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The Brussels Post, 1917-5-3, Page 7HOW WILD ANIMALS ARE "SNAPPED" RECENT ADVANCEMENT IN THE ART OF PICTURE.TAKING, It is Now Possible to Photograph Forest Animals or Any Object • in Motion, Photographing by flashlight is on of the more recent advancements in the field of picture -taking which he helped to secure for photography a permanent place among the arts Paul J. Rainey, the explorer and hunter of wild animals, proved severs years ago at the first exhibition of his wild animal flashlight pictures taken in Africa, that this class of photo graphy offered a virgin field to the manufacturer of apparatus and to the man behind the camera. Soon after this there was an awakened interest in animal film shooting in preference to gun or trapshooting. At the present time photographic flashlight apparatus has been de- veloped to a. point where guesswork is eliminated and where it is possible to photograph any object in motion. To do this it is necessary for the camera to catch the object in motion just at the instant when the 'flash powder is giving forth its brightest light. This requirement calls for a ▪ high-speed shutter to stop the motion on the plate of the object being photo- graphed. With a flashlamp recently perfected by William Nesbit, the shutter is automatically snapped at exactly the moment when the light from the flash powder is most intense. His apparatus has been widely used to take flashlights of wild animals in their haunts and has given uniformly good results. .Must .Act Quickly. When flash powder is ignited it does not burn up or explode instantly, as might be supposed. _It burns more and more brightly until it reaches its point of greatest brightness, from which point, on it dies down until it goes out. This whole operation takes at the most one-fifth of -a second. However, good pictures will be ob- tained only if the camera is snapped during this fifth of a second, when the flash powder burns the brightest. On the other hand, this point can never be definitely determined before taking the picture. It changes for different powders and also varies for the same powder, since the powder may become slightly damp and will not burn in the same way. It is evi- dent, then, that to snap the camera et precisely the right moment is not so easy as it might appear. The flash lamp devised by Mr. Nesbit consists of an aluminum con- tainer to hold the flash powder,_ a cover for this container; a mechanism to fire the powder, and an attach- ment which will automatically snap the shutter of the camera at the moment when the flash powder is burning brightest. The unit is water- proof and so compact that it can be readily attached to a tree or other convenient support.. Tie Wire to Bait. The flash powder is placed in a box made waterproof by a coat of paraffin and is then placed in the space pro- vided for it in the flashlamp. The powder is fired either by a blank cartridge or by an electric spark fur- nished by a dry battery. A firing -pin, controlled bys a spring and a trigger, similar to those used in a rifle or re- volver sets off the cartridge. When taking a flashlight of an animal, a wire is attached to the trigger and then tied to bait of some sort. The animal is attracted by the bait, and if it touches it, the wire ,is pulled, which, in turn, pulls the trigger, releases the firing -pin and ignites the powder by exploding the blank cartridge. When the powder is to be ignited electrically, a wire is stretched from a switch to the bait, Once the bait.is touched a circuit is closed and an electric spark sets off the powder. • REPLENISH YOUR BLOOD IN THE SPRING Just now you are feeling "out of sorts"—not your usual self. Quite ex- hausted at times and' cannot devote real energy to your work, 'Sleep does not rest you and you wake up feeling "all tired out" Perhaps rheumatism is flying through your muscles and joints or may be your skin is disfigured by rashes, boils or pimples, Pleadaehes, e Swinges of neuralgia, fits Of nervous- ness, irritability of temper and a .dis- c Ordered stomach often increase Your discomfort in the spring. The cause—winter has left its mark on you. These troubles are signs that 1 your blood is poor and watery, that your nerves are exhausted. You must renew and enrich your blood at once and restore tone to your tired nerves, or there may be a complete break- down, Tho most powerful remedy for these spring ailments in men, women and children is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People,, because these Pills oleanse bad blood and strengthen Weak nerves. Now, rich, red blood—your greatest need in spring—is plentifully created by Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, and with this new, pure blood In your veins you quickly regain health and increase your strength. Then your shin be- comes clear, your eyes bright, your nerves strong, and you feel better, eat better, sleep better, and are able to do your work. Begin your spring tonic treatment today for the blood and nerves with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills—the