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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-10-25, Page 3t .Neva lad a Sick Day Sian? RC. THOMAS GRAHAM Of the thousands and thousands of men and women who have been re- .atored to perfect health by "Fruit-a- tives," none are more grateful than Air. Thos. Graham, 538. Masson St., Oshawa. "I am 60 years old and was treated for years for a trouble -between the bowels and the bladder, which kept me home from work for a month at a time; until I started to take "Fruit-a-tives." Since then, I have worked steadily for four years and have never had a sick dap' 'Try this wonderful medicine; made from fruit juices combined with the finest medicinal ingredients. 25c. and 50c. a box—at dealers everywhere. USING TOMATOES wlIrlBt PIICKLES Green tomatoes may be used as the foundation for numerous pickles, sauces and chutneys. A supply of the green tomatoes may be stored and used on the table for weeks after the frost has killed the supply which Haas been left out of doors. To p'res'erve the tomatoes for table ease, pick all the tomatoes, green, half ripe and ripe, from the vines just as late as possible without leaving them till frost comes. Some may go an to bed of lawn clippings or straw aspread over the earth of a cold frame or on the ground and then banked over. And some may be wrapped care- fully with paper and packed in an "old tub and put away in the coolest v'lace you have that will not freeze. Zee the out-of-door ones first, then the ones that are wrapped; and pos- sibly you may have fresh tomatoes for Ohrietnvas dinner. Rummage Pickle. 'Pour quarts green tomatoes, 6 red gaeppers, 2 green peppers, 1 small cabbage, 2 quarts red tomatoes, three lunches celery, 6 large onions, two large green cucumbers.' Chop and 'sprinkle 1 cupful salt over ali. In the 4norning drain well and add 5 pints 'vinegar, 3% pounds 'brown su- gar, 2 teaspoonfuls mustard, one-half teaspoonful pepper. Cook 1% hours and seal hot. Green Tomato Chutney. Thinly slice 6 pounds of green to- matoes and 2 pounds of mild onions, -dace on a. dish in layers, Sprinkling each layer with salt. Leave for 12 lours, then drain and transfer to an enamel preserving pan. Add 2 pints of good vinegar, 10 ounces brown sugar and (enclosed in a bag) two tablespoonfuls each of 'peppercorns, mustard seed and allspice, 1 level tablespoon cloves and a large piece of ginger. Cook gently until the skins are tender and put in sealers. Governor Sauce. Slice one peck of green tomatoes, sprinkle with a cupful of salt and .let -stand overnight. In the morning pour off the liquor and put tomatoes • in preserving kettle with vinegar en- ough to cover them; add 6 red pep- pers (medium size), 6 green pepper`, 5 large onions (chopped fine), 8 cups gown sugar, '/4 pound mustard seed, 1 tablespoon ground cloves, 1 table- spoon ground allspice, 1 tablespoon -white pepper. Lett simmer until soft. ('Put in airtight sealers. iQ' copy'to the marl* l o sue to o . Soma triticea say 9isads,rare f. ire paper tin ''Tag, !Web may have (been as much erCalueel at time as later e ; ! ;ono mow substantially pout together. 'Sines the larger kartof Tar. Mae - key's business is donein the United States and considerable tisiaaount of it wigs Other Voolgtellean n a a ase - tors it seem impossible that the book will remain imv ''','•s city. Our lel collect ikn, eve'idly got. up to the gaitch where they will gay several thousand dollars for a hook, ''' .onagh there erre not a fe'w 'Who will pay hun- dreds as do it frequently. They are bargains, too. Not long ago Mr. R. Fleming, of Wood, Fleming, picked up the three volume edition of "The Lit- tle Minister" for $200, Its market price is £200. Mr. QVLaadkky sold for $100 to an American bookseller e copy of the ^first edition of "Leaves of Grass," which has since advanced to , $3,000. This swift advance was brought bout mainly by a magazine article of a critic who rat long ago said that it would prpve to be the Most -sought-after book ever issued in the United States. We have been informed that a New York broker a short time ago had the incredible good fortune to buy a Guttenburg Bible for $6,000. • The last recorded sale of this treasurer was at $106,500, so the broker will make a profit, if he cares to sell, that even New York brokers are un- accustomed to. Perhaps the classic instance of book bargains was that furnished by the illustrious London house of Quaritth. The founder of the house had a lot of paper -covered books that he could not get rid of, and he set them outside his store in an open shelf. Week afte^ week they hung'on his hands and week af- ter week he reduced the price until he was offering them for two pence. One day a passer-by, it was either Rossetti or Swinburne, peering over the lot picked out one of them which he had never heard of and went away with it. On reading it at home he realized that a work of genius had fallen into 'his hands. It was Fitz- gerald's "Omar Khayyam." Later on Quaritth's son had to give £1,500 for the little book his father had sold for four cents. Among the books sold by the hur- ried young Englishman were two other copies of