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ARE HOWITZERS FAILURES?
Ponderous Weapons Too Heavy For
Field Use-SoonWear Out
Are the much -vaunted German
howitzers, like the Zeppelins, huge
failures? Experts are inclined to an-
swer this 'question in the affirmative,
for little has been heard of the doings
of these .mighty engines of death
since the early days of the war, when
they caused a sensation by crushing
like eggshells the steel forts at Liege
and Namur, It is confidently believed
In military circles that the Germans
have discovered that their 100 -ton
howitzers are altogether too ponderous
to be of use in ordinary field warfare.
They have to, be drugged so slowly
across country that, they cannot keep
pace with an army, and should their
mechanism go wrong they cannot be
repaired in the field, but have to be
trundled back to the factory at Essen.
After firing a dozen of its 5 -foot shells
the howitzer practically destroys the
rifling in the barrel, and the weapon
has to be returned to the repair shop
for an overhaul. A German big gun
is a mass of mechanism, and possesses
such apparatus as hydraulic brakes to
lock the wheels before firing takes
place, great pistons to elevate the
stumpy barrel, hydraulic jacks to sup-
port the gun when in action, and all
manner of electrical contrivances for
Igniting the bursting charge when the
gun crew have retired to a spot 50
feet away to be safe from the atmos-
pheric disturbance created by the dis-
charge of the weapon. It is not sur-
prising that some of this delicate
machinery smashes nearly every time
the howitzer sends its 1,650 -pound
Shell on Its nine miles jouriwythrough
space.
Over rough country it is almost im-
possible for a howitzer to travel at
any speed, and the only way it can
be quickly, transported is by railroad.
The gun itself weighs 100 tons, and
It is accompanied by an armored am-
munition wagon, a sleeping car for
the gun crew, and a crane for ho'.st-
Ing shells, which brings the total
weight of the equipment up to 400
tons. It is obvious that few bridges
would prove sufficiently strong to
allow such ,weighty vehicles to be
trundled across them, and on a soft
road the massive ,howitzer is in as
sorry a plight as a traction engine
would be in a quagmire.
Russian Prayer for Horses.
The Russians are in the habit of
'using the following prayer for their
horses before going into action.
"And for these also, 0 Lord, the
humble beasts who with us bear the
burden and heat of the day, and offer
their guileless lives for the well-being
of their countries, we supplicate Thy,
great tenderness of heart, for Thou
has promised to save both man and
beast, and great' is Thy loving kind-
ness,, 0 Master, Saviour of the world.
Lord Kaye mercy."
Those also .who have traveled over
some of the wide spaces of Russia and
Siberia\ adds Country Life, will ap-
preciate the
p-preciate'the simple trust shown in it,
for Russians have face dan-
gers alone on horseback in their great
country even in times of peace.
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One of the Kaiser's Men
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CLINTON NEW; ERA
ORIGIN Or STARS.
it May Be That the Nebular Hypothe-
ses is All Wrong.
The nebular hypothesis is that the
stars were formed by the cooling and
cohering of the gaseous nebulae. These
"filmy veils of luminous gas," which
are visible to the naked eye in the
Milky way, Inc. supposed to be star
stuff.' Many of these clouds have in
their centers tiny spots of bright light,
the supposed beginnings of new stars
and suns.
In 1910 astronomers at Lick observ-
atory discovered that the older a star
becomes
the
faster it travels through
space. Then the question arose, Cau
nebulae be stars in formation when
their speed is even greater than the
oldest stars?
The astronomers began to doubt the
old theory. Some years of hard work
at Mount Hamilton and at the Univer-
sity observatory in Chile were requir-
ed. Now the, velocities of forty nebu-
lae are accurately known. The incred-
ible speed of these nebulae suggests
that they are older, not younger, than
the stars. It is possible that they are
disintegrated stars and not stars in
the malting at all.
The director of the Lick observatory
says: "The effect upon our ideas of the
connection existing between planeta-
ry nebulae and the stars is revolution-
ary. Apparently the stars have been
evolved from planetary nebulae.
"What, then, are the nebulae if they
are not star stuff? That is what the as-
tronomers at Lick have set tbemselves
to determine." -Exchange.
Attacks of cholera morbus are caused
mostly by indiscretion in: diet, the use
of unripe fruit and new vegetables, and
usually occur during the hot summer
months.
On the first sign of this very weakening
trouble Dr. howlers Extract of Wild
Strawberry should he taken.
Mrs. George Lee, Rutlwen, Ont.,
writes: "I was taken with cholera
morbus, and I was so bad I could not
sit up any more than five minutes at a
time. My husband said l looked as if I
had been sick a month; he got me a
bottle of Dr. Fowler's Detract of Wild
Strawberry, and I took the whole of it
in one day, and it completely cured me.
