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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-10-09, Page 7+11 mrwx:J4"k". , i'I�A�,'�!{�!•il'lA"x,17 "btireday, October 9th, 1930. p7 fn j'aM?�M,�y".NIW' n*yw, ^,:N^!"I IV,+� •'.' WX4>t GHAM AD'Y A N(M TR M1 HOW !' You STAND ?. u • uponyour health. Have you Check any balance in the Bank of Vitality —any reserves of strength to draw, upon? Replenishment must come through easily digested foods that nth. Build supply strength. up reserves by eating Shredded Wheat with of milk. It supplies PPdies all the ele- reakfast need. anents you Try it for b and see how much better you feel i hibuoAi WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT THE CANADIAN ISHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY, LTAI.i TIM TURNS POET fSant. Hill who does be tinkin too much about the girruls, an not en- ough about his lessons, made the nixt intry as follows: A nervy young man in Kincardine Kissed his shwateheart wan noight in the garden, She. serried purty mad At the cheek of the lad And tould him he must beg her pardon. Nixt it wus ,moy turn, an tinkin the byes wud be wurrukin the wurruds Kincardine an garden overtoi;ne, I shtruck out on a new loine. A man in the town be the lake snide. For someting his fish -diet to break soighed, So a gintleman duck He tulc home to his cook Who wid onions an sage shtuffed this drake's hoide. We clecoided among oursilves that the game wus a dhrac.v, but that iamb - by it wud be safer fer us all to slitay away from .Kincardine nixt summer.' Av coarse, nobody wud hev anny ray son fer wantin to go theer clurin the winther sayson, unle-s theer shud be. another elickshun. Yours fer the Tory party, Timothy Hay. "To the Editur av all thins Wingham Paypers. Deer Sur: Thim byes who attidd Hoigh :School do be afther shpindin theer toime over a lot av tings they don't foind in theer books, so they do. Wan noight whin the misses wus -down town theyasked me cud. I wroite Limericks. T tould thim they "had come to the roight man, fer Lim- erick eves me ould grandfather's home. town, but that it wad take me a wake to wroite what I knew about the Lim- ericks, niainin the county an the town. Thin they tould me that the Lim- erick they maned wus a koind ay. poethry that son}e. fellahs wus afthef wroitin, whin they moight be ;betthcr -employed. Thin they showed me wan Tarr two verses in McLean's Magazine an secure the jawb looked aisy --enough• fer annybody av a litherary turn av ruoind, an I tould the byes so. The ind av it wus that we iukfifteen min -utes to see which wan av us cud pro- jure the besht limerick will Linear cline fer a sub'ickt. Whin the toime wus .up young Sandy Banks wus afther raidin his wan fursht. Mebby tinkin no man loikethis. 'n 1 it. It wint cud bate A bootlegger bould in Kincardine Hid some cases av beer in his garden, An down in the cellar riche leer Some woines an . m An barrels av cider to harden. Young Banks is a tinrpirince crank loike his ould grandfather. Young A CITY ON THE OCEAN ;e'RENCIO ENGIN'EER'S DAl'IING PROPOSAL. Would IRtrllri a ,Circular Steel Bing ,,large Enough to Contain 000,000 People, and Anchor It In Mid - Atlantic, A floating city, anchored in the ocean between the Old and New Worlds,is tho daring proposal of Leon Foenquinos, a Marseilles engi- neer.Monsieur Foenquinos 'wants to build a circular steel ringlarge enough to contain a population of 200,000 that woi, be "the most majestic work of m. -:t.” It would be anchored at a shallow spot, less than 200 feet deep, that is located In the Gulf Stream about balf-way between Paris and New York, at 43 degrees longitude and 4$ degrees north lati- tude. The ring would be 6$9 feet high, its internal diameter 3,282 feet, and its external diameter 4,600• feet. "I have arranged for a handsome outer boulevard and also an inner one; as well as an intermediate street," M. Foenquinos explains in a memorandum he has sent to French capitalists. "These circular boule- vards will be cut by eighty-six radial streets. Four full-sized Eiffel towers will be erected at the four cardinal points to serve as radio masts, light- houses, and landing stations for air- ships. Sky -scrapers will raise their noble heads in the intervening spaces. A subway will make the circuit of the ocean city in the lower caissons. The three boulevards will be lined with