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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1921-08-12, Page 3a►�l g: y mall Is ,a good way" of dot ig' business,: without the necessity of tcoming-' into town yourself. Forward your deposits ° to us by money order • or registered mail. The amounts will be acknowledged and added to your account upon receipt, THE fi,E DOJ 621 SEAFORTH BRANCH, • R.fANK JONES, Manager. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. cosawcwwwwe `HE HURON EXPOSITOR DISTRICT MATTEQS CHOLERA'INFANTUM Cholera infantum is one of the fa- tal ailments of childhood. It is a trouble that comes on suddenly, es- pecially during the summer months, and unless prompt action is taken the little one may soon be beyond aid. Baby's Own Tablets are an ideal medicine in warding off this trouble. They regulate the bowels and sweet- en the stomach and thus prevent all the dread summer complaints. Concerning' them Mra. Fred Rose, of South Bay, Ont., says: "I feel Dolby's Own Tablets saved the life di' our baby when she had cholera infantum and I would hot be without 'them." The Tablets are sold by Medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. WHY DOES SPARKS FOLLOW THE STRIKING OF STONE - WITH METAL, One of the primary laws of nature as translated into everyday language under the name of the "Principle of the Conservation of Energy," is that nothing in the universe—either en- ergy or matter—is ever really wast- ed, that it is transformed into some- thing else or some other form of energy. In the majority of cases con- nected with force this energy mani- fests itself in the form of heat, which may or may not be used to form other types of force. In striking a piece of metal against a stone, therefore, the energy expend- ed is not lost, but is changed into a certain number of heat units depend- ing upon the amount of force exert- ed. Owing to the great friction be- tween the two surfaces this heat is developed fairly quickly—as may be noted by the difference in tempera- ture in the head of a hammer which has been used for driving a number of nails and one which is lying idle —and, also because of the friction, tiny particles of the metal or the stone are chipped off. and, red hot from the heat, manifest themselves. as what we call "sparks." It was upon this principle that the old flint- lock guns used to work andthe same idea underlies the flint -box -and -tin- der fashion of kindling a fire which antedated the invention of matches. FADS AND FUN IN PREMIER DRURY'S MAIL, MANY OF HIS 500 DAILY LETTERS AMUSING. When a man becomes a prime min- ister several hundreds of people at once place hint on their mailing list. The vast amount of information and influence he is supposed to possess, ' and the far greater quantity of ad- vice he is assumed to be in need of are best revealed by a glance through his morning mail. Every day Premier E. C. Drury re- ceives an average of 500 letters at the parliament 'buildings. Most of these communications have to do witn routine business, and are passed on to the various departments to be dealt with. Others of a similar nature that call for the premier's personal atten- tion are retained until he has seen them, generally within a short period after receipt. Mr. Drury cleans up his mail very quickly, dictating important replies only, and leaving the remainder to his secretary to answer from brief , pencilled shorthand notes in a top I corner. Not infrequently the prem- ier will go to the trouble of per- sontilly writing a careful reply to a correspondent who has sent in a long, rambling communication. If the let- ter indicates a genuine desire for en-, lightenment, it is answered, and the sender is put right on some matter of policy. A. great many letters find their way into Premier Drury's mailbag, how- ever, which neither h5 nor his deputy nor his secretary can answer. Some of them are almost illegible. There is a weekly postcard, for example, that never fails to put in an appear- ance covered with such minute call- graphy that a magnifying glass is necessary in order to read it. It is sonic time now since anyone attempt- ed to find out what this particular correspondent is striving to get off his chest. Another regular arrival is a six or eight -page letter which turns up once a week, and sometimes oftener, giving solid chunks of Scripture for the edification of Ontario's first cit- izen. A third weekly bulletin comes from a man who has been demanding set- tlement of an imlaginary claim against the government for over twenty years. (lis case 'has been carefully investigated and dismissed as ground- less several times, but hope springs eternal in his breast, Net satisfied with writing, he haunts the lobbies, and his last communication enclosed a statement,. showing . the original claim of $206 increased by compound • interest to 0,500. Lawsuits which the .litigants wish the premier, to push along form the burden of many letters. One man whose case hangs fire is very per- sistent in requesting (Mr. Drury's assistance in getting a move on. As :n inducement he has several times ;lipped a postal order for $25 into he envelope. Needless to say, this mute but powerful persuader has al - .says been returned. If a line appears in the newspapers that JYIr. Drury is suffering from a slight cold or that his throat has be- come ecome affected, dozens of kind old wo- men of both sexes all over the pro- vince immediately proceed to stuff his mail bags with proven recipes for fighting anything frotp a chill to la grippe. Recommendations of patent