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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-09-13, Page 6_ — - - P - , = 1 t 10 CENT ASCARETS FOR LIVER AND DOWELS Cure- Sick Headache, Constipation, Billousnees, Sour Stomach, Bad; Breath—Candy Cathartic. No ;41de how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head. aehes, how miserable you. are from constipa- tion, indigestion, biliousness and slug- gish bowels—you always get relief with Cascarets. They irnmediseely cleanse aad regulate the stomach, remove the sour, fermenting food and. foul gases; take the excess bile from the/liver aaid carry off 'the constipated waste matter and poison irons the intestines and bowels,. A 10 -cent box from your drug- gist will keep yaw liver and bowele eam: stomach sweet and head clear for months. They work while you. sleep. LEGAL. R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solieiter for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. * J. M. BEST. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary- Public. Office upstairs over Walker's Furniture Store, Mato Street, Seaforth. FROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND COOKE. Barriitters, Solicitors, Notaries Pub- lic, etc.. Money to lend. In Seaforth bn Monday of each week. Office in Xidd piock W „ Proudfoot, K.C., S. LilLoran, H. J. D, Cooke. VETERINARY_ F. HARBURN, V.S. • Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and hbnorarr member of the Modica! Association of the Ontario Yetatinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod- .= principles. Dentistry and Milk Fey- • ter a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All or- ders Ieft at the hotel will receive prompt attention. Night calls reeeiv- ad *at the office. JOHN GRIEVE, V. S Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseeees ol domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet - Winery Dentistry a specialty. Mee and residence on Goderich street, one toor east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea - forth. MEDICAL DR. GEORGE HELLMANN. Osteophatic Physician of Goderich. Specialist in WOIlleleS and children.* diseases, rheumatism, acute, chronic 'and nervous disorders; eye ear, noes and throat. Consultation free. Office In the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, Tues- days and Fridays, 8 aen. till .1. pm. C. J. W. TURN, M.D.C.M. 425 Richmond Street, London, Ont., Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Urin- ary diseases of men and women. Dr. ALEXANDER MOIR Physician and Surgeon Office and residence, Main St:met, Phone 70 Hensa DR. J. W. PECK 1.• Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; Member ofCollege of Physicians and'Surgeons of Ontario ;Licentiate of Medical Ceun- oil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resident Medical Staff of General Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, Hansa, Ontario. DR. F. J. BURROWS • Office and residence, Goderich street east of the Methodist church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DRS. SCOTT & MACKA.Y J. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and College of Physicians and Surgeons Ann Arbor, and member of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of Ontario. C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medallist of Errinity Medical College; member of tile College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. DR. R. HUGH ROSS. Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital London, England, University Hospital, London,' England. Office—Back of Dominion` Batik, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night Calla answered from residence, Vic- toria. street, Seaforth AUCTIONEERS. THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioueer for the comities of Huron and Perth. Correspondece arrangementa -for sale dattim can be made by calling up Phone 97, Seaforth, or The Expositer Office. Charges mod- erato and satisfaction guaranteed. R. T. IXKER Lieensel dturtioaeer for the County of Rural, Sales attended to in all parts of the county Seven years' ex- perience in Manitob3. and Saskatche- wan. Terms reatenable. _Phone No, 175r11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., R. R. No. 1, Orders left at The Huron Ex- positor Office-, Seaforth, promptly at- tended to. • vvvolaiw000s-R•ook Task of Baron D'Abernon -On Central Control Board Requires Much Diplomacy dmhilithlessdhehrteherhehaloiKe.tehdeesiseeisese one envies the man