The Clinton News Record, 1919-10-2, Page 3Weekly Market .Repot
Brendstufls.
Imported hand-picked, Burma, $4.00;
Toronto, Seat 30. -Manitoba Wheat 1FIa'noy--. Exta'ticted clover, 5 -lb. tins,
-No 1 Northern, 32,30; No, '2 North -
24 to 26e; 10 -Ib. tins, 237/2 to 24e;
aro, 32.27; "No. .8 Northern, $2,23, in
store bort Wil tam, 60-15, bins, 23 to 24c; buckwheat, 60-15.
this, 18 to 19c; Comb, 10 -oz., 34.50 to
Manitoba o lbs -No, 2 OW, 07%e; 35 doz.' lO oz„ 33,50 to 34 dozen,Nq 3 CW, 87%c; extra No,. 1 feed, Maple produota-Syrup, per imper-
5 %c; No. 1 food, 86%c; No, 2 feed, lei gallon, 32.45 to 32,50; per 5 lni er-
866bc, in store Fort William, 321 gallons, 32.36 to 32,40; sugar,
Manitoba barley --No. 3 CW, 3L26 e270,
No. 4 CW, $1.24%; rejeetatl, 31.18%; Provisions -Wholesale.
-feed, $1,18%, in stole Fort William,
American corn -No. 3 yellow, nom-! Smo1sed meats -Hama, med, 44 to
inal; No, 4 yellow, nominal, 1400; do, heavy, 38 to 400; cooked, 58
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 87 to to 600; rolls, 85 to 872; bre51 to
akfast90c, aceoxdhig to freighba outside. SSo' boneless,r54'to 57e; ollea,. plain,
Ontario wheat -No 1 Winter, per 32 50 34e.
car int, ,2 to•v..,0. ; I o 2 dol 3107 to Cured meats -Long alcor bacon, 28
$2.03, Nye', 8 60, 1.93 to 31.99, f:o,U: to 34e• clear bellies, 32 to 83e,
shipping points, accordling to freights.
Lair -Pure tierces,33 to 3335'°;
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, 32.02 tubs 331/z to 342; pail, 3$cys to 341/2°;
No 23 8spring, $p1;95g't31$2,01 ,99 to $#,o.b, prints, 35 to 36c, Compound tierces,
shipping pointe accordin to freights. 29 to 291/2°' algal 291/2 to $0c; pails,
Barley --Malting, $1,27 to $1.30, ac-
cording
s 29% to 30%e; prints, 30 sib to 31c.
cording to freights outside.. + Montreal Markets.
' 13uckwheat-Nominal, Montreal, Sept. 30 Oats extra No,
Rye -Nominal, 1 feed, 98e.; flour, new standard grade,
Manitoba flour -Government stand- 311 to $11.10; rolled oats, 'bags, 90
r ard, 311, Toronto, • lbs„ $4.90 to 35; bran, 345; shorts,
Ontario flour -Government stand- 355; hay, No. 2, per ton, car lots, 322.
ard Montreal and. Toronto, $9.40 to Cheese, finest easterns, 25c- butter,
39.60, in jute bags, prompt shipment. choicest creamery, 54 to 541r�2e; eggs,
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- fresh, 68e; selected, 64e; No. 1 stock,
real freights, bags included: Bran, pen 67e; No. 2 stock, 52 to 54c; potatoes,
ton, $46; •shorts, per ton, $55; good per b'ag'
car lots, 31.65 to $1.75;
feed flour, per bag, 33,50, dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $26.50
IIay-No. 1, per ton, 324 to 326; to 327; lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs.
mixed, per ton, 315 to $20, track, To-
ronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 310 to $11,
track, Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Butter -Dairy tubs and rolls, 33 to
40e; prints, 40'to 43e; creamery, fresh
nada solids, 52% to 53c; prints, 53
to 531/2e.
