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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1922-03-03, Page 2FRESII and FOWERFUL. hones or Engines, use our ColuMbia Ignitor, each 45c • BARNES'S OIL AND FINDINGS , ;you axe- fixing up for Spring, Eureka Black Oil will soften where others fail, per gallon $1.20 Pure Neatsfoot Oil, per quart can •75c ame Clips and Staples each 5c Tug Chains, per pair •$225 Horse Rasps, each $1.00 Paring Knives, each 90c Split Rivets, per box . .. 10c alters $1.00 to $1.85 Power Clippers $14.00 Sewing Hemp, per ball 35c Needles, Wax, Awls and Horse Nails. Geo. A. Sins& sons ;ag "pal ,11r, sasvaiaa:••_ / • v• 1#, 13. • A Weekly Talk with dome by Long Distance lirsaid Mr. Wynelham-Ring, Banker, to his secretary; "Have; EY don't you talk home by Long Distancs is-ea:lone?" good talk with your mother occasionally; it will do you good.' The young woman, an invaluable aid to the busy banker, had not been at her best for some time, and her work was suffering. "I never thought of telephoning," she confessed when the sug- gestion was made, "I'll surely try it!" She was simply homesick; her employer had guessed right! Those weekly talks with her home have made a wonderful dif- ference in the girl's life. Her health, her work, her general outlook on life have alt reflected the change. Long Distance did it! it is doing the same thing for hundreds by bridging the gulf between them and -far-away home and friends. Station -to -Station service with low Evening and Night rates, has brought Long Distance with- in the -reach of everyone. • After 8.30 P.M. Station-to-Statian rates are about half the day rate. At midnight they: become about one- nuarter the day rate. 111111WW: Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station • PLUG SMOKING is 749 od acco" HE man who smokes Master Mason KNOWS the flavor of good tobacco. He demands the big Mager •• Mason plug, beaMoe to the last pipefid it givelo him the best for the least motley. tr,s,s ;04 Py' Proved au:, lied Alike te .0o,,,o4.000..o4000000l0000.000., If good allied intelligence did not, win the war, then at least bad Ger- a man Intelligence lost it, That was the conclusion announced by Lieut.- , Gen. Sir G. M. W. alacDonogh, now ' Adjutant-Cis:eiral of the British army, but during the war, Director of • Military Intelligence, ft , an addresa before :.he Royal Artillery Institution I at Woulwich. "Gm -matt& intelligence failed her from the very beginning of the caru- paige," he began. "It grossly over- estimated the time Russia would re- quire tti mobilize her armies. The x. Y.. kifte ' Xffilatiitatafaakalit , • IIT A,. • • Germans calculated that Rusal could not advance in force before th middle of September, 1914, and mu sequently .that there would be al weeks available to defeat the enem on 'the western front before it be caaw 31,.10 1iSal'Y to turn to the east. lwotol 1i gen ce of the German regarding the western free; we. eqmilly faulty. Little or nothing Wat, known by them of the movemente o tio, lir' Gall expeditionary force \V1)( -ti Von gluck reached Moue to was surpriaed find the British in 1m:ems:don, for he had been told by I e intelligence service that there enemy within fifty miles of 1110 pi aim. ' 1 scull not like to say that the l; rmans meilit to have known many 111:1,00 P, II 3)11 subsequent events ,,d limy did not know. be). 1 do might to have known mere oit thein; and the failure of Ger- miny to win the war during its first f, w weeks was directly due to the ;!,,,rtcomings of its intelligence ser- vice. "Tile German intelligence failed 19 11; the 11:-1tish intelligence sue - in 1918. You will remember Lard Allenby's great campaign in Paleatine in that year and you may have wondered at the audacity of his operations. It is true that In war you cannot expect a really greiai mecess unless you are prepared to take risks, but these risks must be reasonable ones. To the unitiated it !nay sometimes have appeared that Lord Allenby's wem not reasonable. That, however, was not the case, be- cause Lord Allenby knew from his 33) telligenee every disposit ion and aiiivemen t uf the enemy. Every one 11 his oppunen,s' cards was known to him. and he Wilt) COIISCCIuenlly gbh- to play his own hand with the most '11,301 assurance. In those tircumshinees yiet •ry was certain." "However, in the middle of this eulogy of the British Military In;el- ligence Service WO 1111181 SLOP long moult to say a few unkind words, without mentioning names, of intel- ligence officers who talked too much. "The public has often been regaled with stwies of the Dri:ish Secret Ser- vice," he said. "That service has one great vaine--to act as a test of reti- cence of those connected with it, and 1 much regret that many distingdish- sd men have failed when that, test was applied to them. All 1 intend to say of the Secret Service is that Its essence is secrecy, and the less said about It the better. Sensational- ism enters but little into the work Df the Intelligence Department. Its results are produced by hard work, great diligence, untiring watchful- ness and the paiustaking collection Ind collation of every possible form of information. . 