gorgeous tropical plants, always in bloom. "The central pool or basin, which will be entered 'through four broad passageways, will serve as a harbor for transatlantic liners and flying boats. The pool will have no bottom except the ocean.” The principal purposes of this ex- traordinary project are:— A health resort --eternal spring- time; Landing place for transatlantic air services of the future; Meteorological station; Fuel and freight depot for ship- ping lines A resort, like Monte Carlo, outside international laws; • Base for life-saving services. "I particularly wish • to explain that my steel island is not simply a landing place for air lines across the Atlantic," M. Foenquinos declared when interviewed by a Tit -Bits repre- sentative. "It will be an actual city. "We shall have luxurious hotels for tourists who • wish to take a health treatment or break their jour- ney for a few days; theatres, picture,. palaces, bathing beaches, and every possible amusement, as well as a handsome casino. "The principal shipping and come secrela' interests of all countries will have offices there. Ocean liners and air liners will be passing every day, every hour. Life-saving boats will be clashing out when appeals come. Mails, cables, wireless, telephones— all will hum. Special ambassadors will represent every nation. The new Atlantis will be the eight wonder of the world." To protect his floating city during rough weather, the inventor has de- vised a protective system consisting of radial and circular steel dykes, resting on floaters, that will be ar- ranged somewhat like a spider's web. This whole mass of steelworks, which will be semi-rigid, will be held to- gether by steel braces and wire. ca- bles. The idea is to use rustl.ess steel, coated • with tar. The field of dikes will be anchored to the bed of the sea. 'The city proper will be built on a sort of ring or crown that will be entirely. metallic," M. Foenquinos ex- plained. "The base will consist of ninety-six huge caissons more than 660 feet long, 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep, fastened to one another. These caissons will be the cellar of Atlantis, for they will contain: power, heating, and lightning plants, as well as all the shops and machinery required for repairing ships, also de- pots, warehouses, and coal supplies. There will be a system of Subterran- eanwith the streets, 11 connecting can st ts, a�. highways above, and a subway mak- ing the round of the city.' At least 10,000 families will be required to operate all these services. The esti- mated population of 200,000 is in addition to these families. "The entrances into the harbor will be majestic. Passageways will be cut through the ring directly un- der the four full-sized. Eiffel towers, the ring being braced together at a Sufficient depth under the water to allow the passage of the largest ships afloat." M. Foenquinos estimates the cost of this floating city at $4,000,000,- 000. He realizes what a tremendous investment this sum represent, but he is absolutely convinced that it would be a profitable affair., He estimates the annual gross rev- enue at the meretrifle of $800,000,- 000, and figures that the entire cost. of construction would be redeemed in less than seventy-five years. "The whole world willflock to my eity. Every liner afloat will be forc- ed to stop there to let the passengers see this eighth wonder of the world. "I don't want to give the idea that life will be prohibitive on: Atlantis. It should not cost any more per day than on a trip from Europe to, Amer- ica. We must make a profit on our investment and gradually wc, k off the gigantic cost, but I doubt whe- ther we need earn more compara- tively than a big London or Paris hotel. "Atlazitis should have au 'interua- tienal status. My hope is to find a committee of solid bankers from var- ious countries who will act as a board of directors and guarantee to. stock and bond holders that their in- teresta willbe r,trefully handled." Original. "Mother Goose." "Mather Goose was a real charac- ter and not an imaginary person, as has been supposed," says a corre- spondent. "Her maiden name was Elizabeth Foster, and site was born in Roston in 16115. She married Isaae Goose, and her rhymes were written for her grandohiidre l " pushcart us ca • stn. vendor's All ICL' Clep Richmond, Ind., bears this sign; Giv your. Tongue a Sleigh tide. Ice Crean Cones, 5 Cents. 