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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-08-02, Page 31p awl NR*111Z (off c; liae ,�q�, r . _ d, @NAotsigiL it D CM F� 6 'ex a, ®NE OUNCIE OF POISON KILLS DESIREE lIII'UNDnIED IRA IEIlTSI Wholesale poisoning is being em- ployed in 'agricultural sections of Nevada to get rid of jack rabbits which have become such pests that they have devoured entire haystacks. One ounce of poison, mixed with ten ,pounds of alfalfa leaves, accounted dor more than 300 bunnies in one midst, and one man woriking fcr a week succeeded in killing more than 1,O30 rabbits by poisoning. Government authorities tell us that thirty different diseases are trans- mitted by flies. Any one of these of - tete proves fatal. Flies must be killed. 'Ilse FLY-TOX the scientific product developed at Mellon Institute of In- dustrial Research by Rex Research ]Fellowship. It is harmless to man- kind, but death to all household in- sects. Just follow instructions on blue label of bottle. INSIST on FLY-TOX with the perfume -life fragrance.— Adv. A WORLD FLOOD? Scientists have evolved a plausible theory giving a basis in fact for the ancient tradition among all primitive eieople of a world-wide flood which covered the earth thousands of years ago. The cause of the ocean's rise may have been the melting of the ice cap at the north pole at the end of the last ice age„ about 20,000 years ago. One of the purposes of the Byrd .•expedition is to determine whether the Antarctic ice barrier is melting. Sir Edgeworth David, Australian geologist, has estimated the level of the entire ocean would be raised about fifty feet if the while ice bar-, rier about thea south pole melted,. 'This would place nearly every seaport town under water. WHEN THERMOMETERS IIN THE 4;ITY ARE DANCING IN THE 90's There's a care -free, colorful vaca- tion waiting for you in the Highlands sof Ontario—where cool pine arid bal- sam -scented breezes drift across sparkling azure -'blue lakes — where you can enjoy to the full all out-of- door recreations including tennis. swimming, motor boating, aquaplan- ing, canoeing, fishing, golf, hiking -- and you will like the informal social life in this lakeland region—balmy, lazy moonlight nights under the glow -of Northern stars—soft music, de- lightful people—everything to crowd your vacation with real happiness. For specially prepared booklets dealing with Muskoka, Lake of Bays, Algonquin Park, French and Pickerel Rivers, and Kawartha Lakes, apply to any Canadian National Agent. , { t �i9� QHOp0Q0 1mi�agtQP,t49 hq uuaaat�c i ppc4, � ®ua o llxaci< c ` mgt. Is no de did noti -tensat :taW add to the ldeAi •cazasee'assea easteeee 00 she lea oriee lfm'010 flue- QA0 0 St?ean naaeaB. Ads aSId ,Vageizetaal, are Anterior de sato. WT. Searllaawas an lmm- P OOsea 0414 'd° ;' the feminine eT i}a, ve to Se . Was being Haat a �r�o .t f r.°91r&isle passed ,from the scene MA Ii s49P147111E1 and Searles found 'aRt they'ls!?sali com- mon an interest iaa spiriitism, while Searles cleimaedy� to 'be d s,nntely peyclaie. Psoi n ' W➢k101CU' fYU:. . .9129 LYd:lf.U, H®Rkciaas would get messages from Hopkinson"the other side 'to the ef- fect that he wanted her to marry Searles. 'Searles accepted the sug- gestion in good part, but Mrs. Hop- kins was dubionais for a long time. It is on record that Searles definitely settled the ma. r:r by kissing her in public and claiming her as his bride. Then .lays. •' opkins, yielded and they were marry Searles was 30 years her junior sand airs..Searles did not live long. Unlike her former hus- band who had died without making .� will, thus producing the first of the numerous lawsuits, Mrs. Searles left all her possessions to Searles. ..Then followed the second series of suits, the most important being one brought by Tim 'Hopkins, an adopted son of Mark, who alleged that Searles had established undue influence over his adopted mother by means of spir- itist seances. Searles settled with Hopkins and is reported to have given him $5,000,000. Searles had no chil- dren nor did he remarry. He left California and went east where he won a name for eccentricity. By the time he died he had run his original stake of a few millions into $70,000,- 000, nearly all of which he left to Ar- thur T. Walker, his former secretary and constant attendant. But Walker was not permitted to enter into un- disputed possession, for the will was challenged by Victor A. Searles, a nephew, who, on learning that he was to inherit a beggarly $300,000, en- tered suit, alleging, as is usual in such circumstances, undue influence. The battle was settled• out of court, Searles receiving $4,000,000. Hardly had Searles received this amount when his wife entered suit against him for divorce. She won and received $140,000. While the divorce proceedings were at their height Searles was trapped by a blackmail ring in Boston and was gouged for $65,000, exclusive of lawyer's fees. But Walker's troubles were not over. He was forced to contest the claim of Angelo Milton Ellison, a Greek lad, who asserted that the elder Searles had practically adopted him. In sup- port of