HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-10-26, Page 7From the Middle West
BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BR1.
'1ISII COLUMBIA,
Items From Where a Macy
Ontario Boys and Girls Ari
Living.
A Winnipeg man was released
from jail in order to provide food for
his wife and family.
A number of cattle have died in
the rural municipality of Willowdale,
Sask., as a result of blackleg out-
break.
Drinking in a stable is a real of-
fence, as two Regina men found out
to their cost.
One million one hundred and eighty-
eight thousand six hundred and sev-
enty-five dollars has been collected in
current taxes in Calgary this year.
Fire destroyed the home of Mr.
Odegard, of Richard, Sask., burning
to death three children and their
mother.
C. H. Noble, a farmer north of
Lethbridge, expects . to beat the
world's record with his 1,000 -acre
wheat tract.
Whilst the mother was using coal
oil to start a firs, there was an ex-
plosion, and the 11 -weeks -old infant
of a Yorkton woman was burned to
death.
Mining men in Alberta are exer-
cised over the new Dominion regula-
tion which puts a stop to all mining
development in the various Govern-
ment parks in the Rocky Mountain
region of Canada.
It is reported that the Manitoba
Government may call for a referen-
dum on the question of adding an
educational test to requirements for
voters in provincial elections.
The Winnipeg Jitney Association
made 300 little hearts very happy
last week when they took the orphan
children out motoring all afternoon.
Masters Fred and Gordon Holmes,
little Winnipeg twins, have made
quite a bit of money for the Red
Cross and Patriotic Fund by singing
and dancing in their little khaki uni-
forms.
Judge Ryan, of Portage la Prairie,
has been appointed temporary judge
of the Dauphin, Man., judicial dis-
trict. .-
Judge Myers, of Winnipeg, last
week signed an order for the ex-
tradition of Charles Kauffman, who
is wanted in Minneapolis on a
charge of stealing 100 bags of flour
from the Pillsbury flour mills.
Charles Pearce, a young married
man, well-known in the Indian Head
district, died •suddenly last week
while working on one of the fauns
of H. F. Loveless, in the Wide
Awake district. He was on bis way
, with a butcher knife to kill a pig
when he dropped dead.
HELD UP WAR OFFICE. e
Contractor Made Huge Profit Because
of Urgent Need.
The story is told in London of a
large contractor, who, when the war
began, offered to build huts for no
payment beyond the cost price, but
subsequently, when he was in posses-
sion of the work, and the orders
given him were consequently increas-
ed, he represented to the War Office
that he ought to be paid a commission,
naming 5 per cent., with 1t/2 per cent.
to cover standing charges. The awk-
wardness of the position was pointed
out to him, and that it involved other
contractors who had followed his first
patriotic example, and were perform-
ing the work on payment of out-of-
pocket expenses only.
It was suggested to him that, un-
der the circumstances, he could, with
greater propriety, work for some de-
finite fee, the reasonableness of which
was not disputed; but he persisted in
his demand, with the result that, un-
der the necessity in which the mili-
tary authorities found themselves of
avoiding the delay which would other-
wise have been caused, it was decided
after considerable controversy to pay
him the commission stipulated on all
work additional to that originally un-
dertaken free of charge.
The total expenditure for which
this contractor become responsible is
stated to have been $16,000,000.
Jam in War, Why Not in Peace?
When we think or read of the vast
expenses of the present war our
minds naturally turn to munitions,
aeroplanes, submarines, equipments
and items of a similar warlike nature,
"but the. English army account for the
last financial year opens ,another
vista. During the twelve months we
are told $10,000,000 was spent on
jam! Does not this suggest a possi-
bility that this item might advantage-
ously appear on our domestic menu
with greater frequency?
It, is only the natural point of the
diamond which will cut glass; that
obtained by polishing will not.
8OLDIERS soi RELIEF
FROM SO1ffNESS
Boys on the Border Relieved
Their Pains and Aches With.
Sloan's Liniment.
Once upon a time Norman Jones,
serving in the National Guard at E1
Paso, returned to camp after a stren-
uous 15 -mile hike foot -sore and leg -
weary. He had not been long in act-
ive service and his shoulders, back
and limbs felt the after-effects of
marching.
Remembering Sloan's Liniment,
Jones applied it to the sore spots and
went to bed. He writes : "I arose the
next morning feeling fine ; in fact I
had entirely forgotten about the hike
and went out for a four-hour drill in
the sun as spry as ever."
Private Jones passed the experience
along, and many a boy on the border
relieved the agony of sprains, strains,
bruises, insect bites, cramped muscles,
rheumatic twinges, etc., by the use of
Sloan's Liniment.
