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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1920-11-05, Page 6THE TIVRON EXPOSI1VR DR.—F. J. R. FORSTER . Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat - Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late Assistant New York Ophthal- mnei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Mr. J. Ran. kin's Office, Seaforth, third Wednes• day in each month from 11 a.nl. to 3 pen, 53 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. Phone 267, Stratford. CONSULTING ENGINEERS The E. A. JAMBES Co., Limited E. M. Proctor, E.A.,Sc., Manager 36 Toronto Sie, Toronto, Can. Bridges, Pavements, Waterworks, sewer- age ewerage Systems, Incinerators.. schools. Public Halls, Housings, Factories, Arbi- trations, Litigation. Our 'Feces Usually paid oat of the money we save our ;Bents. LEGAL R. S. HAYS. Barrister Solicitor,Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do- minion Banks Seaforth. Money to loan. J. M. BEST Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Office upstairs ever Walker's Furniture Store, Main Street, Seaforth. PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND COOKE Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub- lic, etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth on Monday of each week. Office in Kidd Block. W. Proudfoot, K.C., J. L. Killoran, H. J. D. Cooke. VETERINARY F. HARBURN, V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College, and honorary member of • the Medical Association of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats diseases of all domestic animals by the most mod - f Ern principles.Dentistry and Milk Fever a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All orders left at the hotel will re- ceive prompt attention. Night calls received at the office JOHN GRIEVE, V. S. Honor graduate of Ontario Vetern- 'o►ry College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- arinary Dentistry a specialty.. Office and residence on Goderich street, one eloor east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea - forth. • MEDICAL DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN. Osteophatic Physician of Goderich. Specialist in Women's and Children's teases, reheumatism, acute, chronic and nervous disorders; eye, ear, nose and throat. Conaulation free. Office above Umback's Drug store, Seaforth, Tuesdays. and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m • C. J. W. HARN, M.D.C.M. 425 Richmond Street, London, Ont., Specialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin- ary diseases of men and women. 1 1 DR. J. W. PECK Graduate of Faculty of Medicine McGill University, Montreal; Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons sof Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coun- cil. of Canada; Post -Graduate Member of Resident Medical staff of General` Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2 doors east of Post Office. Phone 56- Hensall. 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 & MACKAY 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- ty University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians- and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. 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 Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 6, Night Calls answered from residence, Vic- toria Street, Seaforth. THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling up phone 97, Seaforth or The Expositor Office. Charges mod orate and satisfaction guaranteed. Inomommis R. T. LUKER Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to in all parts of the county. Seven years' ex- perLence in Manitoba and Saskatche- wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No: 171 r11, Exeter, Centralia P. 0. R. IL No. 1. Orders left at The Huron E*posiitot Office, Seaforth, promptly at - boded. ENGLAND AND WALES A fried potato chip that lodged in the gullet of. a 21 year old child at Bath,- caused its death. Derelict land produced 148 sacks of corn, besides crops of roots, pota- toes and hay this year. The land about 2,100 acres was farmed by the Kent .Agricultural Committee. It is estimated that one year's ctop will fully repay the cost, of reclamation, A discovery of Cobalt in the Peak of Derbyshire has been announced by Mr. C. S. Garnett, of Sheffield Uni- versity. Cobalt is rare in England, only small deposists 'having been re- corded in Cumberland and Cornwall. Coal gas caused' the death of a widower, 57, quarryman and ;his four children, aged 13, 11, 8 and 7, at Stan- hope, Durham. A gas pipe has been laid through a hole in the ceiling of the bedroom/, where the bodies were found. The father had been suffering from eczema, but had no signs of de- pression. Neighbors said he was very fond of Ms children. Hatpin assault on a young farmer, who was found on the outskirts of Colchester, may cause, his death. He was removed•to• a hospital where his condition was considered critical, as the wound is in the region of the heart. He alleged that he was stab- bed by a woman. It is stated, that much force must have been used to drive the hatpin through the thick clothes he was wearing. STORY OF AIR