We are never without it in the house fcr
I don't think it can be beat."
When you ask for Dr. Fowler's Extract
of Wild Strawberry see that you get " Dr.
Fowler's," as imitators have gone so far
as to imitate our wrapper both in color
and style, and have adopted similar
names, such as Strawberry Compound,
Wild Strawberry Compound, Extract of
Strawberry, etc.
"Dr. Fowler's" has been on the market
for the past 70 years, and is acknowledged
by all who have used it to be a sure cure
dor all bowel complaints.
Price,I35 cents. •
Manufactured only by The T. Milburn
Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
LIEUT.-GENERAL VON KESSEL
One of the most noted strategists In
the German army.
Native Heroism
If proof were needed of the loyalty
of Britain's nativetroops in Africa,
and their attachment to their white
officers, it would be found in an inci-
dent which occurred in Nairobi "Our
native troops," writes a corporal in
the Royal Engineers, "seem to have
no fear; in fact, they are extremely
brittle. One of their white' officers,.
Lieutenant Oldfield, killed at Tsavo,
having come right on to the muzzle
of a Maxim, four of his native'askaris
threw themselves in front to ,try to
save him. The whole party were
instantly riddled." - -
THE LAST SHOT.
Dramatic Incident That Closed the
Franco-Prussian War.
There was probably no incident in
the Franco-Prussian war of 1.870 more
dramatic than that which marked its
close. Herr Forckenbeck, president of
the Prussian chamber of deputies, was
sent with a colleague to Versailles to
congratulate King William upon bis
election as emperor.
Bismarck, who bad just concluded
the terms or peace with France, in-
vited them to supper and in the course
of the meal said:
"This night at 12 o'clock the last
shots will be exchanged between our
troops and the French, and 1 have
couceded to the French the honor of
the last shot."
Forckenbeck and his colleague left
their bot before midnight, drew out
their watches, stood uuderneath a Ian -
tern of the Hotel du Reservoir and
waited. First there was a cannon
shot from the German lines; then a
solemn stillness; then followed the last
reply from Mont Valerien. The tow-
er clock at Versailles struck 12. Tho
French war had ended. -Exchange.
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A PLEA FOR DANGER.
Thla Writer Argues That Too Much
Safety May Breed Weakfnge..
In these dans of the placarding of
"safety first" and the juxtaposition of
"safe and sane," is a voice necessarily
that of a madman if it be beard in the
lima singing the praises of danger and
Oa? With all our laws and move-
ments and committees for the elimina-
tion from our daily life of all chances
unfavorable to life, limb, health and
property are we in no danger of saving
the body at the expense of the spirit?
Too great security breeds weaklings,
and too nervous a regard for physical
safety is not only craven but ultimate-
ly unwise. Our nation, if it is to be
great and free, must set high value on
the courage, resourcefulness and high
spirit of the individual citizen. Now,
courage is nourished on dangers coped
with, and the prudent soul that always
"plays safe" cannot be called high or
noble. Our evolution up to this point
has always been conditioned by the
need of self preservation in the face
of innumerable enveloping dangers.
The creature that hesitated to take
chances or always avoided threatened
injury soon ceased to exist, either as
species or individual.
Hence our bodies, our minds, our
very spirits have been evolved, in part
at least, to fulfill this function of cop -
Ing with some kind of danger. For
what purpose our eyes, our ears, our
nerves, our muscles, our sense of right
and wrong? A removal, then, from
our environment of this elemeut of
danger tends to be followed by de-
generacy and atrophy in all parts of
our natures. Indeed, in modern life
we are prone to become stall fed in
body and spirit. This we tacitly con-
fess in our passion for sport, which is
essentially mimic hunting or war and
for the vicarious adventure of roman-
tic fiction.-Scribner's.
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Wills and Edmund Kean.
Erving used to tell with dramatic ef-
fect a story about W. G. Wills, the
dramatist, who, among other services,
wrote for him the play "Charles 1."
When Wills was a boy ten years old
he was taken to see 'Edmund Kean
play Macbeth. In the murder scene
he was'so affected by the realistie
power of the actor that, seized with a
severe attack of nausea, he hurried
from the box. Ten years later he was
lunching at a chop house in Fleet
street when a man entered, sat down
at a table near him and ordered a meal.
EIe was a perfect stranger to Wills,
who, after a few minutes' propinquity,
was again seized with a fit of nausea.
from which' he had not suffered sine
as a boy ho was at the theater on the
occasion mentioned. He was obliged
to leave the room. When some min-
utes later he paid his bill the wafter
said to him: "Did you see that gentle-
man at the table near you? That's
Odmund Bean."-Cornh ll Magazine.
Toys During the French Revolution.
The toys of the. French revolution
period were characteristic of that ter
rible time. There are tops whose
shadows cast the; profile portraits of
Louis XVL and 'Harte Antoinette.
