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mate it; Medicine, University of
etant New York Opiltiz$1-
anal Institute, Maorefield'a
,Golden Square Throat Hos-
7;01009 Eng, At office in Scott
over Umbaaba Drug Store,
tkrd. Wednesday •ia each
rfltlr from i1 a.m, to 3 p.m. 63
Waterloo StreetSmith, Stratford.
Phone 267, Stratford.
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CONSULTING ENGINEERS
James, Proctor & Redfern, Ltd.
B. IL Proctor, B.An,Bc„ Manager
, 36 Toronto St., Toronto, Cat
nriams. Pavements, Waterworks, m s. -
tee Systems, lnelneratwn, Schools,
Pabtla nem. Hauainge. Factories, arbi-
trations. Litigation.
OW Fear:—i)*lo,Ct sold mut of
the mousy we mars sue clients
MERCHANTS CASUALTY CO.
Specialists in Health and Accident
Insurance.
Policies liberal and unrestricted.
Over $1,000,000 paid in losses.
Exceptional opportunities for local
Agents.
904 ROYAL BANK BLDG., - -
1778-50 Toronto, Ont.
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LEGAL
R. S. HAYS.
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do-
minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. • Money to
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BEST & BEST
Barristers, Solicitors, Convey-
ancers .,and Notaries Public, Fite.
Office in the Edge Building, opposite
The Expositor Office.
w PROUDFOOT. KILLORAN AND
HOLMES
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub -
tic. etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
on Monday of each week. Office in
Kidd Block. W. Proudfoot, S.C., J.
L. Killoran, B. E. Holmes.
VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. 8.
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-
ern principles. Dentistry and Milk
Fever a specialty. Office opposite
Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seafortb.
All orders left at the hotel, will re -
!wive prompt attention. Night calla
received at the office
JOHN GRIEVE, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderich street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's office, Sea -
forth.
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MEDICAL
a J. W. HARN, M.D.C.M.
426 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
diet, Surgery and Genio-Urin-
tary diastases of men end women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
McGill University; Montreal; member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Conn-
ell of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
of Resident edical
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, Seafortb
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
gedns 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
Ciueago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
Jifngland; University Hospital, Lon-
e/on, England. Office—Back of Do-
tyfinion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 6,
ght calla answered from residence,
.tteria street, Seaforth.
AUCTIONEERS
THOMAS BROWN
ed anctioneer for the counties
and Perth. Correspondence
eats for sale dates can be
by calling nphone 97, Seaforth
,•<`: osltarOfce. Charges mod.
and satisfaction guaranteed.
T. LUKER
tad arietioneer for the C8'unty
Sales attended to in all
Tie coptity. Seven gears' m( -
ds Manitoba and Saakatchen
s
reasonable. Pitons No.
kis P. 0, R,
Ms eft et The interni
fNiier>; Sea1ortb, proltnpfly
tn� attghe
�,p•Q�tlldataYo Ammo
>d ', TWentyt Prophets,
JOiai; etvatioirell by a whirler
efie ding to the mitten) story It was
lisp "of this nature that eutertalued
khe" prephet ht 11s laterite for three
'stmt unrl nights, but the limited size of
the whuteee lhi•otu predud .0. the posaf-
hlilty t4 Its swatlowlug e Sulu.
However, there was ranght at ,b11 -
mill. Via., recently, a flab uhtit could
have method on 20 .luratts without
tattering the slightest pang of Indiges-
tion, and au+uog rite many persons who
.lave even the ash are clergymen whe
'lave formulated the theory thet.It wax
really a Osh of thio species that 'await -
:owed Jonah.
Here he the way thta denizen et tke
.seep Melee up "lo the way of dimen-
slouul figures: The ust weight of tke
Mk when eaugbt, act Iactudiug its
lust weal, was 36,000 pounds. Its liver
uloue touched the beam et 1,400
pounds; whletl is about the weight of
u hefty Yailock. Troia end to end it
ntoa.euree 40 feet, which le equal to the
, otnbiued length of eight normal rtes,
At the thickest part, the ekrasfer-
euce la 23 feet 0 laches.
Cue of the most impressive features
of the fist' Is its month, welch is 50
inches wide mid 43 taches deep. lie
Side of the mouth et a tongue 40 Iatchesa,
end it has a tsttittide of teeth snuck
.mailer than a baby's. Nobody has
ever attempted to comet thew molars,
The tall resembles the caudat append-
age of an airplane and measures 10
feet from tip to ftp.
