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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-03-14, Page 3• RO1 AMA /AND NUN RAVAGES BY LACK OF TRANSPORT AT ROOT Or DIFFICULTY 1.t , The Latest ' Designs Lr- -"."" • CANADA • 1:: :— I GREATEST OF DAMS Scientific Methode of Germans in Work of Pillage Leaves Country in State of 'Utter Destitetion.. With the excesition of Serbia, Rou- mania certainly has suffered more than any of the Allies. Only the in- comparable natural resources .of the ccuntry made it possible to ward off famine, but • devastation and pillage were as complete as Corman unscrup- ulousness and seientific methods could make them.. Everything has been taken, essen- tials of life and labor, with even greater malice than in Belgium, for here the Germans had what they thought was justification in punishing a country which, although economi- cally completely dependent on Ger- many, had dared to take up arms on the side of the Allies. They spent two years systematically transport- ing to Germany everything they fan- cied—furniture, silverware, clothing, machinery, food and livestock. They sent 2,500,000 tons of cereals in rail- way trucks, but they have sent an- other 1,000,000 tons in paper . peek - ages. Every soldier was allowed five kilos of cereals for home ,every little while. The .year of 1918 was .a bad trop year in Wallachia, but the Ger-, mans were careful to export at once all the grain that was harVestethe But of all they took out of the country, nothing so seriously crip- pled Roumania • as the means of transport. There are in the where kingdom only eighty-four engines in fit condition. All the horses and most of the oxen were taken. Tele- graph and telephone wires are most - ]y down, and there is no material available to repair them, which, to- gethee with the lack of train service, makes it difficult to obtain compre- hensive information about the food situation. Seed Grain Badly Needed. There is a difference of opinion as the the quantity of foodstuffs now in the country. After consulting various people, including the Allies, Who have had the matter under ex- amination, it is safe to say there is Sufficient food available if there were any means of transporting it from one paint to another.... The"Govern- ment, however, is not of this opinion. The Minister of Industry .and Com- merce, M. Constantinesco, says the present supplies will hold out until the end of April, and unless the Al- lies manage to get seed here this month there will be virtually no har- vest, as the Germans carried off all seed grains. Four Allied trains so far have arrived, carrying 20,000 tons of flour, which is already distributed in spite of the overwhelming diffi- culties of broken bridges and lack of transport. In the whole of Bessar- abias-for instance, there are only nine engines and, as the tracks there are wider than those in Roumania, it is impossible to send engines fr.= here. Until. transport questions are set- tled nothing can be done. Two hun- dred locomotives would bring relief at the present moment than any amount of food, badly as this is wanted. Soldiers and the Battlefields. Bettlefield tearing, curiously enough, seems to be becoming popu- lar among the troops in France as a means of passing the time until gen- eral demobilization is ordered. The soldiers are invariably interested in the sectors of the front other than those which were the scenes of their own exploits. A system of short leaves has been authorized, and lor- ries detailed for the tours. Ypres, M.essines, Arra, and Albert, are eas- ily 'first as sight-seeing centres, but pieces of lesser fame, such as Bois- inghe and Wood 15, Bois Grenier, Combles and La Prie Farm, Epehy, and Bousies, are all claiming their crowds. • *11.14 • Insects Have Distinctive Colors. Naturalists for 'a long time were at a loss. to understand how it was that insects were enabled to so qaick- ly recognize an intruder among their ;family or settlement. It has been de- termined that ill most cases they Irecognize each at by smell. Among the bees each distinctive class of ivorkers—tho guard, the fanner, the loollen earrier, the .wassMakere the arehitect, etc.—has its own distinctive odorei And besides this, each bee has Its own separate hive odor, which is its passport into its own particular home, Wr.relo..4.4* • .A.grieulture in Canada is in need f a leader who can Tally around him the eepresentatives of all hi-inchesof the industry, and present a solid freed; on all questions of agricultural int srest. A novel feature es the sash ar- rangement which is a continuation of the revers which pass under the arms, and tie at the back. McCall Pattern No, 8264, Misses' Dress. In 3 sizes, 16 to 20 years. cents. Peice, 25 ere-, The Chineses blouse served as the inspiration for this charming creation whose straight pleated skirt is attach- ed to lining. McCall Pattern No. 8760, Girl's Dress. In 5 sizes, 6 to 14 .years. Price, 20 cents. These patterns , may be obtained from your local McCall dealer or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond $t., Toronto, Dept. W. • ALBERTA STRUCTURE LARGER THAN FAMOUS NILE DAM General Scheme. Provides for Irriga tion of 1,250,000, Acres—An . Engineering Marvel. There has just been completed , in the Province .of Alberta; Canada, ,a monster dam. It can -claim; the dis tinction of being the longest edifice contains about one million cubic. of its kind in the' World. Whereas thel yards of earth, rubble and stone, famous Assren dane, ill Egypt, has a Two Cahlwell Water Tube Boilers, 225 H.P. each. 