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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1930-01-24, Page 6s ski Satter what your .,+e may be ole yctu have been troubled or Plant' medicines you have tried ut success---af you are a victim Gadder Weakness and Irritation, Ells' days of troublesome annoy- ' r?>a4, apd nights of Broken Rest, you tart:; nrvited to try the., amazing value of'' Southworth's "UrataI s" with - o41 {irk of cost unless pleased with iresulte. eels from a special formula used -ibyiille Doctor for over 40 year "Ura - tae are designed to swiftly -.relieve th ;: pain and misery of Burning Ure- ' th4al Irritations, Backaches, frequent daily annoyance and troublesome nights. Any good druggist will sup- ply, you on a guarantee of money bac`: on first box purchased if you are not wonderfully. satisfied with swift and positive relief obtained. found as a r1,4e, not in the jungle, but the opera country. Their favorite resort is in the .oken where the, ants have built their hells and where the ant 'bears in. hunting them have dug their holes,, leaving long underground cavities about 15 inches in, diameter. The huge snakes will bask in the sun near these holes, and if they are alarmed will glide swiftly into them. Captain R. Harris's most exciting capture of a python occurred one morning when with four Kalilair boys he was out after a reed buck. Sud- denly they clime upon two pythons, one a particularly large fellow. The captain had his revolver but no tools suitable for the capture of snakes. But he found a stick about six feet long. He unlaced one of his boots and with the thong formed a slip knot which he tied to the stick. Then he advanced to slip it over the head of the big python, but he found that his nerve failed so he .shat it through the head, and then captured the smaller one. !Going over to where the larger snake lay coiled in a heap he was astonished when it suddenly began to uncoil and show evidences of hostile life. It moved toward the hunter who put another revolver shot through its head. The snake, instead of subsid- ing, coiled and then made a thrust with its head. It followed with three more and the captain replied with three shots which went wide. Then the snake turned and sought its hole, while the captain seized it by the tail of which about eight inches immedi- ately coiled round his wrist. After a terrible struggle the snake was final- ly despatched, but it took the assist ance of the natives to accomplish this and the combined strength) of the four of them to lift it into a motor car. CAPTURING LIVE SNAKES PRODUCES SUITABLE THRILL "What do you do when you sudden- ly find yourself face to face with a huge reptile?" The correct answer, according to Captain Barnett Harris is "I chill." The captain has had the experience frequently, for one of his means of llveltheod is to hunt and capture reptiles for the Chicago Zoo- logical Gardens. Apparently the gardens are not dependent upon the city of Chicago nor Cook county for the funds to prosecute their scientific researches, which continue despite the financial crisis in Big Bill's realm. Re- cently Captain Harris has been hunt- ing in Zululand where, he says, some of the most dangerous snakes in the world are to be found. The worst of them all is the black mamba, which is as far removed as possible from the songs that Al Jolson sings, being wholly devoid of sentiment. It des- pises human beings and does not hes- itate to attack them, especially if one should happen to get between a. mamba and its mate or its hole. In- deed the mamba does not hesitate a- bout anything, and according to Cap- tain Harris moves more swiftly thee any other snake. The mamba moves with such a swift motion that even an expert marksman if he hit it once it was on the move could ascribe the shot to luck- Itis tall enough to reach up while at full speed and strike the thigh of a man on horseback. Un- less he is mounted on a horse as speedy as a polo pony he is apt to be struck before his mount can get un- der way. Once struck, death follows almost as certainly if somewhat less speedily as if he had been struck by lightning. Unconsciousness follows in a few minutes and then comes death. Captain Harris says he is well acquainted with natives of Zulu- land who have spent their whole lives in the bush, killin"and capturing all kinds of reptiles said wild beasts, but that none of them is willing 10 take the risk of facing a mamba tri the warpath and it would appear that the warpath is the only path that mam- ba knows. Equally venomous are several varieties of the cobra found in Zululand but they are not nearly so dangerous because they are compar• atively sluggish and a man can keep out of their way. Moreover, they ap- pear to be less vicious and if given a chance will crawl away without of- fering battle. Another very common and danger- ous snake oeZululand is the ringhalse or spitting snake. It jlas the unpleas- ant faculty of sending a jet of spray ten feet away, and always aimed ac- curately in the direction of the eyes of the person whom it is addressing. 