But big as the fish Is, It died in In
fancy. Scieutiets wlto have measured
Its cartllaglauue formations say they
are fur from developed and that bad
this muusls, attained full growth It
would have been two and a half times
as large as it is sow,
Acrording to the scientists of the
etulthsonian laatltutiun the animal is
a whale -shark, and is the first speci-
men of its One that has been captured.
.They state further that It Is an Inhabi-
tant of water of 1,500 feet depth, its
hide of sufficient thickness to with -
'teed the meat ellurntous water prey:
sure, and Its weer, which have tie lids
+end coasequeaty were never closed,
indicating that it dwelt as a depth
where eyes are of no avail.
The Smithsonian scientists believe
that it was thrown up by some subter-
ranean volcautc disturbahtce, which In-
jured Its diving apparatus so that It
was unable to return to its natural
levels and that thus disabled It strayed
beyond confines filed for the men- t
sters of the deep. .
Capt. Charles 11. Thompson of M1 -
ami, caught tate ash while crutsieg for
teepee 'off ,Knight's key, 1•'Iorida.—
New York iade.4tendent.
Sunset Cetera,
The gorgeous sunset colors are due
to the red light which is transmitted
through the cloudy sky and is the re-
verse of the blue of 0t'ej• water
is apparently blue in L' sae
looks through a sufficiently tune ,.tyer.
if, however, there were nothfag to re-
flect the light back, the water would,
of course, look black, and certain lakes
do Stow exaeVy this phenomenon. If
there Is a small amount if reflecting
Inu'tit1es the water looks blue. With
more suspended particles a certain
hlmeunt of yellow is sent back, Mad the
water becomes greeu. Iu the tropics
the water es as iuteise blue, except
pear the 517010, where it becomes an
almost equally intense green,
The water of the Rhone winere it
Hors out of the Lake of ,Geneva is
blue, white the Rhine of Strasbourg
is green, and we find that the Rhine
contains 70 per cent more suspended
calcium carbonate than the Rhone.
Sometimes the water in a swimming
tank will be green, This is due to sus-
pended solids in the water. The same
effect can occasionally be ohtalaed in
a porcelain -lined bathtub. The clear
brown brooks that oue finds to many
places in New England owe their colour
to the presence of a brown material of
the nature of tannin,
so this would
really be a pigment color and not a
structural one,—Scientific American.
Measuring Our Universe.
Astronomers are inclined to believe
that our universe with its 3,000,000
stars is after all but a part of space
and that other universes may Ile be-
yond. Attempts have been made to
measure the size of the so-called uni-
verse, but opinions differ very widely
as to Its dimensions. It is difficult to
measure it by using so small a wet
of measure as a mile. If we take the
speed of light which travels 186,000
miles In a single second, for compari-
son we will begin to gain some faint
idea of the dimensions. Light speed-
ing along at thea rate will travel in an
flour 869,660,000 miles. It is estimated
that it would take light 30,000 years
to travel across this space. Some as-
tronomers even believe that It would
take ten times as long or 300,000 light
years. The mind can scarcely grasp
the Idea that beyond this universe lie
even greater voids —Boy's Llfe
Maiden Lane's FEme in Peril.
Malden Ione, In the heart of the
New York business district, may lose
its identity If the diamoncLand jewel-
ry and allied trades there decide' to
move uptown.
Great Increase In rents recently
caused the tradesmen to appoint a
committee to consider a proposal to
shift the entire trade center. Thea
committee, It was learned, has recom-
mended several new sites and a can -
vase will soon be taken on the propo-
sition. More thou 75 leading firms,
including large manufacturers, are
said to be considering moving. •
A platfmam mounted on wheels is
a California invention to aid•in pick-
ing fruit Eta iota trees.
It a sisals'ofnamore' a 9
land Relate Pretty t,,,nOnd In Con.
nnetisu'WIth it
_ I wpm over to Baltimore to speed$,
to u Methodist conference. some HMO'
n to. t met there a aplendid•Iooadng
Llan. with u lung, flowing, whltarfeard,
r' •,t 1 '101,1 to hhu, "Do you Preach in
,•cuu of the country?" lie aald,
"e7 sir; 1 hlmh • from tete `eastern
• ,our of murylnnd. Dave you ever
t,v'u ,in the•eastern shore?"
