Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-12-29, Page 7si u. A short time ago the, Rotarians of Oven Sound listened to a tine address at one' of their weekly meetings,, de livered by Mr. Frank C. Irwin, aselst ant provincial commissioner of the Bee' Scouts Association. Mr. Irwin and a number of the local Scout leaders were the guests of the club. Follow ing the address a number of Rotarians volunteered to become interested in the Boy Scout movement in their lo cality and the club itself will give the movement hearty support. in his address Mr. Irwin reviewed the splendid work accomplished by the Boy Scouts and told of some of their War -tinge activities. He referred es peciaily to the fine resulta obtained. in Pentang, where the Scouts hada conn =unity hall,and where the movement had resulted in a much better feeling among the Protestants and Catholics of that town. The bays had taken an important part in the Tercentenary celebration there last summer. The members of the Rotary Club are right behind the movement, as boys' work is one of ,the most, important duties of'Rotary Clubs, and Boy Scout work, is essentially boys' work. * * * * * The following editorial is clipped from the Halifax Herald: This happened in a Barrington Street restaurant yesterday. A little gentleman of about twelve years of age was noticed holding a swinging door open far an old lady. When she had passed out to the sidewalk, her "escort" saw to it that site was guided safely across and into an automobile waiting at the curb. One did not need to be told that the little fellow was.•a Boy Scout: He did not ,leave any distinguishing badges "up" and he had left his "Baden- Powell" at home—but he had. Boy Scout written all aver him. A true gentleman in the oinking, that is what that boy is. And if for no 'other reason than the reason supplied. through that delightful little incident, - we grown-ups should back the Boy Scout Movement with every means in our power. * * * • All information regarding the or ganization of Boy Scout and Wolf Cub (Junior Scout) Packs can be had upon. application to the Field Department, of the Boy Scouts Association Headquar- ters, Bloch- and Sherbourne Streets, Toronto: w. - Whence Comes the Ocean's - Salt? It has long been an accepted theory that the' ocean derived its salt from the rocks ofland. 'the a n d. Rivers carry y salt to the sea, together withother minerals, and there it has accumulated through the ages. This refers only to camni o a n salt,which ch is sodium chloride, an element so far essential to the health of the human body that we could not survive without it. It is table salt, <iacking whichmost of our foods wouidtaste flat and insipid. - ,Sea water contains other salts, not- ably those .of magnesium and potas- sium, both of which, like sodium, are metals. It is a fluid of very complex chemical make-up, containing even appreciable percentages of gold and 'silver. Which, of course, is what might be expected in view of the contribu- tions of land -detritus by the 'rivers. But now a new theory is being put forward, "based upon the alleged fact that the salts of the sea do not corres- pond quantitatively to the salts of the land. That is to say, their relative quantities do not correspond. For one item there is an enormous excess of chlorides. The backers of this theory are disposed to contend that the salts 'of the ocean are largely of volcanic •i i1 or. g n, taken up in solution from ma- terials vomited up from the sea bot- tom at a period when the terrestrial globe was as yet in the making, its crust being in process of formation° r,ro support this idea, they say that the crater of 'Vesuvius after each eruption is found covered with a white crust that is in composition exactly like sea salt! It .is estimated by geo- logists that the common salt in the ocean would make 4,500,000 cube's each one mile in size, which if spread over Canada would form a, layer one and six -tenths miles high. • I7i.t!'E1L 89th ON BABY The winter season is a hard one 'on the baby. He is more or Less confined to stuffy, badly ventilated rooms, It is so often stormy that the mother does not get him out in the fresh air as 'often as she should. He, catches colds witch rack his little system; his stomach and bowels get out of order and he becomes peevish and cross. To guard against this the mother should keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets In the house, They regulate the stom- ach and bowels and break up colds. They are sold, by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a boat from The Dr. Williams?, Medicine Co,, Brock- rills, Ont, Canada needs moue people and o:a.p - .fazl to develop her fertile lands and natural resources, and presents oppor- tunities unsu pasioe;d _ by atny eeuntry it the world. !4 nar•drs L.inli r'bnt t" ti~ati hi