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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-03-30, Page 2a, axe selling "INVINCIBLE" Fencing. Does, an anything to you? The wire for Invincible �g is made from open hearth steel. This pro- eliminates the sulphur and phosphorous almost xtirelr with the result that the wire stands more being less brittle, and retains the galvanizing utter than the ordinary fence. Everyone is convinced of the superiority of 8 wire even spaced fence and of this we have made a Speciality At 48c Per Rod, Cash We stock a full line of 6 and 7 wire fencing, al- so in 20, 30 and 40 rod rolls. Invincible Poultry Fence, 5 ft. high at 79c rod, Cash' Bantam Poultry Fence, 4 ft. high, 60c per rod, Cash Barbed Wire, Steel Fence Posts, Brace Wire and Staples. GYPROC WALL BOARD is made entirely of plaster in the sheet; is fireproof; does not shrink; can be papered or painted, and does not crack; is cut with a saw, and can be put up by anyone. The ideal board at a remarkaly low price -4c per Square Foot Geo. A. Sills & Sons Examine the Seams After cleansing any garment or material with SU1'tPRISE ex- amine the Seams. You will find i. that SURPRISE has done its work thoroughly; and the article 'is truly clean. 182 SPIRIN UNLESS you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting Aspirin at all ccept only an "unbroken package" of "Bayer 1 blets of Aspirin," which contains directions and dose worked out by physicians during 22 years and proved safe by millions for COM Headache Rheumatism Tooth the Neuralgia Neuritis. Ear at � ' . - Lumbago ago Pain, Pain yml?'; btrres f' 9'2 tatriets--Also battles Of 24 and 100 -brig glace tis exod.t$.Cedusda.) fir �Bkyqt btanutacturo of f6lbnn- ,dy, viu%e «t to wen ktro%est yEi'Ot'A9 trio means Pater ueliq a oat mttottona,, the ti'abistb or r. ror c'sMyany H D Yev gods t t0.mht2i, trio."barer Croce.'' 7 1,r1.1 editor eals�r >�n�lrleo ay afternoon: 'We took the Lasa •ice train to 7,4111twood^:an bu>;inesa., : We satt.near the enol o% ,tile'' car,' About midway in the same ear: and. on the same aide sat a lady, whom we re- membered having seen, sorpewhere be. felve. , All of a sudden it- dawned on tis. that it wake Miss McPhail, member fpr South Grey, yvho wee on her way to a public meeting at Hanover• We were Sure we were rig$t when the genial brakeman leaned aster the seat end said. "Md., you see Agnes bicPltelll powdering her nose and look- ing in a mirror to see if it was done rightr. : We had noticed Something going on in the' seat but couldn't 'catch top movements, . its the lady member's back was to ue. When we got o8' the train the veteran conduc- tor, with a merry twinkle in his eye, saluted he thus; "Did you catch Miya McPhail with the powder puff?" These train men had often seen their own wives dab .a little powder on their noses before attending some social function, then .why should they notice a woman on the train going through the same performance? Be- cause Miss McPhail from the speech- es ,she has made about the way those snippy little town girls had given her the cold shoulder in Owen Sound when she attended the Collegiate In- stitute there, didn't seem to them as though she was just like ordinary women. They didn't reckon that th,. hectic life of the city and the social life of the Capital have had their ef- ftct on the only lady M. P. and the democratic Agnes had succumbed to the wiles of the wicked world and be- daubed her nose in public and view- ( ed her features in a mirror with all Ithe cool assurance of a full-fledged flapper. Ali the ladies are doing it, why shouldn't Miss McPhail? Since a deep sleep first fell on Adam and a I rib was taken out of his side to make a woman, she has been trying to be attractive, and this will continue till the crack of doom. When we shook hands with Lady Byng at .the press convention this summer, we detected traces of powder on her aristocratic nose. Rt. Hon. Meighen's wife does- n't mind a few touches of the pearly gray and Premier King's .wife, if he had one, would likely bedeck her nose on occasion, too. Madam Lapointe and Mrs, Walter Findlay, we are sure, don't mind seeing how a little powder improves their appearance as they scan their reflection in a mirror, before meeting the elite of Ottawa, When ladies have transformed their appearance before setting out for a high -brow ball, oh boy, that's when a man hardly recognizes members of his own family. Stately matrons of- ten use a touch of rouge and powder too, to ever up the evidences when withering age begins to trace sad memorials o'er' their face. Ladies must follow up the fashion it seems. It's as catching as measles. Men will follow a male monstrosity o'er moore and fen, o'er crag and torrent till the night is gone Mit they draw the line at a female frump. "Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Ecclesiasties 1 and 2." In the Benighted