'If the poison reaches the eye and immediate help is not forthcoming. blindness ensues. But these snakes are not so vicious as the mamba.,nre- quently they will pretend to he dead to escape capture, or find an oppor- tunity to discharge their poison with effect. They live when they can up- on the fowl of the natives. In catch- ing these and other small snakes, like the mamba, • for instance, Captain Harris uses a steel fishing rod, with a very ,small cord, one end of which is a running noose while the other en..i is secured to the butt. Over the rod near the handle he telescopes a stout bag three or four inches in diameter and about ten feet long. At each end of the bag is fastened a large ring and a draw string. When the snake is noosed it is gently lowered into the hag, and since the noose is in all cas• es around its neck it is powerless to bite as it is stowed away in the bag. Writing in the New York Times, Captain Harris says that the great- est thrill he gets is in catching a live python. With the exception of the boa constrictor of South America, the python, we suppose, is the largest of all snakes. Some of them are more than 20 feet long and 30 inches in circumference. They are not poison- ous,. but kill by constriction. So far as human 'being are concerned the greatest danger is that the snake may strike a blow with its head. It will. draw it back and launch it a distance of eight feet, travelling with a speed and force that a heavy -weight prize- fighter might envy. Compared with the mamba the python is sluggish but nevertheless it moves with astonish- ing speed in proportion to its size, especially if it happens not to be gorged with food. These reptiles are ter onsamiu® oim ■q a ROI) rrs. II i Syrupsa OFlhJr'h ct(I(adQjvpr ar^■ I for 'COUGHS,. COLDS "led �i r t lit tionsiamosiss!arse no The Only Thing That Helps Her Lane Back ONTARIO LADY USES DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS Mrs. J. S. Reid Speaks Very Highly of Canada's Foremost Kidney Remedy-- Dodd's emedy=Dodd's Kidney Pills. Enterprise, Ont., Jan. 23.—(Special) —"Anytime I get a Lame Back I turn to Dodd's Kidney Pills and they soon do the work," writes Mrs. John S. Reid, well known and highly respect- ed resident of this place. "I have used them for years. As I occasion- ally take a Lame Back, they never fail to do the work." With the winter months approach- ing comes colds andchills, which dou- ble the work of the Kidneys. Often the results are serious, for, if the kid- neys weaken, harmful uric acid and other poisons are allowed to escape. Backache, dizziness and urinary dis- orders should not be neglected. Use Dodd's Kidney Pills to stimulate Kid- ney activity. This treatment relieves you of discomfort, and wards off Rheumatism, Lumbago and Sciatica. An occasional course of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills will prevent Kidney disor- ders. WARNS MIDDLE-AGED ABOUT PLAYING GAMES It is a very interesting or unreflec- tire reader of the newspapers who is not struck with the number of men, apparently in good health and at an age when they should be in the full vigor of their powers, who drop dead or pass away after a brief illness. These are very generally men not past 60 or thereabouts. They are al- so men of prominence in the commun- ity who earn their living by their brains rather than by physical toil or manual dexterity. The cater in it, we suppose, lies there. They are men of a certain leisure and a certain pride in keeping fit and maintaining their robust or youthful appearance. We suspect that many of them have been keeping in condition by takin, exercise or playing games which are beyond their years. The cult of physical exercise has had a tremend- ous vogue in recent years. Men are told, in effect, that they must take exercise or die., Yet Dr. John B. Hawes 2nd, of Boston, a well known authority says that more men die of too much exercise than of too little. He calls his article in the American Mercury, "The Middle -Aged at Play-" 'Something he says toward the close of the article is really its key note—='Admit it or not as you will, by the time the 40th year is passed the processes of degeneration in the body are exceeding those of re -generation. It is practically impossible