Cowl WHERE N " E FIRE TPA';,BOER ITALY'S INDUSTRIES RUN BY NATURAL POWER.. • ° oiling Springs and "Puffing <" Teles"in olc x �l anr!e Area Italy and its geographical neighbor which plutonic manifestations are b no means restricted to Vereuvius Stromboli and Etna—the three "burn ing .mountain's" so conspicuously as sociated with the history of the Medi terranean. Thus in Tuscany (north of Rome therd is a valley, south of..th° ancien Etruscan city of Volterra, where to a distance of thirty mules the land nape : derives picturesqueness from many boiling springs. and "puffin holes" that emit steam. Geologists say that these puffing holes go down to great depths in granite strata where exceedingly higl volcanic temlieratunes prevail. The springs of boiling water, from the same source, contain muoh boric acid and fora century past they have yield ed commercial supplies of that pro duct in such quantity that a great deal has been available for export. An Itlien engineer named Ciaschi co ceived the idea of drilling deep holes in the vicinity of the swing's, and thereby developing. new ones. It was carried out very successfully: but it cost the unfortunate man his life. He fell into one of his artificial springs and was par -boiled before he could be dragged out. Profitable Industry. The scheme was developed by his successors, and very profitably, great gnantities of the boric acid being sold to the French glass factories. It was then a much scarcer and more costly product than it is to -day. , The simple means adopted .for obtaining it was, to evaporate the water in huge caldrons,' wood providing the requisite fuel. Increasing scarcity of wood macre the proceseetoa expensive, and in 1827 a Frenchman, Comte Francois de Lar- •derel, bit upon the clever notion of using the steam from the puffing holes to furnish heat, dispensing with fuel altogether, The water required for evaporation was drawn from the springs into immense pans Of lead, be- neath which the steam was conducted, through pipes. Production thereupon jumped to more 'than•2,000 tons of bortc acid a year. The industry brought into being a_ number of. towns and villages' in a region which a few years earlier 'had been uninhabited. Among the roto important' centres of it at the -present time are the towns of Larderello, Serrazano and I,ustignano. A few years ago it occurred to the. engineers in charge of this picturesque enterprise that steam from the puffing holes might be turned - g to profitable ac- count for power purposes. Engines - were installed, and there was such disappointment when it , was found that -the mineral salts contained in the yaper.attacked';the metal or the ma- - ehinery' so injuriously that it soon re- fused. to operate. . , Take Place of Coal.' hood comprise -a volcanic area within y • 'J'a;tiy n Rate Cases .D©es' 1 ii .- ache Mean. Kidney prcitibie. Eivery museie of the body ueeils dorm- stantly a supply of rich, red blood le proportion to tho work it does, The muscles of the back are:under a heavy strain and have but little Lest. V9,,,en the blood is thin their laek';haurish- znent, and the result is a sensation' of pain in those muacles. Some people think pain in the back meads kidney trouble, but the best medical authori- ties' agree that backache seldom or never has anything to do with the•kid- neys. Organic kidnear• disease • MST - have progressed to a critical point without developing.a pain in. the back, This being the case, pain in the back should always lead the sufferer to look to the condition of his blood. It will } be found in most cases that'the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. to build ,tip ✓ the blood will'stop the sensation o'f paininthe ill -nourished muscles of the back. How much better it is to try g Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for the blood than to give way to unreasonable alarm about your kidneys. If you sus pact your kidneys, any doctor eau 1' make .tests in ten minutes that will• set your fears at rest, or tell you the. worst, But in any event to" be per- , fectly healthy ' you must keep the blood in good condition, and for this purpose no other •medicine. can equal. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. You can get these pills through any n" dealer in medicine, .er by mail at .50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from: The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Out. • Boon to Coalless Italy. This difficulty, however, was event- ually overcome by the adoption of means whereby the vapor was put, through a preliminary process of puri-' flcation, the salts being removed from it. Turbine engines were installed, and now a first-class electrical plant is supplying Volterra and other towns with current, the power being derived wholly from steam of subterranean origin. - The steam being supplied to the tur- bines' -free of cost, the electric power, Usti for Lighting and other purposes, ie very cheap. In a country where coal is so scarce and dear as it is in Italy, such a source of inexpensive energy is highly appreciated. To augment the supply of available' steam, . inan•y deep borings have been made, thus creating artificial puffing holes. Eleven average borings yield power equal to that derivable from the burning et ten tons of coal per hour. Apparently the borings do not affect the pressure at which the Steam is de- livered from the depths of the earth; and the quantity of steam, at an un- varying pressure, Is not diminished aa time goes on.• • A Roaring Game. When the term of a certain gover- nor-general of Canada expired and he was about to retire to India, the de- votees of the sport of curling made him a farewell address. According to Lorci Frederic Hamilton in his book, "Days Before Yesterday," 'tile govern- or-general—the present Lard mans- downe—made rt very happy reply,'. Speaking of the regret he felt at leaving Ottawa and tevering the ties that bound him to Canada, he remark- ed that, bearing in mind the climate of India, he,did not anticipate much curl- ing there, and that he should lilies the "roaring game." In fact, he thought that the only roaring game that he was likely to come in contact with would probably be a Bengal tiger. "Let us hope," he concluded, "that your ex -governor-general will be found pursuing the roaring game, not being pursupd by it." J•Iorees, giraffes and ostriches hove the largest eyes of land ores:tur+es, and• cuttlefish of those in the sea. Suspended Ferry Carries Traffic Across;RitTer; A novel kind of bridge for trans porting pedestrians and vehicles across a river; without interfering in any way'with the passage of full rig- ged ocean-going shipping,'is in opera- tion at the town of Newport, Eng., on the river Usk, four miles •from its junction with the Severn.. On account of the steepness of the banks, the great . rise and fall of the''tikes, the length of the span, and the height: of headway heeded, any ordinary kind of bridge was impracticable, and there-,. fore this special kind, called a "trans- porter bridge;" was erected. The stationary members of the bridge' consist of a pair of supporting towers, 242 ft. high, on each bank of the river. These carry two :trussed ' l girders, 16 ft. deep and 26 =ft sfroin• centre to' centre, across thespan ot+ 645 ft. . The total clearance., from high-water' level to the underside the span is 117 ft. ,' The i! :trussed girclersware tied toe • 'braced as in any ordinary .br. and their bottom •chord's:aalrn in each case, fta,r.:15 side of its Web. These wheel ried on stteel•brackets,s v1iich. of a large travelling '.frame, long, which forms the means' ran portating a -suspended platform-or•car- The travelling frame;,is ' Propell- ed s I?zopell- ed by..a ,continuous cable driven by 2 drum in connection with', l wo 35 hp electric motors. in thepower house near one end of the bridge. A Rhinoceros !-Corse. The beast referred.to in the Bible as 'a "unicorn" is almost undoubtedly the single;tiorned rhinoceros of Southern Asia, which, needless tosay; is a very formidable beast, , . At Calcutta there is.a Parlous Zoo, which, specializing in Asiatic animals, keeps on exhibition •a number of'rhin- os of this species. The other day a native, who had never before seen a rhinoceros, visited the Zoo and, overcome with amaze- ment was suddenly inspired with an ambition to ride the biggest one, which at the moment lay • peacefully dozing in his pen. He proceeded there- upon to climb the iron fence, despite the protests of . other persons' who sought to restrain him and who looked in• vain for a guard or keeper to pre- vent the crazy action. Once over the fence, he boldly strad- dled the huge animal,• and looked around him for admiration. But the rhinoceros, amazed and indignant, leaped up with surprising agility, threw the man off, impaled him 'with his horn, cast him thirty feet into the air and then lay down upon him. Guards, summoned to the scene, killed the beast with explosive' bullets. The man was dragged out of the pen, still breathing; but he died a few hours later, A True Hoene. .. (taasltnec Adveitise ez . ,l OR P,IANU, •FOit':»41r•X•.ks,: i ,El.t ion HAM) 'tN (O01) cond)tion, with a large atlnebee of Music lolls, for sale at a bargain, i.. O'ostelle, 73 West Aclelaitle Street, Toronto. RELTING FOR •SALE AJ.l. 1ti.1Ni)ti, 00' ri1+J\'i AND USED' belting, puileyF saws, cable,horse,pacicing, etv ;liip.pua a, ,feet to eeerovat at lowest pticos in Cainadu. 