Easily applied without rubbing. At
all druggists, 25c,, 50c. and $1.00.
GERMANS ARE DAZED BY FIRE.
British Lieutenant Writes That They
Surrender Willingly.
A second lieutenant has written as
follows from the Somme front to his
relatives in England:
"Since writing we have taken a
further active part in the `great push,'
with considerably more success than
we had on July 1. We went over at
night time, 11 p.m., and managed to
take the Boche by surprise, and with-
out much difficulty or many casualties
we got three lines of trenches and
about ninety prisoners..
"On the whole it was great fun, and
the raiding of the dugouts was most
profitable to all of us. All the men
got helmets (a Tommy's greatest am-
bition) and I managed to come to
grips with a German lieutenant.
"Before going over I managed to
teach all my platoon to say, `Hanle
hocht' and it worked admirably, as
the Hun was so dazed by a five min-
ute bombardment of 75s and field
guns that it was .a relief for him to
be taken prisoner.
"Needless to say, we had casualties,
and those, coupled with the ones of,
July 1, have rendered us temporarily
'down and out,' so . to speak, so we
were relieved and we are having a
quiet time here. We did quite well
with decorations. Five of my plat-
oon got distinguished conduct med-
als and I managed to get a military
cross.
"Things seem to be moving in the
direction of finis now. I should im-
agine that Rumania joining in would
have a great deal to do with it. When
we had the news from the brigade we
immediately had a board painted up
in German, telling them of the news,
which they probably already knew.
However, it annoyed them, and they
proceeded to sling all the muck in the
district at it, from bombs to eight
inch howitzers, but still the board
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Sunny
Dispositions
and good digestion go
hand in hand, and one
of the biggest aids to
good digestion is a re-
gular dish of
0 rape=Nuts
This wonderfully delicious
wheat and barley food is so
processed that it yields its
nourishing goodness to the
system in about one hoar--
a record for ease of diges-
tion.
Take it all round, Grapep -
Nuts contributes beautiful.
ly to sturdiness of body an0
a radiant, happy ptrsoil.-
ality,
wvgly taale s olil hay its
ily ration ofGrape-Nubs.
There's a Reason"
Canadian Posta p osea1 Co., X t...
Winds , Ont.
stood firm. However, their snipers
got at it and before long it was per
forated with bullet holes. Some of
the snipers who hadn't loopholes were
a little too eager to get a pot at it
and showed themselves a bit too
much, with the result that our snip-
ers had some fun."
Chief of French Staff.
General Duport has been made Chief
of the General Staff of the French
army. The general is a man of energy
and has exceptional ability, and bis
appointment has met with the approv-
al of all the ranks of the French army.
Dyspeptics Should
Avoid Drugs And
Medicines
Try a Little Magnesia Instead.
Some people instinctively shut their
eyes to danger, and it may be that in-
stinct, or custom or habit causes dys-
peptics to take drugs. patent foods and
medicines, artificial- digestents, etc.
But closing the eyes does not banish
the danger, and it is certain that neither
drugs nor medicines possess the power
to destroy the harmful excessive acid in
the stomach, which is the underlying
cause of most forms of indigestion and
dyspepsia. They may give temporary
relief, but ever increasing quantities
roust be taken, and all the time the acid
remains in the stomach as dangerous as
ever.
Physicians know this and that is why
their advice so often to sufferers from
digestive and stomach trouble is "Just
I get about an ounce of pure bisurated
magnesia from your druggist and take
a teaspoonful in a little water immed-
iately after every meal." This will in-
stantly neutralize all the harmful acid
in the stomach and stop all foodfermen-
tation, thus enabling you to enjoy hearty
meals without experiencing the least
pain or unpleasantness afterward.
SCIENTIFIC CAUSE OF THUNDER-
STORMS.
By Chas M. Bice, Denver, Colo.
Ever since the mythology of
Greece, which attributed flashes of
lightning to the vengeful bolts of
angry Jove, countless explanations of
the phenomena of thunderstorms
have appeared, but more or less wide
the mark.
Science has put forward various
tentative hypotheses to account for
the thunderstorm, such as freezing
and thawing,pt'✓eather in the upper at-
mosphere, air friction and many
other theories which experiment has
demonstrated to be worthless.
It has been reserved for Dr. G. C.
Simpson to finally hit upon a very
simple experiment that solves the
mystery.
By allowing drops of distilled wa-
ter to fall through a -vertical blast of
hot air of sufficient strength to pro-
duce spray, he obtained these very
significant results, viz.: that the
breaking up of these drops of water
was accompanied by the production of
both negative and positive electric
ions.