'Infor. option 4)11 request; or may be seen in operation at Firstbrook Bros., Ltd., 283 King St, E„ Toronto, demands such careful preliminary investigations as dam -building, par- tieularly when it comes to the stor- age of .a large body of water. For dams do burst with terrible conse- quences. • Accordingly, the earthen embank- ment, which is some seven thousand feet in lcngth is of a particularly massive character, At its base it is three hundred and fifty feet thick, and total lengSli along the crest of six thousand four hundred feet, the new Canadian structure is no less than seven thousand eight hundred anfi twenty feet in length. • But apart from its record, in the matter of lene:th it has many notable features. It has been erected in con- nection with a Colossal irrigation scheme, the largest individual project of this character that has been car- ried out on the American continent. While most irrigation projects have for their objects the obtaining of a larger yield of cereals or fruit crops; the Canadian enterprise is destined solely to increase the dairying and live stock output of the province. .• The scene of this latest triumph on the part of the irrigation engineer is Bassano, on the Bow River, some eighty-five mike to the east of Cal- gary. Across this broad stream a mighty dam has been thrown and the river brought under subjugation for watering a huge tract of country. The waters held up by this dam alone irrigate, by means of two thousand eight hundred miles o1 canals and dit- ches, four hundred and forty thous- and acres of land. Serious complaints are arriving, from England as to the wasty and generally bad condition of Canadian apples shipped there. es -Leo if jour usual iced doesn't dig' aiIv and tjou want U he satisfaction of a reackyto- eat cereal dish that -44;i11 provide easi:13 dig-es:E- n-31e nourish' xnnt a low cost, trB 1 . 2 ! 1, amok moo' ooion uetaisi no. 4:ozss ISSUE No. 11—'19 To Irrigate 810,000 Acres. But included in the general scheme is the irrigating of •a further tract of three hundred and seventy thousand acres by diverting the wat- ers of the river to another point; making eight hiendred and ten thou- sand acres in all. Shortly, too, these acres will be increased to over one million two hundred and fifty -thou- sand acres, providing homesteads on rich irrigated land for thousands of setlers. The undertaking owes its inception to the enterprise of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which owns some six million acres of the finest virgin land in the Prairie Province % of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, • which it received as a grant for the con- struction of its transcontinental line. Some three million acres of this land is in Southern Alberta, a great open prairie plateau lying between .the Bow River on the south and the Red Deer River on the north. Its surface is rolling, and, its soil, consisting of heavy black loam and a clay subsoil, is excellent. In order to encourage settlement on this land and, incidentally, provide freight for its line, the Canadian Pacific Railway determined to see what could be done in harnessing the waters so that a -regular and plentiful supply could be guaranteed to the farmer. First they ,carried out an exhaustive survey of the whole re- gion. • This occupied several years, an irrigation project demanding sur- veys and examination far more com- plete than those for a railway line. The engineers first traversed the re- gion in all directions, taking mea- surements and noting the rises and fall of the land. They spent several months upon the ground, virtually dwelling in what was then a wilder- ness so far as any life was concern- ed. They now gave their attention to the rivers. First they made a thorough examination of the Deer River and then the Bow River. They studied their banks, their beds, ascer- tained their volume, and the discharge at a given point in the dry season and during flood. Wonderful Engineering Feat. ' As a result of their surveys it was shown that the block, as the region was termed, naturally divided itself into three sections—the western, eastern, arid central—of about one million acres each, arid the work of developing them has been carried out in the order named. In the western section three Inme dred and seventy thousand acres has been brought under irrigation by di- verting the waters of the Bow River at a point just outside the city of Calgary. Hero a canal, seventeen miles in length, sixty feet wide at the bottom and one hundred and twenty feet wide on no water level, carries the precious fluid to a great lake three mike, long, half a mile wide, and forty feet deep. It is vir- tually a natural depression, but has been strengthened by a large earthen dam.i Fons this reeervoir water is car- ried to the hundreds of farms by one thousand and six hmulred miles of secondary canals and ditches. The engineces' real difficulties, however, began when they tackled the eastern section, for it was hero -where the great darn is situated. It was not a question of merely diverting the wat- ers of the river into allow= channel, hut of fixet curbing the tream and then raising the level of the liver over forty feet, and