who has the task of looking after temperance legislation in Grea Britain. Baron D'Abete non is the chairman of the Cen- tral Control Board fpr the Old Land; and he occupies a Position that de- mands extreme tact and capability. An interesting statement of the con- ditions that Baron D'Abernon has to face given by S.. K. Ratcliffe, of the London Daily 'News. He .says that he finds general ignoran.ce of -the matter on this side. of the water, one might almost say "malignorance," since the English people and their Government are maligned. Re point - out that before the war there was no organized prohibition party in the United Kingdom. There were, of course, people who wished to abolish liquor, but they were not more.num- erous nor politically more influential than the vegetarians or the anti-vac- einationists. The first hard blow the trade ever received was from Lloyd BARON D' NON. Geserge, when, as Chancellor ot t4e Exchequer, he said that drink wap a more gialmereas foe than GernaanY. This was, of course, ,oratorical non- isense, hat it served the purpose of making the public reeeptive to sug- gestions of restriction. Mr. george was -ready to es- tablish prohibition- for the duration of the war, or t� buy up every mug of beer. tot of whisky and glass of Wins in the country and have the state control its future sale. The latter scheme was deemed impractic- able because of the financial digit:al- • ties; the former was abandoned atter a period of reflection had 'revealed the trifling flaw that the people would not stand for it. With 'these schemes abandoned. a Central Con- trol Board. was established, with full authority to regulate the trade in cer- tain districts. Its authority was first applied to certain areas near muni- tion plants and dockyards, but it has been extended until of the 41,000,000 people of Great Britain not fewer than 38,000,0-00 are buying their li- quor under the direct authority of the board,. The restrictions that the board, has imposed upon the trade in England will seem hardly less wen: derfultefore the war than the transi- tioa of Canada in 1915 to the Canada in. 1918. Public houses are open only aye a.nd a aalr hours a day.. In no dis- trict are they open ,after 9.30 p.m. Treating is prohibited. There are no credit sales. Spirits for consumption off the premises are sold for only two and a half hours a day, and not at alt en Saturcays and Sundays. The strongest spirits are 30 under proof, and the beer is many degrees lighter than the strong brew to which Eng- lishmen were a,ccustomed. The`manu- facture of all spirits was stopped ill 1917. 'The Food Controller took a hand in the proceedings in January, 1917, when he redtmed the produc- t on of beer from 26,6-0'0,000 stand-, mai barrels to 18,000,000 barrels. c;Itill later he said that the submarine menace made a further reduction necessary, and so .there was another cut to 10,000,000 barrels. Whether it wag this fresh outrage on the part of the submarines that finally` roused Great Britain only the future histor- ian will be able to say. At any rate Admiral _Jellicoe 'announced soon afterward that the menace would be held iq August, 1918, and there fol- lowed a permit for the brewing of ntore. beer. eseeteaeaseesSeSseeeasesiet'ea-SeasneasKeteHee .:4 hull of boat-shapee . form, lightly built, as it has not to withstand underwater pressure, this being tali en when the tanks are full by their Inner wall, the circular hull. The. tanks may thus tie enlarged indefin- itely, but are limited by _ strategic considerations, the _handling of too „large a voluthe of water prolonging unduly the critical period of / diving. "Upon these structural distinction.s follaw, Mere or less, the tactical dif- ferences, and the two resultant Phases ',have been clearly instanced in the naval war. All U-boats are submersible; and the U-boat cam- 1 paign illustrates, neglecting for the raors.ent its peculiarly tirutal sides 1 something of their tactics., Because of their large Surplus, or 'reserve,' , of buoyancy, they ride high in the water, allowingsthe crews to spend a considerable time in the epert air; the decks ,form reasonably good gun Platforms, and the shipshape hulls, 'rpedo boats, I and comfort- • fair' surface speed. The submarine proper is ill at ease upon the surface, her bad, he- . havior limiting seriously the endur- ance of her crew; she rarely carries a gun, is slower and rides -low ill the , water. She is the better beat sub- ; merged, diving more quickly and hav- ing