • air pa,Rri,•ec. stopv drop. Pin 1; a in th.. t ,roat andppernlanent- v erne* Catarrh and Hay Fever. 25c. n bag •flower free. Accept no nnllstit5tch. All Coal ,r nr tern:saw, aatet tc C?„ Limited, Taranto. 0 Nio\ 1' 11B1 li 20 1913 PALPITATION OF It Is Usually Caused by htervou; 04 Digestive Troubles. I'alpitatiou is rarely if et t'r due to any disease or weakness or 1he, heart. It is a!tuost iuvtu•iably tine result of nervous or digestive treuhh' The beat of the heart arises within itself. There are nerves in the ttxisele s ul' the heart. and they regulate its healing. although the speed or rate of the Nestle;; is not of their choosing. 1t they were not held in check they would set a rate about double that which is actually malntaiued. The heart is supplied from the brain with two pairs of regulating nerves. One pail•, the cardio motor nerves. act only to spur up the heart to quicker action. They' are usually inactive, waiting the occasion for applying the spur, The other pair, the cardio in- hibitory nerves, are always in action. It has been saidthat the heart run:, In a pair of tightly held reius, and the simile is true, for these nerves check the speed. Fear, worry, disorder of the stomach or nervous system causes these cardio inhibitory nerves to relax; then the heart begins to race. There is noth- ing the matter with the heart itself. and no one need be alarmed about that organ just because it beats too rapidly. Its palpitation is due to a psycholog- ical or a physical cause. something that has caused the relaxation of the reins and allowed the cardio motor nerves to apply the spur.—New York World. CHATTY WELSHMEN. Most Talkative, It Is Said, of All the British islanders. Is the Welshman the most garrulous man in the British isles? The result of an impartial test by a London news- paper has shown that for actual talka- tiveness the typical Welshman steads the list; next in order come Irishmen, then Scots, and last of all the English- man. Unobtrusively made in a number of well known London restaurants, clubs and public places, the tests invariably gave the same results. By means of a test wet' h the following table was compiled: Welslsmen—Very talkative, animated in manner and speaking at an average rate of 200 words a minute. Irishmen—Also very talkative, but less animated in manner; average rate of speech, 100 words. Scotcbmen—Far less talkative and deliberate in manner; spoke at an av- erage rate of 120 words. Englishmen—Almost silent, rarely the first to speak; dogmatic and delib- erate in manner, speaking 100 to 120 words a minute. The comparative silence of the men, in striking contrast to; tbe vivacious chatter of the women folk, was as usual noticeable. A curious detail was that dark men were always the bigger talkers. Labadists of Holland. There is a sect in Holland known as the Labadists, among whose members the use of mirrors is strictly prohibit- ed. Their founder, Jean de Labadie, a seventeenth century Calvinist min- ister, attracted many followers, but aft- er his death they dwindled down, and now they are found only in a few remote villages of Friesland. Travel- ing in Holland in 1893, Lecky lit upon a colony of Labadists. "intermarry- ing mainly among themselves," he writes, "they have quite a distinct type —a singularly beautiful one, with their delicate lips and a curious air of re- finement. They are fishermen—very prosperous—and their bouses, with their china and silver ornaments and prints of the house of Orange and great Bibles with sliver clasps and perfectly preternatural neatness, are very interesting to see." — London Chrouicle. Tale of a Lost Will. A lost will found in a ceiling at Cbatsworth reminds us of the curious case of Lord Hailes' will. He was a Scotch judge, and when he died in 1702, as no testamentary paper could be discovered, the heir-at-iaw was about to take possession of the estates to the exclusion of his daughter and only child. She sent some of her servants to lock up the family mansion, which she had to give up, and Prom some window shutters there dropped out upon the floor from behind a panel the missing will, which secured her all tho family estates and property. Why do people take the trouble to make, sign wilts properly attested and then con- ceal them? Can they enjoy a posthu- mous joke?—London Spectator. Tidy to the Last. in "Glimpses of the Past" Miss Eliz- abeth Wordsworth tells this story: One stormy day a fishing smack was wrecked and fast sinking. When the skipper came on deck he found the mate busy swabbing. "What's the use of that, Jaek? Don't you see she's sinking?" "Yes, roaster, I know it; but, for all that, I'd like the old gal to go deem clean and tidy." The Manifestation. "Papa." said the young girl sweetly, "I feel it In my bones that yon are going to buy me a new hat," "Ab, do you?" chuckled papa. "In which bone do you feel .it?" "Well, l'm not sure, but I thinly Ws in my wishbone." in a Way, "Are you arpuninted with Mre. May, your fashionable neighbor?" "Only in a roundabout ilky. Hie tat boards at my house."