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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-03-17, Page 4CROSiilE BIDER R-HEIATISM A MYSTERY WHAT ItS GOING ON OVER IN T U E STATES. Altai Happenings fix Rig Republic Condensed for Riley Readers. Abraham G. Heyman, a New. York m anufacturer, was run over and kill- ed by an automobile. Worse medicine, with the inscrip- tion "Good for man and beast" on the bottle, was tried by a Rhode Ib • land man, whose funeral will be from the house. A Dakotas fanner janxped froiu a second -storey window and walked a axile in 20 below zero weather, wear- ing only a nightshirt, without waking uptrade Sam's big Sandy IIook guns ui;ay close Coney Island schools, as tests have so cracxed the ceilings that parents fear for children. "Arsenic rash," a fashionable dis- ease of West Virginia women who wear 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 ied three Gregson sis- ters. American brewers are taking steps to promote temperance and discour- age prohibition by introducing into America the charm and sobriety of binuriish inns. A Baltimore man 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 ainbnseador to Russia. The refusal of the Susquehanna Coal Co. to reinstate a German has caueed e. strike of 1,200 miners at 1 ykens, Pa. The board of aldermen of St. Louis, Mo., has passed a bill reducing the water rate to manufacturers to six emits per 1,000 gallons. The daughter of Captain 3. I. Housman, a wealthy Staten Island, N. Y., oysterman, '77, halted his wed- dieg; with a nurse, aged 37. Zy iliianxlt H. Follette, of Tonawanda, N. Y., owner of the largest fleet of canal boats in the State is dead. Mahlon 1). Thatcher, Pueblo, Col., banker, is dead. His estate is esti- nutted to be worth from $10,000,000 to $+20,000,(;00. The will of Charles Reed, a bar- ber, filed in Cincinnati for probate, chooses„ •c).£ a $500, es ate. ee saved the itaneey trona his wages and tips and made wise ixvestmentd't • Maple sugar caniAa-running full time at Petersburg, Ind., are seri- ously troubled by honey bees which Unless Rooted Out of the System it Grows Worse and 't1r e, Some diseases give 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 so that each attack is worse than the one before. If any disease needs eur- 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 I blood becomes thin with alarming rapi- dity as rheumatism develops. Main taining the quality of the blood 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 - hi this condition there is no clanger of the trouble returning. Ifr. W. T. Pell, Palermo, Ont., says:—"I was attacked with n 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. Then I Consulted another doctor whose chief consolation was that unless I could icd o • 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 me a box of Dr. Williams Pink Pills, saying, that if they did not help me I need not pay for then. 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 cure axe and were cheap as eau -Tared with the other treattnents whiff h did --not help me'. The cure was made several years ago, and I have not had a twinge of rheumatism since. have been called put of their hivesTo-clay I am well and strong and I be their possessions, inevitably collapse. actly the• :lame hours? That is ..precisely the question that the railway managers of this canary are now called on to answer. Tho,ni,eai, employed in railway train service are asking a 25 per cent increase in pay for exactly the work they have Leen doing, and under the same'conditions, except as to pay. As with tho'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 oecu- pation has steadily decreased, This is the result of millions spent by the railroads for better roadbeds, heavier rails, double tracks, block Signals, automatic couplers, air brakes, Mech- anieal stokers, oil burning engines and many other safety and labor -say- 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 best runs. The aver- age wages of the 300,000 employes who are demanding an increase are: $1.,253.37 a year, an increase of, 40 per cent. since 1904. The 1,400,000 other •railway employes average $684.78, an increase' of 25.2 per cent. since 1904. These are the facts, Mr. Farther. Will you think them over and, then 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- feels of Strife. I Forget for a moment, hard tho h ,it is, all the horrors of war wxdtxs, 'orphaned children, maimed men, +'.:'the 'sad gaps in so ninny 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 sante after it has passed through the awful furnace of war. All ancient empires have, after, ac- ^--- quiring their possessions by war, lived and , Yui' warred. prospered s Thee is a national stag as niinastil, � d �o9 Elim a pride, hardness, a virility, a some- thing that it is hard to name core rectiy, which dominates A. Iran• which is repeatedly baptised in blood and fire. And, judging• from history, empires which, after much fighting, rest in peace on their laurels and work in the sane ,r: «r' , e c o.Nl ci Create The Sun .' I C is f a a,,A OGRESSWWE business methods, ds, backed by fatty;.'