These are turned in boxwood and are
indeed interesting 'reminiscences of
toys with the impress of History. The
children of the revolution had their
tiny Phrygian caps and danced the bor•
ribie carmagnoles in their play. Little
models of the guillotine were made to.
"work," and the bodies of pigs with
heads of Louis XVI. were decapitated
Models or the Bastille were popular.
Playing cards with figures of revolt'•
tionary heroes were made when kings,
queens and aristocratic knaves were
taboo. --From "Toys or Other Days." by
Mrs. F. Nevill Jackson.
Dickens' Full Name.
Charles Dickens ` was christened
Charles John Hufrant, or Butl'iram.
as it is erroneously entered. In the par.
isle register. But when be became ta•
mous he dropped the last. two Chris-
tian names, as be desired to be known
as plain Charles Dickens, a wish re•
spected on Ms tombstone in Westnuu•
stet' abbey, by his biographer and
friend, John Forster, and by the serve'
pulously accurate Dictionary 01 Noe
iional Biography.
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won,,,M ONTO OMp;daU!',
er in one of the base hospitals 10 Eng
land for some time. However, "Hee"
wants to go to the firing line so some
time ego be applied at the War Oliice
for a Oomuiiseion in the 'Imperial.
Army.
J. iC, Rodgers of Fordwich has re
eel ved'word from I], S Copeland, who
was wounded at the battle of Lange
marck, that he has fully recovered and
is back on the firing line. Mr. Cope
land was up to the time he enlisted, in
the first Canadian Contingent employ
ed by the hell Telephone Company as
- Inspector and repair man for Ford
with Exelnsnge;
On Tuesday the 8th inst. 'Mr. John
Joseph Welsh highly respected young
roan of McKillop was married to Miss.
Mary Marcella Nigh, of Tuckersniith
r, f Seaforth
byRev.
1 Corcoran U
Word was received Wednesday cif
the death by ftrownil g of Robert S.
Walker, son of John Walker, of Rax
boro, and l,rother of MPs W. J. Hart,
DECLINE SUBSTITUTES of Seaforth
! S arains of ibe late ldr's. Mary
Mcllariarie, widow of the late John
McFarlane, were brought to Exeter
from Langdon, E. D., and were inter
DON'T NURSE WO]#°' ""`l i" the Exeter cemetery on Mon
day, the funeral taking place from the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Par
Partloularly if It's 'Your Own Fault the
World Looks Bleck..
Jcihn Campbell, a well•knnwn
When you feel down In the tnouttt farmer of the Township of Tucker
and long to go away and hide yourself smith, died at ,iris home on the third
forever; when you Imagine that Ao oho' Concession after: an illness of several
In the world is treating you right;' months with pleurisy. Mr. Campbell
was 70 years of age and unmarried •
when you are satisfied that your .em- We notice by a London paper that
ployer is tardy In recognizing your I he death occurred last week of Mr. J.
genius; when you can't divorce your- S. Rieher'dson of Tilbury, father of
self from the idea that you are doing Mrs W R' Veale, formerly of Seaforth,.
the work and the other fellow is get- nose of Ingersoll
ting the credit; when the time you fr Word rectlyt t Oentralia liayucame
Spend at' your work seems lntetmlna- I is ae prisoner'e in Germany. Yesterday
a card was received from him stating
in addition that be was wounded in
the right arm
The Zurich baseball club held a re-
organization meeting on Tuesday
Thursday, June] 24th, 1015.
up for trial, the others being postpon
was an r
ed. The case of Johnsons vs. Johnson
' ction in which Wm, Johnson j A S T O R IA 0 'a
f Blyth sued T. C Johnston of Del
were for 9550 as commiseic n en the For Infants and children
sale or farms in Eullett and East Ws,
tv;ulgsh. The detente w tis that the I In Use For Over 30 Years'
Putting It Gently.
"Are you trying to accuse me of
overcharging yon?" asked the taxicab
driver. ••
"No," replied the man who is mild,
but tenacious. "All I say is that your
fare indicator Dight to be arrested for
exceeding the speed limit." -Washing-
ton Star.
ole and the time away from 1t seems
woefully short; when all the sky seems
to possess a leaden hue;' when every-
thing irritates you like salt on an open
wound- when the laugh of a child
Effective Cause.