1 spire "No: 1 ant sorry to say that
1 h,lvy secu every other beauty repot
to this ,'untttry, 1 believe, but I never
i+at,• . 011 tliat."
••'Teti." ht' tubi 10 rue, "we love that
emery. 1 have bred preaehlag there
fu, • xt}-six trurs. We are u atratrge
people tout we huve'e01110 strange leg -
e' d.., nod one of them its that a long,
lent time ago when Adam aid Eve
1107,1 in the Garden of Valeo, they felt
e et, stet tete turd was vett' much
,f•o•urb.'d about thent,.nnd he called
emeeil of Isla un7eis and wanted to
tr.,,11 where dug should be taken Per
» rl:an7e of ale se that tile,' tutted
item ova,
"'Phe tnhgel thabriel suggested that
they should be taken to the severe
stmre of Maryland. and the Lord acid,
'No, no; that would not be euflh•leet
rinutge!"--I'ranl<I!u 1S. Tawe In the
National Geogrupt72' Megaziue.
NAPKINS NOT JUST SUITABLE
But Man Meant Well, and Fortunately
the Teachers Had a Sense
of Humor.
The patrenta of the puptis of a huge
Indiana ward wheal decided to give
the teachers a surprise diueer party.
Accordingly thee task charge of the
building oue eveaiug, herded the
teachers in see room and made ready
Un' table for the dinner. But just
as everybody was ahnul ready they
found that they had forgotten nap-
kins. One et the hostesses accord-
ingly telephoned her husband who
worked in n department store. "The
rotors are pink and white so bring
something appropriate," she told him.
De bought them—peak and white.
But when they were opened they dis-
played storks holding In their mouths
the time-honored new babies. The
hostesses were horror stricken but
the teachers, ready to grasp the awk-
wardness of the situation, led in laugh-
ter. But that man says that he will
move out of that school district be-
fore there Is another banquet for
teachers,-1071laua polis News.
Didn't Look Like Police.
Sport Is maklug great strides, In
France, hut the pollee occnsioanlly
make strange wlatukes when they see
a long Ilse of ruunhrs sprinting along
the roads and across country.
Not long ago at Vincennes a suntber
of young athletes from the military
school of sport were indulging in a
paper chase through the woods when
they were arrested by gendarmes for
being improperly' dressed. They were
nil In white vests and nutmeg shorts.
The gendarmes, however, had appar-
ently not heard of such urttcies of at-
tire or of the 11111111113' sheet of sport.
Protests etude by the colonel In com-
mand had no effect.
A few days later, however, wbeu the
local gendarmes mad,- a fresh haul of
a dozen athletes, they realized their er-
ror, for the leader explained that he
was an inepeetor of police sad that
the runners heldnd him were all Paris
policemen enjoying a fortnight's train-
tag.—From the Continental Edition of
the London Mail.
Side Whisker Back in London,
The London exquisite is doing his
hest to cultivate side whiskers, a fash-
ion that ryas somewhat frowned upon
a few years ago when Lord Rocksav-
age attempted its resurrection. But
that was in the days before the war
and probably it is as a change from
the regulation military mustache of
the last five or seaeas
S r that British
Young men of today are growing tufts
of hair in front of their ears with most
hideous result.
The earl of Lonsdale and his broth-
er, the Hon. Lancelot Lowther, have
always been famous in the fashionable
world for wearing "sideboards," but In
this hirsute face fitting they are usual-
ly credited with a desire to suggest the
"sporting" atmosphere in which they
are generally to be found.
A Passing Jest.
We should have thought 01thts joke
before, hut even yet. If we hurry, a
gentle reader here and there will know
what we are talking about.
Riggs—You might not think It to
look at him, but there is a great deal
In that young man.
Diggs—No; he carries It well, but 1
smelled It on his breath.
Can't Make Knife Handles,
The scarcity of camphor, the output
of which Is controlled by Tapas. Is
having a serious effect on the cutlery
trade In 'Sheffield. England. For cam-
phor 1s an essential Ingredient of cel-
luloid, and the cutlers find It Impos-
sible to get enough of this for knife
handles.
A Paradox.