'S'ORT; t317'J.'J?l.ND Co... 11;, YORK. TORON'T'O. HELP Wdtcreo, EI ADIJ s SVA.:TJ5D—wo DO PLAIN 14 and light .sewing at home, whole or spare time; good pay; work sent any distance; charges paid, Send stamp for particulars. National Manufacturing Co., Montreal, The Average Man. When it comes to a question of trust: ing Yourself to the risks of the road, When the thing is the sharing of bur dens, • The lifting the heft of a load, In the hour of peril or trial, In the hour you meet as you can, You niay safely depend on the wisdom And skill of the average moan. 'Tis the average man and no other Who does his plain duty each day. The small thing bis wage is for doing, On the commonplace bit of the way. 'Tis the average man, may God bless hila, Who pilots us, still in the van, - Over land, over sea, as we travel— Just the 'plain, hardy, average man. So on through the days of existence, • All mingling in shadow and.shine, We may count en the every-day'hero, Whom 'Haply the gods may divine. _ But who.wears the swarth grime of his calling, ` And labors and earns as he can, Anti stands at the last with the noblest— The commonplace, average man. • Energy Required in Sewing by Hand -and, With Machines. Thatthere is a great difference in the expenditure of energy required with different ways ofserving; was deinon- strated recently by'scientists. Little variation was found 'in band hemming ori fine Handkerchiefs, cotton sheets, &oz.'•cotton 'luck, or •army'•• blankets, but when the speed of, sewing was in- creased, the expenditure of energy increased in proportion. Hemming sheets en a foot -driven machine, which was disc cvered ..to be about sixti'inas Tas fast ,as doing the same work by Zn d,'required six :times as much en- " r; Birt en- the- energy, per yard of ;sew- evas hardly one half :as great. electrically 'dri1,eii n2aehine ad the energy required.,per tis not -quite twice 'that usecTter. . `erorrina*; a` about one-fourth of i; i -t t riii'l+%en`:machine'. ,•_ a,.ta ,has' moat extensive `fishing 5,000 miles on the Atlantic,ries :csa the Pacific and 220,000 miles -fresh water. The pokbffice pensione and labor iizmis-W'de'liertments in'Grea't Brittain cmplo'y 8,000 women. o .-'Sore 'throat, Cold in the Chest, Etc. BITS, FROM UK ME A Soft Answer, New office boy: A Juan called here tathrash you a few minutes ago. Editor' :What did you; say to him ? Nevi:'office boy: I told him I was sorry you weren't in. Praiser s"What do you think?". said a little boy to his mother; "my teacher has been praising me to -day!' '"Wbat did he say to you, Charlie?" "Well, he said nothing to me, but he said to the next boy: `You're the most good-for-nothing boy in the class —even Charlie behaves better than you • A Scottish Mother. "Now tell me," said the inspector, "who was the mother of our great Scottish hero, Robert Bruce?" He pointed to the top boy and then • around the class. There was no ans- wer. Then at last the heart of the teacher leaped with joy. The boy who was standing at the very foot had held up his hand. • "Well, my boy," said the inspector encouragingly, "who was she?" "Please, sir; Mrs. Bruce." 'Amity Beatrice. Dolly was telling the next door little girl all aibout it. "My sister Beatrice is awfully lucky." • "Why?" . "She went to a party last night where they played a game in which the men either had to kiss a girl -or pay a forfeit of a box of chocolates." "Well, how was Beatrice lucky-?" "She came home with thirteen boxes of chocolates." The more you leave things to chance, the less ehance there is for you. DANDERINE 'Stops Hair 'Coming Thickens, Beautifies. A' WOrdAN ADVISES MOTHERS SAYS HER TWO DA4JGI4 TERS NOW PICTURES OF HEALTH. Feels It Duty to Tell Others How Tema a Brought Happi- ness to Her Home. "My two daughters have been so wonderfully built up and made so strong and healthy by taking Tanlaq I just feel it ie my duty to let atbet. mothers, know about my experiealee," said Mrs. Arthur: Sellmany 134 Fere guson Ave,, North Hamilton, Ont. "My oldest daughter, Amy, was in a rundown oondition for three ,eons: She had a very poor appetite and what little she diid eat seenied to do :her more harm than good. ' She was pale, weak and easily tired. Three bottiee of-Taniac made her•weli and strong. Her appetite returned, her sleep became restful and her cheeks got rosy. In faet, she is the very pic- ture of health. "My daughter Ida's case was almost identical, except her condition wasn't quite as serious. Just two .bottles put her in the best of health. Every time I look at my girls now and see them enjoying such splendid health, I real- ize ealize what a blessing Tanlao has been to our hoarse, and I feel it my duty to talk out and let people know about this grand medicine." Taniac is sold by leading druggists everywhere. -- Adv. In the. Bible the word "girl" oecura but once. If Headachy, Bilious or Stomach is Bad, Take "Cascarets" Get a 10 -cent box now. Furred Tongue, Bad Colds, Ind'gese tion, Sallo* Skin and miserable Head- aches come from a torpid liver and clogged Bowels;,, which