his claim he produced letters in which he was shown to have ad- dressed Searles as "Dad." But as there was no proof that Searles had addressed him as "Son," he did not make out a very good case. When Walker died it was found that the estate had dwindled to $5,040,000 from which it was inferred that Walker had settled privately many other claims upon the fortune he had inherited from Searles. That a considerable sum could have been thus distributed is indicated by the fact that when the original Hopkins died there were 202 relatives who survived, all of whom received something less than they expected. iffilEIIRS OF CANADIIAN MAY FACE LAWSUFFS Fairies have been whispering to Mara Ellen Ward, a poverty-stricken .Arkansas farm wife, and have told Ther that she is about to receive $2,- 4)00,000 from the famous and almost legendary Hopkins estate which has ,been the subject of numerous court ,battles ever since the original Mark Tiopkins relinquished his grip on it. A. short time ago as she was hoeing 'lh►er little cotton field which she and 'flier husband work on shares and from which they expect to make as much. -as $300 for a year's toil, she was ap- proached by two California lawyers accompanied by George Hopkins, a ]kinsman of the woman's, and the only •one of the family who knew where she lives. They showed her a will which purported to leave her $2,000,000. She said that she could not believe it pos- sible, but George told her it was all Tight and offered to advance her what money she needed before coming into leer inheritance. But she refused. She amid that she and her husband and their three children would stay on the little farm until the fortune was definitely placed at her disposal. So she waits. Whs. Ward is 29 Years old, while Mark Hopkins, the California coal and oraulroad king, died more than 50 years ago. In the circumstances it is dif- ificult to understand bow he cduld have written, "To my great-niece, Ellen Steward, I hereby bequeath $000,- 0300," 2;000;0100," but there are many other things that have puzzled people in the .'op - line history, and it may have been some other Hopkten who wrote the words. At any rate, Fire. Ward is to be considered s another claimant to the millions and as such is en- titlr• �: to respectful consideration. We -would not, hotvev0r, care to advance much on the strength of her elspee- tations, for the last we heard of the Hopkins fortune was that it had ¢teen distributed among the relatives of Ar- thur T. Walker on his death in 1927. Mr. Walker was a Canadian and his I3A ia,Y'S FOOD Every baby should be breast-fed. There are few mothers who cannot nurse their babies if they try to do so, and there are few mothers who would not make the effort if they un- derstood how important it is that the baby should have his natural food There is no other milk, or no prepara- tion which is just as good as breast milk. There is no other milk, or ne preparation which is just as good as breast milk. Breast milk is purer; cleaner and more easily digested than any other food, and it requires no preparation. .Mothers sometimes wean their babies because they think that they have. not enough milk, or that the quality of their milk is not good. This is a serious mistake. Every effort should be made to keep up the quan- tity available, and it is much better for the baby that he receive some breast milk than none at all. If there is not sufficient breast milk, the nec- essary supplementary amount of nourishment is given after the nurs- ing according to the feeding formula given .by the physician. The baby should be fed at regular intervals. Not only is this desirable from the standpoint of his digestion but it is important as the start of proper habits in the child. If he is asleep at nursing time, he should be awakened, and he should not be al- lowed to fall asleep while he is at the breast. The feeding takes from ten to fifteen minutes. After feed- ing, the baby should be held up over the shoulder in 'order to allow him to get rid of the air which he has swal- lowed. During the hot weather particular- ly, the fact that babies become thirsty should not be forgotten, and the baby should be offered cooled water, prev- iously boiled if there is any question of purity, between feedings. Under ordinary conditions, the baby is nursed, for eight or nine months; longer periods are not good for the child. The baby should not be wean- ed excepting upon the advice of the doctor who will advise as to what diet he is to receive. As a rule, babies are not weaned during the hot sum- mer months. Breast-feeding makes for stronger healthier babies, and its protects them from the dangers of disease. Arti- ficial feeding, even of the highest quality, is, at the best, an attempt to imitate the natural feeding. 44* 499t?, Par, :Flu i *gayrRYk3�1 ny aha. , u t ua SI,40 0, F 1149ARR petro iPs P24 poo );t&pinr is°'I'M o b'+'kth`MY .'