'During the later part of the First Battle of Ypres I received front Lord Kitchener the most circutn- itantial reports of the despatch and arrival of German reinforcements on tile western front. Those reports amanated from Amsterdam and cre- ated alarm and de8pondency in Los - ion, when Lord Kitchener communi- cated them to the Cabinet without havink them first properly verified. "I well remember Mr. Asquith coming to my office at St. Omer and my telling the Prime Minister that 1 felt sure they had come direct from the German general staff; that their object was to conceal the with- drawal of larger masses of German troops from Flanders to Poland; and I was able to assure Mr. Asquith from. incontrovertible evidence in my possession that the battle was practically over." • Dining Car Run by .Electricity. There was recently on one of Eng- land's math lines a unique Service, that of electric cooking for the din- ing cars.) The train thus unusually equipped, itself possesses many ex- ceptional features. It consists of five coaches, Which are run on six bogies only, these bogies being placed un- derneath the junction of two car- riages, thus linking up Use carriages on what is known as the Articulated system. This arrangement gives very easy running and Makes it possible to shorten the connections between the carriages. In the kitchen all the cooking is done electrically. The equipment in- cludes a water boiler, a grill, a steaming oven, a roasting oven, vege- table boilers, steaming pans, hot plates, hot cupboards, fish fryere, kettles, eto. This kitchen is callable of furnishing meals for 78 persons at one, sitting, and over 100 Maxima have been cooked and served on one trip. The electrical energy for the cookers is obtained from two dyne - mos driven through belts from the axles of the carriage. oysterSiVallowed Orab, A perfeetly4Ormed herd -shell erab, about the size of the end of a per- son's thumb was found in an oyster, but presumably' it protled too much for the Oster; 88 there wee no o7a-. tee the shell when It waa opened. * The Ganges, India% Meat lamas ant riverais 1,65/ sullen Wig, and lo itrisigaide fora diatatiee of 860 Math Atom the seai', • • ; '?C'• ei:rult Medicine • IndigestIons Weak Digestion. or partial deisaistioe of food, is one of the rnostierious of present-day - co1flplaInffi4baca1159 11 38 resaonSible for many Sffithus troubles. Those I,4' suffer with Indigestion, . , almost intRqitily are troubicd with RheumatialPtilpitation . of the Heart, Sieeplessnosi. anti e806.13i541 Nervousness. "Fruit -Datives" Will always relieve Indigestion' .bettauso these tablets strengthen, the stomach muscles, increase ,the Ilqw of the digestive juices andnorthotConatipation, w hi eh usually acesimpanion Indigestion. 50e a box, 6 for aa.50, trial size 25c. At dealers or sent postpaid by F31114-a-iiv'es Liinit,,a, Ottawa. CURIOUS CUSTOMS„ON ISLAND OF YAP New worlds to conquer are always being discovered for the uplifters. No sooner have 'they succeeded in making the United States a sort of earthly ftmom,o idfra Ohtita'4,ieut isf rffiltniSf 171 nklez" far tt incAP,64„ NMI* 14494 stancltitst' , xt to on thie iteesotikt*, that e 4 rarer" rtlaSithed on e thikg. The meat Miluablesepaialn, Yap is a huge stone, emsaittite0 weighing hundreds of peptide, and absolutely of no more use than the coin in the famous musical banks ,der scribed in "Erehwon." It: is by "common consent admitted to be an extremely valuable thing, and, after all. it is oommon 'consent that givea value to our bank bilis. These huge stones are disc-shapea and have been carved by the citizens who, own them. Once secured, they are set up outside the hut of the owner as an advertieement, of his affluence. Sometimes they are so large that they ean be shifted onlir with the ,greatest diffieulty„and even when they change bands they are often left in their place before the former owner's home, a mark showing that they are 'hider new management. It is *aid that on one occasion one oe these large discs was lost from a boat, and, though it now lies under several hundred feet of water and never can be salvaged, the owner is still per.. milted to use it for making purchase and will eventually bequeath it to his descendents • The natives of Yap are said to ave • light, esffee- colored skins, Paradise, as a result of ,arahibitio than the United States becomes in terested in • the Island of Yap, an the news froM Yap is that it is fertile field ger the labor of the re fermers. R is true