"It is the vote that does the talk -
Ing." -
"Yes. skid they say It Is the anent
vote, too."—Baltimore American,
- Experience Teaches.
Teacher—"Jimmy, give en. erampte
of minority ruling." Jimmy—"When
there ds a baby in the family."—llol•s'•
Life.
fn proportion to area, Norway. baa
the amalleet popelatloo 'stdeng nu-
-repeat nations.
WEIGHING' THE STOCK AS'
YOU GO
There is one,mplement on a live
stock farm that will soon pay for
itself, and which once used the owner
is seldom .witting to part with, and
that is a set of stock scales. The
majority of farmers 'have a ecalle
of some kind about the place but
those who have them fittel • up for
weighing stock or who have scales
adapted to that purpose are not by
any means as numerous. It is not
only in selling stock that their value
is recognized but their use is a splen-
did check on the system of feeding
dollowed, on the gains made from
different methods of feeding; or they
may even serve as- an indication of
the state of health of the stock.
A monthly weighing of a lot .of
ethers or hogs that are being fatten-
ed adds a vast amount of interest to
the routine chore of feeding. We
call to mind a farmer who a few
years ago started to feed a carload of
steers every winter for the market in
the spring. He decided that it would
be worth •itis waive to know the
weights of the steers he fed and the
rate at which they gained. Not hav-
ing 0 set of scales of his own suited
to. the purpose, he drove three or
four miles to a neighbors each tnonth
and burrowed a set. They were only
the esdinary platform scale weigh-
ing up to a -ton, with a crate on them
in whirl) each steer had to be weigh-
ed separately, but they gave the
weight.' o f ii- h e steers which
'was sellat the farmer was after. He
considered the halfday required to
get the scales and weigh the steers
as time well spent. The difference
in the rate of gains made by steers
of lit certain type as compared with
steers of another type was a big
help in selecting feeders in the fall
and the scales early demonstrated
the value of roots, silage and clover
hay in making 'beef at a low cost.
Figures obtained front the weighing
soon pointed the way to the right
time to commence heavy grain feed-
ing and to the kind of grains to use
in order to have the steers ready for
market at a certain date.
No use to tell him that scales are
a luxury the poor man cannot` afford.
Three years ago he purchased a• large
set of platform scales capable of
weighing half a carload of steers at
a time, housed them under a conveni-
ent shed and now does all his live
stock weighing ren them. He claims
that in the three years he has had
them they have already paid for
themselves in larger returns from
the live stock sold .and in valuable
information obtained that has helped
to saxe expensive food.
For the selling of live stock, alone,
a set of scales are worth the money.
Most of the stock delivered at stock
shipping points is sold by weight flow
but if the farmer has the' home weight
of his stock it guards against errors.
Scales standing outside at railway
points are frequently inclined to
stick in cold weather and underweigh
the first lot placed on them on a cold
morning and if a man has 'his home
'weights, any undue shrinkage at once
draws attention to the scale and pre-
vents any injustice being done, In
shipments consigned to co -,operative
companies without weighing at conn-
try'points, the farmer who tae the
weight of his stock at home 'knows
the shrinkage and i2 it is unduly
high on any shipment it will lead to'
an investigation. The cause wjJl be
revealed and steps can be taken to
Pre
vent a
t
from
occurring
again,
Breeders of pure bred stock who
sell their animals on mail orders, will
find the scales an aid to them and
they may be able to sell stock by
weight at a pride that they could not
hope to realize if sold by .the head,
since the weightofthe animal will
at least 'guaranf<ee to the purchaser
that it is not under size.
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NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
Japan has 2,600 establishments
manufacturing various kinds of bev-
erages, 500 of them being In Tokyo.
An electro -magnet with a long, flat
face has been designed by a Chicago
man for handling sheet metal.
China is estimated to maintain one
-chicken for every inhabitant of that
country, or about 400,000,000,
An ironing board, table and step-
ladder which fold together compactly
form a new household combination.
Tea, 'with fruit in summer and
cheese 'in winter, constitutes the
nourishment of the -poorer classes in
Persia.
The smallest practical X-ray ma-
chine has been invented for physi-
cians and dentigts, weighing bout
twenty pounds.
The Brazilian slate of Rio de Jan-
eiro has granxeda'concesssIjon for the
development of,.,fta . extefttdve peat
beds.
