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Zurich Herald, 1916-03-17, Page 2ACROSS T H BORDER1RHEUMATISM A MYSTERY WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN THE STATES. c`st Happenings in Rig Republic Condens;'d for Buy Readers. Abraham G. Heyman, a New. York nnanufacturer, was run over and kill- ed by an automobile. Horse medicine, with the inscrip- tion "Good .for man and beast" on the bottle, was tried by a Rhode Is land man, whose funeral will be from the house. A Dakota farmer jumped from a second -storey window and walked a Mile in 20 below zero' weather, wear- ing only a nightshirt, without waking up, tfncle Sam's big Sandy Hook guns inay close Corry Island schools, as tests have so cracsed the ceilings that parents fear for children. "Arsenic rash," a fashionable dis- ease of West Virginia women who tvoac neck furs, is due to the use of arsenic in preparing the furs. A one -legged athlete has made won- derful records in basketball, baseball and tennis at Butler College, Indiana- polis. In San Francisco three Bohn broth- ers. have married three Gregson sis- ters. American brewers are taking eteps to promote temperance and discour- age prohibition by introducing into America the charm and sobriety of English inns. A Baltimore pian escaped from the Hanover, Pa., jail, taking the lock end key with him. David R. Francis, former Governor of Missouri, has accepted the post of ambn „actor to Russia. The refusal of the Susquehanna Coal Co. to reinstate a German has caused a strike of 1,200 miters at 3 ykens, .Pa. The board of aldermen of St. Louis, Mo., has passed a bill reducing the water rate to manufacturers to six eente, per 1,000 gallons. The daughter of Captain J. I. Housman, a wealthy Staten Island, N. V., oysterman, 77, halted his wed- ding with a nurse, aged 87. William H. Follette, of Tonawanda, N. Y., owner of the largest fleet of canal boats in the State is dead. Mahlon D. Thatcher, Pueblo, Col., banker, is dead. His estate is esti- mated to be worth from $10,000,000 to $20;000,000. The will of Charles Reed, a bar- ber, filed in Cincinnati for probate, --..lisnoses,„qf.a $500,000 estate. Reed saved the moneyatom his wages, and taps and made wise irxvestments*n Maple sugar Canis.. r »ing furl time at Petersburg, Ind., are seri- ously troubled by honey bees which have been called out of their hives by the mild spring weather. Frederick Stalforth, a young Ger- man hanker, was committed to the Tomb, pvi' on i:n New York for re- fusiu g to answer questions put to him by the special Federal Grand Jury which ie investigating the acti- vities in the United States of Capt. Rintelen, friend of the Kaiser. ,4 WHERE TOMMY SCORES. Comparison Between British and Ger- man Soldiers. An interesting comparison of the British and the German soldier is name by Bishop Mercier in an article in the "Nineteenth Century": -- Of the British he says: He has a human, hsafthy, elastic mind, irre- preeelt,!y gay, which can rise above the toile mei perils that surround him, and can keep its balance spite of all tbni might drag him into despair I UllieSS Rooted Out of the System it Grows \Vorse and Worse, Some diseases drive immunity from another attack, but rheumatism works just the other way. Every attack of ! rheumatism invites another. Worse 'than that it reduces the body's; power I so that each attack is worse than the lone before. If any disease needs cur- { ing early it is rheumatism, but there are few diseases physicians find more difficult to treat successfully. Wet weather does not cause rheumatism as was once thought, though weather con- ditions may start the aches and pains. Rheumatism is now known to be de-. • pendent upon the blood condition and medical authorities agree that the blood becomes thin with alarming rapi- dity as rheumatism develops. Maiii- taining the quality of the bleed is, therefore, a reasonable way of pre- venting and curing rheumatism. That it works out in fact is shown by the beneficial results which follow a fair use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. These pills actually make new, rich blood which drives out the rheumatic poison, and while the blood is kept in this condition there is no danger of the trouble returning. Mr. W. T. Pell, Palermo, Ont., says:"I was attacked with a trouble which was ultimately pronounced rheumatism. Often I was barely able to crawl into bed, and sel- dom able to do. a full day's work. In this condition I doctored for a year, absolutely getting no better. Thou I Consulted another doctor whose chief • consolation was that unless I could get rid of the trouble I would be a cripple for life. He prescribed diet- ing, and I doctored with him for at least six months, but instead of get- ting relief I became weaker and less able to get around. Then I decided to try a doctor in Toronto, and was under his treatment for about four months with no better results. I gave up the doctors and tried other reme- dies which were equally futile`. Then one day our store keeper sent one a box of Dr. Williams Pink Pills, saying,. that if they did not help me I need ,not pay for them. I took them and then got some more and found they were helping me. I probably used $10.00 worth before I felt fully cured, but they did eure me and were cheap as *pared with the other treatments b ci whl id-rfot help' me.