11. e The modern girl never about her complexion going always carries a spare. worried flat. She 1 Wash Day � Is Easy Now Particularly if you have a modern Connor Elec- tric Washer in your home, No tearing of clothes, no back -break- ing work. rust fill the tub with hot water; drop in the clothes, turn a switch and the work is done. Wirkgham Utilities Commission Crawford Block., Phone 156, OUTWIT R AKAR Clallitit.. lmiyyli"* tft Reply to Ingxriring Lady Suppressed by Depart rm t Head. The administration of the Tangier Zone, says a correspondent of the London Weekly Times, is making• great e,lfor;s to destroy the young locusts which have hatched out re centiy and are doing great damage In Ire country. The gendarmerie and hundreds of villagers are being em- ployed in driving the "hoppers" into epecialiy dug ditches where they are destroyed. Certain garden quarters have been surrounded by low walls of sine er tin over which the Young lo- custs Cannot crawl. The country in places Is black with there. An Englishwoman visiting Tangier inquired as to the' manner in which the young locusts were being destroy- ed. It appears that a youthful and facetious clerk in the Department of Agriculture replied that small Arab boys were hired to catch and decapi- tate them one by one by pulling their heads off. The indignant lady has formally protested, threatening prosecution for cruelty. She asks whether it would not be possible, and more humane, for .each locust as it is caught by the boy to be laid on the ground and trodden on. I lean that the clerk's reply, in- viting the lady to supply the adminis- tration with a humane'- killer, has been intercepted by the head of the Department and suppressed. HOW ' PARIS. DOES IT! Employ Gramophones to Answer When Number Is Engaged. Paris has found a new way of get- ting even with telephone callers who want to argue when told that a num- ber is engaged. You 'lift off the re- ceiver and put through a call. "The line is occupied, Call again later," says the voice. "But look here," you cry, "1 am sure it can't be." "The line is occupied. Call again—" continues the voice. Ar- gument is useless, for you are talking to the gramophone at the exchange, and gramophones don't listen. The only thing to do is to hang up the receiver and try in a few min- utes' time. Then, quite possibly, the same voice will tell you that the line is out of order or that the number has been changed. In any case, you must grin and bear it. This is a picture of what may hap- pen, though actually the new device is ,eat,d to be working satisfactorily. It has been installed with a view to saving labor and the tempers of tele- phone operators by putting an end to needless discussions. At each ex- change there are several gramo- phones, each provided with appropri- ate discs. If .a number is engaged the operator merely switches the line to the gramophone, which says so. At an automaticexchange the operation is performed mechanically. CHAMPION FASTERS. Woman. Went Twenty -One Months Without. Food. When Mme. Henault recently com- pleted her hunger strike of twenty- eight days in a French prison, Scot- land came forward with the assertion that the feat was by no means a re- cord and that it had been exceeded several tunes in Scotland. It cited a ease in 1772 which -became known as "Pennant's Fasting Woman of Ross - shire," from the fact that Pennant described it in his "Tour of Scot- land." Katherine McLeod, aged 85, was attacked with a fever,.. which occa- sioned partial blindness and almost total inability to take food. Her par- ents sometimes put a little into her mouth, but for a year and three- quarters they had no evidence that either food or drink •passed her lips. By forcibly opening her mouth and depressing her tongue they tried to compel the passage of food, but a suf- focating construction led them to desist. • Re-Ohartiing Gulf of Panama. The sum of about $2,000,000 is being spent by the ,United States- in bringing up to date the ancient charts of the Gulf of Panama. Hith- erto, navigators in the Gulf have used charts based on surveys made by Great Britain more than eighty Years ago, and to a certain extent on still older Spanish surveys. Accord- ing to a Journal of Commerce account, the U. S. Government have commas sioned the Niagara, which