States more is being spent for cosemotacs than is being spent on foreign mis- sions and in Canada we're keeping right up with the Joneses. If Agnes McPhail falls for other customs as readily as she has for the mirror and powder puff, she'll soon be like other women and everybody will like her better too, for an effeminate man and a masculine woman always seem to be out of their natural bearings. The seas -shell pink may,suit'the cheek but it isn't the right color for the nose, hence women have recourse to the powder puff. The member for South Grey is no longer a unique feminine personality. She has all the foibles of her sex. HAMLYN, THE LAST WILD ANIMAL KING Hamlyn, it appears, is a name that one should have been acquainted with, but we confess that we heard it for the first time when he died. Yet Hamlyn was the biggest man in the 'world in his own kind of business. He was the last of the wild animal kings, men who make their living, and often their fortunes, by buying up wild animals and selling them to various circuses and zoological gar- dens. He was the great English wholesaler, and in his time achieved feats that never beforewere equalled. one of them was the collecting in a fortnight of more than 1,000 monkeys for a great show in Alexandra Palace. This was in 1889, and the collection, included apes, monkeys, ourangs and chimpanzees, easily the greatest lot ever got together. The monkeys were required for a great advertising cam- paign being carried on in t1Ze interests of Brooke's Monkey &and Soap. Hamlyn got the order, and wired to plots at English ports to examine every vessel arriving from the East end buy up all monkeys to be had. In these days every ship's cook add- ed to his wages by bringing home from foreign parts a few monkeys or exotic birds, and thus Hamlyn was able to get the monkeys. Hamlyn started life as a shipping clerk at the London docks. One day he bought a monkey for $2.00 and an hour later sold it for $6.00. It struck him that this was a quicker way of making money than his pres- ent occupation, so he threw up his job and continued to buy monkeys. In those early days the people who sup- plied hind were the ship's cooks but presently the interfering Board of Trade passed a regulation which pre- vented seamen from, handling wild animals, and this source:Of supply wee shut off but not before Hamlyn heti accumulated eotiaiderable cApi: t41. He was in a 'pottition to send out his own colleetors .der he knew that if he could get t'h animabs4 there were always chaste rind'zoos `ready to buy them. He ,made a trip him- self to the Conga) nail there discover -- 11d a new giftless -Of mangebey, which Br called after b by keologiste. To secure titisspe ;llo wetit'through. Ye int CoastipatJan Ended IIFNit4tIves" Th e itLdodu flFI' It Mebane Ito engerstrithpp�►is�fgb1 ts tortured uttp ad:. e{lheswho is unable ho getany out of life; will b6 hat i f iu this letter .of lidrs�. Marthis.l Wolfe. of Eat S1tip IlarboN ..8. Dim 'de Wolfe says, "1/hr' years i` wasesul%rerfromCouatiptt tionan Headaches and I wee -miser- able le (ary way. Nothing in the way mb of Piinl a seemed to help` `me. Then T ed " Fruit -a -fives " and the effeot was splendid; and after taking only tele box, I was completely relieved end now feel like a new person!' , 50o. a boa, 6 for $2.60, trial size 22o. At dealer$ or from Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. the worst surf 'in southwest Africa, but there was nothing that Hamlyn would not go through in the course of business. Ile is described as "af giant -of a man, wiiki thick lips, stub- by white beard and a derby hat, wan talked in capital letters and looked as big as Buffalo Bill in a dinner suit," Hamlyn established himself in St. George's Street, a tough sailor district in London, where in the olden days knife fights between for- eign sailors and crimps were as common as sparrows. Ile chose this neighborhood because in the early days the people from whom he bcught were sailors, and though/ he might later on have chosen a more salubrious neighborhood, he re- mained to' the last of his days with his little office in a foup-storey stable which contained his animals. His first connection was with the Jamracbs, for whom he became a buying agent. The Jamrachs were the largest wild animal, dealers in the world, their business having been built up through three generations, with headquarters in Hamburg. He did not.remain long an employee of the Jamrachs, for he had the ambi- tion to become his own boss. Ham- lyn had a. keen knowledge of wild animals; and was more than an average veterinary surgeon. The losses from wild animals through sickness are enormous, and this loss he was ,able to cut ' down through some sort of instinct which told him what sort of dose or treatment each ailing beast required. Gradu- ally the four -storey barn filled up with iron cages, each containing some valuable specimen destined for a circus or for a zoo. AI1' kinds of animals from ele- pphants to Angora eats were kept at Hantlyn's,. and the birds ranged from can8rjes :to ostriches. He also bought' earths. of various kinds, and this fact kept him from utter beg- gary when the war descended upon the wild animal business among others. But before the war it might be said, having in mind the Carni- vora that formed an important part of Hamlyn's stock, that he did a roaring trade. 