that Yap i already dry. It said that th nhabitants can n o t be prevailed uplc on to drink any ao'holic bever age of any kind whatever. The are also gentle, courteous• folk, ,bu they have no morals in the 'sense that civilized people have morals They are eatremely promiscuous, bu happy, and one of the first difficul ties of the American missionary wil be to awake them to a consciousness of their sin, to use an expression of Soinersei Mauglwm's,*used in somewhat similar circumstances. Oddly enough it is not the men who have petrel wives, but the wives who have plural 'husbands. Polyandry, and not polygamy, appears to be the s in which so easily besets the Yappers. So far as we are aware. no effort has been mm ade to wean thefrom this evil habit, and as both men and women seem quite satisfied with it, there may be some 31313- cults" in doing so. Whether the practice was established, as in cer- tain parts of Asia, as a result of a preponderance of men, or whether it is merely a racial custom, like rubbing noses, is not explainal In certain uncivilized countries, where women are largely outnumbered by the men, some form of polyandry is almost certain to be practiced, just as a prsaanderance of women leads M polygamy. It is said that the inhabitantit of Yap differ from other human beings, in being devoid of sexual jealousy. The woman, who may have a dozen husbarals, is impartial in (her favors, -and the husbands sliew no more sense of rivalry than is apparent in families in civilized countries who get their milk from the same dairy. If a woman becomes *infatuated with 0110 husband and neglects her wifely duties to the others, she is likes, to be cast out. is, however, one husfband becomes infatuated with the common wife and sore returns his affections, they may, if they can escape from the 'home, or rather the hall, where they- have been dwelling, fly to the country outside. They are then permitted to establish themselves and ding to each other. Sometimes the fortunate husband is expected to make a handsome contribution to- ward supplying 'his late fellow - husbands with a new wife. The aim is, however, to supply a wife at .a ininimum of cost, and raids are Made on distant islands and a suit- Mble wife carried away. In the paat these raids have led to ware and to feuds that are yet in existence. The establishments where one wife ie shared by several husbanda are called bachelor, clubs, maintained wavy bl eyes 531 n, prominent cheekbones. They aro - neither as tall nor as strong as the d natives a Samoa, and their a dwindling population, numbering 1103i, some 8,000, bears mute testi- s many to the degenerating effects of inter -marriage and poilyandry. The first white visitors found them hos- - pitable, and they gave many eal- e dences of having descended from a t , different steak from that of some of --their neighbors. There remain • relics of an ancient civilization t upon the island, massive ruins which - for a long time have puzzled the 1 antiquarian, The island was once a rendezvous for some of the last of the buccaneers, such as the notori- ous "Bully" Hayes. He used to land there with fierce Ocean and Gilbert islanders, -who had desperate carouses, usually ending in murder. The islanders were terrified 'by these brutal ruffians, and their demeanor toward the white man now is one rather of timidity than cordiality. DAUGHTER HAD TO HELP. MOTHER Now Can Do All Her Housework Atone Becausalidia E. Pinkbara's Vegetable Compound Helped Her Jasper, Minn. "i saw in the paper about Lydia R Plakham's Vegetable Cornsound and took it because I8018115V- Ing such pains in my atemach and through mho k that 1 could *iotdcJ my work. I had fried other med- iates, but none did the good that FerVegetableComs, a. Mid did. Now I am " tile' to do all my, In Windt alone while be- Td ate /lad msadatigh ter staying at home to to it I have li told a number oafrienda What it has done for Me and gisie you permilarion to se use my letter as liafratinioniaL"--Mra. to Akess PATtoness Ante 1Javer. Minn. There is no betetirrOilolifor our try. -IPO Ing Ljrdia Pinkils,3 ti7 -IMP147,4,344 44 • • ' *t;,i- -, - - i3Ht. ON THE SAILOR'S TONGUE If, as has hien 'laid, dialect de- notes an aloofness of the speakers from intercourse with everyday life and .the King's English then the most 'insular; for they have a dialect, or, 'better, a jargon which is not with, in the comprehension of the civilian Or "shoreoloafer," -as a bluejacket may call him. Were a civilian sud- denly transported into the Lower Deck, or among the officers, especially the younger ones, he would moat prob- ably find himself in a state of be- wildered ignorance for some days, till in time the meanings of their words came to him like,—as they might say,—"having everything on a sifiit yarn," that is, ready to start at once. But the sailor -man's speech is something which no civilian can ever hope to master fully, for it is a thing of the Senior Service, and has been built up these hundred years and snore. The mast -and -yards talk of the times of Howe and Nelson is re- inforced with terms derived from the Navy of to -day. An Officer ot other may be told by a blunt-ton.gued meas - mate that he is "clucking like an ash hoist," because he is "two ends aial the bight of a fool" (the "bight" of a rope—the loop lying between its ends). 