Pills that strengthen. These Pills are sold by most dealers, but do not be persuaded to take "something just the same." If you can't get the genuine Pills from your dealer they will be sent you by mall, post paid, at 60 cents a box or six boxes for $2,60 by writing The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. • He Helped On the new brakeman's first run there was a very steep grade. The engineer always had more or less trouble to get up this grade, but this time he came near sticking altogether. Eventually, however, he reached the top. Looking out of cab, the engineer saw the new brakeman and said, with a sigh of relief: "We had a hard jab getting up, didn't we'?" "We sure did," assented the new brakeman, "aid if I hadn't put on tho brake we'd have slipped back." Mid -Summer. As the oats in her hat nodded and trembled they persistently tickled the ear of the man seated next to her. He stood it in silence for some time then he ostentatiously took a huge pocket- knife out of his pocket, and began to sharpen it on the solo of his boot. "Whatever are you ' g -g -going to do?" gasped the girt, "Oh, don't you worry, miss!" said the man, testing the edge of the blade on his thumb. "But the next time as then oats get in my ears there's going to be a harvest," We are generally willing to bury the hatchet, but most of us like to dig it up occasionally to sec if it le shill *ere, SPARED ROYAL SHOOTING -BOX House Built For Kaiser's Son Left Intact Amid Ruin. I would like to take those who prate of pacifism, and are trying to shirk their duty to the human race, to a lit- tle hill ten miles from St. Quentin, but standing twenty feet above the plain and commanding scores of square miles of uninterrupted view of the surrounding country, writes a war cor- respondent on April 14. Three sum- mers ago this slice of desecrated France was a patchwork of green h orchards and brown plowland, dotted with town of gray stone and villages h of redbrick and peopled by a race of happy peasants. New the whole of it a is an ugly unifcrm of gray. The gray of grass grown withered because for three seasons it neither has been c cut by man nor grazed by cattle. Over the whole face of the withered gray desert the enemy has made aro strewn thousands and thousands of what look like black fagots—murder 0 ed fruit trees, that in a few weeks would become, if the enemy had not to be driven back, a mass of white and pink blossoms. From this particular place the view of the crime of these stricken trees is particularly impres- sive, because more widespread and wholesale than anywhere else in the devastated country. But there is a further i• longer to his present position, but still has the power to destroy, and stroy he does, especially when bein driven back, and destroy he will unt the power is taken from him. NO ALIEN -BORN QUEEN. War and Revolt Have Robbed Prin of Wales of Bride. Rtussia'e revolution has had the r atilt of giving increased strength t the movement which has been in pr grass in Groat Britain since the seen year of the war in favor of the Princ of Wales' selection of a consort fro among his non -royal eountrywome rather than from any of the foreig dynasties, remarks a London corre spondent of the Washington Post. He then goes on to ennumerate th various European princesses, praeti Bally all of whom aro now unavailabl as brides for the Prince of Wales la those who are not of the Hohenzoll'er family are of the Roman Catholic per suasion. Hence these latter are al similarly disqualified for marring with the British heir -apparent by re son of their faith. It may be argue that they might abandon the Churc of Rome for any other form of creed since it is the only one that is barred But it is contended by many tha the prohibitory provisions of the con stitution apply to persons born an a e! The High Cost of Indi- g' gestible Food falls heavily upon the household where there is no intelligent direc- tion of the ,food supply. ee Expensive high proteid foods, such as beef and pork, e- idnpose a heavy burden upon o the liver and kidneys. They sewn are not as nitritious as e cereals and fruits. Two I n Shredded Wheat Biscuits n with milk supply all the nutrime • t needed for a half day's worn' 0. cost only yata otof e I four or five cents. Cut out e. meat and eggs, eat Shredded ° Wheat Biscuit with green -' vegetables and fruits, and see 1 how much better you feel. 0.e For breakfast with hot milk t1 or cream. Made in Canada. h tl d' bred as Roman Catholics, no matte what church they may eventually join and the most eminent authorities i England on the subject of constitu tional law, as well as former great law officers of the Crown, seem inclined to adopt this view, which was the sub jest of much discussion at the tim when the late Duke of Clarence, th older brother of King George, wa bent upon mall•ying the lovely Prin cess Helene of Orleans, who after wards became the wife of the royal Italian Duke of Aosta. , Now since the present war has shown the fallacy that royal inter- national matches make for peace, it is again urged that there are really no