A thunderstorm, as is well known,
is always characterized by strong up-
ward currents of heated air, which
by experiment has been shown to am-
ply account for the breaking up of
all rain drops which would otherwise
fall through the currents. Hence at
the summit of the uprising air cur-
rent of the storm, within the thunder-
cloud, a rapid electrical separation,
as in the foregoing experimelit, goes
on, the first of which is positively
charged rain drops, and free negative
ions, The charges of the positive
ions are also continually increased by
the successive division and coales-
cence of the added rain drops.
Tho positively charged drops fall to
the earth whenever the upward air
current becomes weak enough to Per-
mit their passage through it. The
negative ions are carried up into the
higher part of the cloud, where they
unite with the cloud particles, and
facilitate their coalescence into nega-
tively charged drops.
These ultimately fall in the gent-
le/. rain d the stoma. Thus the same
process that produces the giant cumu-
1us eloud of the thunder storm, with
its violent uprising current of moist
air, also gives the separation of elec-
tricity required to produce lightning
and thunder,
A thunder etorni May begin at any
end restive highest oaah prima. Wo gond
Mow the some dor the fere aro received.
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We have geld out mUllono of dollar) to Ghon•
condo of troopers In Canada who send their
curate usbeeenoo phey know tbor Bob t square
deat,ent}dreactve more money Dor their furs.
Yon wlli,arep, We burMoro furs from trappers
tor.oash thanao7 olip�r axe armo (n eenadp,•
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place where a layer of warm air un-
derlies a colder one, for the lighter
warm air is sure to force its way
through the heavier cold layers and
this rising produces the thunder
storm in the manner described.
- Experience teaches that on land, at
least, thunder storms occur most fre-
quently in the early afternoon, be-
cause the air is warmest at that time,
and generally in summer time. At
sea they are said to be most frequent
at night, and in winter time, because
or well-known thermal conditions
that prevail next to the water and in
the air above.
The ultimate controlling factor is
temperature, which seems to vary in
consonance with the sun -spot period,
but with modifications due to an oc-
casional excess of volcanic dust in the
air.
It follows that the thunderstorm is
not the beautiful simple vortex with
horizontal axis pictured in books. In-
stead, we have the air floating in from
all sides, and the warm air rising,
cooling by expansion and thus build-
ing up the typical thunder cloud, all
moving forward under the control of
ti'e prevailing cyclonic wind.
Then, as a result of strong connec-
tion, rain forms at a considerable al-
titude where the air is cool, -so cold at
times that hail instead of rain is often
formed.
Excessive condensation anywhere in
a thunder cloud produces an excess of
electrification and electrical discharge
and a "rain gush" follows, but as
sound travels faster than rain falls
we hear the thunder before the "rain
gush" reaches us."
MinardYs Liniment Cures Distemper
Danish. Germany Suffers More.
Danish -American who has been
visiting the country of his birth this
summer and spent several weeks in
the districts along the Danish -German
border, writes to a friend in London
that practically everybody there, on
both sides of the frontier, is in mourn-
ing, for all these people have relatives
or friends fighting in the German
front. The Germans have sent the �
regiments consisting of young leen
1 from northern Schleswig to the most
exposed positions and the number of
Danish -speaking men who have lost
their lives is already larger than the
total number of Danes who fell in
the war against Prussia and Austria
in 3564.
Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper
Good Pay, Short Hours.
A certain house in a western town
improved so greatly in comfort and
appearance that a visitor shrewdly
surmised that the son of the hoose, a
lazy, good-for-nothing, had turned
over a new leaf. He inquired about
it.
"Yes, sir, my son's got a job now,"
said the smiling old mother. "gets
good money, too. All he has to do
is to go twice a day to the circus and
put his head in the lion's mouth. The
rest of the time he has to himself."
Evening Dress.
"The evening wore on," continued
the man who was telling the story.
"Excuse me," interrupted the would-
be wilt; "but can you tell us what the
evening wore on that `occasion?"
"I don't know that it is important,"
replied the story -teller. "But if you
must know, I believe it was the close
of a summer day."
REMEMBER! The ointment
you put on your child's skin gets
into the system just as surely as
food the child eats. Don't let
impure fats and mineral coloring
natter (such as many of the
cheap ointments contain) get
into your child's blood! Zaizh-
Buk is purely herbal: No pois-
onous coloring. Use it always.
SOc. Box et All Drivel* cord Storm.
GERMAN SMOKERS THRIFTY.
Tobacco Trade Journal Predicts Ruin
of Industry.