RAIDS IS NOW PUBLISHED Except for certain details—the most interesting of all—that might help a future enemy power, what= happened in England as a result of air raids has been gleaned from of- ficial reports and published. in the London Times. Generally speaking the airship raids were a failure, be- ing more costly to Germany than to Britain, and they had virtually ceased bore the armistice. The airplane raids, however, were not so success- fully dealt with, and might have had much more serious results had it not been for the fact that the scarcity of good machines was a sore prob- lem' with the Germans toward the end of the war. The blockade forced them to use materials in construction they never would have used had they been . able to make a choice. Their pilots were good, and even hadicapp- ed by. inferior craft the attack seem- ed to be gaining on the defence as the struggle came to a close. The prob- lem of defending a city from air raids was not solved in the Great War. The first attack was made by an airplane the night before Christmas in the first year of the war, when a bomb was dropped on Dover. On January 19, the first hostile airship appeared and bombed Yarmouth and King's . Lynn. The enemy naval ships sailing from Northern Germany while the military ships operated. from Belgium: The naval ships were more daring and better hand- led Mathy, Hirsch, Bocker and Petersen were the most successful of the pilots. Whether their identity was known at the time of the raids is not known but now the British Government is probably in a position to name every man who flew over England. The captains, with the exception of Brocker .who was cap- tured, were killed. Hirsch was lost in a thunderstorm over the North Sea. Petersen was burnt at Billeri- cay, and Mathy and his ship were brought down in a mass of flames at Potter's Bar. Germany had no other pilots to take their place and this put an end to the airship raids toward the end of 1916 with the ex- ception of one raid undertaken in August, 1918, L-70, newest of the Zeps, was one of the five invaders. She was attacked by an airplane squadron under. Major Cadbury, and an explosive bullett caused her to burst/ into flames. Her companions then turned tail. In the early raids the Zeps were defiant of the British anti aircraft guns, and came contemptuously close to earth. Later on the guns improved, and the ships avoided po- sitions they knew to be defended and concentrated their efforts upon open cities. The first airship to be brought down was a military ship SL -11, destroyed by the heroic Lieut. Robinson, who shortly afterwards lost his life, leaving behind him a name that will never' be forgotten in the Great War. A "German of- ficer has since confessed that what defeated the German airships was the fear of the crews of the gas. It was not the bullets or fragments of shell piercing their own skins that shook their n-erves, but the fear that one of the incendiary bullets might enter the gas bag, and destroy them all by fire. Then as the anti aircraft guns increased in range the Zeppe- lins had to sail so high that most of the time the crews had to wear • re- spirators. There was another reason: "It was wonderful how you used the airplanes; and it was astonishing to us to find - out how much you knew. about us. Two of our men who came back from England after having been taken prisoners were astounded at the way your officers knew all about our services. We had always laughed at your childish commun- iques; they were always an endless source of jokes in 'our mess -hut. But after 1916 we suddenly began to feel that you knew all about us, and that you knew when we were com- ing, and we cursed your com- muniques, and wondered • if nothing we could, do would ever make you tell more and show that you were afraid of us. You got to know all. abdut our weaknesses, and you knew how to use what weapons you had in consequence. One of our men told us that one of your officers chaffed him about the public -house which he used to frequent . in, bis love-sick days at Friedrichshaven. i It gave one an uncanny feeling, and made one feel very anxious about having spies at our. sheds, and we believed that it was an English spy who set fire to the. great sheds at • Ahlhorn. The end of our service was not far off when the armistice came." As regards the airplane raids, it is disclosed that all of them except one were carried out by direction of the General Staff and not of the Army Commander of the Fourth Army to which the raiders, were at- tached. There were "numerous - raids on London, and usually it was the) .,East End that suffered most. Once a penny bank was destroyed, and later, on the Germans exhibited' pic- tures of it which were circulated to prove that the Bank of England had been wrecked. One day in 1916 fourteen airplanes flew over Lon- don in daylight and dropped 110 bombs within a mile radius of Liver- pool station, killing 159 persons, and injuring 424. The greatest of air- plane raids was on May 19, 1917, when thirteen Gothas flew over Lon- don, doing great material damage but destroying few lives. The raid was a mostcostly one to the invad- ers for seven of them were destroyed. Among those killed was the captain