- The cure was made several years ago, and I have not had a twinge of rheumatism since. To -day I am well and strong and I be - I lieve I owe it all to Dr. Williams Pink Pills " . i You can get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for i $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. DEMANDS ON RAILWAY'S. or goad hien into savagery. The typical German, he observes, aims at. being in all things pre-emin- ently serious, rational and scientific. , IIe willingly put: himself into subjec- tion toendives rulcsand rdg . uiwtion a S His very patriotism is manufactur- 1 ea acccrdn g to received formula and coreeelou,ly 'evaded. How can such a} man enjoy real freedom of mind or slurie, or s ontaneouely relax to in dulge in a lighter vein? To allow' himself s...11 license, even where he is it:c1in ti to it, would eedangrr his ideal We Deed not be careful, Bishop Nervier eroceeds, to do homage to our foe on the? ; core of his conviction that unbroken 'criousness befits the busi- ns s of war. On the contrary, I be- lieve it to be the main cause of his in- humanity, the prolific source of his cruelties and barbarisms. His dark, brooding intensity finds no relief and fec ds upon itself, And his loss is no less palpable in times of peace, For a nation which lacks a faculty for laughing lightly, irresponsibility and irrepressibly when occasion prese:,ts itself, misses much of tine -fullness of which human life is capable, and narrows the range of his intellectual as well as of its etno- tionol netivities. Sure Thing. "Money doesn't bring happiness." "Maybe not. . tut it will help . you greatly in going after it." Some men no sooner get a job than they boju to kick for a day off. What the Railway Train Employes ] Are Asking. The demands being made by or- ganizations of railway train service employes on western railways for a 25 per cent. increase in wages, a de- mand which affects Canadian as well as United States railways, would mean the disbursement of no less than $100,000,000 a year. In order to ac- quaint the public with some of the facts of the case the executive com- mittee of the Association of Western Railways has issued the following in- teresting statement: Mr. Farmer, once upon a tinge --like the railways—you paid your employes a fixed monthly wage. They worked till their work was done, no matter how many hours. Your farm hand followed a plow be- hind a yoke of oxen, perhaps from sun up till sun down, then did his "chores” and was contented. Suppose that when you invested mare of your capital in a good team of horses, to replace the oxen, your em- l ploye had said: "These horses turn more furrows in a day than the oxen and hereafter I want to be paid by the furrow, or the distance the plow travels, but in case anything stops the plow you must pay me for a full day if I work 10 hours or less—if that plan would give more_money than the plow mileage amounts to. Suppose that when you invested more money in a wheel plow on which your employe could ride at ease instead of being required to walk in a heavy furrow and wrestle with a heavy plow, he said: "Here- after I want you to pay me for a full day if I work 8 hours or less, with tiime-and-a-half pay for over time, either on a time or distance basis, which ever will give me the most money." Suppose, further, Mr. Farmer, that from 1904 to 1914 you had increased the wages of your farm hand from $902.09 a year to $14253.87 a year, would you feel like granting his last demand for tidre wages for doing ex - aetly the :same work in the sante hours That is .precisely the question that the railway managers; of this country are now celled on to answer, The;men employed in railway train service are asking a 25 per cent. increase in pay for exactly the work they have been doing, and under the same conditions, except as to pay. As with the farm hand, the working conditions of rail- way train service men have been con- stantly improved at the expense of the employers. Government statistics prove that the hazard of their occu- pation has steadily decreased; This is the result of millions spent by the railroads for better ioadbeds, heavier rails, double tracks, block signals, automatic couplers, air brakes, mech- anical stokers, oil burning engines and many other safety and labor-sav- ing devices, for which the employes made no investment and assumed no financial risk. The men who are now asking for 25 per cent. higher pay are and always have been the best paid of all railway employes, Their wages range from $800 a year for inexperienced brake- men to nearly $4,000 a year for en- gineers on the hest runs. The aver- age wages