was for- merly theprivate yacht of the Gould. e x family. Altogether the ship is chart- ing a sea area of 10,000 square miles. kill,' YI I,,,I,„II,III"II,.1111/i,I/"ell/IAX,HPOA„,J/IIA"itf111,i1111f.1.1.1I FAVORITE HYMNS 514IAll,1.,Il,II//IIAll*ISPOl/11111,1111II III,IIIIIII71All1Allll II,111,,, AI,F Immortal Love, forever full, Forever flowing free, Forever shared, forever whole, A never -ebbing sea! Our outward lips confess the name, All other names above; Love only knoweth whence it came And conlprehendeth love. We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down; In vain we search the 1 I+or: him no depths •rentor, made up of Verses iri,ciced out 'here arae '4 there frn his longer Poems. One of these entitled "Our Master," first published in 1856, was in thirty five four line stanzas beginning with the line, "Immortal fare\ er full:" From this at least sit hymns 'have been made by :a different choice o£ verses., The 'version quoted, above, for instance, juntlis to the, fifth of the poet';; ;stanzas in its third verse, So the .egoslly-popular "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind," begins with the twelfth stanza of a poem entitled, "The Brewing of Some." It will be noticed that our hymn. as given above is expressive only of Qwest deeps; the objective; it is devotional, inedi can drown. tative, loving, but expresses nothing of the needs of the worshipper. We need' such hymns, if for no other reason to remind us that never SU tong as life is ours shall we, always imperfect servants, be able to rest satisfied with prayer that does not express a need to our bountiful Fa - is ther. But we may well forget our- selves and our poor needs sometimes when we conte to the ' offering of tgain: praise and worship to our God and Ring. Through :Him the first fond prayers John Greenleaf Whittier was a are said, Our lips of childhood frame; The last low whispers of the dead Are burdened with His name. Oil/. Lord and Master of us all! Whate'er our name or sign, consequence of this he suffered from We own Thy sway, we hear` Thy call, weak health all his life, although he We test our lives by Thine. lived to be eighty-five years old. He received his education' "be- tween times" at home until he was seventeen years old, when he was giv- en two years schooling at the local academy At nineteen he sent some original poems to a newspaper edited by a well known writer and publicist named William Lloyd Garrison. The editor became interested in his con- tributor, and helped him into journal- ism, both of them becoming burningly interested. in the anti -slavery agitation then waging waren in the east of their country. YoungWhittier wrote rousing abol- ition poems and editorials and became after a time editor of the "Pennsyl- vania Freeman" as well as secretary of the Anti -Slavery Society. Feeling became hot upon the subject of slav- ery, he was mobbed while lecturing, set upon in streets, and his printing plant was sacked and burned. He continued his work wtdauntedly, nor could the attacks of the enemies of his cause induce him to abate by one is falling," "We see not, know not; jot the fiery—at times it must be con - all our way," "Thine are all the gifts, fessed rather crude—attacks he made by tongue and speech upon the stave owning fraternity. He lived long enough to see slaw- Whittier, which our hymnals contain ery abolished in his country, after its But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is. 1 -Ie; And" faith has still its Olivet And` love its Galilee The healing of His seamless dress Is.by our bedspain; of. We touch Him in life's throng and press,. And we are whole Jassperr. Jasper is an impure variety of quartz. It. is compact in texture and as It is very hard, takes a tine polish. It occurs hi many colors, dark green, brown, yellow, and sometimes blue or black. -Occasionally, it is found banded with sevexal different colored stripes. Unlike chalcedony, light does not show through it and it does not break into splinters. The term jasper is now restricted to opaque stones but the ancient "Janis" was partial- ly translucent. Thrift Note. • If one cent had been deposited in a savings bank at the beginning of the Christian era and kept there at 3 per cent., compounded semi-annual- ly, it would now amount to approxi- mately. $24,000,000',000,000,000,- 00'0,000: The Tune , t4editerr