of squadron, an event that .. help- ed wreck German morale, for there- 'after here-.after the squadron remained almost inactive; • and found more,, pleasure in carousing than in strafing Eng- land. WHY . THE ESKIMOS MATURE ' EARLY It has generally been supposed that among the peoples of the earth the age of maturity domes earliest in the tropics, and increases gradually as one goes northward through the ,temperate and eventually into the Polar zone. It has been presumed that a similar condition would be found in going south "°from the` Equa- tor toward. -the Southern Pole. If the age of maturity increases with fair regularity as one goes north through Europe from Sicily to Lap- land, it would seem reasonable that this has a direct connection with the decrease in temperature, and the as- sumption - has accordingly- been gen- erally made. But in North America this rule, if it be a rule, has a strik- ing exception, writes ' Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the Jod'rnal of the American Medical Association. It is not rare among Eskimo women that • they have their first child at the age of twelve; and children born before the mothers were eleven have been recorded in places where the age of the mother can be in no doubt, be- cause of the fact that her birth had been recorded by a resident mission- ary. It is a curious.. thing that during twelve years of association with the Eskimos, during which time I have spoken and written a great deal about their manner), of life, it never occur- red to me until some two or three months ago that their early maturity is strictly in accord• with the supposi- tion that the hotter the environment the earlier • the maturity. For to all intents and purposes the typical Eskimo in the country known to me lives under tropical or sub- tropical conditions. During the win- ter of 1906-1907 I recorded the esti- mate that the average temperature within doors of the Eskimo house in which I lived at the mouth of the Mackenzie River was a good `deal a- bove 80 F., and frequently rose to 90 F. From the point of view of those who spent most of the winter indoors in that house, it was a matter of no consequence that the tempera- ture was perhaps 40 or 50 degrees below zero outdoors, when the out- door air seldom came in contact with their bodies. Even when they go out, this cold air does not have a chance to come in contact with the body, except for the limited area of the face. When an Eskimo is well dressed his two layers of fur clothing im- prison the body heat so effectively that the air i:n actual `contact with his skin is always at the temperature of ' a tropical summer. It is true, therefore, that while an Eskimo is indoors his entire body is exposed to a local climate as warm as that of Sicily, and when he is outdoors he carries that climate about with him inside his clothes and applicable to 90 or 95 per cent. of his body area. Mr. Stefansson says that the In- dians have no such means of protec- tion from the cold, and that there- fore the more northerly of these ma- ture late. - - Catarrh Can Be Cured Catarrh is a local disease greatly influ- enced by constitutional conditions. It therefore requires constitutional treat- ment. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE destroys the `foundation of the disease, gives the patient strength by improving the general health and assists nature in doing its work. All Druggists. Circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co,, Toledo, OhIo, came a eort of library." The Cis- tercians had a separate bookroom theof by beginning the twelfth cen- tury. At first this was a small room, usually between the . chapter -house and the transept of the church. Tho Cistercian book-closete grew "from, a single recess in the wall close to the church to a pair of more or less spacious rooms without, however, discarding the original book press in the cloister near the church door." By the end of the fiifteenth - cen- tury, the great monasteries had so many books, scattered all over the building, that they began to build special library rooms. Till the mid- dle of the eleventh century all books, and after that most of them. were kept locked up. Only the librarian and sub -librarian were permitted to handle them. Our covetous race of poor lay bibliophiles will think eym= patheticallly of these monks. Their mouths must have watered as ours do for their favorite books. Was it Coleridge who said that a book ought to belong to the person best fitted to read it? In the fifteenth century began the habit of chain- ing books to desks; and this betaine the rule by the beginning of the fourteenth century. At St. Mark's, Florence, and - at the Malatesta Lib- rary in Cesena, "all books were chained to desks;" The Reformation made no difference in library fittings and customs. The Protestant confi- dence in the good intentions of read- ers• was no .greater than the Catholic. The Vatican Library, built in 1587, was the first tos unchain books. By- 1700 most Continental libraries had emancipated their books. Eng- land stuck longer to the old ways. At Eton the chains continued to clank till 1719; at the, Bodleian, Ox- ford, till 1757; at Merton College. Oxford, till 1792. Even