of the 300,000 'employes who are demanding an increase are: 21,253.37 a year, an increase of 40. per cont. since 1904. The 1,400,000 other railway employes average $684.48, an increase of 45.2 per cent, since 1904. These are the facts, Mr. Farmer. Will you think them over and -den say if you think the railway train service employes are justified • in threatening the prosperity of every in- dustry in this country, of even the very existence of individuals depend- ent for food supply on uninterrupted railroad service? WAR COMPENSATIONS. Philosopher Discusses the After -Ef- fects of Strife. Forget for a moment, hard thOi h it is, all the horrors of war wrdows. orphaned children, maimed men, ''the sad gaps in so many home circles; a devastated countryside, and the like —and consider what is the effect of war on a nation, as a whole. It is evident, and past experience is the proof, that a nation is not the same after it has passed through the awful furnace of war. All ancient empires have, aftee ac- quiring their possessions by war, lived and prospered so long as they still warred. There is a national stamina, a pride, hardness, a virility, a some- thing that it is hard to name cox- rectly, which dominates P. 't'nt' which it repeatedly baptised in blood and fire. And, judging from history, empires which, after much fighting, rest in peace on their laurels and their possessions, inevitably collapse. Britain, with its long war of his- tory, has avoided the fate of other empires, inasmuch as just when the critical peace period began to length- en to the danger point, war again came. To read a summary of our history for the last 250 years, from the Dutch War of 1665 onwards, is to read, with short peace intervals, of a nation at war. Ilas war supplied something to { our Empire which after dissolved something. . pires lacked. It may bring a rush fo caustic criticism; but it is a fact that war seems to prevent national decadence. The cost is tremendous; w Records Crec leu . n Leffoar .,, ROGRESSIVE business met ds, backed by forty- five orty-five years of fair -dealing, have achieved for the Sur of Canada during 1915 records that are nevi in t.ze Canadian life assurance field. Assurances of over $34,000,000 issued and paid for in cast; Total Assurances in Force of over $250,000,000; Total Payments toPolicy- holders since organization of more than $52,600,000 ; Assets .in excess of $74,000,000 ; a Cash Inzonte of nearly $16,000,000 o ud Gln Undistributed Net Surplus of over $7,500,000—all are high-water marks in the annals of Canadian life assurance, Their achievement .maintains the established prestige of the Sun Life of Canada as A seeder Among the Life companies Of the Empire The following substantial and unifform increases registered during the past year clearly demonstrate the strength of the Company's position s— Assets as at December 31st. Cash Income Surplus Distributed to Policyholders Net Surplus as at December 31st. Total Payments to Policyholders Assurances Issued and Paid for in Cash Assurances in Force . . 1915 1914 INCREASE $ 74,326,423 $64,187,656 $10,1383,767 (15.87'c) 15,972,672 15,052,275 920,397 ( 6.151) 985,487 861,763 123,724 (14.: ;"o) 7,545,591 6,503, 794 1,0 41,797 (16 `o ) 7,129,479 6,101,287 908,192 (1ti.7(A) 34,873,851 32,167,389 2,706,512.3.4!7 ) 257,404,160 218,299,835 39,104,325 (17.9;; ) THE COMPANY'S GROWTH YEAR INCOME ASSETS LIFE ASSU12ds.NCl 1N FORCE 1572 1535 1895 . . . 1905 7915 $ 43,210.73 819,0 7.05 1,,..:3,031.09 ;,717 492. 2.3 18,972,672.31 $ 2041.95 1,11J,0 393 5,203,770.53 21,:309,381.82 74,326,423.78 $ iglixo.en "7,9298, i 31,7.3,8104:5 95,230,E01.71 '257,404,160,42 T. B. MACAUJLAY, F. I. A., F. A. S., PRRSIDEE:`..:\'u BIADDLGIXO DIRECTOR. S. H. EWING, W LCL;-PRESIDEti T. C©i FREDERICK G. COPE aac1tETAR i. CVAITRAIRECM Del 1371 HEAD OFFICE'. MONTREAL 1916 E+� NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS °i MAIL JOHN 'EI - Its. BULL AND HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences In the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Coni. menial World. Galashiels School Board are consid- ering the advisability of closing the old town school. The Admiralty have intimated that hearing fishing cannot be permitted on the Forth as it was last year. Nairnshire Farming Society has de- cided that there will be no seed show or public dinner this spring. Dr. McNamara has stated that as far as the Admiralty were concerned the sacrifices great; but the fact re- the construction of a canal from the mains. Something, nationally, is-' Forth to the Clyde was not contem- gained from war. plated. Peace brings prosperity, and pros- A class for the study of the Rus- perity means wealth. 