Burns, both rare, but neither anything like so valuable as the famous Kilmarnock edition. One of them has probably come from the collection of Lady Hamilton, whose name is forever linked with Nelson's It came more recently from John Drinkwater's library and bears his book plate and some comments in his own hand. This is the so-called "Skinking" edition, which, takes its name from a typographical error in which the word "stinking" is mis- spelt. Trifles like this give books a fictitious value to collectors, since they make them curiosities. From the Bookman's Journal we learn that in the past season auction sales of books in England have reeulted in some unusual prices being paid. For a fine copy of the first edition of "Jane Eyre," in three volumes, the sum of £690 was secured and £430 for a first edition of "The 'Cloister and the Hearth," in four volumes. This is not a very scarce book, but there are more collectors than ever, and the de- mand for all notable books of the nineteenth century is forcing the prices upward. A first edition of "The Vicar of Wakefield" brought £1,470, an ad- vance of more than £200 over the earlier record made in the Kern sale in New York. In 1812, when the Rox- burgne collection was sold, a copy of Boswell's "Life of Johnson" sold for a guinea and a half. The record,'" set a short time ago, is £1,220. This copy is extremely rare, since it has a cancelled page and six other suppres- sed leaves bound at the end, and deal- ing with conjugal fidelity. New re- cord prices have been paid for books by Lamb, Austin, Fielding and Smoi- lett, and the value diet collectors set upon the work of coemporary auth- ors may be juajged from the fact that first editions of Galsworthy have fetched £210 and Sraw's "Widowers' Houses," with the author's inscrip- tion, £155. We are glad to see that a first edition of Houseman's "A Shropshire Lad" was valued at £76. Reverting for a moment to the Kil- marnock Burns, the copy which sold for £2,450 this past season was bought in 1911 for £730. In 1925 De. Rosenbach secured a copy entirely un- cut, with the original wrappers for £1,750. lc lyra i '.4 flla��a vo (40 al: y^. •. biai'litha, DttgilMoSfif94 a h woxe � w, it wpm *stem. *. + a-nyr minds 1&4.4 bs e 71 to a+eattl a4,, the intvenr4 02 a elate which would tae tr Q place of the. horse Zia* haraing loads after @i�iaiat perfeoted his stationary steam engine. As early as 1004, Richard Tre!a'ithick,, a Cornish giant, whose esipeeial hebibyr was vrrre; linag, had built .a locomotive which operated in wales, and lager rows a toy in Lon- don. ;• •alf a dozen others, including john fol ,enlsims'e1p and Wi1R'1•am (Hed- ley, hail constructed working loco- motives of di'erent types. Indeed viten George Stephenson was r, hey, he became familiar with the locomo- tives which were at work in the coal districts and seemed miraculous en- ough for the comparatively (slight task's demanded of them. Stephenson was a gefrius mechani- cally, and though he was 18 years old before he could read or write, 10 years later he was. recognized as the first authority in England on steam traction. He 'began to earn his own living wrhen eight years old and from infancy was fascinated by machinery. He designed and built locomotives, using the ideas of the men who had preceded him and contributing orig- inal ideas of his own. In 1825 he theme 'a diminutive engine on the Stockton and Darlington railroad. This road used locomotives to move freight and later to carry passengers before the Liverpool and Manchester road offered the prize that was to make Stephenson'n Rocket famous. Nevertheless for reasons not alto- gether clear posterity has chosen to 'fix 1829 as the year and the Rainhill the scene of the birth of the steam locomotive. At this time 'Stephenson was chief engineer for the railway company which in the face of tre- mendous difFieulties and the spend- ing of a good deal of money in dub- ious ways, had secured a charter 'for its line and had laid its rails and built its tunnels. When the charter was before par- liament for approval, the promoters, warned by previous experiences, had not emphasized the fact that they ex- pected the trains to be hauled by steam locomotives. They merely said that they would employ mechanical means. They did not thelnselves know what they might be. There were re- spected authorities Who said that the best scheme was to have stationary engines set .at intervals along the line. These engines, by belts and pulleys, would haul the train up a grade and its own momentum would carry it down. There were sane who pinned that faith to a contraption operated by a horse on a revolving platform operated just as dogs have been seen operating churns. In the end the harassed directors concluded that they would have an open com- petition and select the machine that promised the best results. News of the contest 'was spread all over Eur- ope and America and ten locomotives were built specially for the occasion of which four actually appeared. England regarded the contest as a sporting event and a great crowd turned out at Rainhill on October, 1829, to see the fun. 