greater speed, due to the superior ! stream -lining of her hull, together with greater manoeuvring power. The . United States coastal minelayers, I similarly conditioned, are also ,sub- marines phoper. "France, the pioneer country, has- I built most of her fine boats to the designs of M. Laubeuf, who, with the instinctive faculty of the true engi- neer, long ago made the distinction between submersible and submarine, and, indeed, designed the first dou- ble -hull boat, the Narval. The Hun 11-1 was built it imitation of his tat- er type, the Aigrette, but hwo- years afterward, and when France, Aro.er- Ica and Britain all possessed many underwater boats. The 'Austro -Hun, also imitative, has departed but lit- tle from the American Holland type in his -Whitehead. The Holland is - the most famous of submartnes proper. "British boats have teen evolved from the original Halland, but de- veloped a distinctive form, a neat, workmanlike and seaworthy design typical of British naval construction. In all these types a non -water -tight superstructure, which does n.ot, therefore, affect subniergence, runs almost from end to end, supporting the deck and covering -vatrieus ex- crescences of the hull, witch as hatches, capstans, engine eahaust, ventilation pipes, etc., and, upon ee- 0404, (11340e4046 Vms- ;TA 2,440 resembling those of t make them seaworthy able and give them a Facts About +. t, the Submarine sestt UBMARINES, as classified by 6 the average person unfamiliar with them, would be simpiy German and others. Bait there Is a more technical subdivision of Or- species, according to S. W. Clat- worthy. who writes in the London 6raphic as follows: "Underwater vessels fail, siructUr- ..ily and tactically, into two main 'esads—submarines proper and sub- eersibles. Structurally, the daft:r- anee lies chiefly in the disposition and amount of the -water ballast, which, es everybody knows, is admitted in- to special tanks, forming a large pie- eortion of the total bulk, to effect mbrnergence. 0 _ -"The submarine proper has a Ma- tte eigar-shaped hull, of apprere- i lately circular section, within which iaese tanks are placed at the sides end bottom amidships, and occupying heth ends. They are necessarily lim- ed in size and give when .empty only !3. A mall surplus buoyancy. In. a sub- mersible the tanks are exterior to this all, and between it and an outer_ Italian Laurenti submersible, how- ever, the upper Pohtlo,4 Of 0.4). Puter hull is cut off and the boat entirely covered over by WateetiAtehlephiEm structure, which. carries a line broad deck, almost as wide as the vessel itself. "The Vessels already mentioned do not exhaust the list of naccessful, submarine -meat; yet,!: deimitee this. mpltiplicity, the Submarine, it must be, conceded, is still primitive, and will remain so until a single unit _system of propulsion has been sec- Cessfully developed. The earliest practical submarines were driven solely by an electric engine. Jut as the petrol. engine realized flight for the airplane, so the electric motor, aot dependent upon life-giviog oxy- ger and'subject to to -working change in weight, made submarine naviga- tion possible. But mark the fprthier complication. The latter obtained its current from heavy batteries, which soon became exhausted, and the re- sultant tiny radius of action forced designers to instal a second motor, the oil engine, for emerged propul- sion; giving a large surface radius. "Despite many im.provements, the situation is fundamentally the same to -day, and the submaritie is still es- sentially a slow boat." , c44.4400....)".0040.44.44,4paxopos Crimes of the,Oermans Against ,Nonacombatants May Result in ,Boycott BENCH seamen. are requeeted to join 'with British mariners in a boycott of Germany in a letter written to the Matin by - Joseph Havelock Wilson, leader of the eeamen of Great Britain. The letter includes a copy of a telegram sent by the British seamen ts Presi- dent Poincare, which states that the British are determined to fight to the bitter end to bring "just punishment OR the Boche." It has -been decided to exclude all fr Germans om. 