'Wealth means ! shin language has been started dur- I luxuries, easy living, a rush of viee,' ing the present winter at Edinburgh 1 and the exit of virtue. These al- ] University, and also at Leith Tech - {ways are the heralds of a nation's' meal College. decadence, and an empire's dissolit- The Executive Council of the ] tion. Highland Association at a meeting n. Loo. at France. Before the trnb- in Edinburgh, have agreed to peti- t ulations of the Franco-German War, tion the treasury for the grant for the what was her state. Outwardly pros- teaching of Gaelic in schools. ' perous, but -inwardly rotten. She The death is announced of Mr. Ilost lives, treasure, provinces; but the Robert Sim, formerly postmaster at effect the v<t • has efl c ofwar been that Lossiemouth, at the age of 73 years. France is rejuvenated, and is vastly The family of Sim have carried on i different from the France of 1870. She the work of the postoffice for 90 is sound, strong and has taken to her-' years. self new life, because she has been A young man named William Man - purged by war. pion was sentenced at Glasgow Sher- R.ussia was a barbaric Empire at riff Court to one month's imprison- the time of the Crimea. That war ment with hard labor for making a stirred Russia, and the Japanese War statement likely to prejudice re - woke her up completely. She has eruiti made vast strides since then. And now it would seen that, under the stress of the present war, Russia's curse, .drunkenness, is to be banished. While the inmates of "Morningside Lunatic Asylum, Edinburgh, one of the largest in Scotland, were asleep, Thegain in Germanywill be some- fire broke out in the female section. All the inmates were rescued with thing that only a German can appre- difficulty. crate. The German citizen and the A portion of Lochinch Castle, the German peasant will be entitled to a Wigtownshire seat of Major the Earl place on the pavement! Militarism, of Stair, who is at present a prisoner of war in Germany, has been con- verted into a home 'for convalescent soldiers. There is a proposal in Edinburgh to provide facilities for the housing and training in u•a,rul occupations of Scottish soldiers who have had the misfortune to lose their sight in the .war. Lord Inverclyde, presiding at the annual meeting of the Glasgow Ship- owners' Association, declared that shipowners had done all in their power to assist the Government at the, present time. At a conference of the Scottish Football Association and the Scot- tish Football League held hi Glas- gow, it was decided to expel from football any player or official who bets on the result of matches. Mr Alexander Yule aged /3 and with its arrogance and tyranny, is the load on every German's back. Ger- many defeated will, al, any rate, mean Germany free! War is not all loss.— London Answers. Time sooner or later vanquishes love; friendship alone subdues time. Some people always have to get someone else to help them keep a secret, Some leen keep themselves poor by trying to beat other men at their own games. Any woman may drive her husband to drink, but she can not make him take water. • Mrs. Gardiner, aged 71, residing in Perth, were married recently. • This is the third time the lady has been married and Mr. Yule was a widower. About half a century ago .the couple were sweethearts. The honorary treasurer of the In- corporated Corn Trade Association of Leith, has handed to the Lord Pro- vost of Edinburgh a cheque for $2,500, the amount subscribed by the corn trade towards the funds of the Scottish Red Cross Society. DRINKS MOST COFFEE. Of 21/2 Billion Pounds Annually Con- { sumed Holland Comes Forst. The people of the world annually consume more than 2 1-2 billion pounds of coffe. Three-fourths of this is grown in Brazil, a country Ithat has become rich from its coffee industry alone. Europe and North America bear approximately the sante relation to the consumption of cof- fee that Brazil does to its produc- t tion, these two continents using near- ly four-fifths of all the coffee the world produces. Holland is the greatest coffee. ' drinking nation on the globe. It uses fifteen and one-eighth pounds per capita annually, while the Unites' tates uses nine and a half pounds; Germany, five and one-eighth pounds; Austra-Hungary, two and two-fifths pounds, and the United Kingdom, two-thirds of a pound. On the other • hand, the 'United States uses less than one pound of tea per 'capita, where the United Kingdom' uses nearly seven pounds. Canada is about two thirds English and one- third American in its use of coffee anti tea; it shows a decided prefer- ence for tea, but drinks less of it than the mother country, making up the difference with coffee. The Ger- mans and the Austrians use only a negligible quantity of tea. If you want to peel oranges, pour boiling water over them and let them stand for five minutes. • They will peel easily and all the bitter white skin will court off with the rind. Breaded veal is delicious treated in the following way: Dredge with flour, dip it in egg and bread crumbs, brown it in hot fat, then' cover with milk and cook in a very slow oven until tender. There is no dish more convenient to have for dinner on wash day th=in baked beans. 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