Eggs -51 to 53c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
28 to 30c; roosters, 21o; fowl, 18 to
25e; ducklings, 25c; turkeys, 35 to 40c;
squabs, doz., $6.
Live poultry-Spning chickens, 22
to 25c; roosters, 20c; fowl, 18 to 25c;
ducklings, 22c; turkeys, 30c.
Cheese -New, large, 28 to 290;
twins, 28% to 29%e; triplets, 29 to
303; 'Stilton, 31 to 32e.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 47 to
49a; creamery, prints, 57 to 58e.
Margarine -.36 to 38c.
Eggs -No. l's, 57 to 58e; selects, 01
to 62c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
SO to 35'c; roosters, 23 to 26c; fowl,
30 to 34c; turkeys, 40 to 46c• duckl-
neJJ'r4, l',
Live Stock Markets,.
Toronto, Sept. 30, -Good heavy
steers, $12:50 to 312.75; butchers' -cat-
tle, choice, 312 to 312.50; do, -good,
311.25 to 311.60; do, med., $10 to
310.75; do, -eon., $7 to 37.50; bulls,
choice, $10 to 310.60; do, med., 39.50
to $9.75; do, rough, 37.50 to 38; butch-
er cows, choice, 310,26 to 310.75• do,
good, $9 to 39.25; do, med„ $8.5'0 to
39; do, com., 37 to 37.50; stockers,
37.50 to $10; feeders, 310 to $11.25;
canners and cutters, 34.75 to $6.25;
milkers, good to choice, 3110 to 3140;
do, com. and med„ 355 to 375; spr,ing-
ers, 390 to $160; light ewes, $7.50 to
38.50; yearlings, 39 to $10; spring
lambs, per cwt, 312.50 to 313.50;
calves, good to choice, 317.50 to 321.50:
hogs fed and watered, 317.76; do,
weighed off ears, $18• do, f.o.b., $16.75;
to, do, to farmers, $16.50.
Montreal, Sept. 80. -Choice steers,
$12.60 to 313; good steers, 310,50 to
$11.50; medium, 38,50 to $10; common,
$7 to 38; 'butcher cattle, choice bulls,
$8 to 38.50; good bulls, $7 to 38; med
Ings, 34 to 35c; squabs, per sloz„ $7. min, 35.50 to 36.50; choice cows, $8.50
Live poultry -Spiting chickens, 22 to 39.50; good, $8 to 38.50; medium,
to 26c; fowl, 23 to 25e; ducks, 22 to 36.50 to $7.50; canners' cattle, $4.50
25c. to $5.50; Iambs, $11;50 to 313; sheep,
Beans -Canadian hand-picked, bus., $8.50 to $10; milk -fed calves, $12 to
35.25 to 35.75; primes, 34.25 to $4.75; $15.
Events In England
Lorca Tredegar has given the former
Newport Drill Hall as an ambulance
centre.
The Corporation of Newport, Mon;
mouth, propose to borrow £1,047,800
to build 1,316 houses,
William Barber was fined -3260 at
West Hartlepool for having used his
house for betting purposes.
All the military schools in the Ald-
ershot command have been closed
owing to an epidemic of measles.
W. A. Cadbury, chairman of the
Birmingham Health Committee, has
been asked to accept the lord mayor-
alty.
Princess Mary drove from Bucking-
ham Palace to Lambeth to open a new
Church Army hostel for girls.
i A Camden town lady who had saved
£100, for her son, who was killed in
the war„ gave the money to St. Dmr
stan's Hospital for the Blind,
New -potatoes from Jersey . have
dropped from forty-two shillings to
twenty-seven shillings per hundred
weight,
General Sir IIari Singh, commander
of the Kashmitan army, has arrived in
London for the purpose of buying
horses.
A schoolboy named Palmer jumped
into the Thames at Weybridge and
rescued a child aged three from
drowning,
Queen Alexandra has formally open-
ed the Queen Alexandra Hospital
Home for disabled men -at Gifford
House, Roehampton.