to reach middle -age without developing a weak point somewhere." It may be argued that there are certain weak points which can be strengthened by exer- cise and the playing of games. But there is no weak point of the middle- aged that can be improved by play- ing violently. The man of 40 whe thinks he is as active and resilient as he was at 25 is kidding nobody but himself, and he may be kidding him- self into his grave., Dr. Hawes ad- mits that he is 51, and confesses to a feeling of annoyance when recently he saw in the hospital records of a patient, "a gray haired old man of 51." Not long ago a police reporter on a newspaper spoke of a man of 53 as "elderly" thus creating a goad deal of consternation at breakfast *ables where elderly men of 53 were perhaps reading the advice of adver- tisers to snappy dressers or thinking +bout getting up a party. Dr. Hawes • says that twenty years ago handball, "perhaps the most strenuous of indoor games, was a joy and delight to me, but now this and even squash rackets, a much easier sport are relegated to the past." He speaks of a friend who used to play g urs h vigorously, with a rest after each game, and who dropped dead of s 'heart attack at the age of forty- five. One might say in passing that in all such games singles is more than twice as hard as doubles. One might he utterly unfit for singles and yet safely and enjoyably play the same game with a partner. Dr. Hawes al - no makes the valuable suggestion that men of middle -age who are determin- ed tola p y some. gams hard s h cued take the time gradually to condition. themselves for it. By stew degrees they eau build up muscle, wind and helps to set the local wage level dur- ng the busy season. The outlook is +. !or wage levels to remain es they are ►r to fall a little perhaps. Domestic geryants are not known en Ontario farms, according to all reports receiv- ed from correspondents west, east and north." AN.GIE&S EMULSION increases appetite... aids digestion... and helps to rebuild healthy tissue. Pleasant to Take— L'elps Digestion eye to a co-ordination that will make much less demand upon the heart than if they attempted to get them- selves fit by playing violently. He says of the thousands of apparently perfectly healthy men in the country who are playing vigorous squash, tennis and handball that the chances are that a great many of them -are well in spite of, and not because of, such violent exercise. Another important point, though he admits that when speaking to Ameri- cans it is the counsel of perfection, is that men of middle -age who go in for violent games should bear in mind that the great thing is not the victory but the game itself, and the conting- ent beneficial exercise. But there are few men who are content to set a certain pace and stick to it through- out a contest irrespective of what the opposition player is doing. It is hu- man nature, we suppose, for a man in a contest of any kind to try to win. Naturally the more the oppon- ent exerts himself, the more will the other player. Nevertheless a man should have learned by the time he reaches middle -age that the winning of a game is an insignificant trifle and that the strain of a muscle may be serious or even dangerous. Dr. Hawes •suggests riding as an excel- lent exercise which is not likely to be overdone. Its chief defect is that it may be lonely. He finds the same fault with walking unless one has a companion and an objective. The exercise that does the moat good is the exercise that is unconsc- iously obtained. That is the supreme value of games. He recommends golf as the ideal game for the mid- dle-aged and elderly. But playing this game too one must use common sense, which may be making a rather severe demand upon a good many golfers. A round of 18 holes means a walk of about four miles a good deal of which is up hill. It means a- bout 75 strokes with the longer irons and wooden clubs, and bending over and straightening up two hundred times or more. "Compare this," says the doctor, "with the daily dozen or any other form of matutinal exercise. Bearing this in mind, 18 holes is quite enough for the middle-aged un- less he takes time to get in the best physical condition in which case 36 holes may be played occasionally. Fishing and hurting are advocated, especially dry fly fishing. For winter sports oust authority declares that curling is the ideal game for the middle-aged and elderly. It is a game in which age and skill go hand in hand and when once the knack of propelling the stones is acquired very little physical exertion is necessary. The only possible danger in condition- ing and gymnasium classes, such as ere popular wherever there