An alarm sounds should a "flew
money carrying' ease for bank •ntes-
sengers be lifte4,�by any but,an au-
thorizeedperson, . ' •
tCompressed der Is successfully
stored by a Belgian thine in a reser-
voir cat in solidi rock and lined with
concrete.
A n'ew time lock operates by sec-
onds instead of minutes and can be
used on' ordinary door's 'he • well as
Wea or a
v rite
An attaclundnt which enables him
fully frr control ,the operation of a
typewriter . has bee'it invented by a
•
mitts `fin
',genes' to:. di -g the
nearest tow...1 import¢
A shield haat harm invelltt
tett the fronts of , pttines am lu ..
coveriuga from 'the . feet u' Jlerifjlus
t153n$ the pedals.
A' London man, is' the inveater:of
a basket in which a baby can be gar -
tied with the aid of:a strap over eiL
adult's shoulder. ,
Operated by pressing a button,` a
new device lifts records from phono*
graph turntables whether tate .latter
arerunning 'or 'not.
Private interests are being aided
by the Spanish government to at-
tempt to tprodu a cotton on an ex-
tensive scale in Morocco'.
Driven by a gasoline motor, anew
trenching maohine is so designed
that it excavates the earth only to a
'predetermined level.
.A special form of automobile
trailer has been built in England for
transporting- horses in comfort to
and from races and shows.
A drought resisting tomato plant
has been developed in, New Jersey,
the leaves and etenis being exces-
sively..eovered with hairs.
More 42,000,000 tickets were
sold laar'year by 130 automatic vend-
ing ma1tbines in stations of London's
underground railways.
For measuring the growth of trees
there has been invented' a band to be
clamped around them which indi-
cates its expansion on a dial. • -
Two Danish former aviators have
invented a windmill having blades
resembling airplane wings for which
much efficiency is claimed.
The treads of a new, 'eontinuous
tread tractor can be removed easily
and ordinary wheels substituted for
use on roads at higher speed.
A hydraulic stretching machine has
been developed in England for flat-
tening steel plates up to fifteen feet
in length instead of rolling .them.
Supported oh two wheels and two
legs and provided with a sun shade,
a seat has been invented to add to
the comfort of gardeners on hot days.
Airplane passenger and freight
service between London and Amster-
dam requires about one sixth the
time of railroad and steamship
schedules.
I•n Montreal se two-year-old child
:has died from swallowing a pair of
"Jacks." Older .people have suffered
consequences from placing too much
confidence in the same brace of de-
cdivers.--Ottawa Journal.
A man must invest himself' near
at hand end in common thingsrand be
content with a steady and moderate
return, if he would know the blessed-
ness of a cheerful heart. Bunroughs.
"Clergyman's estate worth $40,000"
says a newspatier heading. And ap-
parently there is to be no investiga-
tion or anything.—Kincardine Review.
Some met imagine they are phil-
osophers when they are merely too
lazy to worry.—Kitchener Recerd.
A Bavarian peasant, having. pur-
chased a second-hand pair of English
military trousers, found a five -pouted
note in one of tire ,pockets, indicating
that the previous owner of the gar-
ment was unmarried.—Montreal
Gazette,
THE FLIVVER OWNER'S $13.00
LICENSE FEE PAYS FOR FOUR
SQUARE YARDS OF ROAD
When Mr. Motorist pays tie thir-
teen dollar license fee for /his fliveer,
if that be the nature of .his machine,
he contributes enough to the provin-
cial coffers to pay for the average
cost of four square yards of concrete .e
road having a thickness of eight t
inches at the centre and six inches at c
the side, In, view of the •.mileage of h
concrete Which the average flivver t
covers in the course of twelve months o
it may be ctmcededthat the motorist t
e' Exceeds 3
=Apt. MIXED or, Cr
Stesdfi ii ,' Refuse All foil*
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on the specifications and design ef'
the pavement. The average price for
earth e;ccavatien could be said, at the
'present to be $1.29 per cubic yard.
The cost per mile, depending on the
amount of 'drainage to be eopsttruct-
ed, might be said to wary from $1,200
to $2,000."
e prices are the average costs
t
current dulling 1021.