medicines and other physics from grateful users are feceived in shoals. One man wrote at length describing his exclusive and infallible treatment for blood -poisoning and "white swell- ing of the feet." lie ended his latest epistle with thh sublime boast: "I can cure any case of blood -poisoning at white swelling on a bet." Possibly the most extraordinary request sent to the Ontario premier was from a woman. In a long, type- written letter, giving a great deal of family history in detail, she frankly confessed that she had been in the Don jail for three weeks, and that she had just escaped from an asylum. In her hasty flight she had been com- pelid to leave her clothes behind, and would Mr. Drury kindly see that these garments were forwarded to her? Many inventors consider the prem- ier a shortcut to fame. Ideas for submarines and wireless telegraphy are su-bfnitted for his approval. One very persistent correspondent, a lady, has invented a patent ballot -box, which she is extremely anxious Mr. Drury 'should efidorse. Premiers, however, investigate ballot -(boxes only when they must, and this one has little chance of getting past the turn- stile at parliament buildings. Mr. Drury's farmer friends have not forgotten him. Quite recently a live rooster was consigned to him at Queen's Park. 'Baskets of big, mealy potatoes are frequent arrivals, while samples of grain and clover seed are legion. Thousands of cards are showered upon Mr. Drury at Christmas, and a surprising number of people remem- her his birthday in similar, as well as more substantial, ways. Editors oi` farm papersin the United States and England, as well as in Canada, solicit articles for their columns. Re- quests of every description for sub- scriptions to charities come in a steady shower. So far this summer Mr. Drury has received invitations to five' hundred picnics, and last winter he had to turn down nearly four hun- dred banquets, being able to accept about fifty only of the invitations tendered. The Misses Dolorosa, Katherine and Theresa O'Brien, a "triplet set" of sisters, are engaged as school teach- ers in Fond du Lac, Wis. LISTLESS, PEEVISH GIRLS !When a girl• in her teens becomes peevish, listless and dull, when noth- ing seems to interest her and dainties dot not tempt her appetite you may be certain that she needs more good blood than her system is provided with. Before long her pallid cheeks, frequent headaches, and breathless- ness and heart palpitation will con- firm that she is anaemic. Many mothers as the result of their own girlhood experience can promptly de- tect the early signs of anaemia, and the wise mother -does not wait for the trouble to develop further, but at once gives her daughter a course with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which I renew the blood supply and banish anaemia before it has obtained a hold upon the system. Out of their experience thousands of mothers know that anaemia is the sure road to worse ills. They know the difference that good red blood makes in the development of wo- manly health. Every headache, every gasp for breath that follows the slightest exertion by the anaemic girl every pain she suffers in her hack and limbs are reproaches if you have not taken the best steps to give your weak girl new blood, and the only sure way to do so is through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. New, rich red blond is infused in- to the system by every dose of these pills. From this new rich bland springs good health, an increased ap- petite, new energy, high spirits and perfect womanly development. Give your daughter Dr. ' Williams' Pink Pills, and take them yourself and note how promptly their influence is felt in better health. You can get these pille through any dealer in medicine or by mail post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr, Wil- liams' Medicine Oo., Brockville, Ont. I Ms' $4; Hit. bash lav- + $tirleM Rya Qf. M4rt00401,1 In th0'Itallatl Capital : < ugh the flight of•i ay 23 were "Thowitches ;OW' la-iltvtue. so seriaup accident wag repotted next day, The witches Which fly on broomsticks be tureen the ancient !tills of the Castle and .Eaquiline appareatlewere afraid of the broom and the basin of salt put outside so many doors and went home In despair. 1eiay 29, is St. John the Baptist's day, one always kept by old-fashioned Romans as a day for eating snail& Snails are the Ronson Idea of the locusts which St. John the Baptist ate when In the desert: But why witches should, try to take possession of Rime on the night before his feast day 15 • a uivstery, They do fly about on I broumsllol:s. says popular report, and I call and It broom alone will keep them moi of homes. iiy some bidden law which the itossene themselves don't try to an- emia] fur, no witch will enter a house Ie''fore which stand a basin of salt and n bro,,,u unit( she has counted every grain of salt In the basin and all the w tats In the broom. As the nights ore short In May the witch gives up the task In despair, knowing she could never finish her job before sunrise. The night oP May 28 Is a great night for tlje Roman people; they gather in the fields outside St. John Lateran, eat snails, dance, sing and throw flow- ers at each other, An odd modern note Is given by an enormous merry-go-round, opposite the ancient church -dedicated to St. John. Its wooden horses go round and round to American rugthnes, fox trots and bunny -hugs. It is a mixture of old and new worthy of riot extraordinary city, where all the centuriesget juin- bled up together and make friends In a way you might search the world for and not fled elsewhere. 