in Prance the Medical Faculty of the Univer- sity of Paris was still fettering its books in 1770. In the Gloucester- shire town of Cirencester the library books were kept in chains as late as 1867. As the' accomplished author of the article, the Rev. John M. Lenhart, of St. Augustine's Monas- tery, Pittsburg, tells us, the library of to -day with its open shelves and unchained books is a very modern invention. which became fixed as it were, throughout Continental Europe by the end of the seventeenth cen- tury, and in, England by the end of the eighteenth century. Different systems were invented and adopted. In most cases books were chained to reading desks -in shelves. The WHEN BOOKS WERE KEPT IN CHAINS In The Catholic World a learned and charming article on "Chained Bibles Before and After the Refor- mation" gives much not generally known information about mediaeval libraries and the continuance of med- iaeval library customs. For the first thousand years of the Christian Era neither Bibles nor other books were kept in chains, says the New -York Times. For the first seven hundred years the Christian libraries were modeled on the Roman. The wonder- ful Vatican Library reproduces es- sentially an old Roman library. The books are not seen. They are kept "in plain w000den presses or chests, set round the piers and against the walls." With the advance of Christ- ianity, Christian libraries, consisting of service -books, copies of the Bible, books of Liturgy and devotion, were graduallly formed in or near the churches. Mediaeval and modern libraries owe their origin - rather to the lib- raries h- raries collected in the monasteries in Egypt. It is curious to learn that the Benedictines, dear to all lovers of literature, had originallly no sep- arate room for their books. When there were too many of these " to be stored in the church, they were kept. In pressers in the cloister. Till 1 500 these were commonly used. "The book -press was a recess in the wall, frequently found just outside the church door in the cloister." As books accumulated room was found for then in. detached wooden presses. Finallly, "the whole monastery be libraries first built in= the f iteenth century by monasteries and colleges were narrow, long monis, lighted by rows of equidistant windows. The fittings were lecterns of wood. On these' the books were laid on their flat sides, each volume being fast- ened by ,a chain. to a bar usually placed over the desk but occasion- ally in front, of it as well as beneath it. The readers sat on benches im- I movably fixed opposite to eaeh, win.- down. This was called "the lectern systems," and prevailed -in one form i and another through the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, A specimen of- it is still on view at Zutphen, in Holland, iirt the library of the Church of St. Peter and Wal- burga. This was a public library. It dates from 1563. 1 NOVEMB n 1892 R 5, 1920. We first offered, the public our Niiiiioss now use it to their utmost faction r fSTtt O' r . 150.000 - W3 • CASL3 • RMED LATVIA. LITHUANIA 100 • MILES f ERMANY. -Iriiii • ii+. POLAND. ESTIMATE - Of • TYPHUS CASES,, 1,2o. 2so,o0oj IN •THE•GREAT • TERRITORY. ENCLOSED - BETWEEN •TME -LIMES •A-a,-C-1),•Tt1ERE•iS•EACK•Of,, FOOD. MEDICAL•SUPP UES. CLOTHING. DOCTORS. FUEL. NURSES. HOSPITAL • ACCOMMODATION. - TYPHUS,. CONSUMPTION, • SMALL •• PDX,.ANQ OTHER • DISEASES • RAGING • 114 •'UNCHECKED • VIOLENCE . THE • CHILDREN •ARE -TME •GREATEST • Starr ERERS- ELEVEN • MILLIONS • O/ • THEM • ARE • WAR • ORPHANS. THE • PEOPLE • ARE • 5O • BESET • WITH • HUMAN • MISERY • THAT • THEY • ARE - HELPLESS Jaz tG, t; �..•'.,.�' ~� . iirr • °fir "At: V'4Il GALICIA. TYPHUS •'RAGING/ VERY *FEW • AGARY USTRIA. A / N DEATH •R i •� •; • N • AAYE. = 0f • 187,000 E a' N EN • EXAMINED • 167 ILL • NOURISH • 0* • D EAJLD� fr •b. � kfy� O• `t! e•it .(eNve..41,?,1 • ?fro.°4; UKRAINE. IN • SOME • VILLAGES • HALF • THE • PEOPLE •.ILL • AT • THE •SAME • TIME c Iffo ROUMAN'IA . I °or TUWCRCVLOSLI •SPREAD • ALARMINGLY : SMALL-PDX • •is' REPORTED • 'PREVALENT : WEN: Study this Map It tells --but only partly tells—the Story of Misery in -Central Europe. Within the great territory between the black Tines millions of destitute children are doomed to grow tip weak and deformed through want of fats, milk and sugar, unless immediate help comes from without HERBERT HOOVER, invited to speak at a Canadian Red Cross meeting, said : "Our problem over the forthcoming winter appears to - be about 3,500,000 to 4,000,000 children. "These children are the obligation of every man, woman and child in the Western Hemisphere, for we have suffered less; but, beyond this, they are a charge on the heart of the whole world." The Canadian Red Cross appeals on behalf of The British Empire War Relief Fund (To Combat Distress and Disease in Europe) $10.00 will save a child ; $1.00 will give it "saving" food for a month. Help in this humane work by sending or bringing your subscription to: the nearest local Red Cross Branch ,or to The Canadian Red Cross Societyv, 410 Sherbourne Street, Toronto. Thi The cni� She divide tween the '"My fa wonderful Appletons I'm :sorry any ocea topic. 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