The British farmers have sent to
the French farmer peasants 37 short-
horn bulls, 266 heifers and'.1,000 head
of live 'poultry. .
Major-General Fabian Ware has
been appointed permanent vice -chair
pian to the Imperial Graves Commis-
sion,
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CANADIAN AVIATOR. SETS
NEW WORLD RECORD
A despatch from Kingston says:--•
Capt. Dailin, who is to perform flying.
stunts in a German Foker biplane at
the .. Kingston Industrial E'xhi'bition,
arrived in the city by air on Thursday
afternoon.
In his biiplane he left Toronto at
2.16 •o'clock in the afternoon and ar-
rived in the city at 3.25, making a
non-stop flight of 160 miles in one
hour and ten minutes. It is claimed
that by this Eight. he has established
a new world's record for speed in
flying.
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LONDON PROFITEERS
HAILED TO COURT
Baker, Butcher and Saloon Keep;
er Pay Fines -Journalist
Knocks Prices.
- A despatch from London says: -
Curiously enough, nobody in London
thinks he is a profiteer. Always the
profiteer is the man on the next street,
away off over yonder, like the desert
mirage. However, the daily mill of
the London Police Courts' grind out
fairly good imitations.
A baker was fined $50C for expos-
ing'.for sale thirty-four loaves of
bread each two ounces less than the
regulation weight. A 'butcher was
fined 3100 for selling imported mutton
at -the home -killed price, and making
an overcharge of eight cents on four
lamb chops. A saloon keeper was
fined 315 and 310 costs because his
barmaid charged thirty cents instead
of twenty-five cents for ,two large
glasses of stout.
The recent slight fall in prices is
largely due to a clever journalist writ-
ing an article in his paper, -which
other papers copied, saying prices
were down, The public went forth
after reading, and all over the city
demanded reductions which the mer-
chants had to grant.
ONTARIO MILITARY HOSPITAL
AT ORPINGTON CLOSED
A despatch from London says: -
The great Ontario Military Hospital
at Orpington is empty. Mrs. Mac-
pherson, wife of the Commandant,
who saw the first convoy come in, also
saw the last patient go out. Duping
the three years of the hospital's exist-
ence 'she has been a mother to thirty
thousand men, collecting and distri-
buting gifts, taking the welcome
gramophone around the wards, hold-
ing famous garden parties for as
many as 6,000 people •at a'time, and
doing countless kindly things to
sweeten the lot of the sufening lads
whose homes were far away.
BRITISH AVIATOR
FLIES•OVER ALPS
A despatch from Geneva says: -
Captain Bradley, a British aviator,
has landed at Lausanne tater having
flown over the Alps and' loning his
way in the clouds above Mount Blanc
at an altitude of more than 15,000
feet. He made his trip in a 110 horse-
power airplane, and came from Lon-
don by way of Paris,
PRINCE AI4D BRONCHO.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales at the Saskatoon Fair after tackling a bucking broncho.
Quaint Names of London Streets
"Rotten Row" is an ugly name, but
alt is that given to London's most
fashionable driveway. The strange
part of it is that this homely appella-
ton, misplaced as it obviously is, was
born of ono of the most beautiful
phrases In the French language.
When the Normans populated Eng-
land after the invasion of 1066, it fol-
lowed that they gave French names
to many locations and places, not
alone in London, but throughout Eng-
land. So they named the driveway
through London partes -"Route du Rol"
(royfte of the King) lfacause it led to
the imperial palace. Time passed and
the Londoner had great difficulty in
pronouncing this, phrase, and "Route
su Doi" degenerated into "Rotten
Row."
' Rotten Row is ono of London's show
places. It leads to Buckingham Pal-
ace from Hyde Parts Corner. It is the
centre of interest from a special
standpoint, as it is the favorite drive
of - fashion, On Sundays the church
parade to a most brilliant spectacle.