obstacles to prevent the Prince from choosing a suitable bride among the girls of his own country. BABY'S OWN TABLETS Spring Styles r ,BIAS BEEN DEAR BEFORE. Sugar Was a Great Luxury in Year oi' 1459. One of the earliest records of the price of sugar in Great Britain ap- pears in the accounts of the Chamber- lain of Scotland in 1819, in which it is set down at Is 9'itd (44 cents) per Ib.. In 1459 sugar continued to be a great luxury, and in that year a certain Margaret Pastan, writing to her hus- band, who was a gentleman and land- owner of Norfolk, begs that he "vouchsafe" to buy her a pound of sugar, In the accounts of corporate bodies, and the household expenses of private persons, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the item of su- gar appears from time to time. In a list of viands provided for the fun- eral repast of Sir Join Redston, Lord Mayor, in 1531, for instance, sugar is set down at 7d, per Ib, while in the books of the Stationers' Company the price is variously recorded as having been, in 1654 and 1558, 10d per lb and is laid (28 cents) per lb, respectively. Thirty years later as much as is 6d., (87 cents) per lb., was charged. Well Known Fanner Gives His Evidence , One need not be a sportswoman to —" In wear this smart suit, for sports - costumes are the rage and are worn by women into whose lives sports never enter. Cotton gabardine has - appeared this year in plain •and e "' USED TEN YEARS Mrs, W. J. Wilson, Carp, Ont., writes: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets for the last ten years and can highly re- commend them for babyhood and child. hood aliments: My baby was very delicate; In fact we never thought he N live, but thanks to the Tablets e is now a fine healthy boy." Baby's wn Tablets should be kept in every ome where there are small children. They regulate the bowels and stomach nd never fail to cure the minor ills of little ones. The Tablets are sold by Medicine dealers or by mail at 25 ents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. 6 THE HOME GARDEN. n the Principle That "Every Little Helps" Let Us Do Our Best. Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs or flowers, Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours, —The Poor Man's Garden. From the cares of business and he nervous strain of the office, the ack-yard garden offers a relief which s not sufficiently enjoyed. Open air xercise is essential'to good health. o what better end could this effort be evoted than the cultivation of the ack-yard garden. It requires but a small. area of land o supply a table with green veget- bles. These may be had crisp and resh and, on this account, much more f such food will be used, to the great dvantage of health. The product of the home garden re- eves to that extent the demand upon he general supply. "Self-preserva- on is the first law of nature." Do of abuse that law by expecting oth- s to provide your food supply when ou are capable and have the facilities ✓ growing at least part of your this little hill as a place from b which to contemplate this side of war, q On the top of it„there is a neatly built e log hut of white -barked beech, fitted T with glass windows and adorned inside d with green canvas hangings and gilt .b moldings. On the narrow terrace tre fixed wooden benches and tables of the t kind that belong to a German beer a garden. This eligible country resid- f encs was constructed as a sort of week -end shooting -box for Prince Eitel a Friedrich, to which he and his boon companions could retire when exhaust- li ed from the strain of war. There t was, of course, no reason why they ti should not build a hut wherever they n chose, but there is the cynical fact that er it alone of the whole visible landscape y remains intact. Everything else of fa the works of God and man is destroy- ed. From St. Quentin itself arises the smoke of the bonfire, the kind of bon- fire that all through the German re- treat we saw in village after village which the British and French soldiers have since won back for France. The moment is coming when the enemy will not be able to hang on th needs. Whenever you can look at yourself and be satisfied, you should begin to suspect yourself of moral blindness. A special meeting of the Dublin Corporation was held in the City Hall, to inaugurate the Right IIon. e Lord Mayor, for, the ensuing year, .1�1U�_■a■A■■a■sesame need . •fir :l', 4r7,.�n ;.k'ri^ik, `'L.tii''+3....•.t+..*z4.