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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-11-22, Page 6Read this wonderful letter from a man off 75 who 1s " more active than 40 years ago,'° elEanks to the " daily dimeiul " of Rinschee Salts. As a subject of both gout and rheumatism • just over 50 years, I wish to acknowledge than ▪ have found nothing so absolutely certain as J ruschen Salts. Epsom and other things all acme their virtues, but also their drawbacks_ .rIn:schen Salts I have so far found, after 5 yearn or more of using them, have no drawbacks and GJo counter -effect whatever. I ono 76 and more, canna than 40 years ago." orlgI ma letter an the (pc Inepcetlen. Xrusohen Salts is obtainable at drug and I3partment stores in Canada at 75a. a bottle. b1 bottle contains enough to last for 4 or 5 months•-�dood health for If-a.cent a day. kens been not the slightest hesita- tian in making the choice. To read the story of Ic; 'amities feat even 70 years after it vitae a complislhed is to have 'a queer ians'ition in the pit of the sin/smell and a tingling of the scalp as the bar rises uneasily. It was in fact one ()Utile most remark- able combinations of nerve, stark courage and muscular control, we ever heard of. We are inclined to rate even aborve Blondin's performance that of Harry Colcord, the young man whom Blon- din carried on his back. Personally we should have as soon embarked on a rocket which was to be shot in the idirection of the moon. Of course Col - cord was not unfamiliar with Blon- din's ability. He had worked with him for some years and had been car- ried over many a perilous pit of emptiness. But the Niagara gorge was something else again. Before this supreme feat Blondin had walked over some half a dozen times, once blindfolded, once shuffling along• in a heavy sack made of blankets and another time with a wheelbarrow with which, standing over the middle of the river, he had performed some dare -devil tricks. He was always trying to invent some new and more blood curding variation of his origin- al theme and: finally was fired to dra- matic action when a rival performer began advertising in the American RODE ON TIGHT ROPE OVER newspapers far somebody to climb on his back while he walked a rope NIAGARA GORGE stretched over the Genesee falls at Rochester, a much shorter distance. Blondin retorted with the offer of a large sum of money to anyone who would permit himself to be carried over the Niagara chasm. Several people visited the falls and looked at the swaying rope. All declined. So it fell upon Colcord to answer the call. Oolcord was then drawing $125 a month, and no doubt his conscience suggested that he should do some- thing to earn it. The distance to be covered was 1,100 feet. On one side the rope was 170 feet above the wa- ter and on the other side, 160. Along each side as far as was possible, the rope was guyed, but the alarming middle span sagged some 50 feet to- ward the water and swayed perilous- ly in the wind. The hempen cable itself was three inches in diameter. Three hundred thousand people turn- ed out to witness the event. Special excursions were run from Toronto and nearby American towns. Never had Blondin, the consummate artist, had such a setting for his display. Never before or since had such a vast gath- ering assemlbled at Niagara. Blon- dire wore his professional tights, and Colcord the dark clothes that seem becoming to a mean about to enter his coffin. On the Frenchman's back there was a saddle -like arrangement with stirrups into which Colcard thrust his feet, while his arms rested on Blon- din's shoulders. The last and only instruction Blondin gave his assist- ant was that he should, on no ac- count, try to do any balancing. That was to be left eintirely to the master. Colcord was, so far as possible, to become a dead •.veight. So they set forth. About half way over Blon- din felt tired and Colcord had to climb off his back and stand en the rope beside him,_ balancing himself by holding to Blondin's shoulders. Then he climbed on his back again and they resumed their journey. Half way across Blondin stopped, held out a hat and a shot from the shore fol- lowed. Blondin then exhibited the hat with a bullet hole in it. This was a bit of by-play arranged between Blondin and a pistol shot named John Travis. As a matter of fact, the shot discharged by Travis was a blank and the hole in the hat was contrived by Blondin. The march was continued. Seven times did Blon- din rest while Colcord dismounted and stood on the vibrating rope and seven times did he mount again. As they neared the other shore theT dis- covered to their horror that some guy ropes had been cut and the rope swung and wobbled horribly. Blor- din lost his balance and