The Trench influence in nomencla-
ture in London is evident wherever
one goes, Charing Cross, which the
modern Londoner calls the "contra of
the world,' is an English corruption
of a one time French name.
When Bdward the Confessor was
bringing the body of his Queen from
North England his retinae in their
route to Westminster Abbey deposited
the bier at nightfall when they struck
camp. At each resting place a cross
was ,greeted.
Throughout England there are now
towns, villages And hamlets which
bear the name of "cross." One can
thus almost trace the course of the
cortege, The last resting place they
reached before they got to Westmin-
ster was "Chere Relne Cross" (Dear
Queen Cross), now corrupted to
"Charing Cross."
"Birdcage 'Walk," in St. James's
Parts,. is an interesting example. Popu-
lar belief generally is that in medie-
val days they used to hang bird cages
with song birds in them from the
boughs of trees that marls the walk,
-so that folk rambling by could be de-
lighted with music of the feathered
warblers, That is erroneous. "Bird-
cage Walk" is nothing more than a
corruption of the French word "bo -
cage," meaning grove. And Birdcage
Walk is, indeed, a pleasant grove
where lovers have been rambling since
the Normanr conquest,
BRITAIN TO. IIOLD
PRE -W' TRADE
Business . Foresight Shown in
Dealings With Germany.
A. despatch from London says: -
British business interests are prepar-
ing the groundwork for a great trade
offensive not only to meet American
competition, ibut to try and maintain
the status which British trade held
before the war. Although America
has secured many contracts aggregat-
ing millions of dollars because of dis-
turbed conditions in the-rRditish in"
turbed conditions in the British in -
that the shrewd heads of business in
Great Britain are figuring on a time
of stability in the near future, when
the network of trade communications
will serve well the purpose for which
it is being laid.
One example of this business fore-
sight is seen in the arrangement
whioh, it` is reported, has been made
with the German Government. By this
agreement Germany is expected to
take 50 per cent. of British manufac-
tures along with quantities of raw
materials. -
What big business is doing to per-
fect trade communication is further
shown in the scheme of the Federation
of British Industries to have trade
consuls at the world's chief trade
centres who will ]seep Britain inform-
ed on market conditions.
NO HALF -MILLION GRANT
TO GENERAL CURRIE
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Authoritative denial was given to bhe
report current throughout Canada that
General Sir Arthur Currie had been
or would be given a grant of half a
million 'dollars in recognition of his
services overseas.
"We do not contemplate making any
such grant now or at any time in the
future," said Acting Premier Doherty.
Financial Wisdom,
"I can't raise 350 -that's all there
is to that! I got a notice from my
bank this morning that I had over-
drawn!"
"Well,try some other bank. They
Can't all be overdrawn."
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• A THIRD PARTY,
"Gentlemen, is there room for one more?"
let:1�'u �'C AT Pa` maT s'Gi' - YT '.PG" ma ma mt.
From Erin's Green Isle
While searching a house in Grattan
Street, Cork, the police found a revol-
ver and two live bombs.
A small farm of twenty-seven Irish
acres, situated near Thurles, was re-
cently sold for 44,400•,
J. F. Drennan and J. Walsh have
been re-elected chairman and vice-
chairman of Kilkenny County Coun-
cil.
Owing to the lnmberman's strike,
the Rathclaren district is patrolled
continually by military and police pa-
trols.
LieutCo
:l., Charteris, high sheriff,
recently entertained one hundred and
eighty returned soldiers at Cahir
Castle.
It is understood that Judge Cooke,
County Court judge for Donegal, will
succeed Judge Todd in the recorder-
ship of Londonderry. •
1 Miss Lucy E. McNeil; daughter of
Col, D, McNeil, Larne Harbor, has
heeu married to Rev. R. Kirkpatrick,
rector, Castledaws on,
Capt. F. Aylmer Hamlet, youngest
son of Mrs, ]-Iamlet Bremore, Balbrig-
gan, County Dublin, has been awarded
the Military Cross.