controlling tha flow. This was accomplished by the erection of a great compredte dam across what is known as Horseshoe Bend eh' the Bow River. • There is no engineening work that ELS! HAVE tqAVY, 91CK, 1OSS IIAR• FREE FO ilANORUFF Save your hair ! Double its beauty in a few moments— try this! If you care for heavy hair, that glistens witla beauty and is radiant with life; has an incomparable soft- ness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it im- mediately dissolves every particle of dandruff; you cannot have nice, heavy, healthy hair it you have dand- ruff. This destructive scurf robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it pro- duces a feverishness and itching of the scalp: the hair roots famish, loosen and die; then the hair falls out fast. If your hair has been neglected and is thin, faded,.dry, scraggy or too oily, get a small bottle of Knowlton's Dan- derine at any drug store or toilet counter for a few cents; apply a little as directed and ten minutes after you will say this was the best investment you. ever made. We sincerely believe, regardless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair and lots of it—no dandruff—no itching scalp and no more falling hair—you must use Knowlton's Danderine. If .eventually—why not now? THE GOLDEN COW, Lost Wedding Ring Recovered After Five Years. . A qpdstone, Surrey (England), lady hairSast discOvered her wedding ring, whiCh disappeared tie or six years ago while she was feeding a calf. It was thought the animal had swallowed. the ring, and as it could not be found the calf became known as "the golden cow." A few days ago the cow was pur- chased and killed by an Oxford butch- er, who, being informed of the lost ring, made a search, and discovered the ring embedded in au internal or- gan. The ring has been restored to the owner. It Works! Try It Tells how to loosen a sore, • tender corn so it lifts Good news spreads rapidly and drug- gists here are kept busy dispensing freezone, the ether discovery of a Cin- cinnati man, which is said to loosen any corn so it lifts out with the fingers. Ask at any pharmacy Lor a quarter ounce of freezone, which will cost very little, but is said to be sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus. You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the soreness is relieved, and soon the corn is so shriveled that it lifts out with- out pain. It is a sticky substance which dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin- ing tissue. This discovery will prevent thou.* sands :of deaths annually from lock- jaw and infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting corns. ' out without pain. Most city people are country peo- ple come to town, may.••••••••••.••••••••II.1.0...•••••.• We have been using MINARD'S LINIMENT in our hothe for a number of years and use no other Liniment but MINARD'S, and we can recom- mend it highly for sprains, bruises, pains or -tightness or the cheet, sore - of the throat, headache or any- thing of that sort. \Are will not bo without it onn single day, for we get a new bottle before the other is all nsed. 1 can recommend it highly to anyone. JOHN WALRFIELD. LaHave Islands, Lunenburg Co., N.B. In 1017. the 400 co-operative asso- ciations Of SaslettiAtetvan had e: turn- over of over $1,000,000. 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There's Wullie, he was in Mes- pitamia, an' Jimmie, he was in Salon- iky, an' Tam, he was mine-sweepin'; an' wee Jock, he's fist seven past. Lady visitor—But jock can't have joined yet? The old Scot—Nol but he earned yin and saxpence a week for sleepin' wi' an auld wife that was frichted o' Zeppelins. Couldn't Stump Him. The sergeant major had the repu- tation of never being at a loss for an answer.. A young officer made a bet with a brother officer that he would in less than twenty-four hours ask the sergeant major a question that would baffle him. The sergeant major accompanied the young officer on his rounds, in the course of which the cookhouse was inspected. Pointing to a large kettle of water just commencing to boil, the officer said: "Why does that water only boil round the edge of the topper and not in the centre?" "The water around the edges, sir," replied the veteran, "As for the men on guard; they have their breakfast half an hour before the remainder .of the company." Ininard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia. FIGHTING LONDON FOGS • New Invention Will Aid in Discovery of Adequate Means. Efforts to find a means of clearing; the air of fogs have been advanced considerably by the production of an] apparatus which, it is claimed, mea- sures exactly the constituents of fog. The device is the invention of Dr, John S. Owens, of the Atmospheric Pollution Research Department of the Meteorological Office. It draws in a volume of fog, retains and mea- sures all the impurities, and dis charges the pure air. Soot and tar have been found predominant. "Hitherto the difficulty in devising a means of fighting London fogs has been the absence of data concerning the proportions of impurities in the air," said an authority. MONEY ORDERS. A Dominion. Express Money Order for five dollars costs three cents. To make a paint brush as soft and clean as new, no matter how hard it has become, simply boil it in water in which a little lye has been put. 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