'crews and to carry no German goods. This action i6 said. to be in retaliation for the "shameCii assassination of 15,000 non-combat- ant seamen:" • The reason of the bitterness of the British seamen . and Mr. Havelock Wilson will be understood by anyone who read.s the records of German crimes against seamen. Here are a few taken from the Admiralty re- cords: A British passenger steamer, carrying 77 passengers and a crew JOSEPH II. WILSON. of 217, was torpedoed without warn- ing 140 melee from land a.014. o'clock at night, and at once took a list to starboard. Her boats were lowered SILVIS THELOKST MRE THE fhlODIRH TRAIM THEscinicRolle AHDTHE3ERVICE•100- 410 For Tiokets, Reservations, Liter- ature and Information, apply to O. A. Aberhart, Druggist, Sea - forth, or write L. Fairbairn, G.P.A., 68 King St. E., Toronto. 1 CANADIAN NORTHERN - as quickly as possibre, passengers and crew abandoning ship while the Germans put a second torpedo into the vessel. The submarine then came to the surface, wisb.ed the boats' oompanies good night, and disappear- ed in the darkness. One of the life- boats had been damaged while being lowered, owing to the jamming of ropes and the ship's big list. She was c.onsiderably damaged before getting clear,. and every wave washed over her company, whose sufferings were, deplorable. About two hours after leaving the ship a first-class hasseneer died from exposure, and his body was washed overboard. Then a woman died, but her daugh- ter continued to support the. dead body, thinking her Mother was still -alive. An hour later the daughter herself died. A colored sailor and a fireman then suceumbed. A male passenger was now seen to be dead, and a woman who was his friend became hysterical, so they pretended that he had faihted., and kept his body in the boat. Fifteen minutes afterwards 1 fireman lurched aver - board and was drowned. The beat was picked up at nine o'clock next morning. Teerible sufferings were endured by sane of the survivors of another BritiSh steamer, which 'had been torpedoed without warning-, 320 miles from land. The boat in i ques- tion contained 31 people, including two woinen'and a baby four Months old. It wee in charge of the steeps - ere chief officer. The steamer was sunk on a Monday, and during that night the chief officer's boat lost touch iieith the others. At 10 a.m. on Tuesday the weather compelled them to teke in all sail, and they, lay to, lteepiumthe iboiatihniaid-on to the ,enors mous aims that Were running. Durifikg the night they lost their sea -anchor, and next day they lashed two oars together all a substitute. By Wednes- day the ehief hadegone made, and he died during the day. That night the storekeeper wentonad and had to be lashed downiehe died at noon on Thursday, a.n.dtebefore nightfall. a third-class passenger had also died. There were heavy ;squalls during Thersday night, but on Friday the weather moderated. Agonies of thirst were endured, and during that day an seaman expired. On Saturday' morning a fireman was found dead in the bottom of the boat and a pantry boy died in the course 01f the day. They drifted with sail down through the night of 'Saturday. there being xfo stars to steer by. On Sunday a cattleman jumped over- board, his companions being too weak to rescue him. The last tot of water was served out, a mouthful apiece,.after which they tried to col- lect a little moisture from occasional showers. Then they licked the oars and woodwork, but everything- was saturated with salt. Se, at last, they broke up theien water beaker and licked the inside-, which was settle- ated with moisture. On Sunday night the deck boy died. They sighted land at three o'clock on, Monday morning, but themteather prevented them from attempting to put in until Tuesday morning, when they were toe weak to make the shore. However, a couple of fighing boats came to their assist- ance and towed them in. The einem keeper died as be was being lifted :ashore; two seamen who had • gone' mad hath to be dragged from the boat, which they refused to leave. .A trimsner died of gangrene a fortnight later in hospital' where the baby also succurnbed, after passing safely through •all the horroes • of the h journey.. SUFFERING SERBIA. • t. there are still tliouSande of people alive ,who are paasionatelti and vociferOusly Armen1a4i. Austria and Bulgaria„ which bet een ethem con- trol Serbia to -day, have subtler methods. Biilgaria, u enery phase of the work, goes mugh further than Austria (whether because she is frn.ore wicked or less !afraid I cannot say); but there is sub overwhelm- ing evidence of full ce-dperation be- tween the to `that Austria cannot escape her share of the blame, not • only for her gown ingnities, but for Bulgarta's toe. • • • I • • l• I .1 4.