Smith -1 understand that some of
your hens have stopped laying. Jones
-Two of them have. Smith -What's
the cause? Jones -Motorcar. -Stmt'
Stories.
defendant and merely sold his own 1 Ahvays bears
farms. The jury brought, in a verdict the
for the plaintiff. for„ 9330 and judge I Signature ee y
ment was entered accordingly 1
grates on your nerves; when the food 1 evening. Mr. G ft, Hess was chosen
you eat disagrees with you- a manager and Mr. Brown as captain
the season up Siad take an inventory forOne of the worthy pioneers of Bel
of yourself. Maybe it is with you that grave rmmnunity, in the person of
the fault lies. Perhaps the.rest of the Janes Nethery, passed away to his
world is but a mirror. Don't imagine rewaiil Thursday of last week at the
you are carrying the world on your , ndvenced age of 81 years- He had been
shoulders. The browbeaten man is at
Iios, for several his
daughter Mwrs.
.
too often a creature of his own mak- gangrene
Mg. He insists on carrying the Old W nr & R. A. Pryne of Brussele die
Man of the Sea on his back when the posed of their milling business to
world is willing to relieve him of the Messrs, Nagle & Logan, of Benmiller.
burden. It is surprising how many Purchasers will go right on with the
worries we can banish by making up erection of the new mill as planned
and have taken over the machinery
ordered by Irfesers Pryne and will
have the new mill in running order in
the course of the next 2 or 3 months
S. Carter, Brusse's agent for the
Ford car, has already sold and deliver
ed 12 cars, this reason, with prospects
for more
Oouuty Court opened here on
Tuesday with His Honor Judge Doyle
presiding. There were four cases on
the docket, only one of which came
There never was a bad man but had
ability for good service. - Edmond
Burne
our mind resolutely that we will not
give them room In our thoughts. -In-
dianapolis News,.
(Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
C.:st,
mNmommaoevesemmmaroeseomoo
Tawn and Country
,teem eweerzer9emeesessesee006
Wingham girls have organized a
bagel ail lean„
A rather amusing case was tried be
fore Squires,l'erty and Hemphill, at
Heneat . I( seems the t a hen het 0 on
Month .y W. Perkin had t"ken it couple
of soul; birds out of their cages red
carried Baena baelt to London. On he
ground that the birds were inc'uded
in it certain chattel mott.gabe, A
Whiteside went to Loader' and
brought Billy buck. uel'ole the bench
he stated that he thnugnt the birds
were his laas fol property brit if induct
ed in the innrtgege, he hod no more to
say. A fine of live dollars and ousts
WAN 11 flitted
The ilenaall Council have made the
final payment 00 the town heli 10 the
cents t there. The contract pride 50908
was only exceeded by 41,30 fur extras.
It is really remarkable that ;he tat
tet' amount was so smell in 1 building
of such dimensions
of e gnat , par
ed the stock of O'Neil & U" , ;racers,
Grand Trunk Railway System
Railway Time Table
London, Huron and Bruce.
North Passenger
London, depart 8.30 a m 4.40 p se
Centralia 9.3:3 5.43
Exeter 9.44 9.44 5.541
H ensal l
Kippen 10.01 6.11
Brucefield 11.00 0.19;
Clinton
Londeshoro 11.18 0.52;
Blyth 11.27 7.00
Beigreve 11.40 1.13
W inghanl, arrive... 11.51 7.35
South Passenge'
Wingham, depart.. 0.35 a m 3.30 p
Belgrave 7.51 3.44
Blyth
Londesboro 7.13 4.04
Clinton 8.10 4.23
Brucefleld 8.27 4.89
Kipper' 8.35 4.47
Hensali; 8.41 4,52
Exeter 8,54 5.05
Centralia 9.04 5.15
London, arrive 10.00 0.10
Buffalo and Goderich
Mr. Keeler,
11 g ile rhes
Wes' Passenger
am pm pm pm
10
and is cleating out rhe stuck. He ex fitratford 10.00 12.30 5.25 10,25
petits to he throngh selling in ten days ihlrtchell 10.22 12.80 5,55 10.49
Mr. C. A. S'dwray, president ,.f the Sartfmth 10.35 1,20 6.18 11,11
Sidway0l,reint ileCowp,,hy of lllk Olfnton ]1.07 1.36 0.40 11,2
hart, Ind , end C'oderic•h, Orlt., under Holmewille 11.07 1.43 fi.40 I1,2
went an operation in New Yolk nn i io1mech..e11.35 2.00 7.05 11.
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teti nesday-of lest week. Pnrumorria Last passenger
set in and Mr. Sidway died on Tours 1 a m p m p.m
day, 7.05 'L,85 4552
Hector McKenzie son of lire. Don 1 Goderich
aid McKenS e of Port Albert and 5. Holmesvine...,7,22 2.52 5,10
I brother of Alex lMclie"zie, nm' n1 the Clinton 7.32 3,03
Ifrom, was one of the Qni•en s Unit ere Seatorth 7.51 3.21 5 95
I ity "Meds" who volunteered for set ,h1 Rebell 8.10 3,44 " 59
111 vice mud who has been surgical dress Stratford' 8 40 4 15 0 20
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