•-Zatuthi Ott iourtnal. MOLECULES ARE INVISIBLE. Yet Their Traeke Through Space Can Bi- Discerned. It came to be evident about the mid- dle of the last century that, lu order to explain certain facts connected with the relative weights of gases, matter must not merely consist of atoms, but that these atones must have the power of uniting in small groups. In form- ing a compound, indeed, this must be so. For instance, carbonic acid gas must cousist of one atom of carbon, which, along with two atoms of oxy- gen, forms a small group of three a toms. The novelty of the conception was in the notion that oxygen itself, in the state of gas, as it exists, for example, in the air, consists of small groups of atoms; in this case, two. To such small groups of atoms was given the name molecules. A molecule Is that portion of a substance wbicb can exist In the free state. as oxygen does In air. An atotn generally exists in combination, but atoms may and sometimes do ex- ist separately, Iu which case they also 'are termed molecules. Now, eau molecules he seen? Isthelr existence a mere assumption? Tile an- swer to that question is. No, they can- not be seen, but artificial molecules can be made which correspond so closely in their behavior to real mole- cules that the existence of real mole- cules is practically certain. Moreover, although no one has ever seen a mole- cule, still the track of a molecule mov- ing through space has been seen, and, just as Robinson Crusoe was right In inferring the existence of man Friday from bis footstep imprinted in the sand, so the real existence of a mole- cule may just as certainly be inferred from the track it leaves.—Sir William Ramsay in Harper's. COLD COMFORT. It Came After the Little Faker Had Got His Punishment. The east end small boy had sadly misbehaved and was locked in his room. Pretty soon his mother heard him calling. "Muvver," said the shrill voice, "I'm goin' to bust the window and fall out!" The mother made no reply. Again the shrill voice arose: "Muvver, I've found some matches, an' I'm goin' to set fire to the cur- tains." The mother remained indifferent. Once more the voice hailed her: "Muvver, don't you smell sumfin' burnin'?" Even this drew no re- sponse. "If you don't smell nothin'," the voice went on, "it's 'cause I pulled oft al) th' match heads an' swallowed 'era, an' I'm goin' to die. Do you hear that, muvver; I'm goin' to die." By this time the mother was thor- oughly incensed, and, hastily preparing a cup of mustard and bot water, she hurried upstairs. "If you've swallowed match heads," she announced, "you'll have to swal- low this to keep them company." And then she poured the nauseating stuff down his throat. A little later the aggravating young- ster, sadder, wiser and much humbled, concluded to take the balance of his punishment in silence. "I didn't really swallow the matches, muvver," he contritely explained. "1 knew you didn't, sonny," replied the mother.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Tips For Tennis Players. One of the faults of the inexperi- enced doubles player which is most persistent is standing still. This 15 one of those necessities in doubles that are often overlooked. But no partner can do justice to bis team unlesd he moves after every shot to the cen- ter of the angle of the return. In other words, both men must constantly change their positions, moving back and forth toward one side or the other, according to where they have sent the ball. If the net man has volleyed deep into the right band corner both play- ers move across to the right. The right hand player thereby protects the shot down his own side line, and the left hand player protects the erose court shot down the central diagonal of the court.—Outing. Lubricant For Aluminium. Many machinists, especially those employed in the motor engineering din dustry, are frequently called upon to work in aluminium. To satisfactorily do this work various lubricants have been tried, which, however, owing to their volatility, are of little use. A suitable lubricant is tallow or cob• bier's war. This latter does not die, solve quickly and consequently does not Bow as freely as the volatile oils. American Machinist. Going On. A terrible noise of thumpwg and stamping came from Bob's room early one morning. "Bobby, Bobby," called his mother from downstairs, "what is going on up there?" "My shoes," replied Bob. Love's Paradox. "Love results in many paradoxical *situations." remarked the professor. "Met Is one?" "To keep the love Qi; ether OW must return it."—Buttals -tet•.-..+ Allke, but Different. Mrs. Nnbride--My dear 3tttt!k b *l0 handsome; the resembles a (reek god. Mr's. Longwedd--$o does my hutlbarN --Bacchus.—Boston Transcript tib 00 16 test that ani bort Oil kaet.-li)rtateil Rro'v :1)s Baby Eczerna Mrs. Lois McKay, Tiverton, Digby County, N.S., writes:— " My children were taken with an itching, burning skin disease and tore their flesh until it was sore and their skirts would sometimes be wet with blood. The doctor did not seem to know what ailed them, and could give no relief, so I began using Dr. Chase's Ointment. "Wherever it was applied it did its work well, and has entirely cured them of this horrible disease. They suffered so they could not sleep at nights, and I think if it had lasted much longer I would have gone crazy from the anxiety and loss of steep. I cannot find words to praise Dr. Chase's Ointment enough for the godd it has done my children, and hope other sufferers will try it." Dr. Chase's Ointment is a necessity in anyhome where there are children. By curing irritation and chafing it prevents torturing skin disease. 60 cents a box, all dealers. Sample box mailed free, if you mention this paper. Edmanson, Bates & Co., Limited, Toronto. Wild dogs, almost as numerous as rabbits, and doing considerably more damage, cause the farmers and the gov- ernment of New South Wales. Aus- tralia, to erect a dog proof wire fence along the boundary between New South Wales and South Australia, a distance of 125 miles. It will supplement the rabbit proof fence already up. There being all kinds of people in this complicated cosmos, doubtless there is a man who doesn't neglect writing letters. The commercial and industrial con- ditions in Switzerland during the first six months of 1913, as evidenced by the export and other statistics, indicate a normal and prosperous economic situs- • tion in the Confederation. 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