'rhe May night festival Is older than John the Baptist and necks the tradi- tion of the old Roman springtime jol- lity called the luperenll. These feasts were In honor of the wolf which red Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of the city. A real live wolf Is kept In the capitol till that day in memory of this one: for had there been no wolf to feed the twins there would be no Rome today, the Romans argue. Is It Pseudo -Science? Human intellect is•so partial to a generalization that even men of sci- ence eonsl'antly are guilty of general- izing upon an Insullclent basis of facts. A learned professor of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati invites us to be- lieve that the older the parents the bettor the chances of distinction for the children. IIe draws Lis conclusion from what he says are the facts concerning cattle and horses. But only the other day we rend a dissertation by another sci- entist warning against taking for al. futon the history of the domestic ani- mals, asserting that the human race, ns for as heredity Is concerned, Is as much a wild species as lions, ele- phants, or wplves. The Cincinnati savant also derives his induction from the facts concern- ing the parentage of illustrious men, Franklin, 1.Inc iia, Newton, for in- stance, the sum of whose parents' ages at their birth was high. Yet it is n fact that the mother of Napoleon at the time of his birth was hitt eight- een and his father amrcely thirty. And the illustration can he repeated many times. Make Study of Botulism. A stun of money has been raised by the olive growers and the canning In- dustry for nn Intensive study of botul- Ism In California. According to Sci- ence, the investigation will be conduct- ed In the laboratories of the Stanford t'niversity Medical school and the (Image William Hooper Foundation for Medical Research of the University of California, and the co-operation of the United Slates health service and the California state board of health. The investigation will include a easeful study of the distribution of the ba- cillus hotnlinus in nature, of the ways In which food materials may become Infected, and of the steps necessary to destroy the organism when It has Infected raw food materials. A staff of' specially trained workers has been engaged and It Is expected that the work will require at least two years. Impressing the Office Boy. "The secret of success, son," said the boss to the new boy, "is absolute, complete consecration of time to busi- ness." "Yea, sir." "In Cruestablishment, we never look at the clock—never look at the clock—" "I won't sir." "That's right, tnc hay. Never look tit the clock when pou're at the office, Never look at the civet: except In the morning, Imok mit the alarm clock. son —early to work, never al (tone, makes a ratan independent. That'it do, son; now gel the duster.•"—R lcltmond Times -Dispatch. Ancient Inquiry, "We are stIll seeking," said the art• elitist. "to nseertnin the exact inn-. pose for whirr the pyramids of Egypt wm'e ro sl r111.1cli.,, "1 -es.'. replied ',man tor Sorghum, Rh. scat-ntiudedly. 'Sonic of these Inver. tigntions do lake n lone lime." Horse Racing Records. The 'Year Book erudite 85,0515 trot- ters with records of a Inlle in 2:30 or better and 26,670 pacfrs In the 2:28 For identification cards a new holder can be folded together and worn as a watch charm. . Sale Price Women's Large Coverall Bungalo Aprons 98c Made of (1nod Quality Prints in lightan,1 dark shades—All neat patterns --An Ideal kit- chen apron especially adapted for warm tt ('antler wear. Sale Price 98c Special Sale of Children's Dresses Made of prints, ginghams and chambrays; cleverly made in attractive styles, all nicely trimmed. Sizes, two years to 11 years. Special Price $1.79 Great Cleaiin, Women's Voile Dreg $9:45 This sale includes every Fancy Voile Dress in stock, ranging from $12 to $20. This includes a host of patterns and colors, all cut in the cleverest styles, made of the very newest patterns in high-grade Voiles. You can not afford to miss this opportunity. Come early and get first choice. See our windows for special display — Then come inside and see the whole stock. Sizes 16 years to 44 bust. - $9.45 Overalls $1.65 •These are high grade overalls. Well and perfect- ly made, we guarantee every pair. Price $1.65 Men's Work Shirts $1.29 Regular $1.75 and $2.00 Work Shirts of blue cham- bray, fancy stripes, khaki, black and white stripes, all double stitched. Generous- ly cut and substantially made, a Big Bargain.. All sizes, 14 to 17. $1.29 Men's Fine Cotton Hose 25c Good quality for fine shoes, black or tan. All sizes, 10 to 111,',- Price 25c STKWART BROS., SEAFORTH e t��tft� afiszn:.r•k( ht f mixt` ota�.:x��. ii" Big Reduction in Famous Snag Proof Overalls Here is an opportunity to buy high grade Overalls in black or blue and white stripe, in good weight Denin. These are not sale overalls; they are Overalls that sold regularly at $2.75. All sizes. SALE PRICE $1.95 - $9.45 Overalls $1.65 •These are high grade overalls. Well and perfect- ly made, we guarantee every pair. Price $1.65 Men's Work Shirts $1.29 Regular $1.75 and $2.00 Work Shirts of blue cham- bray, fancy stripes, khaki, black and white stripes, all double stitched. Generous- ly cut and substantially made, a Big Bargain.. All sizes, 14 to 17. $1.29 Men's Fine Cotton Hose 25c Good quality for fine shoes, black or tan. All sizes, 10 to 111,',- Price 25c STKWART BROS., SEAFORTH e t��tft� afiszn:.r•k( ht f mixt` ota�.:x��. ii"