a peau. Tie deep blue color of the Medi- terranean Sea is due to the salt water constantly 'pouring .into it from the Atlantic Ocean and to the fact that few' large streams carrying, sediment empty into it, Quaker, son of a small- farmer, born near Haverhill, Mass., in 1807: He was worked hard, as was then the custom, and was permitted to suffer exposure to the weather with some 'idea of hardening his constitution. In Mr. Whittier the 'United States poet once: declared: "I ani really not a hymn -writer, for the good reason` that I know nothing of music, only a very few of my pieces were written for singing. A good hymn is the best use to which poetry can be devoted, but I do not claim that I have suc- ceeded in composing one." The religious world has, however, been unwilling to allow the rich mine of poetic beauty, sweet tenderness, and deep human sympathy Whittier endowed us with to go unexplored, in the ever persistent search for hymns of the sanctuary. Many and varied are the types of human char- acter, and the needs of human souls, requiring an endless variety of ex- pressions through prayers and hymns. And in his poems have been found much which our hymnbooks would. not willingly be without. A few of his shorter poems, such as "When on my day of life the night ,rectum's. Deeinial'computation was adopted in the United States in 1786, ''`ranee: and most of the European' countries, with the 'exception of Great Britain, following, The Trend. In North Suntatra, 278,000 of the 2 000y000 tribesmen have beeente members of the various Christian churches in that territory. O God," have been taken for church hymns, almost just as he left them. But the majority of the hymns ,of RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA? NEURITS' Uso T -R -C's. GeG safe' slay Belie Wain Pain and stiffness, ' I was not aisle, to get anythingto help me," writ,*.. Wm, 17, fI ilf,t, Dennis, Ont., "tints/ I tried Templeton a Rheumatic Capsule*, When . I feel a twinge I start Was; T -R -O's are equally good for Neuralgi w,,, Neuritis, Sciatica Lumbago. No herr-- ful drugs. 60c end el at your dealer's. tee T-RieTS TEMPLETON P Ct PA Tt abolition had been made use of as a. war measure, in a frightful civil war which almost brought ruin neon it, He published many books of 'verse, and many of his poems are reckoned among the choicest productions of his country's literature, such for instance as "Snow -Blind," "Maud Muller:,." "Barbara Freitchie" and ,`Telling the Bees." He was emphatically a poet of the country, its woods, farms and waters, and as one writer puts it, "his life was simple and sweet as is xnost of his poetry." He lived at Boston,and parts of each year at Amesbury, Mass:, at which place he wrote most of his tater poems. 1 -le never married but a sis- ter or afterwards a niece, kept home for hits, until death removed 'therm and left him to a lonely existence, for the last twenty years of his life • - Whittier's anti -slavery poems have 'for long been forgotten, and much of ibis other work has little interest for this generation. In fact it is quite possible that as years pass on, he will be best and chiefly remembered for the hymns the church has received from him. The tune Bishopthorpe, also some' - tines known as St.. Paul's, came from. the same composer who gave us St. Agnes, the pretty and sprightly air to which "The Head that once was crowned with thorns," is commonly sung. This was Jeremiah Clarke, a: well known English musical writer who died in : 1707. His anthems, "Bow down thine ear," and 'Praiee the Lord, 0 Jerusalem," are still in use, as are a. few of his songs, "The bonny greyey'd. morn," for instance, and some of those from the ctuaintly. entitled "Pills to Purge Melancholy."' Our tune was popular fifty or sixty years ago, but is not as frequently heard nowdays as it deserves, Aunt Martha (shopping for a par- rot)—"Now can you assure me it isn't given to use of shocking language? Where did you get it? Proprietor—"From a sailor, ma'am'. Aunt Martha -"Oh that's all right. Just so you didn't get from one of- those fthose flappers." 44, easeeertesallaall 9 e will sen to any�f ;ira.. �. b.1acedre a a�� cess 3 t Y � 1 1 ea y... 1" a h U. .. r.. S'•. .t �A s na ff :itr only 1 nee®Y, s a fyr.. 1•,r th Lt+ 0 .r fro Now Until Dece e 31 sto �or his offer is o New Su scr'rilThe ingham Advance Times