<, 1.. :'tMv' fix7rxe:' y i '„� rt, THOUSANDS PV UPON THOUSANDS OF ,I1EALTFIY DOYS & GIRLS EAT Grape -Nuts AND CREAM EVERY MORNING BECAUSE WISE MOTHERS KNOW "There's a Reason" brightly figured effects and the com- bination of the two is used for the de- velopment of this costume. McCall Pattern No. 7715, Ladies' Coat Blouse. In 6 sizes; 84 to 42 bust; and No. 7711, Ladies' Three -Piece Skirt, 42 or 38 - inch length; in 5 sizes; 22 to 30 waist. Price, 20 cents each. Dotted swiss and swiss embroidery with a touch of rose color in the sash are the materials of this little girl's frock, which is suitable for parties, and not too elaborate for summer afternoons. The straight lower edges of skirt and sleeves make it a desirable design for embroidered Says Dodd's Kidney Pills Cured Him of Gravel Mr. William Wood of Hadlington, Ont., is Added to Long List of Cures By the Great Canadian Kidney Remed Dodd's Kidney Pills, Hadlington, Ont, Apr, 23rd (Special) —Mr, William Wood, a well-lmown farmer living near here, is shouting the praises of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He claims they cured him of two of the most painful and dangerous forms of kidney trouble, bladdertrouble and gravel, "Yes, I was troubled with gravel and bladder trouble," Mr. Woods said when asked about his cure, "But since I took four boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills my troubles are gone, .I also had heart flutterings and shortness of breath. There were flashes of lights: and specks before my eyes and I was very nervous. All these troubles have gone, too, since I used Dodd's Kidney Pills." Others in this neighborhood have used Dodd's Kidney Pills and found than they are the greatest of all reme- dies for kidney troubles of any kind. Dodd's Kidney Pills are specialists, They cure sick kidneys and that is all they claim to cure. The reason they are given credit for curing rheuma- tism, lumbago, dropsy, diabetes and Bright's disease is that all of these diseases are caused by sick kidueys. AFTER -THE -WAR EMIGRATION. Farmer Prisoner in Germany Getting Farm Recruits, Coming all the way from a prison camp in Germany, a letter from a Canadian soldier reached the Ontario Department of Agriculture recently, and the quest it contained was one of the most unusual the Department has had in years. Cooped up in a Hun camp Sergeant Salter, of the 3rd To- ronto Battalion, and a number of his fellow -prisoners have been doing a ittle "after -the -war" planning, and it is to the farm their minds have been turning. Now Sergt. Salter, a farmer himself, wants "literature" tai.t ome to tell the rest all about it. Sergt. Salter's letter, writter from Giessen, follows: "Gentlemen,—Would you be kind enough to forward me some literature appertaining to farming in Ontario and other provinces, as there are quite a number of my fellow -prisoners who are seriously contemplating emi- grating to Canada after the war. As I am a farmer myself, I want to do all I can to get men to work the land, which our Dominion is so much in need of. So I would be glad of any official information which I could hand around to my fellow -prisoners who contem- plate emigrating to Canada, also a few illustrated pamphlets, showing the machinery with which we farm," If the department can get it through, Sergt. Salter will get all the "literature" he needs for effective propaganda. - LQinard's Liniment Cures Dandruff. Foggy Weather Light. An English lighthouse Inas been equipped with a lamp that can be low- ered almost to sea level in foggy weather when it would be invisible in its regular position, y, 51 rtecArs 115 flouncing or bordered material. McCall Pattern No, 7746, Girls' Dress, In 8 sizes; 4 to 14 years. Price, 15 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer or from The McCall Co,, 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept, W. Censor's Generosity. In his book "The Balkan War," Mr, Philip Gibbs tells the following story, The official regulations for the cor- respondents sent out there were ap- pallingly severe. Mr. Gibbs found that he was forbidden to describe the disposition of the troops, to give the names of generals, the names and numbers of the wounded, the success or failure of Bulgariaa troops, the state of the soldiers' health, and so mi. When the tensor had told all this Mr. Gibbs politely askeds "Will you tell me, sir, if there is anything about whi h we shall bo allowed to write?" The censor thought deeply for a moment and then answered quite gravely: "There is mutt that is inter - eating in Bulgarian literature." I G "Perhaps," Mn. Gibbs suggested, n sarcastically, "I may also be Permit- p ted to describe the song of the birds?" 1; 11 MONEY ORDERS When ordering goods by mail, send a Dominion Express Money Order, The King of Bulgaria enjoys the re- potation of being the shrewdest and wiliest of all royal business men. 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It doesn't eat away the corn or callus, but shrivels it up without 0081 irr tating the surrounding skin. Hard, soft or corns between the toes, as well as painful calluses, lift right off. There is no pain before or after- wards. If your druggist hasn't freezone, tell him to order a entail bot- tle for you from his wholesale drug houeo. KELP WANTED as RIGHT YOUNG GIRL TO ASSIST 113' with house work. Mrs. ',Vb1te. 97 Indian !toad ereseeut, Toronto. MISCELLANEOUS l�ICYCLES. NEW AND SECOND LP Hand. 512.00 up, Send for special price '1st, Varsity Cycle Works, 411 Spadina Ave., Toronto. l`i.tNC'ER, TUMORS, LUMPS, ETC, �RIJ/ internal and external, cured with- out pain by our home -treatment, Write us before too late. Dr, Heilman Medical Co„ Limited, Collingswood, Ont. 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