'The. four com- petitors were Stephenson with his Rocket, Timothy S. Hackett with his Sanspareil, Braithwaite and Erieesons Novelty and Burstall's Perseverance. The Rocket was the least favorably regarded by the spectators, who of course, knew nothing about locomo- tives. Strict conditions were laid down as to what the engines should accom- plish and most of them did accomp- lish what was first asked of them ; whereupon the directors imposed new conditions. The contest began on October 6th and lasted through to October 14th. Through all the trials Stephenson's locomotive was the only one that was always ready. The oth- ers were always being tinkered with after the fashion of primitive motor cars. The Novelty astounded every- body by developing a speed of nearly 30 miles an hour but failed in a dist- ance test of 70 miles which Steph- enson negotiated at the rate of eleven miles an hour. Later when the Rocket was stripped she made! 30 miles per hour. As has been well said, the Rocket won the tests be- cause she embodied the wide know- ledge and experience of a skilled en- gineer rather than the crotchets of a dreaming inventor. As noted most of the ideas that went into the Rock- et had been previously applied by other engineers, but it was Stephen - son's genius that turned them into the first real locomotive to win both expert and popular approval. u ,I FROM AUTUMN COLDS The Fall is the most severe season of the year for colds one day is warm, the next cold and wet, and -anIese the mother is on her guard, the little ones are seized with colds that may hang on all winter. Baby's Own Tablets are mothers' best friend colds e, keep - free and of the or if it eir prompt . The Taib- e dealers or ox fro mThe an .preventing or banishin They act as a gentle laxati ing the bowels and stomach sweet. An occasional de 'Tablets will prevent cold does come on suddenly use will relieve the ba lets are sold by medic' -by mail at 25 cents Dr. Williams 'Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. PURE LINEN TOWEL Extra quality linen towels, all with neat hemstitched ends. In Rose, clue, Green, Gold and Mauve. Some are solid colors and others col- ored borders. Size 16x27. . Specially priced at, each MOST OST V TORONTO BOOK EVER IIN SHOA young Englishman at Niagaraa tt 'felt a sudden desire to go to S America a few days ago, foundgart that he lacked sufficient funds. So Ise turned out some old books he was carrying round with him and sold them to raise the necessary funds. 'Fhe result is that one of these books is now in Toronto at Mackay's book shop and is held for the highest fig- ure, we suppose, ever set on book in this country. It is no less than a oolpy of the Kilmarnock Burns, in PURE LINEN NAP IL ENS A special offering of Nap- kins in both single and dou- ble damask linens. A range .of different prices. These are a bargain at the regular prices. 25 Per Cent. Off TOW( LILIINGS A special in new pure lin- en Towellings in both 16" and 18" widths. Assorted colored borders. Very spe- cial. Yard A uft Med 0 I3 COBO y Sport a n d Dress Modes, with a n d 'Without Fur. 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Good weight. Price CENTENARY OBSERVED OF THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Rainhill is not a name in much currency nowadays, but a hundred years ago at Rainhill there was a contest which more .profoundly af- fected human life than the more spectacular contest at Waterloo. For at Rainhill the first public demon- stration was given of a practical loco- motive, the renowned and immortal Rocket made ley George Stephenson, who, in consequence, has become known as the father of modern rail- way transportation. Since Watt was the inventor of the steam engine ani Stephenson of the seam locomotive, the all -English character of these epoch-making discoveries is worth noting, and it is perhaps in keeping that the speed record for mechanical flight should also, at this moment, repose in the British Isles. For the airplane is as much a deecetidain't of the steam engine as the locomotive. One is a link in the chain of evolu- tion just as the reptile is 'a link be- tween the fish and the bird. Reading now of Stepheenson's exploits, they seem es puny as did the first flights at Kittyharork of the Wright brothers, but they were pregnant With Sven greater things to come. A couple of curious •facts motile to light when reading of the parted in which 'Ste.' enaon&sa Rocket nuiade his- tory. One is that steam locomotives osks nght Rim And :imberre p Sal oin.ts The Qom Sqy el ,fie ,Tow Serie]—e Ere alc TIGER: RAND FLEECIE Lj71ED UNDERWEAR Blue mottled, warm, soft, sanitary fleece; good weight and guaranteed for wears Price 1'5, r New Discovery Limbers 'Em Up and Even the Creaking Ceases. Just rub on the new application called Joint -Ease if you want to know what real joint comfort is. It's for stiff, swollen, or pain •tor- tured joints whether caused b y rheumatism ox not. A few seconds' rubbing and it soaks right in through skin and flesh right down to ligament and bone. It oils up and limbers up the joints, subdues the in• laination and reduces the swelling. 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