1e was retained by Barnum and Bailey whenever their circuses visited England, and in 1906, when the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis was holding its in- vestigations, he ransacked the Con- go basin for anthropoid apes. He collected for Bostock, Wombwell arks Hagenbeek, and in 1906 was commissioned to start a South Afri- can natural history collection for Cape Colony and Natal. When the war began the wild animal business ended abruptly, if not permanently. There was no space to convey wild animals on ocean going steamships, and few were the customers who pursued their .hobby. As it con- tinued another problem arose; how to feed the animals already in 'cap- tivity? They. could contribute noth- ing to the winning of the war and fobd was growing scarcer for human beings and for the animals required in industry. Clair Price, writing id the New TO EXPECTANT MOTHERS A Letter from Mrs. Smith Tells How Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound Helped Her Trenton, Ont.—"I am writing to you in regard to Lydia E. Pinkham a Vege- table Compound. I would not be with- out it. I have taken it before each of my children was born and afterwards and find it a great help. Before my first baby was born I had short- ness of breath and ringing in my ears. I felt as if I would never pull through. One day a friend of my hnsband told b m what the Vegeta. ble.Compound had done for his wife and advised him to take a bottle home for me. After tlda fo4tth bottle I was a different woman; I have four children now, and I always find the Vegetable .: Compound a great help as it seems to make confinernefft easier. I recommend it to rny friends."—Mrs. FRED B. Stern, John KG, sTrenton, Ont. ; Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- ;wont is an excellent medicine for ex- pectant mothers, and should betaken ' during the entil'eipserlod. at bag a gen- eltateffect to strengthen land tone up the lgntire'sytisteniair that it may work in , every respect elf' a ally' as' natrire ThaIn=' tended. t , d of women testify to 'this fact. we l yin ¢ox :ps .gnglaari , tor.' q1ep13ante and can?olp for"'plowing, ., for the great, tops which had always been customers it is St George's Street, the. Perlin .goo had to kW . off Put of Its stock and sbag part of the rest of it to Denmark (although the Co- penhagen Zoo already 'lacked ani11- oient 'food and fuel for its own stock.) Tho Budapest Zoo had to deetroy ,its seals, pola}'bears, goats. and less valuable animals to fend its lions and wolves;' and took to, breediug.ratu to keep fits' largerbirds alive. The.: great. Regents Park -Zoo in Loudon,destr�o� y..ed such aul. male as could.. easily he replacednd::, fed'substttute foods unfit for huuan consumption .to the. rest. And the Antwerp Zoo vias practically • wiped our of existence. The results was, that when I saw Hamlyn shortly before the armistice he had sunk to dealing in guinea pigs and canaries f hospital purposes. Ile was even digging up curios out of his back roems, which is about as Iow as any real animal collectors can sink." Nevertheless, he weathered' the storm, and had not death cut short 'Ms career, he might, in a few years, r have revived his business to some- thing of its former magnitude. fie, MOVING A TOWN BY MOTOR TRUCK The Jennings house -moving project is now practically completed, as there are billy a few privately owned hous- es yet to be moved, a few warehouses and one or two churches. The moving of the village of Jen- nings, 12 miles distant from Cadil- Iac city, by motor truck and trailer, was one of the .most remarkable achievements of recent years. The, village was founded more than thirty years ago by a lumber company, • residences built, milia employing more than 500 men erected and for more than a quarter of a century life in the happy and contented little vil- lage moved along without a.ripple. Then the standing timber around the village, which fed the mills and gave. employment to the inhabitants, was. all cat and the mills torn down and brought to this city which was more accessible to rail shipments of logs and other raw material. The company had many thousands of dollars invested in residences, which had been rented to employees, and without the mills there was no employment for the men, so they faced the necessity of moving out of the village, leaving the houses idle and an absolute loss to the company. Then was born the idea of moving them