A petty officer ±vas killed and three
seamen -wounded by an explosion dur-
ing -Miring practice in the torpedo boat
Cuckoo, at the Eddystone.
The Tralee bakers have acceecled to
the demands of their employees for
higher wages and the strike has been
called off.
P. J. O'Neill has been unanimously
re-elected chairman of the Dublin
County Council_5or the t;venty second
tine -
A, Anderson, president of the Gal-
way University, welcomed the mem-
bers of the Royal Society of Anti-
quaries to the Galway rueeting.
Alderman Moran, J,P„ of the City
of Dublui, has been presented with
the Aldermanio Chain of Office.
Major George A. Harris, D.S.O.,
General Headquarters, Dublin, has
been awarded the Order of the British
Empire.
The French Ministry for Foreign
Affairs has appointed Mons. Jean
Vacher Vice -Consul at Dublin.
Oriel Temple, the estate of the Vis.
count Massereene, situated near Drog-
heda, has been offered for sale.
Sir Maurice Doclsrell presided at
the annual meeting of the Dublin In-
dustrial Development Association.
The Earl of Meath, president elf the
Advisory Committee of the Royal Dub-
lin Fusiliers, has receiared a letter of
thanks from the King for their splen.
did war work,
A new scale of charges for electric
lighting has been put in force by the
Dublin corporation. •
The building trade workers of Lim-
erick have struck for higher pay and
shorter hours,
THANKSGIVING DAY, OCT. 13TH
A despatch from Ottawa days: -
Hon.. J. C. Doherty stated on Thursday
that in view of Thursday's action in
the House giving the bill for a fixed
holiday a six months' hoist, October
13 would beiThanksgiving Day.
Enforcing the Rules.
The new doorkeeper at the local
museum had evidently learned the
rules. by heart before taking over the
job.
Here, sir, you must leave your um-
brella at the door," he said...to a visitor
who was • going straight through the
turnstile,
"But 1 haven't an umbrella,"
"Then you roust go back and get
ono;" was the stern reply. "No man
is allowed to pass in here unless he
leaves his umbrella at the door."
BRITISH WITIIDRA
FRP ARCHANGEL
Bolsbeviks Raving Lost Corn
Country May be Forced
to Make Terms,
A "despatc`h from London says:
Unless the unforeseen should inter-
fere With Lord Rawlinson's plans,
evacuation of the British forces from
Archangel should be completed by the
end of t'he month, Major-General Sir
Frederick Maurice says' in bhe Daily
News. it will then remain to look
after the withdrawal from Murmansk
which is much the simpler problem of
the two.
He adds that the "immediate aban-
donment of the Russian adventure is
simply not possible unless bhe Allied
powers agree to come to terms with
t'he Bolshe'vik's." It seems possible
since they have lost the corn country
of Ukraine, that the Bolsheviks 'may
be reduced to extremities by ccId and
hunger. Gen. Maurice says that, •short
of some such development on .which
there aro no solid reasons for count-
ing, therq; is no probability of obtain-
ing a settlement in Russia by present
methods within the next six months.
"That is where we stand to -day," he
says finally.
BRITAIN WANTS
CANADA'S FRUITS
Canned Products Eagerly Pur-
chased - Diversity and Ex-
cellence Revelation to Public.
A. despatch from London says:-
0,anadian canned fruit representatives
operating here report that diatrtibutor5
are ready to take all they can offer./
The British public is found to be
willing to purchase a Dominion pro-
duct to which the diversity and excel-
lence are a revelation to most people,
because they have never seen it be-
fore, save in its aliening but unattain-
able form in windows of the Govern-
meat
overnmeat offices.