•••=mima.. • Austrians Betray Christian Nation to She Turks. - The vilest campaign of the whole - war is being carried on in Serbia at this moment. All countries that have fallen into the enemy's power have laad to face. massacre, oppression, de- portati-on; and of all these Serbia has had her share—far more than her share. She has lost outright about twenty-five per cent. of her popula- tion since the war began, and, in addStiOn, hundreds of thousands of her people have been carried inte bondage—in Austria-Hungary, wheee they dielikeflies in pestilential :a- ternment. camps, starved, half-citid, diseased, and overworked; in Eel- garia and in Asia Minor, where meet, the fate of the Armeniane-in the deserts. Her little -girls, the ture mothers of that Serbia for whi-h the Serbs to -day are fighting and (St- ine, have been carried. off in '.t.hcpt- sands by their Bulgarian masters see sold (or given, I know not \shies: into the Turkish harems of Consesee. tineple. The indecency of ihia trayal of Christians by Christians ee the Turks needs no comment to :p• hasize it. But this is riot •all. There 1.. a deliberate ea.mpaign afoot—has ..!••-•:-. going on for two years and incet---- to root out the Serbian natiOn ato- gether from the Balkan Penirtiv::.;, Wie it belongs is fully and as any nation belongs aee- wnere. The massacres aria tleportit- ft;ms, the starvation. and misery, ha ese -removed a vast number of the ople; but you cannot destroy ties whole of a nation -by such man as theee.. Turkey has tried it tor erre- erations with the Armenians, and Same, - To put the l matter n a nutshell, the two allieS ate se king to de- nationalibe all the Sets that they cannot hill. There are practically no men in the cOuntry now except the old and infirm, who en help their own people little more ilhan they can harm the invaders With all the forces of starvation, shitering, and the constant feer of deportatien or death to aid in the wthdt, it should not be difficult to rob - of hungry and helpless children even of their If -there are still Serbs Serbs, as distant from. seript humans—it is bee nate heroism and tenacite of the race support even these lonelyi women and desolate children. . Austria and Bulgaria are• remov- ing, from the Serbian territbries i everything; tangible and intangible, that is specifically Serb. iEvery mu- seum in the country whicle- contained national treasure e has beeh rifled and its contents scattered through the enemy- countries. _ The aneient mon- asteries, superb specimes of me- diaeval Serbian art and storehouses of sacred relics of the gre t days of the Serbian Empire, have been Sack- ed and ruined. Even tie MTiirks throughout their long and cruel rule in Serbia respect the monaAteried. It remained for Christian Austria and Chrestian Bulgaria to lay on them the hand of desecration, • ---i ; Protective Coloring; The vivid mull beautiful inarkings of the butterfly' S wings arel often a puzzle to those who woulq find in the coloring of animals a Means to low visibility. The butterflii, thanks to his gorgeous splendor, ie a most conspicuous object, especially from above, whence chiefly dangen would come in _the way of insect eating birds. I 1 The butterfly's illuminatdl wings seem to be designated for theattrac- tion of mates, and have developed through this -potent principle despite the dangerous- prominence thy give the insect, who uses other mans to counteract it. When flying the but- terfly takes a peculiarly zigzag path, which, as submarine -careful ships know, is a proper means for eluding danger. A butterfly in flight* iS a dif- ficult object to strike, notwithstand- ing the Mow rate of locomotion. When the butterfly is at rest, it folds its wings over its back, -s that only the drab, protectively c lored lower. surface is visible. - In th.'' pm: - tore the iteect is of -very low, 'semi- nence from any angle. The moth, unlike the butterft , flies at night. Obviously, the bright olor- ing would be to no purpose ln at- tracting mates. The moth is g rbed in dull tints, which render it 1 con- spicuous during the day, its period.. .of. rest.. 'There is no need of hsdina the upper surface ot its wings;P so a convenient 'means to distil,' uish moths from butterflies is the fac4 that the later, whee at rest, fold heir wings above their backs, as sth.ted, while the former spread their -Wings out fiat.