to Cadillac, where a house shortage already existed, which would have been intensified by the removal of the company mills there. Every heretofore known plan of moving was I considered, but rejected, The proposi- tion was put up to the president of a motor truck company of Cadillac. He said, "Give me two weeks and I will submit a plan to you that will solve the. problem," At the end of that period he gave the company his plan that was at once pronounced "crazy," "impracticable" .and "not worthy of consideration" by the pub- lic and most contractors and house movers when it became noised about. Briefly the idea wag to build a huge trailer 24 feet wide and 49 feet long, which was the -exact size of the aver- age • houses to be moved, load the building on the trailer after it was backed under the house and haul it to Cadillac intact, without removing the doors and windows or tearing apart the building in any way, the build- ings to be raised and lowered by jacks. It was. a new idea in house moving. No Plaster Cracked. It was a day of intense excitement in Cadillac when it was rumored a- round town that the first one of the Jennings houses could be seen corn- ing down the highway three or four miles out of the city, and the hill top overlooking the country for several miles to the east was crowded with curious spectator as the house roll- ed swiftly andismoothiy up the Iong hill leading into Cadillac. Nothing; had happened—the house had not tip. ped over—the big trailer had not sunk into the earth—the house had not fallen to pieces—the truck (a 5 - year -old model) had not been stuck— ie fact, everything went exactly as planned. From that time on, the pro- ject gradually gathered momentum until a house a day, sometimes even two, was the regular program. And now the big job had been completed. It sounds easy and.simple, but there were a great many obstacles to over-.. come, perplexing questions to solve and irritating and baffling little de- tails to work out. For instance, the trailer had to be designed so that the weight of the 36 to 40 -ton buildings would be ,evenly distributed; wrack- ing, jarring and bumping had to be ' taken into consideration. All of these ' probletms were solved in advance, so little, if any changes had to be made after moving operations started. So smoothly' did. the houses ride that the plaster was not cracked. The win- dows were not broken. The breaking through of ,the, road bed which in the ' main was "ordinary/ dirt 'road, was overcome by paving in places with .4 - inch green planks In fact, evertr single little and big annpyanep, end obstacle was met and solved .in advance 'I,'hg•.projectwn s not 80, eitpeilah'e',one'. and the: ant half dozers botisee-paid for the entire project; Sar ria the building stood' in Jennings:gam wereWorth not to ex- ceed .4140'each, but once they Were placed en a lot inn-Cadlllad they jump- ed to value to f ant 000 to .$4,000 h rho nittipelity gained, too, for thn''asse 6aluation of the city bas been O"' terially increased, the housing a Rage problem' over- come; and niartif, many other bens - fits have acciiled to both the 'eons • - mufiity, individuals and the company. • in spite of deep -allow and zero tem- peratt r y rove i her 'conditions did" not balt'tbe pro at, f , pQatal :$3117.sAepairti teenare. preVlad$•aarta ti% surb •andassuretopositorsprop! 'Deposita of $1.00 and upwards invited. BruR }NCi ES IN S$ PISTBTCTI ceAeUt Clinton 1. ` �3Zu�Drich bnWeUev� ' ;nne� hole The coachman father of Sam Weller had a know= ledge of hotels which, like Sam's knowledge of the City of 'London, was "ex- ' tensive and peculiar". With what a chuckleof satis- faction he would have landed his passengers at The Westminsterl All the homey comfort and restful- nessof theold coaching inns, with every mod- em convenience added. Here the tired trav- eller can indeed " take his case at his inn." Fireproof; perfect. equipment and cuisine; unobtrusive service. On a beautiful resi- dentiatetrect, yet close to shops and these tres. Single room with bath, $2.50. When you arrive in Toronto ask ;for a Black and White Taxi, and say" Westminster." Atinnt' T e Qnly Hotel of its finn Canada ;40 - 242 Jarvis Str.d iToronto ',acacia • The house with the hardwood floors has an appear to the modem housekeeper which cannot be denied. You owe it to yourself and to your family to see that your house is fully equipped with 'Beaver Brand." If you wish to lay it your- self you may do so. The work pre- penta . ao unusual difficulties, but if you prefer; you may employ the set- vices of an experienced floor layer, but be sure that he lays "Beaver Brand" for you. If you decide to do the work yourself, be sure to write us for •a copy of our booklet giving instructions on the laying of hard - %Xs., wood floors, N. Cluff & Sons Seaforth ' ) ,t. FIERI14 '. DAIRYCwwR��EAM SODAS Crisp Creamy Soda Wafers' •The, Biscuit of the Day i