is a Y. r'`.C.A. is, that the instructor being himself in the pink of condition is apt at times to forget that his pupils are not so too, and perhaps set them tasks above their ability. NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE BUSY FARMER British Apple Market A recent cable from the Overseas Representative of the Ontario Fruit Grievers' Association states that the apple market in Great Britain is still dull with a possibility of fairly good prospects later in January. A rumor that Virginia still has quantities of unclassified Yorks which will soon have to be disposed of, points to a de- pression in price until the early part of February. Ontario apples of good quality, however, will command a good market providing high prices are not obtainable on the domestic market. These apples should bring from six to seven dollars per barrel. Food For Brood Sows Alfalfa or clover hay fed from racks forms an excellent roughage for brood sows. Roots are also good but may not always be available. The meal ration may vary considerably but should not be too strong. Bran, shorts, ground oats and ground barley in equal parts, if fed judiciously at from two to six pounds daily, depend- ing on the size and condition of the sows -as well as the period of preg- nancy, has been found to give good food results. Mineral feeds are us -1 ually essential and may be supplied either by sode or a suitable mineral mixture containing charcoal, ashes, bone meal, etc. - The Labor Situation Under the heading of "Labor awl: Wages," the annual !bulletin issued by 1 the Department for the year 1929 re- marks: "Farm labor could not be secured at any Inver or, in some cases, as low rate of wages as during the past three years. The farmer can only afford to pay for his help out of the money his products bring in, British immigra- tion does not flow by choice to the farms and more relief• might come from immigration if other races ex -1 rarienced on the land were encourag- ed. Not much cl ange in condition» generally was .e,."t •1 ;!1 1919 81 - though labor appeared•,,to have been from released s m t he cities t, • the Karma A cutin the tobacco acreage made the situation easier in that direction. To- bacco growing in the western counties The Dual Purpose Cow Although some have questioned the existence of such an animal as the dual purpose cow, the fact remains that many Shorthorns of beef con- formation produce sufficient milk to return a profit to their owners aside from the value of their calves, which make good feeders. The Shorthorn herd at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Scott, Sask., was started in 1921 with no outstanding producers. During the eight succeeding years two cows have made records approximat- ing 8,000 pounds; six cows have over 6,000 pounds to their credit, and eleven have made records of over 000 pounds. Incidentally no person 'has questioned the suitability of these an- imals for beef and waiting lists are oontinually on file for breeding stock. Killing Poultry Lice Eggs are worth big money these days and the busy hen is the one that pays. Hens that are continually ir- ritated by external parasites cannot give their full energy to egg produc- tion. Poultry lice will continually ir- ritate the birds and interfere with their rest, thus reducing their egg - production value. To combat this, a good plan is to dust every bird with equal parts of sodium chloride and corn starch mixed together. The dust can be placed among the feathers next to the skin by means of employing the thumb and finger. One pinch on the head,- one on the neck, two on the back, one on the breast, one just be- low the vent, one on the tail, one on each thigh and one scattered on the underside of each wing should be suf- ficient. This work could also be done with a salt shaker. Another and new- er method is to put the required a- mount of Black Leaf 40 in an ordin- ary machine oil can with a fairly large spout and run a continuous line of the liquid along each roost. This should be applied about half an hour before the birds go to roost. A sec- ond application is necessary in ten days. • • Many Meetings in February J. Leckie Wilson, secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Socie- ties Branch, furnishes the following list of annual conventions at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, during Febru- ary: Ontario Field Crop and Seed Grow- ers' Association, February 4th. Ontario Plowmen's Association, February. 