A large distributor states that, as
50 iter cent, of these goods are sold to
restaurants, careful grading of fruits
is essential, and the question has been
raised whether a system of Govern-
ment inspection would not prove ad-
vantageous as a guarantee of quality
and a safeguard to the reputation of
Dominion canned goods, which inci-
dentally are a valuable form of inter -
Imperial education, besides being an
excellent advertisement for the ex-
porting Province.
Blow to Rent Profiteers.
England is disposing of her surplus
from the war with a double purpose in
view, first to realize as much as pos-
sible from these accumulations, and
second to assist the rent payer to
solve the increasing rents, which have
become a problem in that country as
vexatious as here, Thus when the
English landlos,d approaches and an-
nounces that the rent for the coming
year will be jumped, the rent payer
is expected to follow the new slogan
and "Buy a War Hut.
The Disposal Boardrof the Ministry
of Munitions has taken the double
task of selling the surplus war huts
and assisting the gouged tenants. The
board has placed on exhibition in Lon-
don a war hut made into a peace time
abode. This type is sixty feet by 15
feet and approximately eight feet high.
Partitions have been made in the hut
and it provides a living and dining
room combined, three bedrooms, kit-
chen, pantry, bathroom and space for
storing coal. The hut sells for 5500
and. will accommodate a family of six.
A similar home, if built new, it is es-
timated in England would cost $1,625.
The war hut can be taken to the
country and made Into a home there,
the salesman of the Disposal Board
says, but explains that the cost will
be greater, for an asbestos lining as
proof against fire and dampness must
be provided. Then roofing and other
Materials must be purchased at an
increased cost of $1,500. But with
these additional expenditures the war
hut in the country can be made into
a home which would cost approximate-
ly 38,500.
NO POSTAL NOTES
TO UNTIED STATES
A despatch from Ottawa says: -
Owing to the high rate of exchange
on New York, the Postoffice Depart-
ment has issued instructions that no
further postal notes whatever will be
sold for remittance to the United
States.
Autumn Wonder.
"A have on the far horizon,
An infinite, tender sky;
The rich, ripe tint of the cornfields,
And the wild geese sailing high;
And all over upland and lowland
The charm of the goldenrod;
Some of us call it autumn,
And others call it God."
Wireless service has s been opened
between Great Britain, holland and
Scandinavia.
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Rear -Admiral Sir A, J, Henniker
kluglran, of Airds, ]las been created a
0.Ii,
The new medical officer for the
parish of Kirkmabreck la. Dr. T, W.
Smart.
The Denny town council has de-
aided to erect 100 houses 1n ,tead of 80,
as originally agreed upon.
The death .took place suddenly at
13opnbay of Commander John Mann,
D,S.O„ a native of Stlurnraer,
The Military Orose has been award.
ed to Lieut, . J. 5, Cook, son of Mrs,
Cools, Lyndhurst, Thornhill,
Colonel Henry Wade, D.S,O.,,son of
Ttev. George Wade, Falkirk, has had
the 0,M.G. conferred on him,
, The GB. has been conferred on
Maier -General Neil Maloolm, 0,8,0.,
son of Colonel Malcolm, Polirailoch,
Hugh Moncrieff, Oolzium House,
Kilsyth, has purchased the residen-
tial estate of Ardunan, Strathblane,
Major M. Dinwiddie,
MA, Gordon Highlanders, is a son of
Rev J. L. Dinwiddie, Dumfries,
Sir Harry Lauder is giving gold
Medals to the Civilian pipe band win-
ning the prize' at the Covial games.
The Royal Red Cross has-been
awarded to Nurse Eva Colvin, V,A.D,,
daughter of John Colvin, Kirkma.
break.
The Marquis of Graham and Major
Colin W. Macree have been appointed
Deputy Lieutenants for Buteshire,
The Distinguished Conduct Medal
has been won by Sergt,Major J. H.
McCall, son of A. McCall, Malvinas,
Lockerbie.
The proprietors of the print works
in the Blaine Valley havehistituted
a forty-eight hour week tor their em•
ployees.