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WHERE DOGS ARE WORTH HUN-
DREDS DOLLARS APIECE
M:tl_mute dogs, the half-wolf,baif-
eznine ani•mnls known a9 Hilskies,are
selling in the North at $100 apiece
and up, according to reto,rned bunt-
ers prospectors,
When the North is snowbound and
lakes and rit'ere are locked with ice,
against 'navigation, travel -'"in' .the
North is a'imoet exclusively by dog
sled. There is much journeying to
and fro even in winter. Tripe of
surprising length are made across
the white 'tastes by Indians and trap-
pers of the posts of the Hudson's Bay
Company, now closing out 'Its rich
prairie lands to farm ,settlers and
pushing its fur trade farther afield
in northern fasbaesses. Sled dogs
are absolutely essential to communi-
cation among these far-flung- out -
The
The lowest price at which dogs ca
be obtained is $100 apiece, accordin
to advices. First-class animals sue
as crack 'mushers ,pride tbemsely
on keeping are hard to get at an
price, and when obtainable cost se
v
eras hundred dollars or as much a
a good horse in regions farther sou
Scarcity of dogs, it is said, is du
to the neglect of breeding stock
the Indians. Inbreeding ems resulted
in deterioration of the .husky r
and new blood frotn eudh cold-weath
er breeds ,as Newfoundlands an
t5aint Bernards, it is declared, is nee
essary if the value of the dogs of t
North is to be preserved.
Several parties of oil prospector
who •had planned to ieave Fore Mc
Murray for the Mackenzie country i
18 said, have been held up by inabi
ity to obtain 'dogs.
n
b
es But it was 500 years later before
She cat got into the statute book.
In 936 Hywal Dda, Prince of South
s Wales, • had a law enacted for the
sent
C lturrb Medi pins'
Those who mole & '"run down' condi-
lion will notice that Catarrh bothers
them much mere than when they are to
rood behhitb. True test provee.:that while
Catarrh Is a local -disease, ft Ie -greatly
influenced by constitutional congfttoup,
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE fs a
Tonic and Blood Feigner, and a ata through
the blood upon the mucous nm-raees Or
the body, thus, reducing Ole Intlamipadest
and restoring normal conditions.
All dreutglets Circulars. fre�
li d. Cheney & Co., Toledo, if dtk
the domestic cat mates with Idle
wild cat in all -countries, so that
pedigree becomes a athing p
prob-
lem. In the townshipof La
Vt.; a woman used to exhibit two
wildcat cubs, which she bad brought
up on ,tlhe bottle, says the New York
Times. Her boy had discoverei
them in a hollow log in.a mountain
pasture before their eyes were open.
They slept in her lap and submitted
to fondling': until they were as big
as. -an Airedale- dog,_ . but eventually
they died of civilization. Evidently
the domestic eat was'evelved only.
after a great manjr• generations of
intelligent and 'unremitting care.
Mr. Strong finds that the domestic
cat did not become a "familiar
figure." In Europe until the first
century of the Christian era. It
was imported from Egypt. When
the Romans fi taily evacuated Britain
about A. D. 436 the family cat was
performing its toilet on the doorstep.
protection of cats.. It seems that
e tee Romans did not hold. the animal
,by in high esteem, for while "fragments
of horses, dogs and goats" have
ace beret found in the ruins of Pompeii
and Herculaneum, remains of_ the cat
d were absent. Dr. A. Nehring's re-
searchees are- not mentioned by the
he wiser. The Berlin investigator
came to -the conclusion that the
e domestic rat is of dual descent, ene
stack coming from Southeastern
t Asia and the other from North
1- eastern Africa. The Persian or An-
gora cat is nothing like the Egyptian
variety, and then there is the tawny
cat of Siam, whioh Mr. Strong .men-
tions. In course of time there may
C be a distinct type of domestic eat in
.America crossed with the Canada
' ,lynx. In Paraguay they have a very
t small oat, three pounds in weight at
✓ maturity, which never caterwauls.
It is supposed to be descended from
� the jaguaronde A cat that does net
e make night hideous on the tides by
light of the moon would be a valu-
ut able acquisition. ' Breeders ehould net
- neglect the Paraguay paragon. Mr.
Strong has'collected some agreeable
t . etymological data. For instance, the
gypsies who came from North w�
s ern India and brought cats with tress
called the female •plishika, "This
form," we are told, seems .to tally
with the Persian pusbek or pushnak,"
hence "puss, the term of endearment.