cause your stomach to became filled with undi- gested food, which sours and ferments like garbage in a barrel. That's the Out • first step to untold misery—indiges- tion, foul gases, bad breath, yellow skin, everything that is sickening. A. Cascaret to -night will give your con- stipated bowels a thorough cleansing and straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep. Millions of men and women take a Cascaret now' and then to keep their stomach, liver and bowels regulated, and never know a miserable moment. Don't for- get the children—their little insides need, a good, gentle cleansing, toe. ' 35 -cents buys a bottle of "Danderine at ally drug store. After one applica- tion you can not find a particle of dandruff or a failing hair. Besides, every hair, shows new life, vigor, brightness,,more color and abundance.'• Atnerica'a Pioneer Dog Itemtedtee • Book on. DOG DISEASES and' Ilow to Feed Mailed Free to any Ad- dress by the Author, S, Clay Glover Co., Ina. 118 `Vest 31st Street New York, U.S.A. YARMOUTH, N. S. Mother! open • Child's • Bowe1S With California Fig Syrup Your little one will love the "fruity" taste of "California Fig Syrup" even if constipated, bilious, irritable, feverish, or full of cold. A teaspoonful rover fails,to cleanse the liver and bowels. In a few hours you can see far your- self grow thoroughly it works all the sour bile, and undigested food out. of the bowels and you have a, well, play- ful child again. , Millions of mothers keep,"California Fig Syrup" handy. They ltnow a tea- spoonful to -day .saves. a sick child to- morrow. Ask, your druggist for genu- ine "California Fig Syrup'% which has diretitiotes for, babies and children of all eget printed on bottle.:: Mother! You must say "California" or you may get an invitation ;rig syrup. May blessings be upon your house -'•" Your roof andhearth and walls' OA%S May there be lights to evelcoane you i TO When evening's shadow 'falls! The love that like a guiding *Star Still ,Signals while you roam; A book, a friend—these he the things LITTLE, aches grow into big pains 11 WARD OFF PAIN , That make a• house a home. —M12yrtle neon. .b . MONEY ORDERS. It is always•safe•to send a Dominion Elrpress.'Money, Ortlee. Frve dollars costs three cents: Canada hays the only two coal re- gion's on the seacoast of North Am- erica, and centrols one-fifth of the world's coal resources, unless warded off by an an applica- tion of Sloan's. Rhe.unlatisnl, neuralgia, stiff joints, lame back won't {fight long against Sloan's Liniment. Fgt. more than forty years Sloan's Lin Gent has 'helped thousands, the tvorld.over. You won't be an exoep- lion. It Certainly does produce results. t peizetrates without rubbing. Keep this old family friend always handy tor instant use. Ask your neighbor. At all druggists -35c, 70c, V.1.40. Mode In denuda "Know thy work and do it," says Carlyle, "and work at it like a TI'cr- cules. One monster ilnrere is in the watch an, Ydle iiia t " Minard!s 'Liniment "tor Distemper, Litunteni Px5. erten!): % ISSUE No, 62-e-'21. • • COARSE, SALT LAN D'SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. CLiFF - TORONTO • FACE DiSF311RED Willi PIMPLES ItcliedacdBurned. Scarce- ly dept, Cutieura Heals. "Pimples affected my face. They were large and always festered, and they were scattered cif over my face. They ai:erwards turned into peaks and when they fall o.f, they left b.1,1 marks until r;; face was disfigured. They itched -and btirned so that I s ly Gicpt at all. "I had been but.' cd kr'ncar y two months b ,c I ctarted u ing Cuticurt, and after 1 ` z.1 i:ac d tares bones of Cutieura Ointment with the Ct:daura Soap 1 t •as corn7letely healed." (Signed) Laos I.. Lurns. St. 13azile, Que., June 6, Mil. Vee Cutieura Ocap, Ointment and Talcum for all toilet purposes. Soap 25e, Ointment 25 and EOc. Sold' throughout theDominion. CanadinnDepot: Lytnens, Limited, St. Paul St., Montreal. S3_t.� � "Cutlettr a So ip chavei without =um. Never say "Aspirin" without saying "Bayer." WARNING! Unless you see name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting Aspirin at all. Whtake chances? Accept only an "unbroken package" of "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," which contains directions and dose worked out by. physicians during 21 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Toothache Earache Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism Neuritis Pain, Pain ITainiy tan boxes of 12 tablets --Bottles of 24 and 100 --All Druggists, At+lslrin Is the trade mark.'(registered In Cnno.tna) of Mayor Manufacture of 1dio te- acelleaekloster of "Salloylicartd, tivblln It Is well known that Aspirin moans Bayer 7rnanular.turo, to assist the l,u„I;t: against imitate:as,tl.o Tabiatt of "layer ComppnX '1111"be stamped wtt.h their general trade mark, the "Soyer Croaat"'