stumbled, while the blood in the veins of the almost expiring Colcord turned to ice. But Blondin stumbled forward, and broke into a staggering run. He crossed the gap made by the broken guy rope, and as he reached the spot where the next guy line held, this snapped under his foot. This was the most desperate moment of all. But again Blondin's wonderful nerve came to his rescue. He again broke into a run and reached a spot where the rope was firmly braced. So they staggered to safety and an even more resounding fame. It is colcord's be- lief that the guy ropes were deliber- ately cut by gamblers who stood to make large sums of money if the at- tempt should fail, but apart from his assertions there is no other testi- mony on thin paint. Another biogra- pher says that Blondin waa never in any peril but merely made use of his ee e have alway., had a str Ig c.'n- victu n that Lin.tl.eigh's ex,' - :t was one of the most overrated in human history, and •by reading the stall of Blondin, in the Saturday Evening Post, this belief is strengthener. Ilad we been offered the choice bet.ueen being thrust suddenly into the Spirit of St. Louis and ordered to fly to Prance or the simultaneous choice of having a 50 -foot balancing pole thrust in our hand with instructions to creak across the Niagara gorge on a tight rope, it would have required only a split second before we seized the joy stick or whatever it is and headed over the Atlantic.. Or had we, or we suppose any othea ordinary human being, been given the option of accompanying Lindbergh on his flight ea of being carried over the gorge on Biondi/Os back we think there would 661-J tCYSLt C ll 1 J i RS. FRED. PENNY, 1V11 R.R. No. 4, Nor- wich, Ont., suffered from anaemia for over three years. Though taking medicine all that time, nothing bel 'r ,•I her till she began Dr. Williams' Pinner Pills. "I had no appetite", she writes. "I could not sleep. My blood almost turned to water. I[ was weals and my heart would palpitate violent- ly. I ani thankful to say that in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I found the relief II sought. My color returned, my appetite improved, any weight in- creased fifteen pounds, and it was not long till 1 could perform my work with ease." If you are weak and easily tired, subject to headaches, are pale, without appetite, and your work seems a bur- den, do not delay. Start treat- ment at once by buying 2 boa of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at your medicine dealer's or by mail at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. s- 2 7 1' tStullt„1 ;i I1 •'A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN .4 COUNTRIES old trick of feigning to slip whie.b used to horrify spectators and add the final touch of drama to his dere deviltry. If you are troubled with constipa- tion take Gallagher's Herbal Tonic. Its action is not lessened by continued use. Sold by J. E. Keating, Seaforth; A. W. E. Hemphill, Bewail. GOOD THINGS APLENTY IN THANKSGIVING MEN UJ When the hostess is also the home - cook, a not -too -elaborate menu should be selected for the Thanksgiving din- ner. Dishes which are simple to pre- pare and easy to serve should be sel- ected, and the accessories should be of a type which can be made the day before. Fruits and autumn leaves may be used for charming table decorations. A large fairly flat sandwich basket or a basket cut from a small pumpkin, filled with fruits of all kinds, grapes, oranges, apples, pears, bananas, etc., makes a nice centrepiece, surrounded with choice autumn leaves and wild berries. The first course for be a fruit cup or an If a soup is served, light, easily digested main course, turkey or a roast may be served. Roast loin or leg of pork well !cooked, with a light, savory, dressing, is an excellent substitute for the Thanksgiving fowl. The flavor of the pork fits in well with the usu- al Thanksgiving relishes and sauces. When the dinner is a heavy one, the salad course should be light, therefore we suggest a lettuce or a jellied vegetable salad. Pumpkin pie, to be at its best, should be baked the day on which it is to be served. However, time and labor are saved on Thanksgiving day by preparing the pumpkin for the filling and making the pastry the day previous. A fruit sherbet, may, or may not be served with the main course. !Frequently, the Thanksgiving feast is ended with a loving cup, which may be a spicy hot drink, a mixture of fruit juices, or cider. Suggested Dishes for the Feast. Fruit cup of Oyster Cocktail. Stuffed celery, or celery hearts. Olives, plain or stuffed, green or ripe. Roast turkey, giblet cranberry sauce. Oh, a roast loin or leg of pork, savory dressing. Mashed, riced or whipped potatoes; Or, candied sweet potatoes. Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, or spinach. Or, savory onions with hollandaise. Lettuce salad with dressing. Or, jellied vegetable with mayonnaise. Individual pumpkin pies with honey and whipped cream. Or, orange nectar. (Salted English walnuts, little cakes, fruit and coffee. Loving cup of fruit juices or cider, spiced and heated. the dinner may oyster cocktail. it should be a one. For the gravy and or asparagus cream French salad Oyster Cocktail. One-half cupful tomato catsup, two tablespoonfuls grated horseradish, 4 tablespoonfuls lemon juice, rice tea- spoonful celery salt, few drops tabas- co sauce. Blend all the ingredients in a wide- mouthed bottle, shake thoroughly and allow about 2 tablespoonfuls of the mixture with six oysters for each service. For those living inland where fresh oysters are not obtainable, sub- stitute canned shrimps with a slight grating of nutmeg for the oysters— or eliminate the sea food and serve a fruit cocktail instead. lid hriW=pease Gyjprroc wrii1 convert space now meted mi o orae or mom =Cm moms. Fruit Cocktail. athr U (EN(G ID IIg IEc'®IRS AI`\TID 11 USIINESS (G QJIIIDI. Through the co-operatlonn oft tine Burliness Men listed below, we will repreciace n aerdgo off otlremtlloD terticlep ®nndeavoelein e4D !ratua Galw`e-a0 a better business relaationnelhinp Ibottweem resident end mmerchl: mat iron Udine town, nand tiara khan taboret a mon eneneressive comantemaleg fin wralere to illlva Three oranges, 2 grapefruits, 1 can sliced pineapple, 1 lemon, 2 cupfuls sugar. Cover the sugar with water, enough to make a heavy syrup. Add the lem- on juice to the syrup and let cool. Dice the fruit and pour all the juices into the syrup and strain. Place fruit in cocktail glasses in layers. When ready to serve, pour the chilled syrup over the fruit. Savory Onions. Combine small cooked onions with a cream sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese and brown lightly. Cranberry Ice. One pound cranberries, 2% cupfuls sugar, 3 cupfuls water, juice of one lemon, a few grains of salt. Cover and cook the cranberries un- til soft in the measured water. While hot rub through a sieve and add the other ingredients. Freeze, surround ed by six measures of ice to one of salt—or freeze in a mechanical re- frigerator. Garnish with whole cran- berries cooked in sugar syrup until clear and 'brilliant or with individual berries selected from cranberry sauce. Do not serve cranberry sauce when the cranberry ice is served. ST EWAIRT BROS. SIPIECIIA L MISPLAY Silk, Satin and Crepe Dresses �Il(6Jn�N1 Stewart ir© The 1i TO EIRY.SHOI'" Men's Clothing :;1nd1 (Ladies' Ready -to -Wear r TIIP TOP SUIITS AND OVERCOATS—Made to your individu:' meas- ure, hundreds of different English all -wool cloths to choose from. Leave your measure to -day. One price—$24.50. Guaranteed lit. Geo. D. Ferguson £ Co. SOLEX Guaranteed Electric Light Bulbs, burn longer and show a bright- er light: 25 and 40 watt, 27c; 40 watt 30c; 1019 watt, 48c, inside frosted. Everything in Hardware. TTF.I.EPHONE 61 J. A. WSO Musical Instrument Accessories Complete line of Strings, Bows, Bridges, Pegs, Chin Rests, Picks, Rosin, &Dtc. Thommpson's (:took store THE WARWICK GIFT LINE An assortment of Boxed Gifts for every occasion. Window Shades Picture Frances Made to Order Phone 1811 TEN -DOLLAR BiLL GAVE SOUTH THE NAME DIXIE The origin of the term "Dixie," as applied to that part of the United States lying to the south of the Mas- on Dixon line, goes back to the days —nearly a century ago—when ten dollar notes issued by the Banque des Citoyens at New Orleans were printed in English on one side and in French on the other, says Garnet. Laidlaw Eskew (in "The Pageant of the Packets"). In large letters, that "hit you in the eye," on the back of each note was engraved "Dix"—the Trench word for ten. All the steamboatmen when in New Orleans did their banking at the Banque des Citoyens. Unlettered as many of them were they pronounced Dix as It was spelled. The town where the "dixies" came from they called "Dixie's land " 9 am going down the river after dixies," said the flafboati ien. The term "Dintie"s land" came grad- ually to be applied to the whole sec- tion in which dialed bard the largest circulation, and later it embraced all the tinted Stye tritory South of JJ, E. KIEATING SPECIAL Fresh made Chocolate Pepper- nal mint Candy,, 'per pound .... �J KEATING'S PHARMACY The Rexall Drug Store Phone 28 Seaforth. GET EN AND SWIM - We have all heard that homely expression "fish, cut bait .or go ashore," as applied to the man who stands on the sidelines in the game of life always telling others how it should be done, bewailing the stu- pidity of his fellowmen, but never getting there in doing anything him- self. Every office has one until the boss