—N. Y. World. . ; population women and nationality. in Serbia -- ere nortde- use the in - Playing Futures. "I have promised the new cotk grand piano for her birthday." "Sakes alive! When is her birth - .day?" "In November." . , "I guess we're safe, then. She'll never stay that long." • Fine Wire. It has been demonstrated that platinum wire may ;be drawn so 1ne .as to be invisible to the naked aye, although its presence. upon a card ban bp detected by the touch. . Getting the Cue. The Actor—My son is acting cap- tain now. The Barmaid (bored) — Well I hope he makes a better job oft it than his father mede of Hamlet. AT - THE MINSTRELS. The History of the "Tambo" and the "Bones." When you go to a "nigger mins strel" show, you laugh at the conun- drums exchanged by Brudder Boned and Tambo, but it does not occ ro you to indulge any thought in , e- gard to the curious musical instr ments which .those witty colored ;ge tlemen manipulate. He who sits at the right-hand- elk, holds a wooden ring that is pierc4d with openings in whiati are set di40: of metal that tinkle agreeably, mid: - across which sheepskin is tightly' Stretched. It gives forth a drumlike, resonance when Tambo , strikes 1 with his fist, or on his head, or pe - haps with his foot. The instrument is familiarly known as a tambourine, whicb is la French word, meaning "little drumi" It is extremely ancient—quite poet sibly of prehistoric origin—and is b lieved to have been an Oriental i vention. King Solomon never met a nigger minstrel, but he was familiar with the tambourine, which furnished an accompaniment to the dancing in which he delighted. In that monarch's day it was call- ed a "timbrel." On finds mention. Of it arepeatedly in the Bible. T e Grrs seem to have adopted it fro the Hebrews, and *thesnomans, Io betore Christ was born, ueed it. tambourine, among both Ptornan.s a d Greeks; was in special favor for ba chanalian dances. Nero, who tov d to dress himself as a woman, da ed and postured before his guests 4n many an occasion with a tinkliiiig t.timbrel" itt his hand. But how about the instrument of Brudder Jones It is doubtless pie - historic, and in its earliest form cola- sisted of two pieces of beef -rib thjat were rattled together. •Even nowa- days small boys, unconscious of ite- vedting to the primitive, use 'bons" of the same material. But ebony or other hardwood affords de the stage performer a more satisfactory a d durable substance. 'In. modern Sparesh dances cne SE EMBEit 13 191S esh as a Flower, acCiust as fragrant! is foot the tiny buds- and young leaves from h1117grown shrubs—7 So economical because it yields, so generously in ,the teapot. .R446 fi a 1 . 1 wetild be increase°. if Poland and - de the woman gracefully waiting the northern states were joined tambourine, while- her male part- economically -with. the central em - r agitates the bones, or "caste- , pill es . , The Vice -Chancellor; con - I deed, it has been so for thousands ts." The two seem to go together. ' 4`All must finally become a great - tinted. of ;years. They were played together united region of intercourse with. -as an accompaniment of amorous, uniform interests. Political co-opem a. d particulaxly of • baccanalian. 1 atien must be supported by an un- - d,alnces in ancient Carthage, in Athens deretanding on ,military questions. lo- g before the Christian era, and in "The experiences of the present R me., war have shown what similar train- hus it appears that, in contem- ing in arming, equipment and supply pl ting the simplest of, "nigger min- system mean in facilitating the cone sti 1" performanees, one beholds an duct of a war and what difficulties aff ir of great antiquarian interest. 1 their absence has entailed. The mill - An , in this connection, what has al- tary authorities would- easily -come to re dr been said is by no means all. an understanding of what is news- Fo mo mention has yet been made sary in this direction," . f he banjo, which has had a most "It would be, indeed, fine if gen- cur ous evolutionary development. eral world' disarmament would be _ The banjo, in its primitive form, 1 reached with the conclusion of peace. Let us take a stand for the present, however, on facts and make the al - Ratite complete. - • . "Once Geemany. and Austria-Hun- gary; are economically and political- ly united, who in the world would have'I the courage, whether alone or With; others, to run against this block, especially when the war pre- parations of the allied empires are unified, when France is weakened. to --' -such •a degree ati she appears to -day , to have no idea of; when czaristio ‘ Russia can he neither a menace to its enemies nor a protection for poli- tital states which play the role of • is sound in