The old Egyptian name for the cat
was ma u, "an abvious onomataps•
-
etic." Aipparently we owe the werd
eat to the Romans. They called the
animal "catus," which meant the
"knowing one," and the word passed
into the Romance languages as ehat
and 'gats.
TRACES HISTORY OF DOMESTI
CAT
So long as tate child's favorite pe
is a kitten, and maiden ladies Trete
the eat to the dog as a companion
the origin and family dilatory of Feli
domestics. -will be of interest,- In ti-
Contemporary Review for January
Aylmer ;Cecil 'Strong writes abs
"The Coming of the Cat." The con
ing of the dog would be a more dif
fieult subject, for it is probable the
as far back as bhe time when man
could bring u , and diecipliee a wolf
cub there were dogs. The Egyptians
made much of cats, protected and
w+oreihipped:et'hem. But Herodoitus
says that Egyptian families wtentinto-
mourning When a dog died. How
ver, Mr. Strong says nothing about
hat. His subject is the cat. He is hi -
lined to think that if the Egyptians
ad domesticated ethe mongoose
hat animal would now be sittrtt�
n the hearth or sunning itself on
he garden wail. He insists that
gets pretty fair Talue for his money.
The Autoinotive Equipment Associ-
ation is now engaged in eonducting h
an investigation into road building st
coats and its
rat stepis .
first 4o co
n3oads
t
theca
steal different
types of roads
throughout the North American con- rn
tinent with a view to ascertaining,
whether roads are excessively expen-
sive 'in ,any districts,•. With this aim
in view it wrote recently to its divi. e
sional vice-president, G. M. m&aewll- t
Ilam, in Toronto, asking for informa-
tion as to concrete road costs in 7)7111* h
province and It was in complying with O
this request that ithe information to
given above was elicited. In a letter
to W. G. Robertson of the Motor
League, who sought information on to
behalf of Mr. Macwilliam, Guy C. N
Parker, secretary of the department fo
of ,public highways of Ontario, gives g
some interesting information as to be
concrete road costs. Ile says; th
"As you will readily understand the so
costs of pavements depends on the Lo-
cation of the materials entered into an
them; in some cases gravel can be pr
used from. local pits without rail had; d
in others atone and sand may have to Ca
be transported by rail. [However, I
night say that during .1921 a fair ti
average cost for concrete outface of a
the thticknees you mention would be
$8.26 per square yard. On
'A fifteen -foot -wide .road haat an ea
area of 8,80 square yards per mile, wh
which at $8.2eper. square ,yard would •gen
cost $28,600 per;,nmr1e. - A sixteen -foot
road contains 9-,8$7 equare Yards,
which at 38.25 per square yard wool 1i
cost $80,607.75 peg `anile. a
"In .addition tbhere would be such ani
items as agricultural tile, aide en- p
Mance, culverts and earth exc4vatiotn •
the coat of this depends entirely up,
the cat in ancient Egypt was' really
sacred, not nominally so. Diodorus
a cited as an authority der the
atement that cats dying in a mill-
ar campaign mpar'gm were brought home
o
for burial, although the .soldiers
ight be on short rations, enduring
frightful privations.
After the Romans conquered Egypt
they, wibh their usual sagacity, tol-
rated cat love or worship. Diodorus
ells the story of a mob tearing a
Roman- soldier "to .pieces" because
e had accidentally slain a cat. An
Rice of, Keeper of Cats was heredi-
ry, The Turks adepted Fells dom-
estica, In Cairo homeless oats were
fed by order of the Eadi 'According
Lane, translator o4 time 'Arabian
fights, the Sultan Ez-Zahi? Beybars
unded a home for cats in a
arden near his mosque. It must
admitted that .in .Constantinople
e consideration for cats was not
' tender. There can be no doubt
that ,the ;Egyptians were `a persistent
Patient people, for we Should
obably have no domestic 'cat to -
ay if they had not adopted Fella.
ffra, the wild eat of the desert,
and trained the progeny for genera -
0115. This' appears. 'to be settled,
'though there are . *imitate irk)
point out that' the. color• o€ the fur
the under surface of the wild
t'e foot is yellow to,the heel bone,"
ile that of the domestic cat ua
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There. mitt to be other differ-
mhcees df.ifoleratien but: wOlo can he=
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