!M,,,,,�j YTV,JIilogit 0 o two �} 14� r3� i'l ]��y,��{p�,,l',' San �, A�i,9/:�THIr4(1�rtm11/,� 4 that is iti aam�dips `FJ' 5' zcloori R f 11 'a.M'bi Qo con. I 124. ta, iy dip twee in the in; (1)14 believe that one dipping la ou iii eiont.. Loot Yesir ue beet h of one herd wuo dipped' blot once. Atthe time one calf was little out of condition and was not 49119d; ; pt present he ?Liao a liberal supply off' rggox4geag, and la a only cinee had he the, herd' eo affected. I have used pever al different kinds od din and find that Dr. (less dip is the only one that in 1100 per cent. good for this purpose; 'besides it is sure shot on mange and other akin troubles that crop out i o, herd from time to time. ]Eben at this season of the year ra thorough dipping will kill most of the warbles, I quite frequently have bought cattle during the winter and spring,. that were badly infested with them. About a pint of petrolia applied to each animal's :: ck with a brush Will kill the grubs, and in five or six days nature will expel them and quite often I to- ve seen them in numbers lying on the animals backs shrivelled up and dead. My experience with the warble leads me to feel that the time is not far off when the Department of An- imal Husbandry is going to rid the country of this pest, as the method of extermination is simple. TROU r;LE WITH FARMERS Mrs. Newlywed was determined that the grocer should not take advantage of her inexperience. "Don't you think these eggs are rather small?" she asked critically. "Indeed I do," agreed the grocer. "But that's the kind the farmer sends me. They were fresh from the coun- try this morning." "Yes," said the shopper, "that's the trouble with the farmers. They're so anxious to get their eggs sold that they take them out of the nests toe soon." It if GOLD AND QUIICKSILVER FOUND UNDER OLMILL SITE Abandoned mill sites, where thirty years ago amalgamation was the only process used to recover gold,with the result that quicksilver was wash- ed out in the tailings, now are being worked and are yielding profits from mercury. Plants for recovering the mercury from the old mill tailings have been installed, and one of them on the Carson River in Nevada is tak- ing gold, silver and quicksilver from the river bed. In some instances, the foundations of old mills have been moved, and the quicksilver followed to a depth of forty feet or more into the earth, as it has the faculty of working its way through apparently solid rock and taking its gold and silver content with it. At a mill site in Elko County, Nevada, a shaft sunk by men searching for a silver vein exposed quicksilver at a depth of 75 feet. The mercury had escaped from amalgamation pans used in the old mill and pools containing from 50 to 100 pounds of the metal were found to yield high values in both silver and gold. LEIl1'1N;RS THROWN INTO OCEAN DELIVERED BY CURRENT Mailing letters by throwing them into the ocean and allowing the cur- rent to act as mail man in delivering them is rather slow and uncertain, but it is better than no mail at all, inhabitants of the isle of St. Kilda, off the west coast of Scotland, have decided. It is one of the loneliest of British possessions and there is no post office and no means of obtaining stamps. The letters, therefore, are placed in a tin box containing neces- sary postage, the box is fastened to a wooden float marked "St. Kilda Mail. Please Open," and the package is cast upon the waters. Following the currents, the float usually is east up among the Shetland islands, but the system is a slow one. The last mail took two months and twenty days to reach London and many let- ters never reach their destinations. EFFECTIVE WAIR.I:tLIl Iltl.1II11'MY 'From time to time 2 hove aeon writ- ings on warbles. I have handled c t- tle for the past 80 years and have had little or no trouble front wamblen. PENNIES LOST IN SINGLE YEAR TOTAL SMALL FORTUNE It is estimated that from 5,000,000 bo 10,000,000 one -cent pieces disappear annually. The penny is the • favorite coin of many business enterprises and to supply the demand, the govern- ment mints three and three-quarter billions of them every year. Because of their slight value, they are not counterfeited. Possession of even one of the silver dollars of 1804 would net the owner a neat sum. The government coined 80,000 of these dollars, sent them to the paymaster of the United States fleet off Tripoli, where trouble was brewing with the Barbary states, and few of the coins ever returned to this country. Most of them were traded by the sailors to the Bedouins for supplies. Some time ago, a bank in Boston paid $2,- 000 for one of the 1804 dollars. One of the rarest of the United States coins is the half eagle of 1798, made at the first mint in Philadelphia. Some authorities assert that there are but three of these coins in existence, and that one of them is now in the pos- session of the government. The bank of New York is in possession of two interesting coins, respectively caller, the "sundial" or "Mind Your l $ei- nese" cent and the "Ring" cent. Both were coined in the' city of New York in 1787, and their appearance was her- alded with joy by the papers of the time as a meats; of "freedom from the impositions of the' light -weight British halfpence." is C`Y tl P'Y you B° (IT 0 0 13:2edofro :-t°o°its our wants A.fel thy emu Wgg3 s3 3aIr0gafui U: g &13 A