use to -day by savage tri ' s in Equatorial Africa,. It is a cal bash, or half a one, with etrings of some sort across it, and is perhaps the most important _instrument of mu e at cannibal feasts and on. other joy us social occasions. Niegroes, fetched to this country as slaves, brought the idea with them andi a century ago, gourds_ cut in half for the purpose were used for muslc making by the blacks of the South. The present-day banjo owes its modification and improvement chiefly to hints offered by the guitar. . Among all primitive peoples drum - min , rattling and a cheerful tintin- perpeadal disturbers of the peace and • na,b lation are the first attempts at intri uers; when the northern bor- music. In the very sounds of the ban- der sates ate the military followers jo, the tambourine and the "bones" of Ge many; when Poland is allied to one finds the best evidence of the the central empires and when nei- great antiquity Or those instruments. ther Starvation in the central powers —Ren.e Bache, in Philadelphia Public or dissension between them can long- • Ledger. er be , counted upon. Guns In Hospital. "The peace of Europe will then rest in the han.ds of united Germaiy Gans are comparatively short- and Austria-Hungary, and will be en lived' So great is the wear and tear good hands. modern gaiW of fairly large size , "That is the road by which we i on the n that , fter a few hundred or few thou- Germany with Austria-Hungary, will, . sand rounds, as the case may be, it eventnally arrive, if not at an im-- musti be sent to the gun hospital at mediate disarmament, nevertheless at the rear, there to be refitted for fur- a substantial lessening of our arrive- ther Service. ' tment turden. While it is impossible to'give defi- "Th fateful hour has struck for rate figures that woRld apply 'to ° all i' Geenatyeand Austria-Hungary, sad kinder .df guns, it. is generallyheld tfieref re, aseuredly also -for tuiope." that q. field gun of 3 -inch bore—such as. the French "75" ein.the German - A 'Living Barometer. "77" is capable of fifing between A p lice-etation in a western -city- in Am rice had a trustworthy wea- ther' prophet. It was a frog of the genus Hyla, generally knoWn as tke- tree-toad. This reptile wah induced. toistet as a barometer -by polieerann who Was formerly an old frontiera- man. He threw into a glass jar seme stones, 'and added a couple of inch -en` of water. Then he whittled oat a little Wooden ladder and put it into the jar. After some lively scrambling a tree -teed was caught, placed it the jar, and a lid screwed above him. The 5,009 quire life o a gun decreases rapidly,with the increase of bore; so that in the ease cif a 6 -inch gun the life le per- haps .2,500 rounds, .while for a 12- inch a is perhaps. not greater than 250 lth unds. Of he very large guns, suchaas e • German 17 -inch howitzers used early in the war to reduce Liege and Ant- werp, t was said at the time that the life w4s About 25 accurate shots and 25 additional but somewhat faulty , : • Whet. it was going to be fair wea- therlined. the toad roosted on the top; mechanism—particularly the springs round of the ladder, solemnly blink- -of the guns has to be adjusted and ing the hours away. From twelve to renewe occasionally.—Tit-Bits. fouriemi hours before a decided change the toad began to blimb down, and hours before a -storm set itt he squatted on a stone, and; with his head just above the surface of tbe water, peered aloft at the, coaling storIfin the weathemwere to be change- . able and "shifting," as the weather reports sa,y, the toad would go 11.9 and- down the ladder. When it emus to be fair and the toad roosted aloft, his skin was of a light greyish -green. When the change came his skin turn- ed black as he came down the lad- der, becoming a jet black by the tirae the creature reached the bottom.— Tit-Bits. Surgical Principles itt War. ' Dr. William S. Baer gives them in the Journal of the Medical Associa- tion, as follows: 1. All 'battle wounds are to be considered as infected. 2. Remove all foreign matter and, dead tissue from wound- as early as possible. 