Total ruin of the German tobacco
industry is predicted by the Tabak
Zeitung, the organ of the combined
tobacco manufacturers and dealers in
Germany. It points out that the sale
of cigars and cigarettes, which . had
been diminishing steadily since the
end of 1914, sank to a minimum dur-
ing August, 1915. The trade organ
complains that men who formerly
smoked cigars costing at least 3 cents
apiece have now descended to "weeds,"
sold at 1 cent, while the smokers of
the cheaper brands of cigars' and
cigarettes have in many cases taken
to the pipe and the commonest kind
of tobacco.
The journal concludes by saying
that `' nosition is disastrous and
the ( '- hopeless because the fin
anci tion of Germany excludes
the l;ty of any marked im-
proven....t after the war."
THE FALL WEATHER
HALO ON LITTLE ONES
Canadian fall weather is extreme-
ly hard on little ones. One day it is
warm and bright and the next wet
and cold. These sudden changes bring
on colds, cramps and colic, and unless
baby's little stomach is kept right
the result may be serious. There is
nothing to equal Baby's Own Tablets
in keeping the little ones well. They
sweeten the stomach, regulate the
bowels, break up colds and make baby
thrive. The Tablets are sold by medi-
cine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a
box from The Dr. Williams Medicine
Co.. Brockville, Ont.
Honesty of French.
A British colonel who is not un-
known in the political world has
every reason to think the French are
honest. While in Marseilles the other
day he dropped a wallet containing
$5,000, and did not discover his loss
for some time. When he did he rush-
ed off at once to the chief police sta-
tion, and to his great relief, found
that a French artilleryman had pick-
ed it up and brought it at once to the
station.
Granulated Eyelids,
Eyes inflamed by expo-.
sure to Sun, Dust and Sled
uickly relieved by farinadip v Lye Remedy. No Smarting,
just Bye Comfort. At
Your Druggist's 50c per Bottle. 4ilurir,,e Ei e
Salve inTubes 25c. Forliookof thelryefreeask
Druggists or l luriseEye Remedy Co., Chicago
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DOMINION
RAINCOATS
Best for quality, style and
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Ask Your
Dealer
SEED POTATOES
ELD POTATOES, IRISH COB -
biers. Deleivare, Carman. Order
at once. Supply limited. Write for quo-
tations. H. W. Dawson. Brampton.
IIELP 'WANTED.
CABINET MAKERS AND MACHINE
hands wanted. Steady The Bell
at
to highest wages. Apply
Furniture Co.. Southampton. Ont.
AGENTS WANTED.
.eTo $5 D.tiL EASILY EARNED
rfl� 1)c' either sex on authoritatively
censored Fear bout: containing Kitchener
Career, also Dart Canadians taken. Re-
turned soldier preferred. Sample free.
Send postage, ten cents. Nichols,
Limited, I'uLlislters, Toronto.
What He Gave Up.
Patience—He asked her to marry: -
him a dozen times.
Patrice—And what did she say ?
"That he must give up cigars or
her."
"Well, what did he do?"
"Gave up asking her."
Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cowa
New Way to Kill Rats.
A new way to kill the rats which
infest the trenches is reported by a
South African officer writing from
France. Ile says: "We found one of
our men putting a bit of cheese on
his bayonet and firing a rifle every.
time a rat started to eat it."
A druggist can obtain an imitation
of MINARD'S LINIMENT from a
Toronto house at a very low price, and
have it labeled his own product.
This greasy imitation is the poorest
one we have yet seen of the many
that every Tom, Dick and Harry has
tried to introduce.
Ask for MINARD'S and you will
get it.
True Candor.
"Am I good enough for you ?" sigh-
ed the fond lover.
"No," said the girl candidly, "you're
not, but you are too good for any
other girl."
World's Record Wheat Crop.
In view of various claims of world's
record wheat crops for large areas,
the Crowfoot Farming Company of
Crowfoot, a '.berta, submit a sworn
statement of their results for the
year 1015 which probably surpass all
properly authenticated claims from
other sources. From 1356 acres the
Crowfoot Farming Company received
an average yield of 51 bushels, 56 1-3
pounds per acre of number one spring
wheat, by actual selling weight; 400
acres of wheat averaged 594 bushels
per acre. These records were estab-
lished in the Canadian Pacific Irriga-
tion Block in Southern Alberta.
St. Kilda is the only place in Great
Britain where wild sheep exist,
71 titerd's Liniment Oureu Gart:et in Cow&
PEAS, BEANS.
LIBAS, BEANS, NEW -LAID EGGS,
hairy Butter bought at highest
prices by small and large quantities.
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