James 3', Foote, Surveyor of Cus-
toms at Bo'nese, has retired after for
ty-three years' service in the Govern.
ment, •
Brig. -Gen. Charles W. Scott, DSO.,
son of the late Walter H. Scott, of
Nuntield, Dumfries, has been made et
0.111,G.
'The C,M.G. has been conferred on
Lieut. -Col. F. Rainsford-Ilannay, D.S.
0., eldest son of Col. Rainsford:Han•
nay, Kirkdale. •
Captain Lord Garlies, Scots Guards, ._
has left for Germany to be A.D.C. to
General Sir' Charles Ferguson, Geyer
nor of Cologne,
Donald MacGregor, solicitor, after a
service of thirty-two years, has re-
signed as clerk of St. Columba Parish
Church, Oban.
The death is announced at Coreock,
Dalbeattie, of Captain H, L. Murray -
Dunlop, son of the late A. 0. S. Mar-
ray-Dunlop.
urray-Dunlop.
Some black and white sketches, be-
longing to the late Sir Francis Powell,
have been presented to Dunoon Gram-
mar School.
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A Mechanical "Zoo."
"Why the 'monkey' in : monkey
wrenchr some one of an inquisitive
turn of mind once asked the editor of
the Popular Magazine, who admits
that he did not know, but that he
avoided confessing his ignorance by
retorting with another question: "Why
the 'donkey' in donkey engine?"
Upon some reflection, he says, we
came to the conclusion that the head
of the wrench could, by a stretch of
Imagination, be thought to resemble a
monkey's profile, while, on the other
hand, the engine probably was sup-
posed to resemble a donkey in its
stubbornness and strength.
Led on in this fascinating study of
resemblance between tool and ani-
mals, we could see how the original
mechanical crane looked like the long -
necked and long-legged bird. Also, we
could see why a carpenter's horse got
its name, why a cow -catcher was so-
called, why the term "pig" was applied
to a mass of metal, especially when a
"sow" -a terns used by ironforkers
tor a larger mass of metal -is broken
up into little "pigs." The salamander
required no genius for analogy. And
the caterpillar tread was obvious
enough. The tailor's goose was not
so obvious, although we need .our
fancy sufficiently to picture some long -
forgotten tailor poet naming it in a
burst of inspiration. Without any
gift of insight, we could see why a
"worm," used so much In mechanics,
was applied.
But there were others that puzzled
us, and we pass thein on for cleverer
fellows to thiaYs over. Where did a
bull wheel get its nacre? A bucksaw±
A catboat? A railroad frog? A hogs.
head? A crowbar?..The spinning ma,
chine called a nude? The central sup-
porting part of electrical machines
called a spider? The winch called a
'crab? The l utterfly valve?
Where Ohne Word Came From.
A fascinating study is that which
searches for the origin of words. Much
of the history of the world is locked
up in the words we use every day, tit•
telly unconscious of their derivation.
When the Arabs came into Europe
and learned front the nations they en-
coiuttered the wisdom of all the ages
then past, they became deeply interest.
ed in the attempts that the old Greeks .
had made to turn other metals into
gold.
That it had been declared to be 8
secret and mysterious process made It
all the more fascinating to them And
so'they became alchemists, and called
themselves Hermetic philosophers, be.
cause tradition declared Hermes This.
megietls about two thousand years
before Christ had discovered how o,
convert the baser metals into gold.
To melt the mouth of a glass tribe
so as to close it was called securing it
with "Hermes, itis seal." - We know
little or nothing of I3ermos, or when
he lived, or whether he ever lived at
all; but it is carious that Duan to this
day when a• bet'vi+a os 10,s it( closet] so
the;, ,t ;s ah••tlglrt wo roll it rormitical.
ly owed, after this same Bernice,
"There ire two 5•t'rfiom • dhe false,
Where n clan is free to do as he Iikssl •
whore a t;+^n is free to
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