. five years of fast-dealhr1g, have: achieved for the ,Suis LVe of Canada during 1915 records that are nevi in 9:.0 Canadian life assurance field. Assurances of over $34,000,000 issued and paid for in cash; Tot'1 Assurances in Force of over $250,000,000; Total Payments to Poi cy- hoiders since organization of more than $52,600,000 ; Assets •in excess of $74,003,000 ; a Cash lricoine of nearly $16,000,006 and an Undistributed Net Surplus of over $7,500,000 --all are high-water marks in the annals of Canadian life assurance. Their achievement .Lrnaintains the established prestige of the Sun Life of Canada as A Leader Among' the Life companies of the Empire The following substantial and uniform increases registered during the past year clearly demonstrate the strength of the Company's position— 1915 1914 INCREASE Assets as at December 31st. - $ 74,3'165,423 $64,187,056 $10,911350,:377629747 (;(115:51.:83i))) Cash Income - - 15,972,672 15,0552,275 Surplus Distributed to F olicyholders 935,487 501,763 Net Surplus as at December 31st. 7,545,591 6,503,794 1,041, 797 (1 v" ,n ) Total Payments to Policyholders 7,129,479 6,1(11,287 908,19? (15.75-•) Assurances Issued and Paid for in Cash 34,873,351 39,167,338 2,705,512 3.4 S'f ) Assurances in Force . . . . 257,404,160 218,299,835 39,104,325 (17.91i ) THE COMPANY'S GROWTH YEAR INCOME ASSETS 1S72, 109) 1905 1915 43,210.72 110,0 743 1,t -3,U3.1.09 6,717,49'1.23 15,972,672.31 $ 00,151.95 1,311,0:3.333 5,;3133,7 70.63 21,309,554.82 74.326,423.75 T. B. MACAULAY, F. 1. A., F. A. S., S. H. EWING, PRESIDENT L BIANAaIxG DIRECTOR. VICa-PRESIUENr. LIFE ASSURANCE IN s•ORCE ,$ 1,(1%,2.7.1('S 7,1)39,878., 7 33,7,71,830.:,5 95,2O,tat 71 '257,404.1-60,42 FREDERICK G. COPE SECRETARY. COMPIL77 1371 HEAD O FIC3� MONTREAL 1916 by the mild spring weather. .lieve I owe it all to Dr. Williams Pink Britain, with its long war of his- PiAs." F redorick Stalforth, a young Ger- man bunker, was committed to the Tonle Firvon in New York for re-; fusing to answer questions put to him by the special Federal Grand Jury which is investigating the acti- vities in the United States of Capt. Rixrtelen, friend of the Kaiser. WHERE TOMMY SCORES. Comparison Between British and Ger- man Soldiers. An intere.tin; comparison of the British and the German soldier is mail' by Bishop Mercier in an article in the "Nineteenth Century":— Of the. British he says: He has al hiunan, healthy, elastic mind, irre- 1 pr° 'ib!y gay, tthie'h can rise above the tone fatal perils that surround him, anti can keep its balance spite of all that might drag him into despair oi• goad liini into savagery. The typical German, he observes, aims at being in all things pre-emin- ently serious, rational and scientific. Ile willingly puts himself into subjec- tion to endives rules and regulations. Itis very patriotism is manufactur- ed accordieg to received formulm and conseicttel7 paraded. How can such a roan tatjoy real freedom of mind or spirits or enentancously relax to in- dulge in a lighter vein? To allow himself teeth license, even where he is is.eln':,.d to it, would endanger his ideal. S e rued not be careful, Bishop Mercier proceeds, to do homage to our foe on the score of his conviction that unbroken seriousness befits the busi- • nesse 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 feuds 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 proseats itself, misses much of the fullness of which human life is capable, and narrows the range of his lnteliectuel as well as of its erne-, tion:il activities, You can get •these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six bones for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. DEMANDS ON RAILWAYS. What the Railway Train Employes Are Asking. I The demands being made by or- ganizations of railway employes 011 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 Iess than $100,000,000 a year. In order to ac- quaint the public with some of the faets of the ease the executive com- mittee of the Association of Western Railways has issued the following in- teresting statement: Mr. Farmer, once upon a time—like 1 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 more of your capital in a good team of horses, to replace the oxen, your em- 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 fess, with time -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 1004 to 1914 you had increased the wages of your farm hand from $902.09 a year to $1,253.87 a year, would you feel. like granting his last 'demand for more wages for doing ex- Sure Thing. "1V1oney 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 began to Mick for a day off. - ice 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 a war. Has war• supplied something, to our Empire •which after dissolved em' 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; the sacrifices great; but the fact re- tains. Something, nationally, gained from war. Peace brings prosperity, and pros- perity means wealth. Wealth means luxuries, easy living, a rush of vice, and