gets tired and chucks him out. Every community has its share of them. They are the men who complain about everything from the policy of the national administra- tion to the methods of the local dog-catcher—and who then forget to go to the polls on election day. Our point is that the man who lives in a community and holds himself aloof from its activities is not a good citizen; moreover, he is not going to be a happy man 'because he is dodging life as well as his responsibilities. Get in the swim! You may never be a leader. No matter—you are in the game, meeting the life Providence has put you in. No man can be happy if he is always running away from life. What can you do to enliven community ac- tivities? The answer is to start somewhere, and if you show a willing- ness to work you will soon be swamped with your community activi- ties. Work where you can work. It isn't all political or social. Every sincere effort at community betterment on your part makes you just so much bigger. Don't boast a good community and then forget about it. Don't let "George do it." It's up to you to "get in and swim." Xac EA 7ISHPS SEAM= ILADIIIES' APPAREL SHOP WONDERFUL VALUES in BEAUTIFUL SILKALO SPREADS and FANCY BATH TOWELS for personal use or for gift giviing. IF 1' ED S. SAVAUGE, Boa Watchmaker and Jeweller Optometrist "TELE GIFT SIDIOP" M. ROSS SAVAUGE, Opt. D. Optometrist It eattne's Chiral Store CHRISTMAS CARDS 12 beautiful Christmas Cards hte •box, priced from 5c to 25c. The box for 59c. Don't miss this extra special while they last. W. R. SMITH SPECIALS in Raisins, Currants, Peels, Fine Apples, Cherries and Nuts. W. A. C EC HI BAKER DOUGHNUTS 20c per dozen Telephone 34 WAITAKEIR'S CHRIISTMAS NOVELTIES Full line of Giffard Walnut small goods, Foreign Pottery, Lamps, Vases, Cedar Chests. CALL AND SEE THEM WIHIIIZ aGokIl IC', aIInd" Antifreeze $3.75 per gallon Ddy Ga.ra.geq Seal©rtll R. H. SIPIROAT RUBBER FOOTWEAR Buy your Rubber Footwear at the Economy Shoe Store, where you get real values, and all first qual- ity stock. WALT E o ; G. 'WIIILMS Dependable Shoes MEN'S WORK SHOES We sell all the best makes, Grebs, Williams, Sterling's, Hlydro City, Panco or leather soles, $2.95 to $4.50. It IWY S. IPENKNIEY read, takes andl Pastry SHORTBREAD The Real Scotch Kind. Phone 70. H1IvEv dual Ihuthcress Write -Up. ECONOMY SHOE STORE.—The Economy Shoe Store owned by (Mr. R. H. Sproat, is one of the best known boot and shoe stores in this district. Mr. Sproat is a native of Tuckersmith township, and a member of one of the best known families in the county. From 1915 to 1926 he was a member of the grocery firm of Sproat & Sproat, selling out in the latter year to his brother, in order to start a boot and shoe business. For two years he carried on business successfully in the Broderick block, and then purchased the extensive stock of J. H. Smith & Sons and moved to the store in the Cardno Block, which that firm had leas- ed and where he has since been doing an extensive business. He car- ries a complete line of boots, shoes, leather and rubber goods, and as the name of the store implies, there is no store in the town where a purchaser can buy to better advantage. IF I I:t "ED W. WEGG oots and Shoes BOW GOOD SCHOOL SHOES eavy or medium weight. Special at $2.95 FOR WALL PAPER, PAINTS, VARNISHES AND WIINDOW SHADES, TRY T. G. SC®T"II° Telephone 62 JI. J. C LIEAIRY CHRISTMAS FRUITS are now in. Get them while they are fresh. V. AV b N T CHRYSLER -PLYMOUTH: America's lowest -priced, full-size car; larger body, wider seats, wider doors, larger brakes, more visibility, more head room and leg room, larger tires. The Huron Expositor Huron County's Family Paper Established 1860. We Make a Specialty of Joh Printing. ]RIEIIMIER9S GARAGE Studebaker Sales and Service Repairs on all Makes of Cars. TIRES, eATTERIIES, ETC. Telephone 167 S]EAFORTIHI CREAMERY The place to market your Cream and to receive the best service that can be given. Phone 80 W. C. A. BARI:ER, Proprietor. Wofve>rton Flour Mils Co., Limited Millers of flour that's Dependable SIILVERKING for is READ KEYSTONE for PASTRY Telephone 51 A. W. DUNLOP GAIRA(G3 Come in and hear the nets l93© Marconi and Lyric Radios Come in and see our line of Batteries. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone 187 THRESHER FOR SALE One Decker with Cutting Box at- tachment, suitable for farmer's' in- dividual use. Equipped with aEberr- soll Feeder. At bargain price. The obt. Itell Engine & k Thresher Company 1" GALLOP & *ALPINE Agents for Massey -Harris Imple- ments and Repairs. Beatty Bros. Farm Equipment Metallic Roofing Frost Fence GASOLINE and OILS CANADA. FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS, LIMITED Office Furniture ° Sectional Vookcases. THOMAS IIDIICKSON Dealer in ]Flour - Feed - Seed Poultry and Eggs Telephone 13 the Mason Dixon line. '8 0 o A famous numerical story: Two Arabians sat down to dinner. One had five loaves, the other three. A stranger passing by desired to eat with them, which they agreed to. The stranger dined, laid down eight piec- es of money and departed. The own- er of the five loaves took up five pieces and left three for the other, who objected and insisted on having one-half. The cause came before Ali, the Caliph of Bagdad, who gave the fol- lowing judgment: "Let the owner of the five loaves have seven pieces of money, and the owner of the three loaves one; for, if we divide the eight by three they make twenty-four parts, of which he who laid down the five loaves had fif- teen, while he who laid down the three had only nine. As all fared a- like and eight shares was each man's portion, the stranger ate seven parts of the first man's property and only one belonging to the other. The money in justice must be divided according- ly " 4 rA rt Two men, one from Harvard, the other from Yale, were having a little argument. The gale man thought he detected a rather superior air about .his companion, so be gently but firmly remarked: "The trouble with you Harvard men is that you are inclined to 'be snobbish." "That is not so," replied the leiteir, "Why, whenl rowed on the crews, l� knew every magi in the boat esrcept three dorm in tbe atom" m a There are delightfully intimate peeps at the Roosevelt family at home in "All in the Family" by Theodore Roosevelt, now Governor of Porto Rico. Also several new anecdotes a- bout the most famous of them all both when his own children were growing up and later when he gravel 9. took his grandson, Ted, down to that hav- en of delight, the pig pen." "Ted's memory," wrote the presi- dent to his son, Theodore, "was much clearer about the pigs than about me; he greeted me affably, but then in- quired of a delighted bystander, `What is that man's name?'" * '8 t= President Roosevelt was a really distinguished amateur scientist. This bent of his developed early as the fol- lowing story goes to prove: "'Once when a child," relates •Gov- ernor Roosevelt, "father put a couple of dead mice in the icebox, intending to skin them the next day. His mother hearing about this from the waitress ordered them thrown out. Father aged eight, was shocked and grieved. He explained to nay grand- mother that by leer action she was 'defeating the ends of science.' " "Father hated large centrepieces," says Governor Roosevelt. "He used to maintain that he had married mother because he liked to look at her and did not see why at table she should he concealed behind a mass of foliage, Once he confided to may Wife: "'Manor, the larg,e table deaaea- tians are gif'liculoiis. If we go on a picnic we do not scaled is blab avid then sit around it in a circle to have lunch!'" * * An amusing incident in a case tried at the Old Bailey is related by Lewis Melville in his reminiscences "Not All the Truth." One of the witnesses up- on whom the prosecution relied was a Frenchman, and though counsel put a question to him several times, . he failed to grasp the import. Undaunt- ed, the lawyer tried him with several French expressions, but still th (wit- ness failed to understand. Then spoke the judge to the witness: "The learned counsel is under the impression that he is speaking French to you." rp e, ❑ A London cabby, who had taken too many nips "to keep the cold out," in the days of horse-drawn vehicles, was sitting on the curbstone, with a ,badge in one hand and a whip in the other. He looked solemnly first at the badge —every cabby wore a badge with his license number on it—and then at the whip, and then at the surrounding space. IA puzzled look spread over his face. "Now," he said to himself, looking at the number of his badge, "if I am 5648, I have lost a cab."' Then he cheered up a libtle. "If 1 am riot 5648 I have found a whip." e 0 o Here is a story for billiard players. It was told to •Lewis Melville br Jas. Welch, the actor. Welch was playing pool p one night with an elderly Anglo- Indian Coloflel when the O loco rao- earne reminiscent,. "iT used to playa 600(2deal 'Mandy years ago," he said. "I was staying at a frontier station. We had an old table with bunkers on it, and all the balls were old and looked very much the same color." "But how did you know what col- ored ball you had potted?" Welch ask- ed. "The marker knew," said the sol- dier. "But if they all looked the same color?" pursued Welch. "Oh," said the Colonel, "the mark- er knew them by their shapes." There's a llolit snore cackling—"I've laid an egg"—when you give your hens a daily dose of tcf)B 1 ems &aw Mere INgss) Sold by till deatm �stt�yac�4lQcwt atmt'ons7noocz.-.trr