'Phis one hears in the modern Navy vsith its mechanical contrap- tion for clearing the ash from tee stokehold. There is much good natured chaff underlying certain of the sobriquets the sailor uses daily, as when he terms the carpenter "chips," and the carpenter's mate and Ms men the "waodspoilers," and the stokers as "cliaker-knotters." Married ship- mates he designates as "bundle men,', though it is not clear Whether the bundle refers to the wife or the little "bundle", she may be nursing. Also in another of the sai/orman's allegor- ical expressions ft means a collection of good things—"What's your bun- dle, matey?" Again with singular aptness he names -the signal -Men sbunting-tossera," 'blue lights" in- dicates Phe Gunner, and "atmospber- ics," "sparks" or "juicey,;" the wire- less operator or telegraphist, who is also called "angel" on 'account of the wings and forked lightning of his distinguishing badges. "Bullocks" or "leatherneoks" is the seaman's fond appellation for the men of the Royal Marines, though sometimes one who has beet • on., the (Mediterranean station refers to them as "Port Mahon sodgers," and there- by maintains :historical continuity be- ginning from the latter days of the eighteenth/century, when the marines garrisoned Port Mahon in the Island of Minorca Just as the bluejacket calls his ship- mates "matloes" (derived from the las officers. The Comma d aif so he has a aeries of nicknames for French word for sailor) orri e'rli_iant_fchioots" the "Rid," and the Officer Com- anding"the passel to which he 'is hile the commander who dea aont ted the "Owner" or the "Skirr."' ghter punishments is the., if, elei, ough the defaulter may. find him: lf consigned tot ,a weightier Metter the "rattle" or MOW ' • • 35 The Wardrcr und eff- poun than "th ' &Pea, other oth wouseu Soif yo ee-fr .diephia- Prim ere II 1110 es d •p kiltrtst the •• .11,.... , otPliteri,, end er usnOtt ted:ilten— the ithie -4 "ot 0.14':tooi . fida's eleette tate . hidiidOifik '•'. ::1;1t' inintai *regal titit „It , oft INCA %Rol UP EisED0,01) Over 1E6 B* •• A 'FARM ItUN ON A -R rogoixfo 'th every member of thea1 pertness That the earning frpm ache gar duea ))ft aparted to eaoh member. „Then geed 004) ellhateti that these earnings should go to 10e . their a Inge account ;with To Molsofut Bank. This Will .atialaa f - by mail accepted. Gaels tinkaMbitions to make his product pay. Teposits BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT; 1:kese1ififid • - St. Marys • Rirktois , Mates Hensall „Zurich and obtained Mtn the practice of the vessel la which the court. -martial is to be held, filing one gun at 8aas. on the day of the trial. A man in the Navy does not grum- ble, he "does a tap," or, tr ha gets Angry, is "under the truck," or 'Minib- us' the riggin." In the mess, which he calls "the house," or "the -cottage" he may have for dinner a "pheasant" or a "eataight bake," or a "burnt of- ering. which means a joint of meat baked ataelf. accasiou arises there is "schooner on the rockti"-- ineat baked with potatoes .round it. Pudding he dismisses as "duff" or "spotted dog," but plum -pudding to' him is "figgy doff." Food as a whole , -he refers to as "mungey," and when he buys a tine of sardines at the canteen he asks for a "coffin o' sharks," together with the "pang" (derived from the Prench)—bread. These are but a few words—and very few—of the dialect whicil per- meates "Andrew", as the British blue jacket calls the Navy; and, by -the -by, he does not like to be termed a "Jack Tar." To him that name, together with a "Jack Slialloo" or a "sailor' is an 'expression indicating useless- ness and contempt. To call him a "good sailor -man," is the highest compliment he seeks. What is moat markworthy ia his language is that as a whole it -is a clean tongue. DON'T DO THIS! • LEONARD • OIL ...NEWLYN/3 DEAFNESS and STOIsfil READ N WES, "Rahn In/lack or the " (Never Put in Beira)" Insert in Nostrils Deafness is greatly relieved by a simple treatment with Leonard Ear OIL • Special instructions by a noted Est Specialist for different hinds of Deaf; neesand Head Nolen.* oadtained ID each Package. Leonard Ear 01( 3. not an experiment. but hitr bad • anocessfai sale Mace 1907. "Yon cannot/afford 1 -be deaf.. TRY THIS It has helped thousands of Penal.. 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