the exit of virtue. These al- ways are the heralds of a nation's. decadence, and an empire's dissolu- tion. Look at France. Before the trib- ulations of the Franco-German War, what was her state. Outwardly pros- perous, but -inwardly rotten. She - lost live,, treasure, provinces; but the effect of the war has been that France is rejuvenated, and is vastly different from the France of 1870. Shen is sound, strong and has taken to her- self new life, because she has bee purged by war. Russia was a barbaric Empire at the time of the Crimea. That war stirred Russia, and the Japanese War woke her up completely. She has made vast strides since then. And now it would seem that, under the stress of the present war, Russia's eurse, drunkenness, is to be banished. The gain in Germany will be some- thing that only a German can appre- ciate, The German citizen and the German peasant will be entitled to a place on the pavement! Militarism, with its arrogance and tyranny, is the load on every German's back. Ger- many defeated will, at any rate, mean Germany free! War is not all loss.— London Answers, Time sootier or later vanquishes love; :friendship alone subdues time. J'�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. NEWS ETETMAILMAIL1tI3llti'T MO About half a century ago the couple were sweethearts. BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. The honorary treasurer of the In- corporatIn- corporatedCorn 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. _____ .1' _ • • (recurrences In the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com. tri ere ial Wort d. Galashiels School Board are consid- ering the advisability of closing the old town school. The Admiralty have intimated that herring fishing cannot be permitted onthe Forth as it was last year. 1 Nairnshire Farming Society has de-' 'sided that there will be no seed show or public dinner this spring. 1 Dr. McNamara has stated that as far as the Admiralty wore concerned the •construction of a canal from the Forth to the Clyde was not contem- plated. A class for the study of the Rus- sian language has been started dur- ing the present winter at Edinburgh University, and also at Leith Tecl1•: meal College. The Executive Council of the Highland Association at a meeting , in Edinburgh, have agreed to peti- I tion the treasury for the grant for the teaching of Gaelic in schools. The death is announced of Mr. Robert Sins, formerly postmaster nt Lossiemouth, at the age of 73 years. The family of Sim have carried on the work of the postoflico for 90 ' years. A young man named William Man- nion was sentenced at Glasgow Sher - riff Court to one month's imprison- ment with hard labor for making a statement likely to prejudice re- cruiting. While the inmates of 'Morningside Lunatic Asylum, Edinburgh, one of the largest in Scotland, were asleep, fire broke out in the female section. All the inmates were rescued with difficulty. A portion of Lochinch Castle, the Wigtownshire seat of Major the Earl of Stair, who is at present a prisoner of war in Germany, Inas been con- verted into a home for convalescent to provide facilities soldiers. There is a proposal in Edinburgh for the housing and training in useful occupation 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 conferel).ce of the Scottish Football Association and the Scot- tish Football League held in Glas- gow, it was decided to expel from football any player or official who bets on the result of 'matches. Mr; Alexander Yule, aged 73, and Some people always have to get someone else to help them keep a secret. Some mein keep themselves poor by trying to beat other men a their own games. Any woman may drive her husband to drink, but she can not make :him take water. • DRINKS MOST COFFEE. Of 2/ Billion Pounds Annually Con- sumed Holland Comes Firet. 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 that has become rich from its coffee industry alone. Europe and North America bear approximately the sem° relation to the consumption of cof- fee that Brazil does to its produc- 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 Unite(' tates uses nine and a half pounds: Germany, five and once -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 I than one pound of tea per 'capita, ( where the United KingdonS u: es 1 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 :ier- mans and the Austrians use Daily a negligible quantity of tea. Ia 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 x. skin 5x11 comt off with the rand. Breaded veal is delicious treater in the following way: Dredge with flour, clip 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 then baked beans. Put into the oven in he morning, add a little water to 'nrevent their getting dry and at 0 o'clock they are ready to serve. rr >, I 11511 111111a I R � `�11II1lplllrry&: .171 (, a iiy u3 v✓ T yj aItltllio 111 lat ioncitano u la ger ea d •r isf"" A single bottle wii$ c)nvince you itrrests Xrzflarnrrlation. Prevents severe compli- cations. Just put a few drops on the painful spot and the pain itis• appears. spa PI XXX IA