5th. Ontario Association of Fairs and Exhibitions, February 6th and 76. Ontario Vegetable Growers' As- sociation, February 12th. (Preceded by annual meeting on February llth at Parliament Buildings). Ontario Horticultural Association, February 13th and 14th. Farmers and others interested should clip these dates for reference. Farm Improvements In a recent bulletin issued by the department in which was summariz- ed all the outstanding events of the agricultural life of the province dur- ing the year 1929, the following re- marks came under the head of Farm Improvements: "In the western counties drainage goes on apace. In Essex, close upon 1,000 acres were undertiled. The wet spring helped the under drainage movement and the season witnessed increased activity. In Kent also there was a lot of underdrainage of tile. In Elgin there was concentration up- on drainage on the new tobacco land. Through all the western counties re- placement and renovating of barns, building of poultry houses and fenc- ing have made all round advance. The Niagara Peninsula reported but a limited amount of improvement to farm buildings and fences. Through the province as a whole more building would be undertaken if the cost did not often forbid it. Galvanized roof- ing is being resorted to very gener- ally and many farmers are putting war systems in their barns. Crop Production The following statistics of some of the principal field crops of Ontario for 1029, show the number of bushels prodnced this year as compared with 1928: 1929 1928 Fall wheat .. 17,820,739 16,766,408 S. wheat ..... 1,929,982 2,181,8'55 Oats 73,640,478 93,461,068 Barley 18,032,191 19,944,133 P.ye ..... 873,239 1,131,172 Fee x ......... 46,927 67,441 Peas ......... 1,235,658 Mixed grains.. 29,903,638 1?usking corn6,674,942 Doan, 1,113,310 Prckwhest • .: 50562,013 *Feddc r corn. 2,221,467 *Tons. 1,892,588 33,691,418 6,921,850 873,428 5,962,376 2,685,727 Tons AIIIE 1 • And a Boy Friend wow, Siwe Salino. Ybuusands say new onlzed Yeast Oda S to 10 lbs. in 3 weeks. Skin clears lino magic. Constippaation,ner•ea end. Get pleasant Malted Yeas tablets from druggist: today. sasionessomminnassaiminionsio proved most diffieult. It required years of experimenting by a very :lever man,and if it had not been for rhe seemingly unrelated fact that au acquaintance of the inventor had fal- len heir to $7,000 it is possible that ..he flashlight would not now be in general use. Attention has been call- ed to the flashlight recently by the deliberations of Calvin Coolidge, Al- fred E. Smith and Julius Rosenwald, whose duty it has been to distribute the estate of Conrad Hubert. His will provided that a representative of the Protestant, Roman Catholic ana Jew- ish religions should form a commit- tee and decide to what charities his money should be devoted. He left about $6,000,000 for this purpose and the trustees have distributed it to the best advantage. In his life time Mr. Conrad made contributions to various charities but his committee was not guided by this fact. Some of the institutions to which he contributed were cut off; others received further funds. It was rather a curious way to dispose of the estate of a man who was also rather curious. It is, as a rule, difficult to name one man as the sole inventor of an article in general use. It is the exception when the work is done by a single brain, reinforced by a single will pow- er. Usually several brains are at work. One contributes one item, an- other a second. In the end a company is formed and those who have not con- tributed the various items receive anywhere from 3 per cent. to 17 per cent. for their toil. Inventors fre- quently combine. One buys another out. The original article is altered and improved and after it has been in use for a generation or so there may be a score of people laying claim to its paternity. Nevertheless if a single person is to be named as the inventor of the electric flashlight, we name Conrad Hubert, or as he was born Conrad Horowitz. He was not a trained electrician, though he had taken a science course in a European university. But it was not his sci- entific training that led him to invent the flashlight. It was his knowledge that there was a strong demand for it. Part of his genius was in dis- covering what people wanted. The other part lay in supplying it. Horowitz, a Jew, was born in Minsk, Russia, in 1860. His father was a liquor dealer and a man of property The boy was educated in Germany and for some years after graduation was engaged in business there, gain- ing an insight into commercial meth- ods which was to prove prohtable later on. He had every reason to look forward to a successful business career, but the collapse of his father's fortunes drove him an almost penni- less immigrant to the United States. He had hard going for he had little acquaintance with the language. He was