3. Wounds ean then"6e considered aseptic and may be sutured, aud compound frmpoauentdur-es. fractures treated as sine- . These axe basic truths learned through hard expeeience .by the French and British surgeons in the first two years of the wag, and oUr medical tarps is highly fortunate in haeing the fruit of British and F porsean l.ch medical experienceth at i and 6,000 rounds before it re - mechanical attention. But the Deceptive Arguments. • Dece tive arguments used in the past ba the German junkers to mis- lead the people are summarized by the Ha sburg Echo, inalts issue of August 12, witOthe comment, "the Getman people are •now paying for all this." A state department de - patch quotes the German paper as saying: "Eve its of the last week have a deep siemificance for the nation and its rules. • The following pan -Ger- man ar uments deceive themselves and oth rs: "'The(Americans are bluffing, Ind will nev r declare war.' " 'That if war is declared America g itself against Japan i and send soldiers to EueopeS the submarines wouldi sink the submarines would France.' England would be starved e submarines.' is axial wAl not " 'The; the troo " blockade " `Tha out by t " 'That. Germany's firm attitude toward ttie U. S. would bring the neutrals o their side'." WANTS MANY VASSALS. New Gernial if Ambition 'Voiced by Vice -Chancellor. 1 Permanent economic and military union betemen Germany and Austria- Hungary, "with the gradual dis- appearance of customs duties and frontiers," is proposed by Frederich von Payer. Imperial Vice -Chancellor of Germany, in eStaternent published in the Nee Prie Presse of Vienna , and quote. in the Vassische Zeitung Of Berlin. 1 Included in this scheme of a mittell-Europa under'domination of tb.e Ceniral powers are Russia, Po- land, Bulg , ria and Turkey. The Vice - Chancellor; points out that, witig this union once affected, the pea dde of Europe-woUld, be in the hands of the Teutonic allies, the settlement of vex- ing problettis arising from the war would be Xaade more easy, and the ,2 solution of j internal questions would also be fa ilitated. fn his statement the Vice -Chancel- lor said in art:. ' "The pre ent form 9f the alliance is inadequate. In view of the fact that hital 4uestions are concerned, the duratioit of the alliance -must not .depend continually on the feelings at the moment. Successive treaties of short duratipn lapse. The union must be so intimate that the idea of separ- ation practi. ally would'be out of the question an the centre of gravity of mthe alliance must be laid in an econo- mio union." , After ,explaining why such a union offered ,brigibt ' prospects, Herr, von Payer said t,hat all these advantages • Mineral Wool. A pure white. mineral wool is be- ing manufactured. at Yarraville, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, from basalt rock or "blue stone," The Rookie Vocabulary. Rooks, declares a writer in the Neve Statesmen, undoubtedly have a considerable vocabulary. Words are "uttered *hen we move euddenty 'be- neath the trees, and other words when a bird intrudes on the precinct* of a neighbor's nest; there is a word when. the rook sinks down upon the nest, and another wont when it flies clear of the rookery and makes for the fields, what danger -signals, what scoldings, what satisfaction, what exultation, what reproaches, whet encoura,gements do we not hear? There is no doubt that the members of the crew family have the fine brains ° and a notable power of vocali- sation. - Next Question. 1 ' - "Our friend Wombat IS coraplaina ing about broken glass in the streets." "When did he buy a car?" z SEPTEMBER 11000m-aws! Bindle ebert Je kiE 1111115===iiiinii. (Continued from our last bit "'Ullo," he muttered,, "should surprised if there wasn't soni on. New, Joe B., for the V. C pauper's grave." • Creeping stealthily along the shadow of •the wall, he cam up to the man without being ed. Just as he gave vent to th( Whistle, Bindle caught him b 13TM. "Now, then, young feller, we this about? 3. 'eard you. ges" Bindle exclaimed in ;ast merit, "where did you spring sir?" It was Dick Little. "I was jug a-goin' to run t for a burglar," "Well, you wouldn't have be wrong," replied Little. "I'm b( theft!' "Right -oh," said Bindle. yer., special or no speeial. Wh yer stestlin', if it ain't a rude tion?" "A girl," Little replied. Bindle whistled significantly. • In the conrse of the next Ate utes Diek Little eaplained that in love with a girl winose peopi approveof him, ond she was keptl, erisoner in the house in tion. At night he was some able to eet a few teorde with her dinner, sae eunaddne a laddei talkie.; to him fim a, thc top 4 garden .;:a.1.1. of these nights," Little eluded, "we're goin' he make for it. dove-" he suddenly off. "Yoa're, the very man; help, of -eoterse." ' Tip said Bindle; "o' cour . We„Iles oti/? 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