obliged to work first as a labor- er and later as a farm hand. He sav- ed up a few dollars and got hold of a wretched little farm in Pennsylvania and later he turned it into a summer boarding house and tried to make it an all the year round resort for wealthy people who were fond of out- door sport. But he did not make much money out of it, and sold out, moving to New York. By this time he spoke English well and was able to set himself up in a cigar store. He wearied of this business and present• ly exchanged it for a milk route. This too palled on him and he became a watch peddler, in whil,h business he formed a friendship with Samuel Stern, a wholesale jeweller, which lasted for the rest of his life. Tramping over the country talking to dozens of people a day, studying their needs and trying to read their characters, he amassed a store of in- formation. At a time when electrical appliances and inventions were in their youth he foresaw their future. Especially he saw that there would be a demand for a portable electric light, to take the place of the dangerous and heavy lamps and lanterns which were then in general household use, especially in the country. Out of actual experiments was born the pocket flashlight, consisting of a dry cell battery in a little case. The pres- sure of a spring connected the globe with the source of the current. For many months he toiled with the thing, his great difficulty being with the tiny lamps or globes on which the real efficiency of the device depended. Six thousand dollars which he had accumulated went in his experiments. When his capital was exhausted lie went to a bank, explained what he was about and asked for a loan. The banker smiled kindly and asked him not to slam the door as he went out. It was ,then that he came across the friend who had inherited $7,000. He borrowed the money and it last- ed long enough for him to perfect his nvention and secure the necessary patents. His final success was made possible by Edison's production of glxbes filled with gases in which the filaments could he raised to higher ncandescence. When' these globes were made small en" ,gh for the pocket flashlight Hubert had arrived at his goal. At this time he was work - ng with a partner of sohewhat 'r- egular habits so he bought him out. .a.4 or en he sold opt to the General Electric Company. From pocket flash- ights be advanced to larger lights of the same principle and with L. H. Keller formed the Yale Electric com- pare, which was afterwards changed to the Electric Bond company. Mr. Herbert was the inventor of a self- •' :. ' ri io» +'nr a•'rtomnbiles which t,isennieruorl when a better patent • imp on the market, though not be - fare '.-.11nd mode nuarter of a mil - ,>,s 'allr.rr tee f it. He invented rle. gni 1". 1"w cr;cally propel- -ens wee 9 1 eg handle to guide TT , s.rsT'r4 f' ' • • n this used :10 a r els in the s' ` e`s be* it did not -seed there tic „ gh it found a fu - sore warehoua s, ' A score of Ater �r less useful electrical devices -a also punt on the market, each d them in response to an existing de- mend, e- mend, and most of them adding to Tons i A""'f%t ... 1,596,212 1,730,135 r lsike . .... 289,560 235,385 c Clover ..-.. 803,576 924,608 do -_r -. 4461,660 4,455,615 i bushels bushels F tatoee ..... 14,140,088 19,791,851 7rnips 22,848,691 34,223,412 Mfangels 9,728,083 14,738,443 •=egar b"•ts . - 12,146,230 15 215,900 Parrots 222,903 317,99+1 pounds ern+els Tobacco 20,69" '"('n 35 S'F,848 7.I.FICTPTC FLASHLItY'ITs M tDE' ';AN'f MILLIONS It would seem that an err-tr;e 'i 1;pr,t was nota difficult thing to in - In fact once the ince t^seen+ ;amp was on the market the flashlight would seem to follow in the natural course of things. But in pra"tics St the accOmulatiollof millions which is now being distributed. SWEARS TO INNOCENCE OF CONDEMNED MURDERER One of the strongest arguments against capital punishment is that there may be miscarriages of justice and inndcent men put out of the world. If persons unjustly convicted of murder' are sent to prison for life the truth may emerge in time • to do them some good. These cases fre- quently arise, and the most recent to attract attention has occurred in Mich- igan where a man named Albert El- chorn, convicted of murder and sent- enced to life imprisonment because there is no capital punishment in Michigan, is likely to regain bis lib- erty after twelve years' incarceration. A woman in Michigan named Anna Gilson Mimnaugh has signed an afl'ii- davit in which she admits testifying falsely that Eichorn had confessed the crime to her and that she had seen him carrying away the body of his victim. She says that she was intimidated into making the accusa- tion by a man named David Beaud- rey, who • promised to share the re- ward with her. She has not received a dollar, and nobody knows where Beaudrey is. The woman is not like- ly to be punished for her, share in the infamous transaction because of the statute of limitations. On September 4, 1917, the -body of Beatrice Epler, an attractive girl of 17, living in the small town of Alma, Michigan, was found beside the road a short distance from her home. She had evidently been strangled after a terrific struggle, for marks of thumb and fingers were plainly visible on her throat. She had not been robbed though there was a considerable sum of money and two valuable -rings on her person. The murder created a tremendous sensation in the neigh- borhood and the police worked franti- cally but for a time without result. A reward of $1,000 was offered and this stimulated various amateur sleuths, including Beaudrey. After several persons had been arrested ali were released but Eichorn and Mrs. Inez Johnson, who is said to have kept a resort in the neighborhood. Mrs. Johnson and Eichorn were sup- posed to have been intimate though Eichorn, a middle-aged man, was married. Mrs. Johnson had been seen more than once in conversation with the dead girl and the theory was that she was trying to lure her to her re- sort. It was Eichorn's association with the woman that suggested he might have been implicated. At the trial the chief witness was Mrs. Hiram Gilson, who swore that on September 3rd there had been a party at her house attended by Ei- chorn and Miss Epler, who had gone together to an unoccupied room. All the other guests departed and then Eichorn appeared carrying the dead body of the girl whom he had strang- led. 'He left the place carrying the body with him. Mainly on this evi- dence Eichorn and Mrs. Johnson were convicted, though both vehemently protested' their innocence. They had to be smuggled out of the district to prevent a lynching. In 1926, Mrs. Jehnston was granted a parole and vanished from sight. Mrs. Eichorn always contended that her husband had been unjustly convicted and has worked to gain friends for him. She is now supporting herself as a tele- phone operator. But if Eichorn is to regain his liberty he will owe his de- liverance to Elmer W. Hammond of Lansing, representative of a number of wealthy lumber firms. Albout two years ago Hammond became convict- ed that the evidence on which Eichorn had been convicted was flimsy. He noted that Mrs. Gilson, the chief wit- ness against him, did not appear at the inquest and was introduced sud- denly at -the trial. An interview with Eichorn deepened his conviction. Backed by the lumber firms he em- ployed a detective named Lewis Mar- tin to investigate. They decided that the key to the mystery was Mrs. Gil- son, who had left the town several years ago. After a long hunt, Martin located her in Wisconsin, and the other day secured from her an affi- davit. In this she says that neither Eichorn nor '1,frs. Johnson was ever in her house, and that she did not know them. She said that she was induced to give her evidence by Beau - dry, who threatened her life. He vis- ited her frequently and kept repeat• ing the story she was to tell. At this time her husband was sick in bed and she feared it would injure his health to tell him about it. Eventually Beaudry had established such an as- cendency over her that she entered the witness box and told the concoct- ed story. She received none of the reward and doubts that Beaudry re- ceived anything either, for there were several claimants. But there is another affidavit to which the board of pardons will be asked to give attention. It was made by Mrs. Anna Epler, mother of Beat• rice. In this she says that Mrs. Mim- naugh in a conversation with her told her that both she and her hus- band, Hiram Gilson, had witnessed the murder, and that 4before the trial she had poisoned Gilson so that he would not be able to tell all he knew which might have implicated the woman. She also alleges that it is common gossip that Mrs. Mimnaugh has received money from the detective. To this Mrs. Mimnaugh says that she only saw Mrs. Epler once in her life, and that was at the trial. Her hus- hand died of typhoid fever as the doctor's certificate proves. In any vent, it would seem that at least grave doubts as to Eichorn's guilt ave been created, and that the latest developments would have had of sig- nificance to him had the crime been committeed in a state which retains capital punishment. PROTECTION OF TREES FROM MICE AND RABBITS Every year many fruit trees in Canada are girdled by mice r-nd .rab- bits. Fortunately, the rabbits de not injure the trees so !regularly as the mice nor are as gerneral in their in- jurious work as it is very difficult to prevent their ravages. In the, ease of mice, however, if some precaution' is taken, it is .possible to event serious injury. Two methods are ad',pted at th0 Central Experimental arm, OttawR. one is to wrap the tru : of the trees with building paper, _ d the other is to encircle the trunk with A wire' pro- tector with a small enough mesh to prevent a mouse going through. In either case, the paper or protector must be put close to the ground, as usually, the mice are working close to the•ground beneath the snow, and, if there is a place under the protector where they can get in, they will girdle the trunk and possibly ruin the tree. These protectors should be put on as soon as possible now as sometimes the mice begin gnawing the trunks of young trees early in the winter. Trees up to six inches in diameter should be protected where mice are troublesome. Another plan, when one has neglected to put on protectors before winter, is to tramp down the snow about the tree after the first snowfall, thus preventing the mice from working arum. the snow near the tree. Another plan, where snow does not come early, is to put cow dung about the tree. This free es to the ground and prevents mien get- ting at the tree. Gare should be talc- en to not have the manure against the trunk of the tree, and it should• be spread as soon as it thaws in the spring. If a mouse girdles the trunk of a tree, that is, eats all aroupd it, it will die unless bridge -grafting is done early in the spring, and this is usually neglected so that, as a rule, girdled trees die. That is most dis- couraging, and many farmers have, without doubt, lost their enthusiasm for growing apple trees by having the trees girdled' just about the time they should begin to bear. It is im- portant, therefore, to protect the trees in good time. Poisoned grain is some- times put under inverted troughs in the orchard to kill the mice. Unfortunately, there is no good control for rabbits except hunting with dogs and shooting. Pruning trees during the early part of the winter and leaving the prun- ings along the fences will furnish food for the rabbits and may assist in keeping them off. ,11 PHYSICIAN WARNS AGAINST FATIGUE It is a familiar experience that physical or mental activity, if pro- longed, eventually leads to a lessen- ing of muscular and intellectual pow- er, accompanied by a sense of we�aann ness. We refer to this state asf fa- tigue, and it is due to the using up of the available energy supplies along with a temporary poisoning of the body cells by waste products. A period of rest in healthy people should quickly dispel the effects of fatigue, but should work be continued in the tired condition a degree of ex- haustion will set in from which re- covery is slow. A sense of fatigue is Nature's ad- vice to rest; a sense of exhaustion is a sign that danger looms ahead, and if attempts are still made to flog jaded btains and muscles into action, grave and sometimes irreparable dam- age may be wrought to the system. Of course, we all know that some people tire more readily than others; that some are indefatigable and that others are always tired. In general it may be stated that fatigue occurs more readily in the old man than is the young, and in the sick than in the healthy, and that work which is un- usual tires us more quickly than that which is habitual. Apart from gross body disease, there are two factors which are pe- culiarly liable to lead to undue tire- ness. The first is worry, and the..second, disturbed intestinal function. Both are in some degree interdependent. Worry, induced by mental conflict, has a depressed effect on all the body functions and particularly the diges- tion, while neglect of the primary needs of health fouls the body Dells, including those of the brain, lower- ing their vitality and rendering them less efficient. These adverse influences are seen at their maximum in the disorder known as "neurasthenia," which is simply a morbid state of fatigue re- sulting from lack of mental harmeny and exaggerated by self-poisoning. The study of muscle fatigue is of considerable practical importance. It can be tested by means of an instru- ment called the ergograph, which re- cords fatigue curves under different conditions. By this means it has been proved that there is great variation in